DPM Chapter 57-Entice Part 1
Translated by Snowfall77
Luo Ying’s home was in a temporary residential area. Almost half the area was empty, set aside for those who hadn’t arrived yet.
Defensive measures were all along the passages. Since the last fading away of the sun, the weather had turned very cold. Wu Xingyun couldn’t distinguish the season because, owing to the sun’s disappearance, it was snowing all over the place.
Slightly raising his head, Wu Xingyun could see the fluttering snowflakes illumined by the street lamps, dancing in midair. Beautiful as a dreamland, their falling made a tiny ‘susu’ sound.
Wu Xingyun was wearing a thick cotton-padded coat, while Ye Fan only needed a windbreaker.
Walking along the road, Wu Xingyun glanced at Ye Fan, asking: “You’re not cold?”
Ye Fan smiled and extended a hand, hinting for Wu Xingyun to touch.
Feeling the skin, Wu Xingyun found it completely warm and dry.
“Since my last mutation,” Ye Fan said, “There’s no new special capabilities. I can’t madly smash a concrete building with my foot, like in novels. But my body is a lot stronger than others.”
Wu Xingyun silently ridiculed in his heart: “Your strength, it’s going to be much more terrible than destroying buildings with a single limb……”
Ye Fan noticed Wu Xingyun’s mind obviously wandering, and felt a little irritated. Yet Wu Xingyun was holding Ye Fan’s hand. The mild unhappiness in Ye Fan’s heart melted away, replaced with bliss.
“I’ll help you cover your hands, I’m a natural heater,” Ye Fan told Wu Xingyun.
Wu Xingyun smiled: “Good.”
Wu Xingyun’s hand was put into Ye Fan’s pants pocket. It stayed there as they kept walking, turning a few corners until they came to Luo Ying’s residence.
The residences in the area were all small three-story houses, and Luo Ying’s was no exception.
Ye Fan rang the doorbell. Luo Ying quickly answered, opening the door and welcoming the two men into the house.
Wu Xingyun was slightly startled to find that Ouyang Yi was there too.
Seeing that Ye Fan had arrived, Ouyang Yi stood up and held out a hand. After the two shook hands, Ouyang Yi promptly invited both men to take a seat at the dining table.
Luo Ying gave them each a glass of water, then chatted for a few minutes. Next she brought out a few dishes from the kitchen.
It was a very ordinary, homey meal.
Scrabbed eggs with tomato, sweet and sour pork chops, braised fish, lettuce in oyster sauce, and fried white lotus.
Ye Fan was completely stupified. If it had been a year ago, these dished would be extremely common, so humble that a host would be embarrassed to serve them to a guest.
But now they were in the end days! Every day Wu Xingyun and himself had been eating a mystery paste. Any available vegetables were well and truly pathetic, and they’d had to rely on vitamin tablets to maintain bodily requirements.
However, Luo Ying actually had such food!
The four sitting together at the same table, Ouyang Yi raised a toast to Ye Fan: “Ye Fan, before we had a little misunderstanding. Without a doubt, I didn’t take good care of you. We’re family now though, no need to be polite.”
Ye Fan and Ouyang Yi exchanged some more courteous words, after which everyone started eating.
Earnest and sincere, Luo Ying added: “Ye Fan, thank you for saving me in the forest. If there’s anything I can help you with, don’t hesitate to ask.”
“Alright, I won’t be shy,” Ye Fan replied.
Eating some of the eggs, Wu Xingyun found the taste strangely familiar. He asked Luo Ying: “This is……Your new research?”
Luo Ying laughed happily: “Yes, that’s right! How can you raise a chicken in outer space? Even more improbable that it’ll lay eggs. So, you’re having my latest research, gene synthesized from cockroaches and cactus.”
Ye Fan spat out the piece of egg he’d just been chewing.
Thinking nothing of it, Wu Xingyun continued eating, saying in between bites: “This’ll provide a lot of vitality, and last a long time in space travel. You’ll take these ‘eggs’ with?”
“No, just the cactus thorns,” Luo Ying said.
Ye Fan’s appetite utterly deserted him, as Wu Xingyun exclaimed: “Tasty, this flavor is especially good!”
While those two were talking, Ouyang Yi’s cell phone rang twice. Luo Ying gave him a quick look, even as Ouyang Yi didn’t answer.
