When Luo Yuan returned to the laboratory, he called Huang Jiahui and explained the reason. During the next period, he would stay in the laboratory every day for food and accommodation.
Time passed day by day, and bad news came every day. Either the embryos were malformed or died. The first problems occurred in embryos that had been transplanted with more than ten ability genes.
Perhaps too many abilities were transplanted, completely overloading the DNA chain. In addition, various abilities conflicted with each other. Before the embryos had undergone several rounds of division, problems began to arise, and even the genes mutated again.
Then those embryos that were transplanted with more than five types began to have problems in large numbers, then four, then three, and finally even two and one type had problems.
The cultivation chambers were emptied one by one, and the number was getting smaller and smaller.
By the tenth day, there were originally 1.5 million cultivation cabins, but there were now less than 300,000.
Fifteen days later, there were only one hundred thousand.
And by the eighteenth day, there were only ten thousand.
This terrible elimination rate made Luo Yuan a little nervous. He spent more and more time patrolling the training room every day. Sometimes he even had to get up in the middle of the night to read it again before he could fall asleep with peace of mind.
Since the end of the world, hundreds of thousands of evolvers have appeared in the reconstruction area. However, there are very few evolvers with two completely different abilities. Luo Yuan's experiment is trying to break this iron law. , widespread failure is almost normal.
Fortunately, not all embryos have problems. With a huge base, some miracles will always happen.
Now the remaining 10,000 embryos no longer look like a ball of flesh, but have transformed into human shapes, with internal organs and brains already taking shape.
At this stage of growth, the most dangerous stage of high elimination rate has been passed safely, and the possibility of success is extremely high. As long as there are no major accidents, at least one-third of these embryos can survive normally and grow up to be adults.
From 1.5 million embryos, only 3,000 survived in the end. Judging from the data, this success rate is naturally pitifully low. In terms of productivity, this project was a complete failure. If these culture chambers are used to cultivate Normal human cloning is enough to add more than 10 million people to the reconstruction area. But if all those born are enhanced versions of Luo Yuan except for the four-dimensionalization as long as they are carefully cultivated, then the value will be difficult to measure.
The reconstruction area requires a large number of ordinary people, as well as super evolvers, and most of the three thousand such super evolvers have the strength to rival level seven mutant beasts. In terms of effectiveness, they can almost be compared with a large legion. What's more, through training and brainwashing since childhood, this group of clones will not be as unruly as other evolved people. To a certain extent, they are completely loyal to the reconstruction area, except of course Luo Yuan.
He walked in the passage and inspected the babies curled up in the culture chambers in the liquid on both sides, and a feeling of blood connection arose spontaneously. This feeling is not a literary embellishment, nor a preconceived illusion, but a real feeling. These babies are completely an extension of his blood and a part of his body.
Luo Yuan could even feel that these babies, which were not yet fully developed and only had instincts, were conveying a vague emotion to him as he got closer.
Upon closer inspection, this feeling is clearly one of admiration, perhaps mixed with a hint of awe!
These babies grow faster or slower. Generally speaking, the stronger the baby, the slower it grows and the higher the concentration of nutrient solution it needs. However, there are exceptions. Certain cells can supply energy independently, especially a batch of When most babies of individuals transplanted with genes that enable cold fusion of mitochondria are only about the size of a fist, these babies are almost mature.
In addition, except for the initial stage, there was a certain consumption of nutrient solution. Now the demand for nutrient solution has become dispensable.
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On the twentieth day, the first batch of babies left the nutrition cabin. Not all the organs of these babies were completely mature, but they had to leave the culture cabin because the unconscious kicking of these babies caused a lot of damage to the culture cabin.
The first ones to be released are all individuals transplanted with cold fusion genes. The skin of these babies is soft and tough, and the bone strength is comparable to that of a fifth-level mutant beast. At the same time, each one is extremely strong, and their strength during struggle is completely comparable to ordinary strength. Evolution-like.
This is only the infant stage, the skin is relatively delicate, the bones have not been completely hardened, and the muscles are also flabby and weak. If they are fully grown, even Luo Yuan cannot estimate how terrible they will be.
Completely different from ordinary babies, these super babies are simply too active. In addition, their vitality is extremely strong, and ordinary cribs can no longer trap them.
A baby whose eyes have not yet opened can easily roll out of the bed and onto the bed with a flick of the body.
Falling half a meter away would not cause them any injury or even pain, and they would just crawl around as if nothing had happened.
What was even more troublesome was the crying of the baby. Ever since the culture room next door was converted into a nursery, the entire laboratory had not been quiet for a day. The crying sounds day and night were deafening. While all the researchers were surprised, they also Restless.
Originally, in order to take care of these babies, some nurses were transferred from major hospitals in the reconstruction area. However, after many nurses were injured one after another because they tried to contact them, these babies were completely released and allowed to move freely, except for daily Except for the necessary food and drink, outsiders will not take a step at all.
Of course, these babies have very small food needs. Even if they are not paid attention to for a few days, they will probably not starve to death.
But it's not that there are quiet moments. Only when Luo Yuanwen enters the nursery, all the babies will miraculously calm down, the crying ones will stop crying, the playing ones will stop playing, and the whole nursery will be quiet!
But out of some considerations, or worries, Luo Yuan rarely went in and out of the nursery.
