Both Deng Nanhua's Wall and the Wall of Sighs refer to a mysterious bottleneck encountered in the process of cultivating super life forms.
When at the cellular level, when cells with super life characteristics gather together, they will automatically divide labor as the food in the environment decreases. Some are transformed into motor organs, some evolve perception capabilities, and some are responsible for thinking and Command, and some are eating, digesting, and supplying the consumption of cells throughout the body.
At least less than ten super cells are needed to form a fully functional life form.
As the number of super cells continues to increase, the super life forms they form will become more complex and powerful. Within a roughly equal body size, these super beings are always at the top of the food chain, far exceeding the second place. It can be said that in their eyes, everything is food.
With the deepening of research, the definitions of super life forms in each star field have gradually become clearer and more consistent. In short, super life forms should have the following three characteristics: 1. High intelligence; 2. Evolve independently to adapt to different environments; 3. Super comprehensive physical fitness.
Among them, high intelligence and autonomous evolution are the core, and they are also the original intention of human beings to study super life. In fact, humans want to develop a biological weapon that can adapt to various extreme living environments and be used to conquer the surface of the planet.
The experiment went very smoothly at the beginning. The super cells synthesized from the continuously optimized and screened genes fully demonstrated the characteristics of super life in the initial stage. They were able to evolve into different forms according to different environments and became more perfect through trial and error. They can endure temperature changes from minus 100 degrees to 150 degrees above zero, and can survive in an atmosphere with only 5% oxygen content. Their speed, strength and recovery capabilities are far superior to ordinary creatures.
But people soon discovered that as the number of super cell aggregates continued to increase, individual cells began to show signs of random mutations. This probability is not high. In the beginning, there were only a few mutations in billions of cells. Mutated super cells will die quickly because they are surrounded by similar cells, cannot find food, and cannot integrate with the whole body.
However, as more and more super cells are aggregated, the number of individuals with mutations begins to increase exponentially, and the types of their mutations also become diverse.
Initially, the mutated super cells will silently starve to death, but as the number of mutations increases, some mutated super cells begin to resist, trying to attack individuals without mutations. The normal super cells are overwhelmingly outnumbered, so a counterattack will kill the rioting cells. But once a batch of mutant cells are eliminated, a new batch of mutant cells will appear. Just like that, internal friction began in a corner of the super life form's body.
This was naturally something scientists did not want to see. However, the scale of the riot was limited, so they tolerated it and continued to increase the number of cell aggregates.
By the time the polymorph reached the size of an egg, there were hundreds of rioting points within its body, and new mutant species were created. This new cell can disguise itself as a normal cell to obtain the distribution of nutrients from the body. But they have never forgotten their duty as mutant cells. After obtaining nutrients, they will summon other mutant cells and give them the deceived nutrients, and then the latter will fight.
When the aggregate life form expands to the size of a goose egg, the probability of super cell mutation has reached an alarming level, and the mutation forms are diverse and possess various functions. There are hundreds of ways to just die with normal super cells. At this stage, some researchers lamented that they seemed to see a country in turmoil in this small world. There is smoke and war everywhere, and no one knows which cell will remain normal and which cell will mutate.
Deng Nanhua also stopped before this unexpected difficulty. She spent her whole life trying but was still unable to completely solve this problem. In her later years, Deng Nanhua summarized the research data of the past decades and through comparative analysis of a large amount of data, believed that the ability of super cells to process information is limited, so there is an upper limit to the total amount of effective aggregation. Based on this, she put forward the famous hypothesis:
Any super cell that meets the definition cannot self-aggregate into effective intelligent life with a total volume exceeding 49*49*49. This is Deng Nanhua's wall.
In the hundreds of years that followed, humans tried countless ways to bypass Deng Nanhua's Wall, but they finally stopped here.
There are some opportunistic ways, but they are either impractical or the creation is not a true super life form.
And now, could a real super life appear in front of everyone like this?
At the end of the video, Li Ruobai said: "The genetic analysis of the Son of Hell has already produced preliminary results. It should be said that this is a pseudo-super life form. His genes have preset directions for most of the variables. In other words, his Evolution is severely limited. In addition, his recovery and ability evolution are inseparable from the thread virus. The thread virus is a way to eliminate uncontrolled mutant cells in his body. In fact, the Son of Hell did not bypass the Deng Nanhua Wall at all. "
"Finally, the good news is that the linear virus has very strict environmental requirements and is very difficult to prepare and preserve. As a tool to assist super life, it has a self-limited number of divisions. The equipment in this laboratory is actually very primitive. , was able to produce the thread virus, and the owner back then was also a genius. Therefore, after leaving here, the so-called son of hell can only be active for a limited time. When the thread virus in the body is exhausted, he will no longer have the ability to become immortal. "
After reading the message from Li Ruobai, Lin Xi uploaded the next day's action route to the drone, agreed on the time and place for the next communication, and sent the drone back.
After dealing with all this, she asked in the communication channel: "Jun Gui, you have fought with him, are you sure you can capture him alive?"
Chu Jungui frowned and said: "There are great variables. He can be knocked down, but he may not be able to be captured alive. In addition, when he appeared with the girl in the white dress, it was like he had changed his way of existence. I had no way to find him. , I can only watch him escape."
"Another way of existence? Can you describe it?" Lin Xi asked.
"It's hard to describe."
Chu Jungui had previously described the strangeness of the boy in detail, but the test subjects were not scientists. In fact, neither Lin Xi nor Li Ruobai were, so they did not find anything wrong.
Lin Xi pondered for a moment and said, "Then we'll find him first."
The convoy moved forward slowly and continued towards the base camp of the modified body. Not long after, Hans’s voice rang out from the intercom in the truck: “He was found!”
