Imagine if one day you met someone who looked exactly like you on the street, your first reaction would definitely not be to walk up and shake hands with him … Of course, it would be impossible to encounter such a thing in reality. After all, the development of cloning technology was restricted by the law, and modern society would not allow such anti-human experiments to be carried out.
When Jiang Chen took Lin Yi back to the Fishbone base by helicopter, it was already night. It was inconvenient to arrange accommodation for Lin Yi at this time, and Jiang Chen didn't feel comfortable leaving her alone, so he brought her home.
And this also brought about a problem. Lin Lin would probably meet this sister that she had never met before tonight.
"Who is she!"
Standing in the living room of the mansion, when Lin Lin first saw Lin Yi, her two pairs of willow-like eyebrows raised, and she stared at her vigilantly.
Lin Yi seemed to be frightened by Lin Lin's action. She shrunk her neck and hid behind Jiang Chen in fear.
Lin Lin's reaction was also within Jiang Chen's expectations. With a sigh, he stretched out his big hand and rubbed Lin Yi's head, gently patted her back, and gently sent her in front of Lin Lin.
"Your … sister?"
Somatic cell cloning should be considered a sister, right?
Jiang Chen didn't know how to define the ethical relationship between the mother and the clone, and this statement even had a questioning tone. It was not his fault. After all, there were no cases to refer to. If it was someone else, they would also be troubled by this question.
"I don't remember having a sister!" Lin Lin looked at Jiang Chen with a serious face, and it was rare for her to put on a serious expression. She said word by word, "Tell me, this woman, where did you pick her up from!"
When this sentence came out of Lin Lin's mouth, Jiang Chen felt something was wrong, but he couldn't pinpoint what was wrong at the moment.
Perhaps they heard the noise downstairs, Sun Jiao and Xiaorou also came downstairs curiously.
When she saw the little girl standing behind Jiang Chen, Sun Jiao was obviously taken aback, and then she looked at Lin Lin with a strange expression.
"Your long-lost sister?"
Unlike her sister's reaction, Xiaorou looked over with interest. Her pair of beautiful eyes fell on Lin Lin, and then on the little girl hiding behind Jiang Chen like a little squirrel. She covered her mouth and chuckled. "Ah … it seems that we need to add a pair of chopsticks at home?"
When Lin Lin heard this, she screamed like she was about to explode.
"Impossible! How could I … How could I live with this person who looks exactly like me! This is too strange. There must be something strange here … Wait! No electronic eyes, probably not a digitalized human … Woo woo woo, damn it! "
Lin Lin jumped to Lin Yi's side. Ignoring the frightened deer's eyes, she stretched out a pair of claws and pinched the "fake" left and right. In the end, as she watched, she fell into depression and confusion because of inexplicable jealousy and other complicated emotions.
A pair of chopsticks?
Jiang Chen's expression was awkward.
He didn't tell Lin Lin that at the bottom of Panyang Lake, there were 1999 clones based on her lying in the hibernation chamber …
…
In the living room of the mansion, regarding Lin Yi's problem, Jiang Chen, as the head of the family, held a "family meeting". Even Yao Yao, wearing a loose nightgown and a pair of bunny slippers, went downstairs and walked into the living room in a daze.
When was the last time the family sat together like this to discuss a problem? He couldn't remember.
Faced with the girls' curious, questioning, angry, or sleepy eyes, Jiang Chen cleared his throat, sorted out his thoughts in his mind, and explained everything. From his conversation with the director of Fallout Shelter 118 in the Sixth Street to the "treasure" he opened at the bottom of Panyang Lake.
"… That's the basic situation."
After explaining the ins and outs of the matter for half an hour, Jiang Chen looked around helplessly. "About this little girl … I want to hear your opinions."
Speaking of this, Jiang Chen paused and looked at Lin Lin, who was sitting next to Lin Yi with a pout.
"Of course, the most important thing is Lin Lin's opinion."
Lin Lin didn't expect Jiang Chen to suddenly direct the topic to her. Her face suddenly turned red, and she was a little embarrassed. "Me, me?"
"After all, she is your clone. At the bottom of Panyang Lake, there are still 1999 clones of you sleeping with your somatic cells." Jiang Chen looked at Lin Yi, who was sitting in the corner of the living room not far away, and said with a complicated expression, "You have the right to decide whether to accept her, and them."
When Lin Lin heard Jiang Chen's words, she was slightly taken aback, then she lowered her head in distress.
What should I do? She couldn't make up her mind.
Although Lin Lin usually had a sharp tongue, her nature wasn't bad. She could even be described as a kind girl.
Although physically and psychologically, she could not accept these "fakes" cloned from her own DNA, she also could not come to a cruel conclusion about their fate.
After an internal struggle, Lin Lin clenched her teeth and finally made up her mind.
"Accept them … it's not impossible."
When Jiang Chen heard Lin Lin's words, he breathed a sigh of relief and looked at her gratefully. "Thank you."
Lin Lin's face turned red as she looked to the side and muttered.
"It's … it's not for you, don't flatter yourself."
Two thousand scientists were indeed important to Jiang Chen, but he couldn't completely ignore the feelings of the people around him. It would be best if Lin Lin could accept it. If she couldn't, he wouldn't force her. These clones could be placed at the bottom of Panyang Lake or in Camp 27 to be isolated from other people. They could still display their scientific value.
However, the efficiency might be slightly lower, and it would always be a knot in Lin Lin's heart.
Since Lin Lin expressed her willingness to accept the two thousand clones, Sun Jiao, Xiaorou, and Yaoyao naturally wouldn't have any objections.
However, after solving the big problem of "staying or leaving", there was still a big problem in front of everyone.
"The key question is where do we live?" Sun Xiaorou gently put her index finger on her lower lip and said thoughtfully, "If it's just one or two more pairs of chopsticks, it doesn't matter, but more than two thousand pairs of chopsticks …"
Sun Xiaorou looked at Jiang Chen with some difficulty and raised a very practical question, "Even if our house is twice as big, I'm afraid it can't accommodate so many people."
Where do we live? This was indeed a problem.
It was definitely impossible to put two thousand "Lin Lins" in the house, but if they were outside, it would be difficult to rest assured. After all, their minds were no different from two or three-year-old children, and it was obviously not suitable for them to interact with survivors.
But at this moment, Sun Jiao put forward a good idea.
"Why don't we build a research institute next to the mansion? These two thousand Lin … clones, aren't they scientists in various fields? It's safer to let them live in the research institute than to let them run around outside, "Sun Jiao suggested.
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