Interstellar boss, she doesn't talk about martial arts

Chapter 1285 Genes and Prophecy (Second Update)

Until now, Xia Yuanfang couldn't remember who that person was.

She clearly remembered the appearance of every senior and junior student in the laboratory, but she just couldn't remember who was the first to come up with this "unbelievable" idea?

She thought about it again and again and concluded that it was definitely not someone from her laboratory.

So, is it someone from another lab?

This is a huge range...

As Xia Yuanfang thought about it, he looked at Xia Chujian's curious eyes. He knew that if he didn't explain it clearly, he didn't know what this girl would think...

She pointed to the genetic test data of the low-level Zerg nest builder and said, "...It's all here."

"You see, this gene shows that their evolution happened suddenly, not naturally over a long period of time."

"When this happens, no matter what kind of organism it is, the genes will have major defects."

"Either they can't combine at all, causing the organism to die immediately, or the organism's genes no longer have the ability to replicate themselves, which means they lose the ability to pass on their genes."

"If organisms evolve naturally, then after a long period of time, those genes that cannot reproduce will be naturally eliminated, and only those genes that can reproduce will survive. Only then can a truly intelligent biological population emerge."

"But this gene shows that the Zerg did not appear in this way."

"No matter how they achieve rapid genetic evolution, the price they pay is that their genes lose their ability to reproduce themselves."

"They must rely on the genes of other intelligent creatures in order to reproduce."

"Look here. There are a lot of mixed genes that obviously do not belong to the Zerg. But it is these genes that allow the Zerg's gene chain to replicate successfully and allow their eggs to hatch."

"But if they do this, the most powerful part of their genes, the Zerg genes, will inevitably be weakened, and their genetic evolution will gradually slow down."

"On a biological level, the number of Zerg above the medium evolutionary level will decrease."

"Most of the offspring that are hatched will be incompletely developed, and their intelligence will be so low that they cannot even reach the level of intelligent creatures. This is a biological regression."

"The atavism of the Zerg is to return to the state of insects."

"No intelligent creature will allow itself to return to a state of ignorance."

"This explains why the Zerg desperately conquer and expand in various universes, but also constantly give up and open up new universes."

"That's because they are looking for their own way, their own way to survive."

"What is the way for a biological group to survive? It is to allow itself to successfully reproduce and pass on its genes."

"This is a biological instinct that cannot be changed by individual will."

Xia Chujian was amazed and said with emotion: "Aunt, can you tell so much from just this piece of genetic data?"

Xia Yuanfang sighed and said, "Chu Jian, you know what? The best geneticists are like prophets."

"They can infer a person's life trajectory from their genes."

“It is also possible to infer the future of a group of people from their genes.”

Xia Chujian was filled with envy and said, "Oh, if I wasn't such a poor student, I would study genetics!"

Xia Yuanfang said: "You are not a poor student, but even if you are a top student, you can't learn these things in the Beichen Empire."

Xia Chujian said: "But my aunt knows! I can learn from her!"

Xia Yuanfang glanced at her and took the opportunity to say, "That's right! How about you retire from the army and learn these genetic sciences from me?"

"I promise to train you to become the most outstanding geneticist in the entire Beichen Empire!"

Xia Chujian was very excited, but when she thought of the big books that Xia Yuanfang often read, the habitable planets transformed by the Zerg, and the countless people who were used as biological petri dishes, she shook her head again.

Xia Chujian smiled and said, "Haha, Auntie really thinks highly of me!"

"I don't want it. I'd better finish the work at hand first."

"Besides, I have already joined the army. I will not retire until I become a marshal!"

Xia Yuanfang: "..."

Should she say that this girl has great ambitions or is unrealistic and overambitious?

It seems that these words have similar meanings.

Xia Yuanfang smiled and shook his head, saying, "Think about it again...Anyway, no matter when, as long as you want to learn, I will teach you."

Xia Chujian took this opportunity to carefully bring the topic back and asked softly, "Aunt, do you have any way to stop the Zerg from using humans as their wombs as soon as possible?"

Xia Yuanfang collected his thoughts and said thoughtfully, "Stop the Zerg from using humans as wombs to hatch new Zerg? There are ways, but it may require the sacrifice of many, many people, even more than half of the people in the entire empire, to make the Zerg give up using humans as Zerg wombs. Are you sure you want to do this?"

