Evolution game, nothing more than that!

"No, I thought you were going to... Never mind, as for blood, there's some in the freezer. You can take as much as you want."

Alexander shook his head and said so.

——He originally thought that even if the other party didn't kill him, he would lock him up and use him as an experimental subject, but he didn't expect that they would just ask for a little blood.

This was no price at all for him.

After all, after entering the 20th century, with the development of science, Alexander also realized the scientific research value of his blood and began to invest in various research institutes to conduct research on it early on.

In order to facilitate the acquisition of samples, he would draw some of his own blood almost every month, refrigerate it, and then send it to those research institutes regularly.

This month's share was just drawn out a few days ago, and it's not time to give it away yet. Since Yi Shen and the others want it, it's okay to give it all to them.

Chapter 237: The Aftermath

When Yi Shen and the other two left the mirror with dozens of tubes of refrigerated "perfect blood", the door of the captain's room was knocked open with a "bang".

"Boss, what happened? We heard a loud noise and the door won't open..."

The captain who rushed in was stunned when he saw the messy room and Alexander who seemed to be fine.

"Nothing, just a little accident. Come and help clean it up."

Alexander glanced at his men and sighed, realizing that while they were fighting, the other party had been sealing off the room and preventing outsiders from entering, which showed how easily they were doing it.

So, he didn't tell them what had just happened.

There is no way. The other party is too strong. Since I can't take revenge, I shouldn't cause trouble for my subordinates.

……

On the other side, after obtaining the perfect blood, Yi Shen and the other two first sent Sakurajima Mai back to Japan through the mirror world. Then he and Yamasaki An stayed in Budapest as tourists for another day, and boarded the plane the next day to leave Hungary.

As for the original werewolf William who was originally going to be killed... considering that his father Alexander was so sensible, Yi Shen spared his life for the time being.

Anyway, that guy was imprisoned in the mountains. Unless the mountain was blown up or there was a key to open it, he couldn't get out. The key itself was divided into two parts. One half was on Lucien, the pendant that always hung around his neck, and the other half was hidden by Victor in his flesh and blood on his chest. Both were burned by the flames in the battle with Emilia, so there was no need to mention them again.

Marcus, the only one who had the motivation to release William, had already died at the hands of Yi Shen. So there was no need to worry about William's threat in the short term.

However, the impact of this series of changes in Budapest has just begun.

Apart from anything else, the strange phenomenon that occurred throughout the city when Emilia launched the sacrificial ceremony alone has triggered countless conspiracy theories on the Internet.

Some said it was the government testing secret weapons, some said it was an alien invasion, and some said it was an evil wizard performing a demonic sacrifice (I guessed it right!)...

In short, all kinds of statements and speculations are rampant on the Internet, and even some mainstream media have begun to discuss this matter.

In the end, Alexander had to work very hard to suppress public opinion. The official defined the incident as "collective infrasound symptoms caused by low-frequency oscillations caused by geological movements." At the same time, a large number of hot news stories appeared on the Internet to distract netizens' attention, allowing the turmoil to gradually subside.

In addition to the turmoil on the Internet and in public opinion, there are also a lot of troubles in reality.

After the leaders of both werewolves and vampires died, the werewolves and vampires scattered outside Budapest completely lost the supervision of their superiors.

It doesn't take foresight to guess that these dark creatures will, after their initial confusion, quickly begin to form cliques, re-establish order, and establish their status.

And in this process, there will inevitably be fights between each other - not only between vampires and werewolves, but also between vampires and vampires, and werewolves and werewolves.

Such a war is bound to affect ordinary people and cause large-scale unrest.

However, this has little to do with Yi Shen and the others.

Anyway, vampires and werewolves are basically distributed in Europe and America, and there are very few in Asia. As long as they don't run to the east and cause any big trouble, Yi Shen has no intention of killing them all, so let Alexander worry about it.

That is, he always felt that he seemed to have forgotten something, but this thought only flashed through his mind for a moment before it was wiped out by an invisible force, and the fact that he had "forgotten something" was also forgotten.

So, what did Yi Shen forget?

……

“Emilia… is dead? Ha, hahaha, hahahaha~!!!”

When she sensed that the restrictions in her soul suddenly disappeared, the undead banshee Shyvana immediately realized that something seemed to be wrong with her master Emilia.

After that, after making inquiries from many sources, she found out what happened in Budapest and learned that all the high-ranking vampires had disappeared for unknown reasons and were suspected to be dead. Then she finally understood that the chain that had been tied around her neck had finally been broken!

She is free!

She was so ecstatic that she burst into laughter in her castle and didn't stop for a long time.

"Sure enough, I was right! Emilia isn't the Lord of Change's true patron. I am. I am the one who truly comprehends God's will and is favored by God!"

Shyvana felt the attention in her consciousness that was several times stronger than before, and she felt extremely happy.

This was proof that God had increased his attention on her.

At the same time, she could also feel that she had gained a kind of protection.

