Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

The magpie genome is strange.

From the perspective of modern molecular biology and microbiology, the gene pool of magpies is more complex than that of normal humans——

His gene pool contains many more genomes than normal people, arranged in different ways than normal human genes.

Typically, Lindsay sees such genomes as part of a "mountain of genetic shit" produced by human evolution.

This huge mountain of genetic shit accounts for at least 8% of the entire human genome, coming from various viruses from the origin of the human species to the present.

In addition to viral genes, there are also a few other bacteria, fungi, other microorganisms and other symbionts in this gene shit mountain, as well as the genes of other animals. Before the apocalypse, the mainstream view in the imperial biology community was that before humans were fully mature, During evolution, reproductive isolation barriers had not yet been established, and genes from other animals entered the human gene pool at that time.

These genes are present in humans, but are almost completely unexpressed—“almost none” because so few of these genes are expressed.

This very small number of expressed genes forms the corresponding trait, and it is incomprehensible that this trait does not exist in this world.

Traits cannot be expressed in this world, and the very few special genomes of magpies are constantly expressed. The two conflict with each other, which leads to the so-called "family disease" of magpies——

Magpie regards it as a "family disease", which is actually not wrong. Gene defective disease is indeed a family disease.

But Magpie did not explore further. He did not use scientific tools to analyze his gene pool, but simply pinned all his hopes on extraordinary means.

Lindsay heard Chen Yan tell about this incident. After listening to the whole incident, Lindsay believed that what blinded the magpies was not only the madness caused by genetic defects, but also the ignorance caused by not keeping up with the times.

The times have changed.

During the experiment, Lindsay also obtained more valuable knowledge than before - he analyzed the complete genome of the magpie and obtained some incredible genes. Those genes contain knowledge that far exceeds that of modern human civilization itself - it is not scientific knowledge. , but [new genes] produced by "evolution" itself.

While thinking about it, Lindsay walked through the corridor on the eighth floor of Group Z and entered the ward at the end of the eighth floor.

The new group building after expansion has a large area. Due to the special situation of the mechanical hive, five of the thirteen floors of the entire building are used as wards.

These wards are not classified into different levels and receive all patients and their families, so now they are in a mess and crowded with patients and their families due to various reasons.

After struggling to avoid a group of running children, Lindsay came to the small ward in a small corner at the end of the corridor. This ward was quieter than other wards, but not much better.

Most of the wards are double rooms, so when Lindsay entered them, she turned her head and stared at the patient on the bed near the door.

"hello!"

The patient was a young man, his body covered with bandages, and traces of burn ointment were faintly visible on his face. His eyes looked like he had read a book, but he had not read a lot.

"That...doctor!"

The young man glanced slightly nervously at the bed next door that was separated by the curtain, and whispered in a slightly panicked voice:

"The guy next to me was chatting with me just now. Now he suddenly lost his voice. Do you think he is dying..."

His whole body was covered with bandages, and it was difficult for him to move and even turn his head. All he could show was that panicked look in his eyes.

Lindsay smiled and comforted him:

"Do not worry."

A doctor's smile is one of the best medicines for treating patients. After Lindsay, who was wearing a white coat, said this, the young man was comforted even if he couldn't tell whether it was a doctor's coat or a lab coat.

Lindsay came to Chen Yan's bed and looked at Chen Yan, whose body had almost returned to its original state. She checked his pupils after his eyes were closed tightly, and after observing his breathing and heart rate monitoring charts, he pulled up a chair and sat next to him. Come down and hold his hand.

The next moment, an apologetic voice appeared in Lindsay's mind:

‘I’ve really worked hard on you these days. ’

Lindsay smiled. He was already familiar with this method of transmitting information, and responded mentally:

‘I’m doing what I need to do, and it’s not hard work at all. ’

He told Chen Yan his research results:

'After dissecting the magpie's genes, I discovered that he had some elements in his genome that modern humans don't have.

I have reason to believe that these genomes are what humans have after a long evolution. In other words, the magpie, or his ancestors, theoretically come from some distant future of humans. ’

Chen Yan's consciousness is very clear:

‘BIOS. ’

Lindsay's spirit was obviously suppressing her excitement, and Chen Yan felt the same unreserved excitement:

'Yes, BIOS, I named his genome from the future FB-51339.

前缀意为Future of BIOS，后者是由他的基因组半衰期测定出的始源基因组所存在的时间——305万1千3百3十9年，这是FB-51339从出现到现在所存在的大概时间。’

The more Lindsay spoke, the more excited she became:

‘We can even determine the existence time of BIOS from this - the lowest world has existed for at least 305 million years since the birth of human beings.

According to the records in our current world, human beings have developed civilization for about three million years.

In other words, the world where BIOS is located is about 50,000 years after humans entered modern society! ’

Lindsay explained:

'I know that the current world we live in is actually divided into generations. After each generation, a new generation will appear, but this does not affect the facts I said - the countless historical traces left behind in this world prove what I said. ——Humans have existed for three million years. ’

Chen Yan was silent on the hospital bed, no one could know his thoughts.

Lindsay continued:

'We know the magpie genes come from BIOS and will soon know what those genes express - my lab is running simulations.

With the help of Adam Turing, our simulation this time was successfully carried out in a virtual machine. We will build a big data model based on the magpie gene library, and then improve the model by continuously simulating gene expression results, and finally get the closest Express the results of traits.

This part of the magpie's gene pool does not exist in our current world, so even if something can be expressed, it cannot be run in our current world - this is because we put the simulation process in a virtual machine and use big data To simulate, rather than the direct cause -

At best, the machine is operating incorrectly without worse consequences. ’

Lindsay's excitement reached its peak:

‘If we succeed, then we will have a complete genome that can be expressed and belongs to the human in BIOS. Logically speaking, what this section of the genome expresses only exists in the BIOS.

