Chapter 14: The Stars
On Shenzhou, the blood roots, amino acids, and living essence of all living beings are left-handed, and the sugars produced by all living beings are right-handed. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Essence of living beings constitutes the tissues of the human body and forms the framework of cells. Therefore, it can be said that every living macromolecule in the human body has left-handed properties.
And such a body can absorb the sugar of the right hand and use it as a source of energy.
This can actually be an inappropriate analogy with a screw and a nut.
However, there is a very strange phenomenon.
The glucose produced by plant photosynthesis is all dextrared, and all the amino acids synthesized by plants are dextrared. However, in the case of artificial production, the left-handed and right-handed macromolecules are usually close to half to half - because the carbon in natural conditions is half left-handed and half-right-handed, and many physical changes [chemical reactions] do not involve rotary.
The chirality of each substance from natural beings is fixed, amino acids must be left-handed, and sugars must be right-handed.
This mysterious phenomenon is still a mystery to this day.
And when she heard that the dragon clan also knew something about this aspect, Ai Qinglan immediately became excited.
"Ah, you should know very well about the study of chirality, right?
Yueluo Liuli looked away: "Ahem, cough, this is also confidential." ”
Chen Feng shook his head: "I can see ......"
"It's probably a problem from the very beginning of evolution. Ai Qinglan shook her head: "Absorbing two kinds of sugar at the same time is far less efficient than absorbing only one, so creatures with two isomers of chirality at the same time are eliminated?"
"Then according to this line of thinking, Shenzhou should be divided into two worlds, the left-handed and the right-handed. Tatsukaze reminded.
Or is it that when the original plants absorbed sunlight, the power of true yang had a certain bias, so that the plants with L-essentia and dextrose were dominant, and then the L-essentia animals that could digest and absorb dextrose were also dominant?" Ai Qinglan looked at the two moons in Tianwu and said, "This is not my domain......
"Not only wisdom has such huge possibilities, but even evolution is ah...... Chen Feng sighed: "On the land behind Shenzhou, how many civilizations have chosen and how many evolution routes have been 'eliminated by chance' because of 'probability'? These possibilities can also be reproduced in other worlds...... It's really amazing. ”
- It's really not Shenzhou here.
- This is the alien planet.
Ai Qinglan turned to the moonfall glaze again: "In other words, glaze, the entire heaven and earth are right-handed source beings, what is the situation?"
Moonfall Liuli turned her head in embarrassment: "Actually...... I haven't actually seen it, but I've heard the predecessors of the dragon clan say that there is such a kind of heaven and earth, and all the creatures there are poisonous to us creatures, and we can't eat them directly...... It can't be said to be poisonous, right? ...... anyway."
L-sugar and d-vivo amino acids cannot be said to be toxic to the creatures of Shenzhou. It neither suffocates living beings nor destroys a particular essentia. From the point of view of physical properties [chemical properties], levose and dextrose are almost identical, and it is difficult to detect them by general toxicity testing. This substance can even be absorbed and metabolized normally.
However, for beings with L-essentia, L-sugar is not able to metabolize and produce energy normally, but will produce side metabolic effects that disrupt normal metabolism.
However, no organism will produce antibodies to sugars with different natures, because the physical properties of levalose and dextrose are basically the same. Living systems themselves do not distinguish them with such precision.
Moonfall Liuli opened the conversation box and continued: "You don't know, our dragon clan also has a special trial, that is, within three days, relying on the 'levane sugar' mixed with the 'levane sugar' in the mouth of your human race, to double the size of his original body. Only after completing this can one be eligible for immortality. ”
Ai Qinglan was dumbfounded: "How did you do it?"
Transfiguration only interferes with the expression of bloodlines, and does not have the ability to forcibly reverse the chirality of atoms...... Moreover, even if it is forcibly twisted, the double and triple bonds of the molecule must be broken.
Change the chirality of all the macromolecules in your body in an instant......
Are all unimmortal dragons monsters?
"Oh, it's not that hard. It is mainly a test of three contents. One is to distinguish between L-sugar and Dextrose with spiritual sense, one is the supernatural power of time and space, and the other is to create the corresponding digestive enzymes. The moon set and the glass gestured.
Ai Qinglan was surprised: "Time and space?"
"Do you know this shape?" Moonfall Liuli's hand burst out with purple light, conjuring up an abnormal ring. Part of it is twisted one hundred and eighty degrees, so that this two-dimensional figure has only one face.
"Infernal Ring?" Ai Qinglan was not so familiar with the topology, but she still recognized this well-known topology.
On Earth, this bizarre shape is known as the "Möbius Ring".
