Chapter 86

On the experimental table, five X-weapons awaited the injection of the evolution agent.

Evolution and longevity are the two great miracles of Blood Orchid.

The genetic analysis of the Titan Serpents indicated that they lived for a long time, each one over two hundred years old, and some even lived for thousands of years. However, what Chen Ang paid more attention to was the atavism in their genes, which were extremely close to those of their ancestors—the Titan Pythons.

This discovery directly promoted Chen Ang's further research on Blood Orchid.

The anti-aging effect of the Blood Orchid agent lies in its unique impact on human genes, optimizing and recombining redundant genes. Chen Ang discovered the secret and developed the agent in two directions: one for longevity and the other for gene optimization.

This is the subsequent series of Blood Orchid agents: the longevity agent and the evolution agent. This blood-red solution is particularly precious due to the need for natural components from Blood Orchid. If the longevity agent is a gentle development of Blood Orchid's properties, then the evolution agent is the complex and maximized optimization and alteration of genes by the Blood Orchid agent.

The giant pythons might be able to revert to their ancestral form, but Chen Ang had no intention of becoming an ape. The extreme complexity, unknown nature, and uncontrollability of the evolution agent must be thoroughly researched and controlled to be used reliably. The evolutionary path for other organisms is an unknown gamble—change and then select, eliminate or adapt. This is the path of evolution, selecting the victors from unknown changes through the harshest natural selection.

Nature is like this, creating extremely perfect organisms through natural selection, including the great existence of humans. However, in unseen places, brutal elimination also occurs. The remains of the eliminated, such as Homo sapiens and Homo habilis, can only be found in museums for people to visit. The evolution agent is a product of natural selection.

The brutal and direct nature of this process is the path of evolution.

But this is not Chen Ang's path. He doesn't like to leave everything to nature. He prefers to learn, research, and explore the mysteries of genes and evolution, seeking patterns and secrets in the complex, astronomical number of human genetic codes. He is a seeker of the Way, and learning and research are his path.

So, he injected the evolution agent but controlled the process with his powerful control over his body in a hyper-frequency state. The genes and changes were constrained, like a novice cultivator who merely follows his body to perform the most basic breathing and sensing of qi. Chen Ang used gentle internal energy to influence the life essence, slowly advancing on the path trodden by his predecessors.

The transformation of the life essence by qi, combined with the optimization of the evolution agent, progressed at an astonishing rate. However, the original gene mutations and alterations caused by the evolution agent were slow and cumbersome. The only unique ability, 'gravity control,' was more a result of brain development, with genes merely providing a strong body to support it.

Chen Ang's body had super speed, super strength, and super senses, but only to the biological limit, not an excellent evolutionary ability. Compared to the experimental evolutionists' 'temperature control,' 'environmental adaptation,' and 'telepathy,' it seemed somewhat backward and clumsy.

But everything is just the beginning. Basic physiological optimization is only the first step in evolution. Chen Ang's path to cracking and researching human genes, with their astronomical number of genetic codes, is like a supreme cultivation technique, step by step, allowing Chen Ang to embark on a suitable path of evolution and cultivation.

The X-Men, X-genes, superpowers, and technology, physics and biology, the extremely fragile energy space physical rules, the easily manipulated world, the lenient rules for superpowers, and the mysterious mutant genes. This is a world of superpowers and evolution, a treasure trove for Chen Ang's research in advanced physics and genetics.

The blood-red evolution agent gradually disappeared into the Steel Man's body. His metallic skin trembled violently, like ripples, writhing and shaking. Inside his body, a transformative change was occurring intensely.

The chromosomes in the cell nuclei collapsed dramatically and rapidly recombined under the influence of the agent. Some redundant and useless genes underwent significant changes and mutations, and new gene segments began to function.

Chen Ang controlled the experimental table, providing nutrients and metal materials to promote the stable and continuous occurrence of this change.

