I handed in the sand sculpture through the book system

Generally speaking, the experience of Zhang Yao and others on the grassland was quite simple, and therefore quite boring—after the expert team arrived overnight by a military transport plane, they dragged a few anti-manufacturing machines from the plane almost non-stop. With a little equipment, a slice study was made on the fungus sample kept in the emperor's palace on the spot.

With the help of advanced equipment, the bosses quickly proved Zhang Yao's inference: the parasitic human cells in fungal tissues have indeed completed the miracle that human medicine has dreamed of for decades, the so-called dedifferentiation and redifferentiation with almost no side effects , perfect to almost outrageous stem cell acquisition and cultivation.And after the ecstasy, they did a little research on the data, and they successfully locked this almost miraculous substance in the secretion of the fungal tissue, and they were only a few steps away from getting the final result.

When they got the initial results of cell culture in tissue fluid, even the most senior and most influential leader couldn't help exclaiming, his eyes lit up, and he even started to fantasize about which outfit he should wear in his primary school textbook photos. a suit—

It can be seen that the main obstacle of biomedicine is not talent, hard work or even a lot of money, but most of it depends on the face of God.In a situation like theirs, it is no longer a patriarch who enjoys food, but the magnates of all generations since Darwin have appeared together, inserting a gastric tube to serve the future generations...

In such a state of ecstasy and even confusion, probably only the few high-end instruments bought at a high price are still working conscientiously.After more than ten seconds, the analyzer, worth nearly eight figures, squeaked, and spit out a color-printed analysis report.The discussion in the camp was mixed with laughter, and the professor standing next to the machine was full of smiles. He tore off the report without looking at it, and handed it to the doctor next to him. If Treasure's sympathy--the so-called new generation replaces the old, with the fungus samples in the tent gleaming, a mere 1000 million is nothing.

The professor clapped his palms and was about to talk about his guess about the result of cell dedifferentiation.Suddenly, I heard several creaks and creaks at the back. In a blink of an eye, I saw the lights of the instrument flickering, and creaked and spit out several sheets of printing paper.He beckoned for the doctor in charge of the instrument to come and collect the report, and as soon as he turned around, he was about to walk to the center of the venue, ready to express his opinion——

However, with a snort from the printing outlet of the analytical instrument, more than a dozen sheets of color printing paper spewed out.

The professor blinked slowly, and finally lowered his head to check the papers full of weird symbols.But during the few seconds when he bent down, the instrument creaked without stopping, but three more blank sheets of paper were sprayed out in one breath.

and then the fourth;

Then came the report on the fifth, sixth, and even the seventh.

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In the end, everyone retreated to the four corners of the tent, staring blankly at the snow-white piece of white paper densely covered in the center—a total of 250 analysis reports, each of which listed the analytical instruments in tissue fluid. Twenty or so organic active substances were found.In other words, just by the automatic operation of this machine, nearly [-] macromolecular active compounds were found in fungal tissues.

That number alone is already astonishing enough.The more types of macromolecular active substances, the more complex the functions of organisms; if mammals have simple structures and simple functions, it is really hard to understand why they need such complex and diverse functions. biochemical systems.

But strangeness is second to none. You experts have faced difficulties all your life, and you have more or less encountered a few strange creatures that do not play cards according to common sense in your academic career.But what really silenced the bosses was the neat ellipsis and asterisks behind hundreds of inspection lists—this high-end inspection instrument comes with a huge database of biochemical substances, even if it is offline, it cannot be compared online. Most of the substances can also be identified under certain conditions; this kind of unrecognizable symbol, which is usually not seen once in a hundred experiments, is now densely packed, full of pits and valleys...

In short, there are at least [-] unknown biochemical substances in the tissue fluid samples of fungi.

After figuring out such a simple fact, all the bosses present fell silent instantly.As veterans who have been immersed in biology for most of their lives, you immediately understand the terrifying fact hidden behind these hundreds of reports-human beings still have a pitifully little understanding of active macromolecules, and it is absolutely impossible to understand them from their structure and composition. To analyze the key substances of dedifferentiation; with the current theoretical limitations, in order to screen out the important components, it is necessary to use manpower to analyze and purify them one by one, and narrow the scope in the experiment.

And even with the most optimistic thinking, this kind of screening and analysis has to be done more than [-] times.And if dedifferentiation is a combination of multiple biochemical substances, then the arrangement and dosage ratio of five thousand substances is simply an astronomical figure in the true sense...

To put it simply, if this thing is made public, then the global biological community will work together to study and screen and analyze it for the last century, so there shouldn't be a big problem.

Seeing that the famous Qingshi turned into a family sacrifice in the blink of an eye, no matter how the experts flattered or humiliated him, it was still a bit difficult for a moment.After two or three minutes of silence, finally Zhang Yao coughed lightly, searched for a few words to comfort the distinguished guests from afar, and said that there is no need to worry now, and you can wait for all the equipment to be set up, and use the super The computer processes the results, narrowing down the scope first...

Supercomputing is not very useful in this theoretically highly immature chaotic field, so the experts just made a perfunctory statement.Zhang Yao didn't take it seriously at all, but reported the origin of the fungus to them, emphasizing the connection between this thing and the so-called alchemy.Sure enough, this news immediately attracted the attention of all the bosses.

