"Positive choice …"
"Negative choice …"
"Draw."
Positive choice, negative choice, draw, negative choice, draw, positive choice, positive choice, draw, draw, negative choice, draw, negative choice …
The number of newborns in the world was 380-390,000. On average, a baby was born every 0.24 seconds.
One second, in the blink of an eye, four to five babies were born.
If all the cries of newborns were gathered together, it would form a bone-piercing soundwave; if they all cried out for a positive choice, a negative choice or a draw, it would form a tsunami. Such a tsunami was roiling in Gu Jun's mind.
Negative choice, draw, positive choice …
Countless young voices surged and twisted together, scraping his cortex, his neurons, and his blood vessels.
When Gu Jun, Cai Zixuan, Wang Ruoxiang, and the rest arrived at Da Hwa City's First People's Hospital, they could vaguely hear the sound of the tsunami. When they walked into this isolated nursery, every vein in his body swelled. But he could not be sure whether he really heard it or it was just an illusion.
The cries of a baby suddenly rang out in the nursery.
The nursery was quite spacious, with a row of incubators and related equipment placed against the wall. However, most of the incubators were empty inside the transparent glass. Only five of them contained babies, two boys and three girls.
One positive choice, two negative choices, two draws.
Another sharp pain shot through his head. He took a deep breath and allowed the oxygen tank in the protective suit to fill his lungs and abdomen.
He let out a long breath but it did not calm his heart.
"Tycoon Jun?" Cai Zixuan who was walking beside him asked.
Wang Ruoxiang turned around as well. During the Locust Sickness incident, she had a keen sense of genetics. This time, she came with a heavy responsibility as well.
"I'm fine." Gu Jun replied, "But I'm not feeling so good."
Wearing the level 4 protective suit was just a routine procedure. He had actually expected this day to come. Ulthar's cat and Atal's Great Elder had also announced this day.
Summoning Shub-Niggurath to fight against Chaos was not without consequences.
The consequences were not just the loss of millions of pregnant women …
Old Civet's words rang in Gu Jun's ears again.
"That should be different from the disasters you've faced in recent years … Diseases and plagues destroy life. Shub-Niggurath does not destroy life. She reproduces and evolves life. But the pressure she brings will be a disaster."
After returning from Dreamlands, Gu Jun had given them the exact words in his report.
Therefore, when the incident was reported to the Spell Department, it caused a huge commotion.
What was coming had come.
"I believe those are not scattered words but the words themselves." Gu Jun came to this conclusion when he first heard the baby's words.
Soon, the emergency reports from other countries confirmed this.
Be it America, Russia, England, or the 5 continents in this world, they all had this anomaly. The only difference was they were speaking the local language.
But not all newborns, preliminary statistics did not show an average probability and there was no common denominator.
Some of these newborns had both parents, some were single mothers and some were IVF surrogates.
The age of the mothers ranged from teenage girls to middle-aged women in their forties. Almost all of the women's childbearing age were present.
They came from different social classes and occupations.
From the data, it appeared to be completely random. Even if there were 5 or 3 pregnant women in the same delivery room, there was a chance that the last baby would be normal. There could be one or two babies.
Not only at Da Hwa City, Eastern State, Mo Bei City and other places had similar cases.
The same thing happened at Mysterium World.
This was not a coincidence.
"Wa wa, wa wa …" The baby girl cried loudly. She was Xu Qiuyue, the first abnormal baby born at this hospital. Negative Selection.
Gu Jun stood before the incubator and studied the baby inside. She was no bigger than a Zoog.
Her face was red from crying, and her wrinkled eyes were still closed.
"I'll go get the nurse." Cai Zixuan turned and left.
Gu Jun took another deep breath. He remembered how the baby's father was so emotional that he almost knelt on the ground to beg them to save his daughter. The baby's mother was still resting on the hospital bed after giving birth. She had no idea that the situation had escalated to the highest level.
Positive Selection.
This was the concept of natural selection. To put it simply, the mutation of an individual in a population would allow that individual to have a stronger ability to survive in the environment and a higher chance of reproduction. As a result, they would gain more benefits and have more offspring. This mutation would then spread throughout the population.
This was called positive selection.
Negative Selection.
It was the opposite of positive selection. If an individual's mutation was not suitable for the environment it was in, it would affect survival and reproduction, so it would be naturally eliminated.
In the long history of human evolution, there must have been many different genes that led to different diseases, defects and abnormalities. However, they were not passed down in the human gene bank because they died prematurely.
This was called negative selection.
However, the positive or negative selection of a mutated gene was not absolute, it depended on the environment it was in.
EDAR370A was a gene unique to most East Asians. One of its effects was to cause human sweat glands to be 15% denser than other races, making it easier to sweat; the other was to cause hair to be thicker and straighter, without the natural curl.
Because this mutation had the advantage of survival in ancient times, it was positive selection.
However, if EDAR370A was placed in a desert environment that was perennially hot, it would be negative selection.
This was because sweating easily meant that the body would lose water faster and more. In a place where water was scarce, not sweating easily was the positive selection.
During the Little Ice Age, the pathogenic gene of diabetes was positive selection because high blood sugar had an anti-freezing effect, which increased the chances of survival. It should be known that the average lifespan of people during the Little Ice Age was much shorter than the average lifespan of people who died of diabetes.
But in the current era, this gene was negative selection. If the world was suddenly frozen, this gene would become positive selection again.
Therefore, there was no positive or negative selection for mutated genes. It was the environment that determined the positive and negative selection. Survival of the fittest, elimination of the unsuitable.
The environment was always changing, so a race needed to have diversity in their genes.
Even if some seemingly useless or harmful genes were still accompanying humans, they would still accompany them. They might have been the best survival strategy in the past, or one day, they might suddenly become the best strategy.
Not always positive selection was passed down. There was no special advantage or disadvantage. This was balanced selection.
Positive selection, negative selection, tie.
What was the deciding factor now? It existed in every environment in the world. Was it this era, when the dark forces were active to a new peak?
Gu Jun noticed that among the five abnormal babies in the nursery, the two babies with tie selection were sleeping quietly.
The baby who was choosing had already opened a pair of big black eyes. It looked around, as if it was looking at the world curiously.
And the two negative selection babies were crying non-stop, as if they were very uncomfortable.
At this time, Wang Ruoxiang reminded, "Xu Qiuyue seems to be opening her eyes …"
Gu Jun also saw that the negative selection baby named Xu Qiuyue was opening her eyes. The time when newborns opened their eyes varied from the moment they were born to a week later.
For some reason, when he looked at the two wrinkled eyelids, panic surged in his heart.
Suddenly, the little baby girl opened her eyes in the midst of crying.
The new eyes were all white, and there were no pupils.
In other words, there was no lens. It was all vitreous, all vitreous …
Negative selection.
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