But Shi Man also needs cooperation for some subsequent matters.
"Yes, two of my researchers stayed up all night and didn't sleep for three days. They were resting, so I didn't bring them to see you. Another person is Director Yang Lin, who is in charge of the institute's personnel administration and logistics."
Shi Man nodded. She remembered that when Ji Xueya took her to handle the job application, she had met Director Yang, a decisive woman.
Zhang Qiming sighed and whispered, "Yang Lin's situation is a bit complicated. Her daughter, Yang Xue, is the so-called Blesser."
"Blessed One?" Shi Man frowned. "You mean, the kind that became a so-called evolver after Huang Mingzhu touched their head?"
Zhang Qiming nodded. "The core area calls them blessing givers. Yang Xue's body size has undergone a significant change—her original height of 1.6 meters has skyrocketed to 3.2 meters in 72 hours. Her muscle tissue has overgrown, and the muscle fiber density has reached five times that of a normal human. Even more unusual is that her bone structure has been reorganized, and chitinous sheaths similar to those of arthropods have appeared at her joints."
"The last time Yang Lin saw her, she secretly took some samples from Yang Xue. That was the last time Yang Lin and Yang Xue had any contact. By then, Yang Xue had already displayed typical aggressive behavior disorder and had even lost her ability to recognize her mother's face. I asked my old friend at the medical center to run some tests."
"It was found that the metabolic activity of Yang Xue's prefrontal cortex decreased by 83%, while the amygdala area was abnormally active."
"Mass spectrometry analysis and whole-genome sequencing revealed that a large amount of foreign DNA was embedded in her gene sequence. In particular, her telomerase activity was abnormally elevated, and her cell division cycle was completely disrupted—this is beyond the scope of the human genome and is more like a completely new species that has undergone directed evolution."
Zhang Qiming's eyes flashed with a trace of undisguised fear, and his voice was low and tense: "This is not a blessing, but a genetic disaster - her DNA is being forcibly reorganized by some unknown mechanism, like a puzzle piece being forced into countless foreign genes. It will eventually collapse!"
Shi Man's brow furrowed, his fingertips tapping his arm unconsciously. "Can the source of the foreign DNA be determined? Have any specific species-specific sequences been found?"
Zhang Qiming shook his head, took off his glasses wearily, and rubbed his brow. "The sequencing results show that her genome is mixed with chitin synthesis genes from arthropods, mutant myostatin from mammals, and even fragments of extreme environmental adaptation similar to those of deep-sea creatures... But these sequences have all been broken up and reassembled, as if they were randomly spliced together by some algorithm."
He chuckled bitterly. "The equipment at the medical center is so outdated. They don't even have a second-generation sequencer. They can only rely on PCR amplification and Sanger sequencing to piece together the clues... If it were a regular lab, they could at least identify a few key traces of gene editing."
"This news is probably even more troublesome than the Mind Hugger's use of humans as surrogate mothers for reproduction." Shi Man took a deep breath. "I suspect the genetic sequences in these so-called Blessed Ones were the result of Mind Huggers parasitizing or using them for reproduction and hybridization."
“Breaking it down and reassembling it again and again, constantly mixing it up.”
"Perhaps before this, the brain-hugger chose other organisms as surrogate mothers, and through gene editing and recombination, it gradually evolved into what we see today."
"And this time, the ones chosen as their stepping stone for evolution are humans!" This chapter has been read (please click on the next chapter to continue reading!)
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