Xia Chujian was dumbfounded: "Ah?! Why?! Wouldn't the Zerg give up when they found that humans could no longer hatch offspring for them? Why did they have to sacrifice so many people?!"

This was definitely not her original intention! Xia Yuanfang said calmly: "From what you told me about the Zerg, this intelligent creature is different from humans."

"If they want to believe this, I guess we have to kill more than half of the population of Beichen Empire before they come to this conclusion."

"For example, why do they believe that humans on the Southern Cross can no longer serve as their wombs?"

"Is it true that there are not many humans left alive over there?"

What Xia Yuanfang meant by "truly alive" is certainly not those humans who have been placed in incubators and treated like wombs and can only be regarded as biological petri dishes.

But they are humans with the ability to act independently and have self-awareness.

There is only one in ten humans of this kind left in the entire Southern Cross Empire.

And most of them are on the Southern Cross.

The remaining ten habitable planets in the Principality of the Southern Cross are already ruled by the Zerg.

Xia Chujian nodded with an unpleasant expression and said, "Aunt really said it right..."

"The Southern Cross Principality used to have twelve habitable planets with a population of 10 billion. Now, 10 of them have been lost. There are only 1 billion people left who can be considered alive. They are all on one habitable planet in the Southern Cross."

"The main battlefield between the Zerg army and humans is now on the Southern Cross."

"The other ten occupied habitable planets should have been transformed into an environment suitable for the Zerg to live in."

"There are no living humans there anymore, except for those who are used as wombs of the Zerg."

"You know, those people are no longer considered living people, they are just petri dishes."

"Their genes are completely contaminated by Zerg genes."

Xia Yuanfang said: "I speculate that this is also the case. So I said that in order to make the Zerg believe that humans are no longer suitable to be the womb of the Zerg, it is estimated that they will have to cause harm to almost all humans in the Beichen galaxy before they come to this conclusion."

“Only then will they give up their attempt to let humans serve as their incubator.”

Xia Yuanfang paused, and then said, "When they give up on using humans as the womb of the Zerg, it will be the end of humanity."

"I don't think they'd leave humans alive who have no use for them."

"Will all humans become food for the Zerg by then?"

Xia Chujian couldn't help but look at Xia Yuanfang, and said sincerely: "I think the same as my aunt!"

"So, I must not let this happen!"

"Aunt, I was thinking, could this be possible..."

As she spoke, she actually whispered something into Xia Yuanfang's ear.

Although there were only two of them in the laboratory and there was absolutely no surveillance, Xia Chujian subconsciously made this move.

Xia Yuanfang knew that this was a little habit that Xia Chujian developed when he was a child.

If there is something they don't want others to know, the aunt and nephew will do this.

But at that time, it was because they lived in a crowded place with many people and they were all humanoid. Many of them had special abilities, such as exceptional hearing or vision, which were more powerful than surveillance and difficult to guard against.

That's why the aunt and nephew developed this habit.

Now, many years have passed, and Xia Chujian still shows this habit when it is very important.

Xia Yuanfang smiled slightly, listened carefully to what Xia Chujian said, and then said, "You want to do something in their incubator first..."

Xia Chujian nodded: "I've been to that place. It turns out that to make humans the womb of the Zerg, it's not enough to just lay eggs in the human stomach. Other things are needed, such as the water in the incubator, which should be a culture medium similar to amniotic fluid."

"It's a pity that the Zerg over there were guarding too closely, so I didn't have a chance to get some culture medium back for your research."

Xia Yuanfang didn't care, and nodded, saying, "That's not so troublesome."

"This so-called incubator is actually a biological culture dish."

"The humans inside that serve as the wombs of the Zerg are indeed no longer normal living people. They are just living organisms."

"What the Zerg need is just to seize a certain gene segment from human beings to stabilize their Zerg genes and allow their offspring to hatch smoothly from eggs."

"To be precise, they don't lay their eggs directly in the human body."

"They can't produce eggs on their own, but... borrow part of the human gene to replicate their own genes to form eggs, and then let the eggs hatch in the human body."

Xia Chujian felt a chill when he heard this and said quickly, "This is really too cruel."

"As intelligent creatures, humans are being abused by the Zerg. I really can't stand it!"

"So, aunt, can you add something to their culture medium so that they can't use human genes to form their own eggs?!"

This is the second update. There will be a new update at 05:00 in the evening!