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Leon clearly remembered that he had many dreams, about his parents, about the warm home he could not leave, about the scenery he had never seen on the way here.He remembered Gu Qing telling him that it was a good thing he didn't waste time looking for you; when he left the underground parking lot, he was a little sad and excited; when he arrived here, he was still a little inexplicably afraid.He wanted to remember everything, but those things seemed to be getting farther and farther away from him. The black-haired mother and the burly father seemed to be getting farther and farther away, too far away to see their faces clearly, so far away that they became a fixed figure. dots.He felt very tired and had many things on his mind, but he forgot all of them when he opened his eyes and saw Gu Qing's serious face.

The stubble on Lu Qing's face has been shaved clean, but it doesn't make people feel younger and approachable, more like a giant iceberg that has lost its snow cover, becoming more and more ruthless.

Leon sat up abruptly, bowed his head and said, "I'm sorry, have you already had breakfast?"

"You fell asleep," Lu Qing stared at him and said, "The doctor prescribed medicine for you, but if you still don't wake up, I will call someone to give you an injection."

"I'm awake, I don't need an injection, and you didn't waste your time looking for me."

Gu Qing paused, and pressed his forehead: "I was just talking casually, don't think too much, let's go downstairs to eat."

He nodded and wanted to stand up, but his knees softened and he sat down again: "Yes..."

"Don't say sorry." Gu Qing hugged him halfway and picked him up.

Leon lay on his shoulders, and immediately stood up again: "Where are those books? Those books beside me."

"It's put away." Gu Qing said to him, "This will be your bedroom from now on. You decide what you want to put on it, or not. You decide. Okay?"

"Thank you..." Leon asked after thinking about it, "Then where do you live?"

"There are other rooms."

"Can I go take a look?"

"can."

The hallway was thickly carpeted with animal prints, and the lion's tail pointed right at his bedroom.Leon walked over the lion and stopped at the door of a squatting white cheetah.The cheetah is smiling with squinted eyes, more like a well-trained cat.

"This is my bedroom." Gu Qing said to him.

Leon kicked the carpet and asked again with his eyes if it was okay.

"Go." Gu Qing smiled at him.

Leon pushed open the door and stood at the door looking in. The room was almost as big as his bedroom. At a glance, he could only see a long table. The books that had disappeared from his room were piled up one after another. , completely blocking the bed that Lu Qing used to sleep on, only the blue shoes at the corner of the bed and the blue and white checked sheets could be seen.

"I've finished watching." Leon said shyly.

"Let's go to another place to have a look." Lu Qing pointed forward.

Next to Gu Qing's bedroom is Lyon's playroom. There are pictures of Barba's father's family on the wall, and there are many unopened new toys inside. The carpet is the floor plan of the entire city's traffic tracks.Leon grabbed the nearest toy, played with it a few times restrainedly, and then gently put it back.

"Don't you like it?"

"I like it," Leon nodded vigorously, "I like all of them, and I will play again later."

Lu Qing followed the child's slow and free footsteps after the initial frivolity and watched slowly.In the bathroom, children's faucets were connected, and a non-slip children's bench and a children's bathtub were added. The shower was replaced with a constant temperature, and the door with a lock was abandoned.The kid, who seemed to love the kiddie tap, climbed onto the stool to wash his face, towel-dry himself, and froze when he saw the pinhole on his arm.

"You didn't wake up, so I had to give you some injections."

"Thank you."

Lu Qing smiled again—the child who said thank you for the injection is very special.

Leon walked along the carpet to the stairs leading to the third floor.An iron fence was blocked there, and the stairs in the fence were not covered with anti-fall bars.

"Is that your house up there?"

"Yes, the house where I work."

"I remember, you can't go up."

"Well," Gu Qing nodded, "You are great."

"Let's go eat together."

"There's a slide. Do you want to play?"

Gu Qing walked downstairs by himself, and Leon slid down from the slide on his stomach, and slid all the way into the shallow ocean ball pool.

"Did you do it all?" the child asked him adoringly with starry eyes.

"This one……"

Lu Qing suddenly didn't know how to answer.In the past few days when he was in a coma, he did clean up the whole house, but most of them were done by professionals with his advice.He was a little unsure if he could take his compliments lightly.

Leon waited for a while without answering, got up from the pool, and walked to the dining table by himself, as if he hadn't asked him.

Once in a while, can you not answer?

The things on the table were sent by Willis in various styles, and I don't know how to find a Chinese restaurant in Celle.

"Which one do you like to eat?" Gu Qing asked.

"What's that slimy bowl?"

"It's porridge, a kind of breakfast that Chinese children often eat."

"You are chinese."

