Chapter 139: Marriage Customs and Reform

However, what made Leo even more incomprehensible was that the people of the Ten Towns did not have the slightest aversion to this method of intermarriage, but respected it very much, and even some nobles competed to imitate it, which is extremely rare in a civilized society where there is an industrial system and a certain amount of knowledge is generally mastered.

Even among the magical alien races in the Earth Federation universe, only a small number of alien races will have this kind of consanguineous marriage because of their physical defects, and they themselves do not agree with this practice.

Mismarriage is not only backward in the civilization system, but also a big problem in biological reproduction, almost everyone in the Earth Federation knows that inbreeding will make the offspring have a high chance of deformity, with the current level of medicine in this dream world to prove this is not a difficult matter.

It is not even necessary to take advantage of any level of medicine, and the endless deformities and imbeciles of misbeciles from the descendants of the nobility who intermarried are enough to prove the error of consanguineous marriage.

However, the inhabitants and nobles of Ten Towns and Silvermoon City turned a blind eye to this, because none of the descendants of the Alcott family after intermarriage had a single imbecile or deformed child, but each of them had a handsome appearance and extraordinary intelligence, so they all thought that this was the result of inbreeding, and the reason why they had this adverse reaction was only because they had some wrong methods.

The most peculiar thing is that the wise wizard should have put a stop to such absurd thoughts and behaviors, but in fact the wizard played a role in the intermarriage of the close relatives of the Alcott family.

Although the wizards of the Wizarding Guild did not explicitly support the inheritance custom of the Alcott family's consanguineous marriage, they secretly suppressed the children of the Alcott family who were not inbred when the Alcott family chose the ruler of the Ten Towns, and at the same time explicitly created momentum for the children of the Alcott family who intermarried, and the closer the blood relationship between the two sides of the consanguineous marriage, the greater their support.

Leo acquired several diaries from marginalized members of the Alcott family, whose parents were not consanguineous within the Alcott family. They have all mentioned more than once that the power structure within the Alcott family is also determined by the degree of blood intimacy between the two parties. They also don't know why there is such a hierarchical system of status, but they know that anyone who wants to rebel against this system, no matter how high their status, even if it is the ruler of Lake Town, will eventually disappear inexplicably.

When Leo carefully analyzed the bloodline inheritance of the Alcott family, the first thought that came to his mind was bloodline. It is clear that the purpose of the Alcott family's inbreeding model is to maintain the family bloodline, as they have publicly stated, and the wizards value this for the same bloodline, which makes Leo wonder why the Orcott family's bloodline is so peculiar.

However, although Leo was curious, he did not plan to really contact the people of the Alcott family, and he could see that the people of the Alcourt family did not know the details of their bloodline, and these mysteries were in the hands of the chief wizard of the Wizarding Guild, so it was the easiest and most direct way to find these mysteries directly from the Wizarding Guild.

Because of this, even when selling those healing potions, Leo never took the initiative to contact the members of the wealthy Alcott family, and the relationship between the two was almost zero. But now the leader of the Alcott family, who is also the leader of the Alcott family in the town of Seventh Lake, personally posted it and invited him to the banquet, which really surprised him.

However, after the accident, he thought about it a little, and vaguely guessed in his heart what the intention of Andre XIII's invitation was, I am afraid that the healing potion is the main purpose of the leader of the Alcott family, who is known for his seclusion.

A few days ago, when selling healing potions, Leo felt that healing potions were still rare in this mysterious world, and it was not difficult to hear from the mouths of those nobles that even though there were many wizards and apothecaries in Silvermoon City, there were still very few people who could make wizard potions.

At that time, he thought that the ten bottles of wizard potions that he had shot would definitely cause some trouble, and now Andre XIII's invitation confirmed his suspicions.

If it had been more than an hour ago, Leo might have ignored the invitation and would have gone straight to the airship dock in the city and left here in an airship, but now he had changed his mind because of the appearance of the hides, and decided to stay here for a while longer to see if he could find anything more useful.

Leo, who had already decided to accept the invitation, thought about what he was going to wear for the party, and finally decided to change into his original leather jacket.

Once in town, Leo felt that he had been a little too cautious. He found that although the style of his clothes was very different from that of ordinary people in the city, it looked so ordinary among the nobles who liked to dress up in fancy clothes, and even the clothes worn by some of the so-called ancestral body mutants were much more strange and exaggerated than his leather jacket, so he changed into a suit of clothes specifically to avoid loopholes in his clothes, which was completely superfluous.

It's just that, even so, the next time he encounters the same situation, Leo will still do it, after all, in the countless missions he carried out in the era of the Earth Federation, there are countless fools who died because of some small mistakes, and he doesn't want to be one of them.

Soon, Leo took out his original clothes, shoes and hats from his backpack and changed them, and after a little hesitation, he took out the king and queen and reequipped them on his body.

Just as he was overly cautious about the style of his clothes, shoes and hats, he was also overly cautious about firearms.

According to his observations in the past few days, he found that almost all the merchants who traveled to and from the ten towns were wearing various weapons, most of them were mainly bladed crossbows, but some of them were wearing firearms. It's just that most of the guns on their bodies are not revolvers like kings and queens, but the kind of multi-barrel repeating shotguns.

The ammunition for these shotguns is not gunpowder, but a mixture of gunpowder, and he is unable to perceive any psionic wavelengths from the powder, suggesting that these ammunition are completely different from the special bullets on his body.

Although wearing a king and queen is still a little eye-catching, it is also in line with the speculation of those who are interested in his identity, making them more sure that he is related to an unknown senior of the Wizarding Guild in Silvermoon City, because in their opinion, only a high-level mechanic under the control of the Wizarding Guild can make such an elaborate firearm, and this misunderstanding can also help Leo not to explain too much about his disguised identity.

