As a paleontologist, Yang Xiao also has rich knowledge of modern biology.
He has always had some doubts, a very real problem.
In the last century, there was a very famous discovery in the biomedical community, which was the miraculous Kuru disease.
The specific situation is that a relatively peculiar disease broke out in a primitive tribe in Africa. The patient had an insidious onset. In the prodromal stage, he only felt headaches and joint pain, followed by ataxia, tremors, and involuntary movements. Those include chorea, myoclonus, etc. In the late stages of the disease, progressively worsening dementia and neurological abnormalities occur. Eventually, patients often lose their memory and laugh before dying.
It can be described as very strange and terrifying.
Later, after many twists and turns, it was finally discovered that the root of everything was that this tribe had a heinous tradition of eating the remains of deceased relatives.
After further research, biologists discovered that the real culprit causing kuru disease was a later-discovered prion, a special protein. During tribal ceremonies, the women and children of the tribe often eat the brains of the remains of their fellow tribesmen, and the brain is the area where this "virus" is often infected, which also results in their incidence being higher than that of local male aborigines. Several times.
Another similar disease is mad cow disease, which started in Country Y in the 1980s and spread across Europe.
This incident once caused a lot of panic around the world, because this disease not only infects livestock, but can even be transmitted to humans.
Behavioral abnormalities are also manifested by similar anxiety, fear, rage or depression, confusion, and involuntary movements.
It was eventually discovered that the root cause of the problem was that the cattle feed processing technology formulated by Country Y at that time stipulated that the viscera of cattle and sheep and other animals could be used, which caused the proteins called prions in these viscera to enter the cattle's body along with the feed.
This toxic protein is the culprit that causes mad cow disease.
The latest research has found that the germ of mad cow disease is extremely tenacious. Its pathogenic protein still remains in the ashes of cattle carcasses after they are burned at high temperatures, and gradually seeps into the soil as the ashes are buried!
If people eat people, they will get sick. Cows will get sick if they eat cows. The two incidents are related, and through continuous research, human biologists have proven that it seems that when God created all things, he stipulated an iron law prohibiting cannibalism!
This is God's forbidden area and must not be touched, otherwise it will be destroyed.
But after being parasitized by a monster, Yang Xiao completely broke this taboo. After taking the blood genes of thousands of people, he never showed symptoms of prion infection.
The restrictions engraved in human genes and set by God seemed to have been broken for him long ago.
Yang Xiao has been thinking about the nature of the superpower he obtained. The plundering of genes from countless flesh and blood creatures seems to be instinctive.
There seems to be an extremely intelligent recognition device in his body, which can readily identify what is good, what he needs, and what genes can make him stronger and more dangerous, and absorb and fuse them. Then use it at will.
It seems that it is constantly learning.
Just like an AI, it keeps growing through continuous simulation!
Yang Xiao put his own blood samples under an electron microscope, and the results he saw were very different from those of ordinary human blood samples.
His blood was richer, with countless polymer compounds, some of which were specific proteins, and some that he couldn't even name. Many molecular compounds may exist in some animals, allowing them to run faster and jump higher. However, these things are now in his body. An ordinary person would have been poisoned by these polymer compounds long ago. .
However, in his body, these strange substances coexisted very well.
Just like millions of years of evolution, some bacteria existing in the human body have long become beneficial bacteria that are harmless to the human body. The two parties have formed a symbiotic relationship and cannot exist independently of each other.
Taking a deep breath, Yang Xiao was still a little shocked to see such content for the first time.
This kind of mutation is equivalent to a very powerful way of realizing the results of millions of years of evolution in his body in a very short period of time.
It's like a perfectly designed machine.
If the monster in the body is really a technological product left by aliens, then the level of technology it represents will completely exceed the limits of human imagination.
Among so many strange proteins, Lao Zou has analyzed one of them, which can greatly extend human lifespan and restore human cells to health.
From this point of view, it might be that Yang Xiao once swallowed a long-lived creature such as a turtle, and inherited the longevity gene to produce a specific protein.
As for the other protein that restores cells to health, it is more likely that it has inherited the characteristics of some organism.
At that time, Yang Xiao had eaten too many animals in the forest, and he didn't know which one gave him so many strange functions.
It may even be the original function of the monster, but I can't say for sure.
Now, the monster finally fell asleep, but Yang Xiao didn't want to take the initiative to stimulate it and make it wake up.
Let’s study this issue again when we have the opportunity in the future.
Yang Xiao once again controlled his body, activated the half-animal transformation of his body, and transformed his left hand into a black panther's claws.
He took blood samples from the left hand after animal transformation and from the non-animal body. After comparison, he found that the genetic material of the two was different.
This broke Yang Xiao's once extremely firm understanding.
You must know that every living thing on earth has unique genetic material as its only biological marker.
However, the genetic material in his body is already in a state that can change at any time.
With his imagination wide open, Yang Xiao regained his appearance as Zhuang Yan and then transformed into the famous star Tan Liya. After drawing blood separately, genetic testing was done again for comparison.
Sure enough, even the chromosomes that distinguish human gender can change after he transforms!
This experimental discovery made him feel very excited.
Originally, he thought it was just a change in appearance, but he didn't expect it to become so complete. Biologically speaking, he really became a woman, completely, even his chromosomes changed.
Biologically speaking, he literally became a woman.
Shocked, shocked!
Just as Yang Xiao was preparing to continue his endless research, a phone call forced him to put down his work.
Someone makes an appointment for dinner, and you can't refuse that kind of thing.
He looked up at the time and sure enough, it was dinner time.
After cleaning up, Yang Xiao cleared all the experimental records just now and destroyed all the previous test specimens.
To prevent leaks, he had to be as careful as possible.
Ever since he discovered that his blood genes were horribly corrosive, he had become more cautious.
Being able to descend into the brains of strangers at any time and then control everything about them feels extremely evil just thinking about it.
In mythology, perhaps only the most evil demons possess such terrifying and terrifying abilities.
The most precious thing for a human being is a free soul. However, once contaminated with his blood, his genetic material will suffer a blood curse.
Although he was able to live longer, he lost his eternal freedom. From then on, he became his servant, and even his life was in his own hands again.
Would anyone really pursue such eternal life?
of course.
Face the ultimate fear, death. There may be many people willing to choose this path of no return.
Even if it turns into a monster, so what? As long as you can survive, that's everything, which means an infinite future. No one knows what will happen in the future. Maybe it will be better, maybe it will be worse.
But only by living into the future can we have the opportunity to open our eyes and witness the ultimate realization of the infinite possibilities.
Yang Xiao suddenly became a little complicated.
Just like himself, it is impossible to commit suicide now. Even if he knows that his existence may not be a blessing to the planet, it will not be good for the development of human society.
However, he still wants to live.
This is the instinct of life.
There is no need for any reason, it is just engraved in the genes as a biological instinct.
God's forbidden area, so what?
As long as you can survive, even if you turn into a monster eventually, you will still struggle to take a look at the future full of infinite possibilities.
