The reason why many evolvers are unknown and not well-known is not because they are not strong in ability, but some of them have weak abilities and lack of practice, and more are just bad luck and die on the way.
For example, in a group of culture chambers that Luo Yuan paid special attention to, Luo Yuan transplanted a special gene into the embryos inside. This gene came from an evolver who unfortunately died during the Great Purge. If he could survive, Now, even if his strength has not improved, he is still a super evolver.
According to records in the archives, this evolver is as powerful as Hercules. He can lift a heavy tank weighing 40 to 50 tons and launch attacks. He can also easily jump hundreds of meters high. .
If the files are not exaggerated, this kind of strength is simply unbelievable. Even Luo Yuan's seventeen-point strength can only lift more than one ton. A small and medium-sized mammal like a human can lift two to three hundred times. Among living things, only some insects can lift their own weight.
There is no record of how he died in the end, but from the few words in the files, it is estimated that the military also paid a heavy price.
However, although a person died, his body was preserved.
The structure of his body is the same as that of ordinary people. Although his muscles are dense, compact and extremely strong, they are no more muscular than ordinary people on the outside. What is special about his body is the cells, to be precise, the mitochondria inside the cells.
Luo Yuan discovered that his mitochondria had completely broken away from the category of conventional organisms. Not only were their internal structures complex, they also contained several enzymes with mysterious functions, allowing him to perform certain cold fusion reactions.
When water molecules enter the mitochondria of his cells, they are broken down into ions, and a small portion of H atoms are fused into elements such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur. These elements and the remaining oxygen and hydrogen are converted into various amino acids needed by the body. The energy produced by fusion supplies the daily needs of the human body.
Although this fusion reaction is very slow, each mitochondria only has one or two hydrogen atoms per second before it is converted into elements such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur. Even if there are 50 trillion cells in the human body, only a few hydrogen atoms will be fused. About one ten thousandth of a gram.
However, fusion is fusion, and the energy produced by the biochemical reactions of conventional organisms is far beyond comparison. Moreover, this cold fusion is deeper and more efficient than the fusion of hydrogen bomb explosions. The energy produced by just one ten thousandth of a gram of hydrogen element is completely It is equivalent to the combustion value of several tons of standard coal, which is equivalent to seven or eight thousand times the energy required by ordinary people, and is also twenty or thirty times that of Luo Yuan.
At the same time, the existence of this kind of mitochondria also means that his demand for food has been reduced to the limit. He only needs to add some water and regular elements to meet his survival needs, and he no longer needs to breathe at all.
This is a natural space creature. When Luo Yuan saw this kind of cell for the first time, he felt like he was struck by surprise. Once such mitochondria appear in his body, his strength will increase geometrically, even if he has only light power. and physical strength are enough to increase dozens of times.
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At this time, Professor Guan ran over at a trot, followed by several experimental assistants.
"Minister Luo, there is bad news. All egg cells from group A1 to group A10000 have died." He ran to Luo Yuan and said in a panic. He knew that these were the nutrition cabins that Luo Yuan valued, but he didn't expect that there were no One survives.
"What's going on? These embryos haven't started to divide yet. How could this happen?" Luo Yuan said in a deep voice. This is something that has never happened before. Generally speaking, as long as there are still active embryos, there will be no complete In the case of being unable to divide, in previous experiments, no matter how the genes were changed, the first division could always proceed normally, and the death of the embryo often occurred at the stage of life when it was about to take shape.
He did not suspect that the experimental assistants had made a collective mistake, because the possibility was so low that it could almost be ignored.
After all, batches of laboratory cloning have been done more than once or twice. Nowadays, laboratory cloning technology has become very mature. The various steps of cloning have been specially compiled into a manual. The step-by-step operation is exactly the same as an assembly line. Even ordinary workers can go through it. Training and skillful operation are required, not to mention that the people doing the work here are highly educated and experienced experimental assistants.
"According to the operation records, the transplanted egg cells are active, the nutrient solution content is normal, and various hormones are added as required, but they are still unable to divide." Professor Guan said as he walked.
"What do you think?" Luo Yuan asked.
"Excluding any other possibility, I suspect that there is a problem with the chromosome itself, which is the reason for the delay in dividing." Professor Guan glanced at Luo Yuan and hesitated.
The genes of all the embryos here have been edited by Luo Yuan himself. Since there is no problem with the operation, there is naturally a problem with the editing.
Although with the help of Luo Yuan's large-scale genetic engineering, the understanding of genes in the reconstruction area has improved by leaps and bounds, the methods of genetic modification are still at the same place without any progress. It is like entering a treasure mountain, but there are no digging tools for them to observe, and He knows how to modify, but he is completely unable to directly edit genes like Luo Yuan.
Luo Yuan didn't care about Professor Guan's blunt words. He paused, thought for a moment, and then continued to move forward: "Let's take a look first and then talk."
Each group has ten culture chambers. From group A1 to group A10,000, all died, which means that the genetic modification of a hundred thousand embryos has failed.
Egg cells are the largest cells in the human body. This egg cell is enucleated and then transplanted with recipient cells, which is the most common method of cloning.
