Chapter 2129 – [I, Who Was Common on Earth, Am a Super Rare Species in Space?!]

The production district boasted by Beon Castle, the home of bionics, was an enormous city. No, actually, it is a city, but its size is larger than that of a fairly small country.

That amount of land is being used for research, development, and production. There will probably be countless jobs created here.

“Wow, I said it was worth bragging about, but it’s no joke. And it smells just as delicious.”

“I see. Since it’s a production district, the food situation seems to be good?”

Unlike a barren planet, materials appear to be abundant. If technology has advanced to that point in the article below, the planet’s environment is not something to worry about. This is especially true if it is a species that can survive easily in that environment.

Anyway, the production district was such a bustling place that walking around was enjoyable in many ways. The stores along the street sell dishes made with ingredients that look interesting and unique, so it’s fun to buy one as you pass by.

“That!!! I want to try that!!!!”

“Big… Grapes? Oh, but it smells like grilled meat. I’ll buy it.”

Would it look similar if something as large and plump as a fruit, especially red grapes among grapes, were grown to the size of an adult man’s fist? Anyway, it was a dish that was put on a skewer and grilled.

If they cut it up, you might think it’s a dish like churrasco, but they serve it whole on a skewer. Looking at it, the skewers are not made of metal but appear to be made of tree branches of some kind. Considering that they do not burn even when grilled over fire, they appear to be made of a special material.

“Can you give me two skewers of that?”

“Oh, I’ll be out soon… Hmm? Are you human by any chance?”

“Yes, I came here on my honeymoon from the Melnos system. I heard that Beon Castle is famous for its production district, so I came to take a look.”

“Wow, such a precious person!!! I never thought she would come from the Melnos star system and not from the human Earth. Moreover, her wife is bionic, so she must be awake!!!”

“Inter-ethnic marriage may be a bit of a barrier, but love can overcome even that barrier.”

“That’s great. Since we have such an important guest today, I won’t charge you for the skewers. Take them for free!!!”

“Oh, no. You can’t get it for free. If you are going to provide the service, please give me some bonus separately from the purchase.”

After talking for a while, the store owner gave me 3 skewers as a bonus in addition to the 2 I originally wanted to buy. Since my belly button was bigger than my stomach, I thought the service was excessive, but since there was so much to eat, it wasn’t a bad thing, so I accepted it gratefully.

And then he walks the streets with Lulu and eats meat skewers. It looks like a large grape on the outside, but when you chew it vigorously, it has a rich meaty taste along with the juice. It tastes like real meat… I quite like it.

“That ratna she brought with her when she went on a trip with Mary before? That feels like it.”

“It’s similar, but maybe a little different. Well, Ratna has a higher fat content, so it has a good flavor, but this one feels purely like protein. Oh, of course, that doesn’t mean it’s not delicious.”

Lulu lightly modified her jaw and took a ball of meat the size of her fist into her mouth, chewing it whole and swallowing it. Thankfully, even though there were about three balls of meat on each skewer, it didn’t take long for her to finish eating them all.

And the remaining skewers, made of wood, have a faint fruity scent. While grilling, the flavor and aroma are absorbed into the meat balls, making up for the lack of flavor in the fat.

But this is sold in units of skewers. Isn’t that a bit much? It doesn’t matter to us, but the average person would be quite full after eating just one meat ball.

“Because the basic metabolism will be different. Look over there.”

When I looked in the direction Lulu was pointing to, I saw a young bionic child eating the same meat ball skewer that we had eaten. He even eats an entire skewer by himself.

It seems like the Eden of yesteryear watched the amount of food… If that’s the case, I don’t think we need to worry about the people here.

We decided to leisurely walk around for two days, exploring street food and restaurants, and then exploring the research labs in the production district in earnest. As it is an important facility, it does not accept customers right away, but you can visit if you make a reservation. When we made a reservation, it passed right away, and we were able to visit the next day.

“Does it seem like the guys watching did something?”

“It seems like that. What should I say about this… It feels like the Chinese public security is following foreigners around before China is split, showing them only the good aspects of China and controlling them from doing anything strange?”

