Escape From the Library

【Cell Factory-02】

After splitting into cell clusters, another problem appeared in front of us—there were too many cells, and everyone copied 8 of them, and it was hard to tell which one was the original body.Moreover, 96 spherical cells are crowded together, and no one can see where their teammates are.

Yue Xingwen simply asked loudly: "Brother Xu, how do you control the split body? I can't find where you are!"

Xu Yishen's voice came from a distance: "The mitosis skills I got are different from those here. I can instantly split into 5 replicas. But the 'mitosis' of this course strictly abides by '2 to the Nth power' 'The law of division, that is to say, each division is that all cells are divided into two and become multiples of 2."

He paused, his voice somewhat helpless: "I'm also studying how to control these cells."

2 becomes 4, 4 becomes 8, and the next step is to split to 16.If this continues, they will divide more and more cells.

Liu Zhaoqing also said: "Now we are just the initial cell cluster, about 100 cells, and everyone is going to be dizzy. If we split into thousands, tens of thousands, or even 40 to 60 trillion cells that make up a complete human body, Wouldn't it become a sea of ​​cells? Will we still be able to tell the difference by then?"

Ke Shaobin said weakly: "I found that I can roll forward."

Everyone heard this, looked back, and saw a small ball wearing glasses rolling forward for a certain distance, followed by 7 replicated balls.

Among the dense cell clusters, Ke Shaobin wearing glasses is really the most unique landscape.

Xu Yishen's eyes lit up, and he said: "I have found a rule. Everyone's body is always the same, and the replicas next to it will move with the body. As long as we issue the command 'Which direction do I want to go' in our minds, our spherical The body will roll in the designated direction."

Yue Xingwen thought before, without limbs, they all turned into balls, wouldn't they roll around?Facts proved that he was right. Looking at the glasses cells rolling into the distance, Yue Xingwen held back a smile and asked, "Master Ke, are you dizzy after rolling around like this?"

Ke Shaobin's voice came from the front: "It's okay? It feels like walking normally!"

Yue Xingwen thought for a while and said, "Then we all have to roll around in different directions, and get used to being cells first, how to walk."

When everyone heard this, they rolled forward, backward, left, and right.

For a while, in the not-so-capable space, countless small balls rolled around, and occasionally collided, almost turning into a "big ball chaos". Yue Xingwen rolled to the left, Jiang Pingce rolled to the right, and the bodies happened to collide .

The distance between the eyes of the two people was less than 1 centimeter. Yue Xingwen opened his eyes wide and could clearly see Jiang Pingce's dark pupils. He stared blankly for a moment, then smiled and said, "It seems that none of us have eyelashes? You only have a pair of eyes, but I can see clearly, Pince, you still have single eyelids, haha."

Jiang Pingce: "..."

Could your focus be normal?

A voice of "Ah" came from the side, and Lan Yarong and Liu Zhaoqing collided. Lan Yarong said, "Stop, stop, I'm going to have a concussion!" Liu Zhaoqing said, "I'm a little dizzy too. Be careful, everyone. , the main bodies will be dizzy when they collide with each other!"

Zhang Xiaonian was there asking for help: "I can't tell the direction, I'm surrounded by copies of myself!"

Everyone: "..."

The scene was very chaotic.

Yue Xingwen only felt a splitting headache. A large group of people suddenly turned into a ball, and it was difficult to control the direction of movement. After the vision was affected, it was easy to collide with each other when rolling.If things go on like this, how can they cooperate to make children?Don't be completely confused at that time, where a heart should grow, a liver grows?Give birth to a monster? !

Jiang Pingce calmly reminded: "Everyone stop."

Everyone stopped.

Jiang Pingce said: "Everyone turn your heads and find Ke Shaobin first. The one with glasses is the best to distinguish."

Ke Shaobin whispered: "Only? This is the first time I've heard someone call me this kind of quantifier..."

