The face of the terminal was displayed on the huge electronic screen, and the proportions were distorted and looked a bit weird.
"Yes, can it be done?" Li Zheng nodded, his terminal attitude making him feel unsure.
The terminal pondered for a moment, and a large amount of data stream flashed on the display screen, seeming to be calculating the feasibility of this matter: "There is no successful precedent for cloning a dead person in the outer city.
But I can give it a try, as long as I can find viable cells and tissues from her body."
Li Zheng's eyes lit up: "So, it is at least 50% feasible?"
"It's not that high." The terminal had a sullen face and was not very optimistic about the prospects: "Do you know why cloning technology was once popular in the outer city, but no one has successfully cloned a dead person?
Because this kind of thing has violated the basic rules, the dead cannot be resurrected by any means.
Unless you leave a backup plan before you die,
And even so,
When life comes to an end, the back-up left behind will also become ineffective.
But no matter what, let me give it a try first. You put her coffin on the platform over there, and I will check to see if there are any active cells left in her body."
The ground on Li Zheng's left hand side was raised, and a platform rose up, which could just fit into the crystal coffin of Yan Guang.
Put the coffin into the capsule shelter and put it back on the platform. The terminal issues a command and the platform slowly descends and sinks into the ground. A floor pops up on both sides to restore the ground to its original state.
"Your place has been transformed into a very advanced place. Everywhere is a mechanism." Li Zheng was extremely envious. The terminal had previously released a large number of counters with dangerous goods, which were also raised from the ground, indicating that there were still unknown sizes below the center.
The areas are all under the jurisdiction of the terminal.
"It's okay. I usually need to do a lot of experiments.
So the transformation is relatively thorough." The terminal looked at Li Zheng warily and said,
He was fully aware of this kid's behavior of tearing down the family in the matrix, and was worried that Li Zheng's itchy hands would tear him down here.
Fortunately, Li Zheng had no such idea, but skipped the topic and asked: "You just said that you have never tried to clone a dead person, but it has been how many years since you became a terminal, right? Isn't our original body still there?
die?"
"Strictly speaking, from the moment I became the terminal, our body was considered dead." The terminal explained: "It's just that I used special means to preserve the body, and there is still a weak residual activity. Until now, it has been
Even I can’t tell you how many years have passed, and my body is almost unable to hold on anymore. When the day it completely loses its activity, I will no longer be able to produce clones."
"Can't produce anymore?" Li Zheng's eyes flickered: "Am I still here? Can I continue to cultivate clones using my cells?"
"I knew you would ask this kind of topic." The terminal had an expression that I had expected: "The cells in our body are not eggs, so how can it be possible for chickens to lay eggs, and eggs to lay chickens, and the cycle goes on and on, endlessly?
also?
I have done relevant experiments as early as when the first clone was born, although I can't explain the specific principles to you because it would take too long.
It uses too many professional terms and you may not understand them.
So long story short…
In short, cloned cells,
In other words, there is a layer of things added to the DNA chain that even I cannot parse.
As long as there is such a thing, any cells taken out of the cloned body cannot be cloned again."
Li Zheng nodded thoughtfully: "Can it be understood that the will of the universe does not allow life to be 'immortalized' through this tricky method, so it imposes this restriction on life?"
"It can be understood this way." The terminal said: "When the clone is first born, the memory is blank. I have also mastered the method of instilling memory into this blank paper. If someone instills memory into the clone by constantly cloning itself and frequently updating the memory,
, it is indeed possible to achieve a different kind of eternal life.”
Li Zheng thought for a while and asked another question: "If...I mean if, if someone copies his own memory and pastes it into the head of a newborn baby, can he achieve a similar 'immortality' effect?"
"
"It's like the 'seizing of the body' mentioned in the novel?"
The terminal pondered for a moment and replied: "It is almost impossible to do it. The brain of a newly born life is very fragile and cannot accommodate a large amount of memory information.
