"My mind is in such a mess right now.
No, I can't keep thinking about this. The manufacturing principles of many golden fingers involve the rule layer of the origin universe, which is beyond my comprehension. Thinking about it is futile and will only disrupt my train of thought.
So, I'll just treat it as a divine object of the metaphysical side.
No more considering the principles.
I just need to know what it's useful for."
Past habits made Ding Yun want to investigate thoroughly, but her accurate self-awareness also allowed her to suppress her delusions in the shortest possible time.
It was simply asking for trouble for a slacker like her to think about these things.
If she truly had this ability, she wouldn't have graduated early; instead, she would have been admitted to the Rule Research Institute and become the most envied rule researcher in the origin universe, studying rules.
One must have some self-awareness.
Therefore, Ding Yun quickly decided not to delve into the specific principles of the Daughter Spring's water. Next, she just needed to conduct more experiments to thoroughly confirm its effects and understand the genes of natural humans.
Consequently, the experiments naturally continued.
Various animal experiments were conducted to verify the hypotheses.
For instance, rabbits were replaced with pigs, cattle, sheep, some wild species, and even some special mutated species currently in the pollution zone.
Such multi-directional, multi-choice trials were necessary to thoroughly determine the efficacy of the Daughter Spring's water.
As for the results?
Naturally, all of them recovered, without exception.
Even those species in the pollution zone whose genes had already mutated due to long-term survival and reproduction in the contaminated areas, after being nurtured by the Daughter Spring's water, their mutated genes would recover, making them no longer adapted to the pollution zone.
"Are these results good or bad?
Based on this, doesn't this Daughter Spring's water have a purifying function? However, if the mutated genes recover, the creatures will no longer be adapted to the pollution zone!
The pollution in this world is very severe now.
Only in specific areas is the pollution in living areas relatively lower. Coupled with protection from equipment like hazmat suits, new humans can live normally. Truly low-pollution areas are very small.
These are currently inhabited by natural humans.
If the Daughter Spring's water is used to restore all the genes of future new humans to those of natural humans, then although new humans will regain their reproductive ability, their bodies will not be able to adapt to the current harsh environment. And if only a portion of natural human genes is retained, it would be difficult to achieve sustainability unless I keep the Daughter Spring's water.
Right, the best solution should be to allow new humans to maintain their current overall trend of adapting to the new environment while also restoring their reproductive capabilities.
Right, right, I understand the problem now."
As she pondered this, Ding Yun suddenly had a flash of enlightenment, understanding the main reason why new humans had become this way. In this world, it wasn't just humans whose genes had changed.
Many species living in polluted areas that had survived also had altered genes.
However, their gene changes were self-adaptive.
Through generations of reproduction, their genes gradually adapted to the environment. Although many might have died during the process, they changed their genes through natural selection of the fittest. Therefore, although their reproductive ability was somewhat affected during the adaptation process, it was eventually restored.
Humans, however, chose a shortcut.
They believed they had mastered gene changes and directly inserted new genes into their own genomes to adapt to the changing environment.
However, the reality proved that humans are not creators.
They couldn't control gene changes.
Artificial modification was ultimately inferior to self-adaptation.
Having understood this, Ding Yun quickly began new experiments, still focusing on the Daughter Spring's water. The subjects were still those mutated creatures living in the pollution zone. However, this time, Ding Yun specifically adjusted the environment inside the embryo incubation chambers.
In the past, to ensure the safety of the fetuses.
All embryo incubation chambers were made of anti-pollution and anti-radiation isolation materials, and the nutrient solutions were all produced in a sterile vacuum environment.
Absolutely no pollutants were present.
This was to ensure normal embryonic development and prevent deformities caused by pollution.
This time, Ding Yun intentionally added pollutants identical to those in the external environment into the nutrient solution, making the environment inside the embryo incubation chamber virtually indistinguishable from the external environment. Then, she added the Daughter Spring's water and the blood of the corresponding mutated creatures.
Afterward, there was a day of waiting.
During the process, it was evident that the initial embryonic development was not very smooth, and there were even minor mutations and deformities. However, after Ding Yun experimentally added more Daughter Spring's water, the situation was eventually slowly reversed, and the fetuses were born successfully.
The gene comparison results were essentially consistent.
That is to say, in a non-polluted incubator containing genetic material from a mutated animal, the genes of the animals cultured by the Daughter Spring's water were the unmutated genes.
And in an incubator whose environment was consistent with its survival environment, containing genetic material from a mutated animal, the animal tissues cultured by the Daughter Spring's water were still mutated. This fully demonstrated that the Daughter Spring's water could alter embryonic genes according to the environment, allowing the embryos to adapt to the environment. This was truly a major discovery!
A discovery that could truly turn the tide.
The only problem now was that Ding Yun found it difficult to explain the origin of the Daughter Spring's water, and she couldn't produce it herself. Additionally, there had been no human trials yet.
The so-called turning the tide was only theoretically feasible.
Therefore, next, she applied for some genetic material from new humans and consulted the library's common pollution environments. Her intention was to use these as a basis to formulate a human gene that could adapt to most current pollution using the Daughter Spring's water.
Anyway, humans had already mastered the ability to arbitrarily modify gene segments. As long as she could formulate a human gene that adapted to the current environment without affecting reproductive ability, then even without the Daughter Spring's water,
It wouldn't affect the creation of new humans capable of reproduction using the newly formulated human genes.
However, Ding Yun's breakthroughs were merely the first step. Currently, the synthesis of new humans was still in the hands of natural humans. As long as the natural humans didn't accept it, her perfect gene formulations would be useless.
Therefore, the path to turning the tide remained long and arduous.