Chapter 0475: Biological Laboratory
Gifted Predatory Aliens!
According to the experimental data of the chip, this alien insect can only perform talent plunder once in its lifetime, that is, the moment it evolves from larva to adult.
And this plundering of it has its limitations.
17% of the genetic fragments are the upper limit of this alien innate ability to prey on the host. If this upper limit is exceeded, too many foreign gene fragments will cause the original gene to become unstable, causing the gene chain to disintegrate.
And this obviously does not achieve the goal of Grim to obtain 100% of the gene chain of the target organism!
The wizarding world is so powerful and prosperous, to say that no wizard has ever discovered the strange abilities of this alien insect, even Grim himself does not believe it. However, the wizarding world has not yet developed a perfect microscopic system, which also leads to the fact that even the most powerful wizard in this world can only extend the witchcraft tentacles to the level of material molecules.
Further down, when the study of witchcraft reaches the atomic level, the high-ranking wizards become helpless.
This is actually an inevitability!
In the previous life, the earth was a low-demon world and lacked the existence of extraordinary powers, so there was an exact science for the sake of it. Even the most ordinary human beings can see a finer level of matter molecules through auxiliary facilities such as microscopes.
And in the social environment of the high devil, no matter how difficult the disease is on the mortal body, it can be treated through a small 'removal technique'. It's really not good, a bottle of healing potion mixed with the water of life can also bring the dead back to life and rejuvenate.
It is precisely because of the convenience and magic of supernatural power that all wizards take witchcraft as the only way to solve problems when they encounter them. This has also led to the serious lag of the natural sciences, humanities, social sciences, and exact sciences in the major material planes.
And all of this, inevitably, has been replaced by a certain system of witchcraft!
The organ transplantation possessed by the earth also exists in the High Demon World, and it is more convenient and more rude. The wizard involved in the operation does not even have to be proficient in human organs and vivisection at all, but only needs a little witchcraft of 'organ activation'.
Don't look at the blood they make every biological dissection, and the operating table is like a slaughterhouse, but the creatures of the High Magic World also have a super vitality far ten times that of the creatures on Earth. No matter how rudimentary the surgical conditions are, no matter how rough the surgical process is, when the light of extraordinary power shines on them, the anatomical subject is still alive and violent.
The artificial intelligence possessed by the earth can also be found in the high magic world, that is, the tower spirit owned by the top witch tower.
Even when the earthlings were still worried about the 'mutiny' of artificial intelligence, the wizards had tamed the tower spirit into the most loyal and reliable servant. Many wizards spend their entire lives in their own wizard towers. Some particularly infatuated wizards, in order to achieve the goal of staying with their lover for life, fused the soul of their lover who died halfway with Ta Ling.
And the technology of stripping the soul and fusing the soul with matter is a level that is difficult to reach even if the earth's technology has developed to a very high degree.
Therefore, in two different environments, similar material conditions gave birth to two completely different ways of civilization.
Technological civilization and witchcraft civilization!
As a witness of the two civilizations, Grim belongs to an authentic wizard, but the chip in his mind is full of the crystallization of scientific and technological civilization. Therefore, when he worked hard to bring the two civilizations together, he also had a life pattern and soul level that far exceeded that of ordinary wizards.
When other wizards are in his position, they are still indulged in all kinds of intrigues and power struggles, but he always can't help but want to lift the veil that blindfolds his eyes, so that he can see the reality of this world with his own eyes!
It was this condescending perspective of life that made him immediately keenly aware of the power of this magical insect.
Of course, this kind of power is difficult for ordinary wizards to reach, and only an individual like him, who is in both civilizations, can find a feasible way to bypass the upper limit of gene absorption.
As a result, over the past few days, Grim has devoted almost half of his time and energy to the study of alien insects. Although no breakthroughs have been made for the time being, several alternatives proposed by the chip have been verified one by one.
At present, Grim is working at full power to extract the mysterious substance capable of plundering the genes of life from the body of the magical alien. And this is undoubtedly extremely time-consuming and energy-consuming!
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It's a magical biology lab.
The entire wall is emitted with a bright and soft colorless white light, illuminating the inside.
But in the center of the laboratory, a dozen translucent cocoons stand tall. Beneath the cocoon is a thick layer of flesh that crawls like a fungus blanket across the floor of the biology lab, and in some places even extends to the walls.
The cocoon and the fungus blanket are connected by several thick flesh tubes that cling to the translucent surface of the cocoon, growing like blood vessels in a human heart, and constantly transporting yellowish nutrients to it.
