Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

In the third colonial system of Velvet, the highest school in the federal colony, Pope is teaching a group of students.

After more than ten years, he is no longer an ordinary young researcher at the Academy of Sciences. He has many titles, including associate professor at the university.

Since the last time he showed his face harshly in front of many federal bosses at the No. 2 Colonial Galaxy Space Research Station, Pope's scientific research career has entered a highlight moment.

The preliminary results of his previous research have become the most cutting-edge biological projects in the Federation, and are also favored by many scientific research veterans and top teams.

However, as a proud disciple of the Federation's second-ranking scientist and the initiator of a scientific research project, he has sufficient advantages over this project.

After the meeting, Popper received the full support of Granger. A top scientific research team led by Granger and led by Popper conducted research on the mysterious substances in the Zerg organisms based on his ideas.

As a young scientist, this is an absolute privilege! You must know that many members of the team are well-known bosses in the Federal Academy of Sciences. If it were not for the endorsement of the second scientist Granger, he did not know how many years it would take to lead such a team.

Of course, a strong team brings extremely high efficiency.

Only 17 months after the project was established, Pope's team has already obtained preliminary results. In the experiment, this mysterious substance successfully stopped many small local mammals used as experimental materials, or slowed down their aging rate.

A dead rat lived two and a half months longer than expected!

Later, this conclusion was reproduced in various laboratories, in different environments, and in the hands of different personnel, confirming that it was not accidental.

This means that this substance does have some life-extending function for mammals!

Although there is still a long way to go before actual clinical experiments on intelligent individuals and even practical applications, it has opened up ideas!

Three years later, Pope's laboratory launched the first drug that could theoretically be used on intelligent individuals, and obtained federal approval. It easily recruited enough volunteers to participate in clinical trials, most of whom were in their twilight years. Velvet people.

Due to the particularity of the experiment, it takes a long time to verify the results. During this process, Pope's team conducted long-term follow-up examinations of these volunteers and provided them with free medical services to confirm their physical signs at any time. Variety.

Overall, the results are promising, but questions remain.

The physical aging rate of this group of volunteers is generally slower than that of their peers, with the average aging rate reduced by about one-ninth!

This conclusion is beyond imagination. If it is universal, it means that it may be possible to increase the average life span of Velvet people by about one-tenth, which would be as long as several decades!

Of course, the experimental results are not all good. During the physical examination of this group of volunteers, researchers found that their "brain" activity was reduced by more than 30% compared to the general level of the same age, and it continued to decline over time!

Its external manifestations include continued decline in intelligence, rapid memory decline, and some volunteers even developed dementia.

In addition, these people also invariably show some crazy characteristics. As their intelligence declines, they will occasionally lose their minds and launch attacks on the surrounding creatures.

Fortunately, no virus was detected in their bodies. This was just an adverse reaction caused by the drug.

At the same time, the injection of this agent is also accompanied by a series of complications, such as skin aging, hair loss, allergic reactions, etc.

The emergence of these clinical side effects did not waver Pope in any way, even if it caused a series of different voices in the experimental population.

After all, its life-extending function does exist. If these problems can be solved, it will leave a mark in the history of civilization!

The observation and symptom confirmation of the first batch of volunteers lasted for two years. During this period, some patients died, but most of them died of natural causes. Not many were directly related to the medicine. On the contrary, it was Pop's medicine that gave them more Two years of life, at least that's what Pope himself thought.

He admitted that he was a little anxious in pushing an immature drug into clinical trials so quickly, but it was indeed legal in terms of procedures.

As for some disputes caused by this, that is not something he needs to worry about as a scientific researcher. The legal staff of the Federal Research Institute will help him solve these problems with the previously signed liability exemption agreement.

Fourteen months after the end of the observation, Pope reconstituted the new drug based on the last clinical response, and conducted experiments on demi-humans and mammals of the same class as the Velvets. The two comparisons were comparable. Obviously, some of the complications that appeared before have become milder to varying degrees or even disappeared completely.

So, he once again thought of promoting clinical trials, but this time the experimental application was rejected by Granger personally.

The last turmoil was quite big, and it has not subsided yet. As the so-called big tree attracts trouble, as the second-ranked member of the Federal Supreme Academy of Sciences, even he cannot allow social clinical experiments to be restarted in such a short period of time.

The most important thing is that the two most serious side effects of the drug have not been overcome. This is the biggest reason why he cannot submit the application.

But the experiment had to go on, and when his application for incarceration to the federal agency was rejected, Granger finally provided him with a clear way - to go to Fowler!

After all, the Federation still has to respect human rights. Even if the experiment is conducted secretly, the results cannot be used as a valid report on the table. For a federal elite like Popper, who has a well-established background, it makes no sense to do such a thing.

In this era, even ordinary Velvet Federation citizens can have strong influence through certain special events. In a society with sound laws, it is difficult to continuously launch immature human experiments in such a short period of time, even if there are Many elderly people who are dying will not be allowed to volunteer.

The Fowlers, however, were a completely different story.

Although they are also part of the Federation, everyone knows that there is a difference between them and the Velvet people.

As conquerors, the Velvet people do not have the habit of being in a cocoon. The ordinary Fowler people are far worse than the Velvet people in terms of social status and protection of rights. Only a very small part of them can get peace. Velvet-like privileges.

It might not be a bad idea to conduct clinical experiments among the Fowler population.

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Granger and Nair were classmates, and Pope naturally received great help from the Fowler Research Station.

Compared to the Federation's home planet, this place is much more remote, and the laws are also different. Pop's business was going well.

He will lead his team members here to complete the final experiment of the improved medicine, before solving one of the two most important sequelae that was previously exposed.

Of course, as a price, he needed to write the names of Nelle and other members of her team on the final report.