However, Gu Nianzhi was only stunned for a moment before she quickly came back to her senses.
A thought flashed through her mind, and she continued to pursue Qin Yaoguang. "… No, how could you have made me look like this before I was born?!"
"… Your imagination is too rich." Qin Yaoguang pursed her lips. "I've always looked like this since I was young. I still have photos of me when I was about ten years old. If you don't believe me, you can take a look for yourself. Even if I did it according to someone else's appearance, how could I look decades later? Aren't you overestimating our country's plastic surgery technology from decades ago? "
Gu Nianzhi was stunned.
Qin Yaoguang's words made a lot of sense …
She remembered the photos of Qin Yaoguang as a teenager and a young woman that Huo Shaoheng had obtained. They were indeed the same as they were now.
Now, Qin Yaoguang had even taken the initiative to take out photos of herself when she was about ten years old.
Didn't that mean that the reason for plastic surgery was still untenable?
Gu Nianzhi felt a headache coming on.
What was going on?
She had been very confident in overturning Qin Yaoguang's claim and insisting that she had undergone plastic surgery.
But the timing wasn't right.
If Qin Yaoguang had really undergone plastic surgery, she would have had it when she was about ten years old.
At that time, she was still young. Even if she could have undergone plastic surgery, there was no such seamless plastic surgery technology in that era.
Hyaluronic acid, Botox, and autologous tissue transplantation and filling were all products of recent technological development.
Plastic surgery decades ago was still stuck at silicone, the universal plastic surgery material.
If it had been filled with silicone, their 3D scan would have shown it long ago.
Gu Nianzhi was silent.
Seeing that Gu Nianzhi was speechless, Qin Yaoguang felt refreshed. She felt like she had come back to life.
She looked at Gu Nianzhi with a smile and pursed her lips. Her smile was especially amiable. "Nianzhi, don't think too much. I know I'm not a good mother to you, but I'm still your biological mother. Our appearances prove that. "
"As for Wen Shouyi, I can tell you that she was just the product of that experiment. I also genetically edited her DNA and filled in the Qin family's original genes. That's why she looked like the other girls of the Qin family. "
Qin Yaoguang explained the "secret" of Wen Shouyi's appearance to Gu Nianzhi in an especially amiable manner.
Gu Nianzhi didn't believe a word he said, but she couldn't find a reason to refute him.
She seemed to remember Lu Jin saying that Wen Shouyi's genes were flawed, but he didn't say what the flaw was, and she didn't ask at the time.
Now that Qin Yaoguang had taken the initiative to confirm that she had edited Wen Shouyi's genes and filled them with the Qin family's original genes, Gu Nianzhi frowned and compared it with what Lu Jin had said at the time.
Lu Jin said at the time, "My approach is completely different from Qin Yaoguang's. She disrupted the order of the original gene fragments and only cultivated He Zhichu's defective genes. "
"On the basis of your original genes, I excluded those non-human virus genes, and then used your own genes to expand the expression and complement it."
"The result of doing this is that your genes have not been changed. Instead, they have been optimized to the greatest extent possible."
"As it turned out, I succeeded. You possess the first perfect gene in human history! And it's on the basis that your original genes aren't changed! "
Lu Jin had also mentioned that before Qin Yaoguang had successfully allowed Wen Shouyi to survive and be born, she had also done many embryo experiments. However, only Wen Shouyi had been born and had grown so big.
What did this mean?
Gu Nianzhi had a bold guess.
After spending the past few days with Lu Jin and watching him do biological experiments and sequence DNA, she had also learned some basic knowledge about biology.
Of course, every piece of what Gu Nianzhi considered "basic knowledge" would cause a stir in the world of biology. It was just that she didn't know about it.
Gu Nianzhi raised her head and controlled her excitement. She continued to ask Qin Yaoguang, "You mean, you edited Wen Shouyi's genes and changed her original genes?"
"Of course." When Qin Yaoguang talked about her profession and experiments, she immediately beamed with joy. "… I was the one who came up with the concept of 'gene editing' and found the perfect gene editing method. Only I can successfully do this kind of experiment! "
Gu Nianzhi pursed her lips and stopped Qin Yaoguang from boasting further.
She made a "pause" gesture for the basketball game and said to Qin Yaoguang, "Alright, I know that you were in the same lab as my father and learned a lot of things from him. You don't have to show off here."
Qin Yaoguang choked on the words she had in her stomach. She was so angry that her facial features were slightly twisted.
As Gu Nianzhi spoke, she carefully studied Qin Yaoguang's face.
"The concept of gene editing is indeed excellent, but unfortunately, a fertilized egg that has been genetically modified will either be unable to implant and conceive, or miscarry very quickly after conception."
"Because human genes are very complicated, and with the current technological capabilities of humans, we can only optimize existing genes and not change them."
"So I think that the defendant, Qin Yaoguang, said that she had 'gene edited' Wen Shouyi and filled in the genes of the Qin family. This method would not have allowed her to survive."
"So I think that the defendant, Qin Yaoguang, was lying. She didn't fill in the genes of the Qin family. She only tried to optimize Wen Shouyi's genes, but it was obvious that she failed. "
Gu Nianzhi's words were all conclusions that she had "stolen" from Lu Jin.
