Chapter 148: Hypothesis
The rearmament battle lasted two days, and it was the time necessary for the descendants of the Community to prepare the trackers.
An elite squad of 20 people has been formed in the Lost City, and Hans is still the leader. Three trucks were loaded with supplies for the expedition, indicating the importance the Elders attached to the mission.
In these two days, Lin Xi also had a preliminary understanding of the Lost City. There are more than 7,000 people in the city, and there is already a fairly complete range of industries in it, with several well-integrated factories that can cover most of the needs. However, due to the small size of the city, the electronics industry is seriously backward, and it is not even as good as the level before the interstellar development of humans on the home planet.
After hundreds of years of struggling to survive on the descendants of the Community immigrants, and the population of several other small towns, it is only slightly more than 10,000 people, which is not much more than the initial immigrants. It can be seen that the war with the modified body has been tragic over the years.
During this battle with the modified, Hans unexpectedly found that the modified's military strength was much weaker, and the command was very chaotic, so the Council of Elders mobilized troops, led by Hans, and actually killed all the way to the biochemical factory of the modified. They also paid the price, and when they set off, the troops of more than 500 people were left with less than 300 when they appeared in front of Chu Jungui. This is also due to the fact that most of the guards around the town were killed by the members of the Winter Hunting Squad.
The sudden weakening of the combat power of the modified body is naturally due to the heavy losses in the last urban offensive and defensive battle. Under the strong firepower and excellent command of the Winter Hunt Squad, the elite transformation body was almost completely wiped out, and more than half of the leopard-type warriors were also lost. Without the support of elite warriors, the modified body is like a creature without bones, and its combat power is very limited.
In the past two days, the descendants of the community have been testing the origin of the Winter Hunting Squad, and Chu Jungui and Lin Xi have completely ignored it. The soldiers of the Blue Banner Army didn't know much, and they were all tight-lipped. Elder Lua was helpless, and he didn't dare to make other small moves, after all, the Winter Hunt team had overwhelming firepower at a glance, and ordinary bullets had no effect on their battle armor.
Two days passed, and in the early morning of the third day, Hans hurried in, accompanied by a somewhat thin young man.
"This is Will, the chairman of the city, the head of technology, who is in charge of operating the tracker. It's up to him to find the Son of Hell, so we have to protect him. Hans said with a smile.
Lin Xi pointed at Qin Yi and said, "You are responsible for protecting him." ”
"Good. Since the quarrel with Li Ruobai, Qin Yi's words have obviously become less, and there is more murderous aura on his body.
When everything was ready, Lin Xi gave the order to set off. A convoy of more than a dozen trucks slowly drove out of the Lost City towards the Modified Body's headquarters.
Shortly after leaving the city, a drone flew over the convoy and circled high in the air. Li Ruobai's voice sounded in Lin Xi and Chu Jungui's communication channel: "I have made some new discoveries here, and I will pass it on to you." ”
A piece of video data was transmitted, and Chu Jungui clicked on it, and he saw the final Hell Child Laboratory. Li Ruobai took out a little residual liquid from the training cabin of the escaped teenager, put it into the detection device, and began to test.
The image in the microscope is cloudy, and no formed cells are visible. When the multiplier expands again, you can see thin threads like worms.
"The culture medium here is unusually clean, and you don't see any bacteria in it, which is abnormal. It's not a sterile environment, and the culture chamber hasn't just been opened. Then there is only one explanation, and all the microorganisms that enter the culture medium become food for these things. Li Ruobai explained.
It wasn't instant messaging, so no one asked, just watched.
The picture is zoomed in again, and it has entered the nanometer level. The details of the microbes are so clear that they look like round particles connected together, and occasionally one of them wiggles slightly.
"These guys are more of a super-sized molecule than a living thing. Their genetic information is contained in RNA, which is somewhat similar to some viruses, so they are tentatively named nematoviruses. Let's take a closer look at its structure. ”
In the image, a nematovirus is magnified again, taking up the entire frame, and then several particles on it are colored differently.
"The front end is used to identify information, the middle part is the part that stores energy and holds genetic information, and the back part is responsible for movement and propulsion. Well, doesn't it look a little like our biological nanobots? It's just that this is a natural version of the original. ”
"In the end, I used the arm tissue that is called the immortal body to put it together with these mitoviruses, and the results were interesting. ”
Several human tissue cells appeared in the image, and nearby nematoviruses immediately gathered and burrowed into the cells one by one. After a few moments, the cells began to divide, and the division would take place almost every minute, and in the blink of an eye, the first few tissue cells had become hundreds of cells, but it took less than ten minutes. This is also due to the fact that there are fewer and fewer nematoviruses in the later stage, so the division process is also slowed down accordingly.
"Let's see what happens when we put in other cells. ”
The image changed again, and several human tissue cells were put in. Except for Chu Jungui, the others couldn't see any difference between the cells this time and the last time.
In the eyes of everyone, the cells all look the same, just like the people of the Tang Dynasty look at Yingsa, or the people of Yingsa look at the Tang Dynasty.
The surrounding nematoviruses are like sharks that smell blood, quickly gathered, pierced the cells one by one, and in the blink of an eye, they got in, and the human tissue cells began to swell, just like just now.
But the ending is different.
When the cells taken from the juvenile grow larger, they divide into new cells, but this time the tissue cells are ruptured, and several times the mitovirus swims out of them. Obviously, these cells all become food for the mitovirus, and the whole process is completely reversed.
"I think we have found the true face of the so-called immortal body, which is the super body repair ability based on the nematovirus. Theoretically, as long as one cell exists, in a sufficiently numerous mitovirus environment, he can be revived. The founders of the Children of Hell wanted to bypass the Wall of Dunnanhua in this way. ”
Chu Jungui immediately searched the database and found the description of Deng Nanhua's wall.
Deng Nanhua was the most famous geneticist in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, focusing on the research of super lifeforms. In her hands, countless famous achievements have been born that are enough to change the fate of mankind. It is generally believed that because of her existence, the progress of Shengtang in the fields of gene editing, organ implantation, and xenogeneic organ fusion has been directly advanced for hundreds of years, making Shengtang completely above the community and the federation.
But the most famous achievement of her life was a hypothesis, or prediction, known as the Wall of Dunnanwalt, and the Federation and Community as the Wall of Sighs.