Xinghuo Science and Technology Research Institute, the cell laboratory is brightly lit.

Tao Shengwen drank a bottle of high-energy drink and continued the relevant experiments.

His eyes were bloodshot due to long-term sleep deprivation.

In the last scientific research competition, Tao Shengwen led the cell laboratory, but lost to Wang Xiaoxiao's gene laboratory.

Longevity light technology modifies cells and has no effect on genes at all.

However, because his skills were slightly inferior and his luck was not very good, he did not compete with Wang Xiaoxiao and them.

The consequences of this were so serious that some scientists from the cell laboratory were transferred to study the effects of longevity light technology on cells.

Cell Lab funding is not as abundant as before, and it is no longer possible to set up more than 10 projects at a time to unleash the ingenuity of scientists.

They want to restore their former glory unless they come up with a key technology.

Tao Shengwen was very unconvinced in his heart, and he got up wherever he fell.

He lost to Wang Xiaoxiao in his professional field, and now he has to give him an effective counterattack in their professional field.

Tao Shengwen quickly seized this opportunity, and Zhou Yu led a scientific research team to investigate Ceres, where they discovered a relatively primitive life.

This extraterrestrial life, which is indeed cellular, immediately shook the scientists in the biological field of the Xinghuo Science and Technology Research Institute.

Each laboratory has set up a program to study life on Ceres.

Paleontological scientists want to study the origin of life on Earth from life on Ceres.

Life on Ceres is a very primitive carbon-based life, and they can be used by analogy to verify the current scientists' speculation about the origin of life on Earth.

Tao Shengwen has no interest in this kind of archaeological research, even if he knows how life on earth originated, it will not have much practical effect.

He now directs scientists in the lab to find out why life on Ceres can exist in Ceres' harsh environment.

Tao Shengwen once again designed the laboratory path and let the scientists in the laboratory start experiments.

He looked again at the data on Ceres' life, which was compiled from the results of multiple laboratory studies.

[Name] (TBD): Ceres

[Species]: Prokaryotes

[Genetic material]: single-stranded deoxyribonucleic acid.

[Life cycle]: 75 hours

[Growing environment]: 3~45 degrees Celsius in water

[Oxygen requirement]: No oxygen required

[Food]: small molecule organic matter

The peculiarity of the "food" of Ceres' life is a unique discovery of Tao Shengwen. Ceres only needs methane and water for life.

Ceres life is a microorganism that does not need oxygen to survive and can live well as long as it is in an environment with methane and water.

Ceres life is a primitive life, and it has all the shortcomings of primitive life.

The single-stranded DNA structure makes its genetic material very susceptible to collapse, which is an important reason why it can only survive for a little more than three days.

There are many disadvantages to the life of Ceres, but it is not without its merits.

Tao Shengwen was very lucky this time, they discovered an important phenomenon that other scientists did not discover.

Ceres only needs methane and water to survive, and nothing else.

The expedition team led by Zhou Yu brought back samples with similar amino acids, which are important components of Ceres' life cells.

Other labs believe that water, rich in this substance, is the food for life on Ceres.

The Ceres life they cultivated had been languishing and had low cell activity, which others thought was normal for environmental changes.

An experimental assistant in Tao Shengwen's laboratory did not strictly follow the microbial disinfection procedures.

He brought a few Ceres' lifeforms that had been cultivated in the cultivation tide into an aqueous solution of methane.

Unexpectedly, a few days later, there were only a few Ceres' lives, but tens of thousands of self-replications.

This phenomenon directly shocked Tao Shengwen, he didn't expect these Ceres' life cells to become so active.

It can reproduce quickly by relying only on methane and water.

It's an incredible phenomenon, how do the organisms that make up their cells synthesize so quickly that life on Ceres replicates? Where does the energy they need to survive come from?

Methane and water go through a certain physicochemical reaction, and it can indeed be turned into various organic substances, but this process needs to absorb a lot of energy.

Ceres also requires a lot of energy to survive, which simply cannot be provided by methane and water.

Ceres life is life that lives deep in the earth's crust, and they also do not have photosynthesis.

Tao Shengwen immediately deduced that Ceres' life had other ways to obtain energy.

Finding this discovery is more important than finding that life on Ceres can synthesize organic matter on its own.

Once other plants can take advantage of this trait, it means that these plants will survive in the universe and no longer need to provide the light source they need to grow.

Especially when growing crops in the universe, the most troublesome thing is that the light source cannot be solved.

For example, planets with slow rotation such as the Moon will only be exposed to sunlight for a long time in some regions.

Today, only artificial light sources are available, which require extremely complex systems and are far less efficient than sunlight.

It is precisely because of this shortcoming that space plants have not been able to be applied on a large scale until now.

"It worked, our experiment worked.

"The life of Ceres has refreshed my understanding of life, and I didn't expect this kind of life to exist in the universe."

The scientists at the Cell Lab immediately cheered that their project had finally succeeded.

With this achievement, it has a certain ability to press the gene laboratory, which is definitely not inferior to the discovery of longevity light technology.

Tao Shengwen immediately checked the results of the laboratory, and as he expected, the life of Ceres was able to achieve this strange phenomenon, which was closely related to its cell structure.

They experimentally proved that there is a peculiar organelle in Ceres' life cells.

This organelle has a somewhat complex structure, which can convert a certain radiant energy of the universe into chemical energy, and provide life with the energy needed for physiological and chemical reactions.

Experiments have shown that the organelles of life on Ceres are at work.

Tao Shengwen's goal now is to reproduce the special structure of this organelle, try to transfer it to other cells, and play a corresponding role.

They also have to find this radiant energy with miraculous functions.

They are like the relationship between sunlight and chloroplasts, which is a one-to-one correspondence.

In order for this project to succeed, it is necessary not only to study this strange organelle, but also to find the radiation energy that matches it.

Tao Shengwen already had an idea in his heart, probably locking on the type of radiation energy.

Rays similar to alpha rays, which cannot penetrate Ceres' thick crust, are directly excluded.

Gamma rays are extremely penetrating, but they contain too much energy to destroy fragile cells.

This category is also ruled out, so there are not many options left, and they will definitely succeed in experimenting one by one.