Gene from the 13th Department of Bright City

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The steam train slowly stopped on the railway track. Noisy and noisy people rushed towards us. Various people holding signs came closer. There were more accommodation and food. This was the most prosperous place in Shimmer City. The central mine is also the largest mine in the entire Shimmer City, with a population of more than 200,000.

There are lively markets on both sides of the railway track in the center. To the north are buildings with huge gears that are slowly operating and spewing out steam from time to time. There are the residences of wealthy businessmen and those with the most supplies in the entire Shimmer City. The gathering place, to the south is the training center of the Crow Troops and the residence of ordinary people.

To the west, occupying almost one-third of the entire mine, is a large mansion surrounded by forests. It is the residence of the high priest Laika. Although the forest itself is open, it is only open during some festivals. Or people are only allowed to enter at special times. Most people will not take the initiative to enter the forest because they are likely to be arrested by crows.

For the people in Shimmer City, that place is a sacred place that cannot be desecrated. However, many people have not seen any priests except High Priest Laika walking through the forest. This is something many people are aware of. It feels strange.

The train's carriages were full of people, and there were many crows maintaining order. Only the carriage near the front was empty. The crows formed a circle, and many people ran over. Want to see The Chosen One.

Long Yu was carrying two big boxes, and his wife and two children were carrying some light things. As soon as they came out, the crowd burst into loud cheers. Long Yu was a little surprised. It was already 11 o'clock in the evening. They Now it's time to go to a new place to live.

"Mr. Long Yu, what do you want to eat tonight?"

At this time, a man wearing a crow mask with five intertwined crows on his shoulders came over.

"No, we ate in the afternoon."

Long Yu said without forgetting to say thank you.

"My name is Utu. If you need anything in the future, you can come to me directly. Your family's going out on the street and your future daily necessities are all free of charge."

The two children became happy for a while. Isa just grinned slightly, her smile a little stiff, while Long Yu was not happy at all. This was the last time the family could get along.

"How about this, Mr. Utu, get us some food, for both adults and children, and I want a drink."

"I got it. Come with me to where you live first. I'll have it delivered directly to you later."

Long Yu said thank you again, and the man in front of him laughed.

"There's no need to be so polite to us, Mr. Long Yu. Please be sure to let me accompany you when you travel in the future. I will be responsible for protecting the safety of your family. Although it may be a little abrupt, there is nothing you can do about it."

Long Yu hummed and walked with the man in front of him. Many people on the street were cheering outside. The appearance of the Chosen One was something worth celebrating for Shimmer City.

In the afternoon, Crow had already announced that a three-day festival would be held in Mine No. 1. Free food and drinks would be provided at each festival. This was the reason why most people were very happy. Many people would provide some of themselves. Food at home, but most of the food was provided by crows and merchants.

The farewell crowd followed all the way, saying some blessings. Long Yu and Isha were in a slightly better mood. They looked at the forest shrouded in light in front of them. It was much brighter than other places. At the edge of the forest By the time, the crowd seeing him off gradually dispersed.

Long Yu looked at the dense but rested forest in front of him, with thick trees standing quietly, and his depressed mood improved a little.

Along the stone path in the forest, Wutu led the four of them towards the northwest. Long Yu looked at the huge mansion at the end of the forest from time to time. The mansion was circular in shape, with a large area towards the forest. Later, Long Yu still wanted to have a good talk with High Priest Laika about his two children.

"By the way, Mr. Utu, is the high priest Laika here?"

Utu paused.

"You guys should settle down first, Master Laika will be looking for you."

Long Yu hummed. At the end of the winding stone path, there was a three-story wooden house. Long Yu was a little surprised. After all, although such a wooden structure house existed in Shimmer City, it was rare. Long Yu also Only seen a few times.

The cabin is surrounded by a group of low trees, has a swing and a lawn, and is also planted with rare flowers.

The two children ran in excitedly, Isha walked to the yard, and Utu stood at the door of the yard and did not go in.

"Everything you need is inside. I'm going to prepare food now. You guys have a rest first. It will be delivered in about half an hour."

"Thanks!"

