Vol 2 Chapter 43: Atonement: Mars (3)

"What does it mean that the blood sample is not right?" Tanithel also rarely became nervous. The last time Ethan saw him showing this expression was still in the space station of Neptune's Second Universe that was about to be swallowed.
The doctor made a few gestures and called up a graph of DNA genetic information in white blood cells. He pointed to some data that Ethan couldn’t understand and explained,
I think everyone should know that humans have 23 pairs, that is, 46 chromosomes. One set of genetic material comes from the mother and the other comes from the common sense of the father. "After seeing everyone nodding their heads, he continued, "Generally speaking, this number will not change, unless some special genetic diseases, such as Down syndrome patients, have one more chromosome 21 than the average person. Say they have 47 instead of forty-six. DNA exists in every cell of the human body, ah, except for mature blood cells. This information is equivalent to the design blueprint of our entire body, and any subtle changes will cause Huge differences. For example, the genomes of humans and chimpanzees are as much as 98.8% similar. Even the genetic difference between aliens such as Eve and humans does not exceed 1%."
Bruno said, "We all know what is wrong with the blood sample?"
The doctor scratched his hair and said, "There are three sets of chromosomes in this blood sample. That is...69 chromosomes."
After he finished speaking, all four people present were silent for a while. Ethan even opened his eyes slightly, wondering if he had a misunderstanding.
Bruno said immediately, "What does it mean to have three sets of chromosomes? It's impossible? If it is a serious mutation like triploid, it will not develop successfully in the mother's fetus. And you can see that he looks so normal, his previous physical examination Everything is normal in the information."
Tanisel also said in a deep voice, "Yes, I only tested his blood sample a month ago."
The doctor nodded, "I know, I have also read his physical examination information sheet. I don't know if this machine has a problem... The possibility of such a large overall genetic mutation occurring in the day after tomorrow is too small, and No matter how the extra set of chromosomes came from, it doesn’t seem to have had much effect on him, otherwise he would not be sitting here intact now... I need to take cell samples from other parts of his body for analysis ."
Ethan digested the doctor's words with difficulty, looking down at his hands on his knees. It was still a pair of ordinary hands, and it didn't look any different from before.
Tanisel has been staring at Ethan, his heart sinking gradually, "Is it possible to know whether the extra set of chromosomes is homologous or different?"
The doctor said, "It's still unclear, and further tests are needed."
Bruno nodded and said to Tanisel, "It looks like the plan is going to be postponed a bit. At least we have to wait until this matter is clarified."
Tanithel was silent, but looked at Ethan intently. The latter was surprisingly calm. He hadn't said anything until now, and finally asked, "That... doctor?"
"Yes?"
"If I have 69 chromosomes...Is it still a human?"

The doctor took some oral mucosa cells from Ethan for analysis, and Ethan had to be taken out of the laboratory by Tanisel. Hui Mao wanted to take Ethan back to his room, but was stopped by Tanithel.
"I'm going to take him to several other inspections. This is confidential. I'm sorry I can't let you go with you, nor can you observe his location through the camera." The priest smiled politely, but kept Ethan behind him firmly. Not going to let go.
Grey Hair's cold eyes walked back and forth between the priest and Ethan, and suddenly smiled as if she understood him, "Okay. But it’s my duty to take care of Ethan Eldridge, so I need to keep him. The location tracking function on the collar. And, please keep the remote control program of the collar in your hand at all times. These inhumans look honest, but once you relax your guard, they will take advantage of the loopholes."
Tanisel's smile remained unchanged, "This is natural." After he said that, he gently pushed Ethan's shoulder and led him into the nearest elevator quickly. Ethan noticed that the elevator buttons are not unique like ordinary elevators, but a keyboard that can enter numbers. This means that the underground building where they are located may have more than three-digit floors, which would require such elevator buttons.
Tanisel entered the three numbers 208 in the dashboard, and the elevator began to sink quickly. Obviously the floor arrangement here is reversed, the larger the number, the lower the floor.
Ethan felt dizzy for a moment, and reached out to grab the handrail on the elevator wall, "Where are you taking me?"
"I want to confirm something." Tanithel seemed anxious, didn't even look at Ethan, just stared at the number of floors displayed on the elevator. Ethan felt that the information he had just learned was like a cloud of mist floating around him, making him unable to grasp the point.
He only knew that he seemed to have mutated unknowingly, although it was not visible on the outside.
When is it? Is it on the red earth or in the second universe? The doctor said that the extra genes in his body hadn't started to work due to certain locations... Then when it worked, would he die? Or will it become... a monster?
He felt that his brain was hit hard with a heavy hammer, and everything around him became distant. He could only see the tall figure in front of him, the only gilt gleaming in the dark.
After a long time, the elevator finally stopped, and the corridor outside the door was dimly lit and no other people could be seen. Tanithel led Ethan through a long and creepy road, past closed doors, and the words for emergency exit flashed an unsettling red light.
"The Earth Alliance hides a lot of secrets here, some of which have been forgotten in these deep undergrounds." Tanithel said in a deep voice, "I borrowed a room here to store the eggs of the Order God."
Ethan paused in his footsteps, "Are you going to take me to see the Egg of God of Prologue now?"
"It's not the egg of the Prologue God." Tanithel kept walking, his tone was beyond doubt, but there was no other explanation. Ethan hesitated for a moment, but followed closely.
