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Chapter 169: Making Ants and Chicks to Prepare for Making Mammals
After understanding the microscopic structure of a single-celled organism called Paramecium, Wang Jiankun began to create multicellular organisms.

He found several nests of small yellow house ants near the base and spent several days observing the living habits and internal division of labor of this type of ant. He then selected a small male ant from the colony as a sample.

He took a glass jar, put some fragrant fried peanuts in it, went to the warehouse outside the base, and put the glass jar with peanut crumbs at the entrance of an ant hole. Not long after, three small yellow ants responsible for reconnaissance came out following the smell. The antennae on their heads kept waving, identifying the concentration of the smell in the air, so as to confirm the specific location of the food.

From that moment on, Wang Jiankun continued to use his super powers to observe and found that the antennae on the ant's head are composed of a multi-porous structure under a microscopic state. Inside it are many cell clusters used to identify large molecules. After the large molecules in the air are stuck to the outer membrane of these cell clusters, the cells can recognize what kind of molecule it is.

Moreover, they can change the sampling position by swinging their antennae, thereby analyzing the concentration of target molecules in different directions, and then they start to move towards places with higher and higher concentrations.

So although the body length of this small yellow house ant is less than 2 mm, if you look at it under a microscope, you will find that it is a living organism composed of a large number of cells. The structure of its antennae alone is extremely complex, not to mention its brain and the numerous organs in its chest and abdomen.

After Wang Jiankun captured samples of three small yellow house ants, he took them to the biological laboratory in the underground base and began to replicate the arthropod ant.

In the previous few days, he had already learned about the structure of ants, but that was done with the help of super powers. He planned to conduct a macroscopic observation first so that he could have a more intuitive impression.

He took out one of them and gradually cooled down the unfortunate ant with dry ice. When it lost its ability to move but was still able to revive, he carefully used tweezers to pick it up and place it on a slide under a microscope.

Then he began to adjust the lens and focus, his eyes fixed on the eyepiece of the microscope, turning the focus knob little by little.

The first thing that caught his eye was the ant's head. He could clearly see the shape of the ant's head and its small but obvious eyes. The ant's antennae also became clear. The slender antennae seemed to be swaying slightly, as if exploring the surrounding environment.

As the focus is adjusted, the body segments of the ant gradually emerge, arranged neatly one by one, and each segment seems to have fine lines. Finally, the ant's legs are clearly visible, the slender legs supporting the ant's body, and some fine burrs can be seen on the legs.

Wang Jiankun observed the structure of the ants with great concentration, fearing that he would miss any details. He carefully recorded everything he saw and gained a deeper understanding of the structure of the small yellow house ants. Throughout the observation process, he was always careful to avoid causing any harm to the ants.

After the observation was completed, he slowly raised the temperature to allow the ant to regain activity, then moved it to a separate glass bottle, put some crushed peanuts in it, and let it enjoy it.

Then he took out another ant and cooled it down to the previous temperature so that it could no longer move. Then he used his superpowers to record the arrangement and combination of the ant's internal elements bit by bit.

Because I already had some understanding of cell structure, this time I observed the ants much faster.

However, he encountered trouble when manufacturing it, because his current ability was not enough to control so many different elements to reach different positions at the same time, so after many trials, he was unable to successfully create an ant.

Because he still used the previous method of making inorganic matter, starting from one direction. When making the ant, he started from the ant's feet that touched the ground, and then gradually built the ant's structure upwards. However, when he made the body part, due to the misalignment problem, the ant's feet could not be connected to the body. Then, due to the control accuracy problem, the organs in the body seemed to have no activity after the manufacturing was completed. This was a complete failure.

He told the problem to Tomoko and asked her to help search the database in his mind to see if conventional biological research methods could provide him with any inspiration.

He also began to look through the biology and medical books he had collected from libraries all over the place to see if he could get some help from them.

After several days of searching for information and based on Zhizi's simulation, Wang Jiankun decided to start trial production again.

This method refers to the principles of surgical transplantation in modern medicine. The various components of multicellular organisms cannot survive independently without the main body, but they can still maintain biological activity for a certain period of time. After being recombined with the main body, they can continue to survive. Moreover, the organs and limbs can be transplanted to other places as long as they can provide appropriate blood circulation and body fluid circulation.

