Chapter 165: Radiation Genes

"Yan Xia, your body and armour are both quite old now, aren't they?"

Ella was wearing a pink apron with a strawberry pattern and cooking in a 40-square-metre kitchen.

She first served some appetisers, including spicy and sour dragon and phoenix liver, carbon-roasted Yemengade heart, frozen and thawed Yanmo horn meat, and low-temperature slow-cooked Cthulhu octopus tentacles...

Each dish was seasoned perfectly, but these top-quality ingredients were no different from ordinary meat.

The real main course was just a pot of soup, containing phoenix wings, bone dragon bones, world tree roots, chimera tails, and Fenrir spines. The soup was poured over a thin slice of Kun meat.

It was crispy, refreshing, and full of flavour.

"I still have a long life ahead of me, and with your protection, I can always get a new body." After finishing the Kun meat, Yan Xia asked Ella to bring over the soup as a base for a thick soup hotpot.

"But it's not good to lose too much."

"You know, humans in the Federation are very different from before."

Yan Xia's main research direction was still biology, and he was well-versed in the cutting-edge biology of the Federation.

The average height of humans in the Federation had already exceeded 2 metres several thousand years ago, and although it hadn't increased much recently, it had now reached 2.10 metres.

This wasn't a concern, as the biology of the Federation had long since stopped developing towards larger body sizes and instead focused on quality.

In other words, weight.

The average weight of humans in the Federation was around 628 kilograms.

This number wasn't a mistake; it was over half a ton.

One reason was that the biology of the Federation had begun to purchase liquid metal equipment.

For example, a liquid metal lung augmentation device for strengthening breath weighed 10 kilograms, and metal skeleton modifications increased the weight of the entire skeleton by several times. There were also other internal electronic components.

The second reason was nanorobots.

Although quark robots could do many things, their small size also made them inconvenient in many ways. With the development of nanorobots, they could now perform very precise tasks, and most importantly, they could be used to increase the computing power of quark robots, making them the mainstream.

Today's nanorobots are not like those in 21st-century novels and movies, where they are injected with a syringe. In the Federation, the average nanorobot content of each citizen is 37.24 kilograms, and it is now measured by weight rather than by specific quantity.

To support this much internal machinery, the cellular structure of the Federation's biology is constantly being optimised.

Cells have become smaller and denser, so a person who looks like a 2-metre-tall beanpole might actually weigh 400 kilograms or more, and if they are a little stronger, they will definitely weigh over half a ton.

The last time Yan Xia went to the hospital to take some samples, he saw someone receiving a blood transfusion, and the blood was no longer liquid; it felt like mercury.

At that moment, Yan Xia thought of the descriptions in many fantasy novels, where blood was like mercury. In fact, this had now become a reality.

However, if you really wanted to compare, there was still a big difference. The density of mercury, or quicksilver, is 13.59g/cm³, while the density of the Federation's human blood is 4.09g/cm³, close to that of titanium.

The small pistols of the 21st century would now be useless against humans, even without armour. A 9mm bullet wouldn't even break the skin, and although a rifle could break the skin, it would only cause a little bleeding.

This was true not only for humans but also for other species. Even those with exoskeletons or keratinous skin and scales could only be left with white marks by rifles, and if you really wanted to hurt them, you would need to use armour-piercing bullets.

As for Yan Xia...

Just as Ella said, he hadn't yet reached the next level.

Although he had undergone a transformation when he left Star City, it was only to help him recover, and the technology used was from the battleship, which had left the Federation's star domain over 3,000 years ago, so it was even more outdated. Therefore, Yan Xia's body had not yet reached this level.

Yan Xia himself didn't mind.

This wasn't because he didn't want to change, but because he didn't think it was necessary yet.

Because his current body was still far from reaching a qualitative change.

"The biological cell technology of the Ye family has been completed. You really don't want to try it?" Ella brought over a large plate of dessert, along with a double scoop of ice cream.

"Really?"

Yan Xia became excited when talking about this.

"Of course it's true."

"In the previous optimisation of the body, the issue of radiation was not considered, so the original human genes of the Federation could withstand about 1.7Sv of radiation. In the new research, I began to cultivate radiation-resistant genes, originally intending to cultivate balanced radiation-resistant genes, but I found that this wasn't very effective."

"If all types of radiation are resisted, the amount of radiation that genes can withstand only increases from the original 1.7Sv to 2.3Sv, which is not a big difference."

"So, I specifically cultivated genes that could only resist one type of radiation, which increased the tolerable dose to 11.71Sv, allowing the organism to release 4789 joules of energy without armour."

4789 joules is equivalent to 4789 watts per second, 1.33 watt-hours, or 0.00133 kilowatt-hours, which is 0.00133 degrees of electricity per hour.

This seems pathetically small.

However, in the 21st century, sockets were 10A or 16A with 220V voltage, which is 2200 watts or 3520 watts. Even without considering the radiation itself, the energy produced by this radiation is enough to power large household appliances.

"But there is one drawback," Ella said.

Yan Xia instantly knew what Ella was going to say.

"Heat, right?"

Radiation itself is a type of electromagnetic wave, so if your radiation level is so high, won't you generate heat? If it's a little higher, you'll start glowing, or in the eyes of creatures that see in infrared or other invisible light, you'll be like a little sun.

"That's right, but it's not a big problem. As long as you keep consuming or using armour to collect this radiation energy, you can eliminate this drawback."

Ella smiled, as if she wanted to know what Yan Xia would look like glowing all over.

"It seems that the short-term radiation limit for the body won't exceed 15Sv."

"This is a huge change."

To be honest, Yan Xia was a little tempted.

What is radiation?

Radiation is like the blue bar in magic, the spiritual energy in cultivation, and the internal energy in martial arts, but wanting to achieve this through cultivation is a delusion.

"Mental energy should be able to control radiation, right?" Yan Xia asked.

"Yes, mental energy is spiritual energy, which comes from the electrical signals of the nervous system, and both are electromagnetic energy."

"So, with the popularisation of radiation genes, magic and other things should be initially realised, right?"

Ella's words made Yan Xia immediately agree to gene modification, as he was eager to try attacking with his own body.