"The Sun Goddess Snail, an ancient creature that existed 500 million years ago and became extinct about 400 million years ago, is an invertebrate monoplacid gastropod and is considered to be one of the first molluscs to evolve a hard shell. one."
"This creature lives in the deep sea. However, because it existed so early, humans' understanding of it is limited to its fossil structure. However, based on the known fossils, humans can infer that this creature should be hermaphrodite. They do not need They can reproduce by mating, and not only that, they also have special whorl-shaped nerves. This kind of nerve tissue has no nerve center, and the body and nerves are separated. After the death of the body tissue, the whorl-shaped nerves can continue to survive."
"Their shells belong to their own secretions, just like the growth rings of trees. The longer they live, the more growth rings there are on their shells. In this way, they reproduce from generation to generation in their own hard shells, and the old life After death, new life will replace the dead body and continue to live. Although this biological characteristic limits its number, as long as the living environment allows, its wheel-shaped nerves and mesh-like cell structure will continue to exist endlessly. Proliferate in the shell..."
Chen Chen sat on the chair and looked at the screen in front of him. On the screen, a paleontologist from the steeple was telling a group of people:
"The Huo's Immortal Worm is also a strange creature with wheel-shaped nerves. It is between invertebrate and semi-vertebrate. It also has a protective shell like a sun goddess snail. It has no natural enemies in nature unless it can be killed. Eat it whole and digest it completely with gastric juices, otherwise it can survive as long as part of its nerve network is left behind."
"This creature became extinct in the Triassic. Its final extinction, like those of large insects, was due to a dramatic change in the oxygen content in the atmosphere."
After the paleontologist said this, he faced everyone again, "These primitive life forms can be said to be immortal monsters. As you can imagine, your brains will never die, and although your bodies will age and die, your brains can be constantly replaced." The new body will allow you to live forever.”
At this point, the paleontologist smiled and said, "Of course, this is just a metaphor. The reason why this insect can do all this is not because its life form is more advanced than humans. On the contrary, it is Because its life form is too low-level, their cells are far less differentiated than ours, so they can regenerate without restrictions, just like a bug. At the same time, this behavior also limits its evolution. So that they can survive for hundreds of millions of years..."
"And the protoplasmic liquid we are currently encountering is exactly this type of primitive organism. But the strange thing is that these protoplasmic liquids do not contain neural networks, but they can use them in some way that we humans cannot understand. Infecting our consciousness and causing multiple infected people to merge with each other... "
"This kind of alien life seems to have regarded us humans as its neural network. It wants to be resurrected and wants to rely on humans to be resurrected..."
"Because of our Blackwatch Company's contribution to this disaster, we have obtained the naming rights of this creature, so after internal negotiation within the company, we gave this newly discovered creature a name, called... Consciousnessstealer, which means Focus on the mind stealers."
At this time, Little No, only advanced creatures like humans can meet its requirements... "
"Not enough time..."
Chen Chen spat out a few words. There were dark circles under his eyes. It was obvious that he had not slept well during this period. "Human society cannot support it for long. A small-scale panic has already occurred, and it continues to spread."
"So what do we do?"
Little
"Um?"
Hearing Xiao X’s unintentional words, Chen Chen suddenly narrowed his eyes. He waved his hand to ask Xiao
The paleontologist was telling the story when he noticed that the big screen at the back of the venue suddenly flashed and turned into Chen Chen.
"Your Excellency!"
"Mr. Chen..."
There was a commotion in the crowd. There were two to three hundred people in the venue. Some of these people were old people, some were new researchers who joined black light technology, and many of them were even meeting Chen Chen for the first time.
"I have an important task for you."
Chen Chen looked at the people in the audience and spoke directly without any preamble, "I need to form a research team to clone that kind of life. Which of you is sure?"
"What?"
Everyone was shocked. That kind of alien creature was about to wipe out humans with just a little bit of body fluid. Could it be that it was crazy and wanted to clone the monster itself
However, some people with clear minds immediately realized that if that kind of alien creature really appeared, maybe they could find a way to fight it
These people's eyes lit up and their breathing became heavy.
"I will form a cloning team. If anyone wants to give it a try, they can sign up in the system."
After saying this, Chen Chen's figure disappeared again.
"Your Majesty the Godfather?"
Little X tilted his head, "Do you really want to clone that kind of thing?"
"The other side is also carbon-based. Although we don't know the culture environment and temperature, we can try one by one at most."
Chen Chen rubbed his aching temples and thought, "As you said, the infection rate around the world is increasing day by day. Human society is facing panic and will soon be unable to hide it. Now we only treat dead horses as live ones. There is only one way to treat the disease, but we cannot let go of research on protoplasmic liquids, so we’d better work on both sides.”
"Yes, the situation is bad enough anyway."
Xiao X said helplessly.
“So, let’s tell the Four Continents District about our decision.”
Chen Chen nodded, then chuckled, "By the way, be prepared for the experiment to get out of control..."
…
After Chen Chen personally issued the order, a new research team was immediately formed in the minaret, with more than a hundred people joining in.
These researchers were divided into ten research groups, and everyone had the same job, which was to extract the corresponding genes from the protoplasm and then clone them.
