Ominous omen, blood moon mark, messy genes, lonely mind.

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"The causes that were planted in the beginning are intertwined,"

"The ultimate fruit is the forbidden fruit given by the gods to all beings."

"Is it a blessing? Is it woe? No one knows. ”

Excerpt from Lanxing's ancient historical document "Dawn - A Thousand Years of Praying for the Moon".

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The prisoner bound to the stone pillar in the middle of the pond seemed so vicious that it didn't even know that it was only something very insignificant that restrained its freedom, and even if it was a little smarter, it wouldn't have fallen to such a point.

The vine was knotted in the child of an unknown species, but it was only a knot, not an indestructible chain, nor a complex knot that could not be broken free. There are no overly complicated techniques in this era, and if you tie people up with this simple dead knot, even a child who prays for the moon can easily untie it, and it will not be bound at all.

However, this knot, which is very unreliable no matter how you look at it, really tied the child in front of you, even if it has flexible five fingers, it still doesn't know how to untie this not complicated knot, so it can only be helplessly trapped here, becoming a prisoner in the water prison.

"Even if it may be unable to cope due to lack of experience, it shouldn't be reduced to this point no matter what......" Xinglan gently reached out and poked the knot, this action made the child tremble again, but the hardship it suffered just now made it dare not attack Xinglan again, "Could it be that there is an essential gap at the genetic level that will cause it to have no way to untie the knot?" ”

Although its body is covered with a layer of orange-red fluff, it has no claws at the end of its limbs, only hands and feet that are very similar to humans, which does not have too strong attack power, especially when it is still restrained, and its only way to attack at this time is to bite hard with its not sharp teeth but have nothing to do with Xinglan's mechanical structure.

There is no strong physique of a beast, and at the same time there is no advanced intelligence of a human...... Xinglan gradually denied the idea that it was a member of the third race, and felt that even if it was much smarter than ordinary animals, it would definitely not reach the level of the current sea giants and moon praying people, and it was just a little guy who was not good in any way and felt that it could not survive in the natural environment.

It always feels weird...... Should such creatures really exist?

The faint infrasound waves in the air have been propagating in a fixed state, undisturbed by the child's emotions, and it seems that this should be an instinctive change rather than a subjective ability to control.

"Alas...... It's nerve-wracking. Thinking with some distress, Xinglan suddenly noticed that there seemed to be something unusual in front of the child, and walked straight forward, gently grabbed its hand and broke it to the sides...... The other party still didn't make any more resistance, but showed his chest very obediently, "These things are not natural patterns." ”

On its flat chest, covered with orange-red fuzz, there is a pattern painted in bright red, which is clearly shown to be not a natural hair pattern, but painted with some kind of paint that does not dissolve in water. Even if it is a little faded, it can still be seen that it is a somewhat strange symbol, first a crescent-like red arc, and another red straight line extending from the lower left corner of the pattern to the upper right corner, forming a strange pattern similar to a cross with the original arc, and a complete circle at the outermost stage.

"These patterns are so familiar, is it the Moon Prayer who binds you here?" Recalling the signs of the Moon Prayer people she had seen at the entrance of the cave, Xinglan was somewhat clear, but it was still full of doubts, "The motives for these actions are still trivial, the key question is, what kind of existence do you have?" Where does it come from? ”

Until now, Xinglan wasn't even sure about the gender of the other party, although it was not wearing clothes, it had been curled up and couldn't see the lower half of its body, and the characteristics of the upper body were not the same as that of children...... In addition, in the face of unknown creatures, the identification of appearance may not be effective: "It's a bit troublesome, but is it safer to confirm the specific information through the genes on the chromosomes?" ”

"Huh?" When it found that Xinglan suddenly stopped moving, the child, who had been at the mercy of the child, was a little stunned, it looked at Xinglan blankly, as if it couldn't understand what was happening at this time, but it couldn't break free from the restraints on its body, it could only let out a low whimper like a small beast, and struggled with both hands.

Unbeknownst to it, some invisible signalon has penetrated into its body and begins to enter the inner nucleus of the cell without it being aware of it, and uses a huge computing network to quickly generate the corresponding gene sequence code by monitoring the spatial arrangement of each atom.

