[On April 22, 4002, Shikoti Nishizawa exchanged 4000 surplus points for "Carp", a loss, -4000. 】

A line of black handwriting appears on the Primordial Codex.

It worked!

A mechanism within this ancient artifact was activated by the mind of the wielder, and a miracle reappeared.

Starlight escaped from the page, condensed into a fist-sized mass, and disappeared into a corner in front of Scotty.

Beneath the layer of soil, a light shines through, revealing a peculiar magic circle.

In the heavens and on the ground, the skeletons of the carp that had crumbled into ashes seemed to have been suddenly inspired by the magic circle, and they flew up and began to swirl around the starlight.

The sudden vision attracted Yan Luge's attention, and he tilted his head to observe the scene with interest.

Shi Koti was even more playful, and his eyes widened in surprise as he looked at the small wind whirlwind that appeared not far away: "What is this?" ”

Her surprise was half-true, not all fake.

Although this was a movement she made, she really didn't know what form the Primordial Code would take to redeem the "carp" she had exchanged. ”

"Let me see." Yan Luge stretched out a tentacle and poked the small wind whirlpool above the magic circle, but he touched a layer of hard things.

The bone meal at the core of the wind whirlwind has formed a layer of solid balls, although the strength feels similar to that of an eggshell, and it can be pierced with a little force, but at this moment his curiosity prevails, and he doesn't want to destroy it forcefully.

So Yan Luge changed the experimental method, withdrew the tentacles, fully opened the function of the left electronic prosthetic eye, and superimposed countless buffs on the right eye, and began to observe the internal situation of this wind whirlpool.

I saw it clearly, but the more I looked at it, the more strange it felt.

"The bone meal of these carps, under the guidance of some force in the center of this whirlwind, is undergoing a genetic recombination at the microscopic level." "Or, in other words, life is refined." ”

"Genetic recombination? Life refined? "Scotti was drawn to his diction.

No doubt she had heard both words and understood the general meaning.

The former was learned from the textbooks of the life sciences, and the latter was seen in the ancient books of the Nishizawa Empire.

There is a well-known spell in the alchemist's professional system, called "Life Alchemy", whose main role is to cultivate all kinds of alien beasts.

"Well, you can understand that there is a 'carp egg' being born here." Yan Lüge explained, "As a large-scale and extraordinary species, the 'carp' has a fairly stable heritable gene, which can recombine the genes of different traits of the parent in the process of sexual reproduction and pass them on to the next generation.

"Although some of the genetic fragments remaining in the bones of these carps have been contaminated and some have become mutilated in the past 4,000 years, as long as there are enough of them, there is still a chance to extract usable genetic fragments and reproduce the next generation, so that the 'carp' can reappear in the human world.

"It's like scientists trying to extract DNA from dinosaur fossils and piece together a piece of work to resurrect an extinct dinosaur — a solution that is theoretically feasible as long as the complete genetic fragments can be scraped together.

"That's how this circle works.

"It can extract the broken gene fragments of the carp to breed a new 'carp', and it can also extract the genetic fragments of cats and dogs to breed a 'kobaur cat'.

"You can call it a 'genetic recombination circle', or you can call it a 'life refining circle', it's all the same thing anyway."

I have to say that sometimes the line between technology and supernatural power is very blurred.

The only difference is the means to the end.

Scientists use a variety of gene-editing tools to cut and recombine genes, but the transcendents are usually a little more simple and crude, making a wish to spiritual power to awaken a "life alchemy", abandoning the process of inquiry and going straight to the result.

The two approaches are essentially the same.

"I see." Shi Coti also sighed involuntarily, circled around this circle, and thought of another question, "So, the 'carp eggs' born from this circle will be the 'descendants' of all ancient carps?" ”

"On a genetic level, that's true."

Shikoti's eyes lit up slightly, and she circled around the circle.

She stretched out her hand, as if to touch the small wind whirlpool above the circle, but she didn't dare, hesitated for a moment and retracted her hand.

"You can touch it, it's not a big problem." Words and songs kindly reminded.

Poety was emboldened, and reached out to poke the little whirlwind.

She felt as if her palms were reaching into the flowing sand, and the fine bone meal swirled by the wind gently hit her skin, but the force was small, not only not painful, but a little itchy.

She continued to move forward, and finally poked at something hard.

Like an eggshell.

Just as her fingertips were straining slightly, trying to touch the texture of the eggshell, it suddenly shattered.

The eggshell above the circle suddenly shattered, and it fell to the ground as bone meal again.

Even the circle stopped, and the whirlwind vanished.

Poetry: "......"

Song of Words: "......"

Shi Curti retracted his hand and covered his fingers in horror: "I can't poke it badly, do I?!" ”

Yan Luge paused for a second: "No, there shouldn't be." The 'Carp Egg' has been born. ”

He stretched out a tentacle and brushed away the bone meal on the ground, using the tip of the tentacle to roll something up from the thick layer of gray-white powder.

He moved so fast, and the things he grabbed were so small that Scotti didn't even see what he had picked up.

"Spread your hands." Yanlu Song said to Shi Curti.

Poeti did as she was told.

Yanlu Song put the "carp egg" in the hand of Shi Koti.

Scorti's eyes widened, and she finally saw a transparent, round object the size of a sesame seed in her palm.

It was so small that Scotti couldn't help but marvel at the sharpness of her eyes and the dexterity of her tentacles - she didn't even see such a grain in a pile of bone meal, and she felt that it was difficult to pick it up from the dirt with such a large tentacle.

Poetry: "...... What is it?! ”

"Obviously, it's a fish roe. ”

"No, no, no, I mean, why is it that after a cool special effect, a fish roe comes out!" Shi Curti was obviously a little confused, "I thought the 'carp's egg' was an egg!" ”

"Because a carp is a fish, even if it has wings and is called a 'carp', it is still a fish in essence." "So of course the 'carp's egg' is fish roe, is there anything wrong with that?" ”

“…… When you say that, it seems that there is no problem. ”

"By the way, haven't you seen a flock of carp in the illusion? You don't know how carp reproduce? ”

"I've only seen the king of carp beating his own people and neutering them, but I've never seen them lay eggs...... No, the process of spawning! ”

“…… That's right, too. ”

(End of chapter)