Behind me is the entire history of mankind!

Chapter 84 Genes
"This is, Prometheus?"

In the depths of the third floor of the Prometheus Base, the scientists and Lincheng stood in a space of more than 20 square meters, looking at the cylinder in the middle with a blank look.

The cylinder is not big, about one meter high and only a few tens of centimeters wide. It is filled with liquid. A brain full of textures floats there, and hundreds of tubes are inserted on it. Under the cylinder, A headless skeleton in a white coat is lying on a chair.

His hands were flat and his back was leaning against the back of the chair, without any signs of struggle. The white coat was smooth and smooth, as if it had been specially ironed before his death, meticulously.

Lincheng could even imagine the last scene of the scientist before his death. After eating the last supper, taking a shower, trimming his beard, he laid down on this armchair meticulously, calmly and calmly. Meet death.

Or welcome a future with no end in sight
Lincheng has heard Nuwa describe Prometheus. In the original plan, Prometheus is a huge collection of wisdom linked by a quantum network. These scientists can at least communicate together in the spiritual world.

But after the main quantum network was disconnected, Prometheus became a cage, a cage whose sentence is unknown.

The united front gave these scientists the power to commit suicide, but obviously, the Prometheus system in front of him is still operating, which means that he is still persisting, waiting for the day when he will leave his knowledge to the new humans.

There is also Prometheus in the origin base, but because of the busy schedule and the trouble of going to the location of Prometheus, the scientists in Lincheng and surrounding areas have not had time to visit it yet.

This is the first time they see the real face of Prometheus.

No danger, no complicated machinery.

But so impactful.

"There are many gods of wisdom. In Greek mythology alone, there are Athena and Metis, but the mechanism that carries human wisdom is named Prometheus.

I didn't understand it before, but now I do. "

Planck spoke slowly.

"Prometheus rebelled against Zeus in order to bring fire to the world, and was punished by Zeus for this.

Zeus tied him to a steep cliff with an iron chain that could never break, so that he could never sleep, and his tired knees could not bend, and he drove a diamond nail into his heaving chest.

In addition, Zeus also sent a nasty vulture to peck Prometheus' liver every day. The liver was eaten during the day, but the liver would grow back at night. "

Planck looked up at the brain, which seemed to be teeming with life.

"He lost his freedom and suffered endless pain, but for him, compared to bringing fire to the world and benefiting mankind, all the pain he endured is not worth mentioning."

"Charles Austin Beard once said: When the sky is dark enough, the stars will shine brightly."

Einstein also stared at the brain and said.

"Often only in the lowest valley and the darkest time, human beings will be fully awakened, and at this moment hope will appear in front of people in the most shining manner.

In that era, they should be those shining hopes. "

"Can the consciousness transfer technology of ether particles be used to provide them with bodies?" Planck asked.

"It's hard to say. After all, the player is complete, and he only has one brain. Does he still have consciousness? Is the Prometheus we have come into contact with his consciousness or his "memory"?
In other words, what is the definition of consciousness?
These are the questions we need to figure out.

Moreover, there may be only one chance, and if it is transformed rashly, the existence of this brain may not even be guaranteed.

At least, until we've all learned what's in it before asking for their opinion. ’ said Einstein.

The scientists nodded.

Lincheng turned his head and looked at a rough-looking young man behind the crowd.

"Mr. Darwin, this is your future teacher."

Darwin came back to his senses and nodded.

"In my era, scientists tried their best to prove the existence of God. Unexpectedly, it was actually confirmed in this era."

He looked at Lincheng, "Traveling through time and space, decomposing and reorganizing matter, if there is anything in this world that can be called a god, it should be the original ether particle in your hand."

Darwin looked around and said with emotion, "What a wonderful era."

In the West, the earliest scientists were actually priests, and even the word "scientist" was coined by them, and their purpose was to use scientific means to study the existence of God.

Many scientists are actually theologians, and Newton was a very devout Christian.

So in a certain period of time, after the birth of science, people never doubted the existence of God until Darwin's "Origin of Species" shook this cognition.

The theology of the origin of science in Western Europe is almost inevitable, because at that time only nobles and clergy were literate, and a group of people who read scriptures since they were literate must believe in God.

"You will see more wonderful things in this world." Einstein laughed.

Darwin nodded, "Take me up, I want to have a good chat with him. Also, I'm very interested in the fusion technology you said can open the way of human evolution.

But, you know, I'm sick of blood, some biopsy work"

"Of course, we are very clear about this." Lincheng smiled, "Mr. Da Vinci will work with you to study fusion technology."

Darwin was born into a medical family, and his father expected him to inherit his father's profession and become a doctor.

