Epoch of Twilight

The reason why many evolutionaries are unknown and famous is not that their abilities are not strong, and some of them have weak abilities and neglect to practice, and more of them are unlucky and fall in the middle.

For example, in one of the training cabins that Luo Yuan paid special attention to, the embryos in it were implanted with a special gene by Luo Yuan. This gene came from an evolutionary who died in the purge. Now, even if his strength has not improved, he is still a super evolutionary.

According to the records in the archives, this evolutionary is so powerful that it is as if Hercules is alive. He can lift a heavy tank weighing forty or fifty tons and perform throwing attacks, and he can also easily jump hundreds of meters high. .

If the file is not exaggerated, this kind of strength is unimaginable. Even with Luo Yuan's strength of 17 points, it can only lift a weight of more than one ton. With a small and medium-sized mammal like a human being, it can lift two to three hundred times the weight. Body weight, among living things, only some insects can do it.

How he died in the end is not recorded, but judging from the few words in the file, it is estimated that the military also paid a considerable price.

However, although the person died, his body was preserved.

The structure of his body is the same as that of ordinary people. Although the muscles are compact and extremely strong, they are not more muscular than ordinary people on the outside. The special feature of his body lies in the cells, to be precise, the mitochondria inside the cells.

Luo Yuan discovered that his mitochondria had completely departed from the category of conventional organisms. Not only was the internal structure complex, but it also contained several mysterious enzymes, which enabled him to perform a certain cold fusion reaction.

When water molecules enter the mitochondria of his cells, they will be decomposed into ions, and a small part of H atoms will be fused into elements such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur. These elements and the remaining oxygen and hydrogen will be converted into various amino acids needed by the body. The energy produced by fusion supplies the daily needs of the human body.

Although this kind of fusion reaction is quite slow, each mitochondria only has one or two hydrogen atoms per second to be converted into elements such as nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur. Even if the total number of cells in the human body is 50 trillion, the amount of hydrogen to be fused is only About one ten-thousandth of a gram.

However, fusion is fusion, far from the energy produced by the biochemical reactions of conventional organisms, and this kind of cold fusion is deeper and more efficient than the fusion of hydrogen bomb explosions. The energy produced by only one ten-thousandth of a gram of hydrogen is completely It is equivalent to the combustion value of several tons of standard coal, seven to eight thousand times the energy required by ordinary people, and also twenty to thirty times that of Luo Yuan.

At the same time, the existence of this kind of mitochondria also means that his need for food has been reduced to the limit, and he only needs to add some water and regular elements to meet the needs of survival, and he no longer needs to breathe at all.

This is a natural space creature. When Luo Yuan saw this kind of cell for the first time, he felt like he was hit by surprise. Once such mitochondria appear in his body, his strength will increase geometrically. And physical strength, it is enough to increase dozens of times.

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At this time, Professor Guan came trotting all the way, followed by several experimental assistants.

"Minister Luo, there is bad news. All the egg cells from group A1 to group A10000 have died." He ran to Luo Yuan and said in a panic. one survived.

"What's the matter? These embryos haven't started to divide yet, how could this happen." Luo Yuan said in a deep voice, this is something that has never happened before, generally speaking, as long as there are still active embryos, there will be no complete birth at all. In the case of inability to divide, in previous experiments, no matter how the gene is changed, the first division can always proceed normally, and the embryo dies, which often exists at the stage of life that is about to form.

He didn't suspect that the experimental assistants made mistakes in the collective operation, because the possibility of this was so low that it was almost negligible.

After all, the batches of laboratory cloning have been done more than once or twice. Now the laboratory cloning technology is very mature, and the various steps of cloning have been specially compiled into a manual. The operation is exactly the same as that of an assembly line. Even ordinary workers, after Training, and proficient operation, not to mention that the hands-on here are all highly educated and experienced experimental assistants

"According to the operation records, the egg cell transplantation is active, the content of the nutrient solution is also normal, and various hormones are added according to the regulations, but it is still unable to divide." Professor Guan said as he walked.

"What do you think?" Luo Yuan asked.

"Excluding any other possibility, I suspect that there is a problem with the chromosome itself, which is the reason for the delay in splitting." Professor Guan glanced at Luo Yuan, hesitated and said.

The genes of all the embryos here are edited by Luo Yuan himself, since the operation is no problem, naturally there is a problem with the editing.

Although with the help of Luo Yuan's large-scale genetic engineering, the reconstruction area's cognition of genes has advanced by leaps and bounds, but the genetic modification methods are still at the same place without any progress. Knowing how to modify, but completely unable to directly edit genes like Luo Yuan.

Luo Yuan didn't care about Professor Guan's outspokenness. He paused, thought for a while, and continued to walk forward: "Let's have a look first."

Each group has ten culture cabins, and all the groups from A1 to A10,000 died, which meant that a total of 100,000 embryos were genetically modified, and all of them failed.

Egg cells are the largest cells in the human body, and transplanting recipient cells after enucleation of such egg cells is the most conventional way of cloning.

