Chapter 93 Longevity Hypothesis

"There are a lot of things..." After completing the construction of the steelmaking blast furnace, Yu Yifeng finally let out a long breath.

The quality of these quickly refined steels is all crude steel, and the quality can only be said to be so-so, barely usable. But people don't care, as long as the output goes up. These machines are all mass-produced. They don’t care about packaging or taste. It doesn’t matter if a few of them break down.

Besides, the oxygen content on Mars is very low, so there is no need to worry about rust. The biggest shortcoming of crude steel has been avoided. After the robot breaks down, it can be dismantled and recycled, and the raw materials are not afraid of being lost...

In the following period, both the Noah and the major mining areas were in full swing.

In factories, assembly lines are replicated and added one after another, and industrial capacity continues to increase.

In mining areas, the number of excavators and robots is also increasing. Once their numbers increase, they have the ability to move mountains and seas. Mines are mined one after another, and large pits appear on the ground.

The number of supporting steel-making blast furnaces has increased to five! The power consumption of the entire spacecraft has greatly exceeded the plan. But it doesn't matter, people have plenty of uranium mines, just build a few more nuclear power plants.

Yu Yifeng feels that the entire new human civilization has a "runaway" rough beauty.

What should I do if the plan cannot keep up with changes and many engineering projects exceed expectations and are completed ahead of schedule? We can't just wait around, we can only make a temporary plan to let them continue working.

The production of these machines, such as super excavators and super trains, requires a large amount of steel, which was impossible to predict in the original plan, so steel production could only be temporarily increased.

In this way, as temporary plans are made one by one, the original forecast plan is of little use. The entire industrial system is becoming larger and more complex day by day. But overall, only resources and electricity consumption seriously exceed standards, and the overall industrial production capacity is relatively refined and orderly.

In Yu Yifeng's mind, it's absolutely okay to exceed the standard of resource consumption. Even if it's a little extravagant and wasteful, it's not a big deal. With the continuous supply of massive excavators, there are plenty of resources, and they have been piled up into large mines...

In the spaceship, the industrial area greatly exceeds the residential area, with a total area of ​​260 square kilometers!

It is brightly lit and lined with machinery, and a large number of conveyor tracks are laid out to transport different materials to each assembly line. Many staff members shuttled back and forth, busy.

Now, the workers' main job is to be responsible for related monitoring, maintenance of automated machinery, and some bug correction work. If it reaches the later stages of factory construction, even the final maintenance will be the responsibility of the robot itself.

While Yu Yifeng was satisfied, he also had a headache.

From now on, with the completion of the first few phases of the Kinov Industrial Factory, many laboratories have begun to free up their hands to study things they like. As a result, the technology lines on the Noah were a bit messy, making him feel like he was overwhelmed.

A large number of technologies are developing simultaneously. How can he manage them all by himself? He can only have a rough understanding of them. He will not take care of technologies that are not black shells and let the scientists handle them themselves.

I won’t go into detail about other small technologies. Generally speaking, there are several general directions to take: automatic industrialization, research on perfect hormones, exploration of long-lived viruses, research on new space shuttles, and the manufacturing of space war weapons.

For some reason, he always felt a little frightened. Although this feeling has lasted for a long time, it has been extremely obvious in recent times.

The Jinov Industrial Factory can now produce automatically, and excavators can go to the ground to mine smoothly. The resources accumulated on the Noah are increasing day by day, and people's living environment has also improved... What else can we worry about?

Yu Yifeng frowned tightly, he really couldn't think of it.

"Could it be those biotechnologies studied by humans? Could it be that humans have touched black shells?" Yu Yifeng pondered and opened a report, which was sent by Professor Constantine.

"The complexity of the longevity virus far exceeds our imagination. Its properties are very weird, with low vitality and low reproductive capacity. I don't know why it can survive until now..."

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

"Its genes contain a large number of strange sequences of unknown meaning, and there are particularly many redundant fragments..."

This is the report written by Professor Constantine to Yu Yifeng. Seeing this, Yu Yifeng frowned deeply again.

What humans dislike the most is things like this that don’t understand the principles.

"Ordinary Martian microorganisms are only slightly more complex than Earth viruses, and human science can still analyze them. But longevity viruses are extremely complex. Compared with ordinary Martian viruses, the gap is like the gap between a rich king and a poor beggar..."

"We are puzzled by this phenomenon. How could extremely complex species evolve among a group of ordinary microorganisms?"

Seeing this, Yu Yifeng was deeply worried. Could it be that he was worried about the longevity virus?

But the temptation it brings to human beings is so great that it is impossible to give up directly... Many great scientists are in their fifties. In a few years, their bodies will decline. If there is a longevity virus, life will be reduced. How great would it be to grow for 50 years?

But this kind of temptation may be accompanied by a fatal crisis, which really puts people in a dilemma.

Continuing to read, Constantine explained in the report: "We suspect that the longevity virus is evolving in the direction of bacteria, which is why it is so complex... Perhaps it will become the first bacterium on Mars!"

This explanation makes some sense, and Yu Yifeng nodded in his heart.

"But... the genius of our research group also proposed another possibility. It is because of an unknown reason that the advanced organisms have degenerated to the current stage... We have never seen the degeneration of life, maybe this is just a bold guess!"

Degenerating from advanced to low? If this is true, then something extraordinary must have happened on Mars.

Obviously, Professor Constantine was also full of doubts. He wrote at the end, "We want to trim off the redundant genes and keep only the core part to see if we can still stimulate the activity of stem cells..."

Yu Yifeng was silent and paced back and forth in the captain's room. He suppressed his uneasiness. Scientists are very cautious about the longevity virus. As long as it is strictly controlled, there should be no disasters such as biochemical crises.

He has made up his mind not to allow any human experiments before thoroughly understanding the mechanism of action. For those who have been infected with the Martian virus, they must also have a physical examination every now and then, including himself.

I am in a bad mood, and my score is very poor. I may have to put it on the shelf if it does not reach 3,000 collections (QAQ)... This subject is still too niche, and not many people read it.

My mind is a bit empty, and I can't type a few words after sitting in front of the computer for a long time. I beg everyone to let me relax for a few days. Of course, I am not going to enter the palace. I can only update once a day these days... I am sorry, I really can't write anything. After a few days, I will accept the fact that I failed, and then update twice a day...