Enter the Immortal Cultivation

"Logically speaking, it should be 'there is no nucleic acid in the causative agent of the zombie horse plague at all'!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Chen Feng's heart suddenly beat violently.

——Yes...that's true!

--That's it!

——This possibility exists!

Noticing the subtle change in Chen Feng's power and intention, Song Shufu was stunned for a moment: "Are you actually ready to change your body in accordance with this knowledge?"

Chen Feng nodded: "Yes, logically it should be like this. What we have to do is..."

"Wait a minute." Song Shufu raised a hand and interrupted Chen Feng: "Speaking of which, you should know the story about the suspicious neighbor stealing the ax, right?"

Once upon a time, there was a man who lost an axe. He suspected that the neighbor's son had stolen it, so he observed the man. The way the man walked, he looked like someone who had stolen an axe. From the look on his face, he looked like someone who had stolen an axe. From his words, he looked more like someone who had stolen an axe. It was the ax thief. Everything he said, did, and did was like the ax thief.

Soon after, the man who had thrown the ax found the ax while turning over his grain pile. The next day he saw the neighbor's son again, and felt that nothing in his words and deeds looked like the person who had stolen the axe.

"You already have a preset result in your mind, so you will look for an explanation to support your argument from the data you already know, and then you will find that this explanation is easy to find." Song Shufu shook his head: "Logic is a frame. You can circle a logical process by just placing it. However, you have to know that this logical process must not only be self-contradictory, but also must not conflict with other known things."

Chen Feng said: "But..."

Song Shufu shook his head: "Come on - ah, speaking of which, I heard that your wife is that genius in Jiyin Valley, right?"

Chen Feng nodded: "This has nothing to do with her, right?"

"No, saying this shows that your understanding of her field has a fundamental deviation - to be honest, brother, if you don't make up for it, you really shouldn't stay in the relevant empirical department. Go home and take care of your children." Song Shufu said earnestly, "I'll teach you something that you can use when you visit your wife's sect in the future."

Chen Feng knew that Song Shufu had good intentions, and also knew that Song Shufu was like this - maybe it wasn't like this at first, but the resentment of being on the bench for more than ten years forced him to be like this, but these rude words really made him a little angry.

Song Shufu still said: "Do you know the central dogma? One of the most brilliant achievements of Jiyin Valley."

Chen Feng did understand something.

The Spiral Twins have rarely conducted research together in the past hundred years. Zhan Woshen and Ke Like took two different paths in the same direction. Among them, Ke Like's greatest achievement is this central principle.

A huge discovery that can be compared with "cell", "heredity", "celestial evolution", "spiral", etc.

The biological structure shared by all living things in China, the law of natural connection between parents and offspring, the history of survival of the fittest by natural selection, the implementation of living things on the cornerstone of physical properties, and... the coherent flow of life represented by the "Central Dogma" the laws and nature of life activities.

"Our bloodline is engraved on the DNA - that is, the bloodline root. There is also an intermediate body between the bloodline root and the source of life. A hundred years ago, there were many names such as epistolary body, post road body, messenger body, etc. It was later called 'messenger'. The component of messenger is ribonucleic acid, so this ribonucleic acid is also called messenger ribonucleic acid [mRNA]."

"The so-called central dogma is this process - the blood root transcribes the spirit into the messenger body, and then the messenger body carries the spirit and burns it into the long chain of amino acids to form the source of life."

"By the way, the main thing about transformation is to interfere with this process."

"Under normal circumstances, living beings do not need any of this process. However, in the last two hundred years of the Divine Plague Forest, several important tasks have been done to supplement the laws of the heart."

"First of all, it is 'reverse transcription', which is the reversal of the process of transcribing Bloodline Lingxi from the bloodline root to the messenger body - some plague viruses can in turn convert their own ribonucleic acid into Bloodline Lingxi through reverse transcriptase. , reverse transcribed into the host’s bloodline root.”

"Then, under special circumstances, there are also cases where DNA directly becomes a messenger. Some aminoglycosides can disrupt the ribosome's selection of messengers and accept single-stranded DNA molecules to become messengers—— Ah, by the way, because of this characteristic, aminoglycosides have the function of acting on the ribosomes in bacteria, inhibiting protein synthesis, and destroying the integrity of bacterial cell membranes, which is an outstanding bactericidal ability that some monks lack. This is also used in areas to fight against great plagues.”

