Chapter 4 The Cicada Column Computer and the Poseidon

The middle-aged man in a white coat in front of the window put the controller in his coat pocket and turned to walk this way. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Luoyang saw his appearance clearly at this time, and only felt a little familiar.

After looking at it for a while, Luoyang recognized him, this face he had seen many times in several internationally famous biological journals, even for laymen, it was not too unfamiliar, he had won the Nobel Prize in Biology for "the discovery of the principle of introducing specific genetic modification using embryonic stem cells", and he is a well-known scientist in China, but now he has a sloppy image, like he has not taken care of personal hygiene for a long time, and the photo does not match very well.

The use of embryonic hepatocytes to introduce specific gene modification is easy to understand, that is, gene grafting and modification technology, which is a milestone breakthrough in genetic engineering.

"I'm Wang Lanqing, the leader of the Roselle project team." The middle-aged man walked up to Luoyang and stretched out his hand, shook his hand politely, and introduced himself in very brief words.

As he spoke, he took out a pack of cigarettes from the other pocket, poured out one and handed it to Luoyang.

Luoyang never smoked and politely refused.

Wang Lanqing didn't care, put the cigarette in his mouth, and then took out a cheap plastic lighter from his coat pocket.

After lighting the cigarette, he took a deep breath.

He seemed to be in a very depressed mood, and he smoked almost a third of the whole cigarette in one gulp, and then he didn't see the cigarette come out, and he was a little blank when he looked at people, I don't know if he was looking at Luoyang or thinking about other things.

After about two or three breaths, Wang Lanqing spit out the cigarette that he had inhaled into his lungs before, and he also came back to his senses a little, and asked Luoyang's opinion: "After tossing and turning around in the past two days, you must be quite tired, why don't you go and rest first?" ”

Luoyang is indeed quite tired now, but I am afraid that he will not be able to sleep if he goes to rest, full of questions waiting for answers, he hurriedly shook his head and said, "It's not too tired, you can rest later." ”

"Okay, I'll take you to see the research results of our project team in the past six months." Wang Lanqing took three sips and finished the cigarette, threw the cigarette butt on the ground, stepped on it with his foot, and then turned around and walked to another room.

"That cat is test subject number one, you've seen it, I'll take you to see test subject number two." Wang Lanqing seemed to be very eager to show the content of the entire project in front of Luoyang, the time was very tight, and it was probably just polite to let Luoyang go to rest first, but this was exactly what Luoyang wanted, and followed closely behind Wang Lanqing and walked over.

Through the tempered glass window, the first thing that catches your eye is a few bowl-thick grapefruit trees, the roof and the four walls of several simulated fluorescent lamps will illuminate the whole cultivation room as if it were day, these pomelo trees are extremely bad, the leaves are yellow, the trunk is densely wounded, the brown gum and the rotten bark stick together, like a large area of boils, and the trees can see cicadas everywhere, but the room is unusually quiet, no insect sound can be heard.

Luoyang patiently searched for a while, and finally saw a living cicada through a gap in the leaves, the color was very light, the body was almost transparent, almost the same color as the cicada wings, and even the internal vein structure could be seen clearly.

But after looking at it for a while, except for the special color, Luoyang did not find any strange place about this cicada, which was far less than the impact given to him by the No. 1 test sample.

To put it bluntly, this is what albinism can achieve with a simple genetic modification.

Seeing Luoyang's normal expression, which seemed to be mixed with a faint disappointment, Wang Lanqing didn't say a word, turned around and asked Xue Tao to go to the office desk over there to get a pen and paper, and then wrote a mathematical formula on the paper, the seventh power of seven. Luoyang didn't know what kind of medicine he sold in his gourd, so he looked at it first, only to see him press the side with the word on the glass window sash, and after about two or three seconds, a large group of cicadas suddenly flew out of the pile of fallen leaves, dense, like overwhelming locusts, afraid that there are thousands, each cicada is exactly the same, and there is no difference in the lines on the wings of the cicada, just like a clone. After the emergence of the cicadas, there was only a brief period of chaos, and then an incredibly strange order was acquired.

On the wall and on the tempered glass, there are cicadas, and every three are arranged in a triangle to form a team, and countless small triangles are combined into a huge matrix.

Luoyang already felt that things were not as simple as he imagined at this time, but the things that shocked him even more were still to come.

In the triangular queue, each cicada vibrates its wings in a specific way, if the two cicadas below have one or both flapping wings, then the cicada at the top horn flapps its wings, and if neither flapps its wings, then the cicada at the top horn does not flapp its wings either.

It's a binary computing unit, similar to a gate circuit!

There are thousands of such computing units, which, when combined, have considerable computing power and constitute a cicada computer.

After about seven or eight seconds, the thousands of cicadas in the cultivation room dispersed and returned to the fallen leaves to hibernate, but dozens of them were left on the glass window, connected end to end in a line, and a huge number was written.

“823543”

Luoyang's lips trembled a little, and he snatched the pen and paper from Wang Lanqing's hand and made a simple calculation.