However, even the largest cell in the human body is only 0.1 millimeter, which is the thickness of a hair. It is suspended in the nutrient solution and cannot be seen by ordinary people without the help of instruments. Luo Yuan is not included in this list.
He took a closer look and saw that the cells were damaged and shriveled, and the cell fluid inside had flowed out in large quantities. It was obviously dead. As for the rest, there was no need to look at it.
Because he already felt that all the embryos in this area were completely dead.
Every cell here bears the imprint of Luo Yuan's own will, and is vaguely connected to him. Even if it is separated from the body, it still seems to be a part of the body, as if there is no separation at all. At this time, all connections in this area have disappeared. .
"Except for the problem here, is the other embryonic development going well?" Luo Yuan was not in a hurry to use his will to explore, and turned to Professor Guan and asked.
"There are no problems. The fastest growing one has already begun its tenth round of division, and the slowest one has also undergone its first round of division."
Luo Yuan already had some vague guesses in his mind.
From the A1 group to the A10000 group culture chamber, some embryos had one ability gene edited, some had two or three types, and the A10000 group, which had the most, had twelve kinds of genes edited. However, no matter how many genes were transplanted, there were still no genes in this region. One thing they have in common is that they all edited Xu Zhiqiang's ability genes.
Xu Zhiqiang is the life closest to the fourth dimension, and his genes naturally contain the secrets of the fourth dimension. It can be seen from the numbering sequence starting with A that Luo Yuan attaches great importance to this gene.
Unfortunately, the secrets of the fourth dimension are not so easy to detect. Xu Zhiqiang's genes do not seem to be fundamentally different from ordinary evolvers, and the editing is quite smooth, but the result is completely different.
All the embryos whose embryos had been edited with Xu Zhiqiang's genes died one by one and were completely unable to divide. Luo Yuan vaguely guessed that he might have missed something during gene editing.
"Fourth dimension!"
A sudden thought occurred in his mind. Could it be that a section of Xu Zhiqiang's genes was not in this space and could not be observed in three dimensions.
The more he thought about it, the more likely it became that the genes of a four-dimensional life could not be the same as those of a three-dimensional life. This was an all-round dimensionality increase. Even though Xu Zhiqiang was not a real four-dimensional life, but just like him, it was only partially four-dimensional. In terms of genes, It should also perform.
Thinking of this, Luo Yuan said to Professor Guan: "Clean up all these dead embryos, and then ask someone to clone the cells labeled S36778 individually. Just make one hundred clones, and send another sample to me. office."
The number S36778 is Xu Zhiqiang’s gene. He wanted to see if this kind of cell could be cloned.
"Okay!" Professor Guan said quickly.
After speaking, Luo Yuan hurried to the office, closed the door, untied his ties, turned on the four-dimensional transformation, and then used his will to look inside.
The four-dimensional inner vision of the will gave him a bird's-eye view. Luo Yuan found that dark energy abounded in the four-dimensional perspective. The whole world seemed to be floating in this ocean of energy, even in his body. Dark energy is flowing slowly.
These energies seem to be illusory. They may easily pass through the body without leaving any trace.
Luo Yuan's will gently stirred, and the energy flew with it. It seemed to be controlled by will, but Luo Yuan didn't know how to use it. He fluctuated for a few times and stopped trying.
He could feel that these energies seemed quiet and harmless, like gentle flowing water, but they gave him a faint feeling of palpitations. If he continued to experiment indiscriminately, God knows what kind of catastrophic consequences would occur, not to mention that they were still being tested in the body. .
He turned his attention away from these dark energies and quickly selected a somatic cell.
The next moment, the cell expanded in his eyes, and then his mind broke through the nucleus and entered the chromosomes.
Regarding the several chromosomes where the brain's genes are distributed, Luo Yuan searched for them one by one. However, after searching all the chromosomes one by one, he could not see any trace of the four-dimensionalization of his own genes.
Luo Yuan frowned slightly, wondering: "Could it be that I guessed wrongly?"
He was puzzled, and now he was looking at Xu Zhiqiang's cells, hoping that he was wrong.
Luo Yuan was not asked to wait long before Xu Zhiqiang's cell sample was delivered. When the assistant left the office with a look of awe, he gently closed the door, then he opened the cover slip and immediately explored it.
However, in Xu Zhiqiang's cells, in a pair of chromosomes that have confirmed the source of his ability, he quickly found traces of four-dimensionalization. This is a structure in which a four-dimensional genome and a three-dimensional gene are connected to form a Klein bottle. From a three-dimensional perspective, Look, you can't see the four-dimensional genome at all, but from a four-dimensional perspective, they are a whole. Once the four-dimensional genes are removed, the entire genome cannot be expressed.
Luo Yuan exited the will state. The two different results made him a little confused. There was nothing wrong with Xu Zhiqiang's genes. As he had guessed, it was in line with the characteristics of a four-dimensional creature. The problem was with his genes.
Could it be that I only have brain cells, and a genetic mutation has occurred, and other parts have not yet had a chance to show up and have a chain reaction? In other words, his genes did not ascend to the fourth dimension at all, and only some brain cells entered the fourth dimension by chance. "
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On the fourth day, another piece of bad news came. Xu Zhiqiang's cell cloning failed and all the embryos died naturally.