Chapter 79 Compatriots

When I stepped into the Juling Tower, the city tree immediately began to report: "The statistical results are out. There were 21 torpedoes in Lock No. 1 and needed to be repaired. The outer city wall was also attacked by 16 torpedoes and also needed to be repaired. The city was damaged In the bomb attack, 34 buildings suffered varying degrees of damage, and no houses collapsed. However, a temporary cargo storage point at the port was ignited by the bomb, and some wood inside was burned! There is no statistics on personnel for the time being, and it is initially estimated that the damage is minor. The overall assessment is that the damage is minor and will not affect city operations."

"I got it." I opened the private chat: "Ying, are you online?" After waiting for a long time, there was no reply, so I had to change my name to Hongyue. "Hongyue, are you there?"

"exist."

"The damage in the city is not very serious. Some places need repair. You can take care of it."

"Okay, leave it to me. Ah, by the way, my brother said he had something to ask you. He didn't contact you some time ago, so he forgot about it for a while!"

"Okay, I understand. I will go find him when I have time."

Damn the Japanese, I'm already so busy and they actually want to cause trouble for me, deliberately trying to tire me out! My demon pets who just cut off the private chat are all back. Those who went up to deal with the flying dragon just now are definitely back now that it's over. I summoned Fenglong: "Thank you for your hard work, you all should go back and rest." Just as they were about to return to Fenglong's special office space, I called out: "Ling and Aina will stay here for a while."

After all the other demon pets had entered, I said to Aina: "Atlantis may be a little chaotic during this period. I want you to be responsible for the liaison work between the two sides. If you need anything, contact me directly through spiritual contact." "

"Thanks."

"Okay, let's go."

After Adi Na left, I said to Ling: "Follow me to the temple."

"Is there something wrong with you?" Ling asked softly.

"There is something, but I can't ask it until you are all here."

Ling stopped talking, and I started a private chat to contact Ziyue and Lin Yue. "Are you there?"

"Yes." Both men answered at the same time.

"Come to the temple immediately."

"Ah? I'm still in Steel City!" Lin Yue shouted.

"No matter what you are doing, put it down immediately and come here quickly."

"All right!"

I arrived at the gate of the temple and waited for Ziyue for one minute, but Lin Yue made me wait for nearly ten minutes before arriving. When Lin Yue ran up the long stairs to the entrance of the temple, Sun Yan was actually followed behind her. I looked at Sun Yan and said, "Sorry, we have to talk about some personal matters today. Can you avoid it?"

"Why can't you let Sun Yan listen?" Lin Yue asked me.

"If you don't want him to treat you like a monster, you'd better not bring him in."

Lin Yue was a little surprised. "Xiao Linzi, what happened to you today? Did you take gun medicine? I didn't mess with you!"

Ziyue said angrily: "Xiaoyue, stop resisting, there must be something wrong with Ziri."

I turned around and walked into the temple without explaining anything. Lin Yue snorted when she saw me entering and turned around and ran away. Zi Yue wanted to chase Lin Yue, but after two steps she stopped and shouted a few words, but Lin Yue didn't listen. She finally turned around and followed me into the temple.

Seeing Ziyue follow me, I asked, "Did she run away?"

"Yes." Ziyue jogged a few steps to catch up with me. "What did you do today? It's a little different than usual!"

"I saw something today that I shouldn't have seen. Although I regret it now when I think about it, there is nothing I can do now that I have seen it."

"What is so scary?"

"It's not scary, but it makes me confused. Forget it, I can't explain it now. Let's wait until all the parties involved are here."

As we walked through the temple, we happened to meet a passing maid. "Where's Vina?"

The maid answered respectfully: "The goddess is in the reading room."

"We're going in the wrong direction!" Ziyue turned around and walked back.

I grabbed Ziyue. "Don't go there, let's go in her direction." He turned to the maid and said, "Go and inform Vina that I will be waiting for her in her room. Telling her is very important."

The maid bent down to salute and then ran quickly to the reading room, while I took Ziyue directly to Weina's room. The two of us waited in the room for less than five minutes before Vina trotted in. "What's so urgent?"