The balls turned their heads one by one, and soon found the "group" Ke Shaobin wearing glasses.Everyone can't tell which is the body, anyway, the 8 balls are exactly the same, as long as Ke Shaobin can tell the difference.

Jiang Pingce said: "Now take the direction of Ke Shaobin as the front. Xin Yan and Qin Lu go to meet Ke Shao, Sister Man Luo, Qin Miao, and Senior Sister Lan roll backwards in the opposite direction, Senior Brother Zhuo, Senior Brother Liu, and Senior Brother Xu go to the right, Me, Xingwen, and Zhang Xiaonian go to the left."

With such a distribution, the originally chaotic situation immediately became orderly.

Everyone took their own replicas and rolled quickly to different directions. Then, everyone turned their heads and found that they had formed a large "circular queue", standing neatly in four rows, and everyone could see each other clearly. location!

Xu Yi smiled deeply: "Ping Ce has a way, so that I won't feel dizzy, and I can see everyone."

Zhang Xiaonian said: "I can finally tell the direction!"

Yue Xingwen turned his head and looked at Jiang Pingce beside him, thinking, Pingce's ability to classify and organize is really strong, no matter how chaotic the situation is, he can sort it out clearly.

In the front row, Ke Shaobin blinked and said, "What should we do next?"

Xu Yishen said: "We have only completed the first step of human birth. After the cleavage of the fertilized egg, a cell mass is formed. The next step is to send the cell mass into the uterine cavity through the fallopian tube, and adhere to the uterus through the sticky substance on the surface. Intima."

Liu Zhaoqing said: "The cells close to the endometrium will secrete an enzyme to lyse the endometrium to form a small hole and bury it in. This is what is called 'implantation' in clinical practice. I remember right?"

Xu Yishen: "Yes!"

The team has one from the School of Biological Sciences and one from the School of Medicine, and they have a clear understanding of the process of human birth.

Yue Xingwen followed up and asked, "Where are the fallopian tubes?"

Lan Yarong suddenly said: "Behind the three of us, we found a pipeline-like passage, is it here?"

Xu Yishen said: "Let's look for it again, don't go to the wrong place and become an ectopic pregnancy."

Liu Zhaoqing said seriously: "That's right, if the implantation position is wrong, resulting in an ectopic pregnancy, our child will not be able to be born, and it may cause heavy bleeding in the mother's body."

Everyone: "..."

At this time, everyone was in a confined space, except for a tubular passageway found behind Lan Yarong, Lin Manluo, and Qin Miao, there was no exit from other locations.

A mechanical voice reminded everyone: "The division of the cell cluster is complete, please prepare for implantation."

Xu Yishen said: "It seems that it is where Senior Sister Lan said!"

Jiang Pingce commanded: "Everyone, don't mess up, line up and go in."

Lan Yarong said: "I am a liberal arts student, embryonic development is completely different, Xu Yishen, please lead the way."

Xu Yishen nodded: "Okay, everyone stay where you are, I'll go first, Senior Brother Liu and Zhuo Feng will follow behind me."

Jiang Pingce made arrangements: "Senior Sister Lan, you are in the second batch, Ke Shaobin is in the third batch, Xingwen, Xiaonian and I are the last to go. After arriving at the destination, everyone continues to line up in order, and each of you brings your own divided cells to the station. One row, don't mess up."

He divided 12 people into 4 teams, so that groups of 3 people would act in turn without chaos.

Otherwise, they swarm up and are likely to bump into each other dizzily.

Lan Yarong and the others consciously made way for a passage, and then watched Xu Yishen, whose pupils were obviously lighter than others, rolling over with 7 clones, followed closely by Liu Zhaoqing and Zhuo Feng...

It is not easy to tell who is who from the eyes!

After a volleyball rolled over the fallopian tube, Lan Yarong, Lin Manluo and Qin Miao followed immediately.

