Chapter 956 Factory

The blue and white dragon swept over the city, and the protective barrier radiated a faint glow under the night, becoming one of the countless streamers of the neon Tallond metropolis. Gawain stood at Mei Li. Between the tower's shoulder blades, looking at the huge steel structure that supports some kind of hanging garden not far away, I couldn't help but ask, "Where are we going?"

Melita's deep voice came from the front: "We start from the beginning of a dragon's life - a centralized incubation center."

"Incubating..." Gawain was stunned for a moment, feeling that he heard a term he had never thought of before, "Incubation center?"

"You can also call it the Hatchery Factory, or the Dragon Egg Hatchery, these are more common names," Melita said casually, and she had already started to lower her height, "I saw the facility in front of me that looked like a big pillar. Huh? That's Argondor's hatchery. Stand firm, we're about to land."

Gawain adjusted his standing position subconsciously, and at the same time his eyes fell in front of him involuntarily. He had already seen the huge "factory" - it was indeed like an incomparably huge pillar as a whole, with countless auxiliary facilities like gas tanks. A cylindrical body is surrounded by a large number of pipes and supporting beams, and there are lights extending obliquely from its half-waist, outlining more than a dozen light strips in the air to guide the landing.

Gawain also saw that there was a circle of landing platforms on the half waist of the huge facility. There were giant dragons taking off and landing on many platforms. The occupied platforms were surrounded by red lights, while the vacant platforms were marked with striking white. The halo was marked out and was very conspicuous—Melita and Noretta, who was flying not far away, were approaching one of the vacant platforms.

But just as Melita was about to lower her altitude, a gust of wind suddenly came from another direction, and then a black dragon flew from the night sky like a gallop, rushing towards the platform that Melita had just selected. In the direction, there was a roaring and anxious roar in the night sky: "I'm very sorry! The dragon egg I claimed has broken its shell ahead of time!"

"Take X of you... I wish your cubs safety!" Melita, who had been robbed of her position, was about to yell, but after hearing the roar from the other party, she changed her words abruptly, and then she suddenly flapped her wings. , while adjusting the direction and looking for a new position, he said to Gawain slightly embarrassedly, "Sorry, I made you see the less civilized side... Please understand that it is not easy to obtain an incubation license these years, it is just anxiety father."

Gao Wen: "..."

He now seems to be numb to all the surprises in Tallond, and he doesn't even bother to complain.

And after this little twist, Melita and Noretta finally found the idle landing platform, the two dragons landed smoothly on two adjacent platforms, and before they landed, the lights around the platforms were already It turned red, and after they landed, the entire platform was covered by a translucent barrier—until Gawain, Amber, and Veronica jumped off the backs of Melita and Noretta, respectively,

The two dragon ladies also turned into humanoids and left the platform area, and the platform's "temporary control" system switched back to an idle state - and it all seemed to run automatically.

This should be regarded as Tal Lund's unique "traffic control system", which is a little eye-opening.

In front of the gate leading to the inside of the hatchery, Noretta, who was wearing a white dress, brought Amber and Veronica to Gawain and Melita. He looked up at the gate that was much grander than the city gate: "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. After a long time, she said softly to herself. : "I never thought... that dragons were born in this kind of place... I thought if it wasn't a lair in a hot spring, at least it should be at the parent's side..."

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

"I've got the permission to pass, Omega will open the gate on the route, you can just go in with me," Melita looked at Gawain and the others, "Just don't touch the things you don't know after entering, the others There are no requirements - dragon eggs are carefully guarded, and normal visiting behavior will not affect hatching."

Gawain and the others nodded, and then, led by Melita and Noretta, crossed the wide gate and entered the interior of the hatchery.

What Gawain saw later fit the description of the 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, covered with flowing lights and busy machinery running around - the other end A "standpipe" leading to the heart of the factory. After entering the standpipe, Melita began to introduce various facilities along the way to Gawain, and after a while, Gawain saw those dragon eggs that were hatching—

They are placed one by one in a large transparent "greenhouse", which looks like a slightly distorted ellipsoid pressure chamber. The dragon eggs are located on a soft tray in the cabin, about one meter in diameter, with a pale yellow color. The shell and black or brown spots, bright lights shining on them from many directions, and the occasional drop of mechanical probes of unknown purpose, illuminate and inspect the surface of the dragon eggs; and this whole "greenhouse" is placed in the On the circular metal platforms, the lights of the platform bases flicker, and they are connected to each other by pipes...

Hundreds and thousands of incubators are neatly arranged on both sides of some circular corridors, and many pipelines hang down from the sky, connecting to the "integrated ports" behind the incubators, which seem to be used to supply energy, and also Probably just collecting 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 hatchery factory was extremely high, and the ceiling was dim, and those pipes eventually converged into the depths of darkness, as if High in the sky lies a dark abyss that swallows all gazes.

He retracted his gaze and looked again at the neatly arranged incubators that looked like production lines. A dragon egg was lying quietly in an incubator closest to him, receiving the meticulous care of the machine and growing in strict accordance with the schedule. on.

Amber also came to the incubator. She fixedly watched the scene in front of her, and she was very quiet.

"This is how the new dragon family was born," Veronica said softly, "How do we develop this way..."

"There are many reasons why Tal Lund is what it is today, and the emergence of the hatchery is only a trivial part of it, and...the hatchery is just an ancient technology for us." Melita shook Shaking his head, he said slowly.

