Chapter 120: Everything Grows
Since the first single-celled organism, life on Earth has been in a constant process of growth. Subsequently, more and more species join the growth process.
Over the years, although species have continued to go extinct, there have also been many new species that have joined the process.
Although these species may seem so different, they are all the same kind of life, and what has always grown on Earth has always been one kind of life – a life form based on deoxyribonucleic acid.
But now it is not only this kind of life that grows on this earth, but another new life has also joined the carnival of the growth of all things.
The biggest difference between this new life and the previous life is that it is self-assembling as a complete life form. But as a concrete cell, it is not self-assembled, but 'he' assembled.
As a living organism, its design is not elaborate enough, there are obvious traces of artificiality, it must have a clear beginning, only when a complete cell is created, it will have a second cell, it cannot be born from nothing by itself. Unlike life with DNA at its core, it can be created out of nothing.
However, this artificial life form has a wider adaptability than the native life of the earth, and can completely contain the cellular characteristics of animals and plants.
It can be a living body, a half-living body, or even just a nanofabrication machine with inanimate features, so it can perform almost all the functions that humans need.
At the press conference on February 27, Shengshi only showed people the complete entity, more functions and structures of some types of artificial lifeforms, but did not show them.
Although it is not displayed, the entire earth has long been filled with different kinds of new life forms.
They grow wildly in the ground, in the water, in the trees, and in space with greater efficiency than animals and plants.
The underground of several continents is already covered with half-life pipes like human blood vessels, and the denser the densely populated places, the denser these pipes become.
These channels not only connect various types of Shengshi stores with various raw material pools, but also supply various raw materials required by each store. And it's growing, growing along the sides of the street, along the main settlements, creating more connections.
Between several continents, there are also huge pipelines growing in the rock mass of the seabed. These pipelines will connect several continents into a single unit, and the hub of these pipelines is just below the base of the space solar harvesting system.
Before the construction of the huge pedestal, which resembled the belt of the earth, a huge pipe had grown into a circle of pipes, which were not only connected to the support of the base, but also underneath the pipes, countless root systems of different lengths and thicknesses went deep into the ground, and the 'nutrients' needed to 'absorb' were directly transported into space through the 60-meter-thick main cable for the growth of the two huge leaves like the wings of the earth.
The pipes that connect the continents grow from this circle of pipes.
Those pipes not only connect the towns, but also grow deep into the mountains. Many of the various mineral deposits that have not yet been discovered and mined in the depths of the earth have been 'absorbed' by those root canals without anyone knowing.
This kind of 'absorption' is not radical, but like the silent moisturizing of spring rain, slow but firm, with absorption, the whole surface is slowly settling.
Deep in the Himalayas, the construction of a superbrain system with a brain equivalent of 2 billion brain equivalents has been completed. After the completion of this mixed artificial and growth project, the natural growth of the remaining 2 billion brain equivalent projects has begun, and this huge superbrain, also with countless roots stretching around, will expand its own 'living space' to accommodate her body, and also provide itself with nourishment.
In cities, this growth is more common.
Under the countless street trees that are already connected by pipes, a large-scale 'invasion' is quietly happening.
The cells that grow out of the pipes are devouring the normal street tree cells from the bottom up, until the normal street tree leaf cells are replaced with new, more powerful cells.
After the replacement is completed, these street trees not only maintain the normal photosynthesis reaction, but also continue to complete the 'absorption' of various excess components in the air, and transport various different molecules to the raw material pond through special pipes for growth or transport to some places where they are needed for underground 'landfill'.
This 'absorption' even includes dust that falls on the leaves and branches. The new trees can even absorb dust, so in the renovated city, people always see clean and green street trees.
As a result, the amount of dust and excess molecules in the air has been decreasing, and in China, where smog is extremely common, the days of haze have been gradually decreasing. In other parts of the world that are less polluted, the air is getting better.
In the unmanned restaurants and specialized food stores in Shengshi, various agricultural and sideline products such as vegetables, fruits, and meat are constantly growing to supply people's needs.
In the Shengshi store, growth or production is also going on. All kinds of Shengshi products are constantly growing in the store, this kind of growth is more like a kind of precision manufacturing with molecules as a unit, but it is indeed growing.
Except for a very small number of things, the production of most items, electrical appliances and equipment in Shengshi has gotten rid of the production mode that requires various machine tools and various machinery.
All kinds of metal products, Shengshi has been able to realize the 'assembly' of atomic or molecular structures.
These ions, atoms, molecules or macromolecules are transported in a dedicated pipeline by a special structure, just as hemoglobin transports oxygen and carbon dioxide in animal blood. When these transported structures are crammed together, most of them resemble a sticky soup.
In the raw material pools of each center, the griffons used by Shengshi to replace taxis and even airplanes, as well as large and small 'birds', are also growing rapidly.
In the huge soup pot, like an egg hatching a chick, one by one the griffins and birds continue to complete the growth transformation from the soup to the growth of life, and then struggle to climb out of the soup pot, flutter their wings a few times, and then obediently stand beside other people of the same kind.
In the project sites of tunnels, subways and other projects undertaken by Shengshi Technology, those tunnels are also growing rapidly in the mountains or under the city.
The main thing that grows in those tunnels is the membrane that separates the inside and outside of the tunnel and establishes the tunnel structure. The growth of membrane is the key process of Shengshi tunnel construction.
In the tunnel project, the first thing Shengshi did was to separate the connection between the tunnel and the tunnel and the load-bearing, waterproof isolation layer and other functional layers, which relied on the growth of the membrane, and Shengshi called this process membrane construction.
After the membrane is built, the construction of the load-bearing layer is also a kind of growth, and by adding the corresponding new substance and the modulation of the original substance, it is prepared into a semi-living body with load-bearing, waterproof and other functions. Repairs can also be carried out on the main load-bearing layer when needed.
The whole tunnel, after two growths, has completed the main construction. The rest is just to mechanically transport the soil out.
The new life forms designed by Wang Xiao are constantly growing, and every day that passes, they are one step closer to Wang Xiao's concept of life on earth.