In addition to the members of the Star Federation who were wrapped in the spherical space that was magically converted in the buffer zone, the members of Younas who were originally in the Alpha Zone, and the Star Federation agents who had just been withdrawn from the lair, there were less than a thousand people in total, and they were fortunate enough to witness the change of the world.

All the non-artificial creations in the Alpha Belt and the Beta Belt turned into white light, converging at the top of the celestial sphere, and a soft sun gradually took shape, illuminating the originally chaotic and deep space.

At the same time, the original "exit square" has disappeared, replaced by a huge sphere with a radius of more than ten kilometers, reflecting the white light of the zenith. Behind the sphere, there was a faint mist of light, and I don't know what kind of existence it was.

On the lair side, the giant ship was still floating in the void, and there was a mist of light above it, but it was not so conspicuous behind the countless mutant Borg corpses.

By the way, corpses......

In the original beta band location, mutant borgs, battle robots, spaceship wreckage, humans in power armor, and various corpses were mixed together and distributed across the battlefield within a radius of thousands of kilometers.

"We, did we win?"

The original location of the Alpha Belt, a number of chambers built on asteroids, has now become a space station. Admiral Manson, who had just been evacuated to the cabin with the wounded and administered first aid, muttered in disbelief as he watched the scene in front of him.

Professor Hawking's voice came out of the mechanical words: "Order is expanding, the world is stabilizing, and we can finally see the true face of the universe here." ”

"However, they are all dead...... Damn it! They're all dead! ”

The battlefield had fallen silent, and Admiral Manson covered his face with both hands, his emotions a little out of control.

The wounded who were withdrawn, as well as the medical, logistical and scientific research personnel on the space station, were filled with bitterness in their hearts, that was more than 4,000 people!

"Scavenger!"

"The Starlink Special Service is still there!"

"It's Xia Ming!"

An exclamation sounded, and on the surveillance screen, a small spaceship was pulling the blue flame and flying upside down. The reason why it flew upside down was because it had accelerated too hard before, and now it had to turn around and slow down violently.

The Scavenger sent a message: "Where's the Stargate?" What's the deal with that big ball? Natsu needs emergency care! ”

"Send it directly, we are preparing", Xiaotang's voice sounded on the Starlink communication channel, Su Yu breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at the screen, Xia Ming, who was wrapped in a multi-layer anti-radiation bag and hung alone in the cargo hold. Turning his gaze to the electrocardiogram, the heartbeat was inadvertently synchronized with each of the above troughs.

"Need to do a heavy radiation contamination decontamination!"

"Prepare to build extracorporeal blood circulation!"

"What about the ventilator, find the ventilator!"

Sensing a chaotic situation in a daze, and confirming that he was carried onto the operating table, Xia Ming gave up his external senses and focused part of his consciousness on his inner senses, and partly used it to ensure a stable connection with Qianyan.

"I will help you, rest assured, not to merge with you, but to make your self-consciousness more tightly integrated with the high-dimensional space-time."

In a trance, the idea of a thousand memories came in.

Xia Ming went deep into his inner senses from the cellular level to the molecular and atomic levels, and then he understood what help Qian Yi had provided him, his inner senses still did not stop, all the way to the quantum level, this is a world woven by the tremors of countless microscopic space-time, most of the movements are collapsing, but a few still maintain a complete structure and a smooth rhythm.

Now his inner senses have direct access to the neural quantum effect, which is the essence of mental movement. No, it's just a quantum level of motion, the fundamental string motion, he can't touch it, just like he can bombard atoms with photons, but the wave-particle duality of photons makes him unable to grasp the photons themselves.

The observation of the neural quantum effects inside the brain is similar to the small cosmic bubble that was observed in the mutant Borg. In contrast, the cosmic bubble is much larger, but the molecular structure of the all-inorganic matter is much different from the organic structure of the brain, and the complexity is much different. But for him, it's still a familiar road.

From the most basic neural quantum effects, to the molecular structure, to the biological composition at the cellular level, Xia Ming quickly gained a comprehensive understanding of the current state of his brain. Just like a doomsday world, he knows how everything in the world is structured, how things work to make the world work properly, and when everything will disintegrate, or to what extent, he knows in his heart.