The two children had already opened the door to the room. There were a lot of advanced-looking mechanical items inside. Most of them had been seen by Long Yu. The items that could be exchanged for these items were amazing. Long Yu also knew about these items. Structure, because Ibrasi taught him.

All the furniture in the room is new, and there are a lot of solid wood furniture. Long Yu looked around. Isa took the two children upstairs. Long Yu put down the two large boxes and took the extra clothes. Instead of taking it, he went to the place where Ibrasi lived and took away most of Ibrasi's manuscripts. These things were the brainchild of Ibrasi.

Long Yu knew very well that Ibrasi would not come back, and these manuscripts would become waste paper if left alone, so Long Yu brought all Ibrasi's manuscripts over. Some things Long Yu could understand, but Some things seemed difficult to understand. Long Yu planned to take a good look at these manuscripts when he had free time and make something.

Long Yu's parents passed away when he was still a minor. For Long Yu, he had already regarded Ibrasi as a father-like existence in his heart, but Ibrasi would never go back again, and Maybe Long Yu will never have the chance to see Ibrasi again.

Looking at these old manuscripts, Long Yu planned to sort them out slowly when he had free time. The time and year were clearly marked on them. This is Ibrasi's research manuscript. Scientific research is in Shimmer City. , and has not received enough attention.

Long Yu agreed with what Ibrasi said. Shimmer City was like an old machine that was about to break down, but no one cared about it, noticed it, or turned a blind eye.

Long Yu found a place and put down the two big boxes. He could only solve the current problem first and had to have a good talk with Laika.

Sure enough, half an hour later, a few crows came over carrying food. Long Yu was a little surprised because a lot of the food was something Long Yu had seen in the past but couldn't afford to eat.

The two children cheered. After Isa took the food, she continued to express gratitude. Soon the family gathered around the kitchen table. The two children had already started eating. Long Yu took a big sip of wine. A sudden hot smell made Long Yu feel melancholy.

Isha pressed Long Yu's hand and shook her head. The couple had decided that no matter what the final result was, they would make their two children happy in this month.

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Isha saw that the two children had fallen asleep, turned around and walked downstairs. Long Yu sat at the dining table drunkenly. Isha started to pack up. She couldn't help wiping her tears.

"I will talk to Lord Laika."

Long Yu said, and Isa hummed. At this moment, there was a rapid knock on the door. Long Yu stood up, and after opening the door, it was Wu Tu.

"Sir Laika will come over, please turn off the lights in the living room."

Long Yu became more awake, and he immediately followed the instructions. After a while, accompanied by a faint light, blue light spots floated in the dark living room, and the couple bowed slightly.

"Lord Laika."

Laika's expression in the darkness looked extremely serious.

"Please go up for a while. I have something to talk to your husband about alone."

Isa nodded and turned around to go upstairs. There was a rustling sound, and a large number of black and red tentacles enveloped the entire room. Laika got closer to Long Yu little by little, stretched out a blue hand from the tentacles, and pressed On Long Yu's cheek.

"You look so much like him!"

"Who? Master Laika, what exactly are you talking about?"

Laika said with a gentle smile.

"Your great-grandfather, Long Fan."

Long Yu was a little surprised, but he had heard his grandfather say before that he looked like his great-grandfather.

"Long Fan was once my husband."

Long Yu looked at Laika in front of him in astonishment. Her eyes didn't look like she was joking.

"This is. This."

"In other words, you are my great-grandson, and so are your children, so I cannot agree to your request. I will train them to be my successors. This power has become increasingly difficult to control. If If this continues, big problems will arise, so I hope you can forgive my selfishness. For the future of the entire city, these two little guys must become my heirs."

Long Yu was so surprised that he couldn't speak, and then Laika spoke.

"Have more children with your wife. I will bear all the burden. I have adapted to the power of my genes. Only similar genes can control it well. Other chosen ones can The control period will not exceed 5 years.”

Long Yu didn't know what genes or power the high priest Laika was talking about, but he knew that the matter was serious, and he didn't know how to answer it for a while.

"You don't need to answer me or have any opinions, you just need to listen to what I have to say."

