Zampdra star is the location of a research laboratory of the Gene Company. Few people know about this planet. Betelgeuse collapsed three hundred years ago. After the explosion, a large amount of material was thrown out and cooled between the stars. Snap, start spinning around it at high speed.
This planet has no atmosphere, only millions of ground experimental sheds, which present a hemispherical vault, shrouding the habitat suitable for human existence under a light film, forming an independent natural ecological system. The space around Zampdra is filled with neutrinos produced after Betelgeuse exploded, and cosmic rays play a crucial role in the genetic modification process, making it a natural research site.
The nearest star gate is five days away from Zampdra, and there is only one space station outside.
"This is the private planet of Gene Medicine." The space station sent a signal: "Show your ID, fill out the application, and wait outside the space station."
Opal scanned Leifina's handwritten letter, showed the mercenary diary, and said, "I'm here to visit one of Ms. Lefina's students, here's the ID number."
"This is a private planet and is bound by the laws of the Republic. Please always pay attention to your words and deeds. The person you are looking for is in Laboratory 16."
The space station allowed Era-VI to pass, and Opal breathed a sigh of relief. He maneuvered the spacecraft into the light film, and landed on the small helipad. He put the blanket over Raymond and said, "I'll be back soon."
"You have to be careful." Raymond said. "Don't trust people too much. I'm afraid they will report it to the Covenant."
Opal laughed.
Raymond looked at Opal with his one eye and asked blankly, "What are you laughing at?"
"It's nothing." Opal secretly shook his head and said, "I'm not laughing at you."
Raymond: "I know, you look good when you smile."
Opal said: "I went, waiting for my good news."
"You can also see what's special," Raymond said.
Opal said: "Oh, forget it, I don't really believe that there will be any specialties in this kind of place..."
He smiled and got off the spaceship. From the time Raymond was injured until now, the pressure between the two has been swept away. Opal knows that Raymond wants to survive, and he is actively trying to survive, which makes Opal feel that what he has done Everything has value, and the pressure is no longer borne by him alone.
"Sir! Do you need to clean the spaceship?" A group of little aliens greeted him with their tentacles outstretched: "As long as 25 credit points, they can help you clean up the internal garbage."
Opal said: "Okay, let's scrub it, thank you."
"Oh my God!" A green alien opened the rear hatch, moved his tentacles, and said, "Why is your spaceship so stinky, you shouldn't take all the stinky clouds on Koca with you. coming… "
"Don't go in!" Opal closed the hatch immediately, put the safety lock, and said, "Only wipe the outside. Thirty credit points for you, five for each, go ahead."
Opal tidied his collars and headed for a ride. The roads, buildings and public facilities here bear the logo of the gene company ACU. There were not many people. The dome of the zenith was glowing. The heart extracts energy, manufactures photomasks and promotes ecological balance. Inside each giant photomask is an office building.
Opal asked the way, took the rail car to the office of the No. 16 administrative building of ACU, handed in the letter of introduction and his mercenary diary, the clerk said: "mercenary."
"Mercenary." Opal said, "Is Mr. York here? His teacher asked me to come to him, and I need to consult him on some trivial matters."
The clerk snorted and looked at Opal's diary with a look of disgust, and said, "Where is the commission recorded? You mercenaries can't afford to offend you... I heard that you defeated Cororin?"
"Yes." Opal thought that the status of Fierce Star should be improved among the members of the Star Alliance. If this is the case, it is indeed a good thing.
Opal successfully passed the reception desk of the building and went to the 33rd floor. Holding his jacket, he walked through the corridor under the surveillance of the small robot. The office door at the end was locked. He pressed the call button and waited for a long time without anyone answering.
A young man was holding a drink, heard Opal's voice, came out of the office on the right side of the corridor, glanced at him, and said, "Teacher went back to the company headquarters this morning, what's the matter?"
Opal glanced at the young researcher's badge, which read "José."
He bowed politely and said, "When will Mr. York be back?"
"It may be a few days, it may be dozens of days." He Sai said, "Where did you come from? Come in and sit down."
"Battlefield." Opal followed He Sai into his office. He looked around and said, "What is your research direction?"