A war broke out inside the Steel Man's body. The cells, undergoing complex changes, continuously recombined their genes, proliferating and growing wildly. The Steel Man's body visibly swelled, and red-hot cracks appeared in his skin. The surrounding metal rapidly melted and entered his body.

Different metal components in some cell nuclei combined to form new metal cells, creating a variety of alloys that could drive material scientists to madness. These new alloy cells were quickly eliminated, leaving only the most suitable metals for the human body.

Countless metal cells were born, evolved, and eliminated. Various incredible black materials rapidly appeared and disappeared. Superconducting metal cells with zero resistance, lava metal cells with extremely high thermal conductivity, gravity-free metal cells with their own magnetic fields, and liquid metal cells with excellent physical properties at room temperature...

These black technologies were produced by an extreme coincidence and were then extracted by Chen Ang as samples before quickly disappearing. At the same time, billions of metal cells were evolving, most of which were ordinary waste. However, within this vast sample, many miracles in materials science still appeared, each with the potential to revolutionize human technology.

But they still quietly perished.

Only Chen Ang recorded their properties and genes, preserving these precious samples. The miracles produced by the combination of the evolution agent and X-gene superpowers could not be replicated by Chen Ang again.

The evolution agent is like a key, unlocking the treasure trove of wealth in the mutants' bodies.

Through the evolution research of the Steel Man alone, Chen Ang obtained many invaluable data on human mutation, metal superpowers, X-genes, and alloy materials. The most exciting discovery for Chen Ang was the solidification research of metal cells. This iron-based life form has both technological and biological attributes, with infinite potential.

The Steel Man is like a technological scripture. Chen Ang quickly flipped through the content about metal and life, peering into the full mysteries of his superpowers. Chen Ang didn't even need to research to find hundreds of ways to deconstruct him. From then on, the Steel Man's superpowers held no secrets for him. A small amount of a specific oxidizer could turn the 'Steel Man' into 'rust slag.'

Time flew by, and Chen Ang had long forgotten his joke about destroying the world, fully devoted to his research.

In the Star Wars universe, humans built furnaces on white dwarfs, using magnetic fields and gravity to smelt metal materials, even manufacturing metal products deep within stars. Countless alien races created numerous materials with excellent properties and special physical attributes, and there were various magical metal organisms in the universe.

Chen Ang had even personally dissected an iron-based life form.

However, that world, with its relatively rigorous physical laws, was far less crazy than this one. Chen Ang was amazed, watching a mass of writhing metal in his hand, displaying various incredible abilities. Some abilities even overturned the basic laws of physics, like Wolverine's mass-conservation-defying healing ability and Iceman's energy-conservation-defying ice-making ability.

"Truly a crazy world," Chen Ang said in surprise.

In the world Chen Ang came from, humans had the good fortune to glimpse a corner of the microscopic world and marveled at its dazzling wonders—uncertainty principle, electron transitions, observer effect. The laws of the macroscopic world collapsed here. All theorems of time, space, and determinism were destroyed beyond recognition.

However, no matter how bizarre the microscopic world was, an invisible barrier made the laws of the microscopic world collapse in the macroscopic world. From the microscopic to the real, and from the real to the macroscopic, a change that humans do not yet understand made the barrier between them insurmountable.

In the X-Men world, this barrier has collapsed!

The laws of the microscopic world can break through the barrier and affect the macroscopic world.

Atomic decay, telepathy, time travel, electromagnetic effects, spatial transitions—various superpowers act on the real world according to principles that fit the microscopic world but not the real world, leaving Chen Ang puzzled.

The laws of the microscopic and macroscopic worlds intertwine in the real world.

Therefore, the physical laws here are unusually sparse. Even the telekinesis that weighed only five kilograms in the "Limitless" world was amplified by two thousand times in the X-Men world.

The advanced science and mathematics from the Star Wars universe played an immeasurable role here. Chen Ang could simulate the super-technology of the Star Wars world—gravity wells—using only five tons of gravity control force, creating a mass effect comparable to a planet and influencing Earth's gravity.