Chapter 149: Super Lifeforms

Whether it is the wall of Deng Nanhua or the wall of sighs, it refers to a mysterious bottleneck encountered in the process of super life cultivation.

When at the cellular level, cells with super life characteristics will automatically divide labor with the decrease of food in the environment when they are gathered together, some are transformed into locomotor organs, some have evolved the ability to perceive, some are responsible for thinking and commanding, and some are eating, digesting, and supplying the consumption of cells throughout the body.

A minimum of less than ten super cells is needed to form a fully functional living organism.

As the number of supercells increases, the super-life forms become more complex and powerful. Within roughly equal size, these super-beings are always at the top of the food chain, and far more than the second. It can be said that in their eyes, everything is food.

With the deepening of research, the definition of super life in each star field has gradually become clear and consistent. In short, a superlife should have the following three characteristics: first, a high degree of intelligence, second, autonomous evolution to adapt to different environments, and third, a strong comprehensive physical fitness.

Among them, highly intelligent and autonomous evolution are the core, and they are also the original intention of human beings to study super life. In fact, human beings want to develop a biological weapon that can adapt to various extreme living environments to conquer the surface of the planet.

The experiment went very smoothly at the beginning, and the super cells synthesized by the genes that were continuously optimized and screened fully showed the characteristics of super life in the initial stage, and were able to evolve different forms according to different environments, and became more perfect through trial and error. They can tolerate temperatures ranging from minus 100 to minus 150 degrees, can survive in an atmosphere with only 5% oxygen content, and are far faster than ordinary creatures in terms of speed, strength, and resilience.

But it soon became clear that as the number of supercells aggregated increased, individual cells began to show signs of random mutations. This probability is not very large, and there are only a few mutations in the first billion cells. Mutated supercells die quickly because they are surrounded by their own kind, cannot find food, and cannot merge with the whole.

However, as more and more supercells converge, the number of individuals with mutations begins to rise exponentially, and the types of mutations they have become diverse.

Initially, the mutated supercells starve to death, but as the mutations increase, some of the mutated supercells begin to resist and attempt to attack individuals who are not mutated. The normal number of super cells is the best of all, so a counterattack will kill the rioting cells. However, after the elimination of a batch of mutant cells, a new batch of mutant cells will appear. In this way, a corner of the super lifeform's body began to have internal friction.

Naturally, this is something that scientists don't want to see, but the scale of the riots is limited, so they put up with it and continue to increase the number of cells that aggregate.

By the time the converging life reaches the size of an egg, there are hundreds of points of chaos in its body, and new mutant varieties are created. These new cells can be disguised as normal cells to obtain the body's nutrient allocation. But they never forget their duty as mutant cells, and after obtaining nutrients, they will summon other mutant cells, give them the nutrients they have cheated, and then the latter will fight.

By the time the aggregate life form expands to the size of a goose egg, the probability of supercell mutation has reached an alarming level, and the mutation forms are also diverse, with various functions. There are even hundreds of tricks that can be used to die with normal super cells alone. At this stage, some researchers sighed, as if they saw a country full of turmoil in this small world. There is gunsmoke and war everywhere, and no one knows which cell is still normal next, and which cell has mutated again.

Deng Nanhua also stopped before this unexpected difficulty. She has exhausted her life's efforts and has never been able to solve this problem completely. In her later years, summarizing the research data of the past decades, through the comparative analysis of a large number of data, Deng Nanhua believed that the ability of super cells to process information is limited, so there is an upper limit to the total amount of effective aggregation. Based on this, she developed the famous hypothesis:

No supercell that meets the definition will be able to self-aggregate into an effective intelligent life with a total volume of more than 49*49*49. This is the wall of Deng Nanhua.

In the following hundreds of years, in order to bypass the wall of Deng Nanhua, human beings did not know how many ways to do it, and finally stopped there.

There are not without opportunistic methods, but either they are not practical, or they are not really super life.

And now, is it possible that a real super life has appeared in front of everyone?

At the end of the video, Li Ruobai said: "The genetic analysis of the child of hell has preliminary results, it should be said that this is a pseudo-super lifeform, and his genes have preset the direction for most of the variables, that is, his evolution is severely limited." In addition, his recovery and ability evolution are inseparable from the Methyl Virus. A nematovirus is a way of removing uncontrolled mutant cells from his body. In fact, the children of hell did not bypass the wall of Dunnanhua at all. ”

"Finally, the good news is that nematoviruses have very harsh environmental requirements, and it is not easy to prepare and preserve. As a tool to support superlife, it is self-limiting the number of splits. The equipment in this laboratory is actually very primitive, capable of producing nematoviruses, and the owner of the time was also a genius. Therefore, after leaving here, the so-called child of hell has a time limit for activation, and when the mitomatic virus in his body is consumed, he will not have the ability to be immortal. ”

After reading the news delivered by Li Ruobai, Lin Xi uploaded the route of action for the next day to the drone, agreed on the time and place of the next communication, and let the drone return.

After dealing with all this, she asked in the communication channel: "Jun Gui, you have fought with him, are you sure to capture him alive?"

Chu Jungui frowned and said, "The variables are very large, and they can be knocked down, but they may not be able to be captured alive." In addition, when he appeared with the girl in the white dress, it was like a different way of being, and I had no way to find him, so I could only watch him run away. ”

"Is there another way of being?" can you describe it?" Lin Xi asked.

"It's hard to describe. ”

Chu Jungui had described the strangeness of the teenager in detail before, but the test subject was not a scientist, in fact, Lin Xi and Li Ruobai were not, so they didn't find anything wrong.

Lin Xi groaned for a moment and said, "Then find him first." ”

The convoy slowly moved forward and continued to the base camp of the modified body. It wasn't long before Hans's voice rang out over the intercom inside the truck: "Found him!"