### Volume 1 Chapter 11: Reverse Feathering
When the cherry blossoms fell on the new cochlea at a speed of five centimeters per second, the summer cicada was using tweezers to pick up the cicada wing stem cells from the culture dish. Jiang Zhixi's white shirt brushed the curtain of the biological laboratory, and the barcode exposed on the cuffs was exactly the same as the number at Su Yuwei's collarbone.
"The transfer student Jiang Ye, student number 114514." He bent down to pick up the strawberry hair rope that had slipped from her hand, and the silver cochlea shell reflected the DNA chain lines. "Do you need help? This one always takes Pipette as a hairpin..."
Xia Chan's scalpel was against his throat knot, and the knife surface reflected the iris of the two people's overlapping iris - his right eye was now showing exactly the same amber wheel spot as hers.
"Your mitochondria dance in my 16th pair of chromosomes." Jiang Zhixi held her wrist and pressed it against his carotid artery, and the pulse vibration frequency was synchronized with the stem cells in the culture dish. "Do you want to listen to it?" He suddenly stuffed her fingertips into the cochlea.
At the moment when the roar entered his mind, Xia Cicada saw the images of the laboratory seventeen years ago. Jiang's father, who was wearing protective clothing, was injecting cicada pupa mucus into the embryo culture medium, and the same cherry snow as today was floating outside the window.
"He made me into a chimera in those years." Jiang Zhixi said in a lip language, and the throat knot rolled out the Morse code under the blade, "Su Yuwei is a failure, and I am the real seventeen-year-old cicada."
The alarm sounded at twilight, and indigo flames rose in the direction of the school history museum. Xia Cicada's genetic detector suddenly received the signal, and the base pairs on the display were arranged in the rhythm of the third movement of Moonlight. When she rushed through the burning hundred-year-old cherry tree, Jiang Ye - or the newborn Jiang Zhixi - was smashing the air window of the specimen room with a fire extinguisher.
"Don't touch that!" Xia Cicada threw out the stethoscope tube wrapped around her wrist and rolled up the first draft of Cicada and the Boy, which was about to fall into the fire. The flame bit out the burn marks on the canvas, which just made up for the mother's unfinished teenager's ear.
Eno tore off his shirt in the thick smoke, revealing the electronic tattoo on his heart - a life clock that is counting down for 17 days. He dipped in fire extinguishing foam and wrote on the glass: "Kill me with your mitochondria before the cherry blossoms fall."
That night, Xia Chan found an amazing fact in the autopsy room: Jiang Ye's tooth genes actually shared a 99% similarity with her. The monitoring records of the embryos in the freezer show that Jiang Zhixi mixed his mitochondria into her burn tissue sample before drowning.
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