If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon

Chapter 858 Bridge (Two in One)

"Lin Xian?" Manstein took a sharp breath when he heard the name.

He couldn't help but gasp in shock. This name may be very popular among the students, after all, it represents a young and efficient female doctor in the psychology department.But among the people who have gone up the teaching ranks such as Manstein and Schneider, the name "Lin Xian" is directly linked to "trouble". There is no approximation or equal, only equal.

Because this name is usually directly associated with Lin Nian.

Things that have anything to do with Lin Nian will never be good. This is a truth recognized by most members of the secret party who really understand the "inside story".

In the eyes of many people, 'Lin Xian' is no longer the so-called "teacher of the psychological department", "member of the secret party", or even "Lin Nian's sister". A political symbol, an instrument of political power.

The most direct manifestation is that during the two years since Lin Xian entered Kassel College, except for the teacher Masashi Toyama in the Psychology Department, no non-student staff has a close relationship with her, that is, they have become "friends" in the typical sense. ".

No adult who is familiar with the operating procedures of the secret party system is willing to approach this woman, because everyone knows that anyone who tries to get close to this political symbol, no matter what the intention is, will be on the high table at that moment. Will become a suspect with ulterior motives in the eyes of the meeting—just getting close to it will cause a mess, let alone getting acquainted, any friendship will lead to potentially huge troubles for oneself.

Even including Manstein, as Lin Nian's mentor, he would only talk with Lin Xian about Lin Nian's affairs when necessary, and the word "businesslike" was taken to the limit.These all prove the importance and nervousness of Lin Xian. It will only be a huge trouble if her name appears on the schedule of any non-Psychological Department personnel.

As Lin Nian's mentor, Manstein knows a little more than others. He even knows that there is a backup emergency plan in the executive department. Natural disasters, self-pathological causes, suicide, homicide) confirmed death, Mr. Toyama Masashi will make a phone call to the Minister's Office of the Executive Department and say the code: "The clock tower has collapsed." Similar to the code "London" when the Queen of England died. The bridge collapsed."

The process sounds a bit like a spy war movie during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, but this is also to ensure that the bad news is passed on the way to avoid any form of monitoring, so that it can be known in advance by those who want to ensure that it can be used to destroy the Kassel College. Stability, a threat to the security of the school board.

As for how to destroy this stability and threaten the safety of the academy, the answer is self-evident.

Now the name 'Lin Xian' appears in a 'SS' priority document, and it is the worst, worst, worst thing that Manstein can think of. Nixon-related Watergate was worse.Manstein didn't need to know the details of this matter at all. He only knew that the combination of the three words "school board", "Lin Xian", and "confidential document" was so bad that he could buy coffins for some people in advance.

But now, he found that what he could do was to learn more about the details and see how much worse it could be, such as how many coffins to order and what size.

"'Utero'? Uterus? Why does a document have such a code name." Manstein felt that he had temporarily calmed down from the bad news, and first figured out the purpose of this document, as well as Lin Xian's name and person Why does the information appear in it.

"This matter is very troublesome to explain." Schneider said calmly, "Did you take "Principles and Techniques of Genetics" as an elective in college?"

"No. Have you ever learned it?" Manstein was taken aback for a moment.

"Neither have I." Schneider shook his head, "But the source and purpose of that document requires relevant knowledge reserves. I just learned some things in a hurry after learning about it. Since you don't have relevant knowledge reserves either, I won't Guaranteed to be able to speak clearly in the future, I can only make a long story short."

"Um, are you talking about the cellular basis of genetics, Mendel's law and its extensions, sex-linked inheritance, and things like gene mutation and gene recombination?" Guderian spoke suddenly, which made Manstein All of a sudden, he turned his head and stared at him, and shrank his head under the staring gaze of his old friend.

"Don't you understand?"

"The major of "Dragon Genealogy" is quite complicated. I studied everything when I was in college, and I also chose to attend other professors' classes at school."

Manstein felt a little absurd. He didn't expect that the most knowledgeable of the three would be this Santa Claus wearing a red nightcap. But after thinking about it, it seems that there is no problem. Guderian has always been inconspicuous among the professors because he has no No one can question his professional level in cultivating outstanding college students.

