Chapter 152

"You... Do you mean that our family are all affected by the radiation of this meteorite, which makes them ill? "

Asked Jiang Shan incredulously.

"That's right. You've heard of radiation, haven't you?"

Zhang Wei nodded at Jiang Shan, and then said, "nuclear radiation is a kind of radiation, mainly refers to high-energy ionizing radiation such as α - ray, β - ray and γ - ray. These rays can be understood as extremely small particles released by matter. They have great energy and can impact other particles. The human body can be seen as composed of cells, which are composed of various organic substances, such as DNA and so on.

The aforementioned tiny particles with energy, such as neutrons, gamma rays and beta rays, can easily change and destroy DNA in essence. As a result of a bird hitting an airplane, cells may die or mutate, such as cancer.

Of course, small doses of ionizing radiation will not cause obvious harm to the body, because the body itself has a certain repair ability. However, if the dose is too high, which exceeds the repair ability of organs or tissues in the human body, it will cause local or systemic lesions. "

Looking at the blank faces of Ren Huaiyu, Jiang Shan and Li Cui, Zhang Wei knew that his scientific terms on the height were white, and people could not understand it at all.

However, Zhang Wei can only put it another way, "let me give you an example. During World War II, the United States dropped two atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After the nuclear explosion, hundreds of thousands of people were killed and injured in an instant, and strong nuclear radiation was also emitted. If the human body receives long-term and large dose of nuclear radiation, it will cause damage to cell organs and tissues, destroy the molecular structure of human DNA, and greatly increase the probability of human body suffering from cancer, leukemia and other diseases. As a result, survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are suffering from radiation hangovers such as cancer, leukemia and skin burns.

The situation of your family is a little similar to what I said above. This meteorite is the source of radiation. It has been emitting radiation to the outside world, and it should be ionizing radiation that is harmful to human body. Your family has been exposed to a large dose of ionizing radiation for a long time, and a large number of cells in the body have changed, so they will be comatose, suffer from cancer and peeling. "

Hearing this, Jiang Shan smiled bitterly. He could not imagine that the culprit was a humble stone. It was a real disaster! He didn't know that there were many other examples like him. For example, on January 5, 1996, an employee of a Jilin construction company named song Xuewen found a small white metal chain similar to the key chain at the ethylene construction site. The tragedy happened because he found iridium-192, a nuclear radioactive material. A few hours later, he was unconscious because of the high dose of nuclear radiation. After rescue, he survived. However, in the next two years, he had seven major operations, successively amputated his left forearm, right leg and left leg, and lost his fertility. That's why radiation is frightening!

Li Cui swears and rushes to the room where the meteorite is located. She wants to smash the meteorite and revenge for her family!

Zhang Wei quickly stopped Li Cui and said, "auntie Li, that meteorite is still useful to me. Please let me handle it."

Since he got the great inventor system, he has been very interested in all kinds of extraterrestrials, and this meteorite is also unusual, which is worthy of his study.

Li Cui naturally has no opinion. Zhang Wei is the only hope of their family now. However, she is still complaining about her dead husband, who brought such a devil stone to the house.

Zhang Wei ordered Beidou to arrange a flying car. He would take the Jiangshan family to the research building, and use the equipment in the research building to carry out a comprehensive inspection of the Jiangshan family, so as to analyze the subtle changes caused by the radiation of the meteorite to the human body, which could help him understand the human gene better. In other words, he has regarded the Jiangshan family as experimental specimens. Of course, after the analysis, he will try his best to help the Jiang Shan family recover.

A few minutes later, a flying car landed in Jiangshan's yard, and then an intelligent robot opened the door and walked down. It was zero one.

At Zhang Wei's command, zero one put the meteorite into a box made of organic radiation proof materials, and then arranged for the Jiang Shan family to take a flying car and fly to the future technology company.

Zhang Wei and Ren Huaiyu also drove the steel battle clothes and set out on their return journey.

After returning to the research building, Zhang Wei took off his steel armor, ordered Beidou to arrange a robot to take Jiang Shan's family for a comprehensive inspection, and then ordered zero one to send the meteorite to a laboratory on the fourth floor underground for preliminary analysis. This laboratory has done a high-level radiation protection treatment, which can restrict the radiation of the meteorite in the laboratory, without causing danger to the outside world Harm.

"It's a long time. Let's watch a movie together."

After Zhang Wei made the arrangements, he took Ren Huaiyu by one hand, and without waiting for Ren Huaiyu to answer, he told Beidou, "Beidou, open the holographic system, play..."

He turned to Ren Huaiyu. "What movie do you want to see?"

"Avatar 2 was released last year. I haven't seen it yet."

Ren Huaiyu said.

As soon as Ren Huaiyu's voice fell, the virtual screen in the air began to play Avatar 2. It is worth mentioning that "Avatar 2" broke the global box office record again after it was released last Christmas.

After the movie, Zhang Wei and Ren Huaiyu had dinner together, and waited for a while before the results came out.

Beidou said, "Sir, the preliminary analysis results of the meteorite have come out. The shell of the meteorite is composed of an unknown material, which is three times as strong and twice as hard as diamond. Inside the meteorite, there is also an unknown radioactive material, which has severe radiation damage to human body.

In addition, the inspection results of Jiang Shan's family have come out. Jiang Aijun, Jiang Shan's father, suffered from a series of complications and coma due to long-term and high-dose radiation. Li Cui, Jiang Shan's mother, also suffered from cancer due to long-term and high-dose radiation.

Jiang Shan's situation is a little special. He also has gene mutation, but his mutation is a beneficial mutation. According to the analysis, his body, especially the new skin born after the skin fell off, has greatly increased the resistance to radiation. Even if he receives the radiation from this meteorite for a long time, his body will not be hurt. "

"It's interesting. It's an unknown substance, and Jiang Shan has a beneficial mutation and evolved the ability to resist radiation. How lucky!"

Zhang Wei's eyes brightened.

Both human and animal are prone to gene mutation after exposure to radiation. Whether gene mutation is random, beneficial, harmful or neutral depends on the change of adaptation of mutated gene to environment, and human evolution is now facilitated by numerous beneficial mutations and natural selection, which is also the principle of evolution of all species. However, beneficial mutations are rare, and most of them are harmful to human beings, such as various genetic diseases and fetal malformations.

Therefore, Zhang Wei was excited when he knew that there was a beneficial mutation in Jiangshan, because he had a new idea, that is to collect all kinds of beneficial mutation genes of human around the world, and then study them carefully, which is very helpful for him to invent a better genetic evolution fluid. As far as he knew, there were many beneficial mutations. For example, Margaret Thatcher slept only four hours a day, but she was still energetic, because a gene named Dec2 < in her body had a beneficial mutation.

In addition, he can also use the radiation of this meteorite to induce gene mutation in human cells. Maybe there will be new surprises. This technology has already been applied. It is called radiation breeding. Scientists use various kinds of rays (such as X-rays, neutrons, etc.) to irradiate the seeds, plants or some organs and tissues of crops, so as to promote them to produce various variations, and then choose from them The good genetic variation is needed to breed new good varieties. (to be continued. )