"I'm from there." Gu Qing said as impartially as possible.

The child held the bowl of porridge and took a sip with a spoon: "It's delicious."

Leon nodded and continued to eat quietly, while Gu Qing smiled unconsciously.The only child in his memory was his younger brother, although Gu Qing also looked like an adult in disguise after the age of six or seven, but at Leon's age he was still very noisy.

I don't know what happened when he lived in Bremen.

"Can I go out and have a look?" Leon asked after Gu Qing put down the tableware.

"can."

The yard has also been refinished.After the weeds are cleared, the area seems to be much larger.There is a short orange basketball hoop in the yard, and a blue tricycle is leaning next to the hoop.

"Gu Qing, do you know magic? I slept for a while, and you conjured so many things?"

The child hugged Gu Qing's knee with a look of admiration.Lu Qing really didn't know how to explain it to him. He didn't fall asleep for a while, but slept for several days. If it wasn't for the drug intervention, he might not be able to wake up now.

After thinking about it, Lu Qing decided to interrupt.He pointed behind the child and said to him, "Look, that tree belongs to you."

"What a beautiful tree." The child turned around and ran under the tree.

The magnolia tree he transplanted is about to bud, and the twigs are a little bit white, a bit shy, but full of vitality—like a child under the tree facing the morning sun.

"Our tree is about to bloom." Leon said excitedly.

"It belongs to you alone. I gave it to you. I hope you will be a healthy and upright person in the future."

The child didn't care about his blessings, but turned around and asked him, "Did you have them when you were young?"

Lu Qing froze for a moment, then nodded with a smile: "Yes, it's also a white magnolia, planted in my parents' house, and given to me by my elders."

"What did they tell you?"

That scene was what he recalled after becoming Gaia.His grandma held him in his arms and watched his grandpa plant the tree. It was an evening when the sun was setting and the sunset glow was shining red. His grandpa said out of breath while planting that this tree was the tallest among the pile. Yes, let's be clear, to be promising.His grandma touched the top of his head, it must be promising.Now he is not considered promising in the traditional Chinese sense, but he has never had the opportunity to ask the two old people who have passed away whether it is possible to achieve his current level.

Lu Qing recalled the past, and waited for the child to give up on this question.But unlike before, Leon kept looking at him, stubbornly waiting for his answer, as if this answer meant a lot to him.

"They want me to be a capable person." Gu Qing picked up the meaning of "promising" and said to him.

"You did it!" Leon applauded him sincerely.

"Thank you...for your encouragement." Gu Qing said with a smile.

"Thank you, Dad." Leon said solemnly in Chinese.

Lu Qing wanted to call him "son", but found that he was the one who couldn't speak at this time.He seems to be able to treat him very well, and he can also understand the family affection that exists in this world, even when he was very young, he really had it, but he still can't accept the close relationship he has established with the world through him—— —He can "like" a father, but not "be" his father.

Thinking of this, the little warmth that surged up because of the child's innocence disappeared without a trace in an instant.

"You're welcome." Gu Qing simply nodded.

Later that day, Gu Qing left Lyon to play in the game room alone, while he opened the two books he had prepared for a long time in the studio—the history book and the prophecy book belonging to Gaia.The book of history records Gaia's personal experience, and the book of prophecy is Gaia's judgment on the future.These two books will be rewritten for each Gaia, and will be passed on to the next person at an appropriate time to ensure the forward-looking and continuity of Gaia’s work.

When Juan handed it to him at the age of 31, there were 146 people on it, and he will be the 147th.When science was underdeveloped, the interval between inheritors was shorter. After entering the Middle Ages, inheritance was almost strictly in accordance with the method of 30 years, and Gaia's personal information was much more detailed.

Gu Qing had never thought of starting this work at this time, but for some reason he had this premonition when Leon stood under the tree.

The first recorded Gaia was around 1000 BC. He was a stonemason and left no works, only one sentence: the past is all fault.He had no heirs, and the designated successor was an extremely smart girl from his wife's clan. Because she brought her fiancé four or five years younger to smash down the statue, she was executed as a witch without leaving any words.The third Gaia was the girl's fiancé, leading the group to overcome a contagious disease, and identified the successor of the alien race before dying.

Starting from the fourth Gaia, the successors will not declare their identities to the outside world, and focus on the improvement of personal abilities.Restricted by physiological conditions and social environment, there will be bottlenecks in the improvement of personal abilities every once in a while. Whenever that time comes, Gaia's center of gravity will extend outward, participate in the development trend of the times, and gain inspiration and clues. Use your own ability to promote the progress of mankind until the next opportunity for personal ability improvement is ushered in.