After all, in the professor group, what everyone compares is never academic qualifications and qualifications, but the elites of the new era brought out by their subordinates. There is a feeling that parents in the upper class are all showing off their children who have become talents. But it is a pity that Guderian's proudest student has always been Finger von Frings. Finger may have been famous before, and even Guderian was also high-spirited, but now he didn't shovel the soil and go to dormitory 303 in the dark. Carrying Fingel out to fill a hole and bury him in the back mountain, and still keeping him from being expelled every year is regarded as helping the weak.

"I have learned some genetics, but I'm not very good. Why did you suddenly mention this?" Guderian licked his lips, his eyes were a little worried, "This thing...isn't very good?"

"Why not so good?" Manstein asked subconsciously.

"In the academic circle, this topic has always been a 'fantastic topic'. Just like cloning, it can only be deduced on paper. Once it involves deeper experiments, it will be discarded." Guderian made a hand knife to cut meat "It's a pretty taboo and hated subject."

"Genetics is an orthodox subject, right? How can it be taboo to decipher the genetic code to effectively solve deformed fetuses, miscarriages and genetic diseases?" Manstein questioned.

"Of course it's a normal subject in human society, I mean it's not a well-liked subject in half-breed circles."

"Mixed races also have deformed fetuses, and this is a high incidence of birth accidents." Manstein is still puzzled.

"If you met a cloning scientist, what would you ask him?" Schneider said suddenly.

"I'll ask him." Manstein thought about it for a moment and then froze for a moment.

What else can I ask, when it comes to cloning, it is difficult for most people not to think of "human cloning", a fierce topic that is quite morally taboo.The topic of cloning sheep and so on in the face of taboos has to be discussed and eyeballed a little later.

"In the same way." Guderian explained slowly, "When we mention 'genetics' and 'genetics' in our circle, most of the first things that come to mind are not very good. "

"Gene modification project." Schneider said, "The mixed-race academic community has the most debated and expected genetics technology. From gene editing, decipher the evolution process of the dragon blood in the human blood, and figure out every paragraph about the dragon race. Genes represent the advantages and disadvantages of feedback on hybrids, and using the principle of 'molecular scissors' to completely cut off or retain individual genes makes the offspring of hybrids more perfect and stable."

"Molecular scissors?" Manstein frowned.

"Technology that can insert, delete, modify or replace DNA in the genome of an organism can inactivate problem genes or provide needed genes. This technology is generally believed by the academic community to cure previously incurable diseases and extend human life. , so it is also called 'God's walking stick'." Guderian was in charge of the explanation.

"Has there been any related experiments?" Manstein suddenly became short of breath, because he realized how amazing and cutting-edge technology this is.

"Human society doesn't exist for the time being, but there are scientific research-type 'speech spirits' in the hybrid species. At the end of the [-]th century, the mixed-race researchers in the former Soviet Union secretly produced the 'albino lizard'." Guderian said, " They gave the lizards albinism, because some people with albinism have vision problems, and they hoped to use the lizards to study how the loss of this gene affects the development of the retina."

The theoretical foundation of molecular genetics was laid in 1958, and gene editing entered the experimental stage at the end of the same century. There is no doubt that this is a real science that has stimulated an upsurge of mixed-race researchers throughout the [-]th century, and has achieved rapid breakthroughs and progress. 'Black Technology'.

"Isn't that wonderful?" Manstein said. "Could it be that some human experiment accident happened later, and a terrible monster was created?"

"That's not true. The out-of-control monsters created by scientific research will only appear in sci-fi B-grade movies, right?" Guderian scratched his head, "The Department of Biology studies a rhino iguana with 0.1% dragon blood. A laser disintegrator has to be installed as a guarantee, and the safety measures for this type of experiment are stricter than you think."

