Chapter 221: El Family's Hope

Two weeks later.

Lara, once known for her tough, resolute, and daring demeanor, now gentle, cautious, delicately caressing her fair belly, her lips curved into a smile, her eyes shining with maternal love.

"Child, you will be the continuation of Krypton, the hope of the El family, our beloved child," she said softly, her eyes full of maternal love, looking at the busy Jor-El.

Jor-El, adjusting the genetic input device, looked up and saw the maternal glow emanating from his wife.

The change in a woman due to a child is truly miraculous.

In the past, Lara was fierce and strong, able to spar with Faora, but now she exuded a soft glow, smiling and occasionally thinking about the future, filled with anticipation.

But the next moment, she would feel sad for not being able to accompany the child, worrying about the child's loneliness, emotions fluctuating rapidly.

"Yes, he will be a child we can be proud of."

Jor-El walked over, his large hand resting on Lara's hand as she stroked her belly, exchanging a glance with her, smiling.

"Lara, why don't you rest for a while," Jor-El said after a moment.

Lara's face showed concern, her long black eyelashes trembling slightly, her eyes narrowing slightly. "Jor-El, please protect our child," Lara couldn't help but express her worries.

Jor-El nodded affirmatively, giving Lara some comfort, then cradled the back of her head, laying her on the biogenetic platform.

"Rest for a while, I've simulated it thousands of times with the detection device, there won't be any problems," his deep voice reassured her solemnly.

Lara nodded gently, her eyelashes trembling, closing her eyes, breathing slowly, trying to enter a natural state of sleep.

But in such moments, how could Lara, worried about the child in her belly, sleep naturally? Controllable breathing prevented her from dispelling the dangers of worry.

She really wanted to get up right away and tell Jor-El: "My child's safety is more important than Krypton's."

But she couldn't, it had already been agreed upon with Jor-El that the responsibility of being an upper-class Kryptonian and the mission to continue Krypton's ideals were constantly on their minds.

It's just that the embryo that had just been born in her belly hadn't shaken her and Jor-El's determination to continue Krypton's ideals. This was a decision they had made as a couple.

Watching Lara unable to relax into natural sleep, Jor-El activated the harmless hypnotic sleeping gas for the embryo stage fetus. The white mist of the hypnotic gas slowly sprayed out from both sides of the biogenetic device, allowing Lara's skin to absorb it, her limbs relaxing, her face peaceful as she fell into deep sleep.

Jor-El gazed softly at the sleeping Lara, his eyes seeing her fair belly where their child was being born.

This was the first natural birth on Krypton since the rejection of natural reproduction. My child, he will have infinite choices and directions, he can become whoever he wants to be, not bound by rigid genetics.

Jor-El heart was full of hope, his gaze gradually becoming firm.

In fact, Krypton had transitioned from natural reproduction to establishing genetic talents long ago, nurturing children in the biological uteri of Genesis Chambers.

Natural reproduction has too many uncontrollable factors. The fetus in the mother's body, influenced by genetic information, with almost ninety-nine percent of them being mediocre, unremarkable, average intelligence children.

Because the fetus's first requirement in the mother's body is survival, competing with the mother for nutrients to survive, everything else comes second. Only by surviving can the genetic information have the surplus energy to progress in other aspects.

Pregnancy is a brutal epic war of biological gene nutrition and growth. From the genetic level, this is a cruel war that ordinary people cannot face.

Morality, maternal love, none of it applies to the naked truth.

This is not a scene of motherly love, but a life-and-death struggle!

From the moment the fertilized egg wants to attach to the uterine wall, the mother's body activates its immune system to try to expel the foreign fertilized egg. Faced with the attack from the mother's body, the embryo secretes a hormone, chorionic gonadotropin, to suppress the rejection reaction of lymphocytes.

Lymphocytes are the soldiers that fight against external infections and monitor the body's reactions. At this time, the mother will have reactions such as vomiting, increased blood pressure, and rapid heartbeat.

From the beginning, the war between the mother and the baby has begun.

If the mother's body succeeds, if the mother's immune system overpowers the embryo, then immune miscarriage will occur, and the embryo will be expelled from the body.

Unless it is a wealthy family that can supplement the baby with a large amount of nutrients, allowing the baby to survive comfortably and have extra strength to improve and highlight other genetic information, otherwise, the majority of commoner babies are born with survival as the main condition. Being alive is their talent, and other aspects, including appearance, physical fitness, limbs, and other innate parts, are just ordinary.

This is why some pregnant women, who are clearly thin to the point of being shapeless, have fetuses inside them that are chubby.

So the rejection of natural reproduction on Krypton has this reason. There are too many unknown factors leading to the poor development of the baby's acquired talents.

In terms of the degree of controllable genetic talent, Krypton's genetic compilation can fully ensure that every baby develops healthily after birth and grows towards the designated talent, with extraordinary abilities.

Natural reproduction on Krypton is a serious crime against the safety of future generations, stifling the innate talents of offspring, and leading future generations towards unknown directions.

This is a bio-technological civilization, and the optimal choice is made to the extent of genetic compilation of talents.

Therefore, the rejection of natural reproduction on Krypton, the prevention of natural reproduction, and the sentencing of natural reproduction as a serious crime are reasonable and extremely justified.

As for the fact that in the end, certain talents are controlled by the upper class, forming a situation where the upper class is dominant and social class stratification occurs, that is a change in kryptonian nature.

Seeing his wife fall asleep, Jor-El took out the Codex and placed it above Lara's abdomen.

The Life Codex sounds full of vitality, but in fact, its shape is like the front half of a skull dug out from ancient cave dwellers, with a dark golden hue, and all the genes of Krypton originate from it.

H'el once suspected that the Codex was a corpse, suspecting that it was the god of Krypton, Rao's corpse.

It is highly likely that the people of Krypton used Rao's corpse to create the powerful Kryptonians capable of waging interstellar wars.

It may have been in the distant cosmic ancient times, they excessively used Rao's corpse to crazily create Kryptonians, so much so that today, it has been depleted to just the front half of a skull, referred to by contemporary Kryptonians as the Codex.

But the genetic information stored in the Codex is indeed a tool. Until now, H'el is not sure if it's as he speculated.

He looked down from high above, watching Jor-El carefully activate the device and transmit the genetic information of the Codex into Lara's baby inside her body.

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