However, what no one expected was that cloning this creature was far simpler than everyone imagined...
A few days later.
Five research teams have all produced results. These people only used the environment in which human embryos grow. The only difference is the ratio of nutrients and the temperature of cultivation. Under these variables, everyone sent good news one after another, claiming that they had successfully cloned embryos. The master of that protoplasmic liquid.
"Can the embryos of this creature grow at temperatures of 35 degrees, 36 degrees, 37 degrees, or even 39 degrees?"
Chen Chen looked surprised.
"Not only that."
Little The big impact is far less delicate than life on earth, and a slight difference in proportion will lead to the death of the embryo."
"This kind of creature can grow no matter what the environment is!"
Hearing this, Chen Chen not only did not look happy, but became even more worried, "This only shows that this creature is extremely adaptable."
However, just when Chen Chen was full of surprise, Little But he died suddenly!"
"oh?"
Chen Chen's expression changed. He raised his head and looked at the screen. The screen immediately switched to a scene in a laboratory. In the command room of the laboratory, he saw many people running around eagerly, with anxious looks on their faces. When looking at the data on the data board in front of him.
"Sudden death?"
Chen Chen's heart moved.
"Yes,"
Little Those four embryos have all died!"
"I'm afraid this is not an accident."
Chen Chen thought for a while, but did not show any strange expression. He just explained, "Isn't that what a bee swarm is like? There will always be only one queen bee in the hive. This is a very normal biological phenomenon. The reason is because bees After the pheromone suppression of the bee colony, unless one of the bees splits, a new queen will be produced."
"And since this kind of monster can infect human consciousness, isn't it normal for similar phenomena to occur? Within a certain area, only one embryo will always survive."
Hearing this, Xiao X suddenly understood.
"Tell those people not to worry. The protoplasmic liquid will not die even if it is frozen into ice or wrapped in a meteorite at thousands of degrees. Judging from such strong vital signs, it will not die easily."
Chen Chen continued, "Of course, we can't put all our eggs in one basket and tell other groups that their tasks remain unchanged until the embryos of this monster are cultivated."
"yes."
…
Time passes day by day.
In the outside world, the number of fusion deaths is still increasing, reaching millions of cases in just one month. This is still a situation that various officials are trying their best to suppress. The intensity of suppression is far greater than the virus war in 2020.
However, in the face of this protoplasmic liquid that can use consciousness as a channel of infection, countries are always helpless.
The pressure on all continents around the world is increasing, and the public is gradually unable to keep it a secret...
The official websites of each continent are not idle either. They are also looking for countermeasures in their own way. Some of them are secretly cloning and cultivating the monster, trying to find the monster's weakness after cultivating the monster.
At this time, in the Spire Laboratory, the earliest embryo had grown to the size of a fist.
This kind of cloned monster grows many times faster than the creatures on earth. It only takes half a month to reach the size of a fist. Many people were still discussing whether to be like cloned humans and wait until the embryo has developed to a certain level. At that time, the embryos are transplanted into the artificial endometrium.
In the end, the transplant was indeed successful, but the artificial endometrium died completely in just a few days—it was completely unable to withstand the growth rate of this embryo.
After losing the foundation, just when humans thought the experiment was about to fail, something even more shocking happened. The other party did not need to be attached at all. It directly used the life incubator as its growth environment and grew up little by little!
Seeing this, the researchers simply inserted the catheter into the interior of the embryo to directly supply various nutrients. The embryo also received all the nutrients as ordered, and it only took a few days to grow from a few microns in size to the size of a fist.
Now, this embryo can no longer be called an embryo. According to biology, it is already a fetus...
At this time, in this laboratory, bionic people are still busy coming in and out. Because humans cannot get close to each other within 1.1836 meters, they can still only be replaced by bionic people.
At this time, several researchers were sitting in the command room. One of them, a rough-looking man, controlled the android to the life incubator and stared quietly at the ball of flesh inside.
Yes, it was a ball of flesh that was round in shape and black in color.
At this time, the meat ball was slowly squirming at a frequency of every few seconds. The surface of the meat ball was uneven and there were many small cracks.
It's like a mouth that opens and closes...
"Baby… "
The rough-looking man put his head close to the screen, stared at the meat ball on the screen, and murmured in a low voice, "Baby, what kind of monster are you..."
There was a look of excitement and fascination in his eyes, which combined with his rough appearance gave people the feeling of a pathological killer.
However, just as he brought his face closer and closer, suddenly, those small gaps seemed to move, and the man was startled. He rubbed his eyes, thinking that these were all illusions, but the next second, those gaps Suddenly they all split open, and pure black pupils appeared in front of the man!
"Wow!"
The man was startled, and with a plop, he sat down on the ground, and the stool under him flew out!
"Ha ha ha ha!"
The others burst into laughter.
"What are you laughing at?"
The man glared at everyone with dissatisfaction, then patted his butt and stood up, holding the stool back up again, "This monster opened its eyes."
"It showed signs of opening its eyes yesterday."
A blond female researcher walked past him, "This thing changes every day, who knows what it will look like in the end..."
"This thing is a devil!"