Homo sapiens.

Chapter 4 All or nothing

After taking several buses and high-speed trains in a row, I returned to Jiangcheng University safely and fearlessly.

Just got off the bus.

"Senior Brother..." Called out like an oriole, the bright girl was still so innocent.

Li Qingye nodded: "How are you doing recently?"

As the two walked, they talked without saying a word.

Liu Xiaoli seemed to feel the grief in Li Qingye's heart, so she made a long story short: "Over there, I've already sent people on vacation, and only two security guards are here."

"Thank you."

"You're welcome, my brother helped me so much before, I can still do this little thing." Liu Xiaoli replied gently.

Before they knew it, the two came to a teaching building. The girl handed him the key to the laboratory, and said goodbye and left.

Standing at the door of the mentor's office, Li Qingye knocked on the door.

"Come in."

"boss."

"Huh?" The instructor looked up and saw Li Qingye, who had a beard and a decadent face. He sighed slightly in his heart, and then said with a smile: "Your visa is ready, the plane is May 5nd, During this period of time, you adjust and adjust your mood, and there is nothing difficult to overcome in life."

Li Qingye nodded calmly: "Thank you boss for your concern, I'll go to the company to have a look first."

"Go! Don't forget the flight time."

After bidding farewell to his mentor, Li Qingye wandered alone on the path of Mount Luojia, and the cherry trees beside the road only had scattered petals.

A gust of wind blows, and the remaining cherry blossoms on the branches fall lightly.

Sit on a bench and watch the flowers fall quietly.

"Life is so fragile!" Li Qingye sighed softly.

Say goodbye to the lost youth.

Farewell, River City University.

Farewell, my innocence and youth.

At the subway station, the low-pitched tram slowly stopped, and he swiped his card to get on the train. The complication in the compartment was incompatible with Li Qingye, who was like a homeless man.

Soon the tram arrived at its destination - Jiangcheng South Station.

Then I took a bus and came to the company located around Xiaogang Village. At the entrance of an old small factory, there was a plaque of "Caixin Cosmetics Research and Development Center".

The security guard at the door was smoking a pipe, when he suddenly saw him coming, he came out with some hesitation: "Young man...you are..."

"Old Wang, it's me." Li Qingye took out the key chain in his hand and shook it.

Only then did the security guard come to his senses, and quickly opened the door: "Boss, I almost can't recognize you like this."

"Well, Lao Wang, there is nothing going on during this time, right?"

Lao Wang thought for a while, then said some trivial things, Li Qingye ordered some things casually, and then entered the laboratory alone.

The entire laboratory covers an area of ​​more than 8000 square meters and is divided into the first experimental area, the second experimental area, the third experimental area, living area, storage area, and water and electricity master control area.

There were more than 20 staff here before, all of whom were temporary workers recruited by Li Qingye, including the school girl who helped with management. These people were all students of Jiangcheng University, Jiangcheng University of Technology, and Huazhong Agricultural University.

As for Li Qingye's own experimental area, namely the first experimental area, only he can enter.

Before returning this time, he asked Liu Xiaoli to dismiss the temporary workers in the laboratory, leaving only two security guards.

At this moment, he was the only one left in the entire laboratory.

After unlocking the password lock of the first experimental area, Li Qingye checked the rows of test tubes in the freezer, and 17 Jianmu factors (the enzyme he synthesized before) were displayed intact.

After closing the storage box again, he opened the hard drive in the safe and inserted it into a physically isolated desktop computer.

Revisited the experimental data of Jianmu factor.

After more than half a year of research, the Jianmu factor at this time has actually developed to the second generation. He borrowed part of the technology of the [CRISPR-Cas9] gene editor to improve the controllable performance of the Jianmu factor.

CRISPR-Cas9 is a gene editing technology that has emerged in recent years. It can accurately knock out target gene fragments, and can also insert specified gene fragments into gene sequences.

Li Qingye borrowed the CRISPR part of CRISPR-Cas9, which is a special RNA gene sequence whose function is to combine with a specified DNA sequence.

The second-generation technology of Jianmu factor is "CRISPR-JM", which can make the specified gene sequence into a pseudogene (that is, lose its function).

According to my other previous discovery, there are some "restrictor" gene sequences in the human gene sequence, and these limiter gene sequences can be disabled through the insertion of building factors.

After unlocking the limiter, you can gain a lot of abilities, but it is also accompanied by huge risks. Those domestic pigs and mice that he used for experiments are an obvious example.

Although the side effects of domestic pigs and mice have decreased in the next few experiments, the cost is still very high.

After re-reading the experimental data, Li Qingye knew very well in his heart that with his talent, if he had more than ten years of precipitation, he might be able to develop a safer and more controllable building wood factor.

It's just that he doesn't have time.

It took three days to reconstitute the building wood factor enough for one person, and also prepared the life-support nutrient solution and the experimental bed. Yesterday, I even took laxatives to empty the contents of the stomach.

Lie on the bed, insert the catheter yourself, and prepare a large bucket to connect the catheter.

Heartbeat, blood pressure, body temperature and other detection equipment are also connected one by one, and then the electrodes for cardiopulmonary resuscitation are connected to the heart, and the cardiopulmonary resuscitation machine is automatically started after 30 seconds of cardiac arrest.

Insert a super large bottle (homemade) of special nutrient solution into the vein, this bottle of nutrient solution is enough to maintain life for 15 days.

Close the oxygen mask, press the switch of all equipment, and check all equipment again.

Before that, he also ordered the two security guards, Lao Wang, to pay attention to the water and electricity. If there is a sudden power failure and water supply, they should immediately start the backup diesel generator.

