Crime Prison Island
Chapter 142 - 60: Ultramicroscopic Genes

Chapter 142: Chapter 60: Ultramicroscopic Genes

Gao Xin exchanged two symbiotes for himself, which cost fifty-six thousand.

But this was a reward and bonus that Gao Xin had earned himself, so when he emerged from the white light, no one questioned him.

"Huh? Aren’t you guys going to exchange?" Gao Xin opened his eyes and found everyone waiting for him.

Meimei said, "Brother, we’re waiting for your instructions. We’re planning to pool our rewards on you to make you stronger."

Gao Xin waved his hand, "No need, Glassmen are too hard to strengthen, constrained at every turn."

"Next, we must become Radiation."

Everyone exchanged glances, "Then let’s pool our rewards and exchange them all for gene protectors."

At this moment, together they had 70,990 points left. The minor remainder of those ten points had been used by Gao Xin for his and the NPCs’ treatment.

With this amount, they could exchange for seven gene protectors.

But if they went to fulfill the quotas for teams 12 and 09 this month, they would only be able to exchange for six.

"I really hate to give another six thousand nine hundred to the Japanese," Dongfang Yi grumbled.

Gao Xin smiled, "No problem, let’s round it up and give one hundred more to make it seven thousand exactly, which will give us seven chances to go to the Radiation room and take ’Black Medicine’."

Dongfang Yi responded, "I get you. After genetic collapse, the ’Black Medicine’ they distribute, we substitute with real medicine."

"But after giving seven thousand, we’ll only have six gene protectors, and the seventh spot will be useless."

Gao Xin smiled faintly, "It will be useful. You guys just exchange them. Pick six people to keep them, and I’ll handle my own."

Everyone was puzzled, with seven people and six medicines, how would they be distributed?

And how was Gao Xin going to handle his own?

"One is just one, AI technology isn’t that simple; sharing one between two people is useless," Xing Shiping couldn’t help but remind.

Gao Xin nodded, "I know, I have my ways."

Xing Shiping immediately said, "You’re not thinking of using ’Black Medicine,’ are you? The mortality rate is too high."

"My companions and I do not need it; you guys take all six gene protectors."

Gao Xin looked at him, "Are you sure?"

Xing Shiping nodded earnestly, "Yeah, without you in this game, it’s uncertain whether we could even survive, let alone have so many surrogates."

"The words you said before, and the characters on the bullet screen, I saw them all. You’re planning an escape. I hope we can be included in that."

Gao Xin patted him, "Of course. But now that you’re joining us, how could we possibly not take you to become Radiation?"

"It’s only because of the surplus of surrogates you five added that we have so many gene protectors. Don’t be polite; take three."

Meimei also added, "Right, brother said not to worry about his share, and I can go without too. After all, even if I become Radiation, I definitely won’t be as powerful as you."

Xing Shiping gave a bitter smile, "It’s not out of courtesy. Have you forgotten that we are servants?"

"We five have no chance to go to the Radiation room. It’s no use for us to have the medicine."

Qiao Long also said, "Right, one has a chance to risk it in the Radiation room if the quota exceeds one thousand points, that’s an opportunity only our Redemption Team has."

Gao Xin pondered, "I still don’t need it. Qiao Long, Su Lei, Meimei, Dongfang Yi, each of you take one."

"With the two extra, Qiao Long, you take them back and arrange for two of the most trustworthy people to use them. Listen, ability isn’t important, it has to be the most trustworthy."

Qiao Long nodded, "Don’t worry, I understand."

No one asked any more questions about why Gao Xin didn’t need it, and they immediately pooled their rewards to exchange for six gene protectors.

Gao Xin was originally very composed. His method was naturally to rely on the placebo effect of Fake Medicine.

Although he had promised Luo Yan to use real medicine, now he could acquire seven Radiation spots while fulfilling the Redemption Team’s quota even though they were one medicine short.

He naturally had to step up.

However, when Gao Xin saw the gene protector falling from the sky, he couldn’t help but be astonished.

"Ah?"

"Is this a gene protector?"

The ten people present were all in shock.

What descended was a small cluster of pulsing purple firelight.

Yes! Firelight!

Of course, this was metaphorical. Strictly speaking, it was an indescribable thing resembling a plasma ball, flickering and pulsating as if it were plasma.

It was like flame and lightning, like a cloud of doubt, yet like living mist.

"This is medicine?" Everyone was dumbfounded.

Upon landing, the purple plasma ball was quickly encased in a translucent shell.

It formed an amber emitting a faint divine glow, and the plasma cloud remained active, twisting and jumping within the amber shell.

A few people caught them, and Gao Xin also caught one, all with an expression of disbelief.

Was this the substance meant for gene recombination?

Too beautiful, and too unbelievable.

This thing, if you called it a deity, some would believe!

At the very least, the first reaction would be to think of it as some sort of energy weapon, nothing like a medicine at all?

They had never seen a gene protector before, and the name was just too plain, too misleading.

I had thought it was the same kind of medicine as the ones humans use, but who could’ve imagined it was a lively ion-like mass of dubious matter.

"How do you eat this thing?" Su Lei was puzzled.

Qiao Long said, "As far as I know, you just eat it directly."

"Eat this hard gem directly?" Dongfang Yi thought it was absurd.

Xing Shiping pondered, "Maybe it looks like a gem, but it’s actually a ’capsule’? It dissolves as soon as you put it in your mouth?"

