Cyber Heroes

Yawgmoth's expression froze. But soon, he calmed down.

"Surprisingly, similar proteins exist naturally here..."

"Ahem." Xiang Shan suddenly reminded.

"Other places on this earth." Yawgmoth held his head: "Other places actually exist, it's incredible."

He was so excited that he couldn't help but wave his hands in the air a few times.

Zhu Xinyu's mouth twitched a few times: "What's wrong with this person?"

"He wants to dance when he gets excited." Xiang Shan whispered, "This man is quite sultry."

Nya Guti stared at Yawgmoth, and nodded after a few seconds: "It really looks like this? Are you helping the military? Or something? Researching some confidential projects? Do you think something like this won't happen? Exist somewhere else on Earth?”

She hesitated for a moment: "It shouldn't be... weapons-related research, right? Although with your personality, it shouldn't be this kind of thing..."

When "biologist" is associated with the words "confidential" and "military", most people can easily think of something bad.

"I'm not an idiot. I won't do something that is very costly to all mankind and may lead to the destruction of all mankind." Yawgmoth's expression was extremely excited: "The key, this is the 'key'... …It exists on Earth!”

Niyaguti was confused when she heard this: "So... is it some newly discovered strange creature? Did you think that the samples only existed in places where you can see them?" She thought for a moment and said: "Could it be that some microorganisms have evolved into something like this?" The ability to survive near spent fuel?”

For this reason, she can think of "military" or something like that.

Yawgmoth opened his mouth to speak, but Xiangshan interrupted again.

"This is the confidential content." Yawgmoth said: "I can't tell you the origin of that thing. But I think that things with similar structures should be widely present in the universe... any two elements of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen Take common compounds, add energy, and certain conditions—and the final product should be..."

Yawgmoth was a little incoherent at this moment.

Xiangshan closed his eyes and began to think.

The robot that comes with Ogun will search for carbon, hydrogen and oxygen compounds on the surface of the planet, perhaps through optics, or through something else.

Methane of carbon and hydrogen, water of hydrogen and oxygen, carbon dioxide of carbon and oxygen, as well as hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon-containing minerals are all the most common substances in this universe. Just looking for the common forms of these substances in the "habitable zone" may be done by a simple machine.

The alien instrument that was forcibly restarted created new industrial machinery. These machines output the simplest long-chain compounds through chemical means. Then, these simple compounds are sent into the special crystal-like container to perform more complex reactions.

However, for a long time, humans have not been sure that after restarting the instrument, the instrument will work in the same way as the aliens originally set it.

Niyaguti was completely confused. But she knew Yawgmoth's nature, so she turned her attention to Xiang Shan and Zhu Xinyu: "What is he studying? A synthetic substance?"

"On the contrary, I admire you for being able to hear such a meaning from such confusing words." Xiang Shan marveled, and then asked: "Ms. Niyaguti, can you introduce the project you are researching? This is it, with Yogmo Husband studies something very similar? Is it from hydrothermal organisms on the seabed?"

Niaguti nodded: "I have been tracking hydrothermal creatures for a long time."

In the past, humans believed that only a few low-energy microorganisms could survive on the seafloor where sunlight could not reach. It was not until 1977 that the deep submersible "Alvin" discovered active hydrothermal vents and rich hydrothermal biota on the seafloor of the Galapagos in the Pacific Ocean for the first time.

That is the sea area where Xiangshan and the others are now.

This is the place where humans first encountered hydrothermal organisms - in this place where humans first understood "evolution", humans once again encountered the magical power of evolution.

Blood-red tube-dwelling worms, bivalve clams and mussels from the phylum Mollusca, and decapod shrimps and crabs—these are all common hydrothermal organisms.

These creatures are homologous to the worms, clams, mussels, shrimps, and crabs found in the outside world. They should be the result of the accidental symbiosis between external organisms and chemoautotrophic bacteria.

Hot hydrothermal fluids brought by submarine volcano vents containing a large amount of metals, sulfur and other substances. The hydrothermal fluid conflicts with the cold seawater, and in this fierce intersection of yin and yang, the hydrothermal fluid, which has a huge difference in pH from that of the seawater, undergoes an oxidation-reduction reaction with the seawater, and is used by some archaea...

The chemical energy synthesis process of chemoautotrophic bacteria replaces sunlight here.

And inside a certain archaea, there is a...

Enzymes that are not too far removed from Ogun's final product.

This is undoubtedly a breakthrough.

The dozens of enzymes synthesized by Ogun, when mixed in specific proportions, can form a system that can cycle repeatedly and operate endlessly under a specific environment.

This is the "power" of "life".

What is the minimum number of enzymes needed to interweave numerous reaction chains into a complex network and form a system that can operate forever?

Not sure yet. But for the simplest organisms, perhaps a dozen will suffice.

It may even be simpler than humans imagine.

The chemical machine composed of this set of enzymes can make the nucleic acid carrying information replicate itself...

Just like the Orgun ship itself.

Now, Yawgmoth discovered a miracle.

Some Earth Archaea, a life system with a completely different evolutionary path from that of eukaryotes, seem to contain several... enzymes whose chemical properties are very close to those of Ogun products.

It cannot be said that they are exactly the same, but the conformational diagrams of these two enzymes are almost misunderstood by biologists like Niyaguti! They can basically play almost the same role in most situations.

If you figure this out...

It might be a huge help in solving Ogun’s mystery!

Xiang Shan immediately said: "Ms. Nyagudi, your discovery is very meaningful. This accidental discovery may rewrite the history of biology. Although due to confidentiality regulations, we cannot disclose the content of Yawgmoth's research to you now. .But...are you interested in joining us?"

"to join you guys?"

"Join us, and we can reveal the content of our research to you." Xiangshan said earnestly: "I believe this guy Yawgmoth will be happy."

Nia Gudi thought for a moment, then shook her head: "I am very interested in your research, but..."