Chapter 540 Research Progress

In the spacious spacecraft laboratory, a series of biological cultivation devices are quietly operating. There is a large transparent jar placed on each silver-white comprehensive work platform. In the transparent jar, a small amount of red and blood-like viscous liquid slowly surges at the bottom, as if there is life, constantly trying to climb up the outer wall of the jar. , and above the liquid, there are many biological tissues similar to blood vessels and tendons supporting some strange... organs.

That is the result of the cultivation device's work over the past few days, a strange life created using primitive cells from the "Holy Coffin".

The data terminal connected itself to the laboratory's analysis host and reported the progress here: "The culture cannot continue at this point. These biological tissues will stop developing and no longer functionally differentiate. Their genetics The factor structure is weird and stores information far beyond the current forms. However, some factors prevent this genetic information from being expressed, which may be related to the supernatural power of the goddess. In addition, the organs produced by each culture tank are slightly different, which may be related to It’s related to the location where the original cells were collected. This machine remembers that cells were collected from the seven locations of the ancestors of life.”

"Are these the organs of the first seed?" Lily curiously picked up the workbench closest to her and looked at the strange "meat" pieces in the culture tank. They looked somewhat similar to animal flesh and blood tissue, but the color was different from the original ones. The texture has a bit of plant fiber feel, the surface is flexible and well-structured, "it looks a little..."

"Disgusting, right?" Nangong Wuyue stuck out his tongue, "It feels like a horror movie."

Lily licked her lips: "No, it looks a little appetizing. This is meat!"

Everyone: "..."

"Drag this bastard behind to prevent her from coming into contact with the samples," Hao Ren said in a cold sweat, asking Vivian to keep a close eye on the second-rate husky. "You're going crazy if you want to eat barbecue!"

Lily was dragged behind by Vivian and kept jumping: "This is meat! This really looks like meat! Let's grill a piece and try it..."

"Let's continue talking about business." Hao Ren wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and turned around to look at the data terminal. "Do you think the training results are correct? Is this really part of the original seed?"

"I'm not sure," the data terminal honestly admitted that this experiment was actually not that perfect. "The original cells had a lot of incomprehensible self-selection and mutation during the development process, and finally it became like this. This machine It is not certain that these things are the First Seed - it seems impossible to use the cells of the First Seed to deduce its original form. Without the guidance of the goddess's supernatural power, these things are just defective products."

Hao Ren frowned: "Then there should be at least some other results, right? At least some understanding of the original seed."

The data terminal shook up and down: "There are still some results. The cells used for cultivation came from a necrotic ganglion from the original seed, so the mutant tissues now cultured are also related to neural activity. If they had not mutated like this If so... they should become part of the brain tissue of the original seed, or in other words, they are the brain of that seed. These organs have a complex nerve conduction basis, as well as an antenna-like transceiver structure - but this part of the transceiver structure is not known Something went wrong and it didn't work. This unit activated a sample, and its antenna only received a piece of clutter."

"The brain part?" Hao Ren looked at the samples in the jar with interest, "Then do they have the ability to think? If reasonable stimulation is applied."

"There is a complex reflection mechanism, but there is no sign of intelligence," the data terminal replied, and then suddenly mentioned a strange phenomenon, "There is another discovery. Take a look at the No. 1 culture tank."

After the data terminal finished speaking, a small crack suddenly opened at the top of the culture tank on Workbench No. 1, and then a green plant was thrown in. The biological tissue and the red liquid in the jar immediately reacted. They twisted and surged. The green plant was quickly engulfed by the red liquid. However, after a while, the red liquid retreated to the side harmlessly, leaving the plant intact. , and even looked a little more energetic than when he was just thrown in.

"This is a living sample," the data terminal said, "Now you look at the dead sample."

The green plants were taken out of the jar, and then a bunch of withered grass was thrown in.

The red liquid wrapped the "foreign object" again, and in just a second or two, the latter was completely digested.

