Chapter 51 - Longevity Conjecture

"There's a lot going on ..." After finishing the construction of the steelmaking blast furnace, Oliver finally let out a long breath.

These quickly refined steel, quality are crude steel, the quality can only be said to be sloppy, barely usable. But people don't care, as long as the production comes up. These machines are mass-production type, not about packaging, taste, broken a few units does not matter.

Besides, the oxygen content on Mars is very low, there is no need to consider rusting or anything, the biggest drawback of crude steel has been avoided away. After the robot is broken, it can also be disassembled and recycled, the raw materials are not afraid of losing ...

In the next period of time, both the Noah and the major mines, are a hot scene.

In the factory, the assembly line is replicating and increasing one by one, and the industrial capacity is increasing.

In the mines, the number of excavators and robots was also increasing. Once their numbers came up, they had the ability to move mountains and seas, and a mine was leveled and a large pit appeared on the ground.

And the supporting steelmaking blast furnaces have increased to five! The power consumption of the entire ship has exceeded the plan significantly. But it doesn't matter, people have plenty of uranium mines, just build a few more nuclear power plants.

Oliver feels that the whole new human civilization has a kind of "stormy" brutal beauty.

Many projects have been completed ahead of schedule and ahead of schedule, so what should we do? Can not wait there dry, can only temporarily develop a plan, let them continue to do.

Like the super excavator, super train, the production of these machines need to use a lot of steel, and the original plan is impossible to predict, so we can only temporarily increase steel production.

In this way, a temporary plan down, the original forecast program is of little use. The whole industrial system is getting bigger and more complicated day by day. But in general, only the resources and electricity consumption are seriously exceeded, and the overall industrial capacity is still relatively fine and orderly.

In Oliver's heart, resource consumption over the limit is completely fine, even if the spread of waste a little, it is not a big deal, in the sea of excavators a constant supply of resources, more than enough, and has been piled into a large mine ...

In the ship, the industrial area greatly surpassed the residential area, a total area of two hundred and sixty square kilometers!

Inside, the lights are bright, the machinery is full of lights, and a large number of conveyor tracks are laid in it to transport different materials for each assembly line. Many workers were shuttling around, busy.

Now, the workers' main job is to be responsible for related monitoring, maintenance of automated machinery, and some bug correction work. If we reach the later stage of the factory construction, even the final maintenance is taken care of by the robots themselves.

Oliver's heart is satisfied and at the same time has some headaches.

From now on, with the completion of the first few phases of the Genov industrial factory, many laboratories are beginning to free up their hands to research what they like. In this way, the technology line on the Noah was a bit messy, giving him a feeling of being too busy.

A large number of technology and head development, he alone how to manage over, only a cursory understanding, not the black shell type of technology will not bother much, let the scientists get their own go.

Other small technologies will not say much, in general, there are several major directions to go: automatic industrialization, the research of perfectin, the mapping of longevity virus, the research of new space shuttle, and the manufacture of space warfare weapons.

For some reason, he always had some heart-stopping feeling. Although this feeling had lasted for a long time, it had been unusually obvious in recent times.

The Genov industrial factory could already produce automatically, the excavators were also smoothly going down to dig, the resources piled up on the Noah were increasing day by day, and people's living environment had become better ... What else could be worried about?

Oliver tightly frowned, he really can not think of ah.

"Could it be that the human research of those biotechnology? Could it be that humans have touched the black shell?" Oliver pondered and casually opened a report, which was sent by Professor Constantine.

"The longevity virus, whose complexity is far beyond our imagination, is very odd in nature, with low vitality and low reproductive capacity, and somehow managed to survive until now ..."

"After it invades the human body, it will soon die because it cannot adapt to the environment."

"Its genes contain a large number of strange sequences of unknown meaning, with an unusually high number of redundant fragments ..."

This was the report written by Professor Constantine to Oliver, and seeing this, Oliver's brow furrowed deeply again.

What human beings dislike most is this kind of stuff that can't figure out the principle.

"Ordinary Martian microorganisms, and only slightly more complex than Earth viruses, the science that humans already have is still able to analyze. But the longevity virus is exceptionally complex, and ordinary Martian viruses than, it is like the gap between a rich king and a poor beggar ..."

"We are puzzled by this phenomenon, a group of ordinary microorganisms among the group, how can evolve an unusually complex species?"

Seeing this, Oliver was deeply worried, could it be that he was worried about the longevity virus?

But the temptation it brings to mankind is so great again, it is impossible to give up directly ah ... many big scientists are more than fifty years old, a few more years, the body will go downhill, if there is a longevity virus, will life grow 50 years, how good it would be!

But this temptation, and may be accompanied by a fatal crisis, really let people in a dilemma.

Reading further, Constantine explained in his report, "We suspect that the longevity virus is evolving in the direction of a bacterium, which is why it is causing it to be unusually complex ... Perhaps, it will become the first bacterium of Mars!"

This explanation kinda makes sense, Oliver nodded in his mind.

"But ... the genius of our research group has also suggested another possibility, that it has degenerated from an advanced organism to its current stage because of an unknown reason ... we have never seen the degeneration of life before, so maybe this is just a bold conjecture!"

Degeneration from higher to lower? If this is really the case, then something remarkable must have happened on Mars.

Obviously, Professor Constantine's mind was also full of doubts, he wrote at the end,, "We want to prune out the redundant genes and keep only the core part to see if we can still stimulate the activity of stem cells ..."

Oliver was silent, pacing back and forth in the captain's room. He forced himself to hold back the feeling of unease in his heart, the scientists were very cautious about the longevity virus, and as long as it was tightly controlled, there should not be a disaster like a biological crisis.

He had already made up his mind not to allow any human experiments until the mechanism of action was thoroughly understood. For people who had been infected with the Martian virus, they also had to be physically examined once every three days, including himself, of course.