Chapter 413: Colorful Scale
"I... What's wrong with me?" Back in the bedroom, she picked up a towel and gently wiped off the water droplets on her body. She subconsciously walked to the mirror and shook her body left and right.
Compared with before, the skin is more delicate, more radiant, more tender, and the body curve is round and flawless.
Although there were many doubts in her heart, the changes in her body really made the girl very happy. She couldn't help but lifted her toes and spun around in front of the mirror like a ballet dancer.
"Huh?" When he turned around, he caught a glimpse of a line of colorful colors.
The girl was stunned, and hurriedly stopped, pointing her back at the mirror, and then her mouth opened wider and wider.
On the back as smooth as jade, a fingernail-sized colorful scale clings tightly to the vest, reflecting a pocket rainbow under the light. She stretched out her hand and scratched her back. It was not painful or itchy, and the touch was like ordinary skin tissue.
"This thing is too weird." After thinking for a while, Zhou Ai opened the closet, changed into a set of sportswear, opened the door, and walked quickly towards the medical experiment cabin.
At the same time, in the laboratory of the medical experiment cabin, Valentine stuffed a PDA into Tang Fang's hand: "This is the tissue sample test sheet of a 'jellyfish' type creature."
Tang Fang nodded, and swipe the touch screen casually to browse through the laboratory data of "exotic jellyfish" organisms in detail.
According to the slice study of biological samples, the "exotic jellyfish" organism is an aquatic organism that lives in an acidic aqueous solution. The organism can secrete a strong corrosive protease to dissolve organic matter and take in nutrients to maintain itself survival.
"Creatures that can survive in acidic aqueous solution?" Tang Fang frowned and continued to flip the page.
Next, after in-depth testing, Valentine came to an incredible conclusion, although this creature was analyzed from the tissue structure. Some resemble jellyfish that feed on plankton on Earth.
However, the real situation is not the case. The tentacles of the "exotic jellyfish" have a set of strange tissues and organs. This organ is very sensitive to zero elements and can act like the photosynthesis of aquatic plants. Absorb the free zero element particles in the acid solution, and convert them into the nutrients needed by the body under the sunshine.
"There are actually two 'digestive systems'..."
Tang Fang continued to turn the pages, and the third page was an explanation of the origin of the "exotic jellyfish". By deconstructing the gene sequence of the "exotic jellyfish", Valentine found information about the "exotic jellyfish" in the gene pool of alien organisms compiled by humans.
According to the information contained in the database,
The scientific name of "heterogeneous jellyfish" is "aqbd-1 asexual jellyfish", which exists in an ocean planet called Akron in the Akubado star system.
"Akron" is the famous river Styx in ancient Greek mythology, and an ocean planet is named after "Akron". One can imagine what this planet means to human beings.
As introduced on the first page, "aqbd-1 asexual jellyfish" is a creature that lives in an acidic solution environment. The most distinctive feature of "Akron" is the boundless black ocean on its surface.
"Akron" has no land, and the entire planet is surrounded by this black ocean, with an average water depth of more than 12,600 feet, and the deepest abyss is about 110,000 feet from the ocean surface.
Of course, this water depth is still sufficient for today's human technology. However, "Akron" is called "Akron". It is not named because of the depth of the water, but because the ocean on the surface of the planet is highly acidic, unless the probe is made of special materials. Generally, if the equipment goes down, the only result is that the stone sinks into the "sea". If it is a human body, it will be stuffy for a few minutes after being thrown down, and even the bones will be gone when it is fished up again.
"aqbd-1 asexual jellyfish" is living in such a harsh environment. Biologists in the human society have always been puzzled by one thing, how does the "aqbd-1 asexual jellyfish" reproduce? Because this organism has no reproductive organs, and it does not undergo mitosis and indirect division like a single cell, until now, this issue is still unknown.
In fact, for the Star Alliance government. How the "aqbd-1 asexual jellyfish" reproduces offspring is not important. What the government really cares about is the zero element resources of "Akron".
