Chapter 189 A Different Idea

Bai Jingyan grew excited. He couldn't wait for his assistant to bring the reagents he had used to create the neutralizing agent and immediately began experimenting.

"Deploy T-223 reagent!" Bai Jingyan placed the special container under the monitoring instrument, staring at the data changes on the screen. "The gene to reagent ratio is 1:300..."

"No, 1:500!"

Bai Jingyan pondered for a long time before giving an extremely outrageous ratio.

The primary material used to create the neutralizing agent, after investigation, was found to be the crystallized remains of a second-stage evolved creature after death. This medicinal property could suppress the violent nature of first-stage evolution agents, but as for the Apostle gene at the peak of second-stage evolution...

Bai Jingyan had no confidence at all.

Sure enough, as the golden liquid was slowly poured into the container, the drop of blood at the bottom suddenly seemed to come alive. It swam wildly in the liquid, like a hungry great white shark.

On the monitoring screen, the index representing the activity and strength of the coastal Apostle gene instantly entered a state of soaring.

The golden liquid decreased at a rate visible to the naked eye, slowly turning blood red. After a few seconds, the liquid completely disappeared, and the single drop of blood inside the container had increased in size several times...

"It devoured all the liquid and increased its size nearly tenfold!" Bai Jingyan's brow twitched wildly. This was the most terrifying gene he had ever seen. Even though the main body was dead, it was still active. Although no amount of devoured flesh, blood, or bacteria could revive the ocean Apostle, this characteristic was enough to make one shudder.

"Change to T-999 reagent!" Bai Jingyan's brow furrowed. The more active this gene was, the more powerful it proved to be. If it could be utilized, it would greatly assist Mad Breath Island.

He couldn't participate in the war, so he wanted to contribute his strength as soon as possible using this method.

Soon, under Bai Jingyan's operation, a large number of reagents with suppression, weakening, and even [lethal] effects were transported into the laboratory, but unfortunately, none of these reagents could affect the ocean Apostle's gene.

Creatures at the peak of second-stage evolution were basically immune to the negative effects of any known drug on Blue Star.

Even the most potent toxins could not cause any harm to the ocean Apostle's gene.

Bai Jingyan stood at the experiment table, looking at the blood in the container. He suddenly felt an intense sense of powerlessness.

Li Tianran had slain such a powerful ocean Apostle with his sword, completely turning it into a historical remnant, while he had always confidently claimed to be Li Tianran's most capable right-hand man, to lead the entire human world into the age of gods and demons, but now, he couldn't even defeat a small drop of blood left behind by the ocean Apostle...

If he couldn't even conquer it, what was there to talk about grand ideals?

"Continue, go get the materials from warehouse number 2." Bai Jingyan rubbed his brow and issued a new command to his assistant: "Take the highest level directly!"

Warehouse number 2 stored highly radioactive materials.

Although the Apostles' life levels were sufficient to immunize them against most radiation, it was still worth a try.

"No need." Just then, an old but powerful voice sounded.

Bai Jingyan turned to look in the direction of the voice. Professor Nan was walking over.

"Teacher," Bai Jingyan nodded slightly.

"Mm." Professor Nan grunted in response. Since Bai Jingyan and Nan Nan had returned to Mad Breath Island, their relationship had improved a lot.

After all, what's done is done. No matter how many objections Professor Nan voiced, it would be useless.

Moreover, Bai Jingyan was his most outstanding student. Professor Nan had valued him immensely in the past. Now that Nan Nan had returned, he had changed his attitude towards Bai Jingyan out of love for her.

As for Bai Jingyan, he had always respected Professor Nan. The point of conflict between them was only Nan Nan. Apart from her, Professor Nan was his mentor. He had left Professor Nan only because of different research ideas, not for other reasons.

In terms of knowledge and experience, Bai Jingyan had always been convinced by his teacher.

"The Apostle's gene is already at the peak of Blue Star's existence. Any known external force cannot affect its stability. You can eliminate it violently, but you can never change it." Professor Nan walked to the experiment table, looking at the blood in the container. "Stop trying to influence it. It's all useless."

Bai Jingyan listened to Professor Nan's words, feeling very unwilling: "Teacher, this is a very precious material. The death of an Apostle can bring us huge benefits. If we can't use it, wouldn't it be a pity?"

"I just said don't try to influence it anymore, I didn't say don't use it." Professor Nan shook his head and said: "The ocean Apostle gene's ability to devour and transform is indeed very powerful. If we can use it, our strength will indeed increase greatly."

"But we don't necessarily have to fuse it with our genes to use it..."

Bai Jingyan listened to Professor Nan's words, slowly frowning.

Professor Nan glanced at Bai Jingyan. He knew very well that Bai Jingyan didn't seem to understand his meaning.

"You're too obsessed with enhancing the human body through gene fusion. This has been your obsession for a long time..." Professor Nan took a deep breath, straightened his old back, "But you don't understand that mankind has risen from ancient times to dominate Blue Star, not by relying on strong physiques, but by relying on tools!"

"Knives, guns, artillery, these are the factors that dominate human civilization."

"Just like this drop of blood." Professor Nan pointed to the ocean Apostle's blood in the container: "It's like an extremely sharp handleless steel knife. The way you want to use it is to implant this steel knife into the human body, so that the person and the steel knife become one. The difficulty of doing so is definitely enormous!"

"Carelessness will lead to rejection, and in the process of using it, you will hurt yourself because the part where the blade and the human body meet is too sharp."

"What I want to do is just to install a handle on this handleless steel knife..."

"As long as we can pick it up and wave it, that's enough!" Professor Nan made a chopping motion, then looked up at Bai Jingyan and asked: "Do you understand?"

Bai Jingyan felt that his thinking suddenly became enlightened at this moment.

He looked at Professor Nan, feeling like he was back in the days when he had just entered the research institute as an intern. Professor Nan would answer all his questions.

It seemed that nothing in the world could stump the teacher. He was the most intelligent person in the world!

"I understand! I understand!" Bai Jingyan clenched his fists excitedly: "Before we have drugs to suppress the ocean gene, if we want to use the characteristics of the ocean gene, we don't need to implant it into the human body at all, as long as we use a medium to guide it out."

"Just like the Dragon Tooth Battleblade created using the fangs of the sky Apostle!"

"The human body cannot withstand the strength of the ocean gene, but there are things that can withstand it! I will now install a handle on this sharp handleless steel knife..." Bai Jingyan trembled excitedly: "The fangs of the sky Apostle created the Dragon Tooth Battleblade."

"The characteristics of the ocean Apostle gene determine that it is most suitable to be made into armor!"

"I want to contact the armory, I want to unite with them to create an indestructible [living armor] that can provide a constant source of power to the wearer!"