Humans collapse into slag

In the eastern area of ​​the Essinger Base, the Liaison Department of the Imperial Army in Andain.

In the mansion of senior military officers, Colonel Murong, the minister, was enthusiastically making tea for others.

The last time when Mu Rong was sent to Andain, he was still the deputy minister of the Liaison Department. This time, the former minister was transferred away, and he was promoted to the military rank. Being the minister is more than enough.

Different from the meeting in Manlun, now that there is plenty of time, Colonel Mu decided to cultivate a relationship with his sweetheart whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

Liao Yuning sat leisurely on the bench in the reception room, watching Mu Rong busy alone.

The man had already taken off his uniform jacket, unbuttoned his shirt at the neckline, rolled up the sleeves of his hands, his broad back was tucked into his trousers along with the hem of his shirt, and his waist was cinched by a belt, which could be felt through the fabric. A vigorous force.

The legs are very long, the shoulders are wide and the waist is narrow, so don't look too good.

What am I looking at?

Liao Yuning stretched out his hands to cover his eyes.

Are you out of your mind? You're actually concerned about Mu Rong's figure!

"Ning Ning, are you uncomfortable?" Colonel Mu, who was always paying attention to his sweetheart, immediately noticed the abnormality.

Liao Yuning put down his right hand covering his forehead, "It's nothing, I performed a temporary task during training just now, and I'm a little tired now."

"What task?" Mu Rong came over with a tray.

Liao Yuning was taken aback, he smelled a familiar sweet fragrance in the air.

"Yuxue Ningshuang." Mu Rong smiled and sat next to Liao Yuning: "I think you will like it, so I brought some here." He said and put the tray on the coffee table next to him.

Yuxue frost.

Liao Yuning's face became hot, this tea reminded him of the night he spent in Man Lun.

I don't know if it's because he thinks that Mu Rong's undercover agent Hei Lugang is too hard, or the other party's upcoming trip to Ping Zhang is too dangerous, or Man Lun's gravity is too frivolous and ethereal.

That night, when Mu Rong kissed him, he didn't resist much.

Sweet tea aroma.

The dawn and dusk line outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, the brightly lit streets, the flashing neon lights, and some kind of buoyant dizziness...

"What are you thinking?" Mu Rong's deep voice sounded.

Liao Yuning woke up suddenly, and found that the distance between Mu Rong and himself was a bit too close, beyond the appropriate distance in line with social etiquette.

Both knees touched.

Through the fabric, you can feel each other's body temperature.

"Your face is a little red." Mu Rong said, "Are you sick?"

This question is stupid.

How could a genetically modified super soldier be so easily sick.

As soon as Liao Yuning said, "I didn't—", Mu Rong had already leaned over without any excuse, clasped the back of the former's neck with one hand, supported the other's chin with the other, and pressed his forehead against it.

While doing all this, Colonel Mu murmured "I'll take the temperature", which seemed to force him to find a reason for his behavior.

Foreheads touch together.

In terms of body temperature, Mu Rong's may actually be a little higher.

In addition to the forehead, the palms covering the back of Liao Yuning's neck and cheeks were also hot.

The tips of their noses are even more intertwined, and their breath caresses each other's faces.

Plop, plop, plop—

In a trance, Liao Yuning heard a violent heartbeat.

"Ningning..."

Mu Rong's voice was hoarse and gentle, but on the contrary, his arm was very strong, with an undeniable overbearing.

No, this is wrong.

Although he knew something was wrong in his heart, it took a few seconds for Liao Yuning to react. He suddenly bent his elbow and pushed Mu Rong outward, "Senior, respect yourself!"

Mu Rong smiled lowly and said, "Ning Ning, we are in a relationship."

Liao Yuning widened his eyes and categorically denied: "We are not in a relationship!"

Mu Rong looked helpless, "We've all kissed before."

Various parenting methods.

Kissed many times.

Soft, sweet, and endlessly memorable.

Liao Yuning was a little annoyed, "It doesn't count as a relationship if you kiss!"

"It doesn't count as being in love." Mu Rong continued to laugh, as if Liao Yuning was an unreasonable child, while he was full of pampering and indulgence.

"Senior, let's get down to business." Uncomfortable with Mu Rong's gaze, Liao Yuning sat up straight and said, "What's going on with Pingzhang?"

"Okay, let's talk about the business first." With a smile in the corner of Mu Rong's eyes, he opened a light screen in a kind manner, "This time I went to Pingzhang, and I really gained a lot..."

Pingzhang is the first habitable planet outside the spiral magnetic field of Righeim, and it was originally a colony planet under the jurisdiction of the Silver Ash Empire.

In 2359 Imperial Calendar, Fan Mian, the second emperor of the Fan dynasty, Yuancheng, bestowed it as a fief to his younger brother Fan Jian, and packed up the prince's family and threw it away.

At that time, most of the planets in the Silver Shield Starfield were still wild lands, let alone Pingzhang.

Hundreds of years later, the descendants of the Fan family in Pingzhang have long since declined, and the current ruler is someone else, and this planet has also become a nominally self-governing domain of the Silver Ash Empire.

It is rumored that the recent emperors of the Silver Ash Empire intend to take back the control of Pingzhang, but due to the latter's relationship with other foreign federations, they have not actually implemented it.

In short, Pingzhang and the Yinzhu Empire have a subordinate relationship on the surface, but not in essence.