Qin Miao and Qin Lu are twins. After becoming cells, they look exactly the same. They cannot be distinguished from each other by their clothes and hairstyles.Yue Xingwen reminded: "Ke Shaobin goes first, Qin Lu goes last, don't mix with your sister!"

Qin Lu: "...OK."

Another row of cells rolled over, and the three of Yue Xingwen went in last.

The fallopian tubes are quite long, and everyone rolled forward in a line. It felt like riding a slide when I was a child.

After a while, the eyes suddenly opened up, and everyone appeared in a strangely shaped space, which was wide in the front and narrow in the back, like an inverted triangle.

Liu Zhaoqing's voice came from ahead: "This should be the mother's womb, right?"

Xu Yishen said: "Look at the shape, yes! Where are we going to get implanted?"

Liu Zhaoqing asked: "Is the side wall more stable? If it is too close to the cervix, it is easy to form a placenta previa, which is too dangerous for the mother during childbirth."

Xu Yishen was at the front of the queue at this time, and he could clearly see the wide "room" around him. There were fluff on the walls of the room, which were obviously simulated uterine mucosa.

According to the shape of the "room", different positions inside the uterus can be distinguished.The implantation is usually on the front wall, back wall, and side wall of the uterus. Xu Yishen chose the right wall and said, "Everyone follow me."

He rolled over first, and the others came to the right side one by one.

Xu Yishen said: "Everyone sticks to the side wall through the sticky substance on the cell surface."

Everyone followed suit.

Everyone lined up and clinged to the furry "wall".

Judging from their field of view, this room is particularly large, and there is an inner film on the wall.But in fact, this is the womb of the mother simulated by the library. They are now in the womb of the "mother" and need the help of the mother to obtain nutrition and develop into a small baby.

It is still too far away from the birth of the child. Their child has only a mass of cells and has not even formed a heart.

Ke Shaobin said curiously: "I found that after the back is glued on, you can't move."

Liu Zhaoqing complained: "Of course you can't run around after the cell mass is implanted. Wouldn't it cause a miscarriage if you run around?"

Ke Shaobin: "..."

Xu Yi said with a deep smile: "Everyone, don't move around and wait for the next instruction."

Everyone obediently glued their backs to the wall of the uterus and did not dare to move. Although none of the students present had any birth experience, but this time, they had to experience the pregnancy process of the fetus. Although it was a bit strange, no one dared to be careless.

If they are not careful, their children will be miscarried or die young.

Gradually, everyone discovered that the inner membrane behind them had changed.That layer of membrane seemed to be elastic, wrapping them up gently.Everyone stared at the scene in front of them curiously. After an unknown period of time, they seemed to have been transferred to another relatively narrow space, and there seemed to be a transparent film protecting them outside.

Xu Yishen said: "Is the implantation successful, has the placenta formed?"

Liu Zhaoqing looked around carefully and said, "It should be, the fetal blood circulation on the chorion has been established, and the thin tubes you see are placental blood vessels."

Everyone looked forward, and they saw some thin red pipes on the membrane.

Xu Yishen said with emotion: "This course has accelerated the growth rate of the fetus dozens of times. Normally, the placenta forms after two weeks of pregnancy, and we have less than two hours."

The library was kind enough to not let them stay here for 9 months, otherwise, they would turn into cells and roll around here to survive for 9 months, and everyone would have a nervous breakdown.

At this moment, Ke Shaobin suddenly whispered: "We don't need to eat anymore, right? Blood circulation will automatically deliver nutrients to us?"

Xu Yishen said: "Yes."

As a foodie, Ke Shaobin suddenly felt regretful.

Yue Xingwen asked, "What's next?"

Xu Yi thought for a while and said, "It should be differentiated into three germ layers. Let's divide the work. Who will go to the ectoderm, who will go to the mesoderm, and who will go to the endoderm?"

Everyone: "..."

For this baby who is about to be born, they really broke their hearts!