Cyber ​​Heroes

Chapter 127 Fork

Metal-based organisms are called metal-based-carbon-based organisms.The enzyme system in this type of organism has undergone incredible transformations. In the specific proteins that make up its body, the skeleton connecting the amino group and the carboxyl group in some amino acids is not a carbon element, but a specific metal element.The other part of amino acids form complexes with metal ions.

Since the ability of metal elements to lose electrons is not equal to the ability to gain electrons, and the proteins expressed by human original genes will generate extra electrons when expressed in this life system.Under the orderly function of life, these proteins will be arranged in specific ways in specific regions.

Therefore, the protein complex of metal-based organisms will show the characteristics of some metal clusters.

For example, the structure of "brain-computer barrier".

Metal-based cells have far more damage resistance than carbon-based cells native to the earth.It is also very resistant to hypoxia and has a longer lifespan.

However, Shang does not think that metal-based plants have a competitive advantage on this planet.

The reason is very simple.

Most of the metal elements in metal-based organisms have extra electron shells than carbon atoms.Therefore, the radius of these atoms is naturally larger than that of carbon atoms.This also leads to a higher degree of freedom when this type of polypeptide is folded into a protein, and the final fold is more complex, requiring higher energy to shake its structure.

The enzyme system of metal-based organisms needs to operate in a higher energy environment.

The body temperature of baseline humans is much higher than that of Homo sapiens.

Of course, the temperature of protein denaturation is much higher than that of Homo sapiens.

A temperature of 37 degrees Celsius is enough for most metal-based proteins to lose their reaction conditions.

Xiang Shan remembers that the benchmark human body temperature is generally around [-] degrees Celsius.

All other metal-based organisms face this problem.

They require higher reaction temperatures.

But here's the problem.

"High body temperature" cannot appear out of thin air.

According to the first law of thermodynamics, the increase in internal energy of an object is equal to the sum of the heat absorbed by the object and the work done on the object.If you want a higher temperature, you need more energy.

Human beings can rely on a well-developed industrial base and use electricity to meet this energy demand.

But most organisms in nature do not have this condition.

This is also the reason why Xiang Shan and others dared to carry out this kind of genetic modification on animals.Because in theory, even if those experimental animals escaped, it would be difficult for them to reproduce successfully on Earth.

Native species may not have such strong damage resistance and combat effectiveness, but they are superior in "energy saving" and have greater competitive advantages.

Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for metal-based organisms to form large-scale populations in the wild on the earth.

If it is near the equator, there may be a little possibility.

After all, carbon-based organisms can also appear in the Antarctic and Arctic.

But no matter what non-human intervention happens, metal-based organisms cannot eliminate the earth's native species in the earth's environment without developing civilization.

It seems that every time there is a mass extinction, all the giant species like the Tyrannosaurus rex will be wiped out, while a large number of small species will survive. The population competitive advantage brought by "energy saving" is really too great.

Xiang Shan remembers that he relied on this reason to convince biologists who were determined to protect the ecology.

And he insisted that "plants should be green" for the same reason.

If there is no external interference, the custom-made metal-based species of "copper sugar tree" will not be able to eliminate the earth's native carbon-based species on the earth.

Benchmarks are simply capable of functioning more effectively than Homo sapiens in an industrialized society.

Yuki nodded.

He still remembered what Xiang Shan had told him many months ago.

Cui Mu said: [At this latitude, green plants may still be rare.But there are still some over the Arctic Circle...]

Xiang Shan nodded: [The higher the latitude, the colder it is.The disadvantages of metal-based organisms with high temperature requirements for enzyme systems are more obvious.If you think about it carefully, maybe the frigid tundra is now the greenest place on earth. 】

Cui Mu exclaimed: [Senior is well-informed after all...]

"Okay, this is the floor."

Xiang Shan looked inside.There are one or two shacks on the floor, but not all of them have people in them.Two or three shacks were occupied.

This is probably a home built by homeless people a long time ago.

Xiang Shan led a group of people in.There is a large shack.He pointed to the big shack: "Let's go here. Put down the luggage, go to the side to dismantle a few shacks, and repair them. This will be the base for the current stage."

Yuki put down the little guy in his hand, and went to demolish the surrounding shacks with several others.Xiang Shan looked at the little guy, and the little guy tried his best to raise his head and look at Xiang Shan.

"Yeah! Yah! Da! Don't be afraid!"

she said so.

"It's a pity, I can't understand what you're talking about." Xiang Shan bent down, patted the little guy's head, and then tidied up the kennel-like shack a little.