"The Heavenly Dao Society has activities in Pingzhang." Mu Rong said, "Of course they have changed their appearance and set up another cover to support Fan Lai to seize the position of Governor of Pingzhang."

Liao Yuning: "Fan Lai is Fan Jian's descendant?"

Mu Rong: "On the surface, that's the case."

Liao Yuning was puzzled: "On the surface?"

Mu Rong didn't answer directly. He turned on a light screen and displayed a photo of a man on it, with various basic data beside it.

The man on the screen is in his 30s, tall and thin, with a pale complexion.

The photo was enlarged, the center moved to the man's eyes, and the pupils were marked.

"Fan Lai has the same iris as Fan Lai." Mu Rong said.

Liao Yuning frowned: "Is he impersonated by Fan Xi?"

Facial plastic surgery is very simple, but there are many ways to determine identity. Fingerprints, irises, and DNA are all innate. It is not easy to pretend to be a person for a long time.

"No." Mu Rong shook his head: "Their bone ages are different. Facial features can be adjusted, but bone ages can't."

Different ages, same irises.

Liao Yuning's expression froze, "Clone?"

Mu Rong nodded, "So we have to revise our previous guess. The 'Fan Xi' we thought was not necessarily the Fan Xi who had been dormant for decades, but probably just a clone of Fan Xi."

Liao Yuning: "But this still doesn't explain why Fan Lai's iris is the same as these clones."

If those people are all somatic cell clones of Fan Lai, then Fan Lai's body and those clones should be like identical twins. Although they have the same DNA, their irises cannot be exactly the same.

Unless Fan Xi stayed in the same nutrient tank with those clones for 28 months, starting from the embryonic stage.

"Fan Xi is also a clone." Liao Yuning deduced the only answer.

"And they were all cloned at the same time, bred in the same nutrient tank." Mu Rong went on to add: "Then they went into hibernation for different lengths of time, and were awakened one after another."

Liao Yuning: "We found three of them, and Fan Wei may be the first one."

"Yes." Mu Rong said: "It feels like His Majesty knows about this, because when I went back to report, he didn't show too much surprise."

Liao Yuning suddenly said: "No wonder His Majesty revised the royal succession law after he ascended the throne."

In the Silver Ash Empire, somatic cell cloning has always been explicitly prohibited.

With the development of medical technology, damage to limbs and organs can be repaired, so the medical significance of human cloning has also disappeared.

At present, except for reproductive cloning within the scope of the "Gene Management Law", other cloning research and behaviors targeting humans are illegal.

According to the definition of the "Gene Management Law", somatic cell cloning refers to cloning by extracting DNA from a person's body cells, while reproductive cloning refers to cloning by obtaining DNA from both spouses.

Somatic cell cloning does not have the right to inherit the throne. After Yuan Changdi Fan Lang succeeded to the throne, he drastically revised the "Royal Inheritance Law". test tube baby.

Of course, the inheritance rights of illegitimate children were also excluded.

Liao Yuning here is still immersed in the shock of learning the secrets of the royal family, while Mu Rong over there took the opportunity to move his position.

Ning Ning looks so cute in a daze!

A kiss quietly should not be discovered, right?

"Why did someone decide to clone Fan Xi before he was born?" Liao Yuning still feels confused: "If it is a legal reproductive cloning, the embryo will be removed from the artificial womb after ten months and grow up like an ordinary baby. It doesn't make sense that Rae and the other clones stay in the nutrient tank at least until the irises are set."

Mu Rong: "That's right, there must have been a long-term premeditation."

"Do you think that the emperor knew about the fact that there were clones of Fan Wei back then?" Flicking the information on the light screen with his fingers, while watching, Liao Yuning muttered: "In other words, did the emperor know about the cloning of Fan Wei? "

It is royal practice that the heir to the throne should not have clones.

The identity of Fan Lai's biological mother is unknown, and his biological father was the late Emperor Yuankang VIII who did not escape, otherwise it would be impossible to explain the behavior of the late emperor who tried his best to support Fan Lai's succession to the throne.

The paternity test is very simple, and it must not be faked.

Mu Rong: "This matter involves the coup d'état 60 years ago. It is kept secret today. It is estimated that we want to suppress it, so let's not delve into it."

Liao Yuning agreed: "That's right, the overall situation has been decided. Anyway, they are all the remnants of the false emperor. It doesn't matter if they are cloned or not."

After the matter was finished, Liao Yuning felt something was wrong, because the distance between Mu Rong and him became very close again.

The other party turned sideways, with one hand on the back of the bench, and the other carelessly fiddled with the light screen, almost half-surrounding him.

When he turned his head, the two were face to face and their noses almost collided.

Liao Yuning stood up abruptly, "I know too much today, I'll go back and digest it, and I'll talk about the rest later."

Mu Rong also stood up: "Ning Ning, let's have a meal together."

Liao Yuning: "I promised Julian."

"This is my first day in Andain." Mu Rong said, "You should welcome me, okay?"

Liao Yuning was very cold: "The senior has worked hard all the way, so let's have a good rest."

Liao Yuning left as soon as he said, and Mu Rong chased him to the door before stopping him.

"Senior, is there anything else?" Liao Yuning raised his eyebrows.

"Yes." Mu Rong said.

Liao Yuning: "What's the matter?"

Colonel Mu gave the answer with practical actions.