Cyber Heroes

"The current martial arts sects still have such rules... I'm sorry."

Xiang Shanping's indifferent words set off huge waves in Cui Hai's heart.

He remembered that the elders of his sect once said that the rules of the world are not static.

In the distant past, when Jianghu was first born, there were no "sects".

It's just that some people in a specific area gathered spontaneously and established organizations in order to unite.

Then this organization expanded in the form of a "magnetic chain".

In the end, a sect may have 30% of its core members gathered in a specific area, and then 70% of its members spread out across the world.

It is even possible that the master is on Mars or Venus, while the disciples are on Earth or Jupiter.

After that, the grassroots knights gradually summarized their own rules.

However, these rules are meaningless to a few famous heroes.

They have lived since the dawn of the world, and may not fully agree with the current rules of the world. And the long years have given these knights an unimaginable accumulation.

Although they follow the spirit of sharing and make what they have learned as public as possible and store it in the form of a blockchain, even new geniuses cannot catch up with their hundreds of years of accumulation.

For these heroes, "the rules of the arena" are not that important.

He could only smile and said: "If senior wanted to ask, I should have told you everything, but...actually I am not very clear either."

"Oh why?"

"The culture tank in which the bacteria are stored is kept by the elders of the sect..."

Xiang Shan thought for a moment: "You really don't know?"

Cui Zu nodded.

Xiang Shan said: "So in your opinion, the 'Returning Dan Enzyme' and the 'Shenshen Virus' are both very valuable resources?"

Cui Zu nodded.

Xiang Shan pondered for a moment: "To be honest, I don't quite understand. Do you have the conditions for production?"

"What?"

"Huandan enzyme should actually be worth a penny..."

"What is cabbage? It sounds like a plant."

"What I mean is that the Danzyme should be a very cheap thing." Xiang Shan said in a different way: "In terms of cost, if the cost of one chip is exchanged for the Danzyme, the enzyme obtained is enough for one person. It’s only right to practice Turing from the beginning.”

An organic substance that can be produced biologically should actually be very cheap.

Yuding fungus is a very mature technological product. It can spontaneously synthesize reductase. As long as it is alive, it will continuously discharge this enzyme.

The only raw material needed is sugar.

In other words, as long as there are bacteria and starch, the enzyme can be continuously obtained.

The vitality of yeast is tenacious and can be seen everywhere in nature. Its tenacious vitality and low cultivation cost have also made it the most common eukaryotic receptor cell in genetic engineering laboratories.

The biggest cost for this technology lies in the research and development stage.

In other words, as long as it is developed and you only need to consume some starch, you can easily expand the scale.

Industrial equipment is only needed if you want to maintain high production efficiency.

"In a sense, this is indeed the case." Cui Kui said with a wry smile: "In fact, in some areas, knights can still easily obtain things like pill-reducing enzymes. But... if you want to ensure activity while transporting, But it’s a difficult point.”

Xiang Shan nodded. Enzymes are very fragile things that deteriorate quickly after leaving the organism.

In this era, there is a lack of stable and effective transportation channels - at least the knights definitely don't have them.

Even if a certain sect can really produce it, it will be extremely difficult to deliver it to its disciples.

"What's even more outrageous is that things like the Jade Cauldron Fungus seem to be programmed to degenerate." Cui Hu said: "There are many knights who will try to steal the bacteria from the government. However, the bacteria are also things that can degenerate. In After one year of propagation, the efficiency of Yuding bacteria in producing dandruff enzyme will drop to one-tenth."

"The problem with the 'Chen Shen Virus' is similar. It is too unstable. If you rob the furnace cauldron bacteria and multiply them for three months before separating the Cun Shen Virus, there is a high probability of adverse reactions."

"That's it." Xiang Shan nodded.

Degeneration of species. This is a commonly used method for biotech capital.

Ever since humans deciphered the operation of enzyme systems and analyzed the genetic code, it has become easy to create species with stable genetics. After a Homo sapiens undergoes gene therapy and becomes a baseline human, all his descendants will be stable baseline humans. The same goes for crops. Improved crops can effectively help humans escape famine. Because in this era, after a good seed is born, it can rely on the cycle of "seeds to grow plants, and plants to produce seeds" to continue to expand and spread all over the world within a few generations.

But the problem is that developers can't make money this way.

Therefore, many agricultural giants, the seeds they sell cannot produce seeds, or the seeds produced cannot germinate/can no longer grow high-yielding crops.

But there's a problem.