Although there are surveillance around, theoretically this is just the lord's personal behavior.If you want to block surveillance, it is your own freedom.And if this behavior arouses the suspicion of the lord, it is also his own fault.

Yellow Coupler tries not to think about what is the adhesive of these cheap boards.

This move undoubtedly attracted the attention of the surroundings.It's just that Xiang Shan, Cui Mu, and Huang Youguang are all fully prosthetic fighters, and Yuki's degree of transformation is not low.Compared with these natural people who have almost no decent transformation, they are simply too strong.

Those people will not take the initiative to provoke them.

Soon, a few people put together a shack big enough for four people to sit inside.

Xiang Shan, on the other hand, spread the metal composite panels he carried on the inner wall of the shack without hesitation.When necessary, these things can withstand small-caliber gunshots, which is "better than nothing."

"Let's take a good rest today." Xiang Shan said, "We still need a day or two to get familiar with the city, listen to the information, and make complete preparations."

Xiang Shan said so.

Then it's time to rest.

Although for knights, Pine Eagle City is full of crises, but prolonged emotional tension may still cause people to fall into a negative state and make various mistakes.Rest is also necessary.

Cui Mu still needs to train himself and restore his internal strength.And Yuki is busy training.

Huang Coupleu took the little guy and stood guard outside.

Xiang Shan entered the state of meditation again, and stretched his will with the help of a new version of the online meditation room.

This time it was still nothing.The mysterious master of inner strength that I met last time seemed to have never existed.

Xiang Shan was not depressed.He changed his mind and connected to another website.

That's a blockchain.

That mysterious existence not only gave Xiang Shan the latest version of the online meditation room, but also left some information behind.

Those materials point to several well-known blockchains that exist on the network.

Xiang Shan soon realized that these blockchains should have been established after he fell asleep.He himself knew some blockchains—of course, he only remembered them after seeing these addresses.

This is to ensure that no matter when, he can get martial arts.

In the block chain given to him by the mysterious man, there are three martial arts: "Mecha Steel Fist", "Kalashnikov Gun Fighting Technique", and "Treason's Different Color View".

These three martial arts are the oldest cyber-fighting technique, the oldest gun fighting technique and the oldest inner-strength mental method.

The "old" here does not mean that they are weak.Of course, the original versions of these three martial arts are indeed very weak compared to today's martial arts.However, they themselves are in constant iteration.

Over the past 200 years, famous masters have continuously uploaded their own martial arts experience and their own updated versions to the blockchain in Xiangshan's memory.

However, this also poses a huge problem.

Blockchains will fork.

Let's put it this way, the blockchain can be imagined as a set of "rules" shared by everyone in the world to write a huge content.In the era when it was first born, this "content" was the "ledger".In the subsequent era, this "content" is "martial arts cheats".

Due to the natural decentralization of the blockchain, it is difficult for the strong to modify it with their own minds.

This ensures that martial arts can be passed down forever.

In many cases, this "rule" can be realized by "application".

On a certain day, an application is suddenly upgraded, adding some table structures that were not recognized in the previous version, what will happen?

This new version of the application will continue to package blocks that cannot be recognized by the "old version application", creating a link that is completely different from the old version of the packaged block.

This is the "fork".

In the traditional centralized software system, since the data storage is centralized and the version management is also centralized, if there is a major upgrade, it can be set to "cannot log in without downloading the new version" to ensure that users always Use the correct version.

But the blockchain is different.

The knight chooses it to save the cheats precisely because it is decentralized and the cost of deleting and modifying is too high.

But this also means that you can never guarantee that all users will always use only one "uniform rule" to pack blocks.

That is something that only centralization can do.

Therefore, the blockchain will inevitably "fork".

This is also one of the inherent defects of the blockchain ledger - in the era when humans were crazily digging virtual mines, relatively short forks were constantly being abandoned.

As for the blockchains that Xiang Shan remembered, the problem was even more serious.

The whole world is uploading martial arts experience to it.And among these uploaders, quite a few have achieved internal strength, or have their own understanding of internal strength.

This leads to...the "rules" of "packing cheat blocks" can never be unified.

For the ancient blockchain in Xiangshan's memory, there are too many soft and hard forks, and it is too scary.

It’s also Mecha Steel Fist. The ancient blockchain that Xiang Shan remembers is like a collection of content at the level of an academic database. The road to evolution.

The one given to him by the mysterious man was completely different.

(End of this chapter)