"Something very important." I threw aside a picture album in my hand. "Lock it up."

Vina immediately turned around and locked the door, then pressed the switch next to the door. A stone slab fell outside the door of the room, and a stone slab fell inside at the same time. All the windows were automatically closed, and several gates closed the windows. Now no one can hear the sound here.

Ziyue and Weina were both confused by me. They didn't understand what I was going to do. Ling is similar, but she knows that I have something, but she doesn't know what it is. I asked the three of them to sit side by side on the sofa, and I sat down opposite. "We can start now. First of all, I want to say that only we know what we are going to talk about today. When we go out, just pretend that nothing happened. Especially you, Ziyue. If Lin Yue asks you, let her ask me, You absolutely must not tell her."

Ziyue was very surprised: "Aren't you going to take Xiaoyue to listen with you?"

"Originally, yes, but looking at her performance today, I think it's better not to. Although she looks only a little younger than you, I feel that she is actually not at your level of ambition."

"Okay then!" Ziyue nodded.

I looked at the three of them and said, "What I want to talk about today is not about this game world, but about another real world."

The three women showed surprised expressions at the same time. Among them, Ziyue was just a little strange, while Ling was very surprised. As for Wei Na, she was completely lost in thought. I waited for a while for them to fully digest what I just said before I said: "You may find it strange, and each of you has different reasons for being strange. Ziyue, you must be very strange about what I am talking to two NPCs about. Real world, right?”

Ziyue nodded and said, "Can't they understand those things?"

I shook my head: "Other NPCs may not be able to do it, but these two can. Really?" The last "Really?" was asked to the two NPCs.

Ling and Wei Na both nodded. Ziyue looked at them in surprise. "Has your intelligence evolved to this level?"

I said: "This is not a question of intelligence, but a question of body. The two of them once had bodies in reality."

"You mean Long Yuan is making artificial humans?" Ziyue's understanding is indeed extraordinary, which strengthens my guess.

I nodded. "Long Yuan is indeed researching artificial humans, and I am very honored to tell you that the two people in front of me already have bodies."

Ziyue covered her mouth in surprise. Most people cannot accept this news, and Ziyue's reaction is already very good.

I waited for a while and continued: "Ziyue, you know my identity. This information is not surprising to me. In addition, according to my guess, there is a very serious problem directly related to the two of us. Oh no, it should be... There is Lin Yue.”

"What did you say?"

"How much do you know about biology?" I wanted to see Ziyue's knowledge before deciding how to explain it to her.

"A little bit. I am a little more knowledgeable than popular science, and I know that there are courses in this field in universities."

"So you know what's the easiest way to make a living thing?"

"It should be to rewrite the DNA sequence of embryonic cells and then culture them like in vitro fertilization."

"Then do you know what the highest technical goal is?"

"Teacher once said that it is directly produced by biological adults."

It seems that Ziyue knows a lot. "It's easy to handle if you know this. The technology of rewriting DNA is relatively simple. It only needs to extract the nucleus of a normal embryo and then inject the new nucleus into the cell. This is how the world's first cloned organism was created. It’s just that when cloning, the nuclei of somatic cells of normal organisms are injected, while when creating new species, the DNA injected is completely artificial. As for adult production, it is a more advanced and complex project, and few countries can do it so far. For adult synthesis.”

"Isn't Long Yuan completed?" Ziyue pointed at Ling and Wei Na.

I nodded: "But science and technology are developed step by step. It is impossible to develop by leaps and bounds unless other countries provide you with technical support. Long Yuan is already Mount Taishan and Beidou in this regard. You want support from others." No one has that technology, so we have to 'explore' our technology step by step."

"I understand this."

"But don't you think it's strange?"

Ziyue hasn't reacted yet. "Strange? What's weird?"

"I saw the bodies of Ling and Wei Na today, and they are adult bodies. The result of my investigation is that they were created in the form of adult bodies and did not go through the normal embryonic stage. Ling was born in a petri dish It fully develops itself to form an adult, while Wei Na is an adult that is directly produced within a few months. The one that makes Ling is already an intermediate technology, while Wei Na is directly produced by high-level technology."

