In the final analysis, the reason why Chen Chen ingested black water was for the technology of immortality.
Why is Chen Chen obsessed with immortality? In other words, why do humans pursue immortality
Because this is an inevitable phenomenon.
As science and technology become more and more advanced, human beings will inevitably be unwilling to live only for a short period of a hundred years. Compared with a long period of time that is often measured in hundreds of millions of years, a hundred years is like a blink of an eye and has almost no meaning.
And as science and technology become more and more developed, the accumulation of knowledge becomes more and more difficult. In ancient times, people could inherit the wealth of knowledge accumulated by civilization for up to ten years of hard study.
But in modern times, nine-year compulsory education can only teach you a basic foundation. Human knowledge is divided into hundreds of branches. A person can only achieve achievements in a few branches throughout his life.
And the accumulation of this kind of civilized knowledge will only become more and more abundant. Could it be that in the future, a person will have to undergo compulsory education for decades
When a person finally acquires knowledge in a certain field, but is already old and decrepit, and then is directly cremated into the earth within a few years
Obviously, no one wants to do this. If human civilization wants to continue to move forward, the need for immortality will become more and more urgent. This is a general trend that will not be changed by anyone's will.
In Chen Chen's opinion, there are roughly three paths to human immortality to choose from.
Article 1: Retain the original body and evolve genetically.
Indeed, the conventional way of human evolution is to use reproduction as a means to synchronize the evolution of groups, but this does not mean that humans cannot choose more efficient ways of evolution, such as genes.
Use genetic technology to strengthen themselves, thereby making humans separate from the group, causing evolutionary phenomena in advance, thereby extending life.
This is the most ideal path.
Why do you say that? Because human beings themselves are sophisticated and complex machines, but this machine is made of organic matter rather than steel.
Perhaps this body is extremely fragile, so fragile that a bullet or a sharp knife can take away a person's life, but human beings have the ability to reproduce and evolve, with thoughts, consciousness, creativity, and subjective initiative.
All this is brought about by this fragile body.
The human body is a pearl born in the process of millions of years of life evolution, and it is the most magnificent miracle of nature.
As long as humans have intact bodies, there are endless possibilities.
Article 2: Flesh and flesh are weak and weak, and machines soar.
Although the potential of this path is not as good as the first one, it is a path that is easier to live forever, or even close to eternal life.
For example, Chen Chen is vigorously developing bionic technology, which replaces old organs just like a machine replaces parts. In this way, life can survive longer.
Even more radically, you can choose to keep only the brain and replace the whole body with machinery. In this way, the life span of a human being is almost equal to the life span of the brain.
The lifespan of the brain alone is one hundred and fifty years. If combined with some special technologies, the lifespan of the brain may be doubled several times more.
However, although this method makes it easier to live longer and ensure the safety of life, it lacks part of the potential that life should have. Therefore, unless civilization comes to an end, Chen Chen will not regard this path as his main path. road.
The third and final path is the path of soul sublimation.
The simple meaning of this path is: abandon the physical body and remain in the world in the form of soul, allowing human beings to develop into a ubiquitous but insubstantial civilization.
It’s just that modern science has not yet proven the existence of the soul, so this path can only be imagined.
Chen Chen still remembered what Professor Wang Xi said back then: "We humans still know nothing about the vast sea of truth. Perhaps even the unreachable dream of eternal life is just the first step in the pursuit of truth. …”
It was this sentence that started Chen Chen's desire for immortality.
When he came back to his senses, Chen Chen was staring at a humanoid monster in the isolation room with a body covered in black armor and a head like a winter melon, with a searching look on his face.
This monster was an ordinary human being just one day ago.
His name is Barton. He was once a murderer who was sentenced to life imprisonment. He was later purchased by Chen Chen and has been kept in the delta-level experimental subject dormitory at the Spire Experimental Base.
However, this delta experimental subject started his path of mutation after being injected with five milliliters of black water yesterday.
The experimental subject first showed signs of pathology such as flushing and fever, then hemorrhage all over the body, confusion, and finally fell into a state of shock.
The internal manifestation of the human body is that the proteins of the experimental subject are rapidly converted into prion proteins of black water. At the same time, these prion proteins also begin to decompose the DNA in the experimental subject and combine with the DNA fragments to form a kind of protein that only affects the experimental subject itself. efficient retrovirus.
Then, due to the principle of retrovirus, the experimental subject began to undergo violent physical mutations, and during the mutation process, the experimental subject developed a strong sense of hunger, and he devoured any organic matter and protein as food.
Until this morning, the experimental subject finally lost consciousness completely in the process of sleeping and waking up, and became an ugly monster with low intelligence and no humanity.
