Chen Hao
Chapter 213 Fierce Divergence
"Heartbeat data normal, blood pressure normal..."
"Mental state normal, organ function normal..."
"Skin test with neutralizing agent can be performed..."
The cold, mechanical voice echoed in the research institute next to the temporary command center. Professor Nan was nervously watching the various data streams in front of him.
Due to the limited resources allocated by the higher-ups, and the fact that most of Nan City's main force was currently building shelters, Professor Nan's project had very little power to draw upon.
Even this temporary research institute was converted from a chemistry laboratory.
In the end, the higher-ups didn't take this matter to heart.
Because the abilities displayed by the "reversionary evolvers" at this time were not enough to attract attention. Instead of spending a lot of resources to study superhumans, building shelters was the top priority for the higher-ups.
But even so, Professor Nan was not discouraged.
He gathered a team and borrowed a platoon of soldiers from Miao Yu to guard and station at the research institute.
In the cold laboratory, two burly adult men lay on the test benches. Staff in protective suits pierced a small, almost invisible dose of injectable liquid into their earlobes.
This was a gene drug with neutralizing agents successfully extracted by Professor Nan using Yu City's genes. However, he did not dare to inject a large dose directly into the human body. After many calculations, he arrived at a controllable dose range to perform a skin test on some unimportant parts of the human body. Once allergic reactions, rejection, and other reactions occurred, they could be quickly controlled!
The gene drug was slowly injected.
Soon, the skin of the man's earlobe on the left began to crack, and drops of blood dripped down his earlobe.
The researcher next to him was quick-witted and used a sharp scalpel to directly cut off the nail-sized earlobe along the edge of the man's ear.
Soon, the earlobe turned into a pile of minced meat in the hands of the researcher...
The man stood up, his ear was quickly bandaged, and he saluted Professor Nan expressionlessly before striding out of the laboratory.
"This is already the eighteenth neutralizing agent. Is it really impossible to replicate superhumans?" Professor Nan fell into deep thought.
Since he started experimenting, the earlobes of the entire platoon of soldiers Miao Yu sent him had been cut off, including his own, but the results still failed to satisfy him.
"Is my idea wrong?" Professor Nan closed his eyes, and his mind began to doubt his life.
But at this moment, a suppressed, extremely excited voice suddenly sounded: "Professor Nan, quickly... quickly look! Subject 19 shows no rejection reaction!"
Professor Nan suddenly opened his eyes and looked at the second person lying on the test bench.
His earlobe did not collapse and rot like the first person's, but was intact, and even the pinhole where the syringe had pierced it had disappeared!
Professor Nan's pupils widened, then widened again.
...
"Commander Miao! Commander Miao! I've made a major discovery!" Professor Nan rushed from the research institute to the command post. After seeing Miao Yu, he grabbed his shoulders with excitement and said, "I've found the secret to gene replication!"
Miao Yu frowned and asked in a deep voice, "What?"
"I've always believed that gene drugs cannot be fused and matched with ordinary people because ordinary people's physiques are too weak, so I've always focused on researching neutralizing agents! But today I discovered that a more important reason than neutralizing agents is that the gene hLB subtype of the superhuman subject does not match the test subject!"
"hLB subtype?" Miao Yu raised his eyebrows.
"Yes, this is a highly polymorphic complex composed of a series of closely linked gene loci. Unlike blood types, it is randomly matched in each person's body, and there may be tens of thousands of arrangement orders! To give a simplest example... bone marrow donation, this operation requires the hLB subtypes of the donor and the recipient to be consistent. It is possible that two identical matches will appear among thousands or tens of thousands of people. Only two completely identical people can perform mutual implantation, otherwise, a severe rejection reaction will occur!"
"The role of the neutralizing agent is to neutralize this rejection reaction!"
"But I found that if the hLB subtype of the gene drug subject is the same as the arrangement order of the person being injected, this rejection reaction will be greatly reduced..." Professor Nan's eyes glowed.
"..." Miao Yu's head was a little dizzy after hearing this, and he said in a deep voice: "To put it simply."
"I have created a superhuman!" Professor Nan lowered his voice and said extremely excitedly, "Now my team is conducting physical examinations on him!"
Miao Yu's mouth also opened slightly.
He did not expect that Professor Nan would complete the replication of superhumans in just a few days!
"But there is a problem, that is, the drug made with the gene of the Deputy Commander of Yu City can only make humans with the same hLB arrangement order as him become superhumans, and the others... will not work at all." Professor Nan said extremely excitedly, "Unless we create a more effective neutralizing agent, otherwise, these gene drugs will still cause the human body to collapse, but I have full confidence..."
Clap clap!
Miao Yu patted Professor Nan on the shoulder, directly interrupted Professor Nan's words, and then calmly pointed to the steel city being built in front and asked: "Professor Nan, I understand your excited mood very well, but what I want to ask you is, what can these superhumans with huge investments help us do?"
"Their various physical qualities are several times higher than ordinary people, and they have extremely strong self-healing ability and purification ability, and can ignore the toxicity of those radiated waters..." Professor Nan excitedly introduced his products.
"How much money did it cost us to create such a superhuman?" Miao Yu asked again.
"Probably... more than 500 million?" Professor Nan said uncertainly.
"500 million..." Miao Yu took a deep breath, pointed to the city being built in front, and said: "The higher-ups only approved 10 billion resources for us to build this shelter. The cost of such a superhuman is almost more expensive than a group of anti-aircraft artillery, but its role is not even comparable to the most ordinary armor-piercing cannon."
"Why don't you take a longer-term view..." Professor Nan looked angry.
"Because danger may come at any time!" Miao Yu glanced at Professor Miao expressionlessly, "I don't know what these superhumans will do in the future, but I only know that you spent 500 million of my military expenses to create a creature that is not very useful. If it weren't for this scientific research project, I could have built another group of enemy-killing cannons in the shelter."
"I really hope that when the beast tide comes again, the creature you spent 500 million to create can exert the strength of 5 million!"
"Take good care of your baby, and don't let anything happen to him!"
After saying this, Miao Yu turned and walked out of the command post.
Professor Nan was silent for a long time, then suddenly jumped up and cursed: "Frog in the well! Short-sighted! Uncultured! I shouldn't have come to Nan City with you to suffer this kind of anger!"
"You dare to curse my project!"
"Do you think my superhuman plan will have problems and be shelved just because you said that casually? You're dreaming!"