The blue and white dragons swept over the city, and the protective barrier emitted a faint glow under the night sky, becoming one of the countless streamers of the Tallond Metropolitan with neon flashing neon. Gao Wen stood between Melita's shoulder blades and looked at the huge steel structure not far away to support a certain aerial garden, and couldn't help but ask: "Where are we going?"

Melita's low voice came from the front: "We start from the beginning of a dragon's life - a centralized hatching center."

"Hatching..." Gao Wen was stunned and felt that he had heard a noun that he had never thought of, "Hatching center?"

"You can also call it an hatch plant or a dragon egg hatch, which is more popular," Melita said casually, and at the same time it has begun to lower the height. "Did you see the facility in front of you that looks like a big pillar? That is the hatch plant in Argondore. If you stand firm, we will land."

Gao Wen subconsciously adjusted his standing posture, and his eyes fell involuntarily in front of him. He had already seen the huge "factory" - it was indeed like an extremely huge pillar, surrounded by countless auxiliary facilities and a large number of pipes like gas tanks, supporting beams surrounded by a cylindrical body, and lights extended from half of its waist, outlining more than a dozen light strips for guiding landing in the air.

Gao Wen also saw a circle of landing platforms on the waist of the huge facility. Many platforms have dragons taking off and landing. The occupied platform is surrounded by red lights, and the vacant platform is marked by a striking white halo, which is very conspicuous - Melita and Norreta, who are flying not far away, are moving closer to one of the vacant platforms.

But just as Melita was about to lower its height, a gust of wind suddenly came from another direction, and then a black dragon flew from the night sky like lightning, rushing towards the platform that Melita had just selected. A roar and anxious roar came from the night sky: "I'm very sorry! The dragon egg I claimed broke its shell in advance!"

"Snatch you x... I wish your cubs a safe place!" Melita, who was robbed of the position, was about to curse, but after hearing the roar from the other party, she changed her mouth. Then she flapped her wings suddenly, and while adjusting the direction and finding the position again, she said to Gao Wen a little embarrassedly, "Sorry, I have let you see the less civilized side... Please understand that it is not easy to obtain an incubation license over the years, it is just an anxious father."

Gao Wen: "…"

He seemed to be numb to everything unexpected in Tallond now, and he was too lazy to complain.

After these small twists and turns, Melita and Noreta finally found the idle landing platform. The two dragons landed smoothly on two adjacent platforms. Before they landed, the lights around the platform had turned red, and after they landed, the entire platform was covered with a layer of translucent barrier. Until Gao Wen and Amber, Veronica jumped off the backs of Melita and Noreta, and the two dragon ladies also turned into human form and left the platform area, the platform's "temporary control" system switched back to idle state - and all this seemed to be running automatically.

This should be considered Tarlond's unique "traffic control system", which is eye-opening.

In front of a gate leading to the inside of the hatching factory, Noreta, in a white dress, came to Gaowen and Melita with Amber and Veronica. Then Amber subconsciously raised her head and looked up at the gate that was much more magnificent than the city gate with a stunning look: "Wow..."

Veronica looked at the deep and long corridor behind the door, looking at the cold steel, the flashing lights, and the lifeless polymer windows and conduits. After a long time, she said softly to herself: "I never thought... the dragon was born in such a place... I thought that even if it was not a nest in the hot spring, it should be at least next to her parents..."

"It was like that a long time ago," Noreta, who turned into a human form, whispered, "it was really a long time ago..."

"I have obtained the permission to pass. Omega will open the gate on the route. You can just follow me in," Melita looked at Gao Wen and others. "Don't touch things you don't know after entering. There are no other requirements - the dragon eggs are strictly protected, and normal visiting behavior will not affect the hatching."

Gao Wen and others nodded, then stepped through the wide gate under the leadership of Melita and Noreta and entered the interior of the hatching factory.

What Gao Wen saw later was exactly in line with the description of this facility - a factory, a factory for hatching dragon eggs.