Although there is no real evidence, but with the reasoning ability of the experts, it is not difficult to find the clue - the emperor is so obsessed with the elixir refined by fungi, it may be inseparable from the mysterious substance in the tissue fluid.Pills that can successfully reverse differentiation and reshape tissues can indeed be called "elixir".The simplicity of refining the elixir seems to mean that the extraction of the mysterious degraded components is not complicated, and it can even be absorbed through diet smoothly.

So the experts cheered up and immediately arraigned the eunuch and maid who served in the pill pharmacy.Although the emperor was well-prepared and these servants didn't know much about it, after repeated comparisons, they still found something tricky. Borrowing soldiers, on the other hand, is that there is not enough material for alchemy, and it needs to be traded with Rouran.In order to show sincerity, he also brought hundreds of boys and girls to show Rouran Khan the power of the elixir...

This last sentence made everyone frown—judging from all kinds of insane experiments in the history of biology, it is obviously not a wonderful thing to bring virgin boys and girls to "show the efficacy of elixir".But the elixir is the emperor's closely guarded secret, and even the cronies around him only know about it.After repeated questioning to no avail, Zhang Yao and others could only send drones to explore the hunting ground where the Northern Emperor and Rouran Khan met each other, and found traces as expected.

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"...After we captured the Rouran Royal Court, we rescued a few survivors from the secret room." Zhang Yao sighed, "Their experiences are very similar to Xiao Xuan's. Major trauma. We examined the bodies of the surviving children and found large doses of fungal tissue in the blood, apparently deliberately inoculated."

Speaking of this, Xiang Liang could hear the anger in Zhang Yao's tone even though the signal was extremely poor thousands of miles away.

Xiang Liang was silent for a while, but he was more concerned about the facts they discovered:

"You mean, human cells in fungal tissue..."

Zhang Yao snorted and agreed.

"This kind of inoculation is very cruel." She tried her best to keep calm: "There are a lot of powerful hallucinogenic substances in the fungal tissue fluid, directly entering the body is no different from injecting poison, most of the experimenters - receptors can't resist this The effect of this hallucinogen is less than one-third of the survivors. According to the alchemists in Rouran Royal Court, the so-called claustrophobia and confinement are all secret methods taught by the emperor of the Northern Dynasty. It should be a means to slow down the effect of the venom It seems that when the human body is unconscious, the rate of secretion of tissue fluid by the fungus will also slow down, and the degree of danger will be reduced. But besides the first time, they also need to regularly feed these virgins and virgins with stone powder from the northern grasslands to make them The medicine man tried to live as long as possible. Judging from the results of our inspection, these powders should be—"

"—It should be a by-product of high-radiation ore." Xiang Liang murmured.

Zhang Yao seemed slightly startled, but finally admitted:

"……Yes."

"That's why the emperor of the Northern Dynasties needs to cooperate with Rouran Khan in order to obtain this extremely dangerous ore, a specialty of the northern grasslands, at any time."

"... roughly the same."

Xiang Liang rubbed his forehead, feeling that sudden information was coming one after another, and his mind was almost full.But just thinking for a moment, he has grasped the key to this matter:

——Using virgin men and women as medicine men to seek longevity, even in ancient feudal ethics, I am afraid it is a heinous crime; the ancient people could not understand human experiments, but arresting children for longevity is a heinous witchcraft. It can definitely inspire the most instinctive fear in everyone's heart.As long as the medicine people recover and make a little publicity, and then cooperate with the testimony of many noble children in Chang'an, it will be an excellent public opinion tool for them to subvert the Northern Dynasty system...

Xiang Liang just started thinking a little bit, and he could already imagine the situation where the common people would be shocked by this shocking news and rush into the imperial city to protest—as for the propaganda materials?It is too advanced and ordinary people will definitely not understand it, but it is not easy to be grounded. After thinking about it, it seems to draw inspiration from traditional culture.

Xiang Liang knocked on the table—in just half a minute, the wonderful plot of Journey to the West, where Bhikkhu country digs children's hearts, has flashed through his mind, and even a complete outline of the story is about to be constructed.

But before that, he needs to give Jiankangtong a message.

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It was almost five o'clock in the afternoon when Bei Yan and Duan Ke, who stayed behind in Jiankang, received the news.

Both of them were shocked when they got the telegram, and after reacting, they quickly made arrangements. While asking someone to watch Xiao Xuan, he quickly took a blood sample and sent it to Hyundai; while taking protective measures, they rushed to Taiye Pool Check the situation in the alchemy room next to it.

And the fact was as expected—they had just walked into the alchemy room more than ten meters away, and the simple Geiger counter was already beeping!

Ten minutes later, the heavily armed guards unearthed seven or eight bags of stone debris from under the floor of the alchemy room.These stones are colorful, and in the dark twilight, they actually shone slightly.

Bei Yan caught a glimpse of it from a distance behind the stereotype, and his face immediately changed.Before he had time to speak, Du Heng, who followed beside him, threw himself on the ground with a plop and kowtowed, his voice trembling:

"The boy is guilty of death! The boy is guilty of capital punishment!"