Doomsday Wonderland

Lin Sanjiu didn't know how long he sat in the explanation of the changing light and shadow.

Not long after the explanation started, her mind couldn't help but get lost in it. For a short while, she even forgot that Lou Qin was still waiting aside. Precisely because she had once sneaked into the factory as an ordinary person and walked through part of the process herself, the content of the projection explanation became more relevant to her: it turned out that what she experienced at that time was only the first one or two steps in the process.

The first step is to "prepare the experimental subjects", that is, to gather ordinary people together, conduct preliminary processing and record the original physiological data, and then give them certain enhancements in evolutionary abilities and physical fitness, so that they can temporarily show Characteristics and Traits of Evolvers.

In this step, not only the dead ordinary people will be collected, but also the dead evolvers or those who have just evolved will also be used as the objects of several supplementary studies - thrown into the factory before Lin Sanjiu, The dead body of the man in the leather jacket that fell on the track was sent to one of the supplementary research rooms.

She sat on a chair that Lou Qin had brought in at some point, and leaned forward as she listened.

"All the dungeons collected from the doomsday world have been lightly modified by us. We can record the physiological information of the participants before and after when they enter and leave the dungeon..."

At this time, Lin Sanjiu was once again in a fast-flowing river. There were various replicas on both sides of the river, reaching out to grab her in the river - no, I should say, grabbing the projections of other ordinary people in front of her and behind her. This river is not the same as the one she has experienced personally, and the copies are different; she wonders how much preparation the Shark Department has for the same river.

"...If T (Travel) is used to refer to transmission, the series of 'evolution factors' we have roughly summarized can be collectively represented by A (Advancement), and the A factor family, shared physiological system and receptors in the ordinary person's body Factors other than those affected by factor A, that is, the part that is unique to ordinary people, are represented by S (Stasis). When we inject factor A into ordinary people, we observe that the effects of factor A in ordinary people and evolved people The performance is similar, that is to say, we can think that ordinary people and evolved people at this time can be replaced by each other..."

For better understanding, the explanations should be simplified. As the explanation continued, Lin Sanjiu just walked past a series of spirals that gradually unraveled as they moved forward. She didn't know if they were DNA images, but they were as long as one of her legs anyway.

"In further experiments, we have confirmed that ordinary people carrying factor A will be recognized by the copy and respond to each other. During this response process, the factor A in the experimental subject's body becomes activated, and the factor S produced The effect cannot be observed. S still exists and is still working, but the key receiver that 'hands over' them and makes them effective is preempted by factor A, causing the expression of factor S to be turned off. We call it This key receiver is G (GL). Through a series of previous studies, we believe that the expression of factor S is the reason why ordinary people will not be transmitted, but evolved people will.

"At this point, we can ask many questions. For example, if we increase the supply of G in the body of the experimental subject and allow factor S to take effect at the same time, then will the experimental subject continue to be an evolver or an ordinary person? , or have characteristics of both? If we inject factor S into the evolver, will the key receiver G be occupied by factor A or factor S? "

Lin Sanjiu seemed to be able to hear a distant and exciting voice deep in his body - let Factor S work, give it the receiver, no matter what the specific principle is, stop people from living in the apocalyptic world Wandering, let us stay.

Let them stay.

The more she listened, the hotter and more itchy her palms became; it was only then that the weight and reality of the word "vaccine" gradually penetrated into her consciousness. She touched the slight sweat on her forehead and couldn't believe that she was awake now. of.

Maybe this is also part of the dream, maybe she is still in the "brain in the vat", just making up a situation and reason for herself that she can continue to immerse in without worrying about going out; which one is it specifically, Lin San Jiu didn't know, after all, once that thought experiment was recognized, it forever blurred the boundary between reality and reality.

However, if everything she is experiencing now is caused by the "brain in a vat", then so be it.

This was already the best way to the best future that Lin Sanjiu could imagine.