Instead, proceeding with his meal, Ouyang Yi stated: “Ye Fan, you’re quite famous these days! Everyone says you’re a mutant……”
Luo Ying interrupted Ouyang Yi: “Humanity absolutely can’t mutate. We’ve run the formulas in our lab many times. You’re still not resigned? Cause those are nothing but rumors.”
Ouyang Yi snapped back: “I don’t believe it. When the Saer substance is at certain levels, under some kind of coincidence……”
Before he finished, the doorbell outside chimed.
“Someone came,” Ye Fan said.
Ouyang Yi’s cell phone sounded again in the same moment, making the ding of text messages.
The man straightforwardly turned his phone off. Whilst Wu Xingyun got up and answered the door.
A woman in her twenties, carrying a two or three year old child, stood outside.
Wu Xingyun asked: “Who are you looking for?”
The woman didn’t answer. Rather, she peered into the house, then promptly pushed pass Wu Xingyun, walking towards the table.
Wu Xingyun went back, saying to the three seated people: “She didn’t say who she was looking for……”
He hadn’t finished his words when he saw both Luo Ying’s and Ouyang Yi’s complexions change simultaneously.
His tone somewhat impatient, Ouyang Yi inquired to the woman: “What are you doing here?!”
""
Paying Ouyang Yi no mind, the woman spoke Luo Ying: “Hello, my name is Lin Layu. I haven’t come with any other idea, I just want to ask, when are you going to finally divorce Yi? This mother and son are waiting for him to go with us!”
Luo Ying’s lips slightly trembled, her face turning a little green. Looking over to Ouyang Yi, the emotion in her eyes was oppressive.
Ouyang Yi didn’t speak, instead lighting a cigarette and taking a drag.
A little slow on the uptake, Wu Xingyun belatedly understood. This was a scene of the mistress bring the love child to the wife’s door. Just like out of a movie.
Comparing the present to the future, Wu Xingyun had to inwardly sigh—Ouyang’s genes, were they this fond of having illegitimate children?
The situation felt awkward, and Wu Xingyun wanted to take his leave from Luo Ying. But Ye Fan grabbed him.
Ye Fan pulled Wu Xingyun to the table, pressing the soldier to sit back down: “For this dinner, we are the invited guests of Luo Ying. How can we go before we’ve finished eating?”
Wu Xingyun watched Ye Fan continuously pile food onto Wu Xingyun’s plate. He gamely tried to take some bites, yet the atmosphere was too weird. He simply couldn’t eat anymore.
Meanwhile, Lou Ying’s face had gone from green to white and her hands were shaking. Nonetheless, her voice was calm: “Ouyang Yi, this matter, let’s discuss it later. My guests are here, you let these two out first.”
Ouyang Yi didn’t open his mouth. It was Lin Layu who appealed to him: “Yi, what are you waiting for? What else do you not dare to say?! Are you going to wait until the moment the ship takes off? Then will you be ready to speak? This is your son, don’t you want him?!”
The woman started crying. “Do you know how difficult it was to find this place with my son? How does a woman survive in these days……How could you have the heart to abandon this mother and child……”
Twitchy, Ouyang Yi put out his cigarette butt and stood up: “Stop crying! Step aside for me!”
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Then he faced Luo Ying: “You see how it is in the end. You wouldn’t give me a child, someone else was willing! Let’s divorce and part without hard feelings. But the gene synthesized food research is mine……”
Her voice shaky, her face blanched, Lou Ying retorted: “In front of outsiders, could you not……Speak of this business?!”
Not bothering to answer, Ouyang Yi turned and took out a stack of paper from a desk drawer and handed it to Luo Ying. “Sign this divorce agreement. And I’ll take my wife and child out, give you enough time to entertain your guests!”
With anger in her eyes, Luo Ying picked up a pen, hands unsteady. Yet as she read through the divorce agreement, seeing the assets division and the laboratory projects division clauses, Luo Ying couldn’t hold it in anymore. She threw aside the pen, saying resolutely: “Ouyang Yi, don’t be too excessive!”
The pen hit the corner of the table and bounced off, the pen tip stinging the child’s face. The child cried: “Dada, Dada, bad woman hit me, wuwu……”
Luo Ying was simply enraged that these people were in her house. She had already vaguely guessed about her husband’s affair. However, she had wanted to keep up pretenses and avoid an acrimonious battle. What she hadn’t ever expected was that, at her own dinner party, her husband’s mistress would show up at the door with an illegitimate child.
Especially when she heard that child say “Dada,” Luo Ying couldn’t bear it anymore. Taking a quick step, she stood before the child and mother, pointed a finger in the child’s face, and furiously rebuked: “Get lost! Get out of my house!”
