Crossflow

How can it be!

Tao Fengche's eyes widened, and he felt as if he had heard a lame and vulgar third-rate joke, the kind published in a five-yuan low-quality magazine.

How could Chu Yin be a beta? !He is obviously a plum blossom omega!

To this day, Tao Fengche still clearly remembers the smell of Chu Yin pheromones—the clear plum blossom fragrance is refreshing, with a very faint fragrance. Surrounded by this kind of breath for a long time, it will produce a slightly drunken feeling. Illusion; and when Chu Yin and Zhao Jiayang appear together, and the flavors of plum blossom and white tea blend together, it is like a magnificent dream that transcends seasons and time, and belongs to the two of them alone.

Tao Fengche immediately wanted to open his mouth to refute, and wanted to ask Jing Ning whether the current research was in trouble, or because the funds were insufficient but he was too embarrassed to ask Sui Yuesheng to ask for it, so that he became mad and confused, and began to take the deceased Make such a nasty joke.

Although Chu Yin had passed away and had no descendants, as Zhao Jiayang said before, he and Chu Yin had always regarded Tao Fengche as their own child, and Tao Fengche would never allow anyone to insult him like this.

He simply wanted to put aside all his self-cultivation over the years, like those shrews who stood at the entrance of the village and fussed over trivial matters, pointed at Jing Ning's nose and yelled, "Dean Jing, are you crazy?" up...

All sorts of outrageous thoughts swirled in his mind, but when he returned to reality, Tao Fengche just stood there blankly, as if he had been shocked by Jing Ning's words to the point where he was out of his body.

There was a very weak voice in his heart, small but firm, it was saying... Jing Ning has never been a person who likes to joke, especially at such a serious moment when the subject of discussion is still the deceased.

Kyushu has always had the tradition that the dead are the most important. No matter how many entanglements there were during life, one should not talk about right and wrong after death. Jing Ning has no reason to violate this principle.What's more, Tao Fengche has been studying in the research institute since he was in middle school, and he has gotten along with many researchers. He is young and has no airs, and most of the researchers will not deliberately avoid him when chatting.

Every time after being reprimanded by Jing Ning, the researchers always gather together and secretly complain, saying that Dean Jing is either a super artificial intelligence developed, which was not equipped with a humor module when it was created, or it is born with emotional dysfunction. And lacks humor.

If, if what Jing Ning said is true...

That proves that he has been living a feast of lies.Tao Fengche thought in a daze.

He was unwilling to accept this possibility, so he eagerly searched for those long-term memories in his mind, trying to find evidence that could be used to refute, but the seeds of doubt quickly took root and sprouted as soon as they fell on the ground, and then became The branches and leaves are flourishing, and what he originally regarded as the standard and never doubted, has become more and more crumbling, and it seems a little untenable.

Chu Yin and Zhao Jiayang have never had any offspring. Tao Fengche thought that he was too weak to bear children, and Zhao Jiayang's physical examination report clearly stated "non-obstructive azoospermia". God's will tricks people.

But if Chu Yin is really a beta, even if Zhao Jiayang does not suffer from this disease, they will not have offspring - the male beta's reproductive/reproductive/cavity has already degenerated to almost nothing, and the possibility of conception negligibly low.

Tao Fengche then recalled the scene when he saw Xie Yushu a few months ago.

The latter came to Tao's house with Zhao Jiayang at that time, and the edge of the tooth marks on the back of the neck was bruised, not like a mark, but as if he wanted to tear off a piece of meat, which fit Zhao Jiayang's aggressive image, but The bite mark on the back of Chu Yin's neck has always been light, even more like a gentle kiss.

Tao Fengche had always thought that it was proof that Zhao Jiayang cherished Chu Yin very much, but now that he thought about it, if Chu Yin was a beta, then there were no glands on the back of his neck at all. It's just putting on a show.

Besides that, there are many, many more...

Memories followed one after another, lies followed like a shadow, and the truth followed upstream. Tao Fengche wanted to catch its tail, but he didn't have the courage to think about it.His head hurt like it was going to explode, and he was a little unsteady on his feet. He swayed on the spot twice, and quickly stretched out his hand to support the experimental table beside him, finally managed to stabilize his body, and none of them stumbled and fell down. on the ground.

So when the rebuttal came to his lips, it turned into: "What evidence do you have?"

Everything seemed to have omens in the dark, the more things he remembered, the more doubts he aroused, but this matter was too shocking, Tao Fengche didn't want to believe it, and he didn't dare to believe it.

He looked at Jing Ning, and there was a trace of begging in his eyes that he didn't even notice.

Jing Ning had a panoramic view of all this, but before Tao Fengche opened his mouth, he kept silent, only staring at him with a very peaceful gaze, watching his expression change rapidly, watching his expression struggling, watching him He nearly fell...

He didn't move all the time, like a Buddha statue that has lost all emotions, but there was deep sadness in his eyes, until Tao Fengche asked at this moment, he finally stretched out his hand and pointed to the hidden space.