“It may seem like a metaphor, but it’s not like it’s infringing on our freedom yet, so let’s move on.”

Visiting the lab was easy. The director even came out to welcome us, just like when we first visited Beon Castle.

However, what was a little surprising was that, unlike the bionics we had seen, the director of the laboratory did not have bulging muscles and was relatively thin. Aside from the fact that he is tall, around 190 cm tall, he seems to have the brain power among the bionics.

“Welcome Worst and Lulu. Thank you for visiting our Ludria Research Institute. My name is Daver, and I am the director of the Ludria Research Institute.”

“Ah, I never thought the director would personally welcome me like this. It’s an honor.”

“Haha, no. We are precious guests who came from the Melnos system on purpose. Shouldn’t we leave a good impression?”

Yes, yes, you want to make a good impression and get them settled. This is a bit better because it’s not said out loud.

I was a little concerned that he was the skinny type, so I checked him out by feeling. First, the overall feeling itself was not much different from other bionics, but what was different was that the feeling was concentrated in the head, or more precisely, in the brain.

He also holds the position of director of a research institute, and is he probably the type of person who puts his resources to good use since he is thinner than other bionics? They are bionics with excellent physical abilities, but it does not make sense if you think that the brain is also a part of the body.

He must have noticed my gaze and spoke to himself. It seems like he wants to make a good impression, so he keeps talking.

“Oh, is it because I look thinner than other people? It’s because I was born with a brain type.”

“It’s as if they are saying that a child can be born with artificially determined characteristics…”

“Didn’t your wife tell you? She also knows it’s bionics?”

I know the basic knowledge, but there are many things I lack in common sense and other things, so the loopholes are revealed. But it wasn’t that there was no way to cover it.

Lulu also provided support for that part. There was a story that could be used as an excuse, and we couldn’t investigate in depth because they didn’t want to antagonize us.

“I grew up in the Melnos system, so I lack common sense here. I also went to school for engineering.”

“Lulu has spent a lot of time growing up in the Melnos system. It would be better to think of her as a local rather than a resident of Beon Castle.”

It was okay up to that point, but eventually he brought up a fairly sensitive topic.

“Yes, the growing environment is also important. Then you probably don’t even know about the mother plant.”

“Mother Plant…?”

“It is the culmination of our biotechnology that creates the desired child. It is no exaggeration to say that all bionics of the current generation were born from the mother plant.”

“…”

You can artificially pick and choose what you are born with? If biotechnology, especially genetic engineering, has developed, it is not impossible to create such a designer baby.

But beyond that, are you leaving population production to plants? Bionics were also born after the war, so it seems like a brave new world.

The only thing better is that there is no brainwashing or anything like that. At least being born can be done artificially, but living can be done as you wish…

It’s annoying, but it’s not the devil’s agenda. Ethical issues may need to be thought about, but at least here, it has become common sense and is being used normally, and above all, there are ordinary families as seen before.

Even if a mother plant creates a child, at least it seems like the parents want it to be made, and after birth, it does well as the child of that family. The innocence of the child who showed curiosity when he saw me in a winter suit and the harmony of the family were not lies.

… It takes a while, but I’m not abusing it. Accordingly, we decided not to make an issue of this issue, at least for now.

“I heard that humans still make children through sexual intercourse. However, if the current human population continues at this rate, various problems such as genetic diversity will arise. Of course, treatment is simple with current technology, but the fundamental If you don’t solve the problem, it will accumulate and one day you will be unable to do anything about it.”

“Yes, I guess so.”

“If you look at it that way, Mr. Worst, you made an excellent choice. Among Aiane’s descendants, the only race that can leave behind human blood is our Bionics.”

Because of genetic manipulation, it is natural that any physical race would be able to get pregnant and give birth. Since it’s a burden, all I can do is make a child from the mother plant.

The Tasks are a machine race, and Noidera, although I haven’t seen them yet, is probably a race that is far from humans… Perhaps the easiest way to create a mixed race is bionics? If that doesn’t work, how can we use biotechnology to make it happen?

Afterward, we walked around the laboratory with Director Daver and received guidance. Although it is called a research institute, there is a separate course for visitors, so you can see various facilities, experiments, and crops being cultivated for show purposes.

