Into the Immortal Cultivation - Chapter 1883

[Chapter 43]

“Everyone has prions in their bodies.”

“All of us here, including me, have disease-causing prions in their bodies.”

When Ai Qinglan announced this in the Department of Evidence, she directly scared everyone. It’s a jerk.

There was chaos in the Evidence Department.

Even Chen Feng showed panic.

Only Song Shufu remained indifferent.

“Master, are we going to die? Did we accidentally get infected with that prion… When did we make a mistake…”

“Shut up!” Song Shufu only slapped his apprentice on the ground. On the back of his head: “When did you hear that a monk would die because of such a thing?”

“Huh?” The little apprentice was taken aback.

Everyone looked up at Ai Qinglan: “Huh?”

“Well, that’s right, every human race is born with a prion body.” Ai Qinglan nodded, not at all feeling that there was a problem with her words: “It’s just that the content is very low, less than 1/10,000 of the disease-causing amount.”

“Ah?”

“Everyone is born with prions, and with the process of metabolism, the With the physiological activities, the number of these prions will continue to increase with the synthesis of life essence.” Ai Qinglan said: “According to the cyclic amplification technology of erroneous prion, the growth of prion , it is basically exponential in the early and middle stages, that is, it is very slow in the early stage, but it gets faster as it goes to the back. After a certain point, it becomes out of control.”

Someone shivered quietly, as if feeling his body What time bomb was buried?

Obviously my body is the same as before, but… it’s that creepy feeling, very awkward.

“But?” Chen Feng understood what Ai Qinglan meant: “You mean, it’s nothing?”

“Because many people’s lifetime accumulation of prions cannot exceed that threshold.” Ai Qinglan said: “Ah, but the degeneration of brain function after mortal aging may have something to do with this, but I can say for sure, even mortals When you are old, you can’t accumulate such a huge amount.”

“Huge?” Someone exclaimed.

Ai Qinglan smiled: “Compared to the standard of ‘onset’, the prion content in everyone’s body is actually negligible. If you want to accumulate a large amount of prion to cause the onset, there is only one way. ”

That is, cannibalism.

Ai Qinglan didn’t say it directly, but others probably guessed it.

Then a little nauseated.

Song Shufu had an expression of “as expected”.

Meat and bone meal is a supplementary feed developed by the northern desert herdsmen who are reluctant to discard dead animals that cannot be eaten.

He suspected for a long time that meat and bone meal was related to the emergence of horse plague in corpse refining.

“What about the immortals?” Chen Feng asked: “If we say that we are accumulating this kind of thing all the time in our bodies, then in the immortals, this kind of thing will one day exceed the threshold of ‘morbidity’?”

“Well, um, I did have this kind of concern at first. But thinking about it carefully, should no immortals die because of this disease?” Ai Qinglan snorted twice: “First of all, prions are in the The content in the human body has nothing to do with age. The thousand-year-old monks have no significant difference between the prion content in our body and ours.”

“I am afraid that the prion itself will also be lost with metabolism, as well as some non-specific immune functions. It can be eliminated. However, it should be noted that there is no obvious difference in the content of prion bodies in the body of monks in the Qi training stage, Yuanshen stage monks and stronger Void refining stage monks. I have a guess about this. Our immune function does not have the ability to recognize it, so the enhanced non-specific immunity has a limited effect on prion clearance, and more depends on metabolism, right?”

Someone still scratched his arm nervously: “It’s always about letting I feel a little uneasy…”

Ai Qinglan knocked on the table: “What are you afraid of? After all, you are monks! This thing can only destroy the brain at most. Reshaping the brain or continuing to rebuild the body is technically feasible, right? ”

Chen Feng was stunned.

He felt a sense of disobedience.

Wait a minute, wait a minute…

If that’s the case, then… why did the Yuan clan kneel so easily in front of Huang Jing?

But this is a core secret and is not suitable for discussion.

And Ai Qinglan has already begun to explain the principle.

She casually used white light to form a curved curve, and marked a coordinate axis: “…the vertical axis represents the energy, and the horizontal axis represents the different states of the amino acid long chain.”

A rope was twisted, It will tie into a ball, and it may even be knotted. This is the tragedy of “headphone cord knotting” that people on earth often face. The reason for this is because the “rope” will automatically lead to a state with the lowest overall energy.

This is also determined by thermodynamics.

The same goes for long chains of amino acids. After being exerted by the messenger body and organelle, it also seeks a state with the lowest energy.

“Accordingly, it should precisely land on the ‘point A’ at this location.” Ai Qinglan sighed: “But in reality… this process is random. It may not only fall on the ‘point A’. “Speaking, Ai Qinglan stretched out her hand and painted a small curve in red: “It may fall on A, B, C, D, W, G, G, Xin or other points. The number of points it falls is actually infinite.”

“But in fact , The fault tolerance of living beings is very powerful. No matter which point you fall on, as long as the deviation of the final result is not too outrageous, then our fleshly body can still recognize it.”

“Among them, a certain point… ah, let’s call it a ‘prion point’.” Having said that, Ai Qinglan marked a few blue dots on the red line segment: “If this long The final landing point of the chain is not any point in the methyl group, but the ‘prion point’, then the final product of the long amino acid chain folding is the prion body. For some reason that has not yet been explained, The prion body has the ability to transform the source substance of life similar to its own structure, and make it fold correctly into a wrong fold.”

Song Shufu frowned: “There is more than one prion point?”

“Assume more than one.” Ai Qinglan said: ” I can even predict that in nature, there may be non-pathogenic ‘prions’. They are not pathogenic, but they are still misfolded and can be remodeled to fold correctly.”

