Chapter 279: Genetic Recombination
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"It's not a gene fragment in Tang Lin's body, could it be that there are two genetic recombinations carried out by the research institute?" Tang Fang fell into deep thought. Genes that change their appearance all the time, he's really the first time he's been in contact with them.
"Emma, did you hear what the Queen of Worms said? Do you have any comments? β
"Commander, the model of the gene fragment transmitted after passing through the guΓ² worm can analyze that this is an aggressive gene similar to a supercomputer virus, which can replicate and regenerate rapidly, and has super adaptability and mutation. It parasitizes the primary DNA strand of the target organism through guΓ², and then injects its own genetic code to achieve the ability to engulf and assimilate the target. β
"Its characteristics are somewhat similar to cancer cells, but it is more powerful and more evolutionary, and by analyzing the composition of DNA, it is certain that, first, it can freely control the growth and distribution of mitochondria in the cell, and second, it can independently regulate the combination, structure, and sequencing of genes, so that the tissues and organs of organic organisms can evolve in the direction it wants."
"What!" Tang Fang's face changed greatly after hearing this, what the hell is this TM, this thing is not so much a fragment of the gene of an unknown organism, but a parasite acting on the DNA level of the organism.
"Emma, is there a treatment for this condition?"
"I'm sorry Commander, because there is no actual research data on this strange creature in the library, the Star Rail Command Center can only extrapolate and analyze the specimens, and cannot give an effective treatment plan for travel."
"Good. I see, you step aside. "For Emma's powerlessness, Tang Fang feels normal. According to the level of human technology in Interstellar 2, Adjutant Emma is just a relatively advanced analog intelligent machine, and she is still far from artificial intelligence, so use her as a scientist. Obviously, it is difficult to strengthen the machine.
"Master, I might be able to give it a try." Just when Tang was embarrassed, the queen automatically asked for help.
"Do you have a way?" Tang Fang asked.
"Yes, I can secrete a protein solution rich in mitokinase, which can promote the rapid regeneration of damaged tissues of the organism, to paraphrase the owner's name, for feeding."
"In addition to treating organisms, there is actually another role for feeding fluids. Tong guΓ² combines a catalyst secreted by the neck glands to quickly grow hatchery larvae. β
"Oh?" Tang Fang raised his eyebrows: "Talk about the point." β
"Yes. Master. There are many variants of the catalytic fluid secreted by the neck glands, and if human DNA is added in combination with the feeding fluid, it should be possible to achieve rapid regeneration of cells in a specific range. Roy's physical condition is that the mutant cells dominate the confrontation, hindering the growth of normal human cells, if it can accelerate the growth of normal human cells and improve the vitality of immune and phagocytic cells, it should be able to help his condition. β
"Definitely. You have a lot of point. Tang Fang turned his head to look at the medical cabin with his eyes open, forgetting the pain for a moment. Roy, who was looking at the insect queen with a curious face, ordered: "It's better to act than to move, let's start." β
"Yes, my master." As the hoarse voice of the queen faded, a faint blue light climbed the back of its neck, and then. It opened its mouth and squirted a mouthful of green liquid into Roy's body.
As soon as the glowing liquid touched the boy's body, it instantly sank into the flesh like a living thing.
The rapidly bulging granulation in the lower abdomen suddenly stopped, and gradually, a little whiteness appeared from the root of the flesh bud, like a light slowly turning on. The white radiant area is getting bigger and bigger, and the granulation slowly shrinks back and becomes smoother.
One, two, three......
The cells of the human body gradually competed for the peak, and a little bit of whiteness spread like a prairie fire, spreading on Roy's body, hooking into pieces.
"It works, it really works." Tang Fang's face was happy.
"Poof!" At this moment, the queen squirted out a second mouthful of green liquid.
The grayish-black erosion is like the sea water at a low tide, atrophiing and falling off at a rate that is discernible to the naked eye, first in the lower abdomen, lower limbs, then in the chest, and back.