This projection clip seemed to be not only for explanation, but also for a brief record; Lin Sanjiu corrected his impression that it was more like a museum introduction than a business plan.

Because in the following explanation, a series of failures of the shark series were introduced; they used the previously raised questions as a guide and did a lot of experiments and explorations, but all of them were in vain. For a long time, it was like a fly hitting a glass, seeing the bright light right ahead but unable to get past it. Even Lin Sanjiu felt anxious and eager as she watched.

When her heart was hanging higher and higher and she couldn't wait to know the answer, this projection record ended with one sentence - "So far, the above directions have been proved to be wrong."

"The following content should be included in today's progress."

When Lin Sanjiu was stunned, Lou Qin interrupted. She looked at the empty walls of the room as if it were her precious child. "The reason why we were able to achieve such a critical breakthrough... is that one of the countless supplementary studies we did while we were in a hurry to seek medical treatment happened to come up with unexpected results."

"What's the result?"

"We found that the process of transforming from an ordinary person to an evolved person is actually a process in which Factor A gradually eats up the receiver G, consuming it completely, and then the human body modified by Factor A will no longer produce it. In the explanation just now The receiver mentioned is occupied by factor A, which is the beginning of this process... It's just that the factor A in our experimental subjects is not produced by themselves, so before the receiver disappears, factor A disappears first, so they return to normal After the identity of the person, everything is business as usual.”

By the way, that old woman.

Lin Sanjiu observed Lou Qin's expression. Of course Lou Qin knew that the old woman was the cause of "Factor A", and he must also know about the conflict between the old woman and himself... But now she looked calm and natural, and Lin Sanjiu couldn't tell anything.

What is the relationship between her and the old woman master?

Lou Qin turned around and said with a smile: "In other words, there is no receiver G in your body now. Even if factor S is injected into your body, your body will not be able to use S. Of course, you will not be able to degenerate because of it. The end of the world In the world, there are many ways to make an evolver degenerate, but that is not our goal. We hope to retain everything and just add a 'no teleportation', right?"

Lin Sanjiu nodded - otherwise, she could just stay in the modern world.

"But in the apocalypse, it is not uncommon for people to temporarily degenerate. So based on this, we continued to delve deeper and found that when the receiver G and the ordinary person factor S appear in an evolver's body at the same time, if other conditions are met Under certain conditions, the evolver will experience temporary degradation. But generally speaking, unless there are fundamental and structural physiological changes, the receiver G will gradually be consumed and absorbed by the body of the evolver until It was eventually cleaned up... At this time, the evolver's ability was naturally restored."

Lin Sanjiu frowned and thought for a while, then immediately grasped the key point. "But...ordinary factor S is still there?"

"Yes." Lou Qin said softly, "That is to say, the 'vaccine' requires two injections. The first time, we inject the ordinary person factor S; the second time, we use the injection to plant a container containing G in the body of the evolver. , use this container to protect G from being consumed and absorbed by the human body. In this way, the receiver G can exist in the evolver's body for a long time. When encountering transmission or entering a copy, the container is touched and releases G, and The combination of ordinary person factor S... To put it simply, when an evolved person is teleported, the 'vaccine' in his body will be activated, allowing him to wash away all abilities at the moment of teleportation and briefly become an ordinary person. .”

When the "G" in the container ran out, Lin Sanjiu thought to herself that he might need to refill it - but this was really nothing compared to teleportation.

When Lou Qin said this, he couldn't help laughing anymore.

"You just witnessed that scene with your own eyes. We established five experimental groups and tried to include people in various situations... After receiving the vaccine, all five groups successfully passed the level, and no one was caught by the copy. That is Said, it is very likely that they will not be sent away by the flood. Of course, we still have many questions to ask, such as after escaping one teleportation, will it be made up for the next time? Or will it return to disorder? etc. The most important thing is that we need to use teleportation for a real experiment before we can conclude whether it is really successful. Right now, there happens to be a big flood coming towards Wandering Cloud."