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"I'll connect you to the public channel first. You don't need to greet everyone. We try to communicate on the private channel as much as possible."
"Ah."
Invited by Kong, Ruan Mei was able to see a more efficient way of communication from outside the star sea——
[Now I'm inside your mind...it feels so weird.]
[If there is no particularly important message, please contact me by mobile phone. This is my terminal number...]
Despite all the defenses of the Black Tower, it still couldn't prevent Kong and Ruan Mei from exchanging phone numbers the first time they met in real life.
"I will cooperate with your experiment in some time... Well, but I still think that using breeding as a template is not a good choice." After putting away the phone, Kong pointed in the direction of the corridor, indicating that she should go and do something with him next as a "deposit".
"So what destiny do you think is more suitable?"
"From the perspective of experimental samples, conservation is relatively common and ancient. Most life cannot do without conservation."
"That makes sense. Let's study this next time, Dr. Kong. Let's try to find a way to survive in the simulated universe."
"Ah."
Paimeng, who was listening to the whole thing, was already numb.
She could understand every word, but when put together it sounded like a mystery. She had no idea how Kong and Ruan Mei reached a tacit understanding or exchanged interests.
"Are you planning to break Dr. Primal's 'curse'?" When Ruan Mei saw Kong taking her to the medical cabin, she understood what the "deposit" he wanted was.
But no matter what, this is the deposit paid by the members of the Genius Club... Isn't it a bit of a waste to use it to treat a few "mediocrities"?
"It doesn't have to be cracked. I promised Yuyun to 'treat' and 'cure' them, but it would be fine if the victims could roughly recover their human form and equivalent intelligence. There are many ways to deal with it. I hope you will join me because I don't have enough knowledge of the bioscience here, and I might miss some good ways to fulfill my promise."
"But that's not a simple genetic adjustment, it's a reversal of life - the input cost is too high and the gain is too little."
For Ruan Mei, she no longer had to pretend to be polite and gentle. This was a relief, as she could immerse herself more in this atmosphere, which was similar to the one she had when she was working in the laboratory.
"I have studied Dr. Primal's 'Atavism Technology'. His actions violate universal ethics and morals. Even though he may have conducted many inhumane experiments in order to find a way to make the universe 'young' again, he could obviously achieve his ideals in a more sociable way."
Kong stood in front of the automatic door and glanced back at Ruan Mei as if warning: "No matter what, as long as people cannot completely break away from 'sociality' and cannot completely become gods, they must 'fit in' if they want to obtain excavation resources, even if they are pretending - the Black Tower has been slowly adapting recently."
Click——
After the automatic double doors opened, Kong's expression became enthusiastic again. The fox man who had greeted him before was already waiting by the bed. When he saw him enter, he immediately stood up and bowed again.
Kong stepped forward and held his shoulders to prevent him from bowing all the way, then turned his head to look at the man whose "old age was unknown and whose body was covered with hair."
"Is this the disaster caused by the original doctor..."
"Many brothers and sisters have experienced varying degrees of atavism after the conflict. Their bodies have degenerated into apes, foxes, or even newly born vidyadharas. Doctor, their gene sequences are normal, but their brain intelligence has also degenerated..."
Another person from the Immortal Boat pulled the hand on the bed, of which only the knuckles were left with some human traces, and tried to comfort the victim who was very uneasy about coming to a new environment.
"Please, please save him--" It seemed that the hooded outfit given by Haiya added some mystery to him, and the two rangers lowered their postures more lower than before.
Sora signaled to Ruan Mei - now was her chance to show her "human" side.
So Ruan Mei silently lowered the detection screen of the medical bed, quickly glanced at all the readings, and walked over to tap twice on the ape man's neck.
"…The atavism of cell tissue is reversible, but the memory information stored in the brain may have been suppressed deep into the hippocampus after degeneration. Even if all the functions of the brain are restored, he will probably suffer from severe amnesia."
