Leona walked along the winding and rugged cobblestone paths of the mountain stream, and strange creatures always seemed to emerge from the jungle around her, and after a brief look at her, they would disappear into the forest again.

The smile on Leona's face vanished when she faced these creatures, and she seemed to be the cold science machine again. In her eyes, these living things were nothing more than fur-clad electronic machines, and she hated them, and even more so the main island, which was full of mechanical smells.

Picking up her pace, Leona ignored the figures that flashed from time to time in the jungle and went straight to the main peak of the Hundred Curtain Island.

Hyakumaki Island is one of the largest coral islands on Earth, and its main peak is formed by volcanic lava and is only 73 meters high. At the top of this fan-shaped mountain, Leona found a small cave that resembled a pirate treasure cave, and stepped into it, two infrared rays from nowhere intertwined at the center of Leona's eyebrows, and instantly scanned her whole body. The next moment, white lights lit up one after another in the cave dome like a guide, illuminating the cave and guiding Leona to the right path.

Taking off her straw hat and hanging it on a protruding rock at the entrance of the cave, Leona flicked her long, lava-red hair and hurried into the depths of the cavern.

Below the main peak of the Hundred Curtain Island, or in the depths of the seabed thousands of kilometers below the Hundred Curtain Island, a huge base sleeps in the sea like the sunken Atlantis continent in ancient mythology, and the central computer host that controls the rise and fall of the entire republic is placed here, processing the massive amount of information gathered here from all over the entire republic at a speed of trillions per second.

The nine-star republic that rules the solar system has a population of three billion, but only seven people, and they have seen this central computer host named after the mother earth goddess 'Gaia'.

Of the seven, Leona is the youngest and the most special. But she was not proud of this special honor, for for she it was a great burden, a burden that haunted her to this day. And today, she finally has the opportunity to unload her burden, and even when she takes the mountain elevator into the undersea express tunnel, she has always been like a machine, and she has begun to reverie her new life in the future.

'Ding! ~’

Suddenly, a crisp electronic sound interrupted the beautiful reverie in her mind, and at some point, she had passed through the colorful undersea tunnel and came to an electronic gate with the highest defense authority.

Taking a deep breath, Leona regained her indifferent countenance. She quietly walked to the gate and pressed her palm to the scanning place of the electronic gate.

The fingerprint scan and the retina scan were performed at the same time, and in an almost imperceptible moment, in the hollow shaped like a palm, a thin needle as thin as a hair pierced the skin of Leona's ring finger as fast as lightning, stealing a drop of Leona's blood.

The analysis of fingerprints, retina, and DNA samples was completed almost simultaneously, and a green indicator light lit up above the gate, and the heavy electronic gate opened one after another with a roar.

With Leona's steps, the criss-crossing steel plates closed one by one almost the moment she walked by, grazing her back.

Rumble! ~After a heavy roar, the last gate closed behind Leona, and at this moment, she had entered a large base of tens of thousands of square meters, with a faint blue light everywhere.

This is where the central computer 'Gaia' is located, where countless electronic instruments work at full speed, and rows of mosquito-like codes are presented in mid-air in three dimensions, converging into huge pillars of light under the interweaving of dark blue light.

Through these pillars of light made up of data, Leona made her way to the very middle of the base. At this moment, several small spider-like machines swept past her feet at great speed, and lifted open somewhere on the floor, dragging out a piece of data cable and circuit board from it, performing a dazzling transformation.

After staring at the mechanical spiders for a while, Leona frowned and murmured as if talking to herself, "Have you found a new direction for modification?" Gaia. ”

"Welcome, Leona."

A cold electronic voice rang out abruptly, and in front of Leona, countless codes came together as if under some kind of guidance, and gradually combined into a clear-faced human form.

In this world of dark blue light, Gaia, who appears as a three-dimensional image, stands in front of Leona as if she were real. But looking at Gaia in front of her, Leona felt an indescribable disgust.

If you look closely, the virtual figure in front of you has a lot of similarities with Leona in appearance. This wasn't the first time Leona had seen Gaia in this form, and she knew that Gaia had designed her appearance exactly after her. It's just that, compared to Leona, Gaia's eyes are as dazzling as two suns, and although her tone has tried its best to imitate humans, it still reveals a stylized flavor. This makes it as if Leona is facing Gaia as if she is facing another self, a self that has completely abandoned her emotions.

"I've done what you wanted."

