In the spacious spaceship laboratory, a series of biological cultivation devices were running quietly. On each silver-white comprehensive work platform was a large transparent tank. A small amount of red viscous liquid, like blood, was slowly surging at the bottom of the transparent tank as if it was alive, constantly trying to climb the outer wall of the tank. Above the liquid, there were many biological tissues that looked like blood vessels and tendons supporting some strange... organs.
That was the result of the cultivation device over the past few days, the strange life created by the protocells from the Divine Sarcophagus.
The MDT connected itself to the laboratory's analysis mainframe and reported the progress. "At this stage, the cultivation can no longer continue. These biological tissues will stop developing and will no longer undergo functional differentiation. Their genetic structure is strange, storing information far beyond the current form, but some factor prevents this genetic information from manifesting. It may have something to do with the supernatural power of the Goddess. In addition, the organs created in each tank are slightly different, probably related to the location where the protocells were collected. I remember that the protocells were collected from seven locations of the Progenitor of Life. "
"Are these the organs of the Seed of Origin?" Lily curiously leaned on the nearest workbench and poked her head out to look at the weird "meat" in the tank. They looked a little like animal flesh, but the color and texture were a little plant fiber, and the surface was flexible and well-organized. "Looks a little..."
"Disgusting, isn't it?" Nangong Wuyue stuck out her tongue. "Feels like a horror movie."
Lily licked her lips. "No, it looks a little appetizing. This is meat!"
Everyone was speechless.
"Drag this thing to the back to prevent her from coming into contact with the sample." Hao Ren broke out in cold sweat and asked Vivian to keep a close watch on the silly husky. "She must be crazy for barbecue!"
Lily was dragged to the back by Vivian, but she was still jumping up and down. "This is meat! This really looks like meat! Grill a piece and try it... "
"Let's get down to business." Hao Ren wiped the cold sweat off his forehead and turned to look at the MDT. "Do you think the cultivation results are correct? Is this really part of the Seed of Origin? "
"I'm not sure," the MDT admitted honestly. The experiment was not perfect. "There are a lot of incomprehensible self-selection and mutation in the process of development of the protocells, and finally, it became like this. I'm not sure if these things are the Seed of Origin. It seems impossible to reverse-engineer its original form using the cells of the Seed of Origin. Without the guidance of the Goddess' supernatural power, these things are just defective products. "
Hao Ren frowned. "Then there should at least be some other results, right? At least I have some understanding of the Seed of Origin. "
The MDT wobbled up and down. "There are still some results. The cells used for cultivation came from a necrotic ganglion of the Seed of Origin. Therefore, the mutated tissues were also related to neural activity. If they had not mutated to this state, they would have become a part of the brain of the Seed of Origin, or rather, they were the brain of the Seed of Origin. These organs had a complex nerve conduction foundation and an antenna-like receiving and receiving structure. However, there was something wrong with this part of the receiving and receiving structure, and it was not working. I activated a sample, and its antenna only received a bunch of clutter. "
"Brain part?" Hao Ren looked at the sample in the jar with interest. "Do they have the ability to think? If reasonable stimulation is applied. "
"There is a complex reflex mechanism, but no signs of intelligence," the MDT replied. Then, it suddenly mentioned a strange phenomenon. "There is another discovery. Take a look at Petri dish No. 1."
As the MDT's voice trailed off, the top of the petri dish on workbench No. 1 suddenly opened, and a green plant was thrown into it. The biological tissue in the jar and the red liquid immediately sensed it. They twisted and surged, and the green plant was quickly swallowed by the red liquid. However, a moment later, the red liquid retreated harmlessly to the side. The plant was unharmed, and it even looked a little more energetic than when it was thrown in.
"This is the living sample," the MDT said. "Now, take a look at the dead sample."
The green plant in the jar was taken out, and then a withered plant was thrown in.
The red liquid once again enveloped the 'foreign object', and in just a few seconds, the latter was completely digested.