However, even the largest cell in the human body is only 0.1mm, which is the thickness of a hair, suspended in the nutrient solution, ordinary people can't see it without the help of equipment, Dangdang does not include Luo Yuan.

He took a closer look, and found that the cells were damaged and shriveled, and the cell fluid inside had flowed out in large quantities, and they were obviously dead. As for the others, there was no need to look at them.

Because he already felt that all the embryos in this area were completely dead.

Every cell here bears the imprint of Luo Yuan's own will, and has a faint connection with him. Even if it is separated from the body, it seems to be a part of the body, as if there is no separation at all. At this time, the connection in this area has all disappeared. .

"Apart from the problem here, are the other embryos developing well?" Luo Yuan was not in a hurry to investigate with will, and turned to Professor Guan and asked.

"There is no problem. The fastest growing one has already started the tenth round of division, and the slowest one has also undergone the first round of division."

Luo Yuan already had some guesses in his heart.

From group A1 to group A10000, some embryos edited one ability gene, some embryos edited two or three, and the largest group A10000 edited twelve types. However, no matter how many genes are transplanted, there are no There is one thing in common, that is, they all edited Xu Zhiqiang's ability gene.

Xu Zhiqiang is the closest to the four-dimensional life, and his genes naturally contain four-dimensional secrets. From the sequence of these numbers starting with A, it can be seen that Luo Yuan attaches great importance to this gene.

It's a pity that the four-dimensional secret is not so easy to detect. Xu Zhiqiang's genes don't seem to be fundamentally different from ordinary evolutionaries, and the editing is also quite smooth, but the result is not the case at all.

All the embryos whose genes were edited by Xu Zhiqiang died one by one, unable to divide at all. Luo Yuan vaguely guessed that he might have missed something during gene editing.

"Four-dimensional!"

His heart suddenly moved. Could it be that a part of Xu Zhiqiang's gene is not in this space, and cannot be observed in three dimensions.

The more he thought about it, the more possible it became. The genes of four-dimensional life cannot still be the same as three-dimensional. Should also perform.

Thinking of this, Luo Yuan said to Professor Guan: "Clean up all these dead embryos, and then ask someone to clone the cells labeled S36778 separately. The number of clones should be 100 copies. In addition, send a sample to me. office."

The number S36778 is Xu Zhiqiang's gene, and he wants to see if this kind of cell can be cloned.

"Okay!" Professor Guan said quickly.

After speaking, Luo Yuan hurried to the office, closed the door, untied the straps, turned on the four-dimensionalization, and then used his will to look inside.

The four-dimensional inner vision makes it seem that he has a bird's-eye view. Luo Yuan finds that dark energy abounds in the four-dimensional perspective. The whole world seems to be floating in this ocean of energy, even within the body. Dark energy is slowly flowing.

These energies seem to be illusory, they may easily pass through the body without leaving the slightest trace.

Luo Yuan's will flicked lightly, and these energies flew along with it. It seemed that it could be manipulated by will, but Luo Yuan didn't know how to use it. He fluctuated a few times, and then stopped trying.

He can feel that these energies seem to be quiet and harmless, like smooth flowing water, but they faintly give him a feeling of heart palpitations. If he tries again indiscriminately, God knows what kind of disastrous consequences will happen, not to mention, he is still experimenting in the body now. .

He turned his attention away from these dark energies, and instead quickly selected a somatic cell.

The next moment, the cell expanded in his eyes, and then his mind broke through the nucleus and entered the chromosome.

Regarding the several chromosomes where the genes of the brain are distributed, Luo Yuan searched one by one, but he searched all the chromosomes one by one, and he did not see any trace of the four-dimensionalization of his own genes.

Luo Yuan frowned slightly, puzzled in his heart: "Could it be that I guessed wrong."

He couldn't figure it out, and now he was looking at Xu Zhiqiang's cells, hoping that he had guessed wrong.

Before Luo Yuan was asked to wait long, Xu Zhiqiang's cell samples were delivered. After the assistant left the office with a look of awe, he closed the door gently.

However, in Xu Zhiqiang's cells, in a pair of chromosomes that have been identified as the source of the ability, he quickly found a trace of four-dimensionalization. This is a section of four-dimensional genome connected with three-dimensional genes to form a Klein bottle structure. From a three-dimensional perspective See, the four-dimensional genome cannot be seen at all, but from the four-dimensional point of view, they are a whole, and once the four-dimensional gene is removed, the whole genome cannot be expressed.

Luo Yuan withdrew from the state of will, and the two different results made him a little puzzled. Xu Zhiqiang's genes were not problematic, as he guessed, in line with the characteristics of four-dimensional creatures, but it was his genes that were problematic.

Could it be that I only have brain cells, and a genetic mutation has occurred, and other parts have not yet appeared and chain reactions. In other words, his genes did not ascend the dimension at all, only some brain cells entered the fourth dimension by chance. "

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And on the fourth day, there was another piece of news that could not be said to be good or bad. Xu Zhiqiang's cell cloning failed, and all the embryos died naturally.