Chapter 1: Fragments of Extraterrestrial Organisms
Historically, the earth's technology has been innovating and developing all the time, and human life has always been changing unconsciously. When the first hominid appeared 7 million years ago, technology became the biggest dependence of human beings for survival, helping them to continuously break through the confines of the environment, culture and biological level.
Earliest stone tools from 1,500,000 BC (breakthrough of environmental limitations)
300,000 BC Fire (Breakthrough of Environmental Limits)
Painting from 70,000 BC (Breakthrough of Environmental Limitations)
45,000 BC Trade System (Breakthrough of Environmental Restrictions)
40,000 BC Wooden Boats (Breakthrough of Environmental Restrictions)
10,000 BC Agricultural Revolution - Transition from hunter-gatherer society to slave society (breakthrough of environmental restrictions)
5000 BC Wheel (Breakthrough of Environmental Limitations)
3000 BC cuneiform (breaking cultural limits)
1000 BC Iron Age (Breakthrough of Cultural Limitations)
500 BC Compass - Improvement of agricultural implements technology Transition from slave society to feudal society (breakthrough of environmental restrictions)
100 BC Papermaking (Breakthrough of Cultural Limitations)
800 years of gunpowder (a breakthrough in environmental restrictions)
1100 Years of Movable Type Printing (Breaking Cultural Restrictions)
1400 Ocean Sailing Ship (Breaking the Environmental Limits)
1609 Telescope (Breakthrough of Environmental Limitations)
16-44 years of microscopy (breakthrough of environmental limitations)
1770 Transition from a feudal society to a capitalist society with a steam engine (a breakthrough of environmental restrictions)
1826 Photographic Technology (Breakthrough of Environmental Limitations)
1876 Telephone (Breakthrough of Environmental Restrictions)
1880 Light bulb (breakthrough of environmental limitations)
1903 Airplane (Breakthrough of Environmental Limitations)
1945 Atom/Bomb, Computer (Breakthrough of Environmental Limitations)
1950s Sex Hormone/Transgender Technology (Breakthrough in Biological Limitations)
In 1957, Sputnik ushered in a new era of spaceflight, and almost every advance since then has been a preparation for human spaceflight. (Breaking through environmental constraints)
1961 manned spacecraft (breakthrough of environmental limitations)
The first human landing on the moon in 1969, the first computer network (breakthrough of environmental limitations)
1971 Space Station (Breakthrough of Environmental Limitations)
1980 IVF (breakthrough in biological limitations)
1986 Permanent Space Station (Breakthrough of Environmental Limitations)
1996 Biological Replication Technology (Breakthrough of Biological Limitations)
International Space Station 2006 (breaking through environmental constraints)
2007 DNA Telomere Extension (Life Extension Technology) (Breakthrough in Biological Limitations)
(All of the above are real and are taken from Wikipedia.) )
In 2015, in a secret laboratory, a group of young researchers were busy with nervousness, they were an elite scientific research group of a biological research institute, claiming that the content of the research was only "DNA telomere elongation technology", but in the depths of this secret laboratory there was a secret that could shock all mankind - extraterrestrial biological fragments. All experiments have shown that the alien creature has undergone some sort of "DNA telomere elongation technology", so that its lifetime has reached a staggering 3,600 years, and it is still in the mature stage and has not entered the aging stage.
When it comes to "DNA telomere extension technology", it is necessary to know that the maximum lifespan of human beings is actually determined by the number of cell divisions, and the limit of the number of divisions is called the "Hyfrick limit", and the "Hyfric limit" of normal humans is 52 times of division, which means that after 52 times of cell division, human cells will enter the aging period. The telomere extension technology of DNA is to increase the limit of the number of cell divisions, but since the birth of this technology in 2007, there is one of the biggest barriers, every time it exceeds the "Hyfrick limit" of normal human beings after 52 divisions, the extended number of divisions will have a high probability of cancer, and cancerous cells are harmful to the human body. But they also made an astonishing discovery that the "Hyfrick limit" of cancerous cells is infinite, which means that cancer cells can divide indefinitely as long as they have enough nutrients. Therefore, it makes one wonder if human beings would be immortal if normal cells had the property of cancer cells. However, this hypothesis is only a crazy fantasy, because it is difficult to transfer the infinite division of cancer cells to normal cells in a controlled manner.
This secret laboratory is built underground, and the huge experimental area is divided into many small and large and small individually sealed experimental rooms, which are connected by bright passages, where researchers walk and go, and some security guards patrol the room. The owner behind this laboratory is kept secret, and the head of scientific research is a Chinese-Russian mixed-race beauty, a biogeneticist with the world's most extensive research experience - Shen Linna, who has been rated by the international media as the youngest and most beautiful intelligent woman. Shen Linna has half Russian blood and half Chinese blood, which makes her have both the beauty and comfort of an Oriental woman and the hot body of a Western girl, with a slender figure of 1.80 meters, delicate and toned skin, and a pair of beautiful legs. It's a pity that she wears a sealed lab coat all day long, indulges in her most enthusiastic biological experiments, and in order to continue her crazy experiments, she even hides a secret that only she knows, the secret that she is two months pregnant. His husband is none other than Ning Bowen, the second person in charge of this experiment, mainly responsible for the research and development and maintenance of experimental equipment, Ning Bowen is a world-class physical engineer, has invented and created countless cutting-edge scientific and technological equipment, proficient in electronics, computers, physics, chemistry, materials, astronomy, engineering manufacturing and other disciplines, it can be said that as long as you think of it, when the theory is feasible, he can design and manufacture physical objects. At the beginning of the research project, the couple were just colleagues, but later in their work, they recognized each other's profound knowledge and were deeply attracted to each other, and finally officially married half a year ago.