After about 2 minutes of effort, all parts of Roy's body were restored except for his right arm. The creepy granulations are gone, the foamy herpes are gone, and the whole body is like a newborn baby, stealing a delicate and shiny.
Perhaps it was because he felt the long-lost touch, or when he saw the half-cut body that had been restored to its original state, Roy's whole person was like a puppet, and he looked at Tang Fang in front of him blankly: "Brother Tarossa, I'...... I'm not dreaming, am I? β
"Don't rush to talk yet, there's one last point." After comforting him, Tang Fang turned his head to look at the insect queen.
"Poof!" Another mouthful of green liquid, right in Roy's right arm.
However, to Tang Fang's surprise, this time, the feeding of the insect queen did not work, and after waiting for a long time, there was no shadow of the new skin, only a gray-black mass.
"What's going on?"
The insect queen tilted her head and made a very humane and curious expression: "I don't know." β
"Don't know?" Tang Fang rolled his eyes: "Then don't think of a way quickly, it's too annoying to fall short or something." β
The queen didn't dare to slack off, and leaned forward, and the appendage thrust towards Roy's right arm.
"Ding." There was a sound like a stone crashing.
"Huh?" Tang Fang was startled, looked down carefully, and saw that the sharp appendage of the insect queen was as sharp as mud and could not pierce Roy's right arm.
Only then did he notice that the black-gray substance on Roy's right arm was different from the previous eroded and festering tissues, but instead turned into a black crystal like scales, with no undulating granulations or flickering herpes, quiet as a biomimetic robotic arm.
Everyone and one worm were all stunned, only Roy was still at a loss because he didn't know.
"Are you exerting yourself?"
"Hard."
Can't stab even harder? Tang Fang felt that his brain was a little too much to turn around, although the attack power of a pair of short appendages at the front of the insect queen was limited, but it was still very easy to pierce an iron weapon or cut through a metal or something. But why can't it pierce Roy's skin, could it be that this strange right arm is harder than ironstone?
"Try again."
The worm then the appendage down. It was still a crisp sound of "ding", not to mention scratching, and there was not even a trace left.
Tang Fang's face became a little gloomy, and the green liquid concocted by the queen of worms actually failed. Obviously, it was fruitful just now, why is it useless in the blink of an eye?
He turned his head to look at Roy, then at his right arm. Some are undecided, and the best thing to do right now is to cut off this arm. After all, the rest of Roy's body had been restored to its original state, and the loss of a right arm was not enough to endanger his life, and it was not difficult to cultivate a new one with the help of feeding.
Thinking of this, he squinted at Roy's right shoulder, and was about to summon the fanatic to act, when suddenly. Roy's right arm moved, and the black five fingers like demonic claws contracted and stretched a few times, and then with a slight stroke, the transparent polymer plastic plate on the left side of the medical cabin was split in two with a "whoosh", and the boy straightened up and sat up.
Tang Fang was startled, and couldn't help but take a small step back, and when he looked at Roy, he was also confused. I couldn't help but ask, "Roy, how do you feel?" β
"Big Brother Tarossa. I...... I am fine. Roy glanced at his right arm a little confused, and tried to move it, very nimble, just like before.
Tang Fang looked at his right arm with a puzzled expression: "Can you control it?" No discomfort? β
"Well, it's normal, just like before." Roy nodded. Contracted his five fingers, and then his face changed slightly: "But ......"
"But what?" Tang Fang said urgently.
"It seems to be a little different, I can feel a will flowing in my right arm, and ...... There is also an unknown energy. β
"Be careful, it's not a big mistake, you can't avoid ......," he was about to say what he was going to do.
The surface of Roy's right arm, which was originally pitch black like a magic crystal, swelled. The hard lens softened and contracted, the flesh turned outward, and in a few breaths, a new arm appeared in front of them.
Not only Tang Fang was stunned, but even Roy was stunned, and stammered: "Tower...... Big Brother Tarosa, this ...... What the hell is going on? I...... I seem to be able to ...... It seems to be able to control that consciousness. β
"Queen, check Roy's right arm."