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Time flies, and a few months have passed.

The god of natural selection looked at the paper “Discovery of non-pathogenic prions in moss” in his hand, and fell into deep thought.

The old man looked very tired. In recent months, in order to eliminate the great turmoil hidden in Tianlingling, he was really heartbroken.

But this does not affect his follow-up research in this area.

There is an “inside version” of this paper, and only people with specific permissions can see the hidden second half after redeeming it.

In fact, Shenzhou has discovered prion bodies or the phenomenon caused by prions as early as hundreds of years ago.

To what extent have they accumulated enough in this phenomenon?

Ai Qinglan’s group could even find a large number of suspected cases just by flipping through the files. Then, they used the prion cycle amplification technology to eliminate them one by one.

In some mosses in China, there is a kind of prion. They do not have any pathogenicity most of the time. But when the moss is invaded by a certain fungus, parts of the moss adjacent to the diseased tissue quickly wither.

The monk Wanmugu, who discovered this phenomenon at the beginning, came to the conclusion of “symbiosis with some kind of plague”, and wrote a good paper on this. In Plague Forest, there are good quotes.

And now, this “some kind of plague” has to be changed to “prion”.

Of course, in general, this is not a big discovery.

However, when it comes to the Yuan family, the situation is different.

“The reason why no one can practice Yuan Clan exercises is because Yuan Clan is born with symbiosis… A variety of non-pathogenic prions, the steps of refining mana need to rely on these prions?”

This is an extraordinary discovery. .

At the same time, it also explains why the Yuan clan cannot resist topaz.

Normally, prions are not strong enough to infect monks. But what if the prion itself has the ability to couple mana?

Well, of course, it’s impossible for a normal prion to have just a certain mana coupled to it. But what if the mana was designed according to the prion itself, or conversely, the prion was designed according to the nature of the mana?

This also explains the origin of Yuan’s peculiar funeral.

Although the Yuan clan in the first Yuan prison and the third Yuan prison feel that cannibalism is a custom evolved to cope with the lack of spiritual energy. But in the long time of 200 million years, the two planets have actually evolved the same customs?

But what if the Yuan clan had such a custom 200 million years ago?

To inherit non-pathogenic prions.

That is to say…

“Huangjing, is it possible that it is the product of the second misfolding of the prion body in the Yuan clan?”

Yuan clan practice, itself very dependent on the symbiotic non-pathogenic prion body of the Yuan clan.

However, the prion has already touched the edge of the subatomic level of the ethereal realm.

In other words, it could be… random.

It’s not impossible for another completely different error to occur…

No, judging from the appearance of Huang Jing in the first yuan prison and the third yuan prison, this is very likely to be a matter of high probability.

And it makes sense that Aluer can complete the transformation of the practice alone.

The normal Yuan clan cultivation method and the Huangjing method are indeed of the same origin.

I am afraid that the Yuan clan also has the means to correct this mistake to avoid the appearance of Huang Jing.

However, I am afraid that it was also erased by the Dragon Clan.

However…

this is because “it is about the core of the practice, not erasing this kind of information will lead to a great increase in the ability of the Yuan clan to fight”, or… “If the ban cannot be lifted after a certain period of time, then it will be self-sufficient. extinct”?

God of Heavenly Selection shook his head and put the thought behind him.

Some doubts are not suitable for speaking.

However, this also explains why the Yuan clan kneels so easily in the hands of the dragon clan.

Because the core of the transformation method is “refolding”.

If the absolute strength of the two sides is not much different, there is a very obvious restraint in the cultivation of the Dragon Clan against the cultivation of the Yuan Clan.

The most ancient Xiaoyao nodded and smiled: “Well, I finally got a little closer to the bereaved family.”

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Chen Feng set up Hunguang, wrapped in his wife and children, on the way back to his hometown.

He looked anxious: “This time… I don’t feel good. I even forgot Houfu’s birthday ceremony.”

After completing the first stage of research, Chen Feng remembered that his son’s first birthday dog had passed. , hurriedly asked for leave, and took Ai Qinglan to her hometown.

For the Shenzhou people, the birthday ceremony is a very important event. Under normal circumstances, the child’s name is set at this time.

However, Ai Qinglan really…forgot about this…

until Houfu was one year and four months old…

“Ah…” Chen Feng hugged his head and let out a mournful cry: “I even forgot to name him. I haven’t thought of a scientific name for a year!”

Ai Qinglan held the baby in both hands and held it high. Houfu held a piece of pastry eaten by the baby in his hand, dangling with his feet, and sprinkled some snack residues from time to time.

“I said, Chen Yuan…how about this name?”

“Ruan?” Chen Feng was taken aback: “Do we have a friend with the surname Ruan that we need to commemorate?”

“Prion of prion.” Ai Qinglan said with a smile : “Houfu has witnessed the entire discovery process of prion, which is very commemorative.”

“Well, this… commemorative meaning is there, but… this meaning…”

“Prion can change other Folding the essence of life, making it his companion.” Ai Qinglan smiled and rubbed her son’s face with her nose: “So my mother hopes that when you grow up, you can make many~ many people become your companions, you Are you okay, Prion?”

“Eh? Has it been decided yet? This…”

“Not good?”

“Ah? This…”

“Stop talking nonsense! You chose the baby name, shouldn’t the scientific name be given to you ? Do I have it?”

“I don’t think it can be counted like this, right?”

“I gave birth to the child? Look for the paper and say that the first one is me!”

“Hey! That’s not the truth!”

[End of this Chapter]