"Don't worry, I can protect his memory."
After hearing these words that could have caused the two rangers to have cardiac arrest, Sora simply placed his hand gently on the "patient's" forehead.
"I specialize in studying energy, and bioelectricity is also a type of energy."
"...Then I will start transforming the bases."
Ruan Mei was also not vague. She raised three fingers and, at the moment when Kong clenched his fist, she entered the gene overwrite parameters that she had retrieved from somewhere into the medical bed system.
The green light shone from the ape-man's head all the way down to his feet.
During the process of his brain recovery, Kong and the system worked together to ensure that the bioelectric jumps in the hippocampus were stable throughout the process and framed the liberated memory information.
"……Thanks……?"
The ape-man's mouth and nose were slowly becoming as three-dimensional as those of ordinary humans, and he even nodded to thank Kong and Ruan Mei for treating him.
"Ah! Lao Chen!! Are you better?? Can you speak?"
"Thank you so much, Dr. Kong, Ms. Ruan Mei!!"
The two rangers almost cried with joy - Yu Yun had only told them to give it a try, but they had not expected that he would not only successfully reverse the regression, but also preserve his memory and personality -
"Old Li... I can't speak clearly now..."
"…The recovery process will be slow, but I suggest you take him to get a shave first to clean his hair. The cells are already repairing themselves, and it's just a matter of time."
As Kong was thanking these people profusely, he extinguished the blue light in his eyes, and then he heard Ruan Mei say faintly:
"Doctor Kong, if you don't use the overwriting solution I provided to treat this Xianzhou man...how can you fully release his memory?"
"I'll give him a complete set of prosthetics and transplant his brain, and then use hardware to access the hippocampus information... In fact, even if he doesn't have a brain, as long as his soul is still original, I can help them replace their bodies at any time."
Sora turned calmly and said, "This is the simplest mechanical ascension, but with your help, he can complete genetic ascension, which is more in line with their expectations from an ethical point of view, but the results will not be much different."
After hearing this, Ruan Mei remained silent for a long time.
The "ordinary" look in his eyes made the genius who had lost some of his emotions feel a little uncomfortable.
255. Are you cheating on me?
The rangers did not hear Kong's somewhat inorganic and very creepy speech, and happily reported to Yuyun the good news that Lao Chen could speak again.
"The leader asked me to express his sincere gratitude to you and Ms. Ruan Mei on his behalf."
After the rangers contacted each other through the function of the navigator's potion, Yu Yun on the other side was shocked to hear Ruan Mei was there, because Kong never said that he would invite another genius to join this medical assistance, and the rangers could not afford the "offer" of two geniuses.
Therefore, he cautiously asked his brother to ask Kong if he could still send the friends who were scheduled to receive treatment to the space station.
"Let them all come, but try to keep the number of people arriving at one time within the range where the space station's medical system can operate normally. You can discuss the details with Estelle."
"Thank you again!"
They were just short of saying "I would go through fire and water for nothing" as the three rangers left the medical cabin arm in arm. Their relationship must have been very close before that chivalrous act. Even more than a hundred years of waiting and care could not erase this friendship.
Kong Duo was filled with emotion - but Ruan Mei was still puzzled.
"By gregariousness you mean charity?"
"No, this is a mutual benefit. If you ask Yuyun to help you keep an eye out for and collect biological samples from Yalilo VI, he will definitely take it to heart."
"But I can obviously ask someone from the company to go. Director Topa is in Beloberg, and the company has a deeper relationship with the space station. Let the Black Tower convey my needs. They will not refuse."
"It's different. Improving your reputation can play an unexpected role at a critical moment. You don't have to argue with me. Anyway, you have already paid for it. At worst, it can motivate Yuyun and me to do you a small favor, right?"
"…Well, now that I think about it, maybe I don't need to look for the answer. I can just do it as it comes…as long as time permits."
