(This chapter involves theoretical and experimental plots. Although the author has simplified it, there may still be some brain burn. If you don’t adapt, you can skip to the conclusion part at the end of this chapter)

In Todd's view, there is no other microorganism in the world with such a weird form of a tyrant.

After magnifying the sample to tens of thousands of times, the tyrant looks a bit like a native phage virus from the outside. Its head is a huge cyst, which is used to hold DNA fragments, its body is a thick and straight virus stem, and its tail is hundreds of extra-long hoses that resemble octopus tentacles.

To test the physiological characteristics of the tyrant virus, Todd specially designed a set of experiments.

Divide the twelve mice into four groups, three in each group, namely:

The first group of experimental products do nothing, they are very ordinary white mice.

The second group was injected with supernatural bacteria.

The third group was injected with Sutherland archaea and super bacteria at the same time, but the ratio of the two was controlled within a certain range to ensure that there would be no mutation.

The fourth group was injected with Sutherland archaea and versatility bacteria, but the number of versatility bacteria exceeded the carrying capacity of the archaea, which deliberately caused the experimental body to mutate.

The four groups of experimental subjects corresponded to four types of people: ordinary people, ordinary aliens, normal heirs, and mutated heirs.

The tyrant virus was injected into the bodies of four groups of mice. After a period of time, all the experimental bodies changed.

The first group of experimental subjects, representing ordinary people, developed high fever, vomiting, convulsions, and fainting within 30 minutes after the virus injection, and eventually all died.

The second group represents the common heterogeneous experimental body, and the first group fell to the same end, all of them died.

The third group of experimental subjects representing normal successors, after ten hours of struggle, finally did not get rid of the fate of death.

The last group of experimental subjects representing the mutation inheritors, after being injected with the tyrant, gradually stopped the body's mutation, and the body surface and organs returned to their normal state, retaining the basic external stress ability.

How is this going?

Todd picked out one mouse from each of the four groups of experimental products, and began anatomical tests.

Opening the skull of the first mouse, Todd was taken aback by the situation inside. Although the brain had stopped functioning, the cortical cells of the brain were all covered by a shrinking black mesh film.

It looked like someone had used a layer of black plastic cling film to tightly cover the entire nervous system of the subject.

Todd put the mouse's brain slice under a microscope, and after some observation, he finally obtained the tyrant's physiological data.

The working principle of tyrants is similar to that of bacteriophages. They use protein-made tentacles to land on the cell surface, then pierce the tentacles into the cell nucleus, extract high-quality DNA fragments in the cell (the preferred strategy is temporarily unknown), and then inhale these DNA into the virus. Preserve in the pouch.

When it completes the phagocytosis of a group of cells, it will select the next group of targets to continue the process.

When the number of DNA fragments in the capsule reaches a certain amount, the tyrant virus will stop phagocytosis and turn to be like a larva as a cocoon, using the surrounding free protein and other nutrient tissues to generate a large spherical virus nest (VirusNest).

The process of the birth of this sphere is one of the most incredible links that Todd found.

Tens of thousands of tyrant viruses gathered together and stretched their protein tentacles to their limit. Each two viruses used the ends of the tentacles to overlap each other to form a hollow tubular channel as a bridge. So many viruses form a three-dimensional grid-like spherical virus nest together through the tentacle pipes connected to each other.

What happened next was the most exciting scene.

The tyrant virus transfers the DNA fragments of the head through the stem of the virus to the tentacles of the tail, and then through the pipes built by the tentacles to the heads of other viruses, just like a three-dimensional pipe network running at high speed, between viruses. DNA exchange and screening are in progress.

In this process, the tyrant activates all the genes in the sleeping non-coding region of the DNA and replicates them in large quantities. Then these tyrant viruses are like pickers on the assembly line of the workshop. The fully activated DNA fragments are compared and checked, and then thrown away. Remove the inferior and useless fragments, leave the high-quality parts, and finally reassemble these fragments in the virus nest to form a new and evolved biological gene.

But for unknown reasons, most of the genes in the existing organisms were all characterized by the Tyrant Virus as inferior and useless genes, which caused all the deaths of the first three groups of experimental subjects.

The working principle of the tyrant virus has been figured out. Next, we will talk about the relationship between it and the Sutherland Archaea.

Sutherland Archaea is a very special kind of bacteria. When it is in a normal state, it is not much different from other bacteria, and it cannot resist the invasion of tyrant virus in terms of defense function.

However, when it mutates, there will be drastic physiological changes in the bacteria, and a very special catalytic enzyme (Enzyme) will be produced on the surface. The main function of this catalytic enzyme, which is mainly composed of protein, is to greatly improve cell activity, promote the process of archaeal mutation, and provide energy for the entire mutation. But this enzyme also has an interesting side effect-when the tyrant virus invades, they use their own enzyme protein to temporarily protect the main tissues in the organism from harm.

The fourth group of experimental subjects, the mutated heirs, did not die because of the catalytic enzyme secreted by Sutherland Archaea after mutation.

Moreover, when the fight between viruses and archaea reaches the final stage, the tyrant virus will stop swallowing, and instead connect to each other to form a virus nest to assemble and release those evolutionary genes. Sutherland archaea also consume a large amount of catalytic enzymes. As a result, the mutation process is terminated, and the archaea return to their normal state and begin to accumulate new enzyme proteins.

Does this process sound complicated?

If you compare the Sutherland Archaea and the Tyrant Virus as a couple, it will be much easier to understand.

Tyrant virus is a grumpy wife, who always upsets the family (attacks all cells) for a little thing. As a husband, Sutherland Archaea is a strict wife and dare not resist. As long as you drink a few sips of wine (the archaea mutate) and you have the courage in your body (the archaea produce catalytic enzymes), you dare to confront your wife. But after a fight, the couple will always get back together in the end. (The tyrant virus stops phagocytosis and begins gene assembly; Sutherland archaea exhausts its catalytic enzyme, causing mutation to stop.)

After figuring out the working principle of the Tyrant Virus and the relationship between it and the Sutherland Archaea, Todd finally understood the series of visions caused by this strange virus.

In the laboratory log, Todd wrote down the preliminary results of the Tyrant Virus:

1. The definition of tyrant: This is a virus similar to bacteriophages, which can be assembled into new evolutionary genes by extracting DNA fragments from other microorganisms.

2. The tyrant swallows normal cells, plunders the DNA fragments in the cells, and stores them in their own body.

3. Tyrant viruses can be connected to each other, combined and built into a virus nest, and DNA fragments are activated, screened, recombined and assembled in the nest, and finally new and evolved biological genes are generated.

4. Ordinary people, ordinary alien species, and unmutated successors ~lightnovelpub.net~ will be swallowed up by the tyrants and eventually die.

5. The mutated successor, the mutated Sutherland archaea in its body, can produce a catalytic enzyme that maintains the mutation process, and this enzyme can resist the tyrant's swallowing. When the tyrant reaches a certain upper limit in the phagocytic cells, the virus will stop attacking, and instead form a virus nest, and begin genetic recombination and evolution. During this period of time, the catalytic enzymes of the mutant archaea are also consumed to a certain extent due to the resistance to the virus, and the entire mutation process will be terminated at the same time. A virus attack.

Sixth, the strange creatures such as griffins and manticores should have been exposed to the tyrant virus after they mutated, and eventually caused the genetic evolution in the body to become what it is today.

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