He Sai glanced at Opal's letter of introduction and said casually: "It's very complicated to study the transformation effect of new genes on the human body... You are a mercenary, no wonder."
"Why?" Opal asked.
Jose said: "The smell on your body is like crawling out of a heap of dead people."
Opal put his arm up to his nose and sniffed like a wolfhound, but couldn't smell anything.
Opal looked up at the painting on the wall and asked, "I've come to ask Mr. York for help and ask him to see my sick friend."
"The teacher is not doing research now," He Sai said. "He has forgotten a lot of knowledge and needs to undergo an operation on the brain. What's wrong with your friend? Why don't you ask the hospital for help."
"I..." Opal said, "Are you skilled in medical technology? It's about repairing his body. The radiation therapy device doesn't do much for him. It may require transplantation and... regeneration or something."
He Sai put the letter of introduction in the mercenary's diary and returned it to Opal, saying, "Bring your friend to see, I have a laboratory, which may be able to grow the organs he needs, which part? Natural exhaustion. Or damaged?"
Opal saw a glimmer of light and replied: "The damage can be repaired? His situation is very special. I don't know how to describe it. I can only ask you to see it yourself."
He Sai said, "Bring him here."
Opal said: "Can't bring it here, he is on my spaceship and can't move."
He Sai frowned suspiciously and said, "Take two robots and send them over in a sterile isolation chamber?"
Opal said: "No, I want to show you first..."
He Raceway: "'Looking' can't solve the problem, how much damage is his internal organs?"
Opal: "Many... liver, spleen, stomach, small intestine, large intestine... all limbs are damaged... Come with me. I beg your help."
"He's still alive?" He Sai said in disbelief, "Why didn't he go to the hospital with such a serious injury?"
"The radiation therapy machine didn't work for him!" Opal said, "I tried it."
"The effect of the radiation therapy device is to stimulate the cells to divide and regenerate themselves according to the genetic memory." Sai He Said: "If the body develops spontaneous resistance, you can only perform simple operations on him, matching, and transplanting artificial organs..."
Opal said: "What about skin and muscles?"
He Raceway: "Same, he is disfigured?"
Opal: "But there are other things in his body, I don't know what it is, the structure is not the same as us humans?"
"Alien humanoid life?" He Sai frowned: "Amino, nitro, or silicon-based structure?"
Opal: "I mean, looks like a human, with a lot of glowing... metal wires in his guts, he's had surgery before..."
The next moment, He Sai understood what he saw and stretched his hand to the edge of the table. Opal immediately realized that something was wrong, got up and pushed with his right hand. He Sai flew into the air and hit the wall.
"You... you..." Opal panted nervously, knowing that He Sai had guessed it!
He tried his best to read He Sai's thinking, and read a shocking information-intelligent life robot.
Oops, what should I do
He Sai's chest rose and fell slowly, and when he was about to call out, Opal flexed his fingers and grabbed the air.
"Follow me and go to heal." Opal murmured, looking into his eyes.
He Sai's pupils were slightly lost, Opal released the power of belief and put him down, He Sai staggered a few steps, Opal repeated it again, and He Sai was hypnotized.
"Follow you." He Sai nodded.
Opal was quite at a loss and said, "Do you need any equipment?"
He Sai's eyes were distracted and his face was blank. Opal looked into his eyes again and said, "Take all your medical equipment."
He Sai nodded, walked to the desk like sleepwalking, pressed the button, and lifted a small metal box.
Only so much? Opal thought that if He Sai had a private laboratory and was competent enough to transplant Raymond's organs, he could supervise him and bring Raymond to his laboratory.
Opal took the box and walked in front of Jose, turning back from time to time to make sure he wasn't out of his control.
He was too nervous. For the first time, he exercised complete mind control over a person, for fear that he would suddenly shout out or run away, but everything went smoothly. He Sai obediently followed him to the tarmac and entered the Time-VI spaceship.
"Wake up." Opal withdrew his hypnotism, but He Sai still stood still.
Raymond said: "He's York? He looks young."
"He's York's apprentice." Opal operated the spacecraft to lift off, leaving Zampdra, suspended in the outer gravitational field. He Sai woke up a little and said, "How am I... What is this place?"
