Cyber ​​Heroes

Chapter 920
Yawgmoth's face froze.But soon, he calmed down.

"Unexpectedly, a similar protein exists naturally in this place..."

"Ahem." Xiang Shan reminded suddenly.

"Other places on this earth." Yawgmoth hugged his head: "It's incredible that other places exist."

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

The corner of Zhu Xinyu's mouth twitched a few times: "What's wrong with this person?"

"When he gets excited, he wants to dance." Xiang Shan said in a low voice, "This man is quite boring."

Nia Goodti stared at Yawgmoth, and nodded after a few seconds: "It really looks like this? Are you helping the military? Or what? What kind of secret project are you working on? Do you think something like this won't Exist elsewhere on Earth?"

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

When "biologist" is associated with words such as "secret" and "military", it is easy for ordinary people to think of something bad.

"I'm not an idiot. I won't engage in things that cost a lot to all mankind, and if they don't work out, they will all die together." Yawgmoth looked extremely excited: "The key, this is the 'key'... ...it exists on Earth!"

Nia Guti was confused: "So... is it a newly discovered strange creature? You thought that the samples only existed in places where you could see them?" Ability to survive near spent fuel?"

For this reason, it reminded her of the "military" or something.

Yawgmoth opened his mouth to speak, but Xiang Shan interrupted again.

"This is the confidential content." Yawgmoth said: "I can't tell you the origin of that thing. But I think that things with similar structures should exist widely in the universe... Any two elements of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen The common compounds that make up, plus energy, and specific conditions—the final product should be..."

Yawgmoth was a little incoherent at this moment.

Xiang Shan closed his eyes and began to think.

The robots that come with Ogun will look for hydrocarbons on the surface of the planet, maybe optical, maybe something else.

Methane of carbon and hydrogen, water of hydrogen and oxygen, carbon dioxide of carbon and oxygen, 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", maybe a simple machine can also do it.

The alien instrument that was forcibly restarted produced new industrial machinery.These machines output the simplest long-chain compounds through chemical means.Then, send these simple compounds into that crystal-like special container to carry out more complex reactions.

However, for a long time, human beings have not been sure whether the working method of the instrument after restarting the instrument on their own side is the original setting by the aliens.

Niya Guti was completely dumbfounded.But she knew Yawgmoth's temperament, so she turned her attention to Xiang Shan and Zhu Xinyu: "What is he studying? A synthetic substance?"

"On the contrary, I admire you for being able to hear such a meaning from such nonsense." Xiang Shan admired, and then asked: "Ms. Niya Gudi, can you introduce the project you are researching? Is it something very similar to what I have studied? Is it from hydrothermal organisms on the bottom of the sea?"

Niya Guti nodded: "I have been tracking hydrothermal creatures for a long time."

In the past, humans believed that only a few low-energy microorganisms could survive on the seabed where sunlight cannot reach.Until 1977, the "Alvin" deep submersible discovered active hydrothermal vents and rich hydrothermal biota for the first time on the seabed of Galapagos in the Pacific Ocean.

That is, the sea area where Xiang Shan and the others are now.

This is the place where human beings first encountered hydrothermal organisms—in this place where human beings first recognized "evolution", human beings once again encountered the magical power of evolution.

Blood-red tube-dwelling worms, clams and mussels of the mollusk phylum bivalves, and decapod shrimp and crabs—these are common hydrothermal creatures.

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

The scalding hot liquid containing a large amount of metals, sulfur and other substances brought by the vent of a submarine volcano.The hydrothermal fluid collides with the cold seawater, and in this fierce intersection of yin and yang, the hydrothermal fluid with a huge difference in pH value and seawater undergoes oxidation-reduction reactions with seawater and is used by some kind of archaea...

The chemosynthetic process of chemoautotrophic bacteria replaces sunlight here.

And inside a certain archaea, there's a...

Enzyme not far from Ogun's end product.

This is undoubtedly a breakthrough.

Dozens of enzymes synthesized by Ogun can form a system that can cycle repeatedly and run endlessly after being deployed in a specific ratio under a specific environment.

This is the "power" of "life".

What is the minimum number of enzymes needed to interweave many reaction chains into a complex network and form an immortal system that can operate?

Not sure yet.But for the simplest creatures, maybe 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...

It's like the Ogun ship itself.

Now, Yawgmoth discovered a miracle.

Some Earth archaea, the life system whose evolution route is completely different from that of eukaryotes, seem to contain several... enzymes whose chemical properties are very close to those of Ogun products.

It can't be said that they are exactly the same, but biologists at the level of Nia Guti almost got the conformation diagrams of these two enzymes wrong!In most cases, they can basically play almost the same role.

If you figure this out...

Maybe it will be of great help to solve Ogun's puzzle!

Xiang Shan immediately said: "Ms. Nia Guti, 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?"

"to join you guys?"

"Join us, and we can reveal to you the content of our research." Xiang Shan said earnestly: "I believe that Yawgmoth will have a lot of fun."

Niya Guti thought for a moment, then shook her head: "I am very interested in your research, but..."

(End of this chapter)