"Is this..." Yzaks looked at what was happening in the jar in surprise, "Eating?"

Elizabeth held up the small screwdriver and wanted to get closer, but after taking two steps, her father slipped back. The little girl was still fussing: "I won't take it apart! I won't take it apart! I'm not a naughty child, I know I can't touch this - —I just want to take a look..."

But no one paid attention to the little girl's excuse: She might really know that she shouldn't move, but the child's mobility... who can guarantee it?

"It will avoid living creatures, right?" Hao Ren saw the trick, "It is a scavenger."

"Scavengery, and considering that it is the ganglion of the first seed and the early 'control' of the eldest son, we speculate that the first seed and even the eldest son that hatches later rely on the judgment mechanism of this ganglion to survive. That is, 'scavenging'," the data terminal said his guess. "From this, we can judge part of the action patterns of the original species that just 'landed' and the eldest son in its original form: they create life, evolve the ecosystem, and They are responsible for the last link in the food chain, recycling the dead biological tissues and nutrients in the soil to supply the entire cycle. They are responsible for providing the initial creation and final recycling of the ecosystem, while the intermediate evolutionary process is handed over to the second son. Get a 'job' done."

The data terminal finally added: "In addition, you can feed it silicon minerals, water, sulfide and carbon. This proves that the eldest son can adapt to a variety of nutritional environments, and it can create organic matter on its own even when there is no organic matter at all."

"Scavenger, sounds like a very gentle character." Vivian said thoughtfully.

"It is indeed a mild recipe, but it probably has little to do with 'personality'," the data terminal explained. "The analysis host speculates that this kind of scavenging is just to ensure that there are no problems in the work, and to prevent the blood tide from mistakenly devouring one's own creations. life. Because if you want to set up a complex filtering mechanism to screen which creatures can be eaten and how much you should eat per meal, it will consume too many nerve cells, so the creator of the seed simply set the rules to make it Scavengers only eat dead things and completely avoid living life, thus protecting the ecosystem. The suppression of eldest son activity by the ganglia probably activates a similar mechanism."

"But the eldest son's 'scavenger' is obviously out of control. It eats everything." Hao Ren raised his eyelids, "Or to put it more directly, it is deliberately out of control. It wants to destroy the ecosystem."

"The initial offensive capability of the eldest son should come from its 'eating' mechanism, but in the later period, in order to destroy the second son, it began to develop various weapons, such as seed shells that can conduct space operations. This is obviously completely out of control," the data terminal said with emotion. , "You see how perfect the security mechanism was at the beginning, but unfortunately the system still crashed later. This shows that centralized networks are not as reliable as distributed networks. Once the server fails, all the terminals underneath will be destroyed."

The focus of a PDA's sigh is indeed different.

"Although there is no way to analyze the cause of the eldest son's loss of control and the whereabouts of the goddess from these organs, we still have some achievements," the data terminal sighed and continued to talk about business. It commanded an autonomous machine to deliver two small boxes. When he came to Hao Ren, he said, "This was just made."

The boxes were opened, and inside one of them was a silver-white ball with neat blue patterns distributed on its surface, as if breathing between light and dark. In the other box were several transparent containers filled with light red liquid.

"What is this egg for?" Lily came up from behind again, "Um...why do I think of Doudou when I see the egg now?"

"This is a suppressed signal transmitter," the voice of the data terminal sounded a little helpless. "It can perfectly simulate the signal of the ancestor of life and let the eldest son continue to sleep. We can put this on Horleta's eldest son, and then we will It won't react even if a nuclear bomb is placed on it."

"Where's the rest of this?"

"Interfering pheromones are produced using those cell samples and source blood." The data terminal obviously paid more attention to these substances. "Suppressing the signal transmitter is a thing that can easily go wrong. Once the signal is interrupted, the eldest son will wake up immediately, but Interfering pheromones can serve as a second layer of insurance: it can awaken the eldest son's 'scavenging mechanism' for a short period of time, preventing it from devouring living life."