As noted in the specimen analysis report on the first two pages. The "aqbd-1 asexual jellyfish" has two sets of digestive systems. Starting from the actual effect, the first set is purely for decoration. How can there be plankton in an acidic ocean like "Akron". As for the second digestive system, it is the living organ of this creature.
A small amount of zero element particles are dissolved in the acidic ocean of "Akron", and "aqbd-1 asexual jellyfish" relies on the ingestion of free zero element particles in the acid solution to obtain the nutrients needed for survival.
According to the analysis of the exploration department of the Star Alliance government, the zero element particles dissolved in the acidic ocean of "Akron" do not exist naturally, because over the years, under the inhalation of the "aqbd-1 asexual jellyfish body", the zero element particles in the acidic ocean The particle concentration did not show a downward trend, on the contrary, there were occasional increases.
After monitoring the energy radiation level of "Akron" for a period of time, the exploration ship learned that the internal activities of the planet's core were very violent, and the crustal movement was frequent, which in turn caused natural disasters such as submarine earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
Considering this situation, some people boldly predicted that the free zero element particles in the strong acid ocean of "Akron" are the zero source element that escaped from the surface in the seabed disaster.
If this conjecture is true, then the underground of "Akron" must contain a large amount of zero element resources.
As a result, the exploration department of the Star Alliance submitted a project application report to the government. After receiving funding, it cooperated with "Ward Heavy Industries" to develop a special detector that can resist strong acid corrosion, and put it into the "Akron" Exploration work for zero element resources.
Soon, the data sent back by the detector confirmed the conjecture of the exploration department that there is relatively abundant zero element ore underground in "Akron". However, what is criticized is that the distribution of zero element ore in "Akron" is very irregular, and large and small mineral deposits are scattered in the middle layer between the earth's crust and mantle, which has brought great obstacles to mining.
In fact, this difficulty is not a big deal. The key is the strong acid ocean on the surface of "Akron". The detector alone needs to be developed separately, which consumes a lot of money and time. If it is expanded to a complete set of mining equipment. One can imagine how huge a project it will be. If the output is input, who would not want to do a profitable business? But if input > output. Only a fool would waste time and energy on this.
The Star Alliance council has discussed more than a dozen times about the "Akron" zero element development plan, but all of them are due to serious deficiencies in technology. Too much investment, too high a risk. After a long time, the zero element development plan for "Caclon" was completely shelved.
"It turned out to be the 'aqbd-1 asexual jellyfish body' of 'Akron'... No wonder there is such a strange way of survival."
Tang Fang turned to the last page of the inspection report. When he saw the genetic model of the "aqbd-1 asexual jellyfish body" marked by Valentine on the screen, his pupils shrank suddenly: "This is..."
In the middle and the end of the model, there are gene fragments that match the genetic structure of the Ypsilonian.
He remembered that when he was in the "Lost Land", Valentine had shown him the gene map of the giant snake, which was a mixture of many biological genes, ipsi dragon gene, and phagosome gene ts-001 .
"Could it be that 'aqbd-1 asexual jellyfish' has the same origin as the giant snake?" Tang looked at Valentine suspiciously.
The old professor didn't nod. Also did not shake his head: "The gene of the giant snake is composed of many 'components'. In its lengthy gene chain, the core part is the y gene segment and the t gene segment at the end, that is, the ipsi dragon gene segment and the phagosome gene Fragment. But the gene of 'aqbd-1 asexual jellyfish' lacks the phagosome fragment."
"What about the phagosome? Is it consistent with the specimen ts-001 obtained by the Rector North Suburb Research Institute?"
