Seeing this scene, a solemnity flashed in Chen Chen's eyes, in the movie, David just took a small drop and put it in the wine, and infected an adult, causing the other party to transform into a humanoid monster in more than ten hours.

It can be seen that black water is by no means a bacterium or a virus, and it is a polymer compound with quite stable properties, otherwise it will not easily resist the damaging effect of alcohol.

At this time, the black knight followed David's operation in the movie, directly broke the tip of the popsicle, and then reached into a syringe from the side, and sucked an extremely small amount of black water liquid from the popsicle.

Some of this black water liquid is directly put into the microscope for analysis and observation, and some is injected into the body of a mouse that has been prepared on the side.

Soon, Chen Chen saw that the mice injected with black water began to show symptoms of fever and convulsions.

Soon, the mouse began to lose its hair all over its body, and the pink skin under the hair was exposed to the air, but at this moment, the other mice on the side seemed to notice the abnormality and all gathered around the sick mouse.

However, this heartwarming scene was immediately reversed, and I saw that the sick mouse suddenly jumped up, pounced on one of the mice, and tore at it!

For a moment, the little mouse was bitten to blood!

"When infected with black water, you will lose your mind and become extremely aggressive."

Chen Chen observed silently, and soon, the sick guinea pig easily killed the other mice in the same cage, and continued to record, "After being infected with the black water, the host's own strength will suddenly increase, and it can easily kill the same kind of people with similar body size, which is ......the same as in the movie."

After recording all these changes, Chen Chen only saw that the body of the caged mouse began to turn red to gray, and at the same time, it began to eat the flesh and blood of its own kind, as if to accumulate energy for the next mutation.

Soon, the mouse's body gradually grew a layer of cuticle, and began to transform into black, and under the black, there was a dark red flesh.

In the end, a layer of fine, dense, but steel-like spikes leaked out of its body, replacing the original white hair, and what was even more strange was that these spikes were still constantly going in and out, looking extremely weird......

"It's already a new species."

Chen Chen's heart was shaken, and he greeted a black knight, who immediately stepped forward, put on thickened protective gloves, and at the same time put the needle into the cage, gently held the mutated mouse, and began to absorb its blood sample.

After being caught, the mouse began to struggle violently, while emitting an extremely eerie scream.

This kind of sound is beyond the scope of the sound that the mouse can make, it is poignant and ferocious, obviously, this mouse has undergone essential changes in both genes and body structure.

It's just that although this little mouse has mutated extremely terrifyingly, after all, the size gap is there, and no matter how hard it struggles, it can't break free from the black knight's grasp.

However, before the blood of the mutated mice could be analyzed, Heishui analyzed it first.

When the composition of the black water was analyzed, it surprised Chen Chen.

"Are you sure you're not mistaken?"

Looking at the test report in his hand, Chen Chen showed an extremely strange look, "You mean to say that this black water is a protein composed of more than 20 kinds of amino acids?" ”

"Yes, a protein molecule that can infect a variety of carbon-based life."

Xiao X replied, "If it weren't for the facts, even I probably wouldn't believe that there are such strange protein molecules in the world." ”

"So, it's a prion-like thing?"

Chen Chen gasped, "And how is it infected?" Isn't it the same as prions? ”

"That's right, according to the blood test of the mice, the answer has been roughly obtained."

"However, unlike other prions, this protein does not deposit in the brain and damage the brains of living organisms, but directly changes the gene chain of humans. ”

After hearing this, Chen Chen completely understood.

The so-called prions are not actually viruses, because in international textbooks, viruses can be classified into the ranks of organisms, but prions are not considered organisms, but are self-replicating and infectious factors composed of proteins alone.

However, prions, like conventional viruses, are filterable, infectious, and pathogenic, but they are much smaller than the smallest known conventional viruses, and the virion structure cannot be observed under electron microscopy, and there is no immune effect.

Chen Chen continued to look down, and immediately understood why Blackwater was a prion.

Because after the prion protein of black water enters the host, the normal PRP protein of the human body will be easily assimilated by the prion protein of black water, and the normal configuration of the protein will be changed into the molecular structure of black water, and it will increase geometrically and expand rapidly.

But if that's it, at most, black water is a new type of prion that is rapid and infectious, but what is even more amazing is that the prion protein of black water not only has the ability to assimilate proteins in the host, but also has the ability to disassemble nucleic acids in the host!

When the prion protein of the black water encounters the nucleic acid strand of the host, it seems to trigger some kind of program to begin to disassemble the nucleic acid strand of the host's DNA and recombine it into a new form.

After the nucleic acid strand is recombined, the prion protein of black water will also wrap this new nucleic acid strand to form a new viral structure.

So far, the prion of the black water has successfully evolved into a complete virus by plundering the DNA of the organism, and this virus will work together with the black water to re-modify the host's body.

So, the scene presented by the guinea pig's body just now completely happened......

After reading the report in his hand, Chen Chen's expression became even more weird, "No wonder it can be ingested by the USB flash drive, I didn't expect that black water turned out to be a substance similar to prions, but in my opinion, the prion protein of black water is more like a man-made protein robot......"

"I feel that way, too."

Little X echoed, "Blackwater is far hundreds or thousands of times more magical than prions, and it can't be defined by a prion at all. ”

"After all, it is the supreme creation of the engineer civilization."

Chen Chen nodded and said with emotion, "But here, I finally understand the preciousness of black water, compared to black water, the T virus is like an inferior toy, and most of the creatures infected by the T virus have the disadvantages of instability, such as zombies, only products that are infected from the fertilized egg stage can become healthy mutant creatures." ”

"But black water is different, it can be directly used on adult life, any organism can directly mutate into a new type of species after contact with black water, and what is more commendable is that this new species has the ability to reproduce, and can form a new population independently, unlike the T virus, which can only mutate alone and cannot continue."

"Doesn't that mean that black water can accelerate the evolution of life?"

Little X asked.

"No, there's still a gap with evolution."

However, Chen Chen was speechless and shook his head, "What is evolution?" Evolution that constantly adapts to the environment can be called evolution, and this is not the case with black water at all, and it can be understood from the fate of the mouse that the changes caused by this black water should be called uncontrollable mutation. ”

"And the direction of this mutation is indefinite, it may go in a good direction or a bad direction, and even human beings are very likely to lose the characteristics and thoughts of higher creatures after infection, just like in the movie......"

"Ah, if blackwater is so dangerous, then why are you studying it?" Little X was suddenly a little puzzled.

"Black water is dangerous, but there are two sides to everything."

Chen Chen smiled, "After all, it is a biological weapon that is dozens or even hundreds of times more powerful than the T virus, and it is definitely very useful, not to mention ...... Engineers can live for more than 300,000 years, and humans are a combination of engineers and black water, so is it possible that we can find out the secret of engineers' longevity from black water? ”