They entered the factory from a connecting bridge hanging high in mid-air. One end of the connecting bridge was fixed to the outer wall of the factory - it was an unknown metal shell, covered with flowing lights and busy machinery running around - the other end led to a "stand pipe" at the core of the factory. After entering the vertical pipe, Melita began to introduce various facilities along the way to Gao Wen. Not long after, Gao Wen saw the dragon eggs that were incubated -

They are placed separately in large transparent "greenhouses". The greenhouse looks like a slightly twisted and deformed ellipsoidal pressure chamber. The dragon egg is located on the soft tray in the cabin. It is about one meter in diameter and has a light yellow shell and black or brown spots. Bright lights illuminate them from multiple directions. There are mechanical probes with unknown uses occasionally falling down to illuminate and inspect the surface of the dragon egg. The entire "greenhouse" is placed on a round metal platform, and the lights at the base of the platform are flickered and connected to each other by pipes...

Hundreds and thousands of hatching devices were arranged neatly on both sides of some circular corridors. Many pipelines hang down from a high altitude, connecting the "integrated ports" behind the hatching device, which seemed to be used to supply energy, or may just collect data. Gao Wen raised his head and tried to find the place where the pipes gathered or originated, but he only saw a vague darkness - the dome of the hatching factory was extremely high and the ceiling was dim. The pipes eventually gathered in the depths of the darkness, as if there was a dark abyss at the altitude, all of which swallowed all their gazes.

He withdrew his gaze and looked at the neatly arranged hatching devices like production lines. A dragon egg was lying quietly in the hatching cabin nearest him, receiving careful care from the machine, growing strictly according to the schedule.

Amber also came to the incubation device. She looked at the scene in front of her, and it became very rare to quiet. She never laughed or was surprised.

"This is how the new dragon clan was born," Veronica said softly, "How to develop in order to embark on this path..."

"There are many reasons why Tallond is what he looks like today, and the emergence of an incubator factory is only a trivial link, and... the incubator factory is just an ancient technology for us." Melita shook her head and said slowly.

Noreta, who was standing by, took over the topic: "You should have heard of a saying - the more powerful a creature is, the more difficult it is to reproduce. This is the 'balance' imposed by the laws of nature on sentient beings. As the most powerful individual among ordinary species, the difficulty of reproduction is even more difficult to reach the limit..."

"There is indeed such a statement," Gao Wen nodded, "and not only bards and playwrights say so, but experts and scholars think so--though they can't study the dragon samples, most creatures in nature follow this rule."

"Yes, this rule is correct, at least in our dragon clan. The dragon clan has poor reproduction ability, long fertility cycles and difficult hatching - but this is limited to natural conditions," Melita's mouth curled up, "So, we had an incubation factory technology and a huge supporting industry a long time ago. We used biochemical technology to collect and catalyze the 'green eggs', used biomass parent factories to mass produce blank dragon eggs, used genetic engineering to edit parents' genetic factors, or single parents' genetic factors, and used factories to batch incubate... These technologies are very effective.

“Technology can change a lot.

"The dragon tribe has difficulty reproduction and is rare in number? This is just another misunderstanding. In fact, we began to actively control the number of our tribes many thousand years ago. Otherwise... how could a Tallond accommodate a large number of tribesmen?"

Melita said slowly, and Gao Wen was gradually stunned.

These finally exceeded his imagination.

The mysterious, ancient image of the "Dragon Race" at the top of the magic and fantasy world has collapsed several times in one day today, and now it has finally collapsed and collapsed into a cold wreckage.

But he suspected that these wreckages were far from the limit of disintegration, and they would continue to collapse until it fully sees the real "Tallond" and the "cradle of eternity" under the protection of the gods.