"Then why was this technology stopped?" Manstein was even more puzzled. Gene editing technology is not cloning. If the technology can really guarantee maturity, what moral problems can there be?
"Manstein, do you know that the birth rate of hybrids has always been a problem. After the emergence of genetic programming technology, everyone believed that it could be used to modify the birth rate of hybrids, and further optimize the offspring of hybrids at the genetic level, so as to This is to grow the ethnic group to deal with the large-scale disasters that may be caused by the awakening of the dragon clan in the future, and to make long-term strategic plans for the effective combat effectiveness of the war." Schneider interrupted Guderian's science popularization lightly, and let Manstein Attention turned.

"The group of scientists has indeed made achievements, and they have indeed planned a perfect blueprint, such as using molecular scissors to increase the stability of genetic chains to control the bloodlines of offspring, and even researching the secret of the critical blood limit, so that hybrids can harmlessly surpass The critical blood limit has a proportion of dragon blood that was unimaginable before, and there is no need to use extreme methods like the Beowulf family to let the offspring obtain the power of dragons, but have you considered social conflicts?"

"Social conflicts?"

"Many people think that if this method of optimizing offspring at the genetic level is mature, it can certainly quickly pull up the most powerful new force in history, but after a short period of 30 years, the worst hybrid race in the world's history will erupt. Social contradictions." Schneider said slowly, "It is destined that the excellent new hybrids will regard the old hybrids as eliminated, and separate the two to form new humans and old humans, which will lead to the splitting of the hybrid world and the consequences of splitting It's strife and civil war."

"Don't think that the probability of this kind of conception happening is not high. For people of the mixed-race ruling class, as long as there is a 1% possibility of subversion, they will suppress it with 100% strength. Sociologists believe that this contradiction will inevitably It will happen when the new hybrid grows old enough to take power within 30 years. For the long-lived hybrid, this is a time-span revolution visible to the naked eye.

".No one can guarantee whether the dragons can be slaughtered in 30 years. Once a civil war among the mixed races breaks out under such circumstances, it will be a devastating disaster for the dragon slaying business, and even human society will be destroyed. Being dragged into the water led to the worst world war in human history."

Schneider's speech is not fast, and his words are clear. He is not an expert in genetics, but he undoubtedly has insights in sociology and political science. In a few words, he paints a picture of hell that makes Manstein's back sweat drawing.

".But this can't stop that group of people, right?" Manstein's mouth twitched slightly, "The group of lunatics who call themselves scientists will give up the temptation of scientific research because of the fear of the ruling class?"

In order to increase the power of the alchemy bomb, the equipment department added a high-carbon substance with the same level of instability as the alchemical reagent to the extremely unstable nitroglycerin, which almost blew up the Hall of Valor on the Well of Annihilation.Not to mention that it is related to the genetic improvement of hybrid offspring, a technology that makes people tremble when they hear it. Those hybrid scientists who specialize in genetics dig a laboratory under the garage with their manuscripts and have to secretly carry out technology research and development. advance?

"Yeah, so the gene editing technology is mature." Schneider nodded, "The first embryo to complete the gene editing was completed in 2000 by the Italian Life Medicine Research Institute. A hybrid species for experiments. He said that the baby born from this embryo will be the first ultimate hybrid species that can cross the critical blood limit at will, not be affected by the brutal dragon gene, and whose bloodline is close to that of pure-blooded dragons of more than three generations. This is also the 21 The first and will certainly be the greatest breakthrough in biological science of the century."

"I've never heard of such rumors!" Manstein said incredulously, "If it is really successful, then this so-called ultimate hybrid should appear in biology textbooks!"

"Because that embryo has no chance to be born at all." Guderian interjected at this time, he sighed, "The gene editing technology is indeed mature, and at this time it relies on the scientific research foundation of human society and the 'lingual spirit' of hybrids." 'The birth of the unrepeatable crystallization, that embryo was called the 'golden egg', which caused a period of strife and bloodshed. Let's not talk about this for now, just say that the last place where this embryo got him was a European The secret mixed race organization, it seems to be called Solomon or something."

"Solomon's Temple." Schneider added hoarsely.

"I haven't heard of it." Manstein shook his head.

"In short, they should have found a 'mother' as soon as they got the embryo, and implanted the embryo for her. Then..." Guderian got stuck.

"and then?"

