Cyber ​​Heroes

Chapter 622 Induction
This time, the operation of "implanting the prosthetic substrate" is actually quite simple.

This prosthetic substrate itself is advanced enough.

If the requirements are low enough, this operation will only take two steps in total.The skin tissue of the implanted area is peeled off to expose the dense connective tissue.

Then, stick the substrate on.

It’s over.

There was almost no requirement for hemostasis during the operation.On the contrary, the recipient also needs to use anticoagulant drugs in advance to ensure that the blood will not coagulate into a ball in the loose space in the bone substrate.

Blood and body fluids will gradually infiltrate the bone part of the substrate and touch the metal part embedded on the outside of the substrate.

The bone part is made of Lu Xuanyu's own osteoblasts cultured in vitro and then 3D printed, and some pluripotent stem cells and differentiation-inducing signaling factors are also mixed into it.

The gaps in the bone substrate will gradually form mature dense connective tissue and blood vessels, which will firmly fix the substrate to the body, as if it was born like this.

The metal part is tightly occluded with the bone part.

And for an athlete like Lu Xuanyu, it's just a few extra data cables connected to the end of the spine.

Of course, if Lu Xuanyu is willing to further replace bones and the like, then Superman still has many mature products that have been tested on animals.

It's just that Lu Xuanyu doesn't have any needs in this area yet.

What Lu Xuanyu needs to do now is to fix in one place for a period of time, without moving, to avoid mechanical damage to the connective tissue that has not yet completed its growth.

Under the effect of some kind of medicine, Lu Xuanyu lay lazily, and really didn't want to move.

Between half dream and half awake, he seemed to see someone coming to visit him.It seems to be some relative of my own family.Yawgmoth seemed to be leading someone passing by outside the ward and took a look.Florence once appeared with Xiang Shan to comfort his family.

After he really woke up, the fixing belt on his body had been removed.

Lu Xuanyu stretched out his hand and gently touched the "lower" area of ​​his body. It was a metal plate with hydrophobic treatment on the surface and uneven inside.

To his embarrassment, there were two pipes at the end of the prosthetic body, one thick and one thin, and there was a soft mechanical structure at the end of the pipe.

Lu Xuanyu didn't continue to touch it.

When working on projects with Chen Feng, Lu Xuanyu also connected many different prosthetic bodies.Such a very soft thing has a high probability of containing layered pressure-sensitive elements, which can reproduce the sense of touch in a more detailed manner.

It is very clear which part of the body this thing corresponds to.

He will not receive a tactile signal until the physicians activate the pathway.

But it's really weird to play with artificial urethra and artificial intestine like this.

The battery pack for this prosthesis is located separately.There will be one in the crotch, and then there are separate batteries for the thighs and calves.This is not because of anything else, but because the space is so large.In order to ensure that the shape is closer to human beings, the battery has to be installed in this way.

Xiang Shan thinks that the benchmark can free up space in the abdominal cavity by shortening the intestines.Metal-based organisms can survive on electric field energy and require fewer nutrients, so proper shortening of the gut will not have negative effects.

Rather, the gut length of baseline humans is directly inherited from Homo sapiens.This length can be considered "too long".

In addition, there is evidence that the utilization of electric field energy by metal-based organisms cannot be improved when food sources are sufficient.Aerobic respiration and electric field energy take up two different reaction routes.

Among the enzymes supporting aerobic respiration, the key parts include hexokinase, phosphofructokinase, pyruvate kinase, pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, citrate synthase and so on.In addition, the respiratory chain also involves a large number of coenzymes.

The enzymes that support the use of the electric field are several enzymes that can form complex reaction paths in the electric field.

There are only so many substances that can be accommodated in a cell, and if the quantity on one side is too large, it will naturally crowd out the other side.

To sum up, in fact, the benchmark people may be healthier if they eat less.

Xiangshan even had plans such as "swallowing soft flocs that cannot be digested"-this is to combat the "feeling of empty stomach".

Anyway, this thing is very easy to cause obesity and diabetes in Homo sapiens, and it can be regarded as a physical defect for modern people.

It's just that the number of benchmark people is very small at present, so these only stay in the plan in Xiangshan's personal terminal.

Most of those "anti-empty feeling" solutions are not as convenient as "directly reducing the size of the digestive system", which can also make room for more components in the body cavity.

However, Lu Xuanyu doesn't need to worry about these yet.

He just needs to wait to recover.

On the second day, Chen Feng also came to visit with gifts.

"Try it... ah, yes, brother and sister, you'd better not eat it. It may cause metal poisoning to Homo sapiens." Chen Feng said to Lu Xuanyu, holding a fruit basket that looked bright and unusually bright and unreal: "Just now The new varieties cultivated are still luxury goods, and ordinary people can't eat them."

Lu Xuanyu picked up a blue-green fruit—I didn't know if it was an apple or a pear, and took a bite, only to find it extremely sweet.

Lu Xuanyu's wife stayed in the ward for a while before going out to escape the heat.Although she really wanted to spend more time with her husband, the temperature was really unbearable.

The heat dissipation system of the clothes also needs to dissipate heat.

Seeing that there was no one else in this meeting, Lu Xuanyu thought for a while, and told Chen Feng about Xiang Shan looking for him.

"Ah, this matter." Chen Feng said to Lu Xuanyu rather apologetically: "Indeed, maybe I was too impatient. If we really want to talk about it, Xiang Shan and the others are right."

Lu Xuanyu scratched his head: "I know all these things, and I agree, it shouldn't be a particularly serious problem."

Chen Feng looked at the ground: "From the perspective of animal experiments, I can indeed deduce that those experiments will not cause long-term adverse effects. But Xiang Shan's approach is safe—what if?"

"A genius like Yawgmoth may overturn, let alone an ordinary researcher like me."

"As for your agreement... There is a big gap in our cognition in this field. If you have a worse mind, you can tell the truth, but it will induce you to think that 'the problem is not serious'."

Lu Xuanyu was taken aback: "Is there such a thing?"

"I used to be a popular science writer. Take medicine as an example. There are many anxiety-selling guys who will extract some results from some papers with few samples, and then promote 'what and what may lead to serious consequences'. This conclusion Every word is a rigorous scientific description, and of course it's not a lie. But...you understand." Chen Feng said: "The reverse is also the same. Statistics can't lie, and they can deceive people very well."

(End of this chapter)