Liu Changan pulled Qin Yanan out from behind the stalactites. There were no natural paths in the karst cave. The surface of the rocks formed by the deposition of calcium in the water was moist and smooth. In front of them, there was a relatively flat terraced area that was spread out layer by layer. If it was developed as a tourist resource, it would probably be called the "Dragon Palace Terraced Fields" or something like that.
This open area was tens of thousands of square meters. It was not inferior to the largest underground palace in another karst cave in the Gong Family's territory, the "Yellow Dragon Cave". As for the height, it was probably even higher. At a height of sixty to seventy meters above their heads, there were stalactite pillars hanging upside down from the top, like densely packed spears pointing straight to the ground.
"Hello," Liu Changan said.
The man with the rough voice obviously had the ability to see in the dark. He paused for a moment and said in a low voice, "How did you find me?"
As he said that, he turned his head and glanced at the body of the robot beside him and the head that he had taken off and thrown away. Could it be that this crazy robot leaked information?
All intelligent devices that could connect to the Internet were not safe. In this cave, any network signal was naturally blocked. It seemed that they had been tracked on the way here.
"You … you are Francis Crick." Liu Changan looked at the man's surprised but still arrogant expression and tone. He finally confirmed it. "Yes, you must be Francis Crick."
The arrogance on the man's face was replaced by surprise.
"Which Francis Crick are you talking about?" Qin Yanan thought of several people with the same name, but she couldn't determine who Liu Changan was talking about.
"The Francis Crick who discovered the double helix structure of DNA with James Dewey Watson." Liu Changan showed a surprised expression. After all, this was a super scientist who could be said to have the significance of the entire human era since the birth of the earth and the birth of life.
Liu Changan's own research had yielded no results, so he admired people who could study him and find out everything about him.
"No way … Professor Crick died of colorectal cancer in 2004 … Although this cancer has a high cure rate, Professor Crick was unfortunately not cured." After all, Qin Yanan was not a teenager born in the 2000s. She had a deep impression of it. "At that time, the school also organized commemorative activities. I went to the Biotechnology Museum to watch the exhibition and learn. I remember the model of the DNA double helix very clearly."
"At first, I wasn't sure. After all, he looked like Professor Crick in the 80s and 90s. However, when we talked about his past, the expression on his face showed that he was Professor Crick, and he didn't care that we knew his true identity." Liu Changan sized up Crick. He looked at the man in front of him, who was wearing black tights and had bulging muscles. Other than his face, there was nothing similar to Professor Crick.
"Because all of you have to die." Crick sneered.
"Are you really … Professor Crick?" Qin Yanan still maintained a state of surprise. Although Crick was very unfriendly, the man in front of her was, after all, a legend of a generation. The discovery of the DNA double helix structure was the only result in biology comparable to Darwin's theory of evolution. In terms of practical significance to modern human beings, the discovery of the DNA double helix structure might be even more important. It was one of the three major discoveries of the 20th century, along with the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.
Crick looked at Qin Yanan and found that Qin Yanan was actually talking in another direction. He knew that this was just an ordinary woman, so he said to Liu Changan, "Did you jump into the Yin River and get eaten by the water beasts, or did you become my bat fodder?"
"Crick was the first person in the history of science to clearly propose that natural science could solve the problem of consciousness." Liu Changan ignored Crick's threat and continued to say to Qin Yanan, "Like many other scientists, he began to look for solutions from philosophy and other aspects. When I participated in a forum in the 1990s, I met Crick by chance. Although he was the leader in biological research, I let him experience the technique of consciousness reconstructing the environment so that memories could be reconstructed like the past. After that, in 2003, he published a paper on the framework of consciousness in the journal Nature Neuroscience..."
"You're that amazing Chinese Professor Liu!" Crick was taken aback. "I met Watson in the 1950s. When I met you in the 1990s, I thought that you were another Watson that I met in my scientific research! After meeting Watson, we discovered the DNA double helix structure. I thought that after meeting you, I would be able to discover the truth about the framework of consciousness! "
"But now you seem to have given up on consciousness research and raised bats... These strange bats, did you breed them using some kind of biotechnology?" Liu Changan said regretfully, "Since you're not dead, why don't you continue your future research on consciousness?"
"When I found out that my cancer was incurable, I realized that the significance of consciousness research was not as important as continuing to achieve results in the field of cell research." Crick looked at his strong body under his weathered face. "I'm very satisfied with my current self. As for you, why did you become so fresh and tender?"