"And then there was no more." Schneider continued, "That incident ended after the embryos were obtained from Solomon's Temple, without any follow-up. Everyone originally thought that they would cultivate someone who could lead them to the peak." The ultimate hybrid, but the result is that Solomon's Temple will never appear in the hybrid world after that time, just like a stone thrown into a lake, the ripples disappear and there is nothing."

"They should have failed." Guderian sighed, "Because the success of the first embryo greatly aroused the fanaticism of other hybrid organizations, even if the development of this technology was banned, the second and third embryos The embryo was still bred, and the cut and added genes were more than one, when I read this history in the library, I almost thought that this group of people was going to artificially hatch their own dragons!"

"How is this possible!" Manstein resolutely vetoed it.

Dragon civilization is still the tip of the iceberg for mixed races. Even the current European secret parties and orthodox understanding of dragon culture is probably just a glimpse of the leopard, right?Too many magical and terrifying things are still hidden in the shadow of history. With only one gene editing technology, you want humans to hatch hybrid dragons?This is simply wishful thinking.

"Wait. So the problem is with the mother!" Manstein's pupils shrank, and his reaction was quick, "The group of people you mentioned got the embryo but couldn't hatch it, even if the stability of the fetus can be guaranteed, But how can a person give birth to a new creature that is contrary to his own race? The human 'womb' cannot bear it at all."

At this very moment, like an electric shock, Manstein's face turned pale, and he looked at Schneider.

All the foreshadowing and all the talk were like stored explosives. When he said the word 'Utero', he detonated in one breath, and the huge roar filled his ears and filled his mind. All the words "document" and "Lin Xian" came to mind.

Manstein was silent for dozens of seconds in shock, and he didn't come back to his senses until the end, "This is impossible! What era is this, how could such absurd things happen. Are those people crazy? This Is the writer of this document crazy?"

Schneider said that the document is full of listed names and personal information corresponding to the names, and those names are all women without exception. The code name of this document is 'Utero'.

"Even for ordinary people, the success rate of embryo implantation is not high. You need to be under 35 years old, and no genetic diseases are allowed, because the embryo is destined to be conceived in the mother's uterus. Once the mother has any defects It will directly affect the birth of the fetus. But even so, the success rate is astonishingly low, only about 20%, and it may cause symptoms such as hemorrhage and infection during delivery." Guderian whispered, "After that, all The embryos that have undergone gene editing are all stuck in the process of finding a mother, and no matter whether it is an ordinary human as the mother or an excellent hybrid as the mother, they only get the result of miscarriage without exception.”

"Rejection reaction." Schneider said lightly, "The embryos that have been lifted from the critical blood limit and have optimized a large number of genes are already a different species from humans or even hybrids in a sense. This behavior is called interspecies pregnancy, and there will be a fairly strong rejection reaction during the hatching process leading to abortion."

"This." Manstein was completely confused.

"In Japan, there is even a scientific research team trying to use this technology to revive the extinct mammoth, and transplant the embryo of the mammoth into the womb of an African elephant, thus giving birth to a super-giant behemoth that walked on the ice sheet in the ice age." Guderian Weakly said, "So from a scientific point of view, it is actually possible for humans to hatch dragons, but there is a rigid need for the mother's bloodline, as the mother's bloodline must match the blood and hormones of the implanted embryo, that is to say Must be close relatives, mixed race is necessary, followed by the choice of maternal blood"

"The secret that all gene-edited embryos cannot be born smoothly is that there are too few mothers that can meet their successful incubation environment. Most of the bloodlines of the dragons are still secrets. What kind of mother is suitable for breeding embryos is always a subject, 'A' Mothers of class 'D' blood have failed, and mothers of 'D' blood have failed, they even tried with artificial wombs but failed until the number of failures reached a certain threshold, and gene editing technology was finally declared empty talk."

"This technology is an anticlimactic technology. After ignoring ethics and moral condemnation, what is still obtained is fantasy. Genetics has been cast a huge humiliation for this." Guderian said, "I thought I would see it in this life." It was not until this technology was mentioned. But I didn’t expect it to be here today.”

"The content of that document is indeed the information of the qualified mothers selected from all over the world, so the code name is 'Utero', and the personal information and detailed life experience of each qualified person are preserved in the form of film. "Schneider said, "It seems that there are still people who have not put down the burden of gene editing technology and tried to create a 'dream' hybrid army."