"There is no change in the response data for Project 21 today."
"Project 15 data is final, and it has failed."
"Plan Zero has been confirmed to compare the data, and the data has been sent to your main station."
This is the central data room where Shen Linna is located, and all kinds of data will be transmitted to her eyes all the time, and she has to find breakthroughs in the data to guide the direction of project research. Today, as always, the data is mediocre, these three years of ascetic life have changed her original bold and pungent personality a lot, when she was also a very fond of beauty, love fashion famous fashion figures, media reports around her always praise her as the embodiment of wisdom and beauty. Although she still pays attention to her appearance, she spends more time on the research she is obsessed with, even in the days when she was newly married, she soaked in the laboratory with her husband.
"Linna, the genetic dilution device in Lab Seven has been repaired. The last biochemical leak in Lab 16 has been thoroughly cleaned up and inactivated, and can be used again. Ning Bowen sat opposite Shen Linna and operated the computer, explaining to Shen Linna, but at this time, he raised his head and looked sideways at his wife, and said badly, "My bed was also repaired yesterday, and this time I designed it to be quite sturdy, as long as you don't do it like last time, hehe" After speaking, he also looked at his wife, opened his mouth and smirked for a while. This smart and handsome man in his 30s, since marrying a beautiful woman who is three years younger than himself, who is also smart and knowledgeable, seems to have his IQ dropped by half, sticking to his wife all day long, as long as he is alone with his wife, he will be a pig with a face. But this guy's work efficiency has increased exponentially, and as long as his wife explains any difficult problem, he will come up with a solution almost instantly.
"You're a nymphomaniac during working hours again, be careful that the old lady goes back to the dormitory to repair you." Shen Linna also knew that she hadn't lived with her husband for two months, and her stupid husband looked at her every day like a dog looking at a bone. But there is no way, she will not tell him that she is pregnant, the work is at a critical stage, and she doesn't want her husband to worry about her body. Last time, I secretly broke the only double bed in the institute, and took the opportunity to move out to live alone, but I didn't expect my husband's small universe to explode again, and he actually designed a stronger one, which made her a little ridiculous.
Rumble!!! The researchers, who were processing the materials in their hands, were startled by a startling vibration. Dididi's various sirens then sounded. All the lights in the laboratory went out in an instant, and the only independent emergency evacuation lights turned on, leaving Shen Linna and Ning Bowen's research room in chaos. Ning Bowen grabbed Shen Linna's hand at the first time and protected her.
"Dr. Shen, Dr. Shen! There is an anomaly in room 99, all alarm instructions are alarming, Dr. Shao and Dr. Zhao have started the emergency evacuation procedures, and all personnel are waiting for you to order evacuation. The emergency communication device hissed. Chamber 99 is the core secret area of the lab, where the mysterious fragment of extraterrestrial lifeform is stored.
Shen Linna was weak for a while when she heard this, but when she saw Ning Bowen calmly holding her hand, she quickly returned to her capable style, turned on the communicator and said firmly and calmly: "What's wrong, did there be an explosion just now, what is the secret room 99 like, try to connect it to the backup power supply, I want to see the actual situation there." All test chambers were sealed, all access to the outside world was locked, and security personnel guided everyone to evacuate to a secure isolation room, where they were not allowed to leave the base. ”
At this time, the communicator on the other side sounded: "Dr. Shen, this is the Security Department, I have sent someone to guide the evacuation, but there is an unknown biochemical material leaking in the secret area of the base, and we can only isolate which area as soon as possible." More than a dozen researchers are quarantined in that area, please order if rescue is dispatched. ”
"Do your best to keep the life-support system running in any area, wait for my next command." Shen Linna knew very well the reliability of the laboratory's life-support device, and she couldn't open the isolation without seeing the actual situation there, which would be very dangerous to the people on the periphery, and even the entire human race in the outside world.
There were a few sparks of electricity, and several surveillance screens on the wall were lit up by a backup power source, showing a chaotic picture of Chamber 99.
"It's a complete explosion." Ning Bowen sighed when he saw the image on the screen, and said with wide eyes: "Is that really an alien creature fragment, it can be so powerful." He'd seen it many times, but he was still skeptical.
"Well, our detection satellite spotted it on a comet that was about to pass by Earth, and then when the comet approached Earth, we launched a collection probe in time. Otherwise, we wouldn't be sure where it came from. Shen Linna told this secret that only a few people were allowed to know before, and told the origin of the fragments of this mysterious creature.
"Look here, in the center of the explosion, there's a puddle of purple liquid that isn't smoke, it's thick like liquid smoke." Ning Bowen said, pointing to a point on a screen.
"How could that tentacle-like piece of creature explode and leave behind such smoke. Now all the detection and sensing equipment there is out of order, and I have to go down and see for myself. ”
"I'll go with you." Ning Bowen grabbed Shen Linna's hand, and the two looked at each other, and at the same time smiled faintly in tacit understanding. This laugh, a thousand words between husband and wife are all in the words, and they are ready to live and die together. For the sake of science, for the sake of humanity, they will not miss this opportunity to unlock the secrets.