Cyber Heroes

"I hope you can have some good news, Nia." Xiangshan spread his hands.

"The reaction path is still a mess." Niyaguti was also helpless. "If you don't know where these special organic compounds came from and what path they took, it is difficult to know what genes are involved...and some of them may not be at the genetic level. changes."

Changes at the genetic level, whether they are advantages or disadvantages, benefits or disadvantages, are the costs shared by the transformer and future generations.

Just uncontrollable natural mutations. According to general ethics, ancestors do not have the right to determine all the traits of their descendants.

Of course, of course, descendants can indeed use new genetic modifications to override the choices of their ancestors.

However, this will ultimately bring certain risks.

Every genetic modification carries "unpredictable" risks. Even the best scientists do not dare to claim that they have a complete understanding of the role of a certain gene segment in living organisms. After a gene is transferred, this gene may combine with other fragments to produce a never-before-seen combo. It's like programmers never know how introducing a piece of code will produce bugs. Natural products always lack a holistic "design purpose".

For example, a popular transformation surgery requires the introduction of genome A into cells. This genome A can produce special neurotransmitters to improve the efficiency of thinking. However, a certain person's ancestor underwent a rather niche genetic modification surgery, and genome B is present in the body. If genome B and A coexist, it will cause the production of toxic substances in cells, and this toxic substance lacks a decomposition pathway. In this case, the transformer may be poisoned by the metabolic products of the cell.

Similar tragedies occasionally occurred among the Asylum soldiers.

In addition, reconstructive surgery can also cause the loss of genetic information. And this loss may make it impossible for humans in the future to trace the origins of their own evolution.

Therefore, neurotransformation technology that does not involve genetic information still has a certain space for existence in this era.

Compared with genetic modification surgery, the advantages of this type of neural modification technology are stability and controllability.

In this era of "you don't know what modifications your ancestors have made", "controllability" is very important.

This includes using certain signaling factors to activate or inhibit specific genomes, causing cells to change their shape within a certain period of time, or sending organelles generated by other artificial cells through endocytosis, or directly embedding micro-artificial crystals on the cell surface to change specific Electrochemical properties of cells.

A long time ago, Yawgmoth once told Xiangshan that many processes of life are not completely controlled by genes. In other words, "the proportion affected by force is relatively large." As long as the environment inside the cell is fine-tuned, the exact same gene can exhibit widely different traits.

Even in extreme modifications that pursue peak performance, this type of transformation surgery is regarded as meaningful.

"If we take into account the existence of this type of surgery, it will be more difficult to predict the generation path of the substances in the brain." Niyaguti shook her head.

"A bad debt." Xiang Shan sighed, "No good news?"

"Well, judging from the comparison of the DNA information records between you and Xiangshan in 2075, the similarity between you and Xiangshan in 2075 is... about 98.98."

"Oh." Xiang Shan couldn't help but applaud, "I can't even be considered as Xiang Shan's son in 2075 in a legal sense? Well, it should be said that in a legal sense, this result is not enough to support that I am Xiang Shan's son in 2075. Son? Are there so many changes? By the way, why is it 2075 data?"

"Only this is left." Niyaguti sighed: "Do you remember...do you have relevant memories? At that time, we had just started to be knights. We began to explore more radical self-transformation strategies. Even the ancient meditation Technology was involved. At that time..."

Xiang Shan nodded: "Well, that's the case. But there shouldn't be so many. Are there really that many parts we have rewritten? I remember that when you transfer something, you always have to calculate it for a long time, and then do it again. Experiment with white mice, and then..."

He raised his head: "Damn, you actually skipped the primates and used it directly on yourself? It's a bit crazy."

"On this condition..." Niaguti shook her head: "You also know what happened later. When Yawgmoth destroyed the Internet, he also erased 'our' previous stronghold. I can only say that fortunately we There are preparations for diversifying risks, so there are indeed a few strongholds that Yog doesn’t know about. The only records I found there are from 2075 - by the way, Xiangshan in 2075 and Xiangshan in 2025 are both It’s not the same species anymore, the similarity is about 80%. Why do you care so much about the 98% data?”

Tao Enhai said: "It's slightly smaller than the gap between humans and chimpanzees."

Xiang Shan nodded: "Yes, that's right. Then how should I prove that I am myself... Bah, there is no need to prove it. My thoughts have been derailed by the paternity test. The key is not how much I look like Xiang Shan, the key is The goal is to find out the genomes that are present and missing, and see what intensive surgical plan can be arranged for me..."

Niyaguti clapped her hands together, and then said: "This is indeed a bit difficult. This was not something that could be clarified in a short time. Back then, we did not understand all the uses of all human genes. The Biosphere One extinction event At that time, public panic also completely caused illegal and uncontrolled genetic modification surgery to spread around the world...it was so serious."

Xiang Shan said: "Is there a way to speed up this process? If there is a lack of information, you can grab it? Or arrange some transformation surgeries for me that do not involve genetic material first, so as to increase the strength of glial cells first."

When we were in the water before, no one could reach the highest speed, so this disadvantage was not too obvious. But now at this point, Xiangshan will face the most advanced force on earth.

Just doing odd jobs. The acceleration is far behind others, and the speed change is too disadvantageous. It is impossible for him to conquer the world purely by relying on prediction.

"Surgeries that do not involve genetic information are generally used to increase the overall upper limit, and are generally placed behind surgeries involving genetic modification. If glial cells harden, some surgeries that require delivering drugs into the brain cannot be completed. .so……"

Xiang Shan said: "Need information?"

Niaguti nodded.

"Academic exchange?"

Niaguti nodded again.

"Which knighthood?"

"The Knights of the Soul of Light are committed to tracing the origin of every earth-native gene in the human body. The Knights of the Furnace of Life have extensively collected data on various folk genetic modification surgeries. Gene taxes and welfare babies are also tested and tested by this Knights. calculate."

Xiang Shan was stunned for a moment, then became furious: "My project team?"

"The predecessor seems to be the research institute within Superman Enterprise, and the research center established in the late period of Secret War." Nia Guti said: "Two of the three research institutions I worked for before joining Superman Enterprise have become what they are today. The knights of our country. You should be used to this kind of thing by now."

Tao Enhai said: "Besides, you are only responsible for making money. Aren't the institutes and research centers led by Yawgmoth? How can we say they are yours? They are direct descendants of the father of all machines. "

"Find a way to steal confidential data from one of these two knights." Niyaguti said.