"I'm different from you." Liu Changan thought for a moment. "I'm a little troubled. I don't want to kill you, but I feel that it's quite troublesome not to kill you."
Crick let out an unruly laugh. The biographies about him also recorded the arrogance that accompanied him all the time. Arrogant people were the most easily angered by the arrogance of others.
"Professor Crick, why did you steal our coffin?" Qin Yanan had already found Crick's exact location through his several conversations. After such a long time of adaptation, she could also vaguely see a blurry dark figure of him.
"Yours? Why do you say it's yours? You dug it out from the ground. Did you get the consent of its original owner? Since you can take it for yourself without consent, what's wrong with me doing so? "Crick said with a sneer.
Qin Yanan was speechless for a moment. What the other party said made so much sense that she could not refute it.
"She's asking why, not condemning your behavior. I don't object to you stealing it. I just want to take it back, "Liu Changan said calmly." Let's be reasonable first. I have more reason to take this coffin than you because its original owner … is me. It's me … who's that … "
"Who's that?" Qin Yanan was a little nervous. Liu Changan must keep this coffin with him. Could it be because Ye Sijin was in it?
"It's his grandmother!"
A soft female voice with a shuddering laugh sounded.
Crick raised his leg and kicked the robot's head far away. After a long time, the sound of it falling into the water was heard.
"I don't want to be reasonable." Liu Changan frowned. "Did you jump into the Yin River and let the water beast eat you, or did you let the bat eat you?"
Qin Yanan felt that it was a pity. Crick was, after all, a scientific master and a rare treasure of mankind. But there was no other way. If Liu Changan wanted to do this, she could not undermine him. As the saying goes, when the husband sings, the wife follows … No, when the elders give the order, she did not dare to disobey.
Hearing Liu Changan repeat his original words, Crick laughed out loud. His laughter was like a tangible ripple that spread out in circles. Then, the rumbling echoes spread out in waves. The sound of water in the distance surged, as if some dormant water beast had been awakened and was stirring up the Yin River.
"I'm very curious. How did you change your head and face and regain your youth? Or did you just hear from the elders about the interaction between me and Professor Liu? " Crick's laughter stopped. He raised his hand, and the water beast in the Yin River seemed to have received an order and was appeased. There was no longer the sound of water from the distant abyss.
"What about you?" Liu Changan did not answer.
"I'm 12 years older than Watson. When I was waiting to die, I thought about many things. I wondered if I could discover the double helix structure of DNA without Watson. We published the paper on the molecular structure of nucleic acids in Nature. Later, we proposed the central dogma and laid the foundation of molecular genetics. Ingram and I discovered the role of genetic material in determining the characteristics of proteins … I'm known as the father of molecular biology, but I can't do anything about the tumor in my body. Isn't it ironic?" Crick's lips curled up. "At that time, I met Mrs. Kahnstein."
"The Mrs. Kahnstein that the robot mentioned just now really exists." Qin Yanan was slightly surprised.
"Of course Mrs. Carnstein exists. She gave me a second chance at life and gave me the excellent colleagues that I've always dreamed of working with. She made me realize a new direction in the study of life. We don't need to pursue the origin of life. Instead, we should explore the limits of evolution, such as … immortality. Crick's eyes revealed a kind of fanaticism. There was no doubt that he admired or worshipped Mrs. Kahnstein.
"You've achieved immortality?"
"Immortality is not so easy to achieve … This is the ultimate goal we are pursuing, but the focus of our experiments now is evolution and modification." Crick was already a little impatient, and he approached Liu Changan and Qin Yanan step by step.
"Then what do you need this coffin for? What does it mean to Mrs. Kahnstein?" Liu Changan was very curious about this question.
"This coffin … may contain the secret of eternal life." After Crick finished speaking, he had already walked to a stalactite forest not far from Liu Changan's side.
There were stalactites everywhere, moist and fresh. Some were like jade pillars that hung vertically from the top to the ground, some were like clouds hanging upside down in the sky, and some were like white waves surging into the sky. It was a spectacular sight.
Crick suddenly hugged a long stalactite pillar and broke it in half.
"Such a big one, it must have grown for at least hundreds of thousands of years, or even millions of years," Liu Changan said as he threw Qin Yanan to a stone platform in the distance.