So Wang Jiankun began to make the outer shell of the ant's body and limbs. After the outer shell was made, the shape of the ant was basically fixed. Then he began to fill it from the outside to the inside, batch-producing the same type of cells each time, making one type before making another. This greatly accelerated the manufacturing speed, and the organs produced were all active.

At this point, Wang Jiankun became more confident, as it meant that this method of manufacturing organs separately according to their types was feasible. He also thought that he could use this method to manufacture different human organs for those who needed organ transplants.

However, he quickly shook this thought out of his mind, because his superpowers cannot be exposed, and this ability is too terrifying for outsiders.

He carefully created the last organ in the ant's body, and then quickly created some structures on the ant's surface.

At this time, the various organs in the ant's body began to work together, and under the observation of super powers, body fluids and blood began to flow slowly, and then after magnified observation, ions inside and outside the nerve cells were also moving in and out quickly, which meant that the nervous system was also functioning successfully.

He raised the temperature slowly, and the antennae and legs of the ant he created began to move first. After the temperature reached 15 degrees Celsius, the ant was able to stand up and crawl slowly.

As the temperature gradually rose, the ant became more and more energetic. Its structure was exactly the same as that of the sample, and its movements and expressions were similar. Its two antennae kept swinging to analyze the molecules in the air, and its eyes were also observing the surrounding situation.

Wang Jiankun took a piece of crushed peanut and placed it on the edge of the petri dish where the insect was. Its tentacles first received the smell of peanuts in the air, and then it moved slowly towards the peanuts while waving its tentacles and observing with its eyes.

In order to understand whether the ant he created has the same ability as the sample, Wang Jiankun conducted a control experiment, stimulating the two ants with the same food in the same environment. He found that the reaction time and subsequent actions of the two ants were very similar. When stimulated by sound, light, electricity, heat, etc., the reactions of the two ants were almost the same. This means that this ant created by superpowers is no different from the sample.

Finally, Wang Jiankun placed the ant he created near the ant hole where the sample was obtained before, and then placed a piece of peanut crumbs that the ant could not move near it, and observed the ant's movements.

After discovering the peanut crumbs, the ant first came to the side and tried to move them. After trying many times, it found that its ability alone was not enough to move this huge food, so it began to emit pheromones while crawling towards the cave, probably preparing to find help.

Wang Jiankun quickly marked a small part of one of the ant's legs with white, and then used his superpowers to observe its contact with other ants.

In the ant hole, the ant soon met other ants, then contacted them with its antennae and shared the location information of the food it encountered with them. Along the way, it met several worker ants of the same size as it. It seemed to have judged that it had found enough helpers and began to crawl towards the hole entrance.

Several other worker ants had arrived at the entrance of the cave before it, and quickly discovered the pheromones it left behind. They quickly followed the pheromone path and crawled towards the location of the crushed peanuts.

Then several worker ants came out and carried the peanut crumbs to the nest together with the one created by Wang Jiankun. Wang Jiankun left after observing that the worker ant he created had been successfully integrated into the ant colony, which meant that he was able to create multicellular life.

In order to consolidate his ability to create multicellular organisms, he began to practice creating ants, starting from different parts and organs. During this period, he also kept recording the independent survival time of these organs and the situations when they established connections with other organs.

He spent a week on this and created thousands of ants, of which more than 800 did not survive. Only more than 80 ants survived, and more than of them successfully integrated into the ant colony.

Among the ants that failed to successfully integrate into the ant colony, there were several ants that Wang Jiankun placed pheromones from other ant colonies on, which caused them to be besieged and killed by other ants as soon as they entered the anthills. There were several ants that he tried to modify their genes, and then the pheromones on their bodies seemed to have changed, and then they were also besieged as soon as they entered the anthills. There were also several ants that mutated after part of their genes were changed. Wang Jiankun didn't know whether these mutations were good or bad, so he humanely destroyed them.