After arranging his outfits, Leo put on his backpack and put a few relatively important books in his backpack, while the others were left in the room, and walked out of the room to the top of the building, along the suspension bridge that crisscrossed the top, towards the third district garden marked on the invitation.

Among the ten towns on the String Moon Lake, Leo didn't know whether the security of the other lake towns was good or bad, but he was sure that the security of the seventh lake town where he was now was not very good, and in the few days he had been in District 33, he had heard more than once that the out-of-town merchants who rented houses in District 33 had been robbed and robbed.

Although the patrol guards of District 33 sent people to investigate and collect evidence every time, and caught the person who stole the goods, the stolen items could not be recovered. Leo didn't want to be like the out-of-town businessmen who went to a banquet and came back to find that his backpack had been stolen, so taking it with him was his best bet.

Each area of Hushang Town is divided according to the vine floating platform where it is located, and some of the vine floating platforms have a large area, so the area of the urban area is larger, and the more houses there are.

However, there are still some rules to follow, the largest vine terraces in the town are classified as industrial areas, followed by commercial areas, such as the 33rd district, the area of semi-commercial, semi-residential areas is only slightly larger than some purely residential areas, and the houses in residential areas are not very large, but they are dense and very high.

The exception is the area inhabited by the nobility of the city, although this area is divided into ten areas from one to ten, but in fact it is a whole vine platform, which is the largest vine platform in the whole lake town in terms of area alone, and the area of forty or fifty ordinary residential areas can only be compared with the area when put together.

A high wall was built on the edge of the entire platform that connected it to the other platforms, separating the city from 1 to 10 from the rest of the town on the lake, and the nobles placed at least a garrison of more than 100 people in the high wall. These garrisons were all made up of physically fully ancestral former city guards, strong enough to crush all the soldiers in those ten city guards.

The bodies of these garrison soldiers are almost all three meters tall, and their bodies are very mutated, some have a large number of octopus-like tentacles, some have disproportionately huge bodies, and more have simply become completely beasts, turning into spiders, lizards, giant birds, and so on. These mutants with extraordinary powers, combined with weapons specially crafted for them, make them so powerful that even Leo needs to take them seriously.

In the past few days, the so-called ancestral body abnormalities in Lake Town have always been one of Leo's concerns, and he even went to the guarded city to capture a few guards after entering the rest period in the city, and studied the cause of their physical alienation.

He found that this alienation was not due to the genetic mutation caused by the influence of the surrounding environment, but more like artificial, because he found many traces of wizard transformation in the body of those who had mutated their bodies.

In the Wizard of the Wilderness's Wizard Notes, Leo reads about the Wizard's Transformation. Although he doesn't use this kind of transformation technique for himself, he attaches great importance to the xenogene fusion technology inside, so he finds time from time to time to study the transformation cases recorded in his notes, and learns this transformation technique through the auxiliary brain system without any actual operation, so his understanding of wizard transformation is not much worse than that of those who specialize in this technique.

After examining the ancestral bodies of these people through the spirit network, Leo easily found the traces of the transformation spell after casting, and also found that the transformation on these people was very different from the transformation technique of the wilderness wizard, or this transformation technique was more in line with the xenogene fusion technology in Leo's mind.

The Wizard of the Wilderness's transformation technique is a very superficial method of limb or organ transplantation, which may involve microscopic cells such as genes, but there are definitely not many places involved. The transformation technique of the wilderness wizard is simply to transplant the relatively powerful organs or related cells of a certain creature into the human body, and then erase the rejection reaction after the transplantation through witchcraft, so that the transformed person can obtain the power contained in the transplanted organ, and finally reach the point of changing or strengthening the human body.

This kind of transformation can be called an immediate transformation technique, because as long as the transformation is completed, the transformation effect will appear, but the human body will also have some unforeseen accidents because there is no time to adapt.

Now, Leo has discovered a microscopic modification technique that directly targets the genetic level in this mutant person in this dream world. This modification technique is to forcibly insert the genes of other species into the genes of humans, so that they become a new humanoid gene.

After the use of this modification technique, the body of the modified person will not immediately undergo abnormalities, and his genetic cells are still mainly based on human genes. It is only after certain unpredictable mutation conditions and opportunities are triggered that the transformed person's body will slowly change, and this slow mutation process should be enough for the mutant to adapt to the changes in the body.

In addition, this genetically modified will spread to the bloodline genes of their offspring as the modifiers reproduce, so Leo speculates that it is likely that all the people in this dream world are xenogenetic, but some are recessive and some are dominant.

If this is not enough, it is not enough to make Leo marvel at this real genetic modification, what really makes him feel that this modification is extremely incredible is that when two different modified genes come into contact, the gene cells will not have adverse reactions such as rejection or collapse, but will automatically fuse and evolve into another new xenogene.

In Leo's opinion, the transformation technique imposed by the wizard on the people of the dream world is the most perfect genetic modification technique, and it is also the transformation technique that he wants to learn the most. It's a pity that after comparing these modified gene cells, he found that the modified gene cells on these people have been very mature, or mature, at least after dozens of generations of fusion evolution, that is to say, the initial transformation technique was hundreds or even thousands of years ago.

According to Leo's diary from a veteran guarding the castle in a fog area, hundreds of years ago, there was a turmoil in the Wizarding Association of Silvermoon City, and many things in the Wizarding Association seemed to have been lost in the turmoil, so it is also unknown whether this transformation technique still exists.

Therefore, he could only try his luck and see if he could find a specific method of casting this transformation technique before leaving here.