Qin Yanan screamed as she landed on the ground, but she found that she was standing steadily. Sure enough, just like how Liu Changan would not really hurt Zhu Juntang when he knocked her unconscious, Liu Changan's control of strength was very wonderful and precise.
Crick held the stalactite and swept it over, smashing it hard at Liu Changan.
The stalactite pillar, with moist water vapor and whistling wind, fell on Liu Changan's right hand with a bang.
The stalactite felt like a dead beauty, slippery and cold to the touch.
Liu Changan also stretched out his other hand and hugged the stalactite pillar with both hands.
Crick tried to snatch it, but found that it did not move at all. Suddenly, he found that his feet were in the air. Liu Changan had actually lifted the huge stalactite pillar vertically.
Crick was lifted high into the air. He let go of the stone pillar, kicked his feet, and landed far away on the ground.
Liu Changan turned the stalactite pillar upside down and placed it in its original position. He used a few small stones to cushion the bottom of the stalactite pillar, stabilizing it.
"Who the hell are you? It is impossible for there to be a naturally mutated enhanced person. "Crick retreated step by step and stared at Liu Changan.
"I am the Blood Ancestor." Liu Changan jumped up and punched the air.
A swarm of bats, like a black cloud, suddenly gathered in front of Crick, forming an airtight wall of bats. Accompanied by the trembling wings, tiny eyes, and the bodies of the rats, densely packed and squirming. When Liu Changan's fist hit the wall, he suddenly felt as if he had punched a net full of elasticity.
However, Liu Changan's strength was great, and the net formed by no less than a thousand bats still hit Crick's chest.
Crick's chest caved in, and a mouthful of blood sprayed out and fell on the bodies of the bats. Except for some of the bats that were smashed to death, the rest of the bats seemed to be stimulated and desperately crowded over to suck Crick's blood.
The greedy rat heads squeezed together and squirmed. Gradually, there were bats that could not help but approach Crick's lips and chest, beating and gnawing on Crick's body.
The sound of flapping wings and the wind came from the air. Liu Changan looked up and saw that the darkness at the top of the karst cave was actually covered with densely packed bats. The bats that could cover the sky seemed to be attracted by Crick's blood.
"There are bats everywhere!" Qin Yanan also noticed. She was originally at a higher place and was desperately swatting away the bats that came over. For her, if she encountered a group of tigers and wolves, she would at most turn pale, but these ugly little things made Qin Yanan's hair stand on end.
She heard Liu Changan let out a howl. The sound gradually rose, and just as it was about to pierce Qin Yanan's eardrums, it suddenly disappeared without a trace. At the same time, the bats above her head began to move abnormally. They struggled and flapped their wings. Then, like a snowflake made of black goose feathers, they fell down one by one, covering the sky and covering the earth.
After a while, these bats staggered and scattered in all directions, or fell to the ground, flapping their wings and struggling, but they could no longer fly into the air. Finally, it was quiet in front of them.
Liu Changan picked Crick up from the pile of bats. Humans always wanted to create supernatural creatures, and almost every time they tried, they would be devoured.
However, this kind of experiment was not meaningless or unnecessary.
Humans themselves had always been progressing in the exploration that many people of the same era felt was meaningless and unnecessary.
Liu Changan mentioned Crick and looked at the face that he had seen in the 90s.
"I hope to see Mrs. Karnstein, or someone behind the scenes. Can you help me send a message?" Liu Changan's tone was gentle. He did not have any feelings of disgust or disgust towards Crick.
Most of the time, the behavior of humans was the same as that of ants, mediocre and busy. No one would have too many emotions when looking at the behavior of ants.
Crick did not say anything. He only looked at Liu Changan with a complicated gaze. Compared to him, Liu Changan seemed to have evolved and become stronger. What organization was behind him? To be able to create an enhanced person like Liu Changan, Mrs. Karnstein probably knew about it, but she did not reveal any relevant information to him.
Crick remembered the beautiful face of that Mrs. Karnstein … He had never seen her face, but she was already beautiful beyond compare in his mind. For so many years, he did not even think of visiting his family. On one hand, it was to keep it a secret. Resurrecting from the dead and becoming young was too shocking. On the other hand, it was as if he was poisoned by her, and he no longer had any other emotional needs.
"I can wait … I don't care about the aggressiveness that you are displaying now and the way that you do things as if you are a ruler. You will return to the dust, and you will belong to me forever. "After saying that, Liu Changan threw Crick into the abyss in front of him.