Smack! A slap to the face sounded, Luo Ying feeling her face turn hot. She covered her cheek with a hand, staring at Ouyang Yi before her in disbelief.
This man had actually hit her in front of the others.
Ouyang Yi’s voice became even louder: “Luo, you don’t be too excessive! Go ahead and get angry if you want, but my son, you don’t lay a finger on him!”
Practically wild with outrage, Luo Ying tried to slap Ouyang Yi back. Only Ouyang Yi had suddenly grabbed Luo Ying’s hair, banging her forehead into the corner of the sofa.
Still, something happened against people’s expectations, even more unanticipated by Ouyang Yi. In previous quarrels, even if Luo Ying was stubborn, she was no match for her husband. Yet this time, Ouyang Yi couldn’t knock Luo Ying senseless.
Because Ouyang Yi’s wrist was caught.
Artificial gene synthesis, or gene synthesis, refers to a group of methods that are used in synthetic biology to construct and assemble genes from nucleotides de novo. Unlike DNA synthesis in living cells, artificial gene synthesis does not require template DNA, allowing virtually any DNA sequence to be synthesized in the laboratory. It comprises two main steps, the first of which is solid-phase DNA synthesis, sometimes known as DNA printing.[1] This produces oligonucleotide fragments that are generally under 200 base pairs. The second step then involves connecting these oligonucleotide fragments using various DNA assembly methods. Because artificial gene synthesis does not require template DNA, it is theoretically possible to make a completely synthetic DNA molecules with no limits on the nucleotide sequence or size.
Synthesis of the first complete gene, a yeast tRNA, was demonstrated by Har Gobind Khorana and coworkers in 1972.[2] Synthesis of the first peptide- and protein-coding genes was performed in the laboratories of Herbert Boyer and Alexander Markham, respectively.[3][4] More recently, artificial gene synthesis methods have been developed that will allow the assembly of entire chromosomes and genomes. The first synthetic yeast chromosome was synthesised in 2014, and entire functional bacterial chromosomes have also been synthesised.[5] In addition, artificial gene synthesis could in the future make use of novel nucleobase pairs (unnatural base pairs).[6][7][8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_gene_synthesis
DPM Chapter 57-Entice Part 1
Translated by Snowfall77
Luo Ying’s home was in a temporary residential area. Almost half the area was empty, set aside for those who hadn’t arrived yet.
Defensive measures were all along the passages. Since the last fading away of the sun, the weather had turned very cold. Wu Xingyun couldn’t distinguish the season because, owing to the sun’s disappearance, it was snowing all over the place.
Slightly raising his head, Wu Xingyun could see the fluttering snowflakes illumined by the street lamps, dancing in midair. Beautiful as a dreamland, their falling made a tiny ‘susu’ sound.
Wu Xingyun was wearing a thick cotton-padded coat, while Ye Fan only needed a windbreaker.
Walking along the road, Wu Xingyun glanced at Ye Fan, asking: “You’re not cold?”
Ye Fan smiled and extended a hand, hinting for Wu Xingyun to touch.
Feeling the skin, Wu Xingyun found it completely warm and dry.
“Since my last mutation,” Ye Fan said, “There’s no new special capabilities. I can’t madly smash a concrete building with my foot, like in novels. But my body is a lot stronger than others.”
Wu Xingyun silently ridiculed in his heart: “Your strength, it’s going to be much more terrible than destroying buildings with a single limb……”
Ye Fan noticed Wu Xingyun’s mind obviously wandering, and felt a little irritated. Yet Wu Xingyun was holding Ye Fan’s hand. The mild unhappiness in Ye Fan’s heart melted away, replaced with bliss.
“I’ll help you cover your hands, I’m a natural heater,” Ye Fan told Wu Xingyun.
Wu Xingyun smiled: “Good.”
Wu Xingyun’s hand was put into Ye Fan’s pants pocket. It stayed there as they kept walking, turning a few corners until they came to Luo Ying’s residence.
The residences in the area were all small three-story houses, and Luo Ying’s was no exception.
Ye Fan rang the doorbell. Luo Ying quickly answered, opening the door and welcoming the two men into the house.
Wu Xingyun was slightly startled to find that Ouyang Yi was there too.
Seeing that Ye Fan had arrived, Ouyang Yi stood up and held out a hand. After the two shook hands, Ouyang Yi promptly invited both men to take a seat at the dining table.