This is just the beginning, he then combed through Liluo and Xiaotang's previous autoclonal technology, as well as all the relevant academic materials collected by Qianyan, and determined the direction to save this world from the apocalypse.

Xia Ming further refined the neural model and extended it to the entire brain tissue. Regions of the brain that have been severely damaged are identified as sensory areas. When external circulatory support is perceived, the severely damaged part of the cerebellum is identified as less critical autonomic nerve areas, and in short, the goal is to use all the areas of the cerebellum that are still functioning for higher-order thinking and key functions.

The functional areas of the brain will automatically adjust according to the situation, but natural adjustment is a long process, but under the control of Xia Ming's consciousness far beyond mortals, this adjustment is almost instantaneous. These brain cells, which are still usable, maintain his sense of self under Xia Ming's pressure. If there is an instrument that can measure the neural quantum effect, Xia Ming's activity index of the neural quantum effect at this time will be so high that it is astonishing.

To put it simply, in the brain cells of ordinary people's brains, the neural quantum effect is a very low level of activity, and the consciousness activity is the confirmation of the activity of the neural quantum effect at the quantum level at the microscopic level. In the high-dimensional space-time, the higher consciousness activity allows the ultimate level of thinking strings to be extended to the front-end macro cell level, which is also the fundamental reason why the Starlink agents can quickly improve the consciousness activity through training, and they can increase the activity of neural quantum effects to a level equivalent to a thousand or even ten thousand times that of ordinary people.

Now, Xia Ming has increased the activity of the neural quantum effect of usable brain cells to a level of more than a million times, and relying on such power, he wants to complete the replacement of brain cells.

Liluo and Xiaotang had been exposed to the research of universal stem cells in their previous research on treating Su Yu and Xiaoping, but it was too far from what he was doing now. It is impossible for him to clone himself with universal stem cells and finish the job, after all, his self-consciousness is based on the current brain as the carrier, and it is impossible to transfer it to the brain of the clone.

His plan is to divide the relatively intact stem cells into completely healthy stem cells, and then the stem cells will be differentiated into healthy nerve cells, replacing the cells damaged by radiation, and finally completing the reorganization of the brain.

Stem cells rely on their ability to self-renew for mitosis and differentiation into functional cells, but if this functional differentiation is suppressed, it is still a stem cell.

This kind of inhibition technology exists in the information searched by Qianyan, although it is only a little stronger than the concept, but Xia Ming knows the direction as soon as he grasps the stem cell division mechanism by comparison.

Xia Ming found the stem cells that were least irradiated in several areas, and began to interfere with the operation of stem cells through the ability of neural self-control. However, at this time, neural self-control no longer relies on nerves, but is "programmed" by the quantum effect of the nerve to promote the movement of molecular enzymes in the cell, which should be called cell self-control.

A swarm of stem cells completed self-replication, but Xia Ming found that although these stem cells no longer continued to deteriorate due to radiation, they were healthy stem cells, but their DNA had changed.

"Radiation mutation?"

Xia Ming was stunned, this is very difficult. Now he can't find a single stem cell in his brain that hasn't been irradiated, and all of them are copied like this. To use such stem cells as the mother to differentiate functional cells, who knows what kind of mutations will occur in their brain?

But for every millisecond of delay, tens of thousands of brain cells die, and he has to choose between death and mutation.

He did not rush to start differentiating nerve cells with these stem cells, which, like all cells in the human body, have a limit on the number of divisions, which is limited by the length of telomerase on the DNA. Every time it divides, the DNA of the cell will be less telomerase, and after a certain number of times, the telomerase will be consumed, and the person's life span will come to an end. For 26-year-old Xia Ming, on average, the length of telomerase is about 10,000 nucleotides.

The so-called "the limit of the number of cell divisions in the human body is 50 times" and the like are unscientific and unrigorous. Epidermal cells, for example, have a much higher number of divisions and fewer muscle cells. Generally speaking, stem cells can differentiate more than 20 times the total number of cells in the human body.