Xiangshan remembered this technique.

In other words, this is a technology that existed in the old generation - most likely a technology developed in Xiangshan's "big plan".

When this technology was born, the current government system of "protector of civilization" may not have existed yet.

There should be a small number of strains in the world that do not degrade easily.

Mature virus tools should also allow knights to create a small number of strains themselves.

——No, wait...

If in nature, most pathogens have died out due to overall changes in the biosphere...

Then apart from the virus database, there should be very few active viruses.

For example, simian vacuolating virus 40 [SV40], a simple virus with only seven gene segments, has been used by human scientists to insert foreign gene segments into cells. SV40 can infect apes and humans and has a certain probability of inducing tumors. But with the advent of baseline human transformation surgery, humans will no longer be infected by this virus. And by this time, if the apes become extinct, then SV40 will only exist in the virus library.

The same goes for all other viruses that can be used for genetic modification.

As far as Xiangshan knows, as long as a complete set of viruses, enzymes and target gene fragments are assembled, transfecting a gene is as easy as cooking a vegetable.

After humans cracked the operating logic of the enzyme system, biochemical technology became something like this.

As the saying goes, a wise woman cannot make a meal without rice. But the situation faced by the knights now may not be as simple as "making a meal without rice".

They didn't even have a pot or anything.

"The combination of resource monopoly, knowledge monopoly and lack of transportation channels may have produced this effect."

Xiang Shan nodded and said: "In other words, in your opinion, these resources are not easy to obtain in a sense, so you feel pessimistic?"

Cui Kui nodded: "Half and half. Even if I have enough pill-reducing enzymes...do I really dare to degrade my existing neural circuits and train again?"

"I see. I didn't quite understand this aspect at first, so I found it strange. Why are you so depressed? This kind of brain injury that hardly affects your sanity was easy to treat hundreds of years ago."

Cui Ji lowered his head: "It really... made senior laugh. In fact, I understand the truth... it's just... it's just..."

"Why are you crying?" Xiang Shan said, "I'm not your master, and I don't blame you for anything."

"Senior gave me precious medicine. In the morning, he asked me to observe the little girl's surgery to wake me up. He also came here to enlighten me and said that there is still great hope, but I...I...I am still so helpless." Cui "I'm really ashamed of my seniors," said Rui sadly.

"Let me stop you, what's wrong with you?" Xiang Shan sighed: "I'm just here to ask a question, don't think too much about it."

"The most important thing about your disease is your heart disease. You have lost most of the martial arts you have practiced since you started. Within the known range, it seems that it is not easy to treat. In this case, it is not normal for a person to lose control of his emotions. Is it? It’s just that you lost control of your emotions for a moment. I don’t think you even need to avoid the crowd. You can cry if you want. But after crying, we still have to get down to business."

"Senior's lesson is..." Cui Mu said: "It's just that I have been working hard on this matter since I was a child. Suddenly...sigh."

"Get ready. Just rest for a few hours and I can attach your spine."

Xiangshan left these words and turned around and left.

The next day, Cui Kui had his spine reattached.

For several days, he needed to block the nerve signals in his spine and control the prosthetic body in remote mode.

But as long as the wound heals and the nerves are reconnected, he can better control the prosthetic body.

And Yuki received a new makeover.

Mukayama removed almost all of the remaining internal organs of his disciple, and then replaced the muscles attached to the spine with prosthetic parts.

At the same time, most of "Dragon's Breath" was also removed.

Yuki's need for oxygen has become less and less.

These surgeries, along with subsequent recuperation, took another four days.

After the fourth day, Xiangshan and his party set out on the road again.

This time there were three cars on the road. In addition to the "donkey" and "mule", Xiangshan also has a fully automatic vehicle called the "camel". This vehicle was packed with supplies without any regard for passengers.

They galloped across the land all night.

When the sky was just getting dark, a dazzling spot of colorful light appeared on the horizon.

Jayhawk City is already in sight.

At this distance, the security is already quite tight, and there may even be warriors optically observing the surrounding area to provide warning.

So Xiangshan stopped the car and got some weapons.

At this time, the "mule", a vehicle assembled from the base of a forklift group, played its role. It quickly swung the shovel, dug out two shallow pits half a kilometer apart, and buried the "donkey" and "camel" shallowly.

Then a group of people, armed with weapons and a small amount of supplies, headed towards the direction of Jayhawk City.

After walking for more than ten kilometers, Xiangshan saw the city of this era for the first time.