Ziyue shouted: "That's right! Why is there no primary stage?"

I smiled and nodded: "It's impossible for Long Yuan to jump to the second and third stages without going through the first part. In other words, there is still a first-stage experimental subject."

"But what does this have to do with us?" Ziyue was surprised. But she saw that I kept looking at her with a smile, and after a while she suddenly exclaimed: "Am I the first experimental subject?"

"And Lin Yue and me."

"No, it's impossible." Ziyue's spirit was on the verge of collapse. "Xiaoyue and I were born to our mother in ten months of pregnancy. We are normal people."

"Yes, that's right. You were born from your mother's ten-month pregnancy. That's right. The first stage of the experiment can only create embryos, and a surrogate mother is needed to give birth to the child after ten months of pregnancy. As long as the embryo implantation process does not allow Everyone knows, but no one knows whose children you are. Aren’t there many women in foreign countries who are infertile due to heart disease and find surrogate mothers to artificially implant fertilized eggs to help them give birth? This is the same, except that the implants are artificially synthesized. There is no technical difference between fertilized eggs. I now doubt whether your parents know about this."

"What do you mean?"

"With today's technology, the entire implantation process only takes a few minutes. The hospital can completely perform the operation without your father knowing. No one can detect this small move. But I guess your mother should know about it. After all, this is It is a project that requires certain sacrifices, and it is unlikely that we at Long Yuan would do this experiment without your parents knowing."

"and you……?"

I smiled bitterly and said, "I might be your brother. They are just siblings born from two different surrogate mothers, but I guess our DNA is similar."

Ziyue rubbed her forehead in pain and said, "Then tell me why?"

"Because I'm not sure, I wanted to ask you a favor."

"Want me to help?" Ziyue looked at me. "What do you want me to do?"

"The best way to confirm this guess is DNA testing. I am the young master of Longyuan, and DNA testing equipment is very easy to get. But I can't collect the blood of our parents, because they will definitely know what I am going to do. So only Come and collect your parents' blood, as well as Lin Yue's and your own. Just analyze everyone's DNA and you will know whether my guess is true."

Ziyue slumped on the sofa like a deflated rubber ball, staring blankly at the roof: "I think your guess is pretty much right!"

"Why do you say that?"

"Because Lin Yue and I look nothing like our parents, none of the children in the family look like us. People used to joke that we were adopted, but now it seems that it is true!"

"Then you collect their blood samples as soon as possible, and I will analyze the DNA. By the way, nothing else can be mixed in when collecting. There are disposable syringes sold in drug stores outside. Buy a few. Find an opportunity to drink some sleeping pills to stun them, and then draw some blood. Just a few milliliters per person, there should be a scale on the syringe."

"Okay, I will do it as soon as possible. But you have to tell me the result as soon as possible."

"of course."

After explaining Ziyue, I turned to Ling and Wei Na and said, "Now you should know why I asked you to come, right?" Both of them nodded.

Ling suddenly slid down from his seat and knelt on the ground and kowtowed to me: "I'm sorry, Master, I have been lying to you!"

I quickly pulled Ling up and made her sit on my lap. I reached out and rubbed her forehead: "I'm not blaming you. What are you doing? You don't have to use so much force, right? It's all red!"

A smile appeared on Ling's face, but tears fell. "Master, thank you. Ling will never hide anything from you again."

"You just said the opposite. In the past, you were an NPC, so you should be like this, but now you are an individual, and you should have your own **."

Ling looked at me and suddenly threw himself into my arms and cried. "Master! 555~..."

I stroked the long hair on her back: "You are actually older than me! Why are you crying like a child?"

"Are you touched?" Although Ling had burst into laughter, his tears could not be controlled.

Weina said: "Zi Ri. You are all from the real world, can you help me figure things out first? Last time I was resting in the temple, and suddenly the room changed, which shocked me."

While patting Ling's back to comfort her, I said to Wei Na: "That time, people in the real world were trying to help you integrate your consciousness and body, but you resisted too much, and they only lasted 30 seconds before sending you away." came back."