Aminoglycosides are organic substances in which an amino cyclic alcohol and one or more amino sugar molecules are connected by glycoside bonds to form a glycoside. On Earth, this type of material plays an even greater role. Substances in this category include streptomycin, gentamicin, kanamycin, micromicin, and tobramycin.

Well, yes, in this world, antibiotics were not invented as medicines, but as "biological substances with empirical value" that were studied and found to have medicinal value.

And the variety is far less complete than on Earth, because in most cases, they are difficult to use.

"Yes, there are two supplements - the replication of cells, which is the process from blood vein roots directly to blood vein roots. And the self-replication of some plague viruses, which is the process from ribonucleic acid directly to ribonucleic acid."

"In addition, in theory, there should be reverse translation that affects the messenger body from the source of life, and reverse translation that directly affects the bloodline root from the source of life. However, it has not been discovered yet - and this is our biggest goal. , you can directly get the auspicious book if you find it.”

Song Shufu spread his hands: "Do you understand? The Code of Auspiciousness, think about it carefully, the Code of Auspiciousness. This is really not qualified for any question."

"What if the Refined Corpse Horse Plague goes from the source of life to the messenger body or the source of life directly to the bloodline root?"

"Impossible." Song Shufu shook his head: "This is impossible. Typical reverse transcription plague... Take the earliest discovered avian sarcoma plague as an example. The characteristic of reverse transcription plague is that infected cells will not produce it. New plague particles instead divide into infected cells carrying the plague. Only when these infected cells come into contact with normal cells again will new plague particles be produced - but the corpse-refining horse plague does not have this property. So far, no external source of life essence has been detected.”

Chen Feng's face froze.

"From the source of life to the source of life... no..."

He sat down quietly and continued to study his Song Shufu's past reports.

There was no way to go directly from the source of life to the source of life - he couldn't imagine that form.

Although he didn't particularly study the Central Dogma, he still knew something about it due to Ai Qinglan's influence.

The coherent flow of blood is generally transcribed from the blood root to the messenger body and then translated into the source of life—this is the mainstream. In addition to the mainstream, there are also some supplements and tributaries.

However, the bloodline connection must exist in the bloodline.

On this planet, blood connections only exist in nucleic acids.

There is no pattern from Sefirot to Sefirot.

but……

There must be some explanation!

There must be some phenomenon that can be explained!

Song Shufu coughed lightly and said: "Junior Brother Chen, this has become a mental obstacle for you. You need to break your attachment before you can see clearly..."

"I do have reason to think so." Chen Feng said.

Song Shufu became a little impatient: "Why did you come to such a stupid conclusion?"

Chen Feng took a deep breath: "I came here because the project I was working on discovered a plague. Perhaps there is a convergent evolution that makes that plague very similar to a certain plague that exists in China. And This plague is the corpse-refining horse plague that you are studying, senior brother.”

"Well, yes, the contract is written." Song Shufu nodded.

"That plague has been transformed by some powerful method of cultivation, and it can no longer be analyzed by conventional methods, so we hope to get a breakthrough from other places." Chen Feng said.

Song Shufu nodded: "It seems that this approach has little hope, but you are already in urgent need of medical treatment - otherwise I wouldn't have sent just one of you here."

"But we finally got some results." Chen Feng whispered: "A senior brother used the method of constantly adjusting the size of the filter to measure the minimum cross-sectional area of ​​that special pathogen - only ten nanometers."

Only ten nanometers.

After understanding the meaning of this size, Song Shufu's expression changed drastically.

If the pathogen of the corpse horse plague is not larger than the conventional plague, as he thought, but smaller than the plague...

This can indeed explain why his induction spell cannot detect the pathogens in the sick horses.

but……

"This is impossible! There is no way such a pathogen exists in China!" Song Shufu roared: "You must be looking for the wrong path. The corpse-refining horse plague and that kind of plague are definitely not the same type! There is no connection between them. relation!"

"They do show highly similar characteristics - abnormal resistance to ultraviolet rays, low resistance to life source metamorphosis agents, and..."

"I told you that you were stealing an ax out of suspicion! This is a mental disorder!"

Song Shufu suddenly stood up and paced back and forth in his study.

"No, no... I'm a little nervous too." He sighed: "No, no..."

——The Central Dogma is an important cornerstone of the way of life.

——This is an unprecedented and huge discovery...

"No, that's not right. After the new optical equipment arrives, I will find new evidence!"