Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 192 Eating Dinosaurs to Extinction

But Luo Qing quickly found the answer.

In the 140th year of the Crisis Era, the elongation of telomeres signifies humanity's entry into the era of gene editing.

In the 150th year of the Crisis Era, humanity's progress in developing the gene lock reached 1%.

This 1% of genetic lock has brought about a transformative change in humanity.

Enhanced mental capacity, increased energy, enhanced intelligence, enhanced physical strength, and increased lifespan.

Especially in terms of energy utilization, the human body's efficiency in absorption and utilization has increased more than 10 times.

If humans had a panel, it would mean that all of their attributes would be fully upgraded.

So, what is the price?

The price is becoming able to eat more.

So, what is the price to pay for being able to eat it?

The price is that I have to cook more.

So, what's the cost of cooking more food?

The price is that you have to buy groceries more often.

In short, humans have paid a small price to gain numerous positive buffs, such as increased intelligence, doubled lifespan, superhuman strength, abundant energy, and no cooldowns. When necessary, humans can even achieve an effect similar to 'a martial artist burning their life essence', artificially secreting various hormones to enhance certain abilities in a short period of time.

As for why, even with such a significant improvement on average, humanity has only unlocked 1% of its genetic potential.

This inevitably brings up the issue of the continuation of human genes.

Since the Zambian mutant rebellion, gene editing technology has developed for seventy years, but it has only scratched the surface of the human genome.

Sequencing the human genome does not mean deciphering the arrangement of all human base pairs.

Humans have deciphered all the specific base sequence fragments that have a genetic effect and belong to expressible genes, but are the numerous non-coding regions with their base pair arrangements completely useless?

A gene-editing expert from the United Government: I doubt it.

(Note: Do not be misled by the author; only specific sequences that encode proteins or regulate the expression of genetic information belong to genes. The base pair arrangements of the vast majority of non-coding regions do not directly constitute genes. This is also mentioned in the "High School Biology Textbook (People's Education Press, Required Course 2)".)
Over the past millions of years of evolution, the human genome has been a massive "mountain of shit code." Rather than saying that humans have unlocked the genetic lock, it would be more accurate to say that, under the control of gene editing technology, humans have precisely deleted or modified certain "mountain of shit code."

It is these subtle changes in the "shit mountain code" that have greatly improved the efficiency of the human body in utilizing energy and increased the human body's adaptability to the environment by dozens of times.

It's important to know that within these 'mountain of shit codes,' the dominant genes that humans actually express are less than 1‰.

Leaving aside well-known genes like the tail gene, ear muscle gene, and polymath gene, all life on Earth shares a common origin. The United Government's genetic scientists have even found a 'fish gene' from hundreds of millions of years ago in the vast sea of ​​genetic code. This is probably a gene left over from when marine life transitioned to land.

Hundreds of millions of years later, this fish gene is still hidden at the very bottom by the Shit Mountain code as if it were a treasure.

The so-called evolution over millions of years is nothing more than the lucky deletion or evolution of a tiny bit of genes in this 'shit mountain code'. In reality, the efficiency of natural evolution is extremely low, relying entirely on natural selection over time.

But now, gene editing technology has easily accomplished changes accumulated over millions of years of natural selection.

This means that Ita, the head of the Angel Organization, is completely wrong in his approach of hybridizing other Earth creatures. The human body's own 'genetic waste mountain' is a huge, untapped natural treasure trove.

After learning about gene editing technology, Luo Qing smiled faintly: "That's good. Upgrading yourself is better than using the genes of cats and dogs. When I came out of seclusion, humanity almost turned into a bunch of demon cultivators. Good Corpse, you did a good job."

The benevolent corpse forced out a bruised and swollen smile.

The best decision the coalition government made regarding gene-editing technology was to constitutionally prevent a genetic advancement route for a select few.

"Gene editing technology must be available to all of humanity."

This is the famous slogan of the 17th Chairman of the United Government, and it was also written into Amendment 147 of the Earth United Government Charter. (A few elites' genes ascended (×))
Genetic evolution of the entire population ( )

In order to vaccinate the entire population with genetically modified vaccines, the United Government invested enormous human, material, and financial resources, taking more than 20 years to finally complete the comprehensive evolution of 100 billion existing humans.

In promoting the nationwide gene vaccine program, a Brahmin politician put forward the "elite civilization theory." This politician believed that "the development of human civilization is driven by a few geniuses, such as in the time of Aristotle and Newton. Therefore, gene technology only needs to be given to a few people, allowing a few elites to lead human development, while the vast majority of ordinary people cannot play any role in the development of civilization."