Valentine shook his head, and nodded again: "The basic organic molecular composition and binding rules of the two are 99.999999% similar, only some parts similar to human gene bases are slightly different. Take us humans as an example, because Single nucleotide polymorphisms lead to different appearances, figures, talents, etc. of each person. Therefore, I deduce that these two samples belong to one kind of organism, but they come from different individuals”
After finishing speaking, he pondered for a while, and then he seemed to think of something again. Added: "By the way, the DNA deformation frequency of the two is also different. I wonder where 'Venus Pharmaceutical' got this sample. Also, I thought the phagosome was a single organism, but From the point of view of the current situation, they are more like a group."
"Phagosome..." Tang Fang returned the pda to Valentine with a thoughtful expression on his face. The vesicles above the Zerg base in the system space were still wriggling regularly, but the creep did not shrink. It seems that the video that is playing suddenly presses the pause button.
Why does this happen? Could it be that the phagosome sample just obtained is "run out of energy"? It's a pity that the sample ts-001 has been destroyed by the plasma cannon bombardment of the "Archangel", otherwise. You can give it a try.
Also, what is the origin of the vesicles above the wormhole? Whether it's a mule or a horse, you have to take it out for a walk. How do you always do this.
"Phagosome... ts-001... By the way, how could I have forgotten him." Tang Fang clapped his fists and turned to look outside the hall: "Roy, Roy!"
The middle-aged man was lying aside with Yingluo, when he vaguely heard someone calling him, when he looked up, he saw Tang Fang waving to him in the laboratory.
"I'll come as soon as I go." Greeting Yingluo, Roy walked into the laboratory quickly.
Tang Fang pulled him into the operating room on the left, staring at the right hand of the middle-aged man: "There hasn't been anything unusual these days, right?"
Roy moved his right hand and said with a silly smile: "Everything is normal, this guy is very honest, but his appetite is a bit big, and he can eat two or three meals of other people's rations in one meal."
"It's okay, brother Tang can't help you find a wife, but you have enough food and water." Tang Fang raised his eyebrows and teased.
Roy is not like Bai Hao. After all, his skin is tender. He blushed when he heard this, and glanced sideways at Ying Luo, who was concentrating on sorting out the crew's health files: "I...I...didn't..."
"No? Why don't you stutter?"
The middle-aged man's face turned even redder, like a ripe peach, he looked around, not knowing how to answer.
"Okay, I'm not joking with you." Tang Fang shook his head. Roy is too real. Compared with that kid Bai Hao, he is like a star: "I need to collect some tissue cells from your right arm."
Without thinking about it, Roy stretched out his right hand. little time. Suddenly he frowned: "Brother Tang, I almost forgot to mention this. As long as this guy is attacked by an external force that exceeds the rated level, he will automatically harden. Ordinary weapons can't hurt at all."
"I know this." Regarding Roy's right arm, Tang Fang knew more than he himself: "Maybe it will hurt a little. Bear with it."
"Yeah." Roy simply closed his eyes.
Tang Fang didn't say much, took a scalpel from the operating table next to him, injected a ray of high-energy electrons into the knife edge, and took advantage of the opportunity to lightly stroke the belly of Roy's right thumb.
The arm that was originally white and tender froze and instantly turned black.
Once Roy's right arm is blackened, its defense is even stronger than the explosion-proof shield of the machine gunner. If it is just an ordinary scalpel, there is nothing he can do about it. However. In front of a scalpel filled with high-energy electrons, the phagosome is like ice and snow exposed to the scorching sun.
With a stream of blood spilling out, the skin the size of a fingernail was cut off by a scalpel.
After Tang Fang quickly summoned a worm, he handed over the bloody skin to it, went to the operating table, tore off a piece of gauze, and helped Roy bandage it up.
"Brother Tang, there's no need to bandage it, it's just a small injury." Roy withdrew his arm all of a sudden. At this time, the blackness receded like a tide, and the arm returned to its normal state. then. The half-sized boy stretched out his left hand and wiped it on his thumb, and the blood disappeared. The wound has healed as before.
"I forgot that the phagosome has the ability to regenerate at a high speed." Tang Fang smiled wryly.