"I didn't know, of course I had to resist. But I received a lot of information in those 30 seconds, and I immediately understood some things I had never known before. It's really amazing."

"Those are information written directly into the memory cells of your body. When your mind is combined with your body, these things are also integrated together, so you know a lot of things instantly."

"It's magical anyway." Wei Na seemed to still be looking forward to that moment. "But it was a bit 'chaotic' at the time, and many things were half-understood. I know that there is a real world that is completely independent of our world, but I still don't understand it. According to the content of that knowledge, it means that this world is fake. Me?"

I nodded: "You can say that. This world is fake, not real. In the real world, we call it a virtual world, which actually means a fake world."

"Then how did this world appear?"

"This is troublesome to explain! It can be said that a supercomputer created a dream-like fantasy in his mind. This computer is called the host. And you NPCs use a certain program on another computer. This computer is called a co-processor. The co-processor inputs the dreams you input into the host computer so that you can merge into it and become part of this dream. In other words, you are just a set of data that can think."

"So what are you adventurers?"

"We are real individuals in the real world. When we use special equipment to input our consciousness into this dream world, we become adventurers. We generally call ourselves players because we come in to play."

"Playing? What's so fun in such a dangerous place?"

"I don't know about this. Everyone has their own purpose, and they are not exactly the same. The real world we live in is too monotonous and too sad. Everyone enters this place just to relax. Although it is dangerous here, we who take risks The patient cannot die, but can be resurrected after death. Anyway, the body outside will not be injured, and danger is not a problem for us. The environment here is much more beautiful than outside, and there are so many monsters to play with, and the relationship between people here is Communication is also relatively naked because you don’t have to take responsibility.”

"Who said that?" Wei Na said: "I think you just talk about people and ghosts, and you can't rely on anything you say."

faint! It turns out that this is what Wei Na sees me like! "Don't talk about me, now let's talk about you. The last time you combined with me, you seemed to have sent out some kind of strong wave. What were you doing at that time?"

"Because I felt scared, I wanted to protect myself, so I used detection magic to detect the surrounding situation."

"Is there any result?"

"Yes. I felt a lot of spider-like threads in the wall, and there was some weak magical energy in those threads. There were also a few people in the next room, and they were very worried at the time."

Ziyue had almost recovered by this time, and she suddenly interjected: "Can she use magic in reality?"

I shook my head and said: "Magic does not exist in the real world. What Vina was emitting must have been some form of electromagnetic waves. But it did have the same effect as magic. The researchers at our base said that something invaded the circuit at that time The system took control of the computer. I guess it was probably caused by Vina's subconscious. And Vina, you just said that there are many wires in the wall with weak magic on them. In fact, those are wires connecting instruments, some are data wires, those so-called The magic energy should be the electromagnetic induction phenomenon on the wires, which you regard as magic energy. How about I take you to do the fusion again next time I have a chance?"

Wei Na said excitedly: "Okay, okay! I've thought about it for a long time, but I didn't know what was going on that time. I was so nervous. I really want to see your real world."

I really gained a lot today. Vina actually manipulated bioelectricity to achieve magical effects in reality, but I don't know how strong it can be. She was using detection magic, which only had a detection effect and did not consume much. If it can really directly constitute the actual attack effect, it will be developed. I have thought that electromagnetic induction is limited after all, and it is estimated that it will not be very powerful. In short, everything will not be known until Vina's body and consciousness are completely merged. I hope Vina can use magic-like effects. I also want to try using magic effects in the real world. Hehe, it must be fun.

Boom boom boom! As we were talking, there was a sudden banging sound at the door of the room. I stood up too hard and Ling, who was sitting on my lap, suddenly fell to the ground. I quickly helped her up. "Let's talk about this today, remember this is a secret. By the way, you don't need to hide it from Rose. She knows it's okay, but others must not tell it."

After they all nodded, I walked to the door and pressed the switch. When the door opened, it was Vader who was outside. "City Lord, you are indeed here."

"Is there something urgent you want to do with me?"

"kindness."