"Laika-sama, can I? If possible, let me take their place. They are still too young, and"

Laika looked at Long Yu blankly, then shook her head.

"You are almost 30. You are too old to bear this power. The purer the soul, the better able to control this power. You have already experienced the staining of this society."

Long Yu opened his mouth slightly, wanting to continue saying something, but he didn't know what to say.

"What if. What if the children don't become the Chosen Ones to inherit your power?"

"You have been in the rebel camp for so many days, so you should have heard something. In their eyes, I am not an apostle of God, but a monster, right?"

Long Yu nodded after thinking for a while.

"That mine was indeed destroyed because of the power in a certain priest's body. In the end, I ended her with my own hands. This power is like this. If it cannot be controlled, it will hurt the people around it. So if it cannot be controlled, it will hurt the people around it." If we don’t have enough power, the city will have no future, and we will need to rely on this power to carry out more work in the future.”

Long Yu didn't know what to say, when Laika spoke again.

"You're weird, aren't you? The mine facilities in many places don't have any supporting structures, but there have never been serious landslides. That's because my countless tentacles and the priests are consolidating the entire Shimmer City. The mine structure tightly bears the heavy pressure from above in the rock. Once this force cannot be controlled, the mine will collapse on a large scale."

At this time, Long Yu had some impressions in his head. He had indeed seen those black and red tentacles extending from the wall countless times.

"I have already told you the seriousness of the matter, so now I hope you can do me one more favor."

As soon as Long Yu looked at Laika, Laika raised a hand.

"I allow you to marry multiple women. I just hope that my bloodline can continue forever. Your wife alone cannot expand my bloodline, so this is why I didn't choose you. , indeed maybe you can withstand this power, but I need you to be able to continue the bloodline of our family."

Long Yu looked at Laika in surprise and immediately shook his head in rejection.

"The only person I love is Isa, I can't"

"You have no right to choose. When I have time, I will have a good talk with your wife. This is for the future of Shimmer City. You should think about it carefully. As long as you like it, any woman will do."

Laika was gradually wrapped in black and red tentacles, and then sank into the ground little by little, sucking into the ground like smoke.

Long Yu looked at everything in front of him with fear. After a while, he calmed down a little. Indeed, the situation in the family was true. Long Yu had never heard his grandfather mention his great-grandmother, because his great-grandfather once said that his great-grandmother was in the family. Died young.

The facts he heard tonight were too shocking. At this time, Isa came down. Long Yu just took a look and lowered his head. He didn't know how to explain to his wife, especially what Laika said after that, but Long Yu didn't really want to tell his wife tonight.

Long Yu briefly explained the situation, and his wife looked at Long Yu in shock.

"She's your great-grandmother!"

Long Yu nodded.

"Do you think Lord Laika would lie to me?"

Isa shook her head.

"This kind of thing shouldn't be joked about."

But as Laika said, those tentacles are what fix the structure of the entire Shimmer City. Once out of control, Shimmer City may really be doomed.

"Let's rest first!"

Isa said, holding her husband's hand tightly, and Long Yu hummed.

Early the next morning, at around 8 o'clock, Isha took her two children and Utu out to purchase some daily necessities, while Long Yu planned to sort out Ibrasi's manuscript at home.

There were two large boxes full of manuscripts from every stage of research, including some scrap manuscripts, but Long Yu took over all the manuscripts that could be found in Ibrasi's residence.

For Long Yu, these things are what he is more interested in. If it were not for the need to support his family after getting married, Long Yu would really like to continue learning from Ibrasi, but he would still go there from time to time, and Ibrasi would also He will teach Long Yu a lot when he passes by.

Long Yu was quietly sorting out his manuscripts in the yard, making a cup of tea that he used to like but only drank occasionally, when a man walked towards him.

"Mr. Fry!"

Long Yu looked at Frye who strode in, and hurriedly stood up and took out a cup from the room. Frye looked at the manuscript on the ground in a daze.

"Is it an engineering machinery manuscript? It's a very simple kinetic energy conversion mechanical schematic."

"Do you understand Mr. Fry?"

