The Secret History of Mars.

Chapter 26 Eternal Sleep

"Does Miss Xingmeng feel better? Do you still want to hear the truth about Empress Nuwa's five-color stone filling the sky?" Ye Qinghe turned around and asked Cui Xingmeng who was sitting between the two floors.

Shui Zaitian took the No. 6457 seed custodian downstairs, and when he passed by Cui Xingmeng, Cui Xingmeng had roughly guessed the truth about the undead tree. At this time, he had stabilized his mind and replied, "Of course I have to listen."

"Then do you want to sit here and listen, or upstairs?" Ye Qinghe asked.

"What's upstairs?" Cui Xingmeng was a little alert, and it would be better to ask and be mentally prepared.

"It's the seed bank of Mars, and it's also the origin of all these stories." Ye Qinghe saw her thoughts, and said with a smile, "It won't be as ugly as the undead tree, don't worry, Miss Xingmeng."

Hearing what Ye Qinghe said, Cui Xingmeng walked up with the support of Yuan Yizhou, trying to avoid looking at the densely packed clone carriers on the fourth floor, "Okay, please lead the way!"

Yuan Yizhou and Cui Xingmeng followed Ye Qinghe to the fifth floor of the Xuanhu Pagoda, which is also the top floor of the building. It looks like a banyan tree with an umbrella-shaped crown from the outside.

Sure enough, as Ye Qinghe said, as soon as he entered this floor, his eyes suddenly opened up.The hemispherical circular roof is decorated with exquisite, medieval-style murals, and the light shines in from the central dome, which makes people feel solemn.

Right below the dome, rows of transparent crystal strips are intertwined and stacked together, looking from a distance, like a staircase leading to heaven.Along the circular inner wall, similar crystal strips are neatly arranged, making the whole space more ethereal and transparent.

Cui Xingmeng swept away the gloomy mood just now, and admired the scenery in front of him, "This is the seed bank of Mars?! It's so beautiful! It's like heaven, and it feels like the soul is about to be purified."

"Miss Xingmeng's feeling is very accurate. The energy field here can indeed purify cells and ensure the health of all kinds of seeds." Ye Qinghe agreed, "This seed bank contains the genetic information of all Martian organisms before the star core cools down. Each energy crystal is based on the type of sealed seed, and the optimal energy and storage conditions are set. Over the past few million years, each seed has been kept in the best state for a long sleep."

"Long sleep in the best state?" Cui Xingmeng wandered among these colorful, different shapes, stored in energy crystals, various animals and plants, "Then when do they need to wake up?"

"Theoretically speaking, they don't need to wake up. We only need to use energy crystals to translate and extract the genetic information of the seeds we need, and with carbon-based or silicon-based cells, we can synthesize a carrier carrying the genetic information of the seeds." Ye Qinghe He explained, "That's how the undead tree downstairs was made."

"Eternal sleep without awakening?" Yuan Yizhou murmured.

"This is the place of all life, and it is also the No. 0 seed of our species." Ye Qinghe continued.

"You said that Xingmeng is your No. 0 seed, what do you mean, and what does it have to do with the No. 1 seed here?" Yuan Yizhou suddenly remembered the question that has been puzzling him for the past few days, " Jia Liang said that Lin Die voluntarily participated in the earth experiment, what does it mean that the No. 2 spare seed, why is Lin Die not No. [-], or other seed numbers?"

"That's because, Mr. Yizhou, you can be the catalyst shared by the two of them." Ye Qinghe said teasingly, "You two come with me to see the energy crystal here, which is the original gene of Elder Cangxi sealed here. , is also the original gene template of Miss Xingmeng's No. 0 seed."

The two of them followed Ye Qinghe to the central dome, in front of the row of energy crystals that looked like stairs to heaven.At the top of this row of steps, there is a huge energy crystal bar. Through its cross section, Cui Xingmeng saw a face exactly like his own, sleeping peacefully and peacefully through the sunlight from the dome.She tilted her head slightly, trying to see if the body of the No. 0 seed was also in the same human form as herself.It turned out that behind the whole face, there was no body, but the same faces neatly arranged one by one!The entire energy crystal bar seems to store countless, long transparent coffins of the head of Elder Cang Xi in order!

After Cui Xingmeng saw this clearly, her legs gave way, and she fell into Yuan Yizhou's arms behind her.

"Why are there only heads, and there are so many, are they not superimposed images of holographic projections?" Cui Xingmeng was quite frightened, and his weak voice was still transmitted, with clear logic in his brain.

"The genetic information carried by the brain is similar to that of other organs, but its gene expression can affect the behavior and cognitive process of the organism." Ye Qinghe explained, "So, as long as the genetic information of the brain is preserved intact, no matter what kind of The types of vectors, behaviors and cognitive processes are all similar."

"Besides, since it's a seed bank, we can't have only one seed for each species. The risk is too high. It's not strange to have more backups." Ye Qinghe felt a little strange about Cui Xingmeng's reaction.

"Then you say I'm the catalyst, so what's going on?" Yuan Yizhou saw that Cui Xingmeng was really not used to such a scene, so he brought the topic to himself.

"Mr. Yuan should have already guessed that you are actually the No. 1 seed. The original gene of Elder Bao Xi is your No. 0 seed template." Ye Qinghe raised his finger and approached an energy crystal bar under the energy crystal bar of Elder Cangxi. , because they are placed staggered with the former, from the angle they stand, they can't see the face of Elder Bao Xi. "But besides carrying the genes of seed 0 and evolving in the earth's environment, you also have an additional task."

"Become the lover of Xingmeng?" Yuan Yizhou remembered Jia Liang mentioned it.

"That's right, in order to ensure that people on Earth will not repeat the mistakes of Martians and eventually evolve into asexual reproduction, in the original genes of you and Miss Xingmeng, in addition to carrying the core genes of the two elders, your gender genome is on the Y chromosome , was preset to have an emotional response to Miss Xingmeng's genome. This emotional response can only be stimulated by you, so you are the catalyst for Miss Xingmeng."

"In other words, the love at first sight between the two of you is a destiny written in your genes!"

"Then why did I become Lin Die's catalyst? That was also pre-set?" Yuan Yizhou was obviously not used to this straightforward expression.

"That's not true. You and Ms. Xingmeng are direct descendants of No. 0 seed. After so many years of sexual evolution, there will naturally be many other gene combinations scattered in each branch." Ye Qinghe continued, "Miss Lin Die It is likely to inherit some fragments of the emotional response genome, but because these fragments are incomplete, there is no way to arouse your response, but you have the function of catalyzing her."

(End of this chapter)