Chapter 468 [Chapter Hidden in the Abyss] Twelve: The Self-cultivation of the Old Enemy

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

"We felt something was wrong. There were eyes everywhere in the darkness, and they saw us."

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

Before Swam said this, he thought the flashing green dots in the mine area were snake-nose rocks.

"We don't know what they are and we've forgotten something very important...

The section chief knows our past, and if we can find him, we can find out what we have forgotten."

Before Chen Yan started this underground trip, he asked Hanyu Hualien, the chief of the Northern Bureau's Frontline Investigation Section, and received a reply that Cyborg Quinn, the former chief of the Northern Bureau's Crime Investigation Section, had been arrested three years ago.

Missing during investigation.

Three years ago... According to the timeline I learned from my brother before, three years ago was when the miners in the Omega Sector rioted. Chen Yan thought to himself that Cyborg Quinn disappeared while investigating underground.

Could it be related to the riots in the Omega Sector?

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

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

Swam showed a look with murderous intent. Chen Yan had synesthesia with this look half an hour ago——

That was in the cave. When Swam looked at the strange snakes underwater, he had this look in his eyes. The murderous intent in his eyes was because he felt the existence of his "old enemy".

"It's like a weird snake gaze."

Swam said the phrase with certainty and added:

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

Chen Yan originally stored a large amount of biological knowledge about this world. When he heard the news, he subconsciously used his knowledge of the biology of this world and said:

"They have mutated in different directions - if this guess is true, then the strange snakes originally described by the spherical Tunguska and the strange snakes that Bolkin Walker fished out of the cave waters are actually the same species.

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 broke out on Chen Yan's forehead.

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

Swam was very sensitive to the topic of strange snakes. After hearing what Chen Yan said, he immediately concentrated and asked him:

"In what way is it powerful?"

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

"Genetically powerful."

"From a biological perspective, variations caused by environmental changes are 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 Paul Jin Walker and the countless snake corpses under the water, they have long been in the water.

It has been reproduced for countless generations."

Swam whispered:

"exactly."

Chen Yan continued:

"The genes of the strange snake have obviously changed due to changes in the environment... Do you know what genes are?"

Swarm blurted out:

"Editable genetic factors."

When he said this, Chen Yan was completely disturbed.

This world's definition of genes remains at "all the nucleotide sequences required for a polypeptide chain or functional RNA, which stores all information about life's race, blood type, pregnancy, growth, apoptosis and other processes."

It is just "storing information" and does not reach the level of "editing" at all. The top biological science community has not even speculated on the concept of "gene editability".

In other words, the biological information in Swam's head is advanced compared to this world.

Chen Yan thought of this and became more curious about his origins.

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

In such an environment, the development of biology into genetic engineering is almost impossible, because the purpose of genetic engineering is to decipher genes, and the ultimate goal is to find the key to evolution, but there are too many ways for the world to evolve.

, the awakening of extraordinary power, the training of inspiration organs, the flesh and blood ascension ceremony based on ancient mysterious power, the mechanical ascension experiment starting from external organs...

For this world, genetic engineering is no longer necessary.

Thinking of this, Chen Yan was even more confused. Where did Swom's definition of genes come from? Could it be [unknown knowledge] from some technological alien god?

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

But now is not the time.

Chen Yan took a deep breath and continued the previous topic:

"Why is the strange snake's gene so 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, thousands of years, before the genes are changed by the external environment.

Only if genes are changed by the external environment will they be inherited."

"I heard before that when the strange snake was first dug up in the Omega Sector, it still had a 'triangular head and a needle tail' shape. Only five or six years ago, the strange snake turned into a 'crocodile head'

, the appearance of multiple compound eyes.”

"But within five or six years, the strange snake's genes have been changed by the external environment - this is the adaptive variation of the strange snake itself due to the environment. From the obvious heritability point of view, 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. We cannot use the occurrence of a small probability event as the factual basis for reasoning."

"So... the genes of this strange snake are very strong."

Chen Yan added:

"Can such a powerful gene really be possessed by carbon-based organisms?"

When he said this, he was surprised.

After a brief silence, Swarm continued:

"They are not good things... they must die."

Damn...

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

While the two were talking, the spherical Tunguska in the backpack suddenly said:

"We're almost there, get off at the next stop."

Chen Yan didn't speak, but just touched his chest pocket.

Bald Parrett affirms the message of spherical Tunguska:

'Indeed, the public shuttle miner 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 he was arriving at the station.

A few seconds passed, and the shuttle mining machine parked outside the concrete inspection station of the A-17 fan blade.

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

When Chen Yan and his team members stepped out of the mining machine, a pungent smell of blood floated in the air.
Chapter completed!