However, he was not interested in medicine, and he either wandered around or hunted and played around every day, which made his father very dissatisfied.

Coupled with Darwin's blood-sickness problem, Darwin's father had to compromise and let him drop out of school and enter Cambridge Divinity School, hoping that he could become a self-reliant priest.

The main group of people studying biology at that time were priests.Mendel, the father of genetics, was also a priest.

At that time, the main theory of studying biology was natural theology. Theologians believed that studying the characteristics of living things could help people better understand the benevolence of the Creator and highlight the greatness of the Creator.

So a lot of pastors were biologists, but they were called polygraphers at the time.

But Leonardo da Vinci is the complete opposite. The most thing he has done in his life is to dissect. The corpses of various animals he dissected are even more than the paintings he has painted.

Of course, this is what Da Vinci himself requested.

Behind Lincheng, Da Vinci showed Darwin a friendly smile, and then stretched out his hand.

"Hello, I'm Leonardo da Vinci. It's a pleasure to work with you. I've read your theory of species evolution and it's wonderful."

"Leonardo Da Vinci. The almighty man of the Renaissance." Darwin looked at Da Vinci in a daze, and then he stretched out his hand and shook Da Vinci's hand a little excitedly, "I I have also read your notes, many of my family members are doctors, and your anatomical diagrams are very important to the development of medicine!"

"Let's go, let's meet this Dr. Berlek." Da Vinci raised his head and looked at the brain in the container. "Ever since I saw the human beings under his transformation technology, I have been very curious about him."

Darwin also nodded, "Let's go!"

The two walked out of the secret room together, returned to the biological laboratory on the second floor, and lay down in the training room prepared for them by Lincheng.

The quantum signal linked the chips in their brains with the Prometheus system, allowing them to enter a brand new world.
It was a classroom, very empty, with only two desks, Da Vinci and Darwin were sitting respectively, and on the podium table in front of them stood an old man with white coat and gray hair.

He was quietly looking at the two people in front of him, and they were also looking at them.

"Is it finally here?" Berik murmured softly.

He was silent for a while, then spoke.

"You guys, do you know where this is?"

"Mr. Berlek." Da Vinci said, "We already know everything we need to know, so we don't need to waste our time explaining. The main purpose of our coming here is to understand your human genetic modification technology."

Berlek nodded, "Then I won't waste time. It takes a lot of energy to maintain this state. Before that, I want to confirm what you have learned. Do you know Darwin's theory of evolution?"

Darwin and Da Vinci looked at each other, then nodded.

Berik nodded, picked up the chalk and began to draw a double helix structure on the blackboard behind him.

"Its name is DNA, and it is the thing that controls the fate of all human beings.

It, and what it contains, supports the basic structure and performance of life.It stores all the information of race, blood type, conception, growth, apoptosis and other processes of life.

All life phenomena such as birth, growth, decline, disease, old age, and death of organisms are related to genes.It is also an internal factor that determines the health of life.

The difference between the evolutionary process of organisms and the life process is due to the different operating trajectories of DNA and genes.

More than 100 years after Darwin's theory of evolution was put forward, the door of gene research has gradually opened, and the theory of evolution has been strongly challenged by genes.

Under the razor-sharp dissection of a guy named Richard Dawkins, the implications of evolution suddenly seem uncannily foreign.

Dawkins put forward a shocking point of view: the unit of evolution may be neither a species, nor a group, nor even an individual, but a gene.

In his gene-centrism, the real rulers of the universe are the genes that make up our bodies, and the individual life becomes the survival machine of the gene rulers.

"Humans (including all living things) are nothing but machines that survive for the time being, like cars, moving forward for the benefit of others." Dawkins thinks so.

Individuals and groups of all living things are like the aggregated clouds in the sky, fleeting, but genes are eternal.

It treats every life as a machine for survival, driving life to serve itself.

When one life disappears, it turns to another. The reproduction and evolution of all life is the result of genes seeking their own survival.

Genes will do whatever it takes to survive.An animal caring for its offspring may be an altruistic behavior from the perspective of an individual organism.

But it is precisely because genes control this behavior that it can reproduce itself and survive by itself through this altruistic behavior of animals caring for their offspring.

All instances of apparently altruistic behavior from the standpoint of individual organisms are the result of genetic selfishness.

How do genes face the struggle for survival?Dawkins listed a large number of animal behaviors and vividly described how genes continuously build more perfect survival strategies through games.

The premise of the game is that all competitors only consider their own interests.The so-called selfishness is nothing more than striving for one's own survival.

There are various strategies for one's own survival, not just eating one's opponent.For example, "If you are smaller than your opponent, run away; if you are bigger than your opponent, attack".