"Schneider, you said that this task was requested by the school board, and that the school board wanted this document?" Manstein's expression gradually disappeared, and he looked at Schneider, "Do you really want to die?"

"This document was obtained by the executive department from another mixed-race organization in Italy. That mixed-race organization happened to be the 'Solomon Temple' that obtained the first embryo decades ago. The board of directors believes that this document must be in their hands." Schneider also looked at Manstein blankly and said, "I want to declare that the executive department has never initiated a project to actively collect relevant information on the document, and we only recently Those who know the existence of this document judge it as a sign of a high-threat incident, and act like thunder!"

"Do you think I will believe your nonsense?" Manstein took a deep breath, "Even if I believed it, Lin Nian would not believe it. The leech potion incident in the Pearl Tower has not passed yet! (European secret party suspected Let the coastal cities become the seedbeds of leech potions, and send specialists to harvest the results of leech potions at critical times)”

"The school board does not want him to misunderstand, and the executive department does not want him to misunderstand, so this document was sent with the priority of 'SS', and even appointed him as the mission specialist. Guarantee after the inside story," Schneider said.

"It turns out that the school board is really afraid of him." Manstein's tone was a little sarcastic, "You guys really got into big trouble this time, you know Lin Nian's character, if he thinks about it more, the situation will escalate to the point of no return."

"I'm not worried that Lin Nian will misunderstand what we want to do to his sister because of the name 'Lin Xian' seen in the document." Schneider shook his head.

"Because the files are lost? So you rest easy?"

"No, it's because there are even more stupid idiots who rushed to him to seek death."

"What do you mean?"

"Remember why I said that Lin Nian was late?"

Manstein was taken aback, then froze.

He remembered that Lin Nian turned back temporarily to solve the problem because of a problem with Lin Xian, and then arrived at the South Railway Station.What could be wrong with Lin Xian?The answer is already obvious.

Schneider had already guessed what happened after learning about Lin Nian's late arrival, so he behaved so calmly and did not express any harshness for Lin Nian's failure.

"The school board really has to thank them for helping to resolve a lot of misunderstandings." Schneider said coldly, "Those idiots from Solomon's Temple. They put their knives on the most inappropriate people! In this incident, if It’s no surprise that Lin’s annual meeting formally reached a cooperation with the school board and stood on the same front.”

The school board didn't care about the content of that document at all, and the sole purpose of sending the executive department to get that document from the organization called Solomon's Temple Church.They want to wrap the document into a gift, a favor.A favor given to Lin Nian, in order to build a bridge of re-communication on the basis of the trust between the two parties that is about to collapse.

"The school management committee has come to be soft." Guderian, who understood the implication, was stunned.According to the normal past, once a certain mixed-race alienated the executive department and the school board, that is, alienated the secret party, the school board would usually deal with it by means of thunder, but today this mixed-race became Lin Nian (although this was also done by the school board of directors), the school board of directors actually adopted a gentle method for the first time. This is even more surprising than seeing King Kong polishing Godzilla's scales!
"But why is Lin Xian in that document, she's not?" Manstein shut up again in the middle of speaking, because Schneider was watching him silently.

Lin Xian is an ordinary person.

Manstein really couldn't say this sentence.

Standing in the central control room shrouded in dark red light, none of Manstein, Schneider, and Guderian could say this.

Because the three of them were witnesses of the night of the Kassel defense battle, and it was the three of them standing here that night, watching the bloody and incredible battle on the surveillance screen.

Since then, because of some kind of weird tacit understanding, no one mentioned that night again, but no one will forget that the girl named Lin Xian was judged as a girl with no blood by the 3E exam. Those golden pupils were as hot as lava.

　ps: Yes, it will be linked to the plot of "Strange Records of the Dragon Race: The Son-in-Law and the Son-in-Law", that is, the Jiang family and Xiaobai in Kunshan.Readers who don't know "Strange Records of the Dragon Race" can pay attention to Jiangnan's, there are many good-looking and interesting short stories on it.

　　
　
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