Inside a secret research base.

Dr. Essen frowned and looked at the cultivation chamber in front of him, after more than half a year of cultivation, the only thing he could get was this embryo that had just begun to really develop.

It is not a clone of Ji Xinghe, but an artificial embryo that combines Ji Xinghe's genes and the genes of the imperial prince.

This is the real goal that the people who funded him have set for him.

But he was not happy at all, because until now, he did not understand why this research goal, which he thought was impossible to succeed, at least within ten years, was inexplicably successful.

At least for now, it can be described as a success.

He also didn't understand why the experimental project, which he was so sure of, never succeeded.

"Dr. Essen, please proceed to the conference room immediately."

Hearing the call, Dr. Essen took another look at the sprout-like embryos in the pod, turned and left the lab.

What he didn't notice was that in the gap in the ventilation window in the ceiling, there was a spider the size of an adult's thumb, staring at the training pod with a sense of excitement.

But after all, there is no action, because once it is moved, the base will be cut off from all communication signals at the first time, and it will enter a completely closed state.

Not to mention spiders, not to mention mosquitoes, not even the air can interact with the outside world.

It took half a year, Xingyue, who went back and forth between the alien star and the Azure Star for an unknown number of times, finally found the security hole in this research base, and controlled the expensive body to infiltrate the base, she didn't want to be damaged by the base's security personnel at the same time, and killed her together.

Once the communication signal is completely blocked, she really has no way to go to the sky and no way to enter the ground, counting on relying on this miniature body with almost no combat power to kill it, which is as difficult as Han Li to break a hundred imperial mecha on the chaotic battlefield when he is in a state of unarmoring.

As for hiding? Once she gets her hands dirty, she can't hide.

"Stupid guys, wait, I'll come over with my lord in the open."

Xingyue crawled down the ventilation pipe, very familiar, avoiding the laser sensor device in it, and successfully came to a conference room.

When she arrived, Dr. Essen had just arrived.

The video communication is on, but you can't see what the person on the other side looks like.

As strong as the stars and the moon, it is impossible to crack this kind of confidential communication without alarming others, and the voice heard has no meaning after analysis, it is the voice after being processed by technology.

She could only listen quietly and record.

"Dr. Essen, are you sure that this time the embryo will develop normally?"

When the mysterious man asked, his tone revealed obvious dissatisfaction.

This made Dr. Essen a little nervous.

"I can't guarantee it, but at least as it stands, there's a lot of hope that it will continue to develop."

"What's the point of what you're saying if you can't guarantee it?" The mysterious man's tone turned angry: "Do you know how many resources you wasted? Until now, you haven't been able to create even a fully developed embryo, how did you guarantee it before? Cloning Ji Xinghe is not difficult for you, but now? ”

Dr. Essen was a little aggrieved, and he had not made any previous promises in this regard.

But what the mysterious man said was the truth, he was indeed very confident in cloning Ji Xinghe, but for more than half a year, his self-confidence had completely collapsed due to repeated failures again and again.

"As I explained before, the project to clone General Ji Xinghe always fails, and it is very likely that General Ji Xinghe's blood, in the process of transporting it back from another planet, was affected by external factors such as cosmic radiation because of improper storage.

Now, General Ji Xinghe has been back for a long time, and I have applied for the freshest blood of General Ji Xinghe, but you can't provide it to me. If you can give me the freshest blood of General Ji Xinghe, I have a great chance of achieving the goal of cloning General Ji Xinghe. ”

The pot was not thrown out as Dr. Essen wished, and the mysterious man's tone became mocking: "If the blood that Ji Xinghe was extracted by us on the alien planet had an accident because of the transportation back to the Azure Star from the alien star, then why, the blood that Ji Xinghe was drawn during the physical examination on the Azure Star before couldn't make you successfully clone him?" ”

"Because of the problem of blood activity." Dr. Essen argued: "At that time, the blood samples and body tissue samples taken by General Ji Xinghe's physical examination were not properly preserved. I even suspect that it wasn't General Ji Xinghe's blood and body tissues, as there was a slight difference from the ones that were later brought back from the alien planet. ”

Hearing the argument between these two people, Xingyue laughed out loud in her heart.