The strong bully the weak, those who are good bully those who are good, and those who are evil are afraid.This is a survival strategy that we human beings are very familiar with, and whoever dares to break all of this will be bloody. "

Seeing the two men whose faces were getting more and more serious, Berik smiled.

"This is a rather ruthless evolutionary story. After hearing this story, many people felt momentarily confused. If human beings are just machines carrying genes, then what's the point of being alive?
But I think it is the emptiness of life that sets off the preciousness of life. After tens of billions of years of slumber, life allows us to open our eyes and see such a thriving star, shining with brilliant colors and full of vitality , and spend our short lives in the sun, isn't it an intoxicating enjoyment? "

"Animals may be slaves to their genes, but humans are not."

Da Vinci looked at Berrick and said, "Bullying the weak, bullying those who are good, and fearing those who are evil, these things do exist among human beings, but there are also people who break everything.

Of all animals, man is the only one who stands before an invincible foe and attacks it.

The reason why human beings are superior to all animals is because we have restrained our instincts, restrained the animal nature, and let the human nature override the animal nature. "

"You are very smart."

Berik nodded.

"Humans are different from animals because of the "intelligence" in our brains, which is not genetically manipulated and makes humans have a self.

Now, wisdom will also allow us to realize the possibility of genetic manipulation. "

Berik turned his head and continued to write on the blackboard.

"Today's scientists' understanding of evolution has far exceeded what the young Darwin could have imagined on the "Beagle" ship, but the thinking about evolution has not stopped.

Genes have two characteristics: one is that they can faithfully replicate themselves to maintain the basic characteristics of organisms;

The second is that in reproduction, genes can "mutate" and mutate. When fertilized eggs or mothers are affected by the environment or heredity, harmful defects or mutations will occur in the genome of the offspring.

Most of them produce diseases, and some of them will be inherited under specific circumstances.Also called genetic disease.Under normal conditions, life varies on a genetic basis, and these variations are normal variations. "

"This is the essence of biological evolution." Darwin murmured softly, his eyes slightly blurred, "Genes, what a magical and wonderful thing."

Berlick smiled and continued, "But genetic mutations are not so easy to produce, and when the mutation reaches a certain level, it will stagnate.

For example, human beings have not undergone a major evolution in the true sense for 10 years. Our current brain is actually no different from the human brain 10 years ago.

The only difference is that we have the knowledge accumulated by generations of human beings over the past 10 years. The reason why we are smarter than them is only because we have wider knowledge than them. Knowledge is wisdom.

Our genes are "locked", so that our body has a "limit".

Under normal circumstances, this kind of lock has no possibility of being opened, but until the appearance of a certain species. "

"Apophis," Da Vinci said.

"That's right." Berlek nodded, "Alien life from outside the earth is also the culprit that led to the demise of human civilization. It also has genes inside, and it is different from the earth.

Its genes are quite active, normal life needs millions of years of evolution, it may only take a few months, or even a few days, it has no gene lock, or its gene lock is quite far away.

My transformation technology is also based on this. I fused the Apophis gene with the human gene for specific editing, so that human beings also have this ability of continuous evolution.

With continuous strength training, the strength will become stronger and stronger, which will far exceed the limit of human beings.

Even, at the same time of gene editing, it can also integrate the genetic characteristics of other creatures, such as merging the genes of cheetahs to make humans faster, and merging the genes of giant bears to make humans stronger or have a more sensitive sense of smell. "

"Can you transform into a bear or a cheetah?" Da Vinci remembered the werewolf.

"Under normal circumstances, if you only integrate Apophis, the evolution of human beings is all-round, but there will be some gaps due to different training directions.

The purpose of merging animal genes is to add some prominent directions on the basis of this all-round evolution.

In this direction, with the help of the continuous evolution of the Apophis gene, you can even be faster than a cheetah and stronger than a bear.

Under normal circumstances, there may be physical changes, but the overall shape is still human.

However, if the animal gene is edited into the body gene, there may be a big change in shape, turning into an orc, and the animal's claws and teeth are very unique weapons.

However, normal people would not choose to turn themselves into monsters, let alone the data would not improve much.

In the Old Era, some scientists also researched orc transformation potions that can transform freely between orcs and humans.

This genetic modification agent can keep humans in human form, and can transform into orcs to deal with battles when needed, but it also has a flaw, that is, the human form is much weaker than the orc form, which is very dangerous.

Also, transformation takes too long, and enemies won't wait for your transformation to complete.

As far as practicality is concerned, animalization is not the best choice. . "

Da Vinci nodded.

"How to edit genes?"

Darwin said excitedly that he felt that the door to a new world was slowly opening to him, and a power that only God could control was opening to him.

That is, the absolute truth of biological direction
(End of this chapter)