Seven to the seventh power, a lot of calculations, it took more than a minute to figure out the answer.

“823543”

Word for word!

Luoyang was stunned, feeling that all this in front of him could not be explained by science, and it was purely a supernatural event.

No matter how the genes are modified, a bug is a bug!

However, now these cicadas have surpassed humans in some aspects of intelligence.

It took him more than a minute to calculate this equation, but it only took a few seconds for this group of bugs.

Wang Lanqing didn't explain much, took out the controller with the LCD screen from his pocket and pressed it a few times, the mechanical arm in the cultivation room immediately moved, the front end of the mechanical arm was a huge clip, like a huge mouth of the blood basin, even the cicada with the leaves grabbed and threw it into the crusher in the corner of the room, Luoyang was confused, these cicadas are amazing scientific research achievements, how can you say that they are ruined? Before he could ask, Wang Lanqing explained the reason.

"The cellular activity of these cicadas is amazing, and they divide themselves once a day, so the cardinality must be strictly controlled."

With that, he put the controller back in his pocket, pointed to another room not far away, and said, "That's Subject Three." ”

Luoyang looked in the direction he was pointing, and saw a deep pool of water built in the room.

There is a dolphin in the pond, which looks indistinguishable from a normal dolphin.

However, with his previous experience, Luoyang did not dare to underestimate any of the experimental subjects.

But after looking at it for a long time, I still don't see why.

Wang Lanqing didn't sell anything more this time, just took a pen, drew an irregular triangle on the back of the paper where he had written the equation before, and then pasted the paper on the glass window.

The paper quickly caught the attention of the dolphin in the pool, which swam back and forth in the water, but kept its eyes on the paper and made a cheerful cry, like a child discovering something interesting.

The dolphin has a high IQ and is second only to humans in the earth's ecosystem, so Luoyang doesn't find it strange that it reacts like this.

After a while, however, he realized that the problem was that he was standing outside the window and could hear the call of a dolphin.

The tempered glass of the biological cultivation room is one inch thick, and the sound insulation effect is very good, and it is impossible to transmit the general sound. He was standing outside, and he could hear the sound inside, indicating that the sound decibel had reached an alarming level.

At the same time, layers of ripples are stirred up on the surface of the water, the frequency is extremely high, and there are thousands of crests in one centimeter, and the whole pool is like a twisted mirror, full of science fiction.

"What a powerful sonic wave!" Luoyang has no doubt that if there is no tempered glass at this moment, the ultrasonic wave emitted by this dolphin is enough to kill him, but what shocks him is still to come, the extremely fast shaking water surface suddenly fell into a standstill, not the water surface returned to calm, but as if restrained by an invisible force, producing a sense of stillness similar to a solid, the water in the pool is like a building block, slowly raising a piece, the shape is the triangle drawn on the paper.

"Is this a dolphin, or is this a sea god?" Luoyang only felt that his scalp was fried, this dolphin can use sound waves to control the flow of water, even the most sophisticated mechanical instruments in the world today can't do it, this is simply the mythical and legendary god of the sea Poseidon!

"So far, the Roselle project has carried out a total of 17 live experiments, and three have been successful, all here." Wang Lanqing pointed to the biological cultivation rooms and said, after speaking, he lit another cigarette and smoked it, and after taking two puffs, he saw that Luoyang was still dumbfounded, and he couldn't say a word, so he had to continue to say by himself, "I know you have a lot of questions in your heart now, even if you open your mouth, if you can explain it clearly in words, I will naturally answer it for you." ”

Luoyang came back to his senses and asked, "The three experimental subjects are all the result of genetic optimization?" ”

"It's not just optimization, it's evolution, to be precise, it's just a certain aspect of strengthening, but these few test subjects have changed radically in nature."

"Can you be more specific?"

"The existence of the organism requires two necessary conditions, mass and energy. Originally, the three subjects obtained energy through chemical means, that is, the redox reaction of carbohydrates in the body, animals relied on eating to obtain carbohydrates, and plants relied on photosynthesis to obtain carbohydrates. But now, all three of these subjects have obtained energy in a more advanced physical way, so their individual abilities can be increased to such an incredible level, and it is not clear how far they will eventually go, but it is definitely beyond your imagination. ”

"Physically?" Luoyang was shocked after hearing this.

"They are able to absorb the power of the natural magnetic field directly." Wang Lanqing was more specific.

Although Luoyang has the dual titles of doctor in biology and physics, he also has a feeling of listening to a book from heaven at the moment, which is not very understandable.

"The energy produced by the redox reaction of life is to exist and do work in the way of electron transfer, the movement of electrons or the movement of ions can form an electric current, that is, bioelectricity, which is one of the characteristics of life, the same is true of the human body, without biocurrent, the person will die, the electrocardiogram detection is a straight line, and the current movement will produce a magnetic field, so any living thing has a magnetic field, and through the reverse action of the magnetic field, an electric current can be generated, just like the working principle of a generator, I say so, do you understand?"