Xia Chujian was pondering when suddenly, the little thing chased after her, also landing on the Alligator Dragon skin. It looked up at Xia Chujian and called out in a clear voice, "Mommy!"
Xia Chujian's pupils shook, and she staggered back a few steps, accidentally tripping over something and sitting down on the Alligator Dragon skin.
The little thing rushed over even more happily, calling "Mommy, Mommy, Mommy" incessantly...
Xia Chujian reflexively reached out with her mechanical arm and pinched the little thing's mouth.
Covered in golden fluff, like a little Lion's Head dog, the little thing dangled in mid-air, suspended by her mechanical arm.
The little thing seemed not to understand why Xia Chujian would pinch its mouth.
Its two adorable big eyes looked at Xia Chujian, gradually filling with glistening tears.
Xia Chujian was also stunned. She slowly put it down, released her mechanical arm, and stopped pinching its mouth.
The little thing shook its round head and took a few steps towards Xia Chujian again.
Standing in front of her, it tilted its head to look at her, its little mouth opening and closing, and it looked like another "Mommy" was about to escape its lips.
Xia Chujian subconsciously said, "Call me 'sister,' don't call me 'mommy.'"
The little thing's mouth opened roundly, and it finally managed to make a sound: "...Sis?"
Its voice was milky and cute, even more so than the synthesized children's voice produced by Seven Lù.
Xia Chujian nodded stiffly and touched its head: "...Good."
The little thing seemed to be encouraged, and the tears in its big eyes disappeared instantly.
It trotted on its four chubby legs, its round head nudging Xia Chujian's palm, and it kept calling out, "Sister, Sister, Sister..."
Xia Chujian was stunned for a long while before she came back to her senses, wishing she could punch herself.
Was she crazy?! Why did she teach it to call her "sister"!
Shouldn't she have asked what this thing was first?! It looked like a little Lion's Head dog, and it just came out of that golden giant egg. How could it speak? Could it be a Humanoid?
Filled with doubts, Xia Chujian tentatively asked, "What are you? What's your name?"
The little thing said excitedly, "I'm A Wù! A Wù of 'Forget-me-not'! Sister, don't you remember A Wù?"
Xia Chujian: "..."
What was this all about?! She had never seen this thing before! Xia Chujian tried to remain calm and tentatively asked, "A Wù, is it? Has A Wù seen sister before?"
A Wù was puzzled at this moment.
It walked around Xia Chujian several times, and then sniffed Xia Chujian with its wet little nose for a while, a confused expression appearing in its big eyes.
"...A Wù seems to have mistaken someone."
Xia Chujian was immediately relieved and laughed heartily, "A Wù is a little confused! But it's okay, who are you looking for?"
A Wù then jumped up and down happily, saying, "Sister, help A Wù find sister, okay?"
Xia Chujian smiled and said, "Of course!"
She gestured for the little guy to sit down, and then began to coax information out of it.
Xia Chujian sat on the Alligator Dragon skin, looking at the obedient little guy squatting in front of her, and said, "A Wù, where did you come from? Where is your hometown?"
A Wù looked around, then looked towards the two pieces of golden giant egg fragments floating on the sea, and said, "A Wù came from there, A Wù's hometown is there."
Xia Chujian: "..."
She patiently said, "A Wù, that's your shell, not your hometown."
A Wù's Lion's Head dog head tilted again: "But, A Wù came from there! A Wù lived there for a long time!"
"Later, A Wù was hungry and wanted to eat, so A Wù came out."
The corner of Xia Chujian's mouth twitched again, and she said, "A Wù, did you really eat these Alligator Dragons?"
She suspiciously stared at A Wù's little belly, unable to imagine how this little thing could eat four giant Alligator Dragons as big as floating islands!
A Wù stuck out its little tongue and licked its mouth, saying, "No! A Wù didn't eat Alligator Dragon!"
Xia Chujian was curious: "Then what did you eat?"
A Wù turned his head to look at the two pieces of golden giant eggshell and said, "There's yummy food there! Only when A Wù is full can A Wù come out!"
As he spoke, the two pieces of golden giant eggshell had already floated next to the Alligator Dragon skin.
Xia Chujian stood up and walked over, scooping up the golden giant eggshell fragments from the seawater.
Because her mecha's mechanical arm touched these two fragments, Seven Lù's childish voice became excited, as if it had been injected with chicken blood.
"Master, Master! This eggshell is a good thing!"
"Quick, stick it to the mechanical arm!"
Xia Chujian was about to let go when she suddenly remembered something and said, "Seven Lù, what do you want to do?"
Seven Lù said excitedly, "Of course, it's to upgrade Master's mecha!"
"The composition of this thing is even more advanced than the Exotic Metal on Eze Star!"
"It's a pity not to upgrade the mecha!"
Xia Chujian was also a little tempted, but after looking at the blank-faced A Wù, she still held back and said, "A Wù, do you still want your hometown?"
She patted the two pieces of golden giant eggshell fragments.
A Wù widened his eyes, became alert, and even took two steps back, saying, "A Wù has grown up! A Wù doesn't want to go back to this hometown anymore!"
"A Wù can just be with Sister!"
