The reason why Chen Chen ingested black water was, in the final analysis, for the technique of immortality.

Why is Chen Chen obsessed with immortality? In other words, why do human beings pursue immortality?

Because, this is an inevitable phenomenon.

With the increasing development of science and technology, human beings are inevitably unwilling to live only a short period of time, compared to the long river of time, which is often measured in hundreds of millions of years, a hundred years of time is like a snap of a finger, and there is almost no meaning.

Moreover, with the increasing development of science and technology, the accumulation of knowledge is becoming more and more difficult.

However, in modern times, only one foundation can be learned in nine years of compulsory education, and human knowledge is divided into hundreds of branches, and a person can only achieve achievements in a few branches in his life.

And the accumulation of this kind of civilization knowledge will only become more and more abundant, is it said that in the future, a person will have to carry out decades of compulsory education?

When a person finally learns the knowledge of a field, but is already dying, and then cremated into the earth directly before a few years?

Obviously, no one wants to do this, and if human civilization wants to move forward, the need for immortality will become more and more urgent, and this is a general trend that will not be shifted by anyone's will.

In Chen Chen's cognition, there are about three paths to eternal life for human beings to choose from.

Article 1: Retain the original body, genetic evolution.

It is true that the conventional way of human evolution is to use reproduction as a means to synchronize the evolution of the population, but this does not mean that human beings cannot choose more efficient evolutionary methods, such as genes.

The use of genetic technology to strengthen itself so that human beings can be separated from the race and produce evolutionary phenomena in advance, thereby prolonging life.

This is the most ideal path.

Why? Because man is a delicate and complex machine, it is only organic matter that makes up this machine, not steel.

Perhaps, this body is extremely fragile, so fragile that a bullet or a sharp knife can take away a person's life, but human beings have the ability to reproduce and evolve, have thoughts, consciousness, creativity, and subjective initiative.

All of this is brought about by this fragile body.

The human body is a pearl born in the evolution of millions of years of life, and it is the most magnificent miracle of nature.

As long as human beings have a full body, the possibilities are endless.

Article 2: Flesh and blood are weak, and machinery soars.

Although this path is not as potential as the first, it is a path that is easier to live forever and even close to eternal life.

For example, the biomimetic technology that Chen Chen is vigorously developing allows life to survive longer by replacing old organs, just like replacing parts of a machine.

Even more radical, there is the option of keeping only the brain and replacing the whole body with a machine, so that the human lifespan is almost equal to the lifespan of the brain.

The lifespan of the brain alone is 150 years, and if it is paired with some special technology, it may be possible to multiply the lifespan of the brain several times.

It's just that although this method is easier to make people immortal and easier to ensure the safety of life, it lacks the potential that part of life should exist, so unless civilization comes to an end, Chen Chen will not regard this road as the main road.

And the third and final path is the path of soul ascension.

The simple gist of this path is to abandon the body and remain in the form of a soul, allowing humanity to develop into a civilization that is ubiquitous but disembodied.

It's just that modern science has not yet confirmed the existence of the soul, and this path can only be imagined.

Chen Chen still remembers what Professor Wang Xi said: "We human beings still know nothing about the vast sea of truth, and perhaps even the unattainable dream of eternal life is only the first step in the pursuit of truth......

It was this sentence that opened Chen Chen's desire for immortality.

When he came back to his senses, at this time, Chen Chen was staring at a humanoid monster in the isolation room covered in black armor with a head like a winter melon, revealing an inquiring look.

This monster was an ordinary human a day ago.

His name was Barton, and he was a murderer who was sentenced to life in prison, and was later purchased by Chen Chen, and has been kept in the Delta-class test subject dormitory at the Spire Experimental Base.

However, after being injected with five milliliters of black water yesterday, this delta subject began his mutation path.

The subject first showed pathological signs of flushing and fever, followed by generalized hemorrhage, confusion, and finally a state of shock.

The internal manifestation of the human body is that the subject's proteins are rapidly converted into black water prion proteins, and these prion proteins also begin to break down the DNA in the subject's body and combine with DNA fragments to form a retrovirus that only works on the subject itself.

Then, due to the principle of retrovirus, the subject began to undergo drastic physical mutations, and in the process of mutation, the subject developed a strong hunger pang, and any organic matter and protein was swallowed by him as food.

Until this morning, the subject continued to sleep and wake up, and finally lost consciousness completely, and became an ugly monster with low intelligence and no humanity.

"Black water can promote the strong and rapid division of biological cells, the mutation rate increases greatly, produces various abnormal cells, and eventually grows into new biological ......"

Chen Chen stated the role of black water while looking at the monster in the isolation room and sighed, "However, because when the genes of the organism itself are changed in an instant, the cooperation of individual proteins, enzymes and DNA itself will lead to thousands of unpredictable results, so there is no need to be surprised what the experimental subject has become, it's just ...... It's ugly......"

