Chapter 194: Gathering

In the early nineties, Chen Jianguo, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, published an earth-shattering paper in the journal Biology. Academician Chen said in his paper that after years of research, he found that there is no such thing as "death" in human genes. From a biological point of view, human beings are not only one of the most intelligent creatures, but also one of the long-lived creatures.

According to Wei Dongming, director of the 749 Bureau, Academician Chen's paper is not his personal scientific conjecture, but a reasonable and well-founded research conclusion. After "quantizing" a set of genes directly related to human lifespan, he found that the morphology of this group of genes is almost identical to that of the "lighthouse jellyfish".

Among the "known creatures" on our planet, there are three types of organisms that do not have the "death" setting in their genes: tardigrades, lighthouse jellyfish, and hydroids.

Before his death, Shakyamuni said, "The ultimate outcome of all things in this world is death." Yes, Shakyamuni's remarks were undoubtedly correct in the eyes of people more than 3,000 years ago, but in today's highly developed microscopic technology, traditional biology has been subverted countless times back and forth.

Everything dies?

Joke.

Since 1996, the biological research team of Pomona College in the United States has discovered three members of the "Immortal Club". One of them is the ubiquitous "hydra", this creature has a cellular ability that cannot be explained by science, they are born to constantly divide their "stem cells", there is never such a word as "death" and "aging" in the dictionary of hydra, they will always remain young and healthy. Unless an "external force" intervenes, the hydra will be eternal.

The tardigrades are the resident of the "Immortal Club", and this creature can survive in temperatures as high as 151 degrees Celsius and as low as -272.8 degrees Celsius. You know, -272.8 degrees is close to "absolute zero", and in absolute zero, even the "molecules" are forced to stop moving, but the tardigrades are still alive. In addition, they can also reproduce in a vacuum, high pressure, high radiation environment, this small bug, has long subverted our understanding of biology, it is no exaggeration to say, in this world except humans, almost no creature or environment can kill water bears.

In our opinion, although the hydra and the tardigrade are inconspicuous creatures, they have undoubtedly ascended to the "pinnacle throne" of the biological world by using their special genetic structure, and have become honorary members of the "Immortal and Immortal Club". And in this world, there is another creature whose attributes far surpass the two of them, and that is the legendary: the lighthouse jellyfish.

Some say that lighthouse jellyfish are thieves who peek at the Creator's confidential notes and thus have mastered the ability to "turn back time". Lighthouse jellyfish are the only creatures in the world known to be able to revert back to the larval stage after reaching maturity. Put simply, they can "rejuvenate" and can do so an unlimited number of times.

They possess abilities that are the envy of all living beings: eternal youth, infinite lifespan. Whenever lighthouse jellyfish are threatened by the outside world, including predators, sudden changes in temperature, injury, etc., they will return to their larvae and start over.

Human beings, indeed, are very smart.

But in the face of the vastness of the universe of all things, we are still small and insignificant. Human cognition of things is only 13%, and for the time being, we humans still know nothing about space, the underground world, multidimensional space, the sixth sense, and so on. We know only what is "known", and we know nothing about the "unknown......

Human exploration of the unknown is nothing more than two steps: "bold assumptions" and "cautious research". We need to do this, and we need people who dare to do this, such as Academician Chen Jianguo.

There is no doubt that Academician Chen Jianguo is a great scientist. Through years of research, he found that there is a set of sequences in our human genetic sequences that are almost identical to those of lighthouse jellyfish. According to this clue, Academician Chen continued to investigate, and found that the root cause of the weakening of this group of "anti-heaven genes" was actually the oxygen that permeated nature.

He was panicked and panicked.

It turns out that the essence of oxygen is a chronic poison that pervades us and slowly obliterates us over a period of seventy to a hundred years, without us even knowing it.

If there is no oxygen, people die.

It's common sense ingrained in our minds.

But if Academician Chen Jianguo's inference is true, then where should we human beings go? If we don't need "oxygen" in our genes, then why do we die without oxygen? Who set all this? Who planted the irreversible "code" in our bodies?

Twenty years ago, the state launched a secret investigation into the paper report of Academician Chen Jianguo, because this matter is of great importance, so the state handed over the investigation task of this matter to two secret departments, one of which is the 749 Bureau of the Oil Lamp Monk, and the other is our "Unsolved Mysteries Research Institute".

After 20 years of investigation, the 749 Bureau slowly discovered the existence of "Zugen", which is a behemoth with a size exceeding the Meili Snow Mountain, which is hidden in the no-man's land of the Meili Mountains.

The oil lamp monk is right when he says that even if we learn some "truths", we must not act recklessly under the existing conditions. What our generation needs to do is not to "solve it", but to "study it", figure it out and leave it to future generations.

Ten years ago, the oil lamp monk came to Guixu Temple and found that a strange ancient script was recorded at the bottom of a water tank in the temple courtyard. These words, the oil lamp monk can only understand a general idea, but it is definitely related to the "ancestral root". In order to keep this matter a secret, he opened the "sea air eye" in the dry well and hid the Guixu Temple in an artificially created "mirage".

Through some "means", Bureau 749 obtained a recent document of the Institute of Unsolved Mysteries, through which Bureau 749 not only learned the secret of the "Jade of the Living Dead", but also learned that Zhou Boren had a "master" who was proficient in ancient writing, and he was: an old man. And coincidentally, the next stop of the Unsolved Mysteries Institute is none other than Meili Snow Mountain!

Is it man-made, or is it providential.

We don't know.

But there is no doubt that the "749 Bureau" and the "Institute of Unsolved Mysteries" have met in Tibet. Whether it's Zugen or Jade of the Living Dead, all the secrets are hidden in this mysterious region. This time...... Masters gathered.