"This thing you brought here is evidence."

Jing Ning's tone was very complicated, if one wanted to delve into it, there was still a hint of nostalgia hidden in it, and some other emotions that Tao Fengche could not understand for the time being.

Fortunately, Jing Ning didn't intend to keep playing tricks. Before Tao Fengche could ask, he gave the answer: "We call it artificial pheromone."

"I was only 21 years old when I entered the research institute, and I entered my teacher's laboratory directly. At that time, he had already developed the first-generation product of this medicine, and it had already begun to circulate on the black market. After I joined, I followed the teacher Improve it bit by bit, improve and upgrade it, make it perfect, and the effect will be even more astonishing..." Jing Ning's words were as light as a gust of wind blowing on his face, but also like a sigh, "I was too young back then, Complacent, thinking that he has opened a window for mankind, and will live forever because of it..."

"I didn't know until later that I was probably destined to die forever."

"This is not a new direction of human evolution at all. It is the magic box that belongs to Pandora."

Tao Fengche had never seen such deep sorrow in Jing Ning's body, it was as thick as the sky when thunder and lightning struck, it was so heavy that one couldn't breathe, he held his breath subconsciously: "Artificial pheromone? Is it a gender-changing thing?"

"No." Jing Ning shook her head, "The three genders of ABO were doomed from the moment of birth. Although human beings have embarked on the journey of conquering the universe, no one knows why we are divided into these three genders. One. The end of science is philosophy, and the end of philosophy is theology, and all content beyond the scope of our current cognition belongs to the category of theology. So we call the differentiation "God's will."

"If we can develop a secondary differentiation potion, it means that we have redefined 'God', but at least at this stage, humans are still unable to reach the realm of gods. What we have developed is just a disguise, allowing beta to emit Produce pheromones similar to omega or alpha."

Jing Ning sneered, with a self-deprecating smile: "But there are still countless people who are willing to spend a lot of money, even everything...in exchange for such a lie."

"Is it worth it?" Tao Fengche asked a little puzzled.

According to Jing Ning, this is nothing but self-deception, he does not understand the meaning of it.

"Do you think it's worth it?" Jing Ning looked at him.

This dean, who has always been called "heterogeneous in beta", "freak", and "artificial intelligence", showed an extremely humane expression: "You will never understand."

You haven't told me yet, how can you conclude that I won't understand?

The most unacceptable thing for an alpha in adolescence is the negation from others. Tao Fengche subconsciously wanted to push back, but the nerve called reason suddenly tensed up. Suddenly, he realized that what Jing Ning said was right —He really didn't seem to understand.

Because he was born an alpha, an alpha born in Tao's family, and Tao Zhixing's only son.

The Tao family has been passed down for nearly a thousand years. Even before the Kyushu restructuring, they were still engaged in the pharmaceutical business, and there was an institution similar to a research institute under it.

And Jing Ning is the only dean whose gender is beta.

Even though he vigorously promoted reforms after he took office, the number of beta employees in the research institute is still very small, almost none of them are in key positions. A place where you can only get in if you break your head.

If a beta wants to have a place here, then he/she has to be a thousand times better than everyone else.

But Tao Fengche could only understand so far.

The three sexes of ABO have already formed a stable triangular structure, the alpha at the top is the most powerful and dominates; the second-class omega is weak and needs to be protected, while the beta with the largest number is unknown.

With the progress of society and the development of people's wisdom, in developed countries, omega has already broken free from the endless shackles of childbirth. The omega equal rights association and omega protection organization have well protected their rights from infringement. Most of the time they They can all compete on an equal footing with alphas.

——After all, "omega equal rights" already belongs to the category of political correctness. Once it is violated, the aggressive O rights organization will definitely come to settle accounts.

But the huge number of betas are like the silent worker ants in the ant colony, and they are also like the second child among the three children of a couple.The eldest placed high expectations, the youngest doted on him in every possible way, but the child in the middle was always neglected.

Just like there are a huge number of betas, but most of them are engaged in low-level and mediocre jobs.

Tao Fengche sighed, unwilling to continue talking about this political issue, and instead asked: "If the price is only high, why is it called Pandora's Box? The most important thing in Kyushu is rich people, and someone will always buy it." started."

Jing Ning didn't intend to discuss it with him, and simply gave the answer: "Because it gave people false hope, and she smashed it with her own hands."

"To put it simply, it is a drug similar to a hormone. After being injected into the human body, it reacts with specific target cells, and then activates a set of genes, thereby catalyzing the formation of betas into their pheromones. In other words, if these betas are differentiated into If it becomes alpha, or differentiates into omega, it should taste like this."

"It took too much money to develop it, and the raw materials are expensive, and it is the only one's patent, so the price remains high all the year round, and the medicine contains certain biologically active substances, and the shelf life is only [-] years after it is manufactured. Days, but if you want it to work all the time, you need to inject it every month.”

"And it has a certain impact on lifespan. Chu Yin is the worst example."