"Black water can promote the strong and rapid division of biological cells, greatly increase the mutation rate, produce various abnormal cells, and eventually grow into new organisms..."
While Chen Chen was explaining the effects of black water, he looked at the monsters in the isolation room and sighed, "However, when the genes of organisms are changed in an instant, the combination of individual proteins, enzymes, and DNA itself will cause millions of There are thousands of unpredictable results, so don’t be surprised what the experimental subject will become, but... this appearance is really ugly... "
"But after being infected by black water, the experimental subjects showed extremely high energy metabolism efficiency and extremely fast cell division rate that the human body does not have."
Xiao The useless urine and feces are excreted from the body, and the rest is converted into the weight of the test subject itself."
Chen Chen looked at the report in his hand. Sure enough, the mutated experimental body now weighs 80 kilograms, 25 kilograms more than before.
"This is probably why the aliens grow so quickly."
Looking at the experimental body that had grown taller, Chen Chen thought, "In the movies, aliens can often grow from a small child into a beast weighing hundreds of kilograms in a few hours. Although aliens are rarely shown eating in movies, now we can see Come on, aliens still need to eat, and their appetites are larger than those of humans."
Having said this, Chen Chen suddenly took two steps forward, walked to the window of the isolation room, and looked at the experimental subject carefully.
As Chen Chen approached, the experimental subject in the isolation room suddenly erupted with a scream, and then rushed towards Chen Chen!
Boom!
There was a dull crash, and the experimental subject hit the glass of the isolation room, and a large amount of light yellow blood spattered on the glass.
"Low intelligence."
Little
"It's normal. In the movie, the process of the birth of the alien must involve the participation of engineers."
Chen Chen explained, "The alien's exoskeleton has a mechanical style, which is obviously derived from the exoskeleton structure worn by the Engineers. Later, in "Alien: Covenant", a spore plant infected with black water, this spore was again After infecting the human body, a white alien shape with no mechanical exoskeleton will be born, which explains the problem very well."
"So, the alien's acid blood may also come from the Engineer family."
Thinking of this, Chen Chen lightly snapped his fingers and said, "Okay, let's dissect and slice this monster. I need the organ structure diagram of his whole body, as well as the genetic map..."
"clear."
…
After a few more hours, Chen Chen breathed a sigh of relief when he walked out of the laboratory.
To Chen Chen's disappointment, even after the experimental subject was completely dissected and sectioned, Chen Chen could not find anything surprising. The experimental subject had indeed undergone genetic recombination, but after the recombination, it was only a beast without intelligence and cruelty and violence.
Even the brain structure has become much smaller, and its plasticity is not as good as that of humans.
However, Chen Chen knew that this was actually a normal phenomenon. Human beings could be regarded as the supreme product of the earth. They were the only advanced life forms. It was impossible for Black Water to mutate humans even better than before through a random mutation.
The only thing that surprised Chen Chen was that when the experimental subject, which was originally a male, was dissected, immature reproductive organs were found in the experimental subject's body.
It was a cyst structure that existed in the lower abdomen. After opening it, it was found that there were a bunch of densely packed larvae inside, like tadpoles.
Those tadpole-like larvae are completely transparent, and their biological structures are often simple, but they are indeed life. They are usually gestated in the cysts, but will be released at critical moments.
Looking at the structure of this cyst, Little
This is the reproduction method of this new species. Parasitic reproduction is similar to the alien, simple but frightening.
At present, it seems that using black water to strengthen the human body should not be considered for the time being. Drinking it will definitely kill you, and its lethality is comparable to paraquat. However, if it is used to develop biochemical weapons, it should be relatively easy.
Next, one of Chen Chen's research directions is to combine black water with spore plants to form the kind of spores that can parasitize the human body in the movie "Alien: Covenant".
I don’t know how David in the movie studied it. After the spores parasitize the human body, they will not mutate the human body, but form an embryo in the human body.
Next, the embryo will grow silently until it is old enough to be separated from the human body, then it will break out from the back or chest and grow into an alien-like white-skinned monster.
It must be said that Chen Chen still has a long way to go in his research on black water.
However, at present, it seems that the reproduction method of the monsters created by Blackwater is parasitic reproduction, even the perfect creature that was finally born - the alien. This reproduction method made Chen Chen think of a virus.
A virus called Golgotha, referred to as the G virus.
This virus is almost the same as Black Water. It can also mutate biological genes, resurrect the dead, and even give birth to a new species based on infecting a living being.
And it even got a title because of it: 'an extremely evil substance' that invades the realm of God.
The most important thing is that the G virus was modified from the T virus.
"You can try using black water to combine with the T virus. Maybe you can make new discoveries..."
Chen Chen had a flash of inspiration and began to think silently.