My apocalyptic heroine has come true

But Fang Ming closed the phone interface so quickly that He Qiuqiu only saw a green picture floating by.

"Why are you so wary? Are you in an online romance?" He Qiuqiu pouted.

"Yes." Fang Ming nodded.

He Qiuqiu was choked with words.

His distant cousin doesn't look like someone who would engage in online romance.

He Qiuqiu didn't believe it and pulled Fang Ming's arm out of bed: "Hey, don't sleep anymore, you've been lying in bed for so long, this is a rare opportunity, go out for a walk! Sister, pull that hand over there!"

He Qiuqiu said this and was about to put Fang Ming back into the wheelchair.

However, when her hand pinched Fang Ming's biceps, she was still stunned.

"Huh? Brother Fang Ming has recovered so well recently?"

Fang Jing obviously also felt the strength in Fang Ming's arm.

The last time she came to see Fang Ming, Fang Ming had difficulty even lifting his hands... How come he had grown muscles in such a short time?

Can I build arm muscles just by lying in bed?

What surprised her even more was...

Fang Ming actually got out of bed by himself!

The man who was once told by the doctor that if he did not actively resume exercise, he might be paralyzed for life, actually stood on the ground with his legs!

Fang Ming grabbed the railing and moved his feet.

Then he sat down in his wheelchair and turned around to ask his cousin and distant cousin.

"where to?"

Fang Jing finally came back to her senses from her surprise and turned to look at He Qiuqiu who proposed the plan.

"Let's go to the playground!"

Fang Ming: “?”

"Have you ever seen a disabled person like me go to an amusement park? What a joke in hell."

"Hehe, just kidding... I suggest we go eat hot pot. I haven't had authentic Sichuan hot pot in a long time!"

After hearing what He Qiuqiu said, Fang Ming became interested.

It just so happened that he hadn't eaten hot pot for a long time.

The three of them went as soon as they said they would.

After saying hello to the attending doctor, they called an online taxi downstairs.

This was the first time Fang Ming left the hospital, and the glaring sunlight outside made it impossible for Fang Ming to open his eyes.

He really doesn't like traveling far.

The careful and caring eyes of the online taxi driver, the support and care of the cousins...

These subtle actions, which seemed well-intentioned to others, pricked Fang Ming like needles.

He doesn't like people looking at him with 'sympathy' in their eyes.

It's not a pleasant feeling to be treated specially.

Therefore, rehabilitation training must be continued...

Leaning against the car window, Fang Ming looked at the hospital building gradually moving away.

It took him nine months to get out of here.

I thought I would never come into contact with this society again in my life.

But now it seems...it is not difficult to take this step.

Looking at the bustling streets and people coming and going outside the window.

Fang Ming couldn't help but think of the desolate land in the doomsday world.

The gap is too big...

If that world is really the Earth of the future...

Fang Ming felt a chill down his spine just thinking about it.

"By the way, Sister Jing, I want to ask you a question."

Fang Ming turned his gaze back to the car and looked at Fang Jing in the front row.

He suddenly thought of Fang Jing's research topic overseas and asked with some concern.

"If this world wants to have rats bigger than humans, wolves three meters tall, and spiders with legs as sharp as metal... what conditions should be met?"

Chapter 66 Xia Xiaochi's Crisis

"A rat as big as a human, a three-meter-tall wolf, a spider with legs as sharp as metal??"

In a hotpot restaurant.

The boiling red oil kept bubbling in the copper pot.

Fang Jing had just picked up a piece of tripe when she was stunned by a question from Fang Ming.

"Are you researching some science fiction movies?" Fang Jing asked curiously.

"I've been enjoying reading a novel lately," Fang Ming replied casually. "There's a mutant species like this in it, so I'm curious: if those creatures appeared in real life, what circumstances would cause them to mutate?"

"Mutated species?" Fang Jing said after a moment of hesitation.

"The world in the novel is all fictional. Such things cannot exist in reality..."

