Lin Xiaohe was so angry that she laughed.
Across from her, Kailin Renault looked completely serious, not realizing at all how ridiculous her words were.
When a person is furious beyond words, they become speechless.
Lin Xiaohe gave her a cold glance, then raised her hand and chopped down.
Before Kailin Renault could even react, she crumpled softly to the ground.
This time, Lin Xiaohe wasn’t going to show any tenderness. She directly tossed her onto the operating table like a garbage bag.
Lin Xiaohe went straight through the dedicated channel and sent a message to Hardy: “Bring over the Sixth Era scanning device.”
They had already figured out that this star region contained seven eras of civilization.
In order, they were: the Witch Civilization, the Cultivation Civilization, the Boulder Race Civilization, the Gaia Civilization, the Ocean Civilization, the Multidimensional Technology Civilization, and the current Human Civilization.
Among them, the Multidimensional Technology Civilization had left behind many legacies for humanity, such as the Dead Hand System and many high-tech products.
Although humans still couldn’t crack or reverse-engineer their principles, after years of research, they basically knew how to use them roughly.
The Fifth Star Ring Security Department had a scanner from the Multidimensional Technology Civilization. Later, it fell into the hands of the Fifth Star Ring Military Department.
This device had the highest inspection level, but using it required the Multidimensional Technology Civilization’s unique immersion analysis fluid. Every drop used was one less drop available, so they wouldn’t use the scanner unless absolutely necessary.
“Understood, Lord Sovereign.” Hardy originally wanted to personally escort the device to Jiuzhou Star, but he moved too slowly, so he had to entrust this task to the Stardust humans.
Brother Thunder hadn’t seen Lin Xiaohe in a long time, so he volunteered and took on this task.
Lin Xiaohe: “Brother Thunder, immediately perform the highest-level full-body scan on her. Don’t miss a single bone, a single muscle, not even a single cell! Especially her gene sequence — compare it with the Stardust humans, ordinary humans, the four great families, and the imperial royal family in the gene database. The faster the better!”
Products of the Multidimensional Technology Civilization were simply not comparable to the technology of the Federation humans.
One was on the ground, the other was in the atmosphere.
Old Black Brother’s eyes were shining like light bulbs. He gazed at the analysis fluid with longing and desire, extremely excited.
He rubbed his hands together, eager to see just how big the difference between the two was.
Lin Xiaohe stayed by the side the whole time, personally watching them operate the device and conduct the scan.
What was a sequence? What was a system? What was that blue light that drilled into her body and then disappeared?
Lin Xiaohe’s face was cold, anger and frustration churning in her heart.
This feeling of being toyed with at will was truly awful!
She would definitely find the answers to these questions!
Lin Xiaohe’s command was like a divine oracle, like an imperial edict. Old Black Brother summoned everyone from the Life Safety Center and had Kailin Renault scanned thoroughly.
After scanning eight times in a row and confirming there were no errors, Old Black Brother finally reported: “Lord Sovereign, there really is something wrong with Kailin Renault’s body.”
Lin Xiaohe immediately ran over and asked intently: “What problem?”
“Her genes show signs of artificial modification. Although it’s been inherited for over ten thousand years and the traces are very faint, it’s very clear on the scanner.”
Old Black Brother was amazed.
The Federation also had gene modification technology, but it wasn’t mature enough. Currently, it was still stuck at cloning and modifying small portions of chromosomes. This kind of gene modification could be spotted immediately, and it was very difficult to pass on to the second or third generation!
In the process of genetic inheritance, there was already a probability of gene mutation.
Thanks to the cell’s extremely precise error-correction system, such as the proofreading function of DNA polymerase, the probability of gene mutation was very small.
But artificial gene modification destroyed the cell’s own error-correction system, multiplying the probability of gene mutation several times over.
So, a gene modification technology that could be inherited for over ten thousand years was incredibly impressive!
Old Black Brother’s passion for research was completely ignited. He pointed at several comparison charts and said with regret:
“Unfortunately, we don’t know what these gaps mean. My guess is that they’re surgical gaps from the modification technology, passed down generation after generation without healing.”
The gaps were extremely tiny, just a very small dot.
The scanner specifically marked them in red and displayed a warning icon.
Unfortunately, humans hadn’t fully mastered how to use the scanner. Otherwise, they could have performed a deeper scan.
Lin Xiaohe lowered her eyes and pondered for a moment, then sent someone to call the Lin family over: “Mom, Dad, Grandma, do you want to get tested too?”
Lin Chiyang, having awakened, raised his hand high: “I’ll go first!”
“Okay.”
The analysis fluid they had left could probably test about seven more times.
Just like that, five tests were used up. In order to uncover the secret of the sequence, Lin Xiaohe had really gone all out!
The final examination results showed that Lin Chiyang, Lin Jingqiu, Lin’s parents, and Grandma Lin all had that small wound, but around the wound there was an extra ring of teeth marks.
Lin Xiaohe’s brain was running at high speed.
The small wound should be related to awakening and descent, but what the sequence was and what the blue light was — she still hadn’t found the answers.
Through the communicator, Old Black Brother held a brief meeting with the professors from the Jiuzhou Star University School of Medicine. In the end, they proposed a hypothesis.
“There should be some kind of substance that has always existed but has never been observed by us. It has extremely strong stability and uniqueness. Let’s temporarily call it Source X.”
“They use Source X, and through one reproduction, integrate it into the next generation of the target host. When the time is right, Source X recombines. Because Source X has uniqueness, they can relocate their true self and complete the awakening.”
“In a sense, this counts as a self-decomposing hibernation with an extremely high risk factor.”
This hypothesis was well-reasoned and formed a logical closed loop. There was only one problem.
Lin Xiaohe looked at her family members: “How did you guys do it?”
It didn’t make sense. She had stayed in the Witch Civilization for so long and had never heard of any gene modification technology.
Grandpa Lin and Grandma Lin shook their heads like rattles: “We didn’t!”
Lin’s father looked even more bewildered: “What is that?”
Second Sister Lin Jingqiu thought seriously for a moment: “We have reincarnation and body possession. Are those related?”
Lin Chiyang crossed his arms and said with complete certainty: “In the Gaia Civilization, the human population was scarce and still in the primitive stage. There’s no way there was any gene modification.”
Lin Xiaohe had a vague suspicion in her heart. She felt that this Source X was probably the origin of human life.
She rubbed her brow, still hung up on the sequence, the blue light, and the system.
“Old Black Brother, run a test on me.”
“No!”
“It’s too dangerous.”
“Don’t be impulsive.”
Everyone tried to talk her out of it, but they couldn’t overcome Lin Xiaohe’s stubbornness. In the end, Lin Xiaohe still successfully lay down on the bed.
“Begin.”
The immersion analysis fluid was icy cold, crawling on her skin with a tingling numbness, like the touch of caterpillars mixed with snakes.
Lin Xiaohe ignored the discomfort and silently thought to herself: with a scan from the Multidimensional Technology Civilization, what could be seen in her body? Could the system be found? Could that so-called sequence be found?
Before long, the scanner’s cabin door opened, and what greeted her eyes was Old Black Brother’s gloomy face.
“What’s wrong? Is something off?” Lin Xiaohe’s heart tightened.
Old Black Brother twitched the corner of his mouth and said dryly: “Oh, nothing. It’s just that the Lord Sovereign went and broke a mere scanner.”