Frye hummed and glanced at it casually. These things are available in the mechanical principles practice class in Bright City, and they are all things that elementary school students know.

"Your place must be very developed."

Frye hummed.

"It is indeed very developed."

Long Yu smiled happily, and Fry noticed the young man's smile. He seemed to like these things very much.

"Do you like mechanical things very much?"

Long Yu hummed.

"I was actually very interested in it when I was a child, but I had to work a lot of the time and didn't learn for a long time. I could only make some simple machines. I can still make a mechanical firefly like that for children."

"That's pretty good."

Frye said, now he asked happily.

"Have you ever thought about continuing these studies? Although I don't know whose research it is."

"Yes. A friend of mine taught me a lot when I was young, but he passed away recently."

Frye could clearly see that this young man was lying, but he did not ask about the unnecessary things. Instead, he looked at this delighted young man. It could be seen that when he looked at these manuscripts , eyes full of enthusiasm.

"Study carefully. If you don't understand something, I can explain it to you. I still know something about it."

Although Frye is only a doctor, under the elite teaching system of the Academy of God, all of them have a specific and comprehensive understanding of simple mechanical engineering. They can at least manually assemble cars or lifts. This is their Things that must be learned, as well as the functions of each component of the machine, etc., are all covered in a relatively comprehensive and complete learning process in the Academy of God.

Immediately, Long Yu asked about something, and Fry patiently explained it.

Long Yu looked at Frye in shock.

"You are a scientist, Mr. Fry."

"No, I'm just a psychiatrist."

Long Yu was a little suspicious, and then he continued to organize it. Fry also planned to help, but he still planned to let the young man organize it by himself. After all, it is very easy for people to invest time in things they like. The young man seemed to be in a bad mental state and had something on his mind.

"I live here too. I come here every day. If you don't understand anything, just ask me."

Fry planned to go back later. With a systematic understanding of Shimmer City's mechanical technology, he would naturally know the situation.

Looking at this enthusiastic young man under the light, Frye showed a knowing smile. Although yesterday he thought about doing something to help this dilapidated city, now he has found some tiny flames. .

"Mr. Fry!"

Not far away, Mist came over happily. Every morning Fry would go for a morning jog with Mist and teach him some things about fighting.

Although Fry was not very good at fighting, during his years at the Academy of Gods, he had personally witnessed the various fighting styles of his classmates, as well as the basics of fighting taught by the seven gods.

Every day, Frye and Mist talk about the past as if they were chatting. Fry also knows more things. Now Mist must continue to maintain this state. As long as it lasts for a long time, Mist's depression will It is possible to cure the disease.

"By the way, Mr. Fry, do you know about Sun Mei's situation?"

At this time, Long Yu asked, and Frye snorted. He didn't know the specific situation, but they were still in prison, and they must have suffered inhuman torture. Otherwise, Laika would not be able to accurately know those rebels. Where our base is located.

Mist also said this morning that the rebels had been wiped out by the priests, there were no more rebels, and the city was back on track.

Frye was a little helpless about this ending. He really wanted to talk to Laika about the rebels, but he gave up in the end. Rebels are not welcome in any place where society has been formed. Because they want to destroy the original social rules and build a society that meets their expectations. Fry himself is also an out-and-out rebel. He naturally knows that doing so will cause many people to be injured in such turmoil, but Many times I have to do this.

"My name is Mist, and you must be Long Yu."

Mist took the initiative and said hello to Long Yu. Long Yu hummed, walked over cordially, and the two shook hands.

"Let's have dinner at my house today."

Long Yu said, a little embarrassed, but Frye and Mist agreed immediately. Mist also saw these manuscripts and felt a little strange.

"As for manuscripts, we still have a lot of them in the warehouse here, but they have been stored for a long time. Every year, some researchers' manuscripts are sent over, but they are rarely accepted."

Frye looked at Long Yu with a smile, and asked where he was with bright eyes.

Frye looked at the city shrouded in dim light in the distance and laughed with some emotion.

Tiny flames are the same in any era and in any place. As long as you lower your head a little and look carefully, you will find them.