Opal said: "Here is my spaceship. You have promised me to treat him."
He Sai calmed down, Opal lifted the blanket, and there was a sudden loud noise. When He Sai stepped back, he knocked over the entire chair and screamed in fear.
"You... You turned out, this is... " He Sai panted.
Raymond didn't speak, Opal stepped forward to help He Sai up, and whispered in his ear: "Cooperate, or I will kill you."
He Sai couldn't help gasping, and shook his head slowly in disbelief.
Raymond looked at He Sai and then at Opal, with a trace of sadness in his eyes.
Opal said: "Give him treatment, and I will repay you."
"I, I, I... You will be sentenced to death." He Sai was sweating profusely and his face pale, he said, "This is not something I can do. The direction of my research is human beings."
"He's human," Opal said. "If you don't like it, then goodbye, friend, I'm sorry."
"Don't!" He Saima said, "I'll try, let me try."
Ten minutes later, He Sai examined Raymond, holding the light source and absently observing the metal wires in his body.
Opal warned: "Don't try to play tricks, do your best, no matter if you can cure him or not, I will let you go. Otherwise I will kill you."
He Sai's mood calmed down, he nodded, cut out a knotted metal wire, and said, "Can I make a slice?"
"No." Opal said, "I don't know what's the use of these."
"Let him cut." Raymond said.
Opal no longer insisted, and Jose tried to cut the wire with a knife, but after a two-minute operation, he gave up.
"This is a selke alloy." He Sai said, "The hardest material in the universe can only be sampled with an atomic collider, and a photon scalpel can't cut it. This biological robot... your friend's body is still there. There's acid left, and you need to wash him thoroughly, otherwise the internal organs will continue to rot."
"What to wash with?" Opal asked.
Jose cut off a small piece of Raymond's muscle tissue, sucked out a little of the rotten black water, put it in an analyzer, and said, "Acid beast... I see."
The analyzer projected a light screen with many fluorescent green active cells. He Sai said: "The cells of the acid beast are parasitic in his body... They are secreting strong acid and dividing and multiplying themselves."
The residual acid beast remained in Raymond's body, corroding his internal organs and cells, and causing his muscles to rot rapidly. He Sai said: "You use my ID card to borrow a radiation therapy device to stimulate his The cells secrete alkaline body fluids to neutralize the acid in his body to cleanse him."
"I have." Opal said, "So it won't rot?"
Opal took out the radiation therapy machine, adjusted the function, and enveloped Raymond in blue light. He Sai put Raymond's muscle slice into the analyzer, and the screen began to analyze his gene sequence, showing a circle. type of gene chain.
He Sai pressed a few points on the light screen, and the dense data were arranged. Opal and Raymond couldn't understand it, so they had to wait for him to operate.
"What are you doing?" Opal asked.
He Sai didn't speak, Opal tried to read his thoughts, and He Sai's thoughts were all the content he didn't understand.
After nearly twenty minutes of silence, He Sai said: "His body structure... This technique is very complicated..."
Opal keenly captured He Sai's thoughts, and the other party didn't know that his thinking activities had been seen at a glance under Opal's forcible reading.
He Sai is thinking about how to save his life, so as not to be killed by Opal.
"Tell me the truth." Opal said, "As long as you try your best, I won't kill you."
He Sai said: "He... His genetic makeup is exactly the same as that of humans, except for the epidermis and part of the blood, the rest of the genes including the internal organs and the connective tissue are... The Fergudo vortex ring structure, he is truly immortal, with damaged ends. There will be new additions later, it's just very slow, and the cell division never stops... oh my god... but... our technology can't make an organ that can be transplanted for him."
Opal said: "I don't understand, can you make it simpler?"
He Sai said: "His epidermis and a small number of genes show that he is a normal human being. It is estimated that the human gene sample preset for him by the manufacturer was used to deceive the inspection during gene sampling. Although the order in other places is the same as ours. It is the same, but the shape of the whole chain is very different, he will not die of natural old age, the body cannot be stimulated by radiation to accelerate its recovery after being damaged, and it can only wait for it to metabolize at a very slow speed.”
