Chapter 956 Factory

The blue and white dragon flew over the city, and the protective barrier exuded a faint glow under the night, becoming one of the countless streams of light in the neon-lit Tallond metropolis, Gawain Station Between Melita's shoulder blades, looking at the huge steel structure not far away that was used to support some kind of hanging garden, she couldn't help but ask: "Where are we going?"

"Incubation..." Gawain was startled suddenly, feeling that he I heard a term that I had never thought of, "Incubation center?"

"You can also call it an incubation factory, or a dragon egg hatchery. These are more popular names," Melita said casually. He said, while already starting to descend, "Did you see the facility in front that looks like a big pillar? That's the incubation factory in Agundore. Stand firm, we're about to land."

Gawain also saw a circle of landing platforms halfway around the huge facility. There were dragons taking off and landing on many platforms. The occupied platforms were surrounded by red lights, while the vacant platforms were surrounded by red lights. The platform was marked by a striking white halo, which was very conspicuous - Melita and Noretta, who was flying not far away, were approaching one of the vacant platforms.

But just when Melita was about to lower her height, a gust of wind suddenly came from the other direction, and then a giant black dragon flew from the night sky like lightning and rushed towards Melita. From the direction of the platform Rita had just chosen, a roaring and anxious roar came from the night sky: "I'm very sorry! The dragon egg I claimed broke its shell early!"

"I'll grab X of you... I wish you the best!" Your cub is safe!" Melita, who had been robbed of her position, was about to yell, but she changed her words abruptly after hearing the roar from the other party. Then she suddenly flapped her wings and adjusted her direction to find her position again. He said to Gawain with a slight embarrassment, "Sorry, I let you see the less civilized side... Please understand that it is not easy to obtain an incubation license these years. That's just an anxious father."

Gawain: "..."

He seems to be numb to all the unexpected things about Tallond now, and he doesn't even bother to complain.

After this small twists and turns, Melita and Noretta finally found an idle landing platform. The two giant dragons landed smoothly on two adjacent platforms, and after they landed Before, the lights around the platform had turned red, and after they landed, the entire platform was covered by a translucent barrier - until Gawain and AmberPo and Veronica jumped off the backs of Melita and Noretta respectively, and the two dragon ladies also turned into humanoids and left the platform area, and then the "temporary control" system of the platform was switched back to its idle state - and all of this It all seems to run automatically.

This should be regarded as Tallond’s unique “traffic control system”, which is a bit eye-opening.

In front of a gate leading to the interior of the incubation factory, Noretta, dressed in a white dress, brought Amber and Veronica to Gawain and Melita, and then Amber subconsciously Raising her head, she looked up at the gate that was much grander than the city gate with wonder: "Wow..." Veronica looked at the deep and long corridor behind the gate. Looking at the cold steel, flickering lights, and lifeless polymer windows and conduits, she said softly to herself for a long time: "I never thought... dragons were born in a place like this. "...I thought that even if it's not a nest in a hot spring, it should at least be next to my parents..."

"It was like that a long time ago," Noretta, who turned into a human form, said softly, "It was really a long, long time ago..."

"I have obtained the access authority. Omega will open the gate on the route. You can just follow me in," Melita looked at Gao Wen and others, "Just don't touch anything you don't know after entering. There are no other requirements - the dragon eggs are closely protected, and normal visiting behavior will not affect the hatching."

Gao Wen and others nodded, and then led by Melita and Noretta, they stepped through the wide gate and entered the interior of the incubation factory.

What Gawain saw next fit exactly the description of this facility—a factory, a factory for hatching dragon eggs.