"Yes, master." After saying that, the insect queen stretched out her appendage again and stabbed the young man's right arm.
Perhaps it was fear or reflex, Roy closed his eyes in fright.
"Ding." There was another crisp sound, and a gray-black patch flashed from the point of contact between the postworm's appendage and the right arm, and the spikes were blocked.
Tang Fang's heart moved: "Roy, relax, don't resist." β
"Whew." The boy let out a long exhale, his brow furrowed, and the gray-black patches slowly faded.
This time he didn't speak, and winked at the queen.
The spikes in the anterior part of the appendage thrust forward and easily sank into the flesh.
With the flash of dark blue, about 1 minute later, the insect queen slowly withdrew her appendages and said ambiguously: "Master, Roy's current situation is a little difficult to say. However, I seem to have a clue that in general, there is more speculation. β
"Say it quickly." Tang Fang was a little impatient.
"Master, you should have also noticed that under the effect of feeding, the human cells in Roy's body, with the help of mitotic enzymes, killed those xenogeneous cells one after another. In the end, only one right arm remained, which had not been purified. β
"According to common sense, even without the last sip of feeding, these xenocytes should disappear in the next few minutes, however, strangely, not only did the feed suddenly lose its effect, but the human cells also turned into a war with xenogeneic cells and stopped fighting."
"Analyzing the cellular DNA of Roy's right arm, TongguΓ² found that its structure had changed greatly from before, and it was different from both the human genes and the genes of the unknown creature. Rather, it is a hybrid structure, which uses human genes as the source and unknown biological genes as nodes to generate a completely new genetic structure. β
"So the human genes and xenogeneous genes in Roy's body have been recombined?" Tang Fang interjected.
"Some kind of Cheng dΓΉ can be said of this. This new genetic structure is very unstable in nature. I speculate that the cellular DNA of Roy's right arm should be able to produce new combinations anytime and anywhere. β
"What?" Tang Fang was taken aback. It's incredible to generate new combinations anytime, anywhere.
The queen continued to explain, "Master, remember what I said earlier about the characteristics of xenogene? Xenogenetics have the ability to deform. It is only feared that this newly generated gene inherits the deformation characteristics of the original xenogene. β
"Just like Fang Cai, after Roy's right arm is blackened, he has strong defensive and destructive capabilities. It should be based on the recombination of genes under neural reflexes, so that a specific gene in the DNA number jΓΉ library can be effective. β
"Hiss......" Tang Fang gasped. One word flashed through his mind, Transformers......
"Of course, if it's just genetic recombination, it can't change the posture of the right arm so quickly." Explaining this, the queen suddenly came with a crying and laughing feeling: "It swallowed my mitotic enzyme." β
As soon as these words came out. Not only it, but even Tang Fang was stunned. The newborn DNA strand of feelings also contains part of the ability of the queen worm to feed the worm, and the scene when the right arm was restored from a melanistic state just now is indeed very similar to the situation when the feeding takes effect.
The queen continued: "According to my speculation, the reason why Roy's right arm is in this situation at the moment should be that the xenogeneous gene in his body sensed that it was about to die, and in desperation, he gave up his devouring ability and sought a way to reconcile. It then fuses with human genes to form a completely new genetic structure. β
"Because the feed with a special catalyst can only act on human cells, in order to avoid being rejected as a foreign body by the infinite combat power of human immune cells, the only choice for xenogeneous genes to survive is to succumb to human genes. The mutation is the current symbiont, with human genes as rhizomes and xenogeneous genes as branches and leaves. β
In layman's terms, it's actually more like the process of turning harmful parasitism into beneficial parasitism. Now the relationship between Xenogene and Roy is one loss and one glory. Look at it as a whole. The human gene is dominant. If I am correct, Roy should be able to autonomously control the transformation of the arm into various forms of the genetic information of the organism in the human and xenogeneic gene pools. β
Although the queen tried very hard to explain in layman's language, Tang Fang still listened to it with a half-understood: "Are you sure Roy is okay?" β
"The xenogeneous gene in Roy's right arm has fused with human genes and changed into a completely new gene, and the original strong aggressiveness has disappeared, and the probability of recurrence of the disease is less than 1%."
