Chapter 920: The Pulse

Yawgmoth's face froze. But soon, he calmed down.

"Surprisingly, similar proteins exist naturally in this place..."

"Ahem." Xiangshan suddenly reminded.

"Other places on this earth." Yawgmoth hugged his head: "It also exists in other places, it's incredible."

He was so excited that he couldn't help waving his hands in the air.

Zhu Xinyu's mouth twitched a few times: "What's wrong with this guy?"

"He wants to dance when he is excited." Xiangshan whispered: "This guy is quite sultry."

Nia Guti stared at Yawgmoth, and nodded after a few seconds: "Does it really look like this? Are you helping the military? Or what? Researching some confidential projects? Do you think similar things don't exist in other places on the earth?"

She hesitated for a moment: "It shouldn't be... weapons-related research? Although with your personality, it shouldn't be this kind..."

When "biologist" is linked with the words "confidential" and "military", it is easy for ordinary people to think of something not so good.

"I'm not an idiot. I won't do something that would be extremely costly to all of humanity and could lead to the destruction of all of humanity." Yogg-Saron looked extremely excited: "The key, this is the 'key'... it exists on Earth!"

Niaguti was confused: "So... is it a newly discovered strange creature? You thought the sample only existed where you could see it?" She pondered for a moment: "Could it be that microorganisms have evolved the ability to survive near spent fuel?"

This is the only reason that made her think of the "military" or something.

Yog-Saron opened his mouth to speak, but Xiangshan interrupted him again.

"This is the confidential content." Yogg-Saron said: "I can't tell you where that thing came from. But I think things with similar structures should be widely present in the universe... Common compounds composed of any two elements of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, plus energy, and specific conditions - the final product should be..."

Yog-Saron was a little incoherent at this moment.

Xiangshan closed his eyes and began to think.

The robots that came with Ogun would look for carbon, hydrogen and oxygen compounds on the surface of the planet, perhaps optically, or perhaps something else.

Methane of carbon and hydrogen, water of hydrogen and oxygen, carbon dioxide of carbon and oxygen, as well as hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon-containing minerals are all the most common substances in this universe. Just looking for the common forms of these substances in the "habitable zone" may be done by simple machines.

The alien instrument that was forcibly restarted created new industrial machinery. These machines output the simplest long-chain compounds through chemical means. Then, these simple compounds are sent to the special crystal-like container for more complex reactions.

However, for a long time, humans have not been sure whether the working method of the instrument after restarting it is the same as that set by the aliens.

Nia Guti was completely confused. But she knew Yogmoth's character, so she cast her eyes on Xiangshan and Zhu Xinyu: "What is he studying? A synthetic substance?"

"I admire you for being able to hear such a meaning from such a confusing sentence." Xiangshan was impressed, and then asked: "Ms. Niaguti, can you introduce the project you are researching? This is something very similar to Yogmoth's research? Is it from hydrothermal organisms on the seabed?"

Niaguti nodded: "I have been tracking hydrothermal organisms for a long time."

In the past, humans believed that only a few oligoenergetic microorganisms could survive on the seabed where sunlight could not reach. It was not until 1977 that the "Alvin" deep-sea submersible first discovered active hydrothermal vents and rich hydrothermal biota on the seabed of the Galapagos in the Pacific Ocean.

That is the sea area where Xiangshan and his team are now.

This is where humans first encountered hydrothermal organisms-just in this place where humans first recognized "evolution", humans once again encountered the magical power of evolution.

Blood-red tube-dwelling worms, clams and mussels of the class Bivalvia of the phylum Mollusca, and shrimps and crabs of the order Decapoda - these are all common hydrothermal organisms.

These organisms are homologous to worms, clams, mussels, shrimps, and crabs in the outside world. They should be the result of the accidental symbiosis between the outside organisms and chemoautotrophic bacteria.

The hot hydrothermal fluids containing a large amount of metals, sulfur and other substances brought by the vents of submarine volcanoes. The hydrothermal fluids conflict with the cold seawater, and in this fierce intersection of yin and yang, the hydrothermal fluids with a huge difference in pH value from the seawater undergo redox reactions with the seawater and are used by some archaea...

The chemosynthesis process of chemoautotrophic bacteria replaces sunlight here.

And in some archaea, there is an enzyme...

not far from the final product of Ogun.

This is undoubtedly a breakthrough.

The dozens of enzymes synthesized by Ogun, after being mixed in a specific proportion, can form a system that can circulate repeatedly and operate endlessly under a specific environment.

This is the "power" of "life".

How many enzymes are needed to weave together numerous reaction chains into a complex network and form a system that can operate forever?

It is still uncertain. But for the simplest organisms, perhaps a dozen or so are enough.

It may even be simpler than humans imagine.

And the chemical machine composed of this set of enzymes can make the nucleic acid carrying information self-replicate...

Just like the Ogun spacecraft itself.

Now, Yawgmoth has discovered a miracle.

Some Earth archaea, whose evolutionary path is completely different from that of eukaryotes, seem to contain several enzymes... whose chemical properties are very close to those of Ogun products.

They cannot be said to be exactly the same, but the conformation diagrams of these two enzymes are almost wrong even for biologists like Niaguti! They can basically play almost the same role in most cases.

If this is figured out...

It may be of great help in solving the mystery of Ogun!

Xiangshan immediately said: "Ms. Niaguti, your discovery is very meaningful. This accidental discovery may rewrite the history of biology. Although due to confidentiality regulations, we cannot disclose the content of Yawgmoth's research to you now. But... are you interested in joining us?"

"Join you?"

"Join us, we can disclose the content of our research to you." Xiangshan said eagerly: "I believe Yawgmoth will be very happy."

Niaguti thought for a moment, then shook his head: "I am very interested in your research, but..."