Chapter 286 The Secret of Life (Medium)

The interior of the cabin was very simple, except for the simple tables, chairs and benches, the most striking thing was the turquoise vine hanging from the roof, the end of which did not produce strange flowers or fruits, but a conical thing like a lampshade, which emitted a faint blue light from the inside. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoSeveral strangely shaped flying insects fluttered around that little bit of blue light, and the light cast their shadows onto the walls of the room.

The old man motioned for the two to sit down, poured water for them, and then sat between them and smiled silently.

Lin Feng glanced at the tea bowl in front of him, it was carved out of wood, and the traces of knife cutting were clearly visible on the wall of the bowl. The "tea" in the bowl is pale cyan, like the juice of some kind of plant. Lin Feng took a slight breath, and the faint smell of "tea" entered his nasal cavity, which was captured by olfactory cells, and it was found that there were no toxins in the brain. Lin Feng gestured to Jiang Lihua, and then the two of them each took a sip. The "tea" is fragrant in the mouth and slightly sweet.

Lin Feng put down the tea bowl and asked straight to the point, "Are you Professor Golas?"

The old man nodded, "That's right, I'm Golas, the former president of the Academy of Sciences of the Red Sun Empire!" Goras proudly said the last title.

Hearing the other party's such a hearty admission made Lin Feng a little overwhelmed. Since that kind of change happened on Neptune, Lin Feng's only purpose when he came to Earth was to find the person he was sorry for in Uncle Gong's mouth, and then a series of unpredictable things happened, and Lin Feng knew that his identity was not as he imagined, just a small miner. Immediately, he began to search for his true identity. originally thought that if he found Wang Haibo, he would be able to reveal the answer to this question, but he was disappointed again. So, when he actually met Golas, he couldn't speak. Because he is afraid that the other party will tell him again, and to know who you really are, you must go to whom!

Goras smiled and looked at Lin Feng, who was frowning, and said, "I know that both of you have a stomach full of questions to ask me, especially you," Goras looked at Lin Feng, "About your true identity, and you," Golas turned to Jiang Lihua, "About your family's strange illness and your ancestor Jiang Shaojian!"

The two of them looked at each other, and it seemed that Goras had expected that they would find this place, so he had been prepared for a long time.

Goras took a deep breath and said, "Uh-huh, where to start?" He looked around the room, his eyes fell on the strange plant lamp hanging from the roof, and he plucked a leaf from it and said, "Well, let's just say this, this plant is newly bred by me, and I call it the 'Lamp Tree'." Actually, the reason is very simple, I took the genes of some kind of glowing deep-sea fish and fireflies on the earth, implanted them into the chromosomes of this plant, and then it worked. Although it is easy to say, this experiment took me two years. Why do I say this, I just want to tell you about the ultimate meaning of life!"

Goras paused deliberately, got up from his chair, and began to pace around the room, "What is the ultimate meaning of life? The zygote is just a small and simple cell, with no nervous system, no digestive system, no secretion system, no body system that life should have, just a thin membrane wrapping several organelles and a nucleus. It is this simple life structure, after 20 years of evolution, will eventually become a life form with various functions and cognition. It goes through the process of growth, reproduction, and death, and finally completes the whole process of life. This is a very common thing, so common that no one pays attention to it, but it is such an inconspicuous thing, and there is a meaning of life in it. ”

Goras stood in front of the wall, stroking the vines of the plants that crawled on the wall, "After a fertilized egg grows into a complete living body, it will pass on the original material contained in the nucleus through sperm and eggs, and even after the life body dies, the DNA will continue to be inherited as a collection of all the information of his life." In other words, no matter how a person's body changes, the genetic material never changes. When a person is alive, his genetic material is in his cells, and after he dies, the genetic material does not die out, but is transferred to his offspring through the sperm and egg. And it is passed down from generation to generation. ”

Goras looked at the lamp tree, "Even passing it down through different kinds of life, like this lamp tree." Fireflies and glowing fish are originally animals, but through my efforts, their genes can be passed on by plants forever, even after both animals are extinct, this glowing gene will not disappear. This is the meaning of life!" his gaze fell back on Lin Feng and Jiang Lihua, "The meaning of life is a carrier, a carrier that can maintain heredity. To put it simply, the purpose of our existence is to ensure that genes can be inherited forever. ”

"According to you, are we just a petri dish of genes?" Jiang Lihua asked rhetorically.