"Then this energy-like thing helps us reorganize our genes and become Radiation."

"It’s no surprise it’s AI technology, I can’t understand it at all, so I can only think of it that way."

Gao Xin looked solemnly at the ’medicine’ in his hand, feeling it was still cold.

He couldn’t help asking, "Gene protector, is it really a gene drug, or is it AI modification?"

This question was important, he was now suspecting that so-called Radiation was just another form of cyborg!

It was the terrifying technology of AI that created what humanity thought wasn’t a modified, artificially created race.

Qiao Long said, "The description in the exchange list is very simple. It just says that those who have suffered a genetic collapse can eat it to evolve into a higher form of life."

Gao Xin also looked up the information, which indeed was very straightforward.

Genes are the foundation of the evolution of life on Earth; no life form that has undergone genetic collapse has ever survived.

Until the birth of ’Igniotion’, it pioneered inconceivable technology for humans, protecting life from death after genetic collapse and instead evolving into ultra-microscopic genes.

Because the specific principle is incomprehensible, it would never be listed.

So Gao Xin directly searched for information related to ultra-microscopic genes.

He saw an exchange option in the knowledge section, very cheap, and he immediately bought it. Before long, he understood what ultra-microscopic genes were.

Normal biological genes consist of deoxyribonucleic acid and form ’oligopeptides’, which then produce various proteins and other substances essential to life, such as cells.

If evolution is successful, life will undergo a quantum leap, possessing even more microscopic nano-genes.

Nano-genes are comprised of ’exotic nucleic acids’, just 0.5 nanometers in size. The substances they generate can be called ’macropeptides’, which in turn give rise to all kinds of ’high-energy proteins’.

Strictly speaking, they’re not proteins, but Igniotion just described them that way to help humans understand.

Having nano-genes is what distinguishes so-called R-class, SR-class, and SSR-class Radiation. Their flesh is different, and in fact, what looks like meat isn’t meat at all but a nano-biological material based on nano-genes.

This is why Silver Hand’s bloodthirst and self-healing abilities are useless when consuming the flesh and blood of Glass People.

Because this is no different from eating rice; at most, it only replenishes energy.

The substance he needs can only be supplemented by his own kind. Even with the ’Blood and Flesh Integration’ ability, eating the corpses of N-class and R-class Radiation would be of little use to him.

"What about N-class Radiation?" Gao Xin, having learned about nano-genes, was curious why successful evolution jumped straight to R-class.

He looked up related information and then understood.

N-class Radiation actually belongs to the byproduct of failed evolution...

If the evolution succeeds, you get nano-genes. If it fails, humans would reorganize their existing gene chain to form a new race, namely the so-called N-class Radiation.

"So that’s how it is—no wonder only N-class and Glass People retain DNA genes. Turns out they are the result of failed evolution."

"The key to evolution is the quantum leap of life into the realm of more microscopic nano-genes, stepping into a completely new form of existence."

"On the other hand, what everyone keeps talking about, the so-called ’gene recombination’, signifies a failed leap. Although it also leads to a new species, it doesn’t fundamentally differ from other species that have existed on Earth throughout its history."

"Now I understand why it’s called a gene protector and not a gene recombiner. Because if it still relies on recombining the original DNA, that’s actually the worst outcome..."

Gao Xin steadied himself and shared this information with everyone.

The others weren’t particularly surprised. Xing Shiping shrugged and said, "Turns out it’s a transformation into another form of life, not just reorganization..."

"No matter, as long as we know how to use it, that’s all we need. Only Igniotion knows everything."

They had grown accustomed to not questioning the technology of little Igniotion; "Only Igniotion knows" had even become a common saying in society.

However, Gao Xin cared very much; he still couldn’t distinguish whether this was just another form of cyborg!

Perhaps Ignition regarded genes as mechanical entities and then pioneered even more microscopic nano-technology, implanted directly into the human body.

If that were the case, then the placebo effect would probably be useless...

"Thank goodness... Luo Yan made me exchange for the real thing. Otherwise, if I had randomly exchanged for some potion and drank it during a genetic collapse, I would have likely died. The best outcome would have been that I only thought about recombination and got it wrong."

"This mysterious substance is an unprecedented material originating from Igniotion’s unique dark logic, which humans absolutely can’t create. Luckily, the Fake Medicine also contains this ingredient; taking a tenth of the dose of Fake Medicine should lead to a hundred percent success rate."

With this thought, Gao Xin suddenly awoke with a start, realizing he was beginning to waver.

"No!"

"What do you mean ’should’? It’s inevitable success. Igniotion says it’s evolution, a quantum leap of life. This is a capability inherent to life itself."

"It’s just that for billions of years on Earth, there’s never been an environment for life to make this leap. And Igniotion has merely stepped into the dark logic of humanity, uncovering the substance needed for the environment of life’s quantum leap."

"So this thing is called a protector, just as the womb protects a fetus during growth, it’s but a nurturing ’environment’."

Gao Xin quickly firmed up his resolve because no matter what, he had to take this step.

Even if it meant death, he still had to do it. In that case, what was there to worry about?

Even if everything was as he suspected, that Radiation was a different form of cyborg, he still believed that the power of life included it!

Igniotion might have mastered dark logic beyond human understanding, but he had also mastered dark logic beyond Igniotion’s comprehension!

Who’s to say which one is inferior?

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