super actress

Chapter 125

"Telomeres are too short, what do you mean?"

While Malloy was still feeling a little dazed, Rhea screamed: "No!"

Rhea's voice suddenly became sharp, and she almost shouted: "Impossible, don't try to lie to me! I have done many DNA tests, and none of them found this problem."

But that may be because she only did the blood identification project, and the hospital is not obliged to provide other information, but——

Beast Hank looked at her, looked down at the report, and asked, "Rhea, when did you do those previous projects. This year, you're 19 years old.,"

"Then what happened?"

"Generally speaking, 18 years old is the age of legal adulthood, but in fact, women really complete ossification and development at the age of 19~23." Hanke tried to express clearly, and he added carefully: "And aging begins after maturity ..."

Rhea's expression was tense, and she stared at him coldly.

Malloy also realized that there was something wrong with Rhea's body, and he immediately asked: "What do you mean, please explain clearly!"

"The length of telomeres can provide some indication of the lifespan of cells, so the scientific community believes that this is interrelated with human aging, and even affects the chance of cancer—

If the telomere length is abnormal, it largely indicates that there is something wrong with the individual's DNA. "

Everyone's eyes fell on Rhea, some looked thoughtful, some were full of worry, Rhea just said: "Check again, maybe something went wrong."

Hank subconsciously wanted to refute that there was absolutely nothing wrong with his instrument.But Professor X interrupted him seriously: "Hank, check again."

The big blue man nodded hesitantly: "Oh, okay."

This time it didn't take long, but Rhea was suffering more than ever before. There were countless conjectures in her mind, any of which made her feel terrible.

Then she thought of something, a shock.

Rhea looked straight at Professor X. Her eyes had never shown such straightforward resistance. She even said directly: "Charles, I'm in a mess right now, don't read my mind!"

Professor X was startled, and then sighed helplessly: "I didn't. Since I promised you, I won't offend you without saying hello..."

Conscious communication is not included, Professor X avoids other things in Rhea's mind-

His voice was so gentle, but Rhea couldn't finish listening to him at all.She couldn't even sit still, stood up and walked back and forth in the X Academy's lab

move around.

For a while, Malloy didn't even speak, and only the sound of the machine running and Rhea's footsteps could be heard in the entire laboratory.Because of her anxiety, the sound of the soles rubbing against the ground gradually overwhelmed the mechanical sound.

"Drip."

Another copy of Rhea Noren's blood DNA test results was printed.

Seeing the paper document being picked up by Hank, Rhea's breath choked.There were countless thoughts in her mind, but when she really had to face the result, Rhea felt unspeakable panic.

Even when she was pointed at by Alison Jolier, Rhea was not so frightened.

She is afraid of getting results that she does not want.

If she's just a DNA-unstable, cloned shell—

Which one is more terrifying, death or meaningless life, Rhea already has the answer in her heart.

Malloy asked first, and he became more worried when he saw Rhea's changes with his own eyes, "How about Rhea's chromosomes? Is it still the same result?"

Hank nodded slowly, and the golden animal pupils shrank for a moment.

Seeing the uneasiness in Rhea's eyes, he proposed out of kindness: "Should I draw another tube of blood, maybe, I mean maybe only some of the blood samples are abnormal..."

"Or let's change places and fly to the best hospital in New York for an examination." Malloy cut the conversation.

Rhea was silent for a while, until she opened her mouth and found that her voice was extremely dry, "No need." She swallowed her saliva and moistened her throat, resisting the powerlessness surging from her heart.

"I've been guessing, what is there in me that deserves those people's attention." Rhea said slowly: "Why did Andre Witte leave the huge Witte company and come to Hollywood to be my manager..."

Although there are still many doubts lingering in Rhea's mind, the big blow of this DNA test finally gave her some ideas.

Now she is finally close to the truth, but Rhea is not sure at all whether this answer is what she wants.What if the truth was something she simply couldn't bear, and she wasn't willing to bear it?

"Andre Waite?" Scott interjected at the name.

"Is that the Werther of Werther Company? The Werther of Adrian Werther, the 'Pharaoh' who stopped the Third World War? It seems that I heard that he has a son..." Scott seemed to be very researched on this , said some more words.

"Andrei is not the son of the pharaoh, he is the young gene cloned by the pharaoh." Rhea said it outright: "I guess it is this

Kind of like that, but he's not exactly a pharaoh—"

At this point, there is no need to hide this kind of thing.

Rhea explained: "I didn't know why he approached me, so I suspected at one point that I had something else to do with him, so I did some research."

Scott turned his head: "So you?"

"No! I'm not related to Andre Witt!" Rhea retorted quickly, blocking other people's questions: "I've already done the identification."

Scott curled his lips: "How do you know if there is something wrong with your inspection?"

Rhea's stare was enough to burn through his specially made sunglasses. At this time, Hank helped to say: "No, under normal circumstances, even with age, the distribution of DNA tends to be stable in the distribution of genetic traits." .

Moreover, the cloning relationship will lead to a closer genetic similarity. Rhea has done an identification and said it is not, so it should not be. "

But there was a hole in Hank's words.