Most people only know that this ring is a special, one-sided, two-dimensional concept. In fact, it also has a very special effect, which is to reverse chirality.
If a two-dimensional worm crawls around the Infernal Ring [Möbius Ring], when it returns to its original point, its left antennae will become right, and its right antennae will become left.
It becomes a mirror image of itself.
In other words, the chirality has changed.
"I don't really know much about that. But...... It seems to say that with the deep space channel, you can make ...... No, how should I say it...... In the words of the human race, it is to construct this three-phase form of the Infernal Ring with the help of the four-phase Taiyu, and then go around it to change its overall ...... Chirality?" Moonfall Ruri said, "That's probably it." ”
"The arithmetic of the dragon clan is also very developed. Chen Feng sighed stunned.
More than a decade ago, he had heard a similar question from another girl.
It's just that Chen Youjia was still more rebellious at the beginning, but he just wanted to be biased towards Lianzong, and he didn't study the content of these topologies very deeply. Chen Feng's understanding of this aspect is largely stuck at that time.
But think deeper...... What exactly did the dragons develop this ability for?
This is the real "ability to reproduce in all natural conditions"!
Even if the dragon clan reaches a world where there is only levane sugar and dextrin essentia, the dragon clan can change the chirality of its own bloodline, and then quickly adapt to the local area. Because they have completely changed the chirality of each molecule of themselves, the next generation of dragons they give birth to will also be dextin essentia, absorbing L-sugar.
No matter how you look at it, this is a skill of "quickly colonizing the whole universe".
And for the Immortal Dragon Clan, this is actually ...... Compulsory?
Fortunately, Chen Feng is not the kind of guy who has a heart and eyes in his stomach like Wang Qi, and he didn't delve into this problem.
Ai Qinglan still has a match to exchange all kinds of strange knowledge with Moonfall Liuli. The knowledge they exchanged would not touch the core of the Dragons and the Immortal Alliance, but it could already bring considerable benefits to both sides.
Chen Feng gradually couldn't keep up with the topic of this person and a dragon. The dragon clan cultivation method is all based on the expression of bloodline. Every dragon has a deep understanding of bloodline and evolution. Ai Qinglan's research direction is precisely the function and heredity of the bloodline spirit rhino group.
He quietly watched the night sky.
The night sky is so bright that the two moons reflect more stellar brilliance, so most of the stars in the sky are difficult to detect with the naked eye.
Even if it is a first-class bright star, it is easy to drown in this moonlight.
"I don't know, in this sky full of stars, will there be our sun?" Chen Feng suddenly sighed.
Moonfall Liuli and Ai Qinglan both stopped talking. Ai Qinglan also looked up at the starry sky and said, "Yes...... This is really another world - when I see the green plants around me, I don't feel real, and the Wu people seem to be just a special kind of monster. ”
"Indigestible polysaccharides, as well as many other things, are enough for you to recognize this world. Moonfall Liuli first shook her head coldly, and then said: "Although I heard many elders say that the feeling of leaving my homeland and going to the sea of stars is amazing, but I really feel it for the first time......
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And in a place where there were more than three astronomical units, on top of the starship "Tide Spirit", there were also two Refining Stage Cultivators asking the same question.
"Can you see our sun from here?"
Tong Guanliu stood on the port side, looking at the starry sky intently.
Compared to the other monks of the Shadows, he has very little qualifications. Except for being promoted on a whim by the Counting Jun, he didn't even have the experience of touching the Immortal Road.
"I can't see it. The other monk shook his head: "Even if you see it, you don't necessarily know it, do you?"
I don't know how far away it is from the Terran sun. Billions of light-years, perhaps?
In other words, even if you do, you can only see the sun a few years ago.
The Terrans have only observed the sun for 80,000 years, and they may not know it if they see it.
"It would be nice to have a three-dimensional star map. Tong Guanliu sighed.
With the help of the Immortal Road, the civilization or lone intelligent beings of this universe can easily travel between the stars, but they have no way to judge which corner of the universe they are in.
This universe is terrifyingly big. The starry sky seen on one planet is completely different from what you see on another. And the distances between the planets are different, and you can't tell that a star is the same one you see on another planet.
Because, depending on the distance, what someone sees may be what this planet looked like 100 million years ago, while what people on another planet saw was what it looked like a billion years ago.
There are also a series of complex things to consider such as gravitational lensing, interstellar aura environment, and so on.
And the Immortal Alliance's use of the Immortal Road is limited, there is no magic weapon, and they don't know where they will appear in the universe.
For the immature civilization, the fairy road is just an insoluble labyrinth with the stars as the background. (To be continued.) )