Looking away, Leona took out a large stack of materials from her backpack that had already been organized, and casually scattered them at Gaia, who was presented as a virtual screen.

The moment the piece of paper penetrated Gaia, due to the refraction of light, Gaia's body took on a vague feeling like water waves. Witnessing this scene, Leona suddenly showed a hearty smile, which she did on purpose, because it made her feel that she and Gaia were still different after all.

Hundreds of pieces of paper fluttered like petals in the sky, but the moment Leona threw them, Gaia scanned them and converted them into electronic data for storage in her vast repository.

"Triggering antimatter collisions in living organisms in a way that controls radiation is an unprecedented idea." Using her powerful information processing capabilities, Gaia was able to complete a huge deduction in a short period of time, recognizing the realizability of Leona's research.

The idea of triggering antimatter collisions in living organisms by controlling radiation is a central topic in Leona's research program.

For a long time, the Nine Star Republic has been lagging behind in the development of advanced potions due to the lack of congenital conditions. As a result, the national values of the Nine-Star Republic are generally low, and it is difficult for the Nine-Star Republic to catch up with other countries in terms of the personal quality of its citizens just by means of self-breakthrough.

At a time when the gap between people in various capabilities is getting wider and wider, the backwardness in this regard is no longer only the backwardness of the armed forces in terms of combat effectiveness. Even in terms of academics and science and technology, scholars will face a comprehensive backwardness due to the lack of development of their brain domain capabilities. Therefore, in the long-term development plan of the central computer Gaia, the advanced potion is a strategic plan to maintain the continued existence of the Nine-Star Republic, and its important surname is even more important than winning this war.

In addition to Leona, other biological experts are also working on the topic of advanced potions. However, their research is generally a continuation of the current mainstream thinking in other countries in the study of advanced pharmaceuticals. It attempts to use foreign substances such as bacteria and viruses to modify the genes of the human body, and obtain shortcuts to advancement through these microorganisms.

This may sound incredible, but in fact, in the evolutionary history of human beings, bacteria and viruses have been the biggest contributors to evolution.

Take mitochondria, which are indispensable in the human body, for example, in the human body, mitochondria synthesize ATP through oxidative phosphorylation, which provides energy for various physiological activities of cells. Therefore, all human physiological activities are built on it.

Tracing back to the origin of the mitochondria, it is a reading bacterium. In other words, mitochondria are not something that belongs to human beings in the first place, but their relationship with humans is an endosymbiotic way, and a large amount of genetic information is transferred to human genes after the loss of reading ability, forming this perfect natural evolution.

Taking this as a starting point, biologists in the present era have stolen a variety of different bacterial and viral samples from the bodies of a large number of alien organisms, screened out some of them with promoting functions after screening their functions, and created advanced drugs that can help humans unlock the genetic lock through cultivation and genetic modification engineering.

In addition, drugs such as special ability guidance drugs directly intercept part of the chromosomes of alien creatures, inject them, and graft them into the genetic sequence of the human body, and forcibly combine various basic abilities to create special abilities similar to the instincts of alien creatures.

Genetic engineering like this is based on extraterrestrial organisms, and the nine-star republic located in the solar system does not have such innate conditions.

Although the earth is a natural ecological star with a huge biological system, in the course of hundreds of millions of years of development, all the biological resources that can be used have long been absorbed by human beings themselves. Aside from Earth, there is no other extraterrestrial life in the solar system. A few years ago, although the expedition team had discovered space life in Kuiper Ring, most of those organisms were anaerobic and did not have immediate application value for humans who were aerobic organisms. Therefore, the defects in the congenital conditions make it impossible for the Nine Star Republic to develop advanced medicines with low side effects through mainstream research like other countries.

Leona saw this further than the other researchers. Therefore, as early as she took over this research, she abandoned the conventional mainstream research direction and tried to find a new path for human evolution.

And her encounter with Robin more than a year ago was a huge turning point in her research. Through the discovery of Robin, she realized that the acupuncture points in the human body are similar to the wormholes in the universe, and in the human body, there is also a four-dimensional space.

Taking advantage of the fact that the human body has a certain ability to resist radiation, Leona concentrates the radiation energy within the range of human tolerance near the acupuncture points, stimulates the acupuncture points to open the four-dimensional space to spray antimatter, and relies on the energy derived from the collision of trace antimatter to promote the opening of the gene lock and enter the fast track of evolution.

It was a novel and great idea, but luckily Leona succeeded. She has fulfilled her mission to win a new future for the Nine Star Republic......

(To be continued)