Voyage of the Stars

Chapter 36 Humans who lost their treasures

But if this civilization still exists, where are they now?

Why would they let one of their civilization's spaceships go missing?
Is it because there is no time to care, or is it because this spaceship is insignificant?

Or, in fact, the original civilization of this spaceship has become extinct, so why did they become extinct?
The bits and pieces of information about the alien wreckage have thrown up mysteries to scientists. Maybe they will never find the true answer, but it does not prevent them from thinking boldly.

"Maybe." Yue Yuan did not answer Yi Kai's words, but asked about another matter. He scratched the sudden itch on his face and asked: "Is there any progress in serum research?"

The last time Yue Yuan went to the laboratory, Yi Kai was not there. Now that he met him here, he just wanted to ask.

"It's still the same as before. Following the original experimental data, we only got the results that the aging genes were effectively suppressed and the anti-cancer factors were greatly increased, but we don't know how that substance acts on the genetic level. .”

Yi Kai shook his head, as if he felt that Yue Yuan still had a lot to ask, so he simply pulled a stool from the side and handed it to Yue Yuan, indicating that he should sit down and speak slowly.

However, Yue Yuan did not pick it up. Instead, he walked to the side and brought a chair over, pretending to be listening attentively.

Yi Kai was not polite when he saw this and directly moved the small bench under his butt.

Sure enough, as soon as he sat down, he heard Yue Yuan say: "When I returned to Beijing, I heard from experts there that the red gas was probably not a gas, but some kind of liquid volatile. "

After returning to the capital that year, the biologists began their research impatiently.

Because he had to accept the rank of major general, Yue Yuan stayed on Earth for a long time. It was also during that time that biologists in Beijing came to the conclusion after studying and analyzing the serum.

Thinking about it now, Yue Yuan felt that those experts were really efficient at doing things.

Perhaps because of his relatively high position, Yue Yuan heard a lot of news during that period. In fact, those who participated in the serum research were not only serious biologists, but also many well-known medical professors.

There are modern medicine and traditional medicine.

Basically all the top talents in the country are gathered in that laboratory.

People like Yi Kai would definitely have joined in if his research project on the moon hadn't been completed yet.I'm glad I didn't join in, otherwise there wouldn't be such a biologist at the Callisto base now.

"I've heard about this too." Yi Kai touched his stubble and continued: "It is said that for the purpose of research, those guys moved out all the old antiques from the Compendium of Materia Medica."

Isn't that right? It was the experts of traditional medicine who took out the Compendium of Materia Medica.Yue Yuan heard that they wanted to find herbs with homologous properties such as Gubenpeiyuan from countless herbs based on the "Qi" theory a hundred years ago, and then conduct experimental combinations, and then use the elimination method to try one by one. .

It really looks like a big fight.

"Yeah, it's a pity that it just started and it's gone." Yue Yuan said in memory.

"They had the earth as a backing. Now we have nothing but a few lonely tubes of serum. It's so difficult!" Yi Kai shook his head and sighed: "We lost the earth and everything. It's a coincidence. It is difficult for a woman to make a meal without rice.”

Yue Yuan didn't know what Yi Kai meant.

In biological genetic research, without the support of a biosphere, it is really difficult to conduct an experiment.

Lifespan research projects are different from others in that many ideas cannot be accomplished with just a guinea pig.Many things need to be found in nature and tried from nature.

If humans still have the earth's biosphere, they can find some animals in nature that also have long lifespans. We can start with them and conduct various control experiments with the serum.The billions of years of evolutionary history of life on earth are also a natural laboratory for the evolution of endless life.It can be said that for billions of years, every evolutionary path of life has been attempted by organisms.

It's just that humans either know it or they don't.

This gives the earth unlimited possibilities, and also gives humans born and raised here an unparalleled treasure trove.

Four billion years of biological evolution are magnificent masterpieces engraved in the DNA of life by the laws of the universe.

Here, the roots of the origin of life are hidden, and the secrets of the birth of wisdom are hidden.

But mankind has lost this treasure house.

Without the earth, there is no biodiversity, so that biogenetic research becomes difficult.

"So the situation of this research is more difficult than that of controllable nuclear fusion. It seems that I am impatient." Yue Yuan nodded to express his understanding.

The research conditions for controllable nuclear fusion can be improved with materials and energy, but they cannot create an earth's biosphere.

"It would be nice if that red gas still existed." Yue Yuan added regretfully.

Yue Yuan pulled his thoughts back, but after a while, Yi Kai didn't speak, so he called out again: "Dr. Yi? Old Yi!"

"Oh, I'm sorry, I got distracted thinking about something." Yi Kai, who didn't know what he was thinking, came back to his senses. He looked at Yue Yuan with an embarrassed expression: "Where did you just talk about?"

"F*ck!" Yue Yuan imitated Yi Kai's complaint with a dark face, but he dared not hear a word of his emotion that the bastard had just heard.

"Forget it, there won't be much progress anyway, and I can't create an Earth biosphere for you." A somewhat distressed Yue Yuan stood up and wanted to leave.

But Yi Kai looked confused and said, "Who said there was no progress?"

You are only over 70 years old, you are already old and confused, you shouldn't be. Yue Yuan glanced at Yi Kai who looked up at him suspiciously, his expression did not seem to be fake.

But Yue Yuan clearly remembered that 'no progress' was what Yi Kai said. Well, he said it in the same way, but the meaning was similar.

"That's what Yi Kai said." Yue Yuan replied angrily.

"Oh~"

Yi Kai nodded matter-of-factly, then suddenly grinned and said, "I mean there is little progress in studying the original experimental data."

"What do you mean?" Yi Kai's words successfully pulled Yue Yuan back to his seat.

"Literal meaning," Yi Kai spat out four words, then signaled Yue Yuan to calm down, then thought for a moment and said: "If we study according to the original way of thinking, we have encountered endless difficulties. Every time we know that we have reached the previous point. The answer stopped us, so we changed our thinking.”

"Instead of starting with the specific DNA sequence, we studied the most primitive driving force of life as the entire system, and we got some different conjectures."

"The most primitive driving force of life?" Yue Yuan interrupted habitually, but as soon as he finished speaking, he realized that he seemed to have interrupted Yi Kai's words, so he quickly changed his words: "Dr. Yi, continue, continue."

(End of this chapter)