Chapter 602: The Atavistic Theory

Lieutenant Colonel Wu Zhengting's voice was low and eloquent.

"When all kinds of natural and man-made disasters have hit all the continents on the earth, the vast majority of national systems have fallen apart, human beings are facing the threat of extreme climate change, famine, plague and war, in order to tide over the difficulties, some experts in the field of life sciences put forward such a view - the physical fitness and physiological structure of modern human beings are constantly evolving in order to adapt to large-scale agriculture and large-scale industrial production, in many basic physiological parameters, such as muscle tone, blood oxygen content, lung capacity, explosive power, cold and hunger resistance, compared to our ancestors, in fact, is greatly degraded. ”

Lieutenant Colonel Wu Zhengting said, "The discovery of many fossils and relics proves that our ancestors tens of thousands of years ago once had several times more powerful motor functions, hunting skills and extreme survival ability than us, they could fight with the most ferocious beasts with a few rudimentary stone spears and bone spears, and they could also chase jackals, tigers and leopards, and stay awake for days and nights, until the seemingly powerful prey was exhausted and fell to the ground and died, they didn't even need medicine, with their own immune system, they could resist the invasion of a variety of bacteria and viruses, Even if you are poisoned, you have a very high chance of healing.

"In the long history of human civilization, in order to be more adaptable to the social lifestyle and give full play to our wisdom, these forces hidden in our genes have been gradually concealed and eliminated - after all, when we have advanced agricultural, industrial and technological strength, relying on combine harvesters and plastic greenhouses to harvest endless food, and jackals, tigers and leopards are sent to zoos to be pampered, the ability to 'hunt jackals, tigers and leopards' becomes 'dragon slaying skills', which is useless at all.

But the advent of the Calamity changed all that.

"In the era of calamity, when order collapsed, science and technology were lost, and the development of industry and agriculture was stagnant or even plummeted, human beings must learn from their ancestors, reactivate the power of the wilderness hidden deep in their genes, and become a primitive man with a strong and unrivaled physique in order to survive in a difficult and difficult new environment.

"This is the 'atavistic theory'.

"Scientists who adhere to the 'atavistic theory' believe that the era of calamity is endless, and it will not take more than a hundred years to completely destroy modern civilization, and degenerate all mankind into an era of famine and blood, and only by allowing the vast majority of human beings to enter the 'atavistic state' in advance can we struggle to survive in the new world and rebuild our civilization.

"Dr. Virus believes in the 'atavistic theory' and is determined to develop a special gene-inducing agent to activate the ancient bloodline of mankind and awaken the powerful power of the wilderness!

"At that time, in the face of the apocalypse, in order to save the world, all kinds of strange theories emerged one after another, and there were countless theories that were more exaggerated than the 'atavistic theory'.

"However, how difficult it is to 'activate the power of the desolation in the depths of genes' is simply not science but metaphysics.

"Rao is a genius of Dr. Virus, and it is impossible to do it through conventional means.

"After countless failures, struggling in the abyss of despair for a long time, still sinking deeper and deeper, and unable to see the direction of light, Dr. Virus finally became psychologically unbalanced, took a risk, and chose an extremely dangerous way.

"From dozens of ancient viruses, he carefully selected and strengthened a very special virus, and then used this virus as a 'cannonball' to bombard normal cells in the human body, hoping to find the ancient mystery hidden in the deepest part of the cell, and then through his own invention of the 'gene scissors', the oldest fragment of the human gene chain is cut out and replicated infinitely, using this method to make human beings achieve 'controllable atavism'.

"This method of taking the sword off the edge is indeed feasible in theory, but the question is the price it pays.

"One of the costs is that bombarding healthy human cells with ancient viruses is very likely to cause human infections with bizarre and terrifying diseases that have not appeared for tens of thousands of years, and once such diseases spread, there is no cure.

"The second cost is that even if Dr. Virus can really successfully unlock the depths of human cells, the ancient mysteries, in the first experiment, he can't guarantee that he can extract the genetic fragments he has, and he has no idea what the experimenter will become - in the most extreme case, human beings will return to the state of trilobites, or even completely collapse and become a puddle of living multicellular polymers, such a nightmarish scenario may become a reality."

Hearing Lieutenant Colonel Wu Zhengting say this, Chu Ge couldn't help but think of the mercenary he had seen before, after injecting an overdose of Level 5 genetic medicine, his genes went out of control and turned into a pool of pink "cell soup".

I couldn't help but shiver coldly.

Chairman Yu and others, who also knew the horror of genetic research and life science, also looked solemn and held their breath.

"The third cost is that matter determines consciousness, and the scientists who threw out the 'atavistic theory' have not seriously thought about such a question, or rather, they have not hesitated to think about it, that is, when a modern man's body, tens of thousands of years ago, in a wild form, what kind of changes will occur in his brain, spirit, consciousness and thinking mode, is he still the same as before, and is he still one of 'us'?

"At first, Dr. Virus seems to have retained the most basic sanity, and is well aware of these issues, or the 'costs'.

He set up his laboratory on the Antarctic continent, relying on an abandoned Antarctic research station, surrounded by thousands of miles of frozen frozen soil, and relying on strictly disinfected helicopters to get to and from it, whether bacteria or viruses could escape.

In addition, the experimental volunteers he recruited were all terminally ill malignant tumor carriers, or people who were tortured by other virulent viruses, dying, and dying horses.

"These carriers of malignant tumors and deadly viruses have a certain degree of mutation in their body tissues, and it is easier to enter the 'atavistic state', even if there is any accident in the experiment, they can accept it calmly, willing to gamble and lose, coupled with the extremely harsh environment at that time, although this practice still faces ethical and moral controversy, but people did not beat Dr. Virus's experiment to death, but waited and watched.

"Dr. Virus did not disappoint the world.

"After more than ten years of silence, he handed in a very satisfactory 'answer sheet'.

"At a life sciences conference at the highest level in the world, Dr. Virus returned to the world with more than a dozen patients who had been cured by him with 'atavistic technology'.

"These patients are all terminally ill patients who have been documented as suffering from various fatal diseases such as malignant tumors, and have been sentenced by authoritative medical institutions to live beyond three to five years.

"Whether it is conventional drugs, specific drugs, targeted drugs or even organ transplantation, they are all ineffective.

But with the help of Dr. Virus, they activated the deepest power of the cells, making every cell in their bodies look new.

"That's like...... If there is an irreparable failure in the computer operating system, simply use the simplest and crude method, roll back to the previous version or even the initial version, and naturally, solve all the problems.

"Not only that, but the experimenters who have undergone 'atavistic treatment' have not only recovered their bodies, but also possessed countless miraculous abilities.

"There is an experimenter who can maintain strong motor function in a cold environment of tens of degrees below zero, and can brave a snowstorm and travel long distances in shorts and shorts.

"There is an experimenter who has miraculous malleability in the internal organs, and can eat dozens of catties of food at a time, and then stop eating for ten days.

"There was an experimenter who had strong immunity to all kinds of bacteria and viruses, and his wounds even had a certain ability to heal themselves.

"As for more speed, more strength, more ferocious hunting ability...... These 'ordinary' abilities abound and are not worth mentioning. ”

Hearing this, everyone was shocked, and Yun Conghu couldn't help but say: "Haven't these experimenters all become 'awakened people'?" ”

"That's right, many of the genetic drugs used by the Earth Alliance, the key experimental data and manufacturing principles, are actually inseparable from the research of Dr. Virus."

Lieutenant Colonel Wu Zhengting sighed and said, "That's why I said that if it wasn't for the last wrong step, Dr. Virus would actually be a person who should have started a sect and left a name in history." ”