Epoch of Twilight

When Luo Yuan returned to the laboratory, he called Huang Jiahui and explained the reason. During the following period, he ate and lived in the laboratory every day.

Time passed day by day, and bad news came every day. Either the embryos were deformed, or they died. The first problems were embryos transplanted with more than ten kinds of ability genes.

Perhaps too many transplanted abilities made the DNA chain completely overwhelmed. In addition, various abilities conflicted with each other. Before the embryo split for a few rounds, problems appeared one after another, and even the gene mutated again.

Then those embryos transplanted with more than five types began to have problems in large quantities, then four, three, and finally even two or one of them had problems.

The training cabins were emptied one by one, and the number became less and less.

On the tenth day, there were still 1.5 million training cabins, but there were less than 300,000.

After fifteen days, there were only one hundred thousand.

And by the eighteenth day, there were only ten thousand.

This terrible elimination rate made Luo Yuan a little nervous. He spent more and more time patrolling the training room every day, and sometimes he had to get up in the middle of the night to read it again before he could fall asleep at ease.

Since the end of the world, hundreds of thousands of evolutionaries have appeared in the reconstruction area, but there are only a handful of evolutionaries with two completely different abilities, and Luo Yuan's experiment is trying to break this iron law , widespread failure is almost normal.

Fortunately, not all embryos have problems. With a huge base, there will always be some miracles.

Today, the remaining 10,000 embryos no longer look like a mass of meat, but have turned into a human form, and the internal organs and brains in the body are already taking shape.

At this stage of growth, the most dangerous stage of high elimination rate has been safely passed, and the next success is very likely. As long as there are no major accidents, at least one-third of these embryos can survive normally and grow up to be adults.

From 1.5 million embryos, only 3,000 survived in the end. From the data point of view, the success rate is naturally pitifully low. In terms of output efficiency, this project is a complete failure. If these cultivation chambers are used to cultivate Normal clones are enough to add more than 10 million people to the reconstruction area. But if all the people who are born are all strengthened versions of Luo Yuan except four-dimensionalization, as long as they are carefully cultivated, then the value will be difficult to measure.

The reconstruction area needs a large number of ordinary people, as well as super-evolvers, and most of the 3,000 such super-evolvers have the strength to rival seventh-level mutant beasts. In terms of effect, they are almost comparable to a large army. What's more, through cultivating and brainwashing from an early age, this group of clones will not be as rebellious as other evolutionaries, and to a certain extent, they will be completely loyal to the reconstruction area, except of course Luo Yuan.

He walked in the aisle, inspecting the babies curled up in the liquid cultivation cabin on both sides, and a feeling of blood connection emerged spontaneously. This feeling is not a literary embellishment, nor is it a preconceived illusion, but a real induction. These babies are completely an extension of his blood and a part of his body.

Luo Yuan could even feel that these babies who were not yet fully developed and only had instincts, as he approached, a vague emotion was conveying to him.

If you distinguish carefully, this feeling is clearly admiration, perhaps mixed with a trace of awe!

These babies grow fast or slow. Generally speaking, the stronger the baby, the slower the growth and the higher the concentration of the nutrient solution. However, there are exceptions. Some cells can supply energy independently, especially a group of Individuals transplanted with the gene for mitochondrial cold fusion, when most of the babies are only about the size of a fist, these babies are almost mature.

Moreover, except for the initial stage, there is a certain consumption of nutrient solution, and now the demand for nutrient solution is dispensable.

...

On the twentieth day, the first batch of babies left the nutrition cabin. Not all the organs of these babies had fully matured, but they had to leave the training cabin, because these babies unconsciously kicked and caused a lot of damage to the training cabin.

The first ones to be released are all individuals transplanted with cold fusion genes. The skin of these babies is soft and tough, and the strength of their bones is comparable to that of a fifth-level mutant beast. At the same time, each one is extremely strong, and their strength during struggle is completely comparable to that of ordinary people. kind of evolutionary.

This is just a baby stage, the skin is relatively delicate, the bones have not yet fully hardened, and the muscles are also loose and weak. Once they are fully grown, even Luo Yuan can't estimate how terrifying they will be.

Completely different from ordinary people's babies, these super babies are simply too active, coupled with their extremely strong vitality, ordinary cots can't trap them at all.

A baby whose eyes have not been opened can easily roll out of the bed and fall on the bed with a flick of the body.

Falling from a distance of half a meter did not cause them any injury or even pain, and they just crawled around as if nothing had happened.

What is even more troublesome is the crying of the baby. Ever since the cultivation room next door was converted into a nursery, the entire laboratory has not been quiet for a day. The constant crying day and night is simply deafening. Annoyed.

Originally, in order to take care of these babies, the reconstruction area also transferred some nurses from major hospitals. However, after many nurses were injured one after another because they tried to touch them, these babies were completely freed, and they were completely allowed to move freely. Except for the necessary diet, outsiders will not take a step at all.

Of course, these babies also have pitifully small food needs. Even if they don't pay attention for a few days, they probably won't starve to death.

But it's not without quiet times, only when Luo Yuan walked into the nursery, all the babies would miraculously calm down, the crying ones would stop crying, and the playfulness would stop, the whole nursery was quiet!

But out of certain considerations, or apprehensions, Luo Yuan seldom went in and out of the nursery.