"It certainly doesn't exist in reality. But what if we think beyond the current level of biotechnology and focus on organisms that may exist in the 'future'?" Fang Ming continued to ask.

Fang Jing put the boiled tripe into He Qiuqiu's bowl and looked at Fang Ming thoughtfully.

First of all, Fang Jing was very pleased that Fang Ming was interested in something.

But... his interests are too extreme!

Which kid takes the setting of a novel and conducts research in reality?

Fang Jing looked quietly into Fang Ming's expectant eyes.

In the end, she couldn't resist those eyes, so she sighed and carefully helped him analyze the problem.

"I'm not really that expert in this area... and the conditions you mentioned are too broad. If you just want to know under what circumstances an organism's size suddenly increases, I can probably think of two possibilities."

"The first is that gamma rays induce inactivation of the TP53 tumor suppressor gene."

Fang Jing raised a slender finger and said, "In this case, the size restriction will be lifted, and the size of the creature will change greatly."

"The second one," Fang Jing continued, "is also the topic I'm researching..."

“CRISPR-Cas12 gene editing technology.”

Fang Jing said a word that was unfamiliar to Fang Ming.

"Ordinary people don't have access to this technology, so they don't understand it. This technology has the potential to conquer cancer, but it also carries certain risks."

"For example, if we use this gene editing technology to turn off the myostatin gene (MSTN gene), the muscle cells of the species will proliferate indefinitely and the bones will become abnormally thick."

"If, under these conditions, the tardigrade stress-resistant promoter is introduced into the organism, they will have sustained insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1), which will allow them to ignore normal metabolic restrictions."

Fang Jing said, "Imagine if a creature possessed both an unlimited physique and a bodily mechanism that ignored normal metabolism...then they would possess extraordinary reproductive capacity and growth potential. Even I find it hard to imagine. By then, let alone a rat the size of a human, even if it grew to be the size of an elephant, I'd think it was plausible."

Fang Jing took a sip of Coke and concluded:

"I think the above situations are consistent with what you just said about 'mutated species'."

"correct,"

Fang Jing picked up a piece of duck intestine and put it in her mouth. Looking at Fang Ming who was completely in a daze across the table, she added another sentence.

"Assuming radiation still exists in the air, the metabolic system of these mutant mice may have been restructured into a trinity of 'radiation-bioelectricity-chemistry' energy supply. They don't even need to eat to maintain their full body energy consumption... Of course, this is just my conceptual hypothesis; the actual situation is definitely more complicated."

"..."

"Gululu..."

Bubbles kept coming out of the hot pot.

At this moment, Fang Ming fell completely silent.

I originally just wanted to use Fang Jing's biology expertise to analyze the situation for me, but I didn't expect that she would actually say something.

Although Fang Ming didn't understand many of the professional terms.

But, there is one thing he has figured out.

That is... the mutant species in "The End of the Century" can theoretically exist on Earth.

The biological level of those black spear spiders may be higher, but the most basic and common gray rat in the end of the century can appear on a large scale.

"Brother Fang Ming has been researching something weird lately."

He Qiuqiu, who also didn't understand anything, found the topic boring.

Fang Jing smiled gently: "It's normal for boys to delve into this kind of thing..."

Fang Ming nodded in agreement and casually opened his game to take a look.

He would feel uneasy if he didn't check on his little heroine for an hour.

In the game, the heroine Xia Xiaochi is hesitating in the small module production workshop.

She just encountered a problem and called out to her watch for a long time but got no response from Fang Ming.

So he simply wrote a note with charcoal and stuck it on his forehead.

This way, as long as Fang Ming observes her, he can see her message immediately:

"Brother Fang Ming, you said this morning that it's best not to ignite the nitric acid sugar bombs we make, so I've developed another method of detonating them by dropping them from a high altitude... However, this method requires adding 10% sulfur powder. Most of our sulfur powder these days is taken from ammunition, so using it here would be a bit of a waste."

"use!"

Fang Ming sent a word.