She knows the truth, but she won't tell anyone else.

Ji Xinghe's genes have changed because of the power of qi, and they are naturally different from the samples left during the previous physical examination on the Azure Star, and when those samples were extracted, no one thought that Ji Xinghe would be able to achieve what it is today.

Naturally, no one wanted to clone him at that time, it was normal to keep it properly, and it was very rare to be able to find it.

After Ji Xinghe arrived on the alien planet, his health was better than that of a young man, except for the injury he was injured during the first nuclear explosion baptism, and he was not really drawn blood at all.

The blood that Dr. Essen got was the blood that Ji Xinghe was drawn after the baptism of the nuclear explosion, that is, the blood after receiving the power of qi.

After the genetic changes, not only did Dr. Essen suspect that the first sample he obtained was not from Ji Xinghe, but also made Dr. Essen's plan to clone Ji Xinghe almost all failed.

Unable to clone.

"The lord has the same irreproducibility as me, how can you stupid humans understand?"

While Xingyue sneered, Dr. Essen, after being harshly criticized, applied again.

"As I said, this time the embryo I can't guarantee that it will develop normally to a state of strength, but it has given me a lot of experience. If I want to increase the chances of success in the next fusion gene cultivation and complete the plan to clone General Ji Xinghe, I need the latest blood sample of General Ji Xinghe, and it must be well preserved. ”

The mystery man was silent.

Why didn't he want to get a blood sample from Ji Xinghe? But the problem is that Ji Xinghe has no possibility of being injured after returning to Azure Star, and there is no disease, and his health does not look like a sixty-seven-year-old man at all.

The only time a blood test was taken by Ji Xinghe on the Ping'an space battleship and landed at the moon base, but there was too little blood at that time, and all of them were used up after a few tests.

"I'll figure it out, and until then, I hope you can succeed."

Dr. Essen hesitated for a moment, then proposed, "Why don't you bring General Ji Xinghe over?" While he may not agree to our plan, he will most likely agree that if we can create a clone trooper, there won't be so many sacrifices in future wars.

General Ji Xinghe went to Alien to avenge his son, so he definitely doesn't want other people's sons and daughters to be sacrificed, as long as we communicate with him well......"

"There's no need to discuss that." The mystery man interrupted Dr. Essen's words and said coldly: "I transferred you from that project, not to make you create problems for me, but to let you solve problems for me, and if you can't prove your worth, I think, you should know what kind of consequences you will have." ”

Dr. Essen froze for a moment, a look of horror in his eyes, then took a deep breath before beginning to show his worth.

"Combined with the research results of Nantianmen, as well as our own research results, we can now be completely sure that the power of qi is contained in genes, driven by the central nervous system, and can also be said to be spiritual will. In this respect, orangutans are no different from us.

But like Nantianmen, we didn't find a way to artificially intervene in this genetic change, and we couldn't extract the qi we wanted from the genes of the orangutans who possessed qi.

However, judging from the latest research results of the biomecha research project I was working on before, as well as some experimental data I obtained in the process of fusing the genes of General Ji Xinghe and the Imperial Prince.

Some of the properties of Qi don't disappear because we think of the genes that nurture them. ”

Hearing this, Xingyue suddenly became nervous.

Dr. Essen's previous research institute was a research project to create mecha from biomaterials.

In this base, no one including Dr. Essen has access to the outside network, but the servers of the research base are updated every day, including the research results of the research institutions in the Nantianmen space station, as well as the research results of the research institutions he was in before, and there are many, many more.

Compared to the information that Dr. Essen could see, Xingyue was actually able to see more, because the research institute that studied biological mecha did not have a high level of secrecy here.

The stars and the moon come and go freely.

After nearly a year of research, the Federation's biomecha project has achieved significant results beyond all expectations.

The reason for this, like Dr. Essen's only achievement, is that the genes extracted from the corpse of the Imperial Prince and the living body of the Imperial Prince have not lost their qi-related properties after being cultivated into biological materials.

This allowed the biomaterial samples produced by that research institute to show a very good match with the Federation's neural link technology in the course of the experiment.