This sparked fierce debates among countries around the world, but ultimately, it was digital scholars from the Digital Republic who forcefully refuted the "elite civilization theory."

They presented concrete evidence to refute this.

The Digital Republic told the Earth United Government a terrifying story:

In the simulation of the Digital Republic, human civilization that followed the path of elite genetic evolution quickly experienced severe social divisions. After undergoing gene editing, wealthy elite humans quickly diverged significantly from the old humans, a gap that manifested in all aspects. With the continuous development of genetic technology, the poor and the rich became completely different species. Genetic modification even led to reproductive isolation between humans and ordinary humans, and human civilization ushered in an unprecedented class differentiation.

The most terrifying thing is that this class division is endless.

Even within the upper classes, over time, upper, middle, and lower classes have continuously emerged. Once an upper class fails to keep up with the pace of genetic modification, it will fall into decline. Capital in human society will also continuously gravitate towards the upper classes. In this endless class differentiation, the ultimate victors are only those at the very top of the pyramid.

In the future simulation of the Digital Republic, human civilization eventually produced a perfect human being. This perfect human being was more different from other lower-level humans than a human being is from a banana. After various changes in social systems, the simulated human society in the Digital Republic finally entered the ultimate stage of capitalism.

—The era of the end producer.

The bleak future of the end-productive era prompted the coalition government to decide to implement a nationwide gene-editing program, rather than an elite approach.

Whether a civilization of the final producers exists in this world is unknown to humankind, but the terrifying panorama of such a civilization has truly awakened humanity itself.

Damn it, even some communism would be better than this thing called the end producers.

The Brahmin politician was kicked out of the United Nations building by the crowd.

The nationwide gene editing project ultimately achieved good results. After half a century of development, and with the help of the 'Basic Body Refining Method' announced by the benevolent Luo Qing, humanity entered the era of martial artists.

In today's human civilization, there are three million people at the Innate Martial Artist level.

If this were placed in the martial arts world of my hometown, it would be equivalent to 300 million martial arts masters.

You should know that in that small world back home, a dynasty only has a few dozen martial arts masters.

There are three million martial arts masters like this among humankind.

Martial arts masters possess extremely strong overall combat capabilities, with defensive and offensive abilities almost comparable to a Type 99A or Abrams main battle tank from the early stages of the Crisis Era. Some humans at the peak of the Innate Realm even possess combat power comparable to third-generation fighter jets, capable of demolishing buildings with their bare hands.

There was even a martial arts master who had reached the Great Perfection of the Innate Realm, who, in order to pay tribute to the legendary Wallfacer Luo Qing, jumped from near-Earth orbit towards Earth and ultimately died on the ground. (It was later discovered that this martial arts master was sponsored by Red Bull.)

But the spirit of pushing this martial arts master to the limit is something people should learn from.

And the number of those who later become martial artists is countless.

According to the index of the benevolent corpse, there are approximately 3000 million humans at the peak of the acquired martial arts realm.

Humans at this level possess explosive attack power comparable to old-fashioned hand grenades, and their defensive capabilities are barely sufficient to withstand the fire of standard-issue pistols from the early 21st century. However, lacking protective 'true qi,' they are still unable to withstand attacks from standard-issue rifles.

The mid-stage Acquired Martial Artist is the most common and widespread level among humans, with most healthy adult humans reaching this level. The mid-stage Acquired Martial Artist level has been included in university physical fitness tests; university students who do not reach this level generally do not receive their graduation certificates or degrees.

Humans at this level have essentially reached the limit of combat power in Earth's biosphere. Since this level became the common level for humans, street fights have turned into people swinging cars at each other.

Even facing the massive teeth of a dinosaur, a human in the mid-stages of human development would have a fighting chance. (This dinosaur underwent gene extension surgery and is still active in the human world, becoming a star in the dinosaur world.)
Currently, the total number of humans at this level is approximately 80 billion.

The early stage of the Acquired Martial Artist realm is basically exclusive to minors and the elderly. Due to the development of gene editing technology, humans almost do not have any truly incurable diseases. Therefore, apart from newborns and the elderly who are about to die, the weakest people are basically in this range, numbering about 10 billion.

The Minister of Martial Arts of the United Government asserted: "If 100 billion humans are evenly distributed on the Devourer Giant Ring Mothership and do not use firearms against each other, humans can eat the dinosaurs to extinction!"

(End of this chapter)