It's a lot of work, but it's nothing to Xinglan. In a world where the speed of ordinary thinking is unattainable, it only took her a minute or so to digitize the complete gene chain in the cell of the child in front of her, and then completed the interpretation and comparison of its meaning in more than ten seconds.

The end result is so interesting that it could even be said that this is a situation that is almost impossible in nature.

"More than 95% of the genes in the complete genome are the same as human genes......" Xing Lan let go of the child's hand, his face looked a little strange, while the other party quickly curled up again, looking at Xing Lan blankly, "But this will definitely not be the third civilization race on Lan Xing, this will not even be a species in the real sense!" ”

"This incredibly chaotic way of sequencing genes doesn't look like a genome that should have appeared in natural evolution." Xinglan is very sure of this, if the species evolved by nature are as beautiful as gems, the genome of the child in front of him is simply a pile of sand, full of holes and extremely fragile, as if a breeze can blow it away, "This is like a rough fusion of cells from different animals, not to mention having a survival advantage in nature, the fact that it can survive is already an incomparable miracle!" ”

The reason why Xinglan is even more sure that this child is not a real species is that there are no sex chromosomes in its chromosomes, or the position of the original sex chromosomes is occupied by another strange and unrecognizable distorted chromosome!

Yes, it is neither male nor female, and it does not even have sex chromosomes at all. This is also manifested in the chaotic shape of its body, which has neither male features nor female reproductive organs, which means that it is impossible for it to have the ability to conceive offspring. This is obviously impossible for normal animals, in the long history of life evolution, a species can have no senses, no brain, and even no fixed body, but the most indispensable thing is the ability to reproduce.

What the hell is it? The offspring of cross-species hybrids? If you look at it from the point of view of the inability to reproduce, it is indeed very much like the result of reproductive isolation...... Just as a mule from a cross between a horse and a donkey cannot reproduce, the premise of cross-species crossbreeding is that the two species must be very close to each other. Not to mention where this warrior came from, just from Xinglan's observations, the genes of the animals that make up the other genetic parts of its body are very different from the genes of humans, and the gap between the two is so large that it is impossible to produce offspring naturally, which means that this matter is definitely not so simple to explain.

"Obviously, the technology of the civilized race on the planet is unlikely to reach the point where it can conduct such genetic experiments, so will it be something that the wind has done? No, even if it were him, it would be impossible for him to create such a creature that was genetically disordered but just survived......"

While Xinglan was struggling, the child didn't stare at the saucer flower in a daze, but looked at the water below that was illuminated by the searchlight. At this time, he could clearly see a lot of scavenging insects swimming back and forth in the pool, and his big yellow eyes stared at the scavenging insects swimming back and forth, whimpering lowly.

Suddenly, it quickly reached into the water below and grabbed a scavenging bug with its bare hands with an agility that Xinglan had not expected...... Although the process may seem simple, it is not an easy thing to do, these little creatures are quite flexible and need to have a fairly fast nervous reaction speed to do this.

However, its subsequent actions surprised Xinglan, this child actually directly pulled off the head of the scavenging insect, and then put the whole corpse of the dead insect in his mouth, chewed it expressionlessly and swallowed it, the sound of the worm's carapace shattering was extremely clear.

Xinglan finally knew how it had survived this cave...... Since the genes that control taste are very similar to those of humans, the taste it perceives should be similar. The taste of eating that kind of scavenging insect can be imagined, this is definitely not a beautiful experience, but the action of this child to eat it did not hesitate, and there was no trace of discomfort on his face, it can only be said that he is probably completely used to it, and just obeys the instinctive desire to survive.

"Alone in the dark, I could only listen to the sound of dripping water and stare at the glimmer of light...... This kid is about to break down. Xing Lan sighed softly, and gently untied the vine that bound it in the other party's blank expression, "Although I don't understand what the purpose is, it's too much to use this cruel criminal law on a child who doesn't know anything." ”

"Well, come with me, will you?" Gently touching the protruding little horn on the other party's head, looking at the beautiful threads on it, Xinglan smiled lightly, "It's not a beautiful thing to stay here. ”

A little dazed as he watched himself get out of the thick stone pillar, with the child's somewhat dull intellect, he didn't understand what was going on, but continued to chew on the scavenging worm in his mouth, and naturally he didn't understand Xinglan's words......

"Lonely little one, your name is Lonely."

(Ah, the number of chapters is 233~)