The editor-in-chief raised his eyes and looked at Ryan, "You're going to the Neonatal Administration again?" ”

"Why, isn't that okay?"

The editor-in-chief tapped his fingers on the table, as if thinking, and said, "From which angle are you going to write?" ”

"Of course, it is to report on the cute appearance of newborns and encourage the best people to have more children. - Of course, it also depends on the acquisition of materials. ”

The editor-in-chief's lips curled, "Okay." Then he signed the interview request.

When handing the interview application form to Ryan, the editor-in-chief's hand was raised again, "You can, don't make trouble for me." ”

"Lao Ding, no, editor-in-chief, how can it."

"You stinky boy!"

Ryan put the interview sheet away and said casually, "Editor-in-chief, what do you mean by 'clearing?' ’”

The editor-in-chief raised his eyes again, the wrinkles on his forehead piled together, "Ryan, this doesn't look like a concern for you. ”

"Do you understand?"

Although the editor-in-chief often feigned ignorance, Ryan knew that this old thing had goods in his belly, and there was almost nothing he didn't know.

The editor-in-chief took a sip of the brown liquid from the cup, "You ask me...... Purge? ”

Ryan nodded, "What does that mean?" ”

"That's what you mean?"

"What?"

"Literally."

Ryan said: "I'm not familiar with the law, and I can't find the judicial interpretation of this word, you have a high-level query authority, can you help me look it up?" ”

"What are you looking for?"

"Just a friend......

"What's going on?"

Ryan shrugged, "I can't say that. ”

"Then I don't have the authority to do that for you." "But I think I've made it clear." ”

"Well......" said Ryan, "can you tell me, then, what would happen if one saved another from being purged?" ”

"That's easy," said the editor-in-chief, looking at Ryan with dark blue eyes on his wrinkled face, "that person, too, will be cleared." ”

***

Ryan looked at the director of the neonatal administration in front of him and said, "I'm glad you accepted my interview." ”

The director had a fair face, thick hair, short and neat, and a clear gaze, which at first glance looked like a self-disciplined and affluent middle class, except that he wore a pair of glasses. Myopia is a gene that has been eliminated by the Ark.

"Well," he said, taking off his glasses, blowing them, and putting them back on, like an unconfident person explaining his shortcomings, "it's not in the genes, it's acquired." ”

"It must be because you're working too hard." Ryan smiled, even good genes can cause refractive error eye lesions due to overuse of the eyes and other reasons.

The man smiled, too, but only the corners of his mouth curled, and he didn't respond much to Ryantao's words.

A person who is uninhibited and slightly socially phobic, Ryan thought.

"So, you're doing newborn screening? Can you tell me about what you do? ”

The man looked at the credentials that Ryan had given him, "Mr. Ryan, the director of the Ark Daily's Preferred Edition, I'm glad to meet you." My job is very simple, it is to screen newborns. ”

"So the unqualified ones need to be removed, how to get rid of them?"

"Mr. Lane, is this also necessary to be in the newspapers?"

"I think a lot of families want to know about it."

"Oh...... I'm only in charge of screening, and I don't know much about the clean-up work. ”

Ryan pursed his lips, "So, Mr. Oda, I would like to ask, since the mothers have already done genetic screening during pregnancy, why do they need to undergo newborn screening after birth?" ”

"To make sure nothing goes wrong, of course. Even embryos that are well screened for genetic screening may fail due to problems such as development and nutrition, and they do not meet the testing standards for newborns. ”

"Do you mean that even a child with no genetic problems can be eliminated if they don't grow up to the mark?"

"Yes."

"Is this a common occurrence?"

"It's not common, but it's not uncommon, for example, premature birth, or that the fetus is too large."

"Isn't it okay to be too big?"

"Yes, below or over, it's not considered normal."

"So, if you don't meet the standard in the neonatal period, does that mean you can't do it later, I mean, is there no support value at all?"

"Not necessarily, it can only be said that the probability of such a child not meeting the standard in the future is higher, but the ark does not have so many resources for trial and error."

Ryan was silent for a moment and said, "Then will their parents know?" ”

The newborn screening supervisor glanced at Ryan and said, "Let me tell you, Mr. Ryan, the newborn screening fails, it's just a small probability event, I think, this is not something that most families will encounter, and if it does, what I can tell them is that we will treat the mother."

With minimal physical and mental damage, they will be able to quickly regain their fertility and become pregnant again. ”

Ryan looked at him, "How can you be so sure that a woman who has just experienced such an event would be willing to get pregnant again?" ”

"Mr. Lane, this is beyond the scope of our discussion."

"How, then, can it be done in a way that does the least harm to the mother, and to that poor father?"

"This ......," the newborn screening supervisor smiled, "Strictly speaking, this is not a matter for my screening department, but as far as I know, the parents of such a preferred person have quickly come out of the shadows, and getting pregnant again as soon as possible may be the best medicine to treat this trauma, and, you know, the Forget Worry Medicine, this expensive drug, is freely available to us here, after all, the preferred person of childbearing age is the most precious group of people in the Ark, even if it is to delete the memories of the entire pregnancy, even for longer, after all, We don't want our parents to have their physical health affected by mental problems. ”

"Mental problems? You say, they will have mental problems? ”

The man shut up and stared at Ryan, "Mr. Ryan, I didn't say that. ”

Ryan said slowly: "So, if you don't clear it, what will happen?" ”

"It's impossible not to clear it."

"I mean, if, like, something goes wrong."

"It's almost impossible," the man said, with dissatisfaction in his tone, "and even then, after the lactation period is over, there will be a screening at the end of the intensive care phase." ”

"There will be another one?"

"Yes, the screening is not enough, and the results are the same."

“…….”

Ryan only felt his throat choked, and he could barely speak, he stopped the recording button on the bracelet, paused, and made his voice appear normal, "Mr. Oda, thank you for your cooperation, this is the end of my interview." ”

When Ryan was about to leave, he said, "Mr. Oda, take the liberty of asking, are you the preferred person?" Oda raised his two bare hands and said, "Not everyone is so good." ”

"Do you think the Preferred One is a good life?"

"Of course, the preferred people are all born, born with a good genetic combination, born with preferential treatment, born with the best resources of the Ark."

"So, what do you think of the ones that have been cleared......"

"No way, that's innate. However, what is the use of them coming, they will not bring progress to the population, they will only waste resources, and the purpose of our work is not that. ”

"Mr. Oda, you came here after a career aptitude test?"

"Of course."

Ryan walked in the porch outside the neonatal administration, this porch is an arched semicircle, supported by columns one by one, and the light shines through the porch, casting the shadows of the semicircles and columns on the wall.

Even if you don't get screened during pregnancy, there's newborn screening, and even if you dodge newborn screening, there's screening in infancy......

Ryan closed his eyes.

He then thought that even if he was born and grew up, he would continue to face all kinds of inspections, tests, screenings, and comparisons, and he was destined to be abandoned everywhere. Perhaps, through acquired efforts, he can partially make up for the innate gap, but that gap exists like a chasm, as long as a small test can expose it, he will never be able to cross it. What is the meaning of such a life?