After three turns, the priest stopped in front of a double-opened door. This door is different from all other doors. It is a double-opened mahogany door with classical carvings and brass handles on it, calm and clean.
Ethan took a breath and took a few steps back. He remembered this door. He had seen it on the red earth. The crack of the door that exuded an extremely evil and prying aura was staring at him and calling him. Once he opens this door, something terrible will happen to him!
With an exclamation, he fell back and sat on the ground, his face full of fear, covering his head with his hands, and closing his eyes tightly.
Tanithel looked back at him in surprise, "Ethan?"
Ethan opened his eyes in horror, but was surprised again. The carved mahogany door that I saw just now is gone, and in front of me are two ordinary double-opening password-locked doors. He rubbed his eyes vigorously, but the scene in front of him remained unchanged.
"Are you okay?" Tanithel stretched out his hand to him and asked with concern.
Ethan did not know what he saw just now, grabbed Tanisel's hand and stood up, unwillingly stretched out his hand to touch the cold metal door.
"Has this door always been like this?" Ethan asked.
Tanithel frowned slightly, "Yes. Did you see something?"
Ethan took a deep breath, comforting himself probably because he was dazzled. But this comfort is not convincing.
Why do you see that mahogany door again? The last time I saw him, he was almost taken away by Roland, who was transformed into a of entropy. What happened this time?
"I'm fine..."
Tanithel entered the code and scanned the pupil pattern again, then pushed the door decisively to enter. Hearing his noise, the auto-sensing light lit up, a pale light shining on an instrument that seemed not made by the Earth Alliance in the center of the very spacious room. The circular altar-like machine was engraved with Eve characters everywhere, and on it was placed a small, light blue egg.
It's almost exactly the same as the Egg of Prologue God I saw last time.
In that gloomy light, Ethan felt a kind of tranquility that he had never seen before, as if he was surrounded by deep sea water, and the chaotic and noisy thoughts in his mind also fell silent for a moment.
He didn't notice that Tanithel was paying close attention to his expression. The third eye on his forehead didn't know when it had been completely opened, and he was spying on the emotional ripples emanating from him when he didn't know. He felt the originally confused and scattered energy waves quickly quiet down, and at the same time, another previously suppressed dark aura radiated from the Beta.
It was a... the smell of pine wood gradually decaying.
Tanithel hesitated for a moment, and finally walked to the altar-like machine and drew some patterns on the characters somewhere in the middle of the altar. The metal in the middle of the random machine was quickly folded toward the middle, and a mechanical arm fixed it. Only a small test tube, which was heavily sealed, came out. In the transparent double-layer test tube, you can see some flowing black liquid. But when you look closely, you will find that even if the liquid is in a static state, the surface is constantly fluctuating, occasionally a thin filament stretches out, and then quickly falls back into the solution, as if it is alive.
Tanisel took off the test tube carefully and came to Ethan.
"This is what I collected on the red earth before, Shabunir's punk." Tanithel immediately felt Ethan's mood fluctuate greatly, and fear filled the green eyes. in.
"What are you doing?" Ethan's trusting eyes began to waver, and he took a half step back.
"Don't be afraid." Tanithel's forehead eyes exuded a lustrous white brilliance, as the sound ripples that he slowly pushed out expanded to Beta in front of him, "This container is sealed. I want you to do it. Just hold it."
Ethan stared at the test tube and shook his head, "Why? This thing shouldn't be here!"
"Don't you want to know what happened to yourself?!" Tanithel's voice became severe, and the intense dizziness advanced with the light from the eye on his forehead. In an instant, Ethan had an illusion, as if The priest became taller, and his words seemed to have the power of an oracle, making people unable to refuse, "You are safe, as long as you hold it."
Intellectually, he knew that Tanithel was using Priest Eve's super perceptual ability to control him, but he could not resist the order. He saw himself stretch out his hand hesitantly, and saw the priest put the test tube containing endless death in his palm.
Suddenly, the black substance in the test tube seemed to explode suddenly, turning into countless thin threads and spreading on the test tube wall. They keep twisting and winding, seeming to try their best to get close to Ethan's palm, which is separated by two test tube walls. At the same time, a series of unfamiliar images rushed into Ethan's mind like a flood.
It was a huge city that humans could not understand. All the buildings looked so strange, they seemed to collapse at any time, full of sharp or obtuse angles. The huge emerald sun hangs in the sky. On that chaotic street, many huge reptiles wave their countless tiny legs under their bodies, with ugly wings covered with fluff on their backs, and together they face a towering tower in the middle of the city. The conical building bows down.
And within the pyramid-like building, in the endless darkness and chaos, a huge, constantly deforming and wriggling black cast away nightmarish green eyes. No matter how hard you try, it is impossible to see his appearance, because everyone who sees his true face will fall into complete madness. The pyramid that was huge enough to hold the planet couldn't hold his true body either. Its tentacles spread out from every brick crack and stretched out to the entire universe.
At this moment, a human figure appeared in the huge green eyes like the sun. It was a tall, thin, dark-skinned man in a black robe. The man's face was blurred, as if it had been erased with an eraser.
The figure rushed in front of Ethan at an extremely fast speed, and the face without facial features gradually solidified into a smiling, extremely beautiful face.
Tanithel's face.
Ethan wanted to scream, but couldn't scream out. He could only open his eyes and watch the black Tanisel get closer and closer to him. It was so close that only a grinning mouth could be seen.
The mouth whispered to him, "I found you."
In the next instant, Ethan gave a scream and threw the test tube in his hand.