Volume 2 Animal Variants Chapter 116 The Butterfly Effect
After soaking the whole locust body, three locusts were refrigerated at low temperature, and the last one was directly studied by taking advantage of the body's activity.
Because this kind of research work is very cumbersome, when Cangchi wakes up, a large number of researchers are still working tirelessly on the research work at hand. However, this is also the first time they have come into contact with a complete mutant animal carcasse, so their enthusiasm for working overtime is also quite high.
Personally, Cangchi, who felt that most of his work had been completed, took Master Tang's free meal ticket to eat and drink. Although Young Master Tang was bullied by Cangchi quite badly when he was in the car, but because Cangchi's performance in the process of catching locusts was indeed too amazing. In the case of not hiding the flaws, Young Master Tang is still a little fan of Cangchi so far. Cangchi was able to pull him to eat together, and Young Master Tang was quite excited.
At the end of a meal, Master Tang asked what he should ask, and asked what he shouldn't ask, for this unabashed curious baby, Cangchi's general attitude is: if you can answer, then try to answer as briefly as possible; So after a meal, although Master Tang didn't ask for much useful information, he listened to the story to the fullest. The satisfied Young Master Tang really wanted to chat with Cangchi for a night, but unfortunately due to Cangchi's cold attitude, Young Master Tang could only give up.
After a busy day and a night, Ye Feiqiu's experiments have been almost done, and the rest is some sorting and specific analysis. A large number of researchers who stayed up late went to sleep, but Ye Feiqiu, the backbone, could only get up after a short break and continue to work.
After another half day of intense work, the preliminary test results of all the locust body tissues were finally sorted out. The word that appears most often in these categorized feedback reports is "strengthening", and under the influence of super mitochondria, the locust's body tissue seems to have embarked on a path of mutation that is constantly intensifying.
However, in this stack of complicated feedback reports, there are only two points that interest Ye Feiqiu the most: one is the locust's exoskeleton test report, and the other is the locust's digestive system test report.
Because the locust's exoskeleton has been alienated to the point where it can defend against large firearms, it is quite cumbersome in the process of decomposing and testing. But fortunately, even the locust's exoskeleton is as hard as steel, and it can only be slaughtered in front of modern cutting equipment. The main reason why the exoskeleton of mutant locusts has become so strong is that the density of chitin and collagen contained in it is abnormally tight, and the thickness of the exoskeleton also exceeds the normal body proportions of ordinary locusts.
The density and thickness of the exoskeleton are secondary, after all, no matter how dense and thick these biological materials are, they cannot be more powerful than the bullets fired by automatic rifles. The reason why the exoskeleton of the mutant locust can resist bullets is mainly because the strength of the chitin and collagen fibers contained in the exoskeleton of the mutant locust has been greatly strengthened, so strong that people will unconsciously associate with special high-strength man-made fibers!
Just because of the introduction of the only variable of super mitochondria, a small locust has mutated into a super biochemical factory, and the chitin and collagen fibers it synthesizes independently have actually undergone qualitative changes! The chemical technology accumulated by human beings for hundreds of thousands of years is not worth the changes that super mitochondria have changed to ordinary organisms in a few years!
Such a miracle can even be called a miracle, which really makes Ye Feiqiu feel jaw-dropping!
It is conceivable that with the gradual deepening of the influence of super mitochondria on living things, even a small locust will be embarrassed by the alienated physical fitness of today's most advanced military technology. Faced with such a future scene, Ye Feiqiu's thirst for human mutants became stronger and stronger.
If the advantages that human beings have accumulated through science and technology for thousands of years are defeated by mutated animals, and the path of human evolution is far behind by other animals, then the price that human beings have to pay for this lag may be the extremely cruel result of extinction!
Ye Feiqiu, who had recovered his mind from the test results of the mutant locust's exoskeleton, continued to review the feedback report of the mutant locust's digestive system. One of the most striking points is that the locust's sac and forestomach have undergone erosive mutations, although this section of the locust's foreintestine seems to have a lesion, but from the specific test results, this section of the locust's digestive tract is normal. In other words, the mutant locust's sac and forestomach have undergone some kind of trait mutation!
It is unclear what exactly causes this mutation. However, based on the fact that the other structures of the locust's body have become stronger, it can be inferred that this erosive abnormality of the locust's sac and forestomach is definitely not caused by the locust's problem with the strength of the body structure. This kind of erosion-like mutation is obviously an alteration to absorb something!