After a long time, the sound of falling water could be heard from afar. Then, there was the sound of crashing water. The waves surged up, and the wind brought along the water vapor. It was like scattered rain.
Liu Changan went to pick up Qin Yanan.
Qin Yanan tightly held onto Liu Changan's hand, and followed behind him. This was because this place was densely packed with bats, and they were piled up in a thick layer.
"I heard what you said, but you seem to have thrown Professor Crick into the river … After that, there was a feeling that there was something in the water." Qin Yanan asked while gasping for breath. She was a little nervous. Just now, she realized what would happen if something happened to Liu Changan? In fact, after walking into this cave, she had always foolishly thought that Liu Changan was invincible. After all, his ability was too strong.
"Do you think that he won't be able to pass the message like this?"
"Yes, yes." Qin Yanan pulled Liu Changan's hand and shook it hard. Finally, she was able to breathe more smoothly.
"I think that he commanded the bats to carry the coffin up, which means that he has the ability to command these animals. How can it be so easy to meet the water beasts in the river? Ordinary people don't even have a one in a billion chance of meeting one, but he wants to feed us to the water beasts. This means that the water beasts are indeed here … Is this a coincidence? Definitely not. It can only be said that he commanded the water beasts to come here … My guess is that his original plan was to use the water beasts to carry this coffin away. This is an untraceable route. "
"It seems that these people have infiltrated very deeply. They have clearly mapped and explored the hydrology and geography of many places," Qin Yanan said with some annoyance. After all, this was Xiangnan, the territory under her father's rule.
"Don't worry too much. For these people, after they obtain abilities and physiological vitality that surpass ordinary people, they often have a sense of superiority that surpasses their country, race, and race. They think that the various concepts of ordinary human society are meaningless to them. They will try to control the data of any region. In their eyes, the earth only needs latitude and longitude, not the location of national boundaries."
"What about you?" Qin Yanan blurted out. She was different. She had a very strong sense of belonging and pride to her own country.
"I am the same … It's just that a long, long time ago, I met some cute little animals. I lived happily with them and looked after them. Later on, the descendants of these little animals were still very cute, so I continued to stay here. Slowly, I met some cute people, people I liked, and people who were willing to listen to their wishes. Then, I continued this habit and came back here after wandering around." Liu Changan smiled. "It's just that the memories from too long ago or the emotions have all been extracted, leaving only simple images, so I don't care so much anymore … But now, in these years, someone I like has appeared, and I've been living on this land for many years. It's inevitable that this land and the people on this land are a little different."
"What are you talking about?" Qin Yanan rebuked him for saying the first half was incomprehensible, but the second half made her heart beat faster. She didn't know if the "someone he likes" included her … It was probably just An Nuan.
"Nothing." Liu Changan pulled out his hand and clapped his hands. He was a little disgusted. "Why are your palms so wet? They are all sweaty. I mean, just like Ziqing asked me to take care of you, if you ask me to take care of your children and grandchildren in the future, then I can continue to take care of them for hundreds of years. "
"I … Can I still have children?" Qin Yanan finally couldn't help but ask the question that she had been thinking about but had no way to know the answer.
"Oh, right?" Liu Changan didn't think about this, so he stopped.
"What's right?" Qin Yanan was nervous.
"Nothing. You will know when you find someone to try it in the future. How would I know now?" Liu Changan waved his hand and continued to walk forward.
"Try your head! Can I try this kind of thing? "Qin Yanan hit Liu Changan's shoulder.
In fact, although Qin Yanan was worried about this question, she wasn't in a hurry. Listening to Liu Changan's indifferent answer, the corner of her mouth quietly curved. Find someone to try it? You and I know what happened to Ma Weiming. If someone really came to try it with Qin Yanan, he would probably be killed by you before he could do anything.
Liu Changan didn't continue this topic with Qin Yanan. Now was not the time to discuss it. He couldn't try it with Qin Yanan, let alone give her other suggestions and answers.
He came to the depths of the underground palace. The ground there was very clean, and the dying bats around seemed to be struggling to stay away from the coffin.
The bats that weren't controlled by Krieg seemed to have returned to being creatures with instincts of awe. They stayed away from the cold coffin.
"By the way, who is in the coffin you said?" Qin Yanan asked again.
"I am his mother."
The childish voice of a young girl came out from the coffin.
Liu Changan picked up the coffin and planned to throw Dandan into the Yin River.
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