Chapter 123: The Kun

Ever since he knew that Wang Xiao was really going to marry Li Siyi, Yuan Yulou was planning to leave. She wants to go far and travel in the unknown universe.

In order to leave, she designed a new life system by herself, which used herself as the nervous system and control center of the whole life, that is, her body as the 'brain' to build a new life—a complete and self-consistent circulatory system.

The construction of this huge new life has begun on the island of Kilapte. It's life, but it's building.

Yuan Yulou named this new life system 'Pan Kun'. Maybe she meant that she was a Kunpeng, but she didn't reveal the true meaning of the name to anyone.

This new life is so vast that the Earth's resources are not enough for her to grow into an adult that can truly travel far. To leave the solar system, she needs to at least go to Venus to absorb enough nutrients before completing her final growth on Jupiter.

The overall shape of the masculine is like that of an octopus and is made up of countless cells of various sizes, with the smallest cells being human cells and the largest 'cells' being ton-level.

The tentacles are extremely long and as soft as the octopus, and the attack, advancement, capture, and 'nutrient absorption' of the catacle are all completed by the tentacles. The two longest tentacles for absorbing nutrients are 200,000 kilometers long, and can directly stay in the synchronous orbit of most rotating planets to absorb useful substances on planets.

The head of the Kun has a large mouth for collecting hydrogen and counterions in the interstellar space, and the large mouth can generate a pulsating magnetic field, which continuously swallows the rare number of various material particles in front of it in deep space to replenish the loss of power matter.

In addition to the mouth, there are many pairs of eyes on the head. Visible, infrared, X-ray, gamma rays, and other eyes are all on the head. Creates a full depth of view. It can 'see' various stars at different distances.

And in the middle of the head and body, on the non-existent 'neck', there is also a 'collar' that can be unfolded or retracted. This circle serves as both a solar sail and an auxiliary part of the large mouth, helping it to swallow more material. The maximum width of this lap is 5 km, and the minimum is 800 m, and when folded, it clings to the body of the kun and is less than 5 m thick. When flying with its back to the star, it can fully spread to gain a faint but steady acceleration until it exits the stellar wind top.

The body of the Pancun is the most important part, and Yuan Yulou's life-sustaining system is located slightly on the head side of the head in the middle of the body, and the body parts have various functional 'organs' such as ecosystems, particle accelerators, and penning ion traps.

In addition to solar energy, the main energy source is nuclear energy. There are fusion engines and fusion engines, and the two engines can be swapped out at the tail of the body, creating a 'small sun' in the tail to act as a non-working fluid thruster, and at the same time to provide energy for internal needs such as tentacles, high-energy particle accelerators, and ecological cycles when there is no sunlight.

The main propulsion system relies on the Particle Beam Core Antimatter Engine, which can increase the top speed of the Kun to 68% of the speed of light. The main source of antimatter is the high-energy particle accelerator, and perhaps very little antimatter can be collected in space.

Yuan Yulou's design can complete the ecological cycle of the entire earth, can experience a long voyage in space alone, and can live forever as long as the energy is not exhausted.

Even if there is no matter to collect in space, as long as there are no multiple acceleration and decelerations, all the energy of Pan Kun can be used to cross 12 million light-years by herself, enough to cross the local group of galaxies. When there are no resources to replenish, the fish will use most of its body into fuel and working fluids to consume, and its body will continue to shrink until it returns to its early childhood on Earth.

The only thing that is unpredictable is the weapon system and the defense system. The weapon system is only electromagnetic cannon and laser weapons, which can fire atomic bombs, antimatter bombs, etc., and if they are close enough, they can also use tentacles for hand-to-hand combat.

The defense system consists only of a strong magnetic field protection and a shield that can defend against her own laser weapons and atomic bombs.

The entire Pankun was optimized and designed by Yuan Yulou on the basis of many previous space creatures. As early as a few years ago, Wang Xiao, Xiao Yelena and others had already designed countless life forms. Most of them are just brains, but a few are valuable.

Later, after Wang Xiao left, Xiao Yelena continued to improve and conduct experiments, and then there were the results of the current earth life form and the Kun.

Since Yuan Yulou announced her design at the top level, everyone knows that she really wants to wander in space by herself, and she doesn't want to rely on anyone else. Otherwise, it will not be designed with such a strong battery life.

Human beings are inherently social creatures, and only when groups come together can they exert their greatest strength. People need to organize together to achieve great things, whether it is the Great Wall of China, the pyramids of the pharaohs, or the modern aerospace industry, all of which are the result of large-scale cooperation. In these projects, countless people can be viewed as just a whole, as a person.

Regardless of whether the whole of these collaborations is organized in the form of a state, a corporation, a community or a religion, it is not the form of organization that matters, but the efficiency of the organization.

Communication efficiency and the closeness of the organization's members are important components of organizational effectiveness. In terms of communication efficiency and closeness of contact, Shengshi has achieved the ultimate. But in a blink of an eye, this extreme, to a certain extent, was replaced by a more efficient personal model.

One person is sometimes stronger than a group of people. A lot of scientific progress is the result of the work of a single person. There are many examples of this in the history of human science. If a person works alone, there will no longer be internal friction such as communication efficiency, organizational relationships, etc.

As long as the people who can stand at the top of Shengshi Technology, everyone can be stronger than an organization, because they have an ability that others do not have, the ability to alienate cells.

The word alienation is used to describe this process: the process by which a functional cell that has been specialized, that is, a specialized cell, becomes another kind of cell.

It's actually the ability to regulate one's own gene expression. At present, except for Wang Xiao and Li Siyi, there are ten of them, and they have not found that there are other people who have this ability. The transformation of muscle cells into brain cells is the most intuitive manifestation of this ability.

Generally speaking, only the first totipotent stem cells derived from a fertilized egg have the ability to differentiate into specialized cells of any function. Specialized cells no longer have the ability to divide, but only have the ability to maintain physiological functions, just like nerve cells and muscle cells, which are responsible for completing specific tasks.

Outside of the prosperous system, all people's efforts have always been from the outside. They hope to use the isolation and in vitro culture of stem cells to breed tissues or organs in vitro, and finally achieve the treatment of clinical diseases through tissue or organ transplantation. Or they work hard to crack the human genetic map, hoping to achieve the regulation of birth, aging, sickness and death through genetic engineering.

Of course, that is also a way, but there is a phenomenon in nature that can be reassembled into a new life that is completely different from the original life form. This phenomenon is the metamorphosis of insects, and many insects possess this ability. When completely metamorphosed, those chrysalis even turned into soup-like stickies. That is, all the cells are redispersed and then reassembled.

For example, silkworms are metamorphosed development, and cicadas are incomplete metamorphosis development. The metamorphosis of insects is commonplace, but no one ever thought that humans themselves could have this ability.

Metamorphosis is still carried out under the regulation of DNA.

Wang Xiao and the others already have the ability to directly regulate DNA through themselves. They can transform themselves into what they need to be.

This is the basis for them and the unsophisticated, but equally complex assembly of lifeforms they designed.

When assembled, they can be built on some huge projects to become a more powerful presence than an organization made up of a group of people.

Life on Earth, which is about to take shape, is a prime example.