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Chapter 43 Biotechnology is too weak

All the crystals in Hart's star system were wiped out, and this huge amount of crystals was divided into three and imprisoned in three planetary organisms.

Bahadur could not forget that scene until the end of the battle for a long time.

The huge and muddy solid planet splits along the equator, a planetary giant mouth formed by the huge spiritual energy acting on the planet itself, and directly swallows the crystals imprisoned by the spiritual energy in one place, and eats them briefly and quickly. down.

When Bahadur came back to his senses, it was already trapped in a darkness without light.

This kind of pitch blackness is very special, it is true that no photons are perceived, it is only combined with the previous memory, and it is confirmed that the crystal is imprisoned in the planetary organism.

While Bahadur was looking at his environment, on the other side, Lu Entropy was also observing Bahadun's crystal.

"According to the physical analysis, the basic structure of this crystal is different from the cell structure of the bee colony. A central nucleus serves as the control center. The control center is surrounded by a group of synthetic substances. It is in a fluid state when it is not stressed. Once it is slightly affected The stimulus immediately hardens..."

Listening patiently to other masterminds and hives after researching and obtaining crystals, they analyzed the results.

Like other organisms, crystals, as organisms, also have their own basic units.

But these basic units of them are completely different from the cells of the bee colony. There is no cytoplasm, nucleus, and cell membrane, but a slightly magnetic center that controls a group of non-Newtonian fluid substances that harden when stimulated.

As far as Lu Entropy personally feels, this is more like a microscopic machine.

But it is not correct to say that the crystals are composed of nano-machines. Once the machine loses energy, it just stops and re-enters energy and continues to run. Once life loses energy, it loses its activity directly.

The basic units of these crystals also cannot lose the energy to maintain activity, otherwise the basic units will be necrotic. From this point of view, the crystals have the same definition as ordinary organisms, that is, life feeds on negative entropy.

Lu Entropy thought for a while, and then asked curiously: "Then how do they maintain their own activity?"

"Through the current."

"Electric current?" Lu Entropy showed surprise on his face, and directly used electric current to operate the basic unit, which was basically absent among the creatures he knew.

It's a robot that is directly powered on.

Kaisha, the main brain, explained: "In the synthetic substance that wraps the control center, there are many ciliated structures floating. These cilia structures are magnetic. The slight magnetic influence of the control center usually presents a radial shape. In this way, even the basic structure of the crystal Completely hardened, the energy supply needed to maintain its own activity can also be sent from the center to the outside.”

"Such a structure, can it be integrated into the bee colony?" Lu Entropy asked with interest. It can maintain the activity directly by electrifying, which he thinks is very good.

What if we can get rid of the current chemical and biological shackles and realize mechanical ascension?

The masterminds who were actively explaining just now fell silent all of a sudden, not knowing how to answer Lu Entropy.

But the hives didn’t think much about it, and a certain hive replied: “I’m afraid this is not possible. This is a completely different life system, the expression of genetic information is different, and the optimum temperature line of the basic structure of the crystal is higher than that of the cells of the bee colony. Three times higher, lower than the temperature line means loss of activity, and the temperature line alone is doomed to make it difficult for the genetic material of the two to be grafted together."

Crystals also have genetic material and can reproduce, but their genetic material is not a carbon-based gene with a helical structure. If you insist on it, it can barely be regarded as an iron-based gene.

Moreover, this iron base is different from traditional chemical molecules. Part of its genetic information is stored in the iron lattice composed of genetic material. The storage method is somewhat similar to that of a mechanical hard disk.

To extract genes, how to extract them completely?
After extraction, how should it be expressed in the form of bee colony genes?

Can hard-grafted genetic material express cellular activity?

Then there is the temperature line suitable for maintaining activity. Genetic material can be affected by temperature. If the temperature is too high, the genetic material will be destroyed, and if the temperature is too low, the genetic material will lose its activity.

The temperature at which the genetic material of the crystal remains active is three times higher than that of the swarm gene. Let the swarm gene heat up to the same temperature as the genetic material of the crystal, and the swarm gene will be destroyed. In turn, the genetic material of the crystal will cool down to the swarm gene At the same temperature, the genetic material of the crystal loses its activity, which is no different from ordinary metal compounds.

How to do?
After Lu Entropy quietly learned the reason why it couldn't be done from the hive, he was silent for a long time. He wanted to say something several times, but he fell silent again.

In the end, Lu Entropy sighed deeply and said: "...I originally thought that although the Babel bee colony in the past was in the wrong direction, at least they had achieved some results, such as powerful biotechnology."

"Are you planning to completely negate all the efforts made by the bee colony in the past?"

Hives: "???"

Lu Entropy continued: "There is such a life in front of you, because the active temperature of the basic structure is three times higher than that of the bee colony, and because the genetic material and the bee colony do not use the same life system, then its biological properties are not The method has been absorbed by the bee colony, which means that the entire history of the bee colony has focused on the development of biotechnology, and that is the case."

"..."

The hives, who had been belatedly aware of it, fell silent, and the masterminds, who had already expected to be stunned by Lu Entropy, were even more silent than before.

Lu Entropy doesn't care about that much, he continued: "Currently life with this crystal structure cannot be absorbed by the bee colony. Then if the bee colony encounters more extreme life, such as plasma life, or electronic life, then Or condensed matter life, and microscopic particle life, etc., what should the bee colony do at that time? Can the genetic information of these life forms be absorbed and used to optimize the bee colony?"

"Can you? Can't you?" Lu Entropy asked back.

Tower of Babel Bee Swarm: "..."

Lu Entropy asked: "Could it be that the Babel bee colony in the past expected all life forms in the universe to be the same as themselves, and also all carbon-based? Or are they all other types of life with little biological difference and can easily absorb genetic material? "

"Could it be that the bee colony expects that all life forms encountered must also be life forms with a molecular structure? Genetic material with the same expression method? Cell activity is maintained in the same range with a small temperature difference?"

"I have really tried my best to underestimate the Babel swarm in the past. Are you going to continue to refresh the lower limit of my cognition?"

"No way?"

In the swarm network, there is only silence.

This should be changed in human society, Lu Entropy has long been hated by a bunch of people, for example, you are not an expert in that field, it is your turn to gossip, you can do what you want, and so on.

But the bee colony is different. Although they are stupid, they are not good at making so many excuses. When the problem is pointed out, they have to admit it.

Therefore, the bee colony can only use silence to answer a series of questions from Lu Entropy.

Lu Entropy said: "I told you before that what the bee colony needs is not some individuals with outstanding abilities to lead the bee colony, but the bee colony needs more individuals who are willing to think for the future of the bee colony and seek progress in thinking."

"What you masterminds and honeycombs should say is not that you can't do it, but use your brain to think about what to do in order to do what you couldn't do before. If you don't do it, no one will do it, Babel The tower bee colony will perish one day in the future, understand?"

"If you understand, go and get things done for me!"

Following Lu Entropy's order, the entire Babel swarm became busy again.

(End of this chapter)