Luo Ying gave them each a glass of water, then chatted for a few minutes. Next she brought out a few dishes from the kitchen.
It was a very ordinary, homey meal.
Scrabbed eggs with tomato, sweet and sour pork chops, braised fish, lettuce in oyster sauce, and fried white lotus.
Ye Fan was completely stupified. If it had been a year ago, these dished would be extremely common, so humble that a host would be embarrassed to serve them to a guest.
But now they were in the end days! Every day Wu Xingyun and himself had been eating a mystery paste. Any available vegetables were well and truly pathetic, and they’d had to rely on vitamin tablets to maintain bodily requirements.
However, Luo Ying actually had such food!
The four sitting together at the same table, Ouyang Yi raised a toast to Ye Fan: “Ye Fan, before we had a little misunderstanding. Without a doubt, I didn’t take good care of you. We’re family now though, no need to be polite.”
Ye Fan and Ouyang Yi exchanged some more courteous words, after which everyone started eating.
Earnest and sincere, Luo Ying added: “Ye Fan, thank you for saving me in the forest. If there’s anything I can help you with, don’t hesitate to ask.”
“Alright, I won’t be shy,” Ye Fan replied.
Eating some of the eggs, Wu Xingyun found the taste strangely familiar. He asked Luo Ying: “This is……Your new research?”
Luo Ying laughed happily: “Yes, that’s right! How can you raise a chicken in outer space? Even more improbable that it’ll lay eggs. So, you’re having my latest research, gene synthesized from cockroaches and cactus.”
Ye Fan spat out the piece of egg he’d just been chewing.
Thinking nothing of it, Wu Xingyun continued eating, saying in between bites: “This’ll provide a lot of vitality, and last a long time in space travel. You’ll take these ‘eggs’ with?”
“No, just the cactus thorns,” Luo Ying said.
Ye Fan’s appetite utterly deserted him, as Wu Xingyun exclaimed: “Tasty, this flavor is especially good!”
While those two were talking, Ouyang Yi’s cell phone rang twice. Luo Ying gave him a quick look, even as Ouyang Yi didn’t answer.
Instead, proceeding with his meal, Ouyang Yi stated: “Ye Fan, you’re quite famous these days! Everyone says you’re a mutant……”
Luo Ying interrupted Ouyang Yi: “Humanity absolutely can’t mutate. We’ve run the formulas in our lab many times. You’re still not resigned? Cause those are nothing but rumors.”
Ouyang Yi snapped back: “I don’t believe it. When the Saer substance is at certain levels, under some kind of coincidence……”
Before he finished, the doorbell outside chimed.
“Someone came,” Ye Fan said.
Ouyang Yi’s cell phone sounded again in the same moment, making the ding of text messages.
The man straightforwardly turned his phone off. Whilst Wu Xingyun got up and answered the door.
A woman in her twenties, carrying a two or three year old child, stood outside.
Wu Xingyun asked: “Who are you looking for?”
The woman didn’t answer. Rather, she peered into the house, then promptly pushed pass Wu Xingyun, walking towards the table.
Wu Xingyun went back, saying to the three seated people: “She didn’t say who she was looking for……”
He hadn’t finished his words when he saw both Luo Ying’s and Ouyang Yi’s complexions change simultaneously.
His tone somewhat impatient, Ouyang Yi inquired to the woman: “What are you doing here?!”
""
Paying Ouyang Yi no mind, the woman spoke Luo Ying: “Hello, my name is Lin Layu. I haven’t come with any other idea, I just want to ask, when are you going to finally divorce Yi? This mother and son are waiting for him to go with us!”
Luo Ying’s lips slightly trembled, her face turning a little green. Looking over to Ouyang Yi, the emotion in her eyes was oppressive.
Ouyang Yi didn’t speak, instead lighting a cigarette and taking a drag.
A little slow on the uptake, Wu Xingyun belatedly understood. This was a scene of the mistress bring the love child to the wife’s door. Just like out of a movie.
Comparing the present to the future, Wu Xingyun had to inwardly sigh—Ouyang’s genes, were they this fond of having illegitimate children?
The situation felt awkward, and Wu Xingyun wanted to take his leave from Luo Ying. But Ye Fan grabbed him.
Ye Fan pulled Wu Xingyun to the table, pressing the soldier to sit back down: “For this dinner, we are the invited guests of Luo Ying. How can we go before we’ve finished eating?”