Xia Chujian: "..."
She rubbed A Wù's head and said, "A Wù, didn't you want to find another sister?"
"Without this thing, can you find her?"
Xia Chujian was worried that there was something A Wù needed inside the golden giant eggshell.
A Wù lowered his golden Lion's Head and said, "A Wù doesn't know where she is. Can Sister let A Wù stay with you? A Wù will be very good."
Xia Chujian thought to herself, being able to speak so well right after being "hatched" from the giant egg, A Wù's origin was definitely not as simple as ordinary Humanoids or Exotic Beasts.
At this time, Seven Lù spoke again in Xia Chujian's fully enclosed helmet.
There was a hint of confusion in its childish voice: "Master, Seven Lù has discovered that this golden giant eggshell fragment doesn't seem that simple."
"Seven Lù originally thought it was just a fragment, but there are things in the interlayer!"
Xia Chujian was also very curious: "...What things?"
Seven Lù said, "Inside, there is an instrument, and its name is actually Gene Incubator."
Xia Chujian's head was full of question marks: "...What is it?"
She understood all the words when she heard them, but she didn't understand them when they were put together.
Xia Chujian asked in confusion, "Gene Incubator? What is this thing?"
Seven Lù said, "In Seven Lù's database, it is recorded that many years ago, some scientists had such an idea."
"That is, to build an instrument, and if you put a Gene chain in it, you can copy an identical life form."
"This scientist named this instrument in his imagination the Gene Incubator."
"And he envisioned that this Gene Incubator could also perform simple prenatal education on the incubated life form."
'This way, when the life form is hatched, it can immediately have a certain ability to communicate and not be illiterate."
Xia Chujian suddenly understood: "So this A Wù was hatched from this Gene Incubator!"
"It has already received a certain degree of education inside, so it can speak as soon as it comes out?"
Seven Lù said, "That should be the case!"
Xia Chujian was greatly surprised: "This is possible?! But doesn't the Beichen Empire prohibit Gene research?"
"Who has such great ability to cultivate a new creature from scratch using only Gene chains?"
Seven Lù seemed to hesitate for a moment before whispering, "...Seven Lù doesn't understand either. This is a contradiction in Seven Lù's logical reasoning."
"Because after this scientist proposed this idea, he was arrested and killed by the emperor of the Beichen Empire."
"This kind of Gene Incubator has always been just a concept in history, never becoming a reality."
Xia Chujian understood.
She said, "Seven Lù thinks that the scientist who proposed the concept was killed before he could actually operate it."
"And the Beichen Empire doesn't have such advanced gene technology, so this kind of Gene Incubator shouldn't exist."
"But A Wù is standing right in front of us, which means someone must have built this instrument based on that concept."
"So I don't think it's contradictory. Someone must still possess such advanced gene technology."
"But this person is either not from the Beichen Empire, or they've been doing gene research in secret, hiding their identity."
"As long as no one knows, doesn't that mean the technology doesn't exist?"
Xia Chujian spoke plausibly.
Seven Lù was silent for a moment, then reluctantly agreed, "What Master says is right! That makes sense!"
Xia Chujian didn't dwell on it.
Anyway, exploring who made it and how it was made was meaningless to a physics noob like her.
She just looked at the golden giant egg fragments in amazement, and said, "Seven Lù, can this Gene Incubator still be used?"
Seven Lù said, "No. When A Wù hatched, all the energy here was used up."
"The equipment inside has self-destructed."
Xia Chujian gasped, "Why would the equipment self-destruct?"
Seven Lù said, "This kind of very high-end instrument usually has a self-destruct program."
"If it's not opened normally, the equipment will activate the self-destruct program."
Xia Chujian sighed regretfully, and said, "Can it be repaired? Can we still use it?"
Seven Lù seemed to fiddle with it a few times, and said, "Master, wait a moment, Seven Lù will try."
After a while, Seven Lù seemed to have connected to the Gene Incubator in the golden giant egg fragments.
Xia Chujian suppressed her curiosity and waited for about a minute.
Seven Lù's cute little voice rang out, "Master! It turns out there's still a piece of information stored in this Gene Incubator!"
"It says that a scientist discovered a Gene chain of an ancient Exotic Beast during an archeological dig."
"So they built this Gene Incubator, put the Gene chain in, and wanted to know if they could hatch the ancient Exotic Beast."
"But because of a lack of energy and tight funding, the laboratory eventually cut the project."
"A scientist secretly stole the Gene Incubator, exiled it into Space, hoping that one day, the experiment would produce satisfactory results."
Xia Chujian blinked and asked to get to the bottom of it, "Didn't you say that the scientist who proposed the concept was killed?"
"...Then who are these scientists? Which laboratory is it? Is it from the Beichen Empire?"
Seven Lù stammered, "...This, this, Seven Lù doesn't know, this information is not recorded in Seven Lù's database."
Xia Chujian sighed regretfully, and decided that if it wasn't a laboratory of the Beichen Empire, she would "pocket" this little A Wù...
If it was a laboratory of the Beichen Empire, she would give little A Wù to Su Buyan.
This is the first update. The second update will be at one o'clock in the afternoon.
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