It's like trying to transfer 10TB of content to a 256GB hard drive.
Doing it forcefully will only cause too much data flow impact, bursting the baby's brain and turning it into a fool."
Seeing that Li Zheng still had questions, before he could speak, the terminal said first: "Even if the indoctrination target is changed to an adult, it won't work. Even if adults can withstand the impact of a large number of memories at this time, there are other disadvantages and restrictions.
Because an adult already has his own independent consciousness, and a complete memory is the embodiment of clear consciousness. It is like a computer with an operating system installed. If you install another operating system in it, the final outcome will be that the installation fails.
, or the processor has a huge workload, eventually leading to paralysis."
"Hmm..." The terminal paused and added: "There is also a possibility that it will become a dual system working alternately, with two consciousnesses alternately controlling the body, similar to..."
Li Zheng answered: "Schizophrenia?"
"To be precise, it's multiple personality disorder." The terminal corrected: "Schizophrenia and multiple personality have completely different literal meanings and cannot be confused."
Schizophrenia can also be understood as the division of mental power into several pieces, which does not necessarily mean the emergence of several different consciousnesses.
"Well, you're quite serious." Li Zheng shrugged indifferently. He was just curious and asked. Anyway, he didn't know anything about cloning. He just took it as a story.
"It's rigorous!" The terminal corrected again: "Science is rigorous. If you use a wrong word, the final conclusion will be thousands of miles different? So it must be rigorous!"
Li Zheng, with a black line on his head, waved his hand and said, "Okay, okay, everything you said is right."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! At this time, the terminal expression changed: "You are lucky. I just found some weakly active cells from the girl's bones, but the activity is too weak.
, other means need to be used to stimulate and increase the activity of these cells before the cloning plan can be started."
"Really?!" Li Zheng was shocked: "Great!"
The terminal ignored his joy and poured a basin of cold water on it: "Don't get too happy yet. It's hard to guarantee whether the activity of the extracted cells will completely disappear during this process. It's still unknown whether the cloning can be successful."
Li Zheng's eyes were firm: "At least there is hope!"
"It's very slim..." the terminal muttered: "The next experiment cannot be completed in a day or two. Even if it is determined that these cells can be used for cloning, it will take a long time until the clones mature. You first
Go back and I will let you know if there is any news."
Waiting here is no solution, it is just a waste of time.
"That's right!" Just before the terminal was about to send Li Zheng out, he suddenly remembered something, took out a long glazed knife, slit his finger, and squeezed out a drop of blood: "You must have a lot of equipment here, can you help me test it?"
"Is it necessary?" The terminal glanced at the blood on Li Zheng's fingers. He was about to refuse, but suddenly a look of emotion appeared on his face: "It is necessary!"
The finger that was cut open just a second ago has actually begun to heal at this time. This weird recovery ability is not given to Li Zheng by the terminal.
A piece popped up on the wall on the side of the computer and stretched out to become a robotic arm. The front end of the robotic arm was a straw similar to a syringe, which stretched out to take away the blood on Li Zheng's hand.
Looking at it now, the incision has been completely healed and is back to its original state.
If I hadn't watched Li Zheng cut his finger open with my own eyes, I would never have imagined that there was a cut there.
"What's going on with your recovery ability?" The terminal was surprised: "Except for those twisted creatures in the Gluttony Sin Domain, I have never found such a terrifying natural recovery ability in any living body!"
Such a strong recovery ability is of course because Li Zheng still has some residual effects of the Marrow Cleansing Pill in his body.
Previously, his body had been cracked by mental force, but it was the residual effects of the medicine that helped restore it to its original state. Otherwise, Li Zheng would still be like porcelain, with cracks all over his body.
When this residue is completely absorbed, Li Zheng's physical strength will be further enhanced, but then he will not be able to heal the wound as quickly as now.
Unless he takes the same pill again.
How easy is it to get another Marrow Cleansing Pill?