The more than 800 that failed were different in their own ways. For some, he changed too many genes, and they died after being active for a while. For others, he tried to modify some of their organs, but they failed to activate or died after surviving for a while.

Of course, there have been some successful transformations. Wang Jiankun has tried to add different peripherals to them, such as using nano-metal materials to strengthen their ant feet, strengthen their mouthparts, and add metal protection to their shells to enhance their combat effectiveness and defense, etc. Some of these strengthened ants have also been successfully integrated into the ant colony, but due to size and genetic limitations, they still exist as worker ants. However, their differences are gradually discovered by the ant colony, and they are often sent out to fight.

By modifying ants, Wang Jiankun learned more about genes. However, the genes of arthropods like ants are still too simple, and their shapes can be studied very quickly. After a large number of modifications, he had a good grasp of the genes of ants. He also successfully transformed worker ants into queen ants and king ants, and then they were able to give birth to offspring and re-form an ant colony.

By mid-March, Wang had become more and more proficient in creating multicellular organisms, so he was ready to move on to creating mammals.

"Ye Wei, are there any puppies born recently in your team?"

"Ah? There should be. I heard that a family's dog is about to give birth, but I haven't been home for several days, so I don't know whether the dog has given birth or not. How about I go back and take a look today?"

"Okay, if it's born, please ask if I can buy one. Let me know how much it costs. You can pay first, and then bring it to me after it's weaned." "Okay, but they're all fellow villagers, so you don't have to pay. They've already asked their neighbors if they want to keep one, because they don't want to keep so many themselves."

"Then it's up to you. It'd be best if you give me some money or something."

"Okay, boss. I'll go back early today and give you a reply tomorrow."

"Okay, drive slowly on the road."

At the end of last year, Wang Jiankun gave Ye Wei an electric wheelchair to make it easier for him to go home and inspect the recycling station. Now he asked Ye Wei if there were any newborn puppies in their team, intending to clone a dog.

The next morning, Ye Wei returned to the recycling station.

"Boss, the dog in that family is already 5 days old. It was born the day I left the team. I have agreed with their family that I want a puppy with all yellow fur. I can wean it after 20 days and bring it over."

"Okay, then remember to give it to me when the time comes."

"Okay, boss, but can we also have a dog here? I'll be responsible for taking care of it."

"That's fine, you decide. Buy whatever you need and I'll reimburse you."

"We don't need to buy anything for the dog. We just need to give it some food. We can use a chipped bowl as the dog bowl, and I'll make a doghouse out of wood and cardboard."

"That's fine, you can keep a dog to kill time, but don't let it bite people, my classmates will come here often."

"Of course not. I will teach it well. Besides, I raise an ordinary domestic dog. I have raised it since it was a puppy and it won't bite anyone."

After determining the source of the puppies, Wang Jiankun began to prepare for the creation of the first mammalian life. One of the steps was to transform the laboratory in the underground base and add more testing equipment and life maintenance equipment, such as blood pumps, defibrillators, ventilators, shadowless lamps, surgical equipment, etc.

For this purpose, he also went to Shanghai and spent a few days in the operating room of a large hospital to observe and learn how they performed dissection, suture, and treat wounds, etc. He also collected many cutting-edge medical research results.

The other is to exercise. Although he has seen life and death, and has used his superpowers to deal with people, he has rarely faced bloody living organisms. At most, he has seen pigs and cows being slaughtered, but he has never dealt with a live mammal himself, so he needs some training.

For this purpose, he ran to Dongmen Bridge, ready to buy a dog to practice dissection, but after wandering around for several days, he did not find anyone selling dogs.

It's understandable if you think about it. After all, people in this area are very fond of dogs and won't sell adult dogs easily. Puppies are mostly neighbors or relatives and won't be sold. And they have only lived there for a few years, so you won't encounter stray dogs on the road.

So Wang Jiankun had no choice but to buy dozens of chickens from the Dongmen Vegetable Market one after another and then conduct anatomical experiments on them alive. He took the chickens' stomachs, intestines, hearts, lungs, reproductive organs, etc., and also dissected the chicken to understand the structure of its different parts.