The last time the capacity was improved was more than 200 years ago. In 1782, Gaia invented the evolution potion. Through several generations of improvements, Gaia has obtained more powerful abilities: holding all the memories of the living body when it is awake, remembering the memory, being able to continuously calculate during sleep, and the most powerful ability. Significant predictive improvements.The cycle of entering the world and being born into the world continues. In the century of Master Juan, Juan, and Gu Qing, Gaia's personal ability has entered a period of stagnation, and it is time for Gaia to enter the world.

Like Gaia in the past, they also encountered problems that were difficult to overcome.But this time the problem is more difficult, because for the first time Gaia's heritage has diverged fundamentally.

Juan's master comes from a Nordic noble family. During his comprehensive research on endangered creatures, he discovered a genome that can make humans lose their ability to reproduce. Based on this, he believes that people will lose their natural ability to reproduce. Faced with the most fundamental crisis of survival, it is also The best time to evolve.He abandoned Gaia's personal way of acting, joined the most famous scientific research organization at that time, and found a suitable gene cut and connecting chain at the end of Gaia's career.

Juan is the successor selected by his master from more than 1000 candidates, but unfortunately, Juan believes that his master's behavior is extremely dangerous and does not conform to the basic logic of cost control.He rejected his master's line. Master Juan sent all his results to the laboratory assistant at the last moment. After that, his experimental methods were widely used in various fields, but the application of the results has not been seen for a long time. .

Just like the people running at the forefront of the team, the Gaia before Juan were all planners, people with great freedom, and pioneers.But Juan and Gu Qing are not, what they have to face all the time is a bomb that explodes in unknown way and when, they are just a defender.

What they are most worried about is that someone will use Master Juan's method to control people's reproductive rights and destroy the most basic principle of randomness.So even if Juan is not willing, he still has to conduct research on in vitro reproduction.Because the research direction and content are forced, Juan's Gaia career is the most frustrated one among the more than 100 people, and it is also the one with the strictest control over the next one.Gu Qing grew up with him, and he tried to choose a fixed heir for Gu Qing.

Lu Qing still has a rebellious attitude towards this matter, so until now, Lu Qing is still unwilling to decide on his heir.He will not record the details and emotions of these personal relationships. If he finds an heir in the future, he may just talk to him.

Juan, Hispanic, died at the age of 50, devoted himself to the research of materials for in vitro reproduction, found symbiotic metals, and remained unmarried all his life.

Gu Qing simply wrote down the information and basic contributions of more than 100 people.

unmarried.

unmarried.

Never married.

It is conceivable that these words will be at the end of his paragraph more than ten years later.The difference is, he has a child.Whether biological or not, he will be the first Gaia to have a child in nearly 400 years.

Gu Qing took the prophecy book.

Compared with the book of history, the book of prophecy is obviously more instructive.Some of the things predicted by the predecessors were vague and some were specific, and most of the time-limited things had already happened.The recent predictions are all related to the times. They all predict the time of the end of mankind. Each person is more accurate than the other, as if the sketch of the end of the world is gradually becoming clearer.Gu Qing kept writing until Juan's prophecy and then stopped writing - before 2080, natural people will perish.

Lu Qing has not obtained his prophecy yet.According to the development of the clues of each generation, he should be able to predict the approximate time of human extinction, but he has never received this hint.It made him feel uneasy.Because it may mean that it happened so recently that it happened during his tenure, and he didn't need to predict it.But it's also possible that his sixth sense is not as strong as his predecessors, and he can't predict anything.

No matter what the reason is, he has two things that must be done: an independent in vitro reproduction system; a prediction mechanism based on individual hormone changes.

Where did he come from and where did he go, he will use his efforts to answer this question.After these two things are completed, the place where people come from is themselves, and where they go will be clear, and there is no need for Gaia to exist.

He hopes that by the year 2080 predicted by Juan, every living being, including Gaia, who is eager to grow up, will be truly free.

When Lu Qing raised his head from the kraft paper, several hours had passed and it was time for dinner.He stood up and went downstairs, and as soon as he opened the door, he saw Leon dozing off on the last step with a simulated dinosaur in his arms.Lu Qing walked over quietly, and the child who was supposed to be asleep was startled. The plastic viscera in the dinosaur's belly rolled all over the floor until there was no sound, but it was still a little scary.

"Dad, it's time for dinner." Leon carried the empty dinosaur behind his back.

Leaving from those people who have spanned thousands of years, returning from the distant 2080, Gu Qing felt alive again.

"Let's go," Gu Qing picked up his small body, walking briskly, "Go out and eat."

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I hope that I can finish writing Gu Qing within a month and a half, and then I will write the episode of the carnival.