This thing does not exist in our world, nor should it exist, because in our current world, there is no operating library for this gene - our world does not have the basic rules to run this gene. ’

In order to distinguish the expression, he emphasized his tone:

'And once we can make it - once we can use the virtual machine to let the thing expressed by this gene come to our present world, then this thing will become a special creation that exists in both the BIOS and our present world. .

Do you know what this means? ’

Out of excessive excitement, he asked himself:

'That means we can get into the BIOS with this thing! Because in this thing, there is no boundary between the real world and the BIOS! ’

Chen Yan also expressed surprise at the news:

‘But the world we live in doesn’t have the runtime library for that gene? How about just doing it in a virtual machine? ’

It's a chicken-and-egg question.

The excitement in Lindsay's tone almost overflowed. He did not answer Chen Yan's question directly, but asked another question as if to change the subject:

‘Does Adam, edited by humans, exist in itself? ’

Chen Yan thought carefully and replied:

‘Adam existed, and he existed as binary code based on a silicon-based creation computer. ’

This is the answer Lindsay wanted:

‘Then the product expressed by that gene should also exist—based on a silicon-based creation computer and exist in binary code! ’

Chen Yan was greatly shocked. He probably understood what Lindsay was going to do, but he didn't fully understand what the outcome of this matter would be.

Lindsay obviously understood Chen Yan's half-informed state, and he patiently explained:

‘Existence itself is a paradox. I can’t explain it in detail here, but as a human being, we can understand existence in very general terms——

If it can be detected by our consciousness, it exists.

You will definitely think that what I said is too subjective and too idealistic, but until now we can almost make a conclusion - this world is not completely materialistic - at least in the present world where we are, it is not completely materialistic. . ’

Chen Yan suddenly remembered that Lindsay was not only a professional in bioelectronics, but also a top student who had studied in the Imperial City. He had not only conducted research on science during his academic career, but he must also have dabbled in philosophy.

Chen Yan whispered:

‘Then, next, we can go through that thing and reach the BIOS. ’

Lindsay's excitement was beyond words:

'Yes! We can use that thing to establish a passage similar to the Transcendence Gate to the BIOS! ’

He then explained:

'But it is unrealistic to avoid the apocalypse simply by entering the BIOS, because the BIOS has already become a hell on earth, and people's lives in the mechanical hive must be much better than life in the BIOS.

Therefore, a method similar to "Temporarily take refuge in the BIOS and wait until the apocalypse is over before coming back" is also impractical. ’

Lindsay witnessed that world firsthand, and he has the best say on the matter.

'The reason why I want to do this is for follow-up research - as long as we can enter the BIOS, we can compare everything in the BIOS with our current world, and we can find ways to avoid all the tragedies that happened in the BIOS. !

All the rules in this world come from BIOS, don't they?

Then everything that happens in our current world will move closer to the BIOS, until events that are enough to change the entire world occur!

As long as we study and understand the underlying principles why BIOS becomes what it is now, we can avoid those things! ’

Chen Yan showed another kind of surprise:

'It doesn't seem like something you ever wanted to do. ’

Lindsay didn’t hide anything:

'Yes, and even now, these are not things I want to do.

What I want to do is another thing - I want to know, if the BIOS is the BIOS.

I want to know if there is a deeper world under the BIOS. ’

Chen Yan became a little confused because of such a nihilistic topic:

‘I once talked about this topic with Adam, and I later thought to myself that logically speaking, any world is only a deeper world, and cannot be the lowest world. ’

Lindsay was nervous:

‘Yes, from our current perspective, this is indeed the case, and I have already discovered some clues. ’

This was a very dangerous topic, and the two of them paused at the same time with a tacit understanding.

After a moment of silence, Chen Yan said again:

'Anyway, please continue your research. ’

Lindsay's tense spirit relaxed:

'I will, and you have to take good care of your injuries. Crow has completed uploading his consciousness and returned to his post. Plus Magpie came to personally scare the doctors he brought, we now have no shortage of medical resources. . ’

Magpies will stay at their jobs with great loyalty until their life is exhausted - this is the fact that Lindsay learned after seeing the magpie's eyes.

Lindsay and Magpie are not in the same circle, and I don’t know what Magpie has done in the past, but since Chen Yan used this method to make Magpie become the Magpie he is now, then Magpie must not have been a good person before.

Lindsay stood there and hesitated for a moment, thought about it again and again, and finally decided to say those suggestions:

‘The transformation you made to yourself this time is very dangerous. ’

Chen Yan didn't speak.

Lindsay is different from others. His transcendent status within the Z Group and the collaborative and above-collaborative relationship between Chen Yan allows him to say something like this:

‘You deceived that evil ability and restored the controlled people to normal, but the essence of [those people are still your quantum clones] will not change.

As long as these people remain your quantum clones, you will have to continue to use the evil power of the evil god to maintain such relationships.

In this way, the loss of control keeps increasing. In order to suppress this loss of control, you need to transform more people to serve as containers for the loss of control.

They have a will of their own and are living their own lives again.

But they also become your quantum doppelgängers, that’s a fact.

This is dangerous. ’

Chen Yan lowered his head and said nothing. He was in a very bad state of mind. This was why Lindsay had to explain everything to him.

‘If this continues, when will it end?

Chen Yan, listen to me, stop before there are too many quantum clones.

If we give up on these people and no longer use quantum entanglement in this life, no more people will be transformed. ’