At the same time, he told the two of them that he was going to do experiments for half a month, and he didn't see anyone, so don't bother him.

After adding a bonus of 3000, Lao Wang and his wife also found their wives together, and the two of them took care of the gate and water and electricity.

inside the laboratory.

Li Qingye looked at the Jianmu factor that had just been thawed, discarded all scruples, and inserted the needle into the vein of the other hand.

Drops of liquid containing Jianmu factor penetrated into Li Qingye's whole body over time.

CRISPR molecules, as RNA fragments, pass through the cell membrane, come to the nucleus, and then come to the chromosome, where they combine with a specific gene sequence in the chromosome.

When CRISPR is combined with human genes, the building factors carried by CRISPR begin to play their role.

The limiter in Li Qingye's gene was destroyed.

But the genes of organisms are extremely stubborn, and the limiter genes after being destroyed start the self-repair function.

It's just that the existence of the building factor has disrupted the self-repair of the restrictor gene sequences. Although the genes have been re-repaired, these gene sequences have lost their original functions.

In Li Qingye's genes, countless recessive genes became active.

17 hours later.

"Ah..." This body seemed to have entered a furnace, and he saw that his body temperature had reached 39.5 degrees Celsius, which was a clinical symptom of inflammatory factors erupting in the body.

Quickly insert hormone and antibiotic injections.

Soon he felt dizzy, his breathing became more rapid, and his blood sugar dropped rapidly.

Fortunately, the life-sustaining nutrient solution prepared before was continuously providing nutrition and energy, otherwise he might be consumed to death.

High fever, dizziness, and tingling all over the body lasted for two days and two nights.

At the foot of the bed, a dozen empty syringes, after use, lay haphazardly on the floor.

Suddenly Li Qingye's heart stopped beating.

drop……

Chapter 5 Back From Hell

The automatic cardiopulmonary resuscitation machine passed the set 30 seconds, and the device automatically powered on to stimulate the heart, and the oxygen supply of the oxygen mask increased by 50%.

zizi...

Snapped……

Li Qingye, who was in shock, seemed to have been punched in the heart, and suddenly his eyes widened. The desire for survival and hatred in his heart made him unwilling to end the curtain.

Hoo hoo... While panting fiercely, he grabbed the three syringes on the side and injected adrenaline, antibiotics, and self-made anesthetic into his body all at once.

The heart was beating violently.

Cold sweat soaked clothes and sheets.

He stared dreamily at the ceiling lights.

In this way, more than ten hours passed in a daze, and on the fourth night, Li Qingye finally felt that the discomfort in his body was easing, his body temperature also dropped to 37.3 degrees Celsius, and his blood sugar and heartbeat finally returned to normal levels.

It's just that the blood pressure remains high, at a level of 150-165.

He knew that the first side effect of genetic modification had appeared, and the side effect of high blood pressure had appeared in mice and domestic pigs before.

Jianmu Factor's transformation of the body is still going on, and it is estimated that it will take about 5 days to initially stabilize.

But the most dangerous link has already been passed by Li Qingye.

morning of the sixth day.

Li Qingye opened his eyes, feeling that his brain was better than ever, and suddenly a large number of memory fragments appeared in his mind.

'Hey... this is...'

He closed his eyes and browsed through these memory fragments, and found that it was the memory of his parents. There were pictures of him when he was a child, pictures of his eldest brother, and memory fragments of his grandparents and other things.

'Another discovery that cannot be understood by animal experiments. '

These memories stopped abruptly the moment he was born, that is to say, these memories came from the genes of his parents and were then inherited to him.

No, it's not just the memory of his parents, to be precise, it's the memory of his ancestors.

It's just that these memories have a characteristic, that is, the older the time, the more fragmented and blurred the memories. Even the memories of his parents are the deeper contents in his life.

Li Qingye, who understands genetic evolution, naturally understands that this is the result of mutations, duplications, deletions, and confusions in the gene sequence during the duplication process.

Accumulated from generation to generation, the older the genetic memory, the more broken and blurred it is.

For Li Qingye, it was as if he had obtained the authority to access "historical records". These memories are huge, even if they are fragmented, it still makes him feel dizzy.

Fortunately, at noon on the seventh day, he discovered the second and third activated genetic abilities, which were memory palace and photographic memory.

The memory palace is a memory management ability that can clear, classify, and label memories in the brain.

As for the ability of photographic memory, it goes without saying.

Li Qingye had used experimental animals before, and only knew that the Jianmu factor would make the animals' brains highly active, and even allow domestic pigs to understand text symbols and understand their own voice commands.

This kind of powerful improvement is what made him take the risk.

Eighth day.

Another side effect occurred, and he became red-green color blind.

But the ability hidden in the gene is further stimulated, and the fourth genetic ability appears-super sense.

His sense of hearing, taste, and smell have been improved to varying degrees, but there is no way to conduct a careful inspection at this time.

ninth day.

Li Qingye felt that his brain seemed to be enlightened, and a part of the memories that had been sorted out by the memory palace before were recombined and brought forth new ones at an unprecedented speed.

He calls this ability "hyperanalysis and hyperderivation".

With the emergence of super-analysis and super-derivation, Li Qingye felt that his brain had reached its limit, and his body could no longer support him to go any further.

Sure enough, as he had guessed, on the tenth day and the No. 11 day, there were no other abnormal changes in his body.

The body also gradually returned to normal.

He removed the infusion tube, testing equipment, and drained the water in the catheter. Enduring the burning pain, he pulled out the catheter.

"Hiss..." The sourness made Li Qingye gasp.

But this was not the time to lie down, he endured the pain and began to do a physical examination for himself, especially the genetic examination.

three days later.