"Googoo..." There was a muffled sound from the half-sized boy's abdomen. Roy was embarrassed, touched his stomach with one hand, and cursed angrily: "Eat, eat, eat, I know how to eat all day long, I am almost becoming a poop maker."
Tang Fang was amused by him: "You want the horse to run fast, but you also want the horse not to eat grass. Why do you act like a skinny Zhou. When did Grant's flirtatious temper get infected with you?"
"Who is Zhou Papi?" Roy asked back.
"Uh, since I'm hungry. Let's go to the back kitchen to find something to eat. I still have work to do." Tang Fang didn't have time to tell him stories. What's more, Zhou Papi's prototype character is not a bad person at all, but a rumor, and what needs are there, so the imperial literati borrowed chickens to lay eggs, and came up with a "story of a chicken crowing at midnight", which is used to sing praises and beat the master Flattery.
"Oh." Roy agreed, turned and walked out the door, muttering as he walked, "I'd better make some fast food to deal with it. Now that the chief cook sees me, it's like seeing a creditor..."
Tang Fang was stunned, and watched the half-baby leave, but smiled helplessly, and put the queen into the system space, and ordered it to inject the collected phagocytic cells into the decomposition pool of the worm cave.
Sure enough, the next scene confirmed his guess. Not long after the queen injected the cell tissue of Roy's right arm into the decomposition pool, the worm lair was like an active volcano erupting suddenly. The creep that had expanded to the normal range shrank in a circle like being swallowed by a whale.
The pipelines connecting the wormholes to the suspended vesicles surged with foreign matter, and the liquefied creep was pressed into the vesicles like blood.
After a few breaths, the creep began to expand outwards, slowly returning to its original size, and the violently beating wormhole also returned to calm, only the vesicles on it were still wriggling regularly.
After experiencing these two mutations, Tang Fang keenly discovered a problem. The shape of the vesicle is very similar to the process of worker bees mutating into Zerg buildings. Originally, it was still a vesicle formed by the condensation of countless veins and tissues. At this moment, there are some transparent films on the surface of the vesicle, and there seems to be mucus flowing back and forth inside.
"If it's really a Zerg building..." Tang Fang shook his head vigorously. No, the only Zerg buildings that can be suspended in the air are baneling lairs and spires, as well as giant spires that evolved from spires.
The baneling lair and the spire have been built, and the giant spire has not been unlocked, so what is the vesicle above the worm lair?
Isn't it a Zerg building? But...but units of action? The action unit is also the air force. Looking at the momentum, it seems to be quite large. Could it be... Could it be Leviathan?
Tang Fang was stunned by this thought, is it really Leviathan? Impossible... That thing exists at the same level as the Protoss mothership. It can be said to be a Zerg base capable of interstellar travel. It provides the survival and evolution environment for all Zerg units. During the Battle of the Heart of the Swarm, Sister Kai But use it as a mobile fortress.
Will such a powerful unit be easily unlocked? If not Leviathan, what would it be? Tang Fang thought of a possibility, the brain worm --- the sub-commander created by the master to assist it in commanding the entire swarm.
In StarCraft 1, the brain worm is the brain and think tank of the Zerg brood, and belongs to the absolute core management. However, after the Brood War ended, Juggernaut died, and Sister Kai took over the power. In order to maintain her dominance, she almost slaughtered all the brain worms made by Juggernaut.
Tang Fang suspected that the thing in the vesicle was a brain worm. Firstly, the breeding process is provided by wormholes; secondly, considering the characteristics of phagosomes, the units that are unlocked by this kind of biological parasitic aliens are all units of the StarCraft 1 era, and the brain worms are important in StarCraft 1. The command unit is unlocked because of this, which is absolutely justified; thirdly, there are adjutants in the Terran base, which gave him a lot of help. It is natural and reasonable for the Zerg base to evolve auxiliary units such as cerebrates. (to be continued)
ps: There will be 2 updates tomorrow