“For a planet like this, abundant food resources are important. This is especially true for us, who burn a lot of calories even without doing anything due to metabolism. Accordingly, our research center is researching various food resources and related products.”

“Lulu and I are very interested in food and gourmet food. That’s why we visited.”

“Then, rather than touring the facilities, how about trying our lab’s products one by one? There is a related course, so if you want, I will guide you there.”

I was able to eat ingredients that were just as amazing here as the various ingredients and dishes I ate in the city. If you take a few, Eden will be delighted and there are also edible items, so he will be eager for related information or seeds.

For example, a special kind of seaweed, a kind of seaweed with an elongated, oval-shaped fruit the size of a palm, was being cultivated in the water. I thought it was an organ for floating in water like water hyacinth, but it was a real fruit. They collected it and showed it to us and recommended us to taste it.

“It’s one of the most popular ingredients in our lab. Just peel it and eat it right away.”

“Hmm? This is…”

The shell feels slightly hard, but not that hard. Even if you accidentally drop it, it won’t break, but it doesn’t mean you can’t break it if you apply some force.

Then, break it slightly and take out the kernels. And the fishy flesh of fresh seafood appeared.

It smells familiar, so I just shake off the shell and eat it. Then, even though it was raw, I could feel the unique sweet taste of crab meat and its chewy texture.

“Oh!!!!”

“It seems you like it. To be honest, there is little to eat of crustaceans compared to the hard work it takes. That’s why we created this crop. What if the fruit it produces tastes as hard and chewy as crustacean flesh, or claw meat?”

“Wow, this is amazing. This is really delicious.”

Crab meat that can be slightly crushed and eaten. How convenient would that be? Even the taste is as good as the highest quality king crab.

In addition to this, there were many other products of biotechnology. In addition to the meat beads we tried, there were many others, including beads that were similar but tasted like fish.

On the other hand, there was something that came to mind, something like convergent evolution, and it was a crop that made alcohol through simple photosynthesis. It’s something like the apricot cactus that Keter improved and cultivated in our country in the United States.

Oh, just in case, the quality is lower here as expected. Does this mean that no matter how advanced technology is, it is no longer capable of becoming a transcendent or transcendent species? I tasted some alcohol, but it wasn’t as tasty as I thought.

“It’s a drink that still has room for improvement, but it’s still a popular drink in its current state. What do you think?”

“Yeah, well. It’s delicious.”

“It’s worth drinking.”

“Ah, it looks like neither of you like alcohol that much. In that case, let me introduce you to another product.”

No, we both like to drink. That’s because I know it’s tastier than this.

At the very least, if it were a drink that was unique to this region, I would have enjoyed it as if it were a local drink. But it’s similar to Cheonhyang cactus liquor, so I just ignore it.

Anyway, I toured the production district for a while under the guidance of Director Daver. However, I think I need to get ready to go somewhere else, so I decided to skip it.

“I’ve been very indebted to you so far, Director Daver. It’s nice to look around the production district, but I think I need to look at other places as well.”

“Ah, was I not good enough? Or perhaps a place like an artificial zoo? It is a barbaric place where animals made with only ferocious nature are made to fight…”

“No, I’m going to tour the human earth.”

“Oh, then there is nothing we can do about it. No, is it rather a preliminary investigation? Whatever it means, it is welcome. And the human facility is also a good place to supply our crops, so don’t worry and take a look around.”

“Yes, I understand.”

Even if you try to stop them by saying they are looking at something else, they actually push you because they say they are looking at the human earth. When I settle down, people seem to fall for the idea that I’ll look around because it’s a good place for me to live.

So, I’m going to take a look around Human Earth. However, when I tried to look around there in earnest, the ominous feeling started to get a little stronger.

“It seems like there’s something.”

“Of course. You’ve only seen the good things so far, right? It’s about time the bad things started coming out.”

In this world, humans are a minority and the weak. Of course, even if this were the case, it cannot be said to be completely good. It’s not for nothing that people say to beware of underdogma.

However, as they are a minority and weak, they may be well aware of the absurdity of society.

The time has come to face the darkness of this world.