If Xia Ming relied on this stem cell to differentiate nerve cells, he would inevitably consume several divisions, which meant that his lifespan would be shortened.

This is a problem that cannot be ignored, and Xia Ming feels that it can be solved, because Qianyan has already found him information.

Eight years ago, Stanford University did research on elongating telomerase, and they succeeded in lengthening telomerase by a tenth. Although the elongation is consumed after two or three splits, much faster than the "native telomerase" depletion, it is used to counteract the initial splitting. Moreover, it also avoids the mutating effects of telomerase hyperplasia on the DNA, which would be another big problem if he divides into cancer cells.

Stanford's research is based on the adjustment of RNA to "reprogram" telomerase, because with each split, telomerase checks the information code, so this reprogramming is completely corrected after two or three splits.

This research has only been used to treat Progeria, muscular dystrophy, and heart disease, which are caused by abnormal telomerase conditions, and reprogramming activates the check, making it possible for the operation of telomerase to return to the "exit setting".

For normal people, the uncertainty of this technology is too high, and the possibility of causing cancer is too great, so it has not yet developed into a "life extension technology". But for Xia Ming, the uncertainty is much less.

After meticulously completing the "life extension" operation on a stem cell and stimulating it to do several replication divisions, Xia Ming found that there was no problem, so Xia Ming dispersed the operation process to countless stem cells. With his current consciousness activity, it is not inconceivable to divide a large number of small thoughts and control the autologous cell level at a microscopic level.

All available brain stem cells are operated to prolong their lives, so that they can replicate enough autologous, of course, not infinitely, because the macroscopic structure of the brain has evolved over a long period of time, leaving a hidden setting in the DNA.

If the number of brain cells is not at a set size, the brain will try to adjust, squeeze, and try to make consciousness and thinking function properly. If it exceeds the set size, it will be difficult for the brain to maintain normal functioning, and it will take a long time to adapt and adjust. What's more, the brain chamber is so big, unless even the skull is changed.

Relying on the nutrients left behind by dead cells, stem cells divide at an alarming rate, some replicating themselves and some differentiating into healthy nerve cells. Depending on the type of dead cells, Xia Ming also needs to finely grasp the approximate number of differentiated species.

Self-consciousness carries brain cells running wildly, and dead brain cells peel off and shrink one by one, some melt, some turn into mucus, and drain out of the small holes drilled in the temples.

"Fortunately, we took care of him, knowing that he was connected with Qianyan and was saving himself. If you want others to see the changes in his brain, you must think that he has also become a mutant Borg. ”

In the operating room that was urgently set up, Xiaotang, who was floating beside Xia Ming, sighed.

Xia Ming's whole person was wrapped in a vacuum bag, and the ventilator, extracorporeal blood circulation and other equipment made him a living dead with only his brain still active.

On the terahertz imager, Xia Ming's brain proliferates brain cells at a rate visible to the naked eye, and the dead brain cells are led out of the brain cavity by a diversion tube.

Xiao Huan floated on the other side of him, and said worriedly: "My brain has changed, is my memory still there?" Is it still the previous Ah Ming? ”

Qianyan's virtual image appeared in the field of vision, and since she knew about Qianyi's existence, Qianyan's avatar was set to have short hair, otherwise it would be difficult for them to distinguish between them.

Qian Yan said: "Xia Ming's neural quantum effect characteristics have not changed, he must still be the same person." ”

Xiao Huan breathed a sigh of relief, and said quietly: "It's okay to forget about us, let him do it all over again, and see who he will choose?" ”

"The flesh will choose you, and the spirit will choose me", Xiaotang spread his hands: "The result is still left and right." ”

Xiao Huan pouted, glared at her angrily, hugged her again, and said with a crying voice: "As long as he survives well, whatever he wants......"

Xiaotang patted her back gently, and was about to say something, when the whole person suddenly froze.

On the screen, the image of Xia Ming's brain gradually blurred, and in the end, it turned into a cloud of mist.

The blood on her face was gone, but she heard Qianyan say: "The terahertz wave is deflected, and it is speculated that Xia Ming's brain cells are rejecting electromagnetic waves." ”

Xiaotang took a breath, is this a mutation?