And beside him, Melita continued to explain:

“Deeper under our feet are the sorting center and pretreatment center of the hatch plant – the dragon eggs transported from the ‘maternal factory’ are sorted and eliminated. The defective eggs will be destroyed, and only healthy and potential dragon eggs will be sent to the life stagnant workshop where they will temporarily stop developing until a dragon with a hatching license comes here and claims one of them…

"The person who adopts the dragon egg may be a pair of parents, or a separate father or mother. He or she or they have to apply and prepare in advance. In addition to a lot of forms and a long review cycle, the claimant must submit a copy of his or her own genetic factor, which will be injected into the blank dragon egg to synthesize embryos and become his or her or their real "child". The embryos that have been synthesized will be sent here... to this hatching workshop.

"The machine will take care of these little guys who are still in the shell. The hatching bag is as safe and warm as a nest carefully cast by dragon parents in ancient times. Most of the matters here are the machines, and the general controller is Omega, so we only see a few "staff" along the way - those "staff"'s main tasks are to monitor the status of the machine and to receive the "new parents" who claim the dragon eggs.

"This is a boring and not very technically employed job, but it is one of the few real jobs in Tallond. If you can get a position in the incubation factory, it will be equivalent to entering the 'upper Tallond'."

Gao Wen listened quietly to Melita's explanations, and at this moment, a nearby incubator suddenly buzzed, and a light flashed.

Many detectors cruising nearby immediately moved closer, and some robots moving along the slide rails came to the corresponding hatching device. Gao Wen was about to ask what was going on, but Melita had already walked towards the other side and took the initiative to explain: "Come here! Hatch it! We happened to catch a little guy hatching!"

When Gao Wen heard this, his feet immediately accelerated his pace. He, Amber, Veronica quickly came to the incubation device that made sounds and flashes. Almost as they arrived, the dragon egg lying quietly in the polymer "greenhouse" also began to shake slightly.

While Gao Wen and others were gazeing without blinking, they saw a crack suddenly crack on the surface of the dragon egg, and then the crack quickly expanded, and the broken eggshell fell off. The young dragon was stronger than Gao Wen imagined. The whole process of breaking out of the shell didn't take long. In just a few seconds, the seemingly strong eggshells completely broke, and a gray, unpretentious "little" guy staggered out of it.

It was a young dragon with no scales on it, no specific species, no way to tell the gender. With Gao Wen's eyes, he even thought the cub was a little...ugly, like a huge and hairless turkey. However, in the eyes of the dragon clan, the cub was probably quite cute - because Melita and Noreta next to him were obviously lit with light eyes, and were looking at the hatched dragon with a happy smile.

Amber finally became surprised again. She said "wow" and then just wanted to ask something, but suddenly there was another movement in the "hatching bag": many small robots penetrated into the cabin from above and below, and grabbed the hatched young dragon with extremely sensitive and rapid methods. The latter just wanted to struggle and lost movement, as if he was quickly anesthetized by something.

Then Gao Wen saw the robots starting to move quickly. They seemed to have opened a small opening at the connection of the spine behind the juvenile brain. Then they implanted something that emitted a glimmer of light, the size of a human fingertip. Then several other robots moved forward and injected some things into the juvenile dragon - perhaps the "elasticizer" that Melita often mentioned. After the injection, other devices entered the cabin, collected the juvenile dragon's skin fragments and blood samples, and performed a quick scan...

All of this is dazzling.

All of this was over before Gao Wen could react, and he blinked, and then heard a mechanically synthesized sound broadcast-he could not understand the content of the broadcast, but soon he heard Melita whispering beside him.

She was whispering the radio from the factory:

"The 1335 young dragon, healthy, average intellectual potential, expected to adapt to implants: x, s, en and general implants. There are no positions available for distribution. It is recommended - ordinary citizens in the Lower Town."

Those robots and probe heads retreated.

The young dragon in the hatched bag woke up.

He/she opened his eyes curiously, as if observing the world in surprise. He/she worked hard with his wings and tender limbs, and staggered up. Then he/she finally found several figures standing outside.
Chapter completed!