Noretta on the side took over the topic: "You should have heard a saying - the more powerful the creature, the more difficult it is to reproduce. This is the 'balance' imposed by the laws of nature on all living beings, and the dragon family is a mortal species. The most powerful individual in the world, the difficulty of reproduction is even more difficult to the limit..."

"That's true," Gawain nodded, "and it's not just bards and playwrights who say it, but experts and scholars too—though they can't study dragon samples, most creatures in nature follow This rule."

"Yes, this pattern is correct, at least for us dragons. Dragons have poor reproductive capacity, long gestation cycles and difficult incubation - but only in natural conditions," Melita's mouth curled up "Therefore, we have hatching factory technology and a huge supporting industry a long time ago. We use biochemical technology to collect and catalyze 'green eggs', use biomass parent factories to mass-produce blank dragon eggs, and use genetic engineering to Editing parental genetic factors, or single parent single parent genetic factors, using factories to batch hatch... These techniques are very effective.

"Technology can change a lot of things.

"Dragon race is difficult to reproduce and the number is scarce? This is just another misunderstanding. In fact, we began to actively control the number of our own races many, many thousands of years ago, otherwise... How could one Talrond accommodate the number? Huge clan?"

Melita spoke slowly, and Gawain was gradually stunned.

These finally surpassed his imagination.

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

But he suspects that these wreckages are far from the limit of disintegration, and they will continue to collapse and disintegrate until it fully sees the real "Tallond" and the "Eternal Cradle" under the protection of the gods. .

Beside him, Melita continued to explain:

"Dearer under our feet, are the sorting and pre-processing centres of the hatchery - where dragon eggs from the 'mother factory' are sorted and culled, defective eggs are destroyed and only healthy ones are destroyed. , Potential dragon eggs will be sent to the life stasis workshop, where they will temporarily stop developing until a dragon who has obtained a hatching license comes here and claims one of them...

"The adopter of a dragon egg may be a pair of parents, or a single father or mother. He or she or they have to apply and prepare in advance. In addition to a lot of forms and a long review cycle, the adopter must submit A copy of one's own genetic factors, this genetic factor will be injected into the blank dragon eggs, used to synthesize embryos, and become his or her or their real 'children'. And the embryos that have completed the synthesis will be sent here... sent This incubation workshop.

"The machine will take care of these little ones still in their shells, and the hatching sacs are as safe and warm as the nests carefully forged by the parents of dragons in ancient times. Most of the affairs here are handled by the machine, and the total controller is Omega, So we only saw a few 'workers' along the way - those 'workers' whose main tasks were simply monitoring the status of the machines and receiving the 'new parents' who claimed dragon eggs.

"It's a boring and unskilled job, but it's also one of the few real jobs in Tal Lund, if you can get a job in the hatchery, it's the equivalent of entering' Upper Tal Lund' is gone."

Gawain listened to Melita's explanations quietly, and at this moment, an incubator near them suddenly made a humming sound, and lights flickered.

Many detectors cruising nearby immediately approached, and some manipulators moving along the slide rails came to the corresponding hatching device. Just as Gawain was about to ask what was going on, Melita was already walking over there and taking the initiative. Explained: "Come here! Hatching! We just caught up with a little guy hatching!"

When Gawain heard this, his feet suddenly quickened his pace. He, Amber and Veronica quickly came to the hatching device that made noises and flashes. The dragon eggs in the "greenhouse" also began to shake slightly.

Under the unblinking gazes of Gawain and the others, they saw that a crack suddenly opened on the surface of the dragon egg, and then the crack expanded rapidly, and the broken eggshell fell off - the young dragon was more than Gawain imagined. Strong, the whole process of breaking out of the shell didn't take long. In just a few seconds, the seemingly solid eggshells were completely cracked, and a gray, unremarkable "little" "The guy staggered and jumped out of it.

It was a young dragon, and it didn't even have scales on its body, so it couldn't tell the specific species, and there was no way to tell the gender. With Gawain's eyes, he even felt that this cub was a little... ugly, like a huge and hairless turkey, but in the eyes of the dragon clan, this cub was probably quite cute-because Mei next to him Rita and Noretta were clearly looking at the newly hatched dragon child with happy smiles.

Amber was finally surprised again. She gave a "wow", and then just wanted to ask something, but suddenly there was another movement in the "hatching bag": many tiny manipulators penetrated into the cabin from above and below, with extreme Agile and swift techniques grabbed the newly hatched young dragon, the latter lost movement just as he was about to struggle, as if it was quickly anesthetized by something.

Then Gawain saw that the robotic arms began to move quickly. They seemed to have opened a small opening at the back of the young dragon's head where the vertebrae were connected, and then implanted something that was only the size of a human finger that glowed faintly. A few other manipulators moved forward and injected something into the young dragon—that might be the “booster” that Melita often mentioned. After the injection, other devices entered the cabin and collected the young dragon. skin fragments, blood samples, and a quick scan...

All of this is dizzyingly fast.

Before Gawain could react, all of this was over, he blinked, and then he heard a mechanically synthesized voice broadcast - he couldn't understand the content of the broadcast, but soon, he heard Mei Li Tower whispered 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 general implants. There are currently no positions to assign. Suggestion - ordinary citizens of Xiacheng District."

Those manipulators and probes receded.

The young dragon in the hatching bag woke up.

He/she opened his eyes curiously and seemed to observe the world in amazement. He/she used his wings and tender limbs to work together, and staggered to get up, and then he/she finally found a few people standing outside. figure.

The little guy cried out happily.

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