After careful observation, she came to understand that this was a secret protection that could conceal her mystical presence and allow those who were hostile to her to ignore her.

"Yes, Emilia's death must have been caused by someone murdering her. The biggest suspect is undoubtedly the player who previously disrupted the sacrifice plan. God gave me this protection because he thought that if they noticed me now, I would have no chance of winning..."

After calming down from her joy, Shyvana had to admit that she was still too weak.

The last time she met those players, she was no match for them, not to mention that even Emilia was dead this time. She was much weaker than Emilia, and if she really met such a strong enemy, she would not be able to escape death.

"But it doesn't matter. I'm both a player and a follower of the God. It's only a matter of time before I become stronger!"

Shyvana thought confidently.

Isn't that what Emilia is like?

She had only entered the Evolution Game a few missions earlier than herself, yet she had become so powerful. If she could weave more conspiracies in the mission world, guide changes, and please the Lord of Change, God's grace would surely continue to flow. Coupled with the various skills granted by the Evolution Game, she would soon be able to reach or even surpass Emilia's level!

"Of course, before that, I must keep a low profile. God's protection isn't omnipotent. If I jump too high and make too much noise, it'll be impossible for me to avoid being noticed. Before I gain truly powerful strength, I must be patient..."

Thinking of this, Shyvana suppressed the urge to cause trouble and waited for the next evolution game mission to begin.

Chapter 238 Genetic Modification

In the vast rest area, Yi Shen was sitting cross-legged, while Yamasaki An and Sakurajima Mai were looking at him nervously.

"Hey, are you really going to do this? This is going to change your DNA. If anything goes wrong, the free treatment at this rest area might not be enough to save you!"

Sakurajima Mai said with concern.

Although Yamasaki An didn't say anything, the worry in her eyes was exactly the same.

"Don't worry, I've already checked it countless times in the AI, and I've also recorded my initial DNA profile. Even if there's any error, I can just change it back. Don't worry!"

Yi Shen said this, asking the two not to worry too much.

Yes, Yi Shen is doing something big this time - he wants to change his genes!

The cause of the incident was naturally the "perfect blood" from Alexander.

After returning home, Yi Shen immediately began to study the blood.

——Thanks to the previous battle with Emilia, the enhanced perspective brought by asking Jesus' divine power to possess him allowed his perception ability to reach the molecular level within the cell, allowing him to directly observe the structure and even the base sequence of DNA.

This allowed him to read the genetic sequence contained in the "perfect blood" by himself without any observation equipment.

After importing these gene sequences into AI, he compared them with the genes of ordinary people, Michael's genes, werewolf genes, and vampire genes. After spending some time, he finally found the "immortality gene" that made the Covenas family immortal.

Of course, pure immortality means nothing to Yi Shen.

Because for him, who has the ability to control cells and can synthesize stem cells at will, he has already achieved immortality on the physical level.

What Yi Shen really values ​​is the powerful evolutionary potential contained in this immortality gene!

Not to mention that after being bitten by bats and wolves, one can directly turn into fantasy creatures such as vampires and werewolves. Just looking at Alexander himself, he did not mutate into an inhuman monster like his two sons, but by constantly absorbing external pathogens and absorbing advantageous genes, he evolved himself to the level of "superman" on the biological level.

If we only talk about physical strength, if Yi Shen strips away his own biological force field, elemental force blessing and blessing enhancement, the enhancement brought by the super soldier serum alone is far from comparable to Alexander.

Super soldiers are merely the pinnacle of humanity, but Alexander has surpassed humanity, though he still looks human in appearance.

Yi Shen was of course envious of such physical strength.

After all, his various force field blessings, elemental force blessings, and blessing blessings are, in the final analysis, multiplications on the original basis. Even if his foundation is average, the stacking of several blessings can still make him stronger and stronger than a physical warrior who specializes in body refining. But if the foundation also becomes stronger, then with the addition of various blessings, his strength is likely to advance by leaps and bounds, far surpassing the past.

It just so happened that after the Battle of Budapest, the precision of his perception increased by leaps and bounds, and he had already penetrated into the DNA molecular level and could directly observe the base sequence. For him who possessed a biological force field, being able to perceive meant being able to interfere. As long as he knew the relevant knowledge, he could perform genetic modification surgery on himself!

However, this was the first time that Yi Shen had tried to insert a foreign gene into his own genome. To be on the safe side, he chose to perform the operation in the absolutely safe rest area of ​​the Evolution Game. He also brought two teammates with him to help watch over him.

After everything was ready, Yi Shen nodded to the two girls, closed his eyes, and concentrated all his energy into his body, deep into every cell.

His perception continued to penetrate deeper into the cell, including the cell membrane, the various organelles in the cytoplasm, the cell nucleus, the long chain of DNA coiled on the nucleosome, and even the individual bases in the long chain.

The mysteries of the human body and the mysteries of genes were all displayed before his eyes at this moment.

Yi Shen found the location where the "immortality gene" should be inserted, and mobilized the biological force field with his mind, turning it into an invisible knife, instantly cutting the molecular bonds between the bases and separating this section of DNA chain.