Lu Jin sat in the corner of the gallery and was overjoyed. He had given Gu Nianzhi countless thumbs up in his heart.
He couldn't help but lower his voice and show off to Huo Shaoheng, "… Peter, did you see that? This is the difference between a genius and a mediocre person. "
"A genius can write an academic paper just by chatting with you."
"And a mediocre person, even if you force these ideas down his throat, he can spit them all out for you!"
Huo Shaoheng: "…"
The more Qin Yaoguang listened, the more shocked she became. She didn't understand how Gu Nianzhi had such a deep understanding of gene editing!
It wasn't that Gu Nianzhi had a thorough understanding of the details of gene editing, but that she had a high understanding and grasp of this method.
This kind of understanding was something that even Qin Yaoguang herself had only just realized after decades and countless failures, let alone a normal biology graduate student.
That was, with the current technological conditions, human genes could not be changed.
Adults who had been genetically modified basically couldn't get up and down the operating table.
The survival rate of genetically modified fertilized eggs was also very low.
After being lucky enough to conceive, they all miscarried, and none of them were successfully born.
Qin Yaoguang knew very well that Wen Shouyi had been born because she had made a mistake when she had been genetically editing the fertilized egg. In fact, the editing had not been successful, but she had accidentally weakened a certain DNA fragment in the fertilized egg.
In the end, Wen Shouyi had become the only child who had been successfully conceived and had been born.
It was also because of this reason that she had tolerated her survival and had later let Wen Dayou directly adopt her from the orphanage.
In other words, with their current technology, human genes could only be optimized or weakened.
Now they wanted to change human genes?
Then there was only death.
At the moment, no scientist had the power of the Creator.
The more advanced an animal was, the weaker its ability to withstand genetic changes.
Even with Lu Jin's amazing scientific research ability, he had only optimized Gu Nianzhi's genes and hadn't changed them.
Therefore, to Qin Yaoguang, Gu Nianzhi's words were like a summary of her decades of failed experiments.
She couldn't help looking at Gu Nianzhi in a daze. Her heart was extremely sour, bitter, and hateful.
Gu Nianzhi saw that Qin Yaoguang was speechless, and she was even more convinced that her idea was correct.
So she continued, "The result of our reverse inference is that Wen Shouyi wasn't genetically edited successfully because she survived. This also means that she wasn't filled with the so-called 'Qin family genes'. "
"Her appearance is exactly the same as the true appearance of her biological mother, the defendant, Qin Yaoguang."
Gu Nianzhi looked carefully at Qin Yaoguang's face, and the clues in her mind gradually became clear.
She walked over to the instrument and asked the court staff to put the two skull reconstruction photos side by side.
Looking at the two completely different photos, Gu Nianzhi analyzed them as if she was picking at bones. "Let's reason it out again. Assuming that the defendant, Qin Yaoguang, really had plastic surgery since she was young, then this technique … is definitely the work of an epoch-making expert."
"Because it's too natural and smooth."
"And after decades, there's no sign of it collapsing at all. Even the 3D X-ray scan can't find any traces of plastic surgery."
"Compared to a certain big plastic surgery country that only has a shelf life of two or three years, the defendant, Qin Yaoguang's' plastic surgery 'can be said to be an' epic 'plastic surgery."
"It's like artificial intelligence. It can even grow and evolve on its own …"
The people in the courtroom burst into good-natured laughter.
Qin Yaoguang was so ashamed that she couldn't help covering her face.
The lawyer next to her was mesmerized by the story and almost called Gu Nianzhi on the phone.
Gu Nianzhi gave him a friendly smile and turned to the people in the courtroom. "And plastic surgery has always been known to be the most demanding and sophisticated surgery other than brain surgery."
"Many of the plastic surgeons who are truly professional were once outstanding brain surgeons."
"But no matter how outstanding a plastic surgeon is, he's still just a doctor. Even if he has epoch-making techniques, he's not a prophet. How could he have made the defendant, Qin Yaoguang, look like me when I grew up decades ago?"
"After thinking about it, I can only think of one reason, and that is that the defendant, Qin Yaoguang, had plastic surgery back then. There should have been a template!"
"That template should be more similar to my current appearance."
Gu Nianzhi walked slowly in the courtroom. Her gaze swept across the faces of everyone in the courtroom, and finally stopped on Lu Jin in the corner for a second.
She quickly looked away and looked at the judge in the courtroom. She said thoughtfully, "Let's analyze it further. If the defendant, Qin Yaoguang, looked like this because of plastic surgery, then I shouldn't be her biological daughter."
Qin Yaoguang turned pale with fright and suddenly shouted, "Nonsense! You're my biological daughter! I have evidence! The video … "
"Shut up." Gu Nianzhi was impatient. "The proof of biological birth isn't by looking at the video, it's by looking at the DNA!"
She rolled her eyes at her and thought to herself, I must ask my father when I get back. At this moment, she could only say with a cold face, "But the defendant, Qin Yaoguang, claims that she gave birth to me herself, so we can infer that it's very likely that she's just a surrogate mother."
"Everyone knows that my biological father is Gu Xiangwen."
"Assuming that the defendant, Qin Yaoguang, is just a surrogate mother, then who is my biological mother?"
"… Can we reasonably infer that my biological mother is the woman who was used by Qin Yaoguang as a template for plastic surgery?!"
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