In other words, even if the paternity test proves that Rhea and Andre Witte are not related, they cannot guarantee 100% that there is no relationship at all.

Because this is a magical world where genes can mutate at any time.

Rhea doesn't even know if she can trust her genes!

After all, now Hank told her that she had a problem with her chromosomes too!

Rhea cursed.

Everyone in the laboratory cast attention on her. Professor X frowned. He tried to calm Rhea's emotions: "Calm down, Rhea, no matter what happens, we will help you."

Especially now that Malloy's mood swings are completely centered on Rhea.His career, his life, everything about him was tied to this girl.

Even if it is for a greater future, Professor X will not ignore Rhea.

Of course, Professor X's saviorism does not allow him to stand idly by with an ordinary poor ordinary girl.

"I can't calm down." Rhea was annoyed. "What would you think if someone told you that you're just a clone? Let's all be honest, it's a hundred times worse than being a mutant!"

She was so annoyed that she wanted to smash Andre Werther's face.He has been playing tricks on her for so long, he has been reluctant to tell her the answer, and he is happy to watch her frightened and clueless investigation.

In the end, Rhea found the key to the mystery from the mutants.

Hank couldn't help but interrupt and retort: ​​"You're not right, there's no way to be sure that it's caused by cloning!"

Not only cloned genes lead to

The problem of abnormal shortening of chromosomal telomeres - it can only be said that there is a great possibility.

Hank's supplement made Malloy's frown even tighter. He couldn't understand a lot of things, but he also grasped the key point and asked Hank: "Don't worry about the reason, this will affect Rhea. How does it affect your body?"

Hank glanced at Professor X before answering: "Short telomeres mean longevity... Uh, sorry."

Hearing this, Rhea felt indifferent and smiled mockingly.

Whether she died sooner or later was less important than the impact the cloning had on her self-perception of what it meant to be born.The lifespan of a mortal is a shallow concept in the extraordinary world.

What Rhea aspires to do is to create magnificent milestones in a limited life.

A shortened lifespan will only intensify her desires.

What's more, thinking about it from another angle, this is an extraordinary world, everything is possible, and she believes that there is definitely more than one way to prolong life.

Climbing to the upper level and higher levels, she will have access to endless optimal resources.

Rhea gradually calmed down.

Malloy was extremely nervous, he clenched his molars, "What can I do? As long as you can help Rhea solve this, I will repay you as much as possible."

Now, Professor X, Scott, and Hank all looked at him, as if surprised by what he said.

Soon Professor X took over the words: "There's no need to do this. Since we decided to cooperate, we are friends. We should help each other."

Hank lowered his head and pushed his glasses. He has a huge body, and he has to be careful when doing this kind of movement.

"I need more samples, and it will take some time. If you think - this chromosomal abnormality is caused by cloning, it would be best to get maternal DNA."

Malloy looked at Rhea with concern, and they were all looking at Rhea.

Their eyes seemed to convey the same question, which was also the question in Rhea's heart.The question is—is she a clone of André Witte?Or on a deeper level, was she cloned from the Pharaoh?

Was Pharaoh her father in terms of DNA affiliation?

Or, Andre Witte was her "father"—damn it.

Thinking of this, the word "father" kept impacting on Rhea, and the words magnified infinitely in Rhea's mind, and suddenly had a temperature below zero, almost freezing Rhea's thinking.

She didn't expect to guess and find her "biological father" in this way.

So ironic!

父

Dear, father——

Under the influence of the stream of consciousness, countless thoughts about "father" emerged in Rhea's mind, including the scene of Uncle Ben rescuing her who had just been reborn, and the scene of Humbert acting on her in "Lolita". And a flashback of Jedle Essex claiming to be her "biological father"—

Essex!

A mysterious celebrity rich man who suddenly jumped in front of her eyes, a man who wanted to adopt her after the DNA test showed no parent-child relationship, and the CEO of a bio-genetic engineering company.

He said: "I am your 'father,' Rhea."

It was like a bolt of lightning flashed through Rhea's mind, illuminating the fog of her guesses.

Rhea reacted suddenly, and strode to Hank. She pushed Hank and Malloy away, stared at the test tube containing her own blood, and then looked at the "recovery agent pack 01" sent by Essex.

She had another idea.

Rhea asked Malloy: "You checked for me before, and Essex once took care of Jones Colt for a while, right!"

Malloy nodded subconsciously.

In the laboratory, Scott was still a little bit unresponsive, and Hank said in a low voice: "Jones is Rhea's biological mother." He should still be serving his sentence in a women's prison.

Professor X's focus gradually shifted from Malloy to Rhea.

Today's reversal is obviously not what he expected.

It was hard for him not to care about Rhea's secret.

"Essex came here and said he was my father!" Rhea continued to express her conjecture: "What if, I mean if, he didn't lie?"

Malloy looked anxious, but he still forced himself to keep up with Rhea's thinking rhythm. He said, "But we also did an appraisal and comparison, and it doesn't matter to you."

"What if he is not my 'blood' father, but my 'ethical' father. He doesn't have to give birth to me, he can create me!" Rhea said.