If Xia Ming had spare time, after the brain was rebuilt, he could say hello to Xiaotang and Xiao Huan, saying that he hadn't felt any problems with his consciousness so far.

But now he had to hurry to the next step, rebuilding the heart, getting the blood circulation, and then the respiratory system. With the current extracorporeal blood circulation and ventilators, there are fewer and fewer usable stem cells left in his body.

When everything was done, Xia Ming fell into a deep sleep, his self-consciousness squeezed his brain too violently, he was not a biochemical machine, he was tired from the bottom of his heart, and he couldn't resist it anymore.

When he woke up again, Xia Ming had a refreshing feeling of being reborn, in essence, he was really reborn.

After docking with Qianyan and asking the time, he was startled.

May 2nd? He slept for ten days!

Xiaotang and Xiao Huan were not there, and he didn't pop up to remind them, wanting to surprise them. Drifting to the bathroom and looking at myself in the mirror, I felt a little strange.

A bald ......

Luckily, the eyebrows have grown.

The eyes, nose, mouth, and face shape don't seem to have changed, but the skin is much smoother, and it looks like a lot younger. If it weren't for the bald head and the lines seemed to be a lot sharper, the young man in the mirror would feel less than twenty years old.

Body......

Now he is seven or eight centimeters taller than before, already 185 tall, and his shoulders are a lot wider.

Xia Ming was embarrassed, he really didn't mean it.

His body was rebuilt from the brain to the skin, from the organs to the bones, and not a single cell was lost. And all the cells have been tinkered with, and the result is a perfect representation of the genes.

Of course, genes do not carry such things as aesthetics, but aesthetics is derived from human aesthetics, and the essence of aesthetics is the yearning of men and women for their spouses. Big breasts and hips are feminine beauty, and similarly, tall plus inverted triangles are male beauty. This aesthetic is associated with reproduction and is deeply rooted in the genes.

Now, he has lengthened and straightened his calf bones, lengthened his shoulder blades, and distributed his muscles more evenly. This is still a big deal, the changes in the face, the details are not visible at a glance, but in general there are some changes, becoming more attractive to females, attracting them to mate, this is the pot of genes plus evolution.

Xia Ming sighed, he became handsome.

Recalling the process of rebuilding his body, Xia Ming remembered something again, and looked at the mirror with his eyes.

Under the ordinary light, there are more things, there are faint pale red light and shadows, and there are lines that seem to be fluctuating in the air.

This is an electromagnetic wave, Xia Ming is very sure.

When he first entered the research institute, he tried to observe the electromagnetic waves in the computer room, but he was struck by a mess of abstract paintings, but his eyes did not see anything.

Now, he can see electromagnetic waves directly with the naked eye. In the mirror, his eyes were shining with a faint blue halo.

actually looked up to Xiao Huan, and became like those glowing squid in the deep sea.

Xia Ming was a little apprehensive all of a sudden, he had become so much, would everyone doubt that he was still the same person?

Not daring to observe more, Xia Ming put on the spacesuit in the cabin and wanted to go out to find a place to be quiet.

Outside the door was a long passage like a drawbridge, and Xia Ming could see clearly that the room he was in was like a heavily protected vault.

A new space station?

Xia Ming stepped on magnetic shoes and walked through the passage, the automatic door popped open, and outside the door was a hall, hundreds of people were gathering in the hall, and as soon as the door opened, all eyes were cast.

There was silence for a while, as if he was adapting to his new look, and then Anson, Su Yu, Lao Hong and Lao Huang and others shouted at the same time: "Salute!" ”

Hundreds of people stomped their feet in salute with a loud bang.

Xia Ming froze for a moment, then calmly returned the salute, his eyes swept over the crowd, and Xiaotang and Xiao Huan were also pretending to salute. They must have known that he was awake, gathered people here, and surprised him.

As soon as the corners of his mouth curled, he saw another person in the corner.

Qian Yi, wearing the in-cabin spacesuit of the Star Alliance, stood in the corner and looked at him calmly. (To be continued.) )