"However, after being infected by black water, the test subject has an extremely high energy metabolism efficiency and an extremely fast cell division rate that the human body does not have."

Little X added, "Before the injection of black water, the subject weighed 55 kilograms, and after the injection of black water, the subject swallowed food equal to his own weight for five hours, and only half of this food was converted into useless urine and feces to be excreted from the body, and the rest was converted into the weight of the subject itself. ”

Chen Chen looked at the report in his hand, and sure enough, the weight of the mutated experimental body now weighed 80 kilograms, which was 25 kilograms more than before.

"That's probably why the aliens grow so quickly."

Looking at the test subjects that had become taller, Chen Chen pondered, "In the movie, the alien can often grow from a small point to a beast weighing hundreds of kilograms in a few hours, although the alien is rarely shown to eat in the movie, but now it seems that the alien still needs to eat, and it has a larger amount of food than a human." ”

Speaking of this, Chen Chen suddenly took two steps forward, walked to the window of the isolation room, and looked at the test subject carefully.

As Chen Chen approached, the test subject in the isolation room suddenly burst out with a scream, and then pounced in front of Chen Chen!

Boom!

There was a dull crash, and the subject slammed headfirst into the glass of the isolation cell, splattering a large amount of yellowish blood on the glass.

"Intelligence is low."

Xiao X said regretfully, "And the blood is not corrosive, except for a head that is three points similar to the alien, the experimental subject in front of him can only be regarded as an alternative zombie at best." ”

"It's normal, in the movie, the process of the birth of the alien must involve the engineer family."

Chen Chen explained, "The alien exoskeleton has a mechanical style, which obviously comes from the exoskeleton structure worn by the engineer family, and later in "Alien: Contract", a spore plant infected with black water, after this spore re-infects the human body, it will give birth to a white alien without a mechanical exoskeleton, which is very revealing. ”

"So, the acid blood of the alien may also come from the Engineer family."

Thinking of this, Chen Chen snapped his fingers lightly, "Okay, let's dissect and slice this monster, I need a map of the organ structure of his whole body, as well as a genetic map ......"

"Understood."

……

It took another few hours, and when Chen Chen walked out of the laboratory, he breathed a sigh of relief.

To Chen Chen's disappointment, until the test subject was thoroughly dissected and sliced, Chen Chen did not find anything unusual, the test subject did undergo genetic recombination, but after the recombination, it was only a cruel and violent beast without intelligence.

Even the structure of the brain has become much smaller, and it is not as malleable as humans at all.

However, Chen Chen knew that this was actually a normal phenomenon, human beings could be regarded as the supreme product of the earth, the only advanced life, it was impossible for the black water to mutate at any time, and the human race could mutate even better than before.

The only thing that surprised Chen Chen was that the experimental subject, which was originally a male, found immature reproductive organs in the body of the experimental subject when he dissected it.

It is a cystic structure that exists in the lower abdomen, and when it is opened, it is found to be a dense pile of tadpole-like larvae.

Those tadpole-like larvae are transparent and have a simple biological structure, but they are real life, they are usually conceived in the cyst, and when it is critical, they will be released.

Looking at the structure of this cyst, Xiao X can roughly determine that when these tadpole-like larvae mature, they can be sprayed out through the navel of the experimental subject, so as to burrow into the target's internal parasitic target.

This is the way this new species reproduces, parasitic reproduction similar to that of the alien, simple but terrifying.

At present, it seems that it is not necessary to think about strengthening the human body with black water for the time being, drinking it is completely deadly, and the lethality is comparable to paraquat, but if it is used to develop biological weapons, it should still be relatively easy.

Next, one of Chen Chen's research directions is to combine black water with sporophytes to form the kind of spores that can parasitize the human body in the movie "Alien: Contract".

I don't know how David in the movie studied it, that kind of spores do not mutate humans after parasitic the human body, but form an embryo in the human body.

Next, the embryo will grow silently until it is old enough to break away from the human body, and then it will burst out of its back or chest and grow into a kind of alien-like white-skinned monster.

I have to say that Chen Chen still has a long way to go in the study of black water.

However, at present, it seems that the reproduction methods of the monsters created by the black water are all parasitic reproduction, even the perfect creature that was finally born, the alien, this reproduction method made Chen Chen think of a virus.

A virus called Golgotha, known simply as the G virus.

This virus is almost the same as black water, it can also mutate the genes of living organisms, resurrect the dead, and even infect a new species based on a life.

And it even gave rise to a title: the 'Extremely Evil Substance' that invaded the realm of the gods.

Crucially, the G virus is modified from the T virus.

"You can try to combine black water with the T virus, maybe you can make new discoveries......"

Chen Chen had a flash of inspiration and thought silently.