After practicing with chickens, he began to try to use his super powers to create different structures of chickens, to see if he could create a living chicken by first making the chicken's organs and body structures, and then using his super powers combined with surgery to suture them.

After more than ten days of experiments, he found that this method of first creating organs and body structures and then suturing them did not seem to work, and he encountered the same problems he had encountered when creating ants before.

Later, he saw a description of the creation of clones in a science fiction novel and realized that he might succeed if he changed the direction. That is, he would follow the method used to create ants, but with the addition of some medical equipment to assist.

He quickly set up a new experimental bench, which was a glass tank filled with liquid of similar concentration and composition to chicken cell fluid, and next to it were a specially made ventilator and blood circulation machine.

In order to reduce the difficulty of manufacturing, he bought a few chicks that had just hatched a few days ago as samples. This way, the time required for superpower control during manufacturing could be greatly reduced, and he could focus on controlling the elements.

After being fed, the chicks stayed quietly in the cage. Wang Jiankun spent several hours asking Zhizi to help record the internal structure of the chicks. Then he continued to use his memory to remember these structures so as to reduce the pause time during manufacturing.

After everything was ready, he used his superpowers to start making chicks.

Under his mobilization, a large amount of calcium, phosphorus, iron, carbon, hydrogen and oxygen elements formed the skeleton of a chicken in a glass tank filled with liquid. The two ends of the skeleton were fixed with extremely small silk threads with strong biological affinity. After the skeleton was completed, he began to make the chicken's large and small blood vessels and heart, and also connected the blood circulation machine to the blood circulation system.

He also made the chicken's lungs and trachea, combined the heart and lungs, and connected the trachea to a ventilator.

After these two systems were successfully working with the assistance of external instruments, he began to create muscles, capillaries, nerves, lymph, epidermis, brain eyes, tongue, ears, reproductive organs, etc. from the surface of these two systems. These organs and systems created later were all alive with the oxygen supply of blood, and brain wave activity could be seen in the brain.

At this time, a featherless chick appeared in the glass tank. With the help of a ventilator and a blood circulation machine, it trembled slightly in the liquid, and it seemed to want to open its eyes.

Wang Jiankun quickly made feathers for the surface skin. After the feathers were made, he took them out of the liquid, fixed them with a prepared bracket, and then used his superpowers to quickly remove the excess liquid on the feathers.

A little chicken with its eyes closed appeared on the stand. Its chest was moving, which was its heart beating. There was a ventilator inserted in its nose.

After Wang Jiankun used his super powers to check, he found that the internal structure of the body was intact. There was no internal bleeding or structural connection errors caused by omissions in the manufacturing process. So he quickly removed the ventilator and blood circulation machine and used his super powers to repair the wound.

After waiting for a while, the fluffy yellow chick opened its eyes and looked at Wang Jiankun. Wang Jiankun seemed to see a hint of confusion in its eyes.

"Chirp," the chick trotted a few steps to Wang Jiankun and seemed to be saying something.

"Are you hungry?"

"Chirp, chirp" the chicks kept calling at him.

Wang Jiankun took the crushed rice, put it in his palm and handed it to the chick.

The chick he created happily sucked the millet grains in his hand. The touch of each grain on Wang Jiankun's palm felt very unreal. He had created a life that could express his desires.

The sample chicken in the distance heard the chirping and also started chirping, "Chirp~Chirp~", as if greeting its replica.

Wang Jiankun carefully picked up the chick in front of him and brought it to its original form. He looked at it carefully but didn't find any difference (it was an exact copy, how could he find any difference?). He took out the paint and dyed the tail of the chick he made a little red, then put it in the cage to play with its original form to grab food.

In the next few days, he successively made more than a dozen chicks, and 8 of them were successful. During the manufacturing process, he exercised his proficiency in controlling a large number of elements and manufacturing cells and organs at the same time. At the same time, he also conducted research on various manufacturing sequences to see which method saves time and has the highest success rate.

After making so many preparations, he was confident about creating a real mammal next. At this time, the puppy that Ye Wei promised should be weaned soon. He renovated the laboratory and made a doghouse, waiting for the little yellow dog to arrive.

(End of this chapter)