After the DNA was broken, Yi Shen manipulated the force field to capture the free bases in the cell nucleus and connected them one by one according to the base sequence of the longevity gene. After all the writing was completed, he reconnected it with the broken DNA chain at the back end.

At this point, the gene insertion transformation operation is completed.

All of this may seem simple, but it is actually a very detailed and complicated job.

To give an example, this is equivalent to a programmer writing a program, but not using a programming language. Instead, he directly uses an embroidery needle to carve 0s and 1s on the hard disk one by one, forcibly burning the entire program code.

This is a stupid method, but it is also the most accurate and least error-prone method.

After all, with the current level of biotechnology in the real world, even the most advanced and excellent gene editing technology has a considerable probability of failure. Either the target gene is inserted into the wrong position, or it simply fails to be inserted into the gene sequence. We can only screen out those that are successfully completed from a large number of experimental samples.

What Yi Shen needs to do is to transform all the cells in his body simultaneously, so he naturally cannot choose a method with a high probability of failure.

Fortunately, although it was slow and complicated, Yi Shen finally completed it.

After this gene is inserted into the genome, transcription begins immediately. The corresponding mRNA is produced, imported into the cytoplasm, and then translated into polypeptides in the ribosomes, and finally folded into several different proteins.

Once produced, these proteins immediately capture invading viruses within the cell.

——Yes, there are viruses in Yi Shen's body. After all, he does not live in a vacuum. The air he breathes every day and the food he eats and drinks contain various viruses, such as cold viruses.

However, because he has the ability to control cells, once he finds that a cell is infected by a virus and has become diseased, he will immediately control these cells to actively undergo apoptosis by his own will, and at the same time mobilize immune cells to clean up the residue. The reaction speed is much faster than the body's own immune response, and there will be no symptoms such as inflammation, so he does not look like he will get sick.

Originally, these viruses that invaded the cells would eventually be destroyed by the cell's internal defense system or cause cell damage and then be destroyed by active apoptosis. But this time, after these viruses were captured by the proteins produced by these longevity genes, they were disassembled. Then these gene fragments from the virus would be transported to the cell nucleus for an extremely complex comparison with the human body's original genome.

After the comparison is completed, the beneficial gene fragments will be retained and inserted into the original human genome, while the useless parts will be discarded and broken down into the most basic bases.

Once this gene editing is completed in a cell, the cell will quickly produce endogenous viruses based on this new gene, spreading the same gene fragment to every cell in the body, allowing the gene to spread throughout the body.

At the same time, in addition to converting the genes of foreign pathogens into genes that are beneficial to the body, the process of gene implantation itself is also a comprehensive inspection and repair of the body's own genes.

The human body is constantly being invaded by foreign pathogens, and such gene insertion and editing occurs all the time.

In other words, due to the existence of this "longevity gene", all cells in the human body are constantly repairing their own DNA, erasing all kinds of deterioration and damage caused by the passage of time.

The so-called "immortality" comes from this.

Chapter 239: Copying and pasting is so cool!

Although he successfully implanted the longevity gene into himself and confirmed that it could indeed transform pathogens into genes that were beneficial to himself, this did not mean that Yi Shen became stronger immediately.

In fact, the enhancement that a single virus produces on his body can be said to be negligible.

The reason why Alexander became so strong was that he was constantly infected with various pathogens for thousands of years, coupled with his unremitting training, which finally achieved such results.

Yi Shen obviously does not have that much time to retrace Alexander's evolutionary path step by step.

There weren't many choices before him.

Or he could go to a "feng shui treasure land" with a huge number of pathogens and a super-rich variety, such as a place in India, stay there for a few months, and drink plenty of Ganges water, then he would be able to accumulate most of the genetic requirements for physical evolution.

Or, he could simply borrow the ready-made answers and transplant the evolutionary genes already in Alexander's genome directly into his own body.

Obviously, Yi Shen can only choose the latter.

After all, he was not a follower of Nurgle, and drinking the water of the Ganges, which was no different from red stone, was something he could not do.

The process of implanting Alexander's genes into one's own body is no different from implanting the "immortality gene".

The only difference is that there are so many related genes that if you have to "code" and implant them one by one, the workload will really drive you crazy.

Fortunately, Yi Shen quickly thought of a clever solution.

He discovered that the proteins produced by those "immortality genes" were not specifically targeted at foreign pathogens, but had an effect on all foreign genes.

So, he simply injected some of Alexander's blood into his body, and then used molecular-level control to break up the cells and split the DNA. Finally, he sent the genes he was interested in into his own cells and handed them over to the "immortality gene" for processing.

As expected, the proteins produced by these genes are not picky eaters. All exogenous DNA is captured for comparison, and the beneficial ones are retained, while the useless ones are eliminated.

It is obvious that these genes, which have evolved and iterated in Alexander's body for thousands of years, are all beneficial. After a comparison, they have all been integrated into Yi Shen's genome.