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| 37- Proteena the Traveler. | |
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"Number Eight... Number Eight..." A new signal from Central Unit is detected by the Jellyriders, a signal clearly concerning Proteena. "Central Unit wants to know what happened to your unfortunate comrade. How can we communicate that I replaced him?" And suddenly she realizes that Traveler hair are growing under the helmet. "So... It's not a legend, I am shifting, like the baby dwellers!.." |
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Concerned, Zymachi approach: "We have noted that your body holds an information structure very similar to that of Jellyfish and other Machines living in the Mine. We could be able to translate it and regulate the shift that affects you, and maybe give Central Unit the answers it's looking for." |
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So Zymachi open a little slit on Proteena's side, and roll out a long string, all packed up i complex foldings, and the string passes from one nano machine to the other, and duplicates over and over. We see these replicas exit the Jellywhale and form buoys that gently vanish in the stream. |
| 38- Genome of an Alien. | |
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Back
to the lab we see the scientists retrieve the markers as they've done
before. This time the analysis is very long, Hu and Kerenskij comment
the first results. "The header attached to the marker is <eight>, then starts what seems to be a DNA..." "Of an alien creature... but you can find here and there structures, sequences similar to those found in earthling cells... it seems to describe a very complex creature, or maybe variations of the same creature... this is a pattern that often recurs in my silent dialogues... but complexity is injustified, here we have enough information to build an entire planet..." |
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Suddenly the professor holds his head with both hands, a terrible pain staggers him and he's forced to his knees. "Please... in that drawer... there's a syringe and a flask..." Hu focuses the content of the small bottle, then looks back to Kerenskij, astonished... "Yes..." he smiles, "Another bad habit I took back from Kabul..." and he lies on his camp bed, exposing the forearm. |
| 39- Proteena the Mermaid. | |