Only one pill was given to each super god level treasure box. Li Zheng had only opened two super god level treasure boxes today, one of which was upgraded using the delayed extraction function.
I don’t know when the next super god-level treasure chest will be, and I’m not even sure what will be found in it.
That's why Li Zheng took advantage of the fact that all the effects of the medicine were not absorbed in his body, and gave some blood for terminal testing. As long as he knew the ingredients of the Marrow Cleansing Pill, he might be able to reproduce it.
"Don't you know all my movements?" Li Zheng looked at the terminal with a deep meaning, and the corner of his mouth raised a strange arc.
Everything that happens in the matrix cannot escape the supervision of the terminal, and Li Zheng does not believe that the news of opening the treasure box can be hidden from him.
Sure enough, after he said these words, the terminal's expression became calm: "I originally wanted to pretend not to know and tell you not to think too much, but you still found out."
"Zhan Zhouzhou said that I was a little stupid before. I don't deny it, because now I think some of my actions are childish when I look back on them." Li Zheng shrugged and said, "But even though I am a clone, I will grow, right?
It’s just a small detail, how could it not be discovered?”
The terminal was silent for a few seconds and asked: "Aren't you curious where that thing came from?"
Li Zheng looked at the big face on the screen: "Will you tell me?"
"why not?"
The terminal said quietly: "Why should I hide what I gave you?"
"That's true!" Li Zheng looked shocked: "So you stuffed everything out of the box into me?"
"No!"
The terminal shook his head: "I just transferred the system to you. The things inside... are actually given to you by the system."
"What do you mean?" Li Zheng was a little confused when he heard it. Could it be that the treasure box system was not the "golden finger" that the terminal forced on himself when he cloned himself, but the real golden finger that the terminal obtained after traveling through time when he was still a human?
"It seems that you still haven't noticed..." The terminal didn't know what to think of, and showed a strange expression, and then laughed. The smile was stretched very long on the screen, which looked extremely strange: "You don't think about the matrix.
Is there a sense of violation? What kind of technological means can create a small world that can change the rules? "
After hearing this, Li Zheng's mind exploded with disbelief: "Is it possible that the original drawings of the Matrix World were actually opened by you from the treasure box?"
"What else?" The terminal smiled enough and regained his composure: "I have owned that system for countless hours, and you will never guess what things I have taken out of those boxes!"
Having said this, the terminal gritted his teeth: "Maybe I have used up all my luck in time travel. From when I was a human until I entered the matrix terminal and became data, I only found two really good things in the box.
One is the matrix drawing we are now based on, and the other..."
The terminal suddenly paused and did not continue.
Li Zheng asked: "What is the other one?"
He already had some guesses in his mind.
Terminal Lonely said: "The other one is also a blueprint. It's a pity that I underestimated its power at the beginning and ended up creating an emotional storm by myself."
"!!!"
The suspicion in his heart was confirmed, and Li Zheng didn't know what to say for a while.
It turns out that the culprit who has ravaged the universe for countless years and destroyed countless civilizations is actually the same person as the great benefactor who took in the remnants of all races.
"I also tried to find a way to solve the emotional storm once and for all through the treasure box, but my luck was really bad!" The terminal's face seemed to be covered with a shadow: "In addition to a large number of daily necessities, there are only
Some unattractive drawings were not helpful at all in resolving the emotional storm, so I threw them all into the matrix.
You should notice that there are two forms of drawings in the matrix, one is a learnable and reusable drawing, and the other is a one-time drawing that cannot be learned. The latter is the garbage I have slowly taken out of the treasure chest over the years.
'."
Li Zheng suddenly realized: "I used to wonder why things made from one-time drawings are more useful than props made from another kind of drawings of the same type. It turns out that they are all high-quality products given by our treasure chest father!"
"That's not necessarily true..." The terminal looked embarrassed: "Actually, I also followed the example of the treasure box and made some consumable blueprints myself and threw them into the matrix to fill up the numbers, but you didn't encounter them."