"Whether it's the rays or the photon repair of the gene company... it can't change his status quo. It can't be transplanted with our human organs, and these energy lines... To be honest, he has two sets of life modes, and the control center of one should be similar to Things like a central processing unit... The other is the same brain as ours. These two systems are interrelated and independent, and I'm completely blind to intelligent robotics, so I can't help you, sorry."
After a long silence, Opal said, "How much does your teacher know about this?"
He Raceway: "He even... doesn't know anything."
Opal narrowed his eyes to spy on He Sai's thinking - Dr. York really didn't do any research. He Sai was very frightened, his hands trembled slightly, for fear that Opal would kill him, and he didn't want to drag his mentor into the water.
Opal said, "Don't you have any ACU experts who are good at this subject?"
He Raceway: "This is expressly prohibited... I don't think it is possible, and there will be no information available."
"So who do you think would know about this?" Opal asked.
"Who is his maker?" He Raceway: "I don't want to know... But if you know his maker, or his father, who was genetically sampled, you might be able to repair him."
Opal pondered and said, "What else? As you know."
He Sai said: "The milk of the mother of the female Luo has the effect of promoting the activity of all cells. This is a drug, which can cause dependence, but maybe it can make him... The body heals, but these energy lines are messy, I It is guessed that their role is to interfere with the ray scanning outside the body, evade all metal surveys, and regulate various systems in the body. I am afraid that even if I drink the milk of the mother of the female Luo, the energy lines will not be able to restore the original order and smoothly integrate with the body. "
Opal snorted, and He Sai said again: "The V838 Variable Star Empire Starlight Holy See, Pope Drummond. The Holy See may retain some information about the dark age and the intelligent revolution."
The Pope... No matter how daring Opal is, it is impossible to single-handedly enter the Holy See and hold the Pope on the spaceship to treat Raymond. But now that Ho-sai has pointed a way, there is hope.
He Sai added: "Also... I heard that in the ancient technology before the Dark Ages, there was a solution called the Sea of Time, which was filled with intelligent units of the microscopic world, which could use the genes of the cells themselves and the neutrino's Fluctuate memory, to restore everything... whether organic or inorganic. But it's just rumor..."
Opal vaguely remembered something.
After three minutes of silence, the question became: what to do with Jose.
Make him swear not to say it? Hypnotize him? Opal didn't know what the power of faith had to do to make him forget all his memories, or make him commit suicide. Opal narrowed his eyes, and he only needed a small trick to let him go up high and jump down, and everything would be over.
"Your relationship must be very deep." He Sai said, "Is it a lover? I heard that the relationship between mercenaries is rather special. After all, it is a life-and-death friendship."
Raymond said, "So, you're single?"
He Sai nodded and said, "I have been doing research in Zampdra, and I haven't left here, nor have I had the chance to fall in love."
Opal directly read Jose's thoughts, and he has not yet decided whether to let him live or let him die.
Sai He added: "Actually, I don't think there is much difference between humans and intelligent biological robots... I can understand your feelings, I was just frightened... I didn't expect what I've been seeing in laws and conventions. ... lifeform, will appear in front of me like this. I am sorry for the offense to you."
Opal realized that he was about to fall into the dark world. He was really desperate, and his mentality became cruel and ruthless. What was the use of killing He Sai? These difficulties need to be borne by himself. He has left too many traces along the way. Once He Sai is killed, the interstellar police will immediately intervene and begin to investigate the matter, starting from Lie Xing, to Zhanweiwu, and then to Rembo Long... The consequences will be more serious.
He dismissed the idea of killing someone and said seriously, "You must swear not to mention today's incident to anyone."
He Sai said sincerely, "I swear."
At this moment, Opal cut into his thinking activities and read He Sai's thoughts - he didn't think about going back and reported it, only hoped that he could leave alive.
"Let's go." Opal operated the spacecraft to land again and said, "Thank you, if you have any problems in the future, you can come to Lie Xing to find us, of course, after he is cured."
He Sai left Times-VI with relief and sweat on his back.
Opal did not dare to stay here for too long, and lifted off from the planet Zampdra.