Cyber ​​Heroes

Chapter 605 This Is What Happened To Lu Xuanyu
The transformation of the second stage of human benchmarking surgery is a long process.

And in this stage, the first step is the most troublesome.

The nervous system is the slowest changing part of the human body.But at the same time, it is the most vulnerable part.

If it starts its transformation at the same time as other parts, its transformation progress will definitely be far behind by the rest of the body.

And the fragile nature of neural networks makes them all too vulnerable.

In fact, even the "immune cells" in the brain - microglia, which are the "guardians" of neurons, the inflammatory response triggered by them is often considered to be "more destructive in the long run".

When a human dies, the central nervous system is the first to collapse.

Therefore, after the other parts of the body are benchmarked and the body temperature rises, the brain will not be able to stand it.

It is necessary to prioritize the transformation of the nervous system.

However, the transformation of neurons is very slow.Some of the viruses used to infect the brains of mice for various experiments in biology labs take a full week to infect a small portion of the brain tissue.

Yawgmoth's modified rabies is indeed much faster, but it still requires a long wait.

Lu Xuanyu simply regarded this waiting as a kind of "practice".He started looking for ways to entertain himself.

For example, deliberately stare at a glass of water, and then try to find that "feeling of wanting to drink water."

On the fifth day after the operation, his wife finally applied for a chance to enter the ward.

Lu Xuanyu's immune system had already shut down due to drugs.The pathogens carried by a normal person would easily kill him.He and his wife could only communicate through chat tools before, but there were not many opportunities to meet face to face.

Through the heavy protective clothing, tears glistened in his wife's eyes: "You really lost weight."

"It's normal." Lu Xuanyu smiled, "I still have to take care of the meals of many viruses in my body. They help me transform my body, and I provide their meals, which is fair."

Lu Xuanyu's wife patted her chest, and said in a somewhat complaining tone: "Really... If it wasn't developed by Mr. Yawgmoth, I wouldn't believe it. It really takes so many dangerous viruses... Really..."

"Maybe it won't be used in the future." Lu Xuanyu said, "After the transformation is completed, these viruses will not be a problem."

When the visiting time came, his wife said to him: "Listen to the doctors and nurses... eat more food..."

"Okay, okay, don't worry. The experts told me to worry less."

"Tsk."

"Okay, let's go." Lu Xuanyu waved his hand.

In fact, he knew in his heart that the reason why the people in the medical center arranged a meeting on this day was because after today was over, his mental state was not suitable for face-to-face communication.

Florence, Yawgmoth, and another doctor named Taunhai all told him something about this.

The genome knocked into the cell by the virus will rewrite the lowest life activities of his body.The engineered cells continued to produce thermostable enzymes that were not present before.

It is difficult for these high temperature resistant enzymes to react below [-] degrees.

They accumulate inside the cells.

At this time, two effects appear at the same time.

These new, non-working enzymes dilute the enzymes that originally supported the stated reactions, resulting in inefficient chemical reactions within the cell.

On the other hand, the new instructions would require the mitochondria to produce more energy, creating an environment for new reactions.

Some cells may temporarily shut down and go into a dormant state.

Some cells, on the other hand, "heat" themselves to a temperature at which the new enzyme system can react.

Of course, the technologists would like the "heating" to happen a little later.

Because the neurons that have completed the transformation will not suffer much damage if they are dormant due to low temperature.However, if the neurons that have not completed the transformation are exposed to high temperatures, they will die suddenly.

For many organisms, it is easier to "endure low temperatures below their own suitable temperature" than "tolerate high temperatures above their own suitable temperature".

Due to the low temperature, the metabolism of the cells in his body that completed the transformation first will gradually decrease until they enter a state similar to "hibernation", and they can only maintain their operation with extremely low efficiency.

Since he transformed the central nervous system first, this effect will be intuitively reflected in his consciousness.

His mood will become a little weird, and his spirit will become worse and worse.

Even in order to ensure that his transformed nervous system will not create too much heat and ignite the metabolic fire belonging to the baseline person in advance, the nursing team will deliberately lower the temperature in his skull.

At the end of this stage, he must rely on a ventilator and even an extracorporeal life support system to maintain his life.

At this stage, the person who undergoes the remodeling operation is essentially entering an artificial state of "hypothermia".

However, in a closely monitored environment, this "special hypothermia" does not lead to death.

Of course, before entering this state, he will be injected with new viruses.

Those viruses would remodel his cardiomyocytes and skeletal muscle cells.

Next, he will spend time in a coma.

This process is carried out in units of "months".

Only when his heart beats slower and slower can other transformations be advanced.

The first is the muscles and some internal organs.

Then there are tissues that recover quickly, such as the liver.

Next comes the skin, mucous membranes, etc.

The regenerated immune system will also undergo transformation during this period.

A week later, Lu Xuanyu realized that he was starting to breathe a little.

The nursing team also began to gradually increase the oxygen content of the air in his room.

This relieved the symptoms a little, but not for a few days.

After another week, he became groggy.

He had one last word with his wife before the nursing team hooked him up to a ventilator.

Ms. Florence came to see him every day.Even at this point, she did not forget to ask Lu Xuanyu to do the set of cognitive test questions.

The volume of responses appears to have been cut back.

Lu Xuanyu's spirit was still getting worse day by day.He often falls asleep...

Well, in a sense, this should be "coma".

But Lu Xuanyu didn't really want to call this state "coma".His shut down brain cells are still weakly responsive.When he fell asleep, he still had dreams in his mind.

It may be because the brain cannot fully function, Lu Xuanyu's dreams are all vague and ambiguous.

But he affirmed that it was a dream full of hope.

In the end, he entered a long dream.

People from Superman Enterprises stopped waking him up to ask about his intentions.At this point, Lu Xuanyu has no way to withdraw from the project.If he insists on stopping the transformation, all that awaits him is death.

The warrior had a long dream without being disturbed.

In the dream, he saw the strange roar that he dreamed about in his childhood.

(End of this chapter)