Through the translucent cocoon membrane, you can vaguely see embryos of different sizes floating in the cocoon. Judging from their shape, size and body characteristics, the embryos in these cocoons should all belong to different stages of development after the asexual proliferation of the same living organism.
And in the huge cocoon bubble in the center, the mysterious insect that Grim captured from Medusa's body was floating in it with its limbs open, and even the scorpion tail was hanging softly, as if it was in a state of deep anesthesia.
As for Grim, the owner of this biological laboratory, he is hovering between cocoons at the moment, silently observing the evolution and development direction of each embryo.
Lacking the support of exact science, it would be difficult for Grim to build an Earth-like biolab from scratch. Therefore, Grim borrowed the thinking of earth biological science and borrowed the means of witchcraft civilization to create such a magical version of the biological laboratory.
The nutrient solution that supports the survival of alien insects and embryos contains almost all the nutrients needed for biological evolution, and it is a magical potion carefully concocted by Gargamel, the leading apothecary of the Flame Throne, according to the instructions and requirements of Grim.
Any life embryo is put into it, and it can complete the evolution from a young body to a mature body in the shortest speed under the stimulation of ultra-concentrated life medicine. And this process is still controllable, and the concentration of life elixirs entered at every moment is under the control of Grim, the master of the laboratory.
Due to the preciousness of the insects, even though Grim searched the old spider's nest carefully afterwards, he could not find the second one. Therefore, in order to avoid the complete destruction of such a precious experimental specimen due to his own operation error, the first thing Grim needs to do before extracting the genetic fragments of the alien worm is to cultivate a large number of substitutes for the alien specimens.
Although this insect is only a larvae, in the depth scan of the chip, Grim still successfully extracted its life genetic material.
So, the next thing is to work hard to cultivate Worm 2, Worm 3, and Worm Four......
When the alien specimen is not unique, some in-depth work of sample slicing and gene isolation can also be put on the agenda.
Grim soon came to a cocoon bubble, and in the pale yellow nutrient solution, an irregular lump of flesh the size of a palm was floating inside. More than a dozen long fleshy tentacles hung down the side of the flesh and waved endlessly, allowing 'it' to swim freely in it like a fish.
Although there are no eyes, ears, mouth, nose or other body organs in 'it', there is no hidden life cycle system found in the flesh. But when Grim's gaze rested on the piece of flesh through the cocoon, 'it' stopped all activity like a frightened little beast and sank motionless to the bottom of the cocoon.
Playing dead?
This seems to be the survivability that only intermediate intelligent beings can master!
Could it be that such an inconspicuous 'piece of meat' already possessed the intelligence required by a mid-level life form?
Grim grinned silently.
The magic of the life system of the wizarding world is really still above the limits of its own imagination, and any past cognition and laws are shackles for subsequent research and exploration. If you want to progress in this new occult system, the most important thing is to get rid of the distractions of the inherent thinking in your mind.
Grim silently drew a rune in the air and smashed it into the fungus blanket beneath him.
As the flesh tube coiled around the cocoon trembled slightly, streams of rich life elixir were injected into the cocoon bubble. Grim, on the other hand, lay on his stomach on the cocoon, his eyes fixed on the reaction of the 'piece of meat' for a moment.
The piece of meat that was still 'pretending to be dead' was stimulated by the strong life potion, and the entire 'body' began to shake violently. More than a dozen fleshy tentacles retracted into their bodies, and the pieces of flesh began to expand and deform incessantly.
In Grimm's near-see-through microarray scans and psychic perceptions, the nutrient solution is constantly sucked into the body, and then quickly transformed into the corresponding flesh and blood tissue and internal organs. Some musculoskeletal forms out of nothing, and gradually develops into shape, and then the muscle fibers attached to them are stretched into suitable positions, and spliced together to form the initial model of the future alien framework.
This process is magical and mysterious, with both the rigor of life sciences and the magic of mysterious powers, which makes Grim secretly admire while monitoring.
But just as the skeletal framework of the insect was built, an inexplicable genetic shock suddenly destroyed it all.
A chain break occurred at the genetic level, causing the alien insect in the middle of evolution to explode into a sky of blood sauce.
This time the burst was so neat and uniform that there was not even a trace of flesh left in the cocoon bubble, and it turned into fine flesh foam, evenly coating the cocoon film a dazzling blood red.
Grim straightened up in disappointment.
In my mind, a series of prompts from the chip sounded.
"Drop, the 125th cloned sample failed to evolve...... Failure reason: Gene strand break...... Residual samples are recommended to be destroyed for disposal......"