He discovered that the newborn consciousness of these clones was completely a derivative with the remaining will imprint of his original cells as the core. To a certain extent, these babies were like his clones, and he could even control them if he wanted to. These babies.
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Time passed slowly. After twenty-eight days, the rest of the babies began to be released one after another. On thirty-two days, the last batch also left the nutrition cabin. There were more babies alive than expected, a total of more than 4,100. Category for 450 groups.
Although most of the embryos in some experimental groups died or were malformed, some were lucky enough to survive. However, these unstable genes were the first to be eliminated by Luo Yuan. He could not imagine any accidents during the transformation.
Among these 450 groups, only two groups were transplanted with three ability genes, and a total of 28 groups were transplanted with two ability genes. The rest were only transplanted with one gene. However, what Luo Yuan noticed was that the two groups were transplanted with two ability genes. Those with more than one ability gene are basically clones that have also been transplanted with cold fusion genes.
This made Luo Yuan vaguely guess that the reason why transplantation of multiple genes is easy to fail, in addition to genetic conflict, may also be related to the energy provided by the body.
Luo Yuan patiently stayed for another week, waiting for all the clone medical examination reports to be released.
Luo Yuan repeatedly confirmed this report with hints and sampled samples. After they were confirmed to be correct, he eliminated some of the cell samples that had congenital genetic defects. In the end, only 321 groups were left.
He could finally breathe a sigh of relief. The preliminary work had been completed perfectly. The next step was to modify his own genes.
Luo Yuan carefully put each cell sample into his backpack and left the laboratory without any nostalgia.
As soon as they stepped out of the underground passage, a wave of heat hit them.
Luo Yuan stayed in the laboratory for more than a month this time. It was only January when he came, but now it has entered March. As the relatively comfortable winter gradually ends, the temperature begins to heat up quickly again.
Luo Yuan raised his head and glanced at the dazzling sun. After strolling away from Xinjing, he took off into the sky. He did not return directly to Hope City, but flew all the way to the wilderness.
Half an hour later, we landed.
Even without warp flight, he was still extremely fast. The mountains here were surrounded by lush vegetation, and he was already thousands of kilometers away from the reconstruction area. However, for safety reasons, he still activated warp flight and drilled into the mountain.
When the space bubble dispersed, a fully enclosed cave with a diameter of ten meters immediately appeared around him.
He took out his backpack, spread out the collected cell samples one by one, and began to carefully screen. These cell samples, even the weakest one, can add an evolutionary ability, making him stronger by one point, but if it is just Just to add a possible ability, there is no need for Luo Yuan to waste so much time and energy and toss for so long.
Some cells with weak abilities were eliminated by Luo Yuan first, and out of the 321 samples, only 80 types were left.
Because he considered that transplanting samples with three abilities might cause genetic instability, he was excluded.
And those that only have one ability transplanted and are not cost-effective are also excluded.
The number of choices was immediately greatly reduced. Seeing that there were only twelve samples left in front of him, Luo Yuan screened again, and only three were left.
One is cold fusion plus material dissociation;
One is cold fusion plus plasma defense;
The last one is cold fusion plus space movement;
Looking at these three samples, Luo Yuan suddenly hesitated. Sometimes it is painful to have too many choices. In addition to having cold fusion, these three samples also have extremely powerful abilities.
For example, material dissociation. According to the introduction in the file, this evolver can emit a ray from his fingers that temporarily invalidates the strong force between atoms, causing matter to instantly vaporize. However, this terrible ability is not available to this evolver. His physical fitness is not much different from that of ordinary people, and the energy he provides is pitiful. Not only does this evolver's body become weak for half a day every time he fires it, but the intensity of the rays is not high and the effect is not good. No matter how good it is, it can only cause some superficial damage and cannot even kill a low-level mutant beast.
However, there are only weak users, and there is no weak ability. Once this ability is transplanted to Luo Yuan, coupled with the energy provided by cold fusion, this power will probably be increased a thousand times. By then, even the eighth-level mutant beast , it is estimated that it cannot be resisted.
Another example is plasma defense. This ability is already quite familiar to Luo Yuan. His underwear has a plasma force field. If his four-dimensional vision were not shielded by this underwear, he might have been blocked by four-dimensional information and become a vegetative state.
This ability can generate a high-temperature plasma field, in which the high-speed moving plasma state can absorb certain energy attacks and physical attacks, and at the same time absorb the detection of electromagnetic waves, which is completely equivalent to a science fiction energy shield.
As for the third ability, there is no need to go into details at all. This ability comes from Crazy Wang from the Sword Department of Hope City. Luo Yuan has been coveting this ability for a long time. Once he has this ability, and with the two-second prediction, he can The survivability will be geometrically improved.
Unfortunately, he could only choose one of these three abilities. Luo Yuan hesitated for a long time and finally chose space movement.
What is enhanced by material dissociation is the attack power. With the War Horse Saber with the ability to cut space, the attack power is not lacking at all. At most, it only has some shortcomings in ultra-long-range attacks.
As for plasma defense, it's okay when facing mutant beasts. But when it comes to high-energy rays from extraterrestrial civilization spacecraft, it's probably the same as nothing. Even if it has mitochondrial cold fusion to provide energy, compared with extraterrestrial civilization's spacecraft, it's nothing like fireflies. Bright moon.
He picked up the cell sample, took a deep breath, and quickly immersed himself in it, memorizing the base arrangement of the cell.