It has to be said that under the influence of Shen Cong, some terms in "Active Evolution" have a more or less secondary flavor. Then these people in the Jianhu County Laboratory were influenced by "Active Evolution" and followed suit. I compiled several grade classifications for middle and second grade, pure gold, and jet black.
However, the division of these levels can be said to point out a possible evolutionary path for Shen Cong.
Metal gradient and invasion are Shen Cong's words.
Metal pollution is what Nan Guohua calls it.
Evolution is the new Hefei saying.
No matter what the explanation is, judging from the current level of research, the path of evolution is that metallic life is replacing carbon-based life, and metals are replacing carbohydrates.
A long time ago, humans realized that carbon-based life was not the only possibility of life. At that time, humans were very eager to understand extraterrestrial life. Among many conjectures, life may be robots, energy bodies, silicon-based life, and electromagnetic waves. , information, etc. types.
Among them, robots are the most hyped, including Turing experiments and robot laws.
While humans are madly pursuing robots, they are also worried that they will be replaced by robots.
Things are changing rapidly. It has not yet happened that robots will replace humans. Humans themselves will become iron robots.
"I thought about a long time ago, when I was following my tutor on the origin of life subject, I talked about a kind of 'metal cell', which is a kind of foam structure that uses metal anions to form some characteristics of cellular life. At that time, we were discussing The possibility of metallic life, I don’t think metal cells are a form of life.”
Nan Guohua is talking about an experiment by Lee Cronin of the University of Glasgow, which used the exchange reaction of two salt solutions to form a kind of foam inorganic chemical cells (ichels). By modifying their metal oxide backbone, the ichels have the characteristics Properties of natural cell membranes.
Cronin's experimental results, ichels, can only be said to be a form of cell mimicry, but cannot be said to fully possess the characteristics of life. After all, such cells cannot carry genetic material similar to DNA to drive self-reproduction and evolution.
But whether it is similar to life or not.
At least Cronin's experiment provides a possible prospect, that is, the existence of metallic life.
Nan Guohua shook his head and continued: "The experiments conducted more than ten years ago have long been forgotten by scientific researchers. Unexpectedly, more than ten years later, metallic life really appeared, and we humans also became metallic life... ...If the meteor shower hadn't brought disaster, I would have thought that Cronin threw the metal cells into the river, just like in "Prometheus."
"Prometheus" is a prequel movie to "Alien".
At the beginning of the movie, it tells the story of an alien race who took a spaceship to a barren earth with no sign of life. Then he took a poison and decomposed himself, including his genes, and flowed with the water. Then the genes were recombined and created on the earth. new life.
This alien race can be said to be the creator of life on earth.
That's not how life comes.
However, metals are indeed polluting life on earth and have brought about too many changes.
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Unconsciously, I discussed it with Director Nan Guohua all night long.
The four-legged dragon outside the window had already woken up and was lying on the roof of the Donkey Kong car to bask in the sun. Shen Cong was about to leave Jianhu County. This trip was very valuable. It solved many of his doubts and gave him a little perspective on the future. Be clearer.
According to Nan Guohua, the road ahead is very dangerous.
In the Pure Gold Age, the body is constantly being strengthened, becoming stronger bit by bit, and turning into a metal body. But in the Dark Age, it seems that many unknown troubles will arise, and the body that is separated from the physical body will also be separated from consciousness. control over.
"Fortunately, all this is just inference. What the future will be like is still being speculated... In today's lv1-pure gold era, I still have room for continuous improvement. Flesh gold, gold metal, slip gold, skin gold, I am even with my bones. Neither Jin nor Mao Jin has been completely completed, and it still takes a long time to evolve."
After cheering up, Shen Cong thought to himself: "I believe that by then, human scientific research will be able to solve all these mysteries."
When leaving Jianhu County.
The words Nan Guohua said before leaving were always lingering in Shen Cong's mind.
"If the death-eating incident hadn't happened, we would surely have unlocked the secret of metal pollution now. Zhao Yang's understanding and imagination of activity is definitely genius level... It's a pity that he destroyed himself and became a traitor to the entire human race. .”
Nan Guohua's words reminded Shen Cong of an old friend, Zhao Zilong.
It's not that I have any concerns about Zhao Zilong, but I think that it seems that Zhao Zilong has been in the Eastern Theater Command for two or three weeks, and the Eastern Theater Command has not dispatched any battle against the dead eaters.
I don’t know if Zhao Zilong is dead.
Shen Cong was very interested in the potions in the hands of Zhao Zilong's father, Zhao Yang. Now evolution has fallen into a bottleneck. Jianhu Laboratory is not good at potions, and the talents who are good at them have all been reduced to ashes in nuclear bombs. , or follow Zhao Yang and become a death eater.
"Commander Zhao, when you return to Huai'an City, if you have time, help me find someone, Zhao Zilong. She shouldn't be difficult to find. Political Commissar Liu Yiwu will definitely know."
Shen Cong said to Zhao Weiliang who returned together.
He wanted to pay attention to the problem of eating the dead. If there was a chance, he could get some medicine or meet with Zhao Yang.
Zhao Weiliang quickly found Zhao Zilong and made an appointment to meet with Shen Cong. Zhao Zilong was not the only one who came, but also the old iron man Wei.
"Colonel Hu, it's a pleasure to meet again." Old Wei was as enthusiastic as ever, but it could be felt that he was different from before, and his whole person seemed a little depressed, "This is Colonel Hu's pet four-legged dragon, I guess. After hearing about Colonel Hu, I really didn’t expect that the big snake in the snow would become Colonel Hu’s pet.”
Zhao Zilong was still wearing the same sharkskin cloak, half of her face was covered, and dark spots could be vaguely seen on her face.
"Colonel Hu." Zhao Zilong greeted him with a hoarse voice. Both she and Old Wei already knew that Shen Cong was no longer called Chen Kun, but now called Hu Ge.
I felt that there was a lifeless smell about Zhao Zilong.
Shen Cong frowned: "What's wrong with you?"
"Necrosis." Zhao Zilong answered briefly.
Lao Wei added next to him: "The C1 has been used up. We originally had three C1s, but two were taken by the war zone for research, and only one was left. Dahui and Xiaobei gave it to Zilong... As of now, the war zone We haven’t come up with an antidote, and the treatment can’t keep up, and Zilong has already developed necrosis, alas!”
Necrosis is a symptom after c1 is discontinued. When c1 is injected, medicine is forcibly used to strengthen the body's quality. Without c1, the body will become necrotic as if it has lost its activity.
"Are there any measures in the war zone regarding cannibalism?" Shen Cong asked.
Old Wei remained silent.
After a moment of silence, Zhao Zilong suddenly raised his head and lifted the hood of his cloak, revealing a face with dark spots and wrinkles. He asked with dark eyes: "Colonel Hu, do you think I can trust you?" (To be continued.)