They entered the factory from a connecting bridge suspended in mid-air. One end of the connecting bridge was fixed to the outer wall of the factory - it was a metal shell of unknown thickness, with flowing lights and people running around on it. of busy machinery - and the other end leads to a "standpipe" at the heart of the factory. After entering the vertical pipe, Melita began to introduce various facilities along the way to Gawain, and not long after continuing deeper, Gawain saw the dragon eggs that were incubating-

They They were placed one by one in a large transparent "greenhouse", which looked like a slightly twisted ellipsoid-shaped pressure chamber. The dragon eggs were located on a soft tray in the chamber, about one meter in diameter, and had a light yellow shell. and black or brown spots, with bright lights shining on them from multiple directions, and mechanical probes of unknown purpose occasionally dropped to illuminate and inspect the surface of the dragon eggs; and the entire "greenhouse" was placed in a On a circular metal platform, the platform base lights are flashing, connected to each other by pipes...

Hundreds and thousands of incubation devices are neatly arranged in some circular corridors. On both sides of the incubator, many pipelines hang down from high altitude, connected to the "integrated port" on the back of the incubator. They seem to be used to supply energy, or they may just be used to collect energy.data. Gawain raised his head and tried to find the place where the pipes converged or originated, but he only saw a vague darkness - the dome of the incubation factory was extremely high, and the ceiling was dim, and those pipes eventually converged into the depths of darkness, as if There is a dark abyss high in the sky, swallowing up all eyes.

He withdrew his gaze and looked back at the neatly arranged incubation devices that looked like a production line. A dragon egg was lying quietly in the incubation cabin closest to him, receiving the meticulous care of the machine. Take care and grow strictly according to the schedule.

Amber also came to the incubation device. She stared at the scene in front of her steadily, and she became very quiet. She no longer laughed or was surprised.

"This is how the new dragon clan was born," Veronica said softly, "How does it develop to embark on this path..."

"Let Ta There are many reasons why Errond became what it is today, and the emergence of the hatchery is only an insignificant part of it, and... the hatchery is just an ancient technology to us." Melita shook her head, no. He said slowly.

Noretta on the side took over the topic: "You should have heard of a saying - the more powerful the creature, the more difficult it is to reproduce. This is the balance imposed on all living beings by the laws of nature. ', and as the most powerful individuals among mortal species, the dragon family is extremely difficult to reproduce..."

"There is indeed such a saying," Gawain nodded, "and not only the bards As the playwright said, experts and scholars also think so - although they cannot study dragon samples, most creatures in nature follow this pattern."

"Yes, this pattern. It is correct, at least it is correct for our dragon family. The reproduction ability of the dragon family is very poor, the gestation cycle is long and the hatching is difficult - but this is only under natural circumstances," Melita's lips curled up, "So, we are here. A long time ago, there was hatchery factory technology and a huge supporting industry. We use biochemical technology to collect and catalyze 'green eggs', use biomass mother factories to mass-produce blank dragon eggs, use genetic engineering to edit parental genetic factors, or simply. Genetic factors from a single parent, using factories to incubate in batches...these technologies are very effective.

"Technology can change many things.

"It is difficult for dragons to reproduce and their numbers are scarce? This is just another misunderstanding. In fact, many, many thousands of years ago, we began to actively control the number of our own groups. Otherwise... a tower How can Errond accommodate such a large number of people?" Melita said unhurriedly, and Gawain was gradually stunned.

These finally exceeded his imagination.

The image of the mysterious, ancient "dragon race" at the top of the world of magic and fantasy in his mind has collapsed many times today, and now it has finally fallen apart and collapsed into A cold wreckage.

But he suspected that these wreckage were far from reaching the limit of disintegration, and they would continue to collapse and collapse until it could completely see the real "Tallond" and the "Tarrond" under the protection of the gods. Cradle of Eternity”.

Beside him, Melita continued to explain:

"Deeper under our feet is the sorting center and pre-processing center of the incubation factory—— Dragon eggs transported from the 'Mother Factory' are sorted and eliminated there. Defective eggs will be destroyed, and only healthy and potential dragon eggs will be sent to the life stasis workshop, where they will be temporarily stopped. Develop until a dragon with hatching permission comes here and claims one of them...