Wu Xingyun watched Ye Fan continuously pile food onto Wu Xingyun’s plate. He gamely tried to take some bites, yet the atmosphere was too weird. He simply couldn’t eat anymore.
Meanwhile, Lou Ying’s face had gone from green to white and her hands were shaking. Nonetheless, her voice was calm: “Ouyang Yi, this matter, let’s discuss it later. My guests are here, you let these two out first.”
Ouyang Yi didn’t open his mouth. It was Lin Layu who appealed to him: “Yi, what are you waiting for? What else do you not dare to say?! Are you going to wait until the moment the ship takes off? Then will you be ready to speak? This is your son, don’t you want him?!”
The woman started crying. “Do you know how difficult it was to find this place with my son? How does a woman survive in these days……How could you have the heart to abandon this mother and child……”
Twitchy, Ouyang Yi put out his cigarette butt and stood up: “Stop crying! Step aside for me!”
""
Then he faced Luo Ying: “You see how it is in the end. You wouldn’t give me a child, someone else was willing! Let’s divorce and part without hard feelings. But the gene synthesized food research is mine……”
Her voice shaky, her face blanched, Lou Ying retorted: “In front of outsiders, could you not……Speak of this business?!”
Not bothering to answer, Ouyang Yi turned and took out a stack of paper from a desk drawer and handed it to Luo Ying. “Sign this divorce agreement. And I’ll take my wife and child out, give you enough time to entertain your guests!”
With anger in her eyes, Luo Ying picked up a pen, hands unsteady. Yet as she read through the divorce agreement, seeing the assets division and the laboratory projects division clauses, Luo Ying couldn’t hold it in anymore. She threw aside the pen, saying resolutely: “Ouyang Yi, don’t be too excessive!”
The pen hit the corner of the table and bounced off, the pen tip stinging the child’s face. The child cried: “Dada, Dada, bad woman hit me, wuwu……”
Luo Ying was simply enraged that these people were in her house. She had already vaguely guessed about her husband’s affair. However, she had wanted to keep up pretenses and avoid an acrimonious battle. What she hadn’t ever expected was that, at her own dinner party, her husband’s mistress would show up at the door with an illegitimate child.
Especially when she heard that child say “Dada,” Luo Ying couldn’t bear it anymore. Taking a quick step, she stood before the child and mother, pointed a finger in the child’s face, and furiously rebuked: “Get lost! Get out of my house!”
Smack! A slap to the face sounded, Luo Ying feeling her face turn hot. She covered her cheek with a hand, staring at Ouyang Yi before her in disbelief.
This man had actually hit her in front of the others.
Ouyang Yi’s voice became even louder: “Luo, you don’t be too excessive! Go ahead and get angry if you want, but my son, you don’t lay a finger on him!”
Practically wild with outrage, Luo Ying tried to slap Ouyang Yi back. Only Ouyang Yi had suddenly grabbed Luo Ying’s hair, banging her forehead into the corner of the sofa.
Still, something happened against people’s expectations, even more unanticipated by Ouyang Yi. In previous quarrels, even if Luo Ying was stubborn, she was no match for her husband. Yet this time, Ouyang Yi couldn’t knock Luo Ying senseless.
Because Ouyang Yi’s wrist was caught.
Artificial gene synthesis, or gene synthesis, refers to a group of methods that are used in synthetic biology to construct and assemble genes from nucleotides de novo. Unlike DNA synthesis in living cells, artificial gene synthesis does not require template DNA, allowing virtually any DNA sequence to be synthesized in the laboratory. It comprises two main steps, the first of which is solid-phase DNA synthesis, sometimes known as DNA printing.[1] This produces oligonucleotide fragments that are generally under 200 base pairs. The second step then involves connecting these oligonucleotide fragments using various DNA assembly methods. Because artificial gene synthesis does not require template DNA, it is theoretically possible to make a completely synthetic DNA molecules with no limits on the nucleotide sequence or size.
Synthesis of the first complete gene, a yeast tRNA, was demonstrated by Har Gobind Khorana and coworkers in 1972.[2] Synthesis of the first peptide- and protein-coding genes was performed in the laboratories of Herbert Boyer and Alexander Markham, respectively.[3][4] More recently, artificial gene synthesis methods have been developed that will allow the assembly of entire chromosomes and genomes. The first synthetic yeast chromosome was synthesised in 2014, and entire functional bacterial chromosomes have also been synthesised.[5] In addition, artificial gene synthesis could in the future make use of novel nucleobase pairs (unnatural base pairs).[6][7][8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_gene_synthesis