Li Zheng touched his chin: "So, I'm really lucky."
The terminal's face darkened: "I accidentally spilled the blood just now, please squeeze some more out for me."
Li Zheng was suspicious: "You would be so careless?"
The terminal grinned and said: "It's just that careless!"
As he spoke, the avatar disappeared, and a scene was displayed on the screen. A drop of bright red blood was seen on the ground next to a testing instrument.
Li Zheng: "..."
Fuck you, you actually spilled it on purpose!?
Helpless, he could only grit his teeth and cut again, let out some blood, and then stretched out the mechanical arm of the terminal to take it away.
"It won't spill anymore, right?" Li Zheng squinted at the terminal.
The terminal said: "Whether I will spill it depends on your performance."
"..." Li Zheng suddenly remembered the scene when he persecuted Fengshan in the past. How similar is this moment to that time?
The terminal put away its playful mood and said seriously: "I transferred the system to you just because your lifespan was not long. When you die, the system will come back to me.
But now you should have made up for your own shortcomings with the genetic medicine obtained from the treasure box, and instead extended your life span to that of a normal human being. I can't force you to take back the treasure box system."
"But there is a piece of advice that you must always keep in mind. The origin of the treasure box system is unknown. Even after I became a matrix terminal, I have not been able to decipher its essence. You must treat it with caution on weekdays. If something is opened from the treasure box with unknown effects
Please don’t use it rashly, otherwise you may make the same mistake I did and cause a big disaster!”
Li Zheng nodded: "I remember."
He thought to himself: "The main body probably did not provide any auxiliary tools like Laopu at the beginning, so blind people trying to grasp the elephant will cause the things produced to go out of control, which will lead to catastrophe.
I am different from him. I have Lao Pu to help me. No matter what is found in the treasure box, its purpose and usage are clear at a glance, so I will definitely not follow his old path."
After receiving the assurance, the terminal nodded with satisfaction: "If there is nothing else, I will send you back. I will open an exclusive communication channel on your inscription card to contact me, but it is best not to contact me until it is necessary.
Me, I’m usually very busy.”
Li Zheng thought carefully and had no more questions to ask for the time being, so he asked the terminal to send him back the way he came.
The scene in front of him flickered, and he and Miriel were sent back to the matrix. At this time, his player permissions had been locked by the terminal, and he could not use most functions. The permission to teleport was also cancelled. Unless there were special props, otherwise in the matrix
It is difficult to move even an inch.
There was nothing wrong with him staying here, so Li Zheng simply gave up the rest of his stay, returned to the outer city, and appeared at the reception desk in Block 38.
It was getting dark in the outer city at this time, and it had been more than ten hours since they went to carry out their mission. There were not many people at the reception desk, just a few.
Instead of staying near the portal to block others from using it, Li Zheng took Miriel back to the blacksmith shop.
Zi Yuan was the only one who received the reception at the blacksmith shop. The blacksmith's apprentices were nowhere to be seen. Li Zheng guessed that they had decided on the topic and went out to collect materials.
"You came back alive?" Zi Yuan saw Li Zheng, sat behind the counter, and sighed with regret.
Li Zheng never took off the translator from his ear: "You really want me to die?"
"You can't say that." Zi Yuan looked innocent: "I just don't want you to harm my sister."
"..." Li Zheng was silent for a few seconds, stretched out his hand to take off the mask on Miriel's face, and said to Zi Yuan: "You can rest assured that someone like this is in line with my aesthetics. Your sister... is not me.
Dishes!”
I thought that Miriel's appearance was a big weapon against any race. This time, Li Zheng miscalculated. Not only did Ziyuan look directly at Miriel's face that had brought disaster to the country and the people for a long time, but her expression even became more and more weird. In the end, she even
He blurted out: "So you like this type of thing!"
"???" Li Zheng couldn't tell what Zi Yuan's words meant for a while.
