Chapter 687
Chapter 687: Chapter 41: A Family of Three?
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Yu Xi couldn’t help but laugh, lowering her head to remove the cotton swab, looking at the wound on her arm that was nearly healed:
“Do you think we look alike?
I don’t think we resemble each other at all.”
“I don’t think so either.”
Lin Xian also removed his cotton swab and found that his injection site was still bleeding, and pressed the cotton swab back again:
“So isn’t that why we’re here, to find an answer?”
“I also know my thoughts are absurd, pathetic, as if I really want to be happy about being a father.
But…
isn’t this world absurd enough?”
“In this world there are Space-Time Travelers, Space-Time Particles, and the Space-time Law that can be used against innocents of the present, plus the Genius Club hidden deep within the river of history, and digital life forms that are more advanced and indistinguishable from humans compared to Artificial Intelligence…
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These absurdities are already too numerous; in comparison, a DNA paternity test between people from the future and the present seems all too normal.”
“Alright.”
Yu Xi tossed the barely bloodstained cotton swab into the trash bin, put on her sleeve, and turned to look at Lin Xian:
“Then if you’re so confident, you could be my father or ancestor…
who is my mother?
Do you have a girlfriend?”
“Why do so many people like to ask such obvious questions.”
Lin Xian felt like he was being mocked:
“No.”
“Then do you have any female friends you’re particularly close to?
Or say…
someone you suspect might be my mother?” Yu Xi continued to inquire.
This time.
Lin Xian fell silent.
Someone in mind?
Of course, there was.
If we really want to get down to it, the person who should be doing the DNA paternity test with Yu Xi would actually be Huang Que.
She was the prime suspect.
Lin Xian was merely an “extra,” just there to fill the quota; finding a mother was easy, whomever you were born from, that would surely be your mother…
But finding a father, that was difficult.
Although Lin Xian guessed, on some timeline, he was supposed to be married to Huang Que.
But that, after all, was just speculation…
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What if he was the clown?
It was very possible that Yu Xi was the child of Huang Que, Huang Que was Yu Xi’s mother, and they had nothing to do with him at all; this was a possibility.
Suddenly, Lin Xian thought of something.
He looked at Brother Wang’s wife, who had just finished tidying up and came over, and asked:
“Sister-in-law, I’d like to consult you on something.
Would things like genetic mutations or gene editing affect the accuracy of a DNA paternity test?”
Inside the drawing room, Sister-in-law, wearing a mask, smiled with her eyes:
“No, it won’t, Lin Xian, you’re really thinking too much.”
“But DNA testing isn’t testing just a segment of genes or a few gene combinations.
It’s about examining a wide range and large area for overlaps.
Gene editing technology is still immature…
but remember a few years ago, the head of a private hospital was sentenced for editing the genes of newborn babies, right?”
“So you can be at ease, the technology for gene editing didn’t exist when the young girl was born over a decade ago.
And even if it did, from the perspective of a comprehensive genetic comparison, it wouldn’t affect the paternity test results at all…
because when you edit genes, you would only be editing certain benign genes, removing the inferior and diseased genes.”
“However, the genetic information is enormously vast and complex.
The bit of genes you edit is just a drop in the ocean, insignificant in comparison.
So you don’t need to worry that this will affect the outcome of the gene test…
As for genetic mutations, you don’t even have to worry about that.
Variations and mutations are very common phenomena in the natural world of biology and won’t affect the gene test results either.”
“Alright, you two can go and wait after the blood draw; I rushed it for you, but according to hospital regulations, there are still many procedures to follow; and for the accuracy of the results, multiple verifications and lots of signatures are needed…
therefore, the earliest you could come back for the results would be after two hours.”
“I suggest you go have a meal first, it’s almost mealtime anyway, the lab won’t close in the evening, and after two hours, you can just go to the front desk to collect the results.”
Lin Xian nodded.
Removed the cotton swab from the pressing injury, saw his needle site had stopped bleeding too, then threw it away, put on his clothes, and stood up:
“Thanks, sister-in-law, we’re heading out then.”
…
Pushing open the door to the blood draw room, Lin Xian and Yu Xi, who was wearing large sunglasses, walked out.
“How did it go?”
Seeing the two emerge, Brother Wang jumped up from the waiting chair, anxiously asking.
“No results that fast.”
Lin Xian waited for Yu Xi to come out from the room, then closed the door:
“We have to wait at least two more hours, they said there are lots of processes to go through.”
He looked up.
Only then did he notice…
Zhao Yingjun had actually also stood up with Brother Wang!
And in that instant earlier, her eyes seemed to show some concern.
He couldn’t help but think of Huang Que again.
Without a doubt, Huang Que and Zhao Yingjun were the same person, only they were not in the same timeline, the same world line.
Huang Que was once Zhao Yingjun, but Zhao Yingjun’s future may not be Huang Que.
It depended on how her life would develop and which future she would walk towards.
But no matter which future she would end up with, her DNA would not change and would certainly be consistent with Huang Que’s.
So…
He looked at Zhao Yingjun, their eyes met.
If he could get Zhao Yingjun and Yu Xi to do a DNA paternity test, that would certainly be the most foolproof, much more so than doing it with himself.
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