Such an answer seemed to be imminent, but Ye Feiqiu, who was rigorous by nature, could not make any arbitrary inferences based on the test reports fed back by a single mutant. What needs to be done now is to immediately increase the comprehensive study of the locust digestive system, and the mutated locust digestive system soaked in DMEM solution can also be used for some basic testing.
Feeling like grasping a ray of light in the darkness, Ye Feiqiu forcibly suppressed the excitement in his heart, and then called the little assistant Ma Xiuyi, who had just woken up now, and asked her to convey the specific intention of the experiment.
As for Ye Feiqiu himself, there is a more important thing to do. That is to catch a large number of ordinary locusts, and find the evolution of locusts through the bodies of these locusts that are still on the path of mutation. After all, the huge mutated locusts are all mutated from these most primitive locusts, and in such a huge locust sample, there must be an unusually clear path of mutation and evolution.
However, it is not a small task to find this evolutionary path from trillions of locust swarms. However, Ye Feiqiu has a killing move like Cangchi, and she feels that such a process should be simplified a lot.
When Ye Feiqiu came to the hotel to look for Cangchi, he found that Young Master Tang was also present. Young Master Tang has become a little fan of Cangchi these days, as long as he has the opportunity, he will pester Cangchi and let Cangchi teach him martial arts. Especially the martial arts that can hit the sky with fist shadows, Young Master Tang has wanted to learn it for a long time.
For Young Master Tang's delusions, Cangchi naturally disdains them. It is difficult for a young master with thin arms and legs like Young Master Tang to make him play a complete set of boxing techniques, let alone use a domineering technique like the Heaven Shaking Fist.
"Cangchi, you're all here. Ye Feiqiu greeted Cangchi quite naturally, and sat down slowly.
Young Master Tang, who was praying for Cangchi in every possible way, heard this familiar voice, and immediately turned his offensive and said to Ye Feiqiu: "Sister, are you also coming to dinner?" This meal is rare for Cangchi to treat, try to eat as much as possible. Huh, what about Xiuxiu, why didn't she come with you?"
After habitually ignoring Young Master Tang, Ye Feiqiu continued to say to Cangchi: "Later, you will need to rely on your essence to catch some ordinary locusts. Now that the research is at a critical juncture, I need a large number of common locusts for systematic research. ”
Hearing that he was going to catch locusts again, Young Master Tang, who had some lingering feelings about yesterday's events, said a little nervously: "My group of subordinates haven't eased up yet, let them take two days off first." After all, there are some wounded inside, and they need some time to recuperate. ”
"You don't need too many locusts, you just need to catch about a thousand locusts. The use of Cangchi's fragrance can be done on the top floor of this hotel. Ye Feiqiu explained casually.
"That's right. Then I'll ask my bodyguards to buy some insect nets. Young Master Tang said quite intimately.
In the end, Cang Chi didn't have time to say a word, and the matter was settled. But Cang Chi didn't care, he was busy eating, and it was good to have Young Master Tang to help him deal with these chores.
The follow-up arrest process was also unusually smooth, the urban area of Shapu City was full of locusts, and as soon as the fragrance of the essence spread, a large number of locusts pounced on them. It took only a few minutes for a large bag of locusts to be taken away.
A large number of locust samples arrived, and the intense work of the researchers began again. Since these ordinary locusts were only the parts of the digestive tract and forestomach that were studied with a strong purpose, the experimental data of a thousand copies were quickly summarized. Although these 1,000 locusts only account for a small part of the overall number of locusts, because they are randomly grabbed, they can also respond to many problems one-sidedly.
Ye Feiqiu took the feedback report, and after reading it carefully, he found that the number of locusts with abnormal changes in the sac and forestomach in this batch of locusts was very small, basically only a single digit. And the degree of variation in these bursa and forestomach is also very slight, which is basically difficult to notice if it were not for targeted research.
For these special locusts, Ye Feiqiu called up their body pictures and looked at them, and found that their body size was indeed larger than ordinary locusts. Ye Feiqiu, who felt that there was a play, immediately went to the laboratory and personally tested these special locusts. The results made Ye Feiqiu feel extremely excited, and the existence of super mitochondria was detected from the body tissues of these ordinary locusts!
After a thorough test of one of the locusts was conducted by the relevant personnel again, the results showed that the number of super mitochondria in the locust's digestive system was significantly greater than that of ordinary body tissue!