Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 468 [Chapter Hidden in the Abyss] Twelve: Self-cultivation of the old enemy

Swarm felt Chen Yan's gaze, he turned his head, his serious face was so serious that it was about to drip ice water, and said to Chen Yan:

"We didn't feel right, there were eyes everywhere in the dark, and they saw us."

Chen Yan subconsciously glanced at the dark mine outside the window of the mining machine.

Before Swarm said this, he thought that the flashing green dots in the mine area were snake kiss rocks.

"We don't know what they are, we're forgetting something very important...

The section chief knows our past, and if we can find him, we will know exactly what we forgot. "

Before the start of this underground trip, Chen Yan asked Hanyu Hualian, chief of the frontline investigation section of the North Bureau, and received an answer. Cyborg Quinn, former chief of the Criminal Investigation Section of the North Bureau, Disappeared during investigation.

Three years ago... According to the timeline I learned from my old brother, three years ago was the time when the miners in the Omega sector rioted. Chen Yan thought to himself that Cyborg Quinn disappeared during the underground investigation. Wouldn't it be related to the riots in the Omega sector back then?

Chen Yan thought for a while, but still couldn't hold back, and asked:

"What do you mean by 'gaze in the dark'?"

Swarm showed a murderous look in his eyes, Chen Yan had just had a synesthesia with this kind of look half an hour ago——

It was in the cave. When Swarm looked at the strange snakes under the water, he showed such eyes. The murderous intent in those eyes was because he felt the existence of the "old enemy".

"It's like the eyes of a strange snake."

Swarm said the phrase with certainty, adding:

"The strange snakes have lived underground for too long, but this doesn't seem to be their home. They didn't adapt to the living environment here, so they turned into different types of things."

Chen Yan already stored a large amount of biological knowledge in this world. When he heard the news, he subconsciously used his knowledge of the world's biology to say:

"They have mutated in different directions-if this conjecture is true, then the strange snake described by the spherical Tunguska and the strange snake that Paulkin Walker fished out of the cave waters are actually the same ethnic group.

It's just that the living environment is too different, causing them to mutate in order to adapt to the environment. "

Thinking of this, cold sweat rolled down Chen Yan's forehead.

"But if this guess is true, then the genes of the strange snake group are too strong..."

Swarm is very sensitive to the topic of strange snakes. Hearing what Chen Yan said, he immediately concentrated and asked him:
"What kind of strength is it?"

Chen Yan settled down, turned his attention to this topic, and said:

"Genetically strong."

"From a biological point of view, variation due to environmental changes is usually not heritable."

"But we have already seen that the strange snakes in the cave waters have obviously undergone heritable mutations—judging from the small snakes fished out by Paulkin Walker and the countless snake corpses at the bottom of the water, they have long been in the water. It has been reproduced for countless generations."

Swarm whispered:

"exactly."

Chen Yan continued:
"The gene of the strange snake has obviously changed due to changes in the environment... Do you know what a gene is?"

Swarm blurted out:
"Editable genetic elements."

When he said that, he couldn't fix Chen Yan.

The definition of genes in this world stays at "the entire nucleotide sequence required by a polypeptide chain or functional RNA, which stores all the information about the race, blood type, gestation, growth, apoptosis and other processes of life."

It is just "storing information", not "editing" at all. The top biological science community has not even conjectured on the concept of "gene editable".

In other words, the biological information in Swarm's head is ahead of this world.

Thinking of this, Chen Yan became even more curious about his origin.

From the perspective of Director Mi Dahe, the technology tree of this world has been completely incomprehensible. Technology is not like technology, and mystery is not like mystery. It is difficult to have an exact definition.

In such a big environment, there will be almost no development of biology to genetic engineering, because the purpose of genetic engineering is to decrypt genes, and the ultimate goal is to find the key to evolution, but there are too many ways to evolve in this world , the awakening of extraordinary power, the exercise of inspirational organs, the ritual of ascension of flesh and blood based on ancient mysterious powers, the experiment of mechanical ascension starting from external organs...

For this world, genetic engineering is no longer necessary.

Thinking of this, Chen Yan was even more puzzled, where did Swarm's definition of genes come from?Could it be [unknown knowledge] from a technological alien god?

The more Chen Yan couldn't figure it out, the more curious he became, and even came up with the idea of ​​looking for the missing Cyborg Quinn to find out.

But now is not the time.

Chen Yan took a deep breath and continued the previous topic:
"Why do you say that the gene of the strange snake is powerful?"

"Because 'the change of genes by the external environment' is a very long process. For a species, it [usually] requires many generations of evolution and selection, and it takes tens of thousands of years for genes to be changed by the external environment. Changes, these genes changed by the external environment will be inherited."

"I heard before that when the strange snake was just dug up in the Omega sector, the strange snake still looked like a 'triangle head and a needle tail', but only five or six years from now, the strange snake has become a 'crocodile head' , more compound eyes' look."

"But in the past five or six years, the gene of the strange snake has been changed by the external environment - this is the adaptive variation of the strange snake itself due to the environment. From the perspective of obvious heredity, this variation is also a variation at the genetic level. "

"Of course, there is also the possibility of genetic mutations being inherited, but this possibility is too small, and we cannot take the occurrence of a small probability event as the factual basis for reasoning."

"So... the gene of this strange snake is very strong."

Chen Yan added:
"Can such a strong gene really be possessed by carbon-based organisms?"

He was surprised when he said this.

After a brief silence, Swarm continued:

"They're not good things...they have to die."

Raving...

Is this the self-cultivation of the old enemy...

While the two were talking, the spherical Tungus in the backpack suddenly said:
"We're almost there, get off at the next stop."

Chen Yan didn't speak, but stroked the pocket on his chest.

Baldy Parrett affirms the spherical Tunguska message:

’ Indeed, the utility shuttle moves around the outer ring of the Omega sector, and the A-17 blade is one of the earliest stops. '

After a while, the driver of the shuttle mining machine shouted loudly that it was time to arrive.

Seconds passed and the shuttle docked outside the concrete checkpoint of the A-17 blade.

The pressure relief sound of the air pressure valve sounded, and the door of the shuttle mining machine opened.

Chen Yan and the team members stepped out of the mining machine, and a pungent bloody smell wafted through the air.

(End of this chapter)