He found that the nascent consciousness of these clones is completely a derivative of the will imprint left by his original cells as the core. To some extent, these babies are like his clones. As long as he wants, he can even control these babies.

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Time passed slowly, and after twenty-eight days, the rest of the babies began to be released one after another. At thirty-two days, the last batch also left the nutrition cabin. There were more babies who survived than expected, a total of more than 4,100. for the 450 group category.

Although most of the embryos in some experimental groups died or were deformed, some lucky ones survived. However, these unstable genes were first ruled out by Luo Yuan. He couldn't think of any accidents during the transformation.

Among these 450 groups, only two groups were transplanted with three kinds of ability genes, and there were a total of twenty-eight groups transplanted with two kinds of ability genes, and the rest were only transplanted with one gene. Those with more than one ability gene are basically clones transplanted with the cold fusion gene.

This made Luo Yuan vaguely guess that the reason why transplanting multiple genes is prone to failure may be related to the energy provided by the body in addition to genetic conflicts.

Luo Yuan waited patiently for another week, waiting for all the medical examination reports of the clones to be released one after another.

In this report, Luo Yuan used hints to confirm repeatedly, and samples were sampled for inspection. After the confirmation, some cell samples with congenital genetic defects were eliminated, and finally only 320 groups were left.

He can finally breathe a sigh of relief, the preliminary work has been perfectly completed, and the next step is to modify his own genes.

Luo Yuan carefully put each cell sample into his backpack, and turned to leave the laboratory without the slightest nostalgia.

As soon as he stepped out of the above-ground passage, a heat wave hit his face.

Luo Yuan stayed in the laboratory for more than a month this time. It was only January when he came, but now it has entered March. As the relatively comfortable winter gradually ended, the temperature began to heat up rapidly again.

Luo Yuan raised his head and glanced at the dazzling sun. After walking away from Xinjing, he took off into the air. He did not return directly to Hope City, but flew all the way to the wilderness.

After half an hour, it landed.

Even without the curvature flight, his speed is still extremely fast. The mountains here are surrounded by lush vegetation, which is thousands of kilometers away from the reconstruction area. However, for the sake of safety, he still starts the curvature flight to drill into the mountain.

When the space bubble dissipated, a fully enclosed cave with a diameter of ten meters appeared around him immediately.

He took out his backpack, spread out the collected cell samples one by one, and began to carefully screen. These cell samples, even the weakest one, can add a kind of evolutionary ability, making him stronger, but if only It's just to add a possible ability, and Luo Yuan doesn't need to waste so much time and effort, tossing and tossing for so long.

Some cells with weak abilities were first excluded by Luo Yuan, and there were only more than 80 kinds of cells left in the 321 samples.

He excluded it because he considered that transplanting samples with three abilities might cause genetic instability.

And those who only transplanted one ability, and the cost performance is not high, are also excluded.

The options for selection were greatly reduced immediately. Seeing that there were only twelve samples left in front of him, Luo Yuan screened again, and only three samples were left.

One is cold fusion plus material dissociation;

One is cold fusion plus plasma defense;

The last one is cold fusion plus space movement;

Looking at these three samples, Luo Yuan was a little hesitant. Sometimes there are too many choices, and it is also a painful thing. These three samples, in addition to having cold fusion, the other ability is also extremely powerful.

For example, the dissociation of matter. According to the introduction in the file, this evolutionary can emit a ray from his fingers that temporarily disables the strong force between atoms, and instantly vaporizes matter. However, this terrifying ability does not exist in this evolutionary. His physical fitness is not much different from that of ordinary people, and the energy he provides is pitifully small. Not only does this evolutionary's body become weak for a long time every time he fires it, but the intensity of the rays is not great, and the effect is also insignificant. How good, it can only cause some superficial damage, not even a low-level mutant beast can be killed.

However, there are only weak users and no weak abilities. Once this ability is transplanted to Luo Yuan, coupled with the energy provided by cold fusion, this power will probably be increased by a thousand times, and even the eighth-level mutant beast , it is estimated that it cannot be resisted.

Another example is plasma defense. Luo Yuan is already quite familiar with this ability. His underwear has a plasma force field. If the four-dimensional vision is not shielded by this underwear, he may have been blocked by four-dimensional information and become a vegetable.

This ability can generate a high-temperature plasma field, and the high-speed moving plasma state inside can absorb certain energy attacks and physical attacks, and at the same time absorb the detection of electromagnetic waves, which is completely equivalent to a sci-fi energy shield.

As for the third ability, there is no need to go into details at all. This ability comes from Crazy Wang from the Sword Department of Hope City. Luo Yuan has been envious of this ability for a long time. Once he has this ability, coupled with the two-second prediction, he The survivability will increase geometrically.

Unfortunately, he can only choose one of these three abilities. Luo Yuan hesitated for a long time, and finally chose space movement.

Matter dissociation enhances the attack power. After the war horse knife with the space cutting ability, the attack power is not lacking at all. At most, there are some flaws in the ultra-long-range attack.

As for the plasma defense, it’s okay to face mutant beasts, but it’s probably like nothing in the face of high-energy rays from extraterrestrial civilization spacecraft. Even with the energy provided by mitochondrial cold fusion, compared with extraterrestrial civilization spacecraft, it’s nothing compared to fireflies. Haoyue.

He picked up the cell sample, took a deep breath, and quickly immersed himself in it, memorizing the base arrangement of this cell.