The most obvious effect is the reduction of operational latency.

However, it will take a long time to complete the ideal experimental model.

Xingyue was not worried about the possibility of the Federation building more powerful mechs, and she was very much looking forward to it.

Her concern was that the two research projects had in common enough for Dr. Essen to discover a secret.

"So what?" The mystery man asked as Dr. Essen paused.

"So, if that embryo can develop and grow properly, it will naturally have the power of qi."

Dr. Essen said affirmatively: "Moreover, when it grows up, the biomaterial mecha will definitely be able to make breakthroughs, and we will have an advanced mecha made of biomaterials, and the qi it possesses can help it mobilize the qi contained in the biomaterial mecha and exert incredible power under the premise of using neural link technology." I'd like to call it, truly extraordinary. ”

The mystery man was clearly not going to be satisfied with Dr. Essen's drawing.

"What you said doesn't mean anything, because it didn't succeed, so your value can't be shown because of it."

Dr. Essen hesitated suddenly.

The mysterious man was also silent for a moment, and suddenly asked, "You used your own genes to fuse with the genes of the imperial prince before, and failed, why?" ”

Dr. Essen looked up in astonishment, he was very secretive when he did this experiment, there was no one around at the time, and he avoided all the surveillance cameras before replacing the genetic sample of Ji Xinghe with his genetic sample.

It's still been discovered.

Taking a deep breath, Dr. Esen said, "To put it simply, because I am not as strong as General Ji Xinghe, my genes are weak and will be directly devoured by the genes of the imperial prince, rather than fused. The genes of the Imperial Crown Prince were extracted from corpses, and they were not active enough in themselves, and they could not be cultivated by devouring them alone. ”

"Really?" The mysterious man asked, "Isn't it because Ji Xinghe may have mastered the power of qi and his genes have changed because of this?" ”

Dr. Essen looked at the screen in shock: "How is this possible? Didn't you tell me that General Ji Xinghe said that he had mastered the power of qi, was it just a white lie? ”

"I said that." The mystery man looked at Dr. Essen's face with a smile in his tone, "But what if, he didn't lie?" ”

Dr. Esen frowned, thought for a moment and said, "Impossible, the biological mecha laboratory has tried to fuse the genes of the Imperial Prince and the Imperial Prince, but it failed, because the characteristics of qi in their genes will conflict. Therefore, if General Ji Xinghe had the power of Qi, then my cultivation would not be successful. ”

The mysterious man looked at Dr. Essen quietly for a while, and said, "I will hand over the blood of five people, including Kadilin, Jackson, Harris, Han Li, and Rovich, to you and use their genes to do the same experiment, and then, tell me the results." ”

"Okay." Dr. Essen agreed without hesitation, and returned to his lab as usual.

What he didn't know was that after he left, someone else entered the room, the head of the research base.

"Essen didn't tell me the truth, he had a problem, stared at him, and if he wanted to destroy the embryo, or do something in the experiments, he would be arrested and asked for the truth that he was hiding."

"Yes."

Dr. Essen was unaware of his clumsy performance, which was seen through at a glance, and he was hesitant now.

Because he did lie just now, he guessed a possibility, but for some reason he was reluctant to say it or give some of the evidence he already had.

And all of this was seen by Xingyue.

Xingyue, who breathed a sigh of relief, took advantage of the fact that she was still in the Azure Star, and urged Ji Xinghe again.

"If we don't do it, we really won't have a chance, those guys are going to kill Dr. Essen, and ......"

Xingyue hesitated for a moment and asked, "Lord, you don't want to see you and the Imperial Prince's ...... Child, are you in this world? ”

This sentence almost caused Ji Xinghe to have a cerebral hemorrhage.

"Are you ready?"

"I'm ready, lord, believe me, I will definitely be able to handle this matter, and I will definitely not make any big mess that shocks the world."

"But those people didn't show up."

"Perhaps, after I do it this time, they will show up?"

Ji Xinghe hesitated, and he didn't know if it was because of Xingyue's question just now, but he finally agreed.

"Then you do it, pay attention to proportion."

"You'll see."

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