"This is …" Y 'zaks looked in surprise at what was happening in the jar. "Feeding?"
Y 'lisabet raised a small screwdriver and wanted to go over, but she was pulled back by her father. The little girl was still struggling. "I'm not going to open it! I'm not going to open it! I'm not a naughty child. I know I can't touch it. I just want to see … "
But no one cared about the little girl's argument. She probably knew that she couldn't touch it, but no one could guarantee a child's mobility.
"It will avoid living creatures, right?" Hao Ren saw through it. "It's scavenging."
"Scavenging, and considering that it is the ganglion of the Seed of Origin, and also the early 'console' of the First Born, I speculate that the Seed of Origin and even the later First Borns will survive according to the judgment mechanism of this ganglion, which is' scavenging '," the MDT said. "From this, we can infer part of the behavioral pattern of the Seed of Origin that has just' landed 'and the original form of the First Born: they create life, evolve the ecosystem, and assume the last link of the food chain, recycling the necrotic biological tissue and nutrients in the soil to supply the whole cycle. They are responsible for providing the initial creation and final recycling of the ecosystem, and the evolution process is handed over to the Second Born, thus completing a 'job'. "
The MDT finally added, "In addition, it can be fed silicon minerals, water, sulfide, and carbon. This proves that the First Born can adapt to a variety of nutrient environments, and can create organic matter on its own in the absence of organic matter."
"Scavenging? Sounds like he has a gentle personality," Vivian said thoughtfully.
"It is indeed a gentle diet, but it probably has little to do with 'character'," the MDT explained. "The analysis host computer speculates that this scavenging is just to ensure that there is no problem with the work, and to prevent the Blood Tide from mistakenly devouring the life it created. Because to set up a complex filtering mechanism to filter what kind of creature can be eaten and how much to eat at each meal, it will consume too many nerve cells. So the creator of the seed simply set the rules to make it a scavenging creature, only eating the dead, completely avoiding living life, which protects the ecosystem. The ganglion's inhibition of the First Born's activity probably activates a similar mechanism. "
"But the First Born's' scavenging 'is obviously out of control, it eats everything," Hao Ren raised his eyelids. "Or to put it more directly, it is deliberately out of control, it wants to destroy the ecosystem."
"The First Born's initial offensive ability should come from its' eating 'mechanism, but later, in order to destroy the Second Born, it began to develop a variety of weapons, such as seed bombs that can be used in space combat. This is obviously completely out of control," the MDT lamented. "Look at how perfect its initial security mechanism was. Unfortunately, the system still collapsed later. This shows that the centralized network is not as reliable as the distributed network. Once the server has a problem, all the terminals under it are destroyed."
A PDA's point of view was indeed different.
"Although there is no way to analyze the reason for the First Born's loss of control and the whereabouts of the Goddess from these organs, we still have some results," the MDT sighed and continued to talk about business. It commanded an autonomous robot to send two small boxes to Hao Ren. "These are newly made."
The boxes opened, and one of them contained a silver-white ball. The surface of the ball was covered with neat blue patterns, and the brightness and darkness seemed to be breathing. The other box contained a few transparent containers containing a pale red liquid.
"What's this egg for?" Lily came up from behind again. "Ugh … Why do I think of Lil Pea when I see an egg now?"
"This is a signal suppressor," the MDT's voice sounded a little helpless. "It can perfectly simulate the signal of the progenitor of life and let the First Born continue to sleep. We can put this on the First Born of Holletta, and then we can put a nuclear bomb on it and it will not respond. "
"What about the other one?"
"The interference pheromone is made from those cell samples and lifeblood." The MDT obviously attached more importance to these substances. "The signal suppressor is a very easy thing to go wrong. Once the signal is interrupted, the First Born will wake up immediately. But the interference pheromone can be used as a second layer of insurance: it can awaken the First Born's' scavenging mechanism 'in a short time, so that it can't devour living things."
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