"Even so. It's always a hidden danger, and whether this right arm is kept or not, it's best to listen to Roy's own opinion. β
Thinking of this, Tang Fang told a little about what happened to him and the speculation of the queen of worms.
Roy listened. I was stunned for a while, but then I raised my head and said with a firm face: "I want to leave it." β
Tang Fang thought for a while: "Okay, I respect your choice. β
Roy tried to move his right arm and punched forward gently, the black gum and blood-red meridians were like rolling and twisting clouds, wrapping his arm in the blink of an eye, and with a breath, his right arm like a magic crystal appeared in front of the two.
He held a metal bracket next to the medical cabin with his right hand and pressed slightly, but when he heard a "click", the bracket broke in response. "Brother Tarossa, thank you for saving my life."
Tang Fang smiled and rubbed his head: "Good boy, you have suffered. Also, my real name is Tang Fang, just call me Brother Tang in the future. β
"Hmm." Roy nodded seriously, reached out and pulled off the electrodes on his forehead, as well as the infusion tube on his body, and jumped out of the medical cabin one by one.
The feeding of the queen worm really worked, and Roy was paralyzed on the bed for a long time, and he didn't need to get used to it for a while, and he was able to walk on the ground immediately.
"Brother Tang, can I ask you a question?"
Tang Fang smiled: "What's the problem, let's talk about it." β
"Are you Garcia's rebels?" Roy is not a tendon like Martin, judging from the dialogue between Tang Fang and Valentine and others, as well as what they did, it is clear that they regard the government as an enemy, and those who dare to oppose the empire have searched all over Monya, and I am afraid that only Garcia is the rebels.
"Hmm......" Tang Fang pondered and nodded: "Marion and I are good friends. β
Although he had already prepared in his heart, Roy still hesitated for a moment before he asked in a low voice, "Brother Tang, can I go with you?" β
"Come with me?" Tang Fang was stunned: "Roy, do you know what you're talking about?" β
"I know." Roy stared at him very seriously: "I hate them, I hate those officials, I want revenge, revenge!" β
"Alas!" Tang Fang sighed: "Roy, you are still young, only 16 years old, and it is not yet time to take up arms and fight for your ideals. β
"No......" Roy glanced at the girl in the medical cabin next to him and said loudly, "They killed the girl I liked, I want to avenge her and make those brutes pay!" β
Tang Fang was a little doting, and a little sad looked at the young man in front of him who hated for love. Once upon a time, he also had a time when he was young and frivolous, longing for love and looking forward to the future. At that time, like the boy in front of him, he had courage and hope, and he would not hesitate to do anything for the girl he loved, even if he was the enemy of the world.
It's just that...... The impassioned youth is just like a flash in the pan, coming and going in a hurry. I don't know when it happened, it slipped away from life so quietly, leaving behind only the past that makes people silent and unbearable.
"Roy, don't let hatred cloud your heart, human life is long, you can cry because of her, laugh because of her, but you can't live because of her. You still have your parents, and your little sister who has just entered the first grade, will be waiting for you at the beach, picking up shells together, watching the sunset together, listening to the sea songs under the moon together, and then falling asleep on your shoulder. β
Roy was silent for a while, but then he smiled miserably: "Brother Tang, there are still 2 years, and I will be sent to the army in 2 years, and the family can't get 50,000 MYD sponsorship fees at all." Be the spear of the Empire, and protect the powerful of those who have mutilated my friends, my lovers. Or follow you, to rebel against tyranny, to chase light and freedom, I would rather choose the latter. Mom and Dad and little sister, they will definitely forgive my ......" (to be continued......