"The person who adopts the dragon egg may be a pair of parents, or it may be a single father or mother. He or She or they need to apply and prepare in advance. In addition to a lot of forms and a long review cycle, the claimant must also submit a copy of their own genetic factors, which will be injected into blank dragon eggs for use in synthesizing embryos. , become his or her or their real 'child'. The embryos that have been synthesized will be sent here... to this incubation workshop.

“The machine will take care of these little ones who are still in the shell. The hatching capsule is as safe and warm as the nest carefully crafted by the dragon parents in ancient times. Most of the things here are taken care of by the machine. The total controller is Omega, so we only saw a few 'staff' along the way - the main tasks of those 'staff' are just to monitor the status of the machine and receive the 'new parents' who claim the dragon eggs.

“This is a boring and unskilled job, but it is also one of the few real jobs in Tallond. If you can get a position in the incubation factory , which is equivalent to entering the 'Upper Tallond'. "

Gawain listened quietly to Melita's explanation, and at this moment, an incubation device near them suddenly buzzed and lights flashed.

Many detectors cruising nearby immediately approached, and some manipulators moving along the slide rails came to the corresponding incubation device. Just as Gawain was about to ask what was going on, Melita was already walking that way. He went to the side and took the initiative to explain: “Come here quickly! Hatched! We were just in time for a little one to hatch! ”

When Gawain heard this, his steps immediately quickened. He, Amber, and Veronica quickly arrived in front of the incubation device that made sounds and flashes, and almost as soon as they arrived At the same time, the dragon egg lying quietly in the polymer "greenhouse" also began to shake slightly.

As Gawain and others watched without blinking, they saw the surface of the dragon egg suddenly shaking. A crack opened, and then the crack expanded rapidly, and a broken eggshell fell off - the young dragon was stronger than Gawain imagined, and the whole process of breaking out of the egg didn't take long at all, in just a few seconds Within a few minutes, the seemingly solid eggshells were completely cracked, and a dusty eggshell with otherThe ugly "little" guy jumped out staggeringly.

It was a young dragon, and it didn’t even have scales on its body. It was impossible to identify its specific species, and it was impossible to tell its gender. From Gawain's eyes, he even thought that this cub was a bit... ugly, like a huge, featherless turkey. However, in the eyes of the dragons, this cub was probably quite cute - because Mei next to him Rita and Noretta's eyes were obviously shining, and they were looking at the newly hatched dragon cubs with happy smiles.

Amber was finally surprised again. She said "Wow", and then she was about to ask something. However, there was suddenly something else moving in the "hatching capsule": many small robot hands came from above and below. He reached into the cabin and grabbed the newly hatched baby dragon with extreme sensitivity and speed. The latter just wanted to struggle but then lost its movement, as if it was quickly anesthetized by something.

Then Gawain saw the mechanical hands begin to move quickly. They seemed to have opened a small opening at the back of the baby dragon's head where the spine was connected, and then pulled out some kind of shimmering device that was only the size of a human fingertip. Things were implanted, and then several other manipulators moved forward and injected something into the young dragon—perhaps the "enhancer" that Melita often mentioned—after the injection, other devices came in. In the cabin, skin fragments and blood samples of the young dragon were collected and quickly scanned...

All of this was dazzlingly fast.

Before Gawain could react, all of this was over. He blinked, and then he heard a mechanically synthesized voice broadcast - he could not understand the content of the broadcast, but soon , he heard Melita whisper beside him.

She was translating the broadcast in the factory in a low voice:

"Dragon No. 1335, healthy. Average intelligence potential, expected to adapt to implants: X, S, EN and universal implants Enter the body. There are currently no positions to be assigned. We recommend ordinary citizens in Xiacheng District."

The manipulators and detectors retreated.

The baby dragon in the hatching sac woke up.

He/she opened his eyes curiously, seeming to be observing the world in amazement. He/she used his wings and tender limbs to work together, and climbed up staggeringly. Then he/she finally I spotted several figures standing outside.

The little guy screamed happily.