"Your analogy is more apt than mine," Goras's eyes lit up, "and that's what it means! Isn't it? The only thing we do from the time of a fertilized egg is to provide the DNA with the nutrients it needs to replicate and reproduce, and the DNA is like a crazy tumor virus, which reproduces itself like crazy, and the result of its reproduction is our organism. The difference between it and viruses is that the reproduced organisms have a life expectancy, which is why life has cycles, that is, it will die. However, after research, it has been found that this is also a small trick of DNA, it also seems to know that the organism it reproduces itself will also change with the changes in the surrounding environment, in order to ensure that the body adapts well to the changes in the environment, so it sets up a death program by itself, in order to ensure that the replicated body recombines in a certain natural cycle to produce the diversity of the body, which is also a characteristic of DNA over viruses. ”

Seeing that the two had no other objections, Goras continued: "Another characteristic of DNA, which is also crucial to its inheritance, is evolution. In addition to reorganizing and generating the diversity of the organism to adapt to the surrounding environment, it has developed evolutionary functions, that is, to evolve new functions according to the surrounding environment to ensure the adaptability of the organism. The evolution of DNA is now the evolution of living things. This is the essence of Darwin's theory of evolution, the great naturalist of antiquity. Through evolution, DNA has better overcome the errors that occur in the process of reproduction and is more likely to adapt to changes in the environment. All in all, DNA does with only one purpose, which is to ensure its own heredity and development. But a DNA molecule can't do this on its own, so it has to be implemented through its carrier. That's what life is all about. This is what it means from the perspective of our lives themselves. Of course, we don't mean anything to DNA!"

"But fortunately, DNA probably wouldn't have imagined that one day, his body would produce so-called intelligence, and study it in reverse, just as we don't think of getting up together one morning and discovering that the alarm clock on the bedside table has developed intelligence. As the highest part of life, the greatest advantage of human beings is, of course, our thinking. The purpose of thinking is also to better understand the surrounding environment, and then better adapt. Goras sat back in his chair, took a sip of tea, and continued: "However, another consequence of the mind is desire. Human beings are always not satisfied with what they have, and of course, on the other hand, this is the main driving force for human development. It is also an inevitable factor in the emergence of ability genes. ”

Goras coughed and said, "With the development of science and technology, the living space of human beings is constantly expanding, and the surrounding environment is undergoing drastic changes. DNA quietly evolved to ensure that its organism adapts to this change, and the ability gene appears. Ability genes cause the body to generate forces beyond its tolerance, giving the body the power to dramatically alter its surroundings to suit itself. This is the first time that DNA has prompted the body to act in such a subjective way. The scientific community believes that the emergence of ability genes represents the development of life entering a new level, that is, from a carrier to the main body. It is conceivable that in the near future, after life has mastered all the mysteries, it will take DNA and let it serve the development of life!"

A smug smile bloomed on Goras's face, "This cave you see is my attempt at this new theory. As it turned out, the scientist's prediction was correct. Tens of thousands of years ago, when people learned about the composition of DNA and successfully cloned or genetically modified something, they thought they had discovered God's secret, but in fact, it was just playing at best. Look here," he said, standing up, opening the door of the cabin, and pointing to the cave outside, "look here, this is the secret of God, the secret of life." ”

Golas looked at Lin Feng and Jiang Lihua excitedly, "However, compared to the two of you, the things outside look like you're playing at home!"

(This chapter takes a lot of brain cells, and the next few chapters will detail the origins of abilities, Golas's theory of creation, and the ins and outs of a series of events to pave the way for the rest of the story.) ）