"Yes, if you let go of your obsession with pursuing 'meaning', you will often accumulate connections."
Kong saw Ruan Mei's eyebrows and eyes return to gentleness, and felt that she seemed to understand something, so he said happily: "Heita and Luosi will soon arrive at the meeting room, so we should hurry up."
"Aren't you going to bring your female companions?"
"They're here early."
Not understanding why Ruan Mei suddenly cared about her wives, Kong turned around and saw that the genius of creation was smiling even more than before, and explained to him who was puzzled:
"Heita is easily inspired by others, but she is willing to share her favorite opposite sex with others... I find it incredible. Maybe this will be a very interesting topic."
……
"...You two... actually met in advance without my permission?"
If Kong didn't quite understand where Ruan Mei's hidden smile came from before, he understood it all when he saw Heita's sour face.
Out of some inexplicable antagonistic emotion, or pride, Heita may not regard those "mediocre girlfriends" around Kong as real competitors, but she is even more vigilant towards Ruan Mei than towards Ester.
"Yes, we exchanged some techniques on how to regress the genes of the Atavistic Rangers... Black Tower, shouldn't we invite those two ladies in as well?"
Ruan Mei still handled Heita's bad temper very elegantly.
"They are participants in the experiment, not members of the club. Why is it necessary?"
The puppet girl glanced at Ying who was sitting cross-legged on the sofa at the door and Noshiro who was staring at the door meticulously, and her mood seemed to get worse:
"Can't you say hello to me before you come back? Kong, if you want to see Ruan Mei, I'll take you there. Is there anything you have to discuss behind my back?"
...This is something Black Tower could actually say?
Both Screw Gumu and Ruan Mei, who wanted to tease Black Tower, were slow in thinking for a moment.
The viewfinder of the Mechanical Noble expanded a circle, and finally the focus had to be adjusted manually. Ruan Mei looked back and forth between Kong and the black tower, as if she had just met Kong for the first time.
It was really Heita's possessive look that gave everyone goosebumps.
"Well, it's not that I haven't found you yet. There's nothing wrong with discussing it before the meeting. After all, this is our first meeting in real life."
"You should have called me out on the public channel - it's a scam, absolutely a scam. You must be working on some project behind my back." Heita didn't believe it at all.
What made Kong and Ruan Mei break out in a cold sweat was that her focus was not on impure relationships between men and women, but on research. She really had a keen sense of smell.
"...Heita, regarding the issue of regulating the body's hormone secretion that you consulted me about last time..." In order to rescue herself and Kong, Ruan Mei had to use a big move.
"Ah, let's talk about that in private--" As expected, Heita suddenly became flustered. Although she still had a stern face, her tone became noticeably thinner.
"...I mean, Heita, I have already informed Dr. Kong about your plan to regulate hormones. I think he should be qualified to understand your efforts to change him." Ruan Mei did not let her go and took off the fig leaf:
"After all, he cares about you so much, I should let him know."
"...You told him everything?" Heita was so angry that he almost jumped up.
Kong glanced at Ruan Mei - the human side of this woman could only be revealed when facing people of equal status and similar character.
However, Heita actually cares about her own feelings and actively regulates the level of hormones... This serious nature and cuteness form a sharp contrast with her usual way of doing things.
It's a cute point.
"...Don't look at me like that. It's a bit disgusting."
好吧，空承认刚才自己抿着小猫嘴的模样是有点欠揍，但不管怎么说，都是知晓彼此深浅长短的情人了，还能被如此挖苦，她到底还是脱离了“娇”的定义，在“傲”的路上一去不复返了。
So both Kong and Heita put on Sima's face again, and Ruan Mei successfully escaped the responsibility -
This woman is really powerful.
"...Stephen was late for 3 minutes and 22 seconds. Conclusion: he abstained from voting. He will not come today." Seeing that neither Kong nor Heita wanted to be the "person in charge", Luosi brought out someone to take the blame to open the topic.