"They... don't wear clothes?" Du Lin, who was wearing a white coat, had a bit of the temperament of a researcher. He pointed to the observation rooms around him and asked a bit strangely.
If only male clinical trial volunteers were undressed, no one would think it was strange. After all, men always have some advantages in some aspects, such as those of the same sex who are too lazy to look at it, and those of the opposite sex who look at it will suffer. So It’s not surprising that they don’t wear clothes. Some people even like to go without clothes.
But women don't wear clothes, which makes people a little uncomfortable. Although the feminist movement has been in full swing in the past few years, and people have more or less heard of the aims and goals of the feminist movement, the entire society still treats women as As a vulnerable group, whether they allow their husbands to fight with them in bed or not.
The female doctor among the two doctors who followed Du Lin immediately explained, "Most women's bodies are more sensitive than men, and they are very good at expressing minor adverse reactions to some hormones. Maybe they don't even feel it themselves. If there is any discomfort, allergic reactions have begun to occur, so we ask that no clothes be worn as much as possible. This will make it easier for us to intuitively and comprehensively understand the specific conditions of each subject. "
As she spoke, she smiled. This female doctor wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and had long hair tied into a ponytail. To be honest, she wasn't ugly, she could only be considered average or above average.
But what she said next made people feel strangely uncomfortable, "In addition, I don't think they need to be shy. For us medical workers, they have nothing to do with the animals in the school laboratory." difference.”
"In our eyes, they are just a combination of living organs and tissues. Their appearance and so on..." She glanced at the male doctor next to her. The male doctor shrugged. Obviously, they only knew this. A little joke.
As the female doctor said, maybe they were not used to seeing the bodies of naked people of the opposite sex at first, but since they have dissected hundreds of corpses of all kinds, when they see the opposite sex or anyone else, they feel Most of the time, what comes to mind is "this person's skin looks a little gray, and there may be some problems with his vaginal organs" or "this person has a lot of body fat, so the Y incision needs to be deeper."
The volunteers who are observing the laboratory staff around the clock in the transparent room don't seem to be embarrassed. Most of them are doing their own things, reading books, or watching TV.
In fact, the medical group also needs to thank Du Lin. It is precisely because after he invented the magical thing of cable television, many volunteers can endure long-term observation of life and no longer require to go out for walks every once in a while. Relax.
The more opportunities there are for contact with the outside world, the easier it is to cause errors in some verification results. Now they don't need to worry about this.
Dulin walked from room to room and finally arrived at their destination. The volunteers on this floor all looked like fools or mentally retarded. They walked back and forth in the room in degenerate postures that humans could not naturally form. Walk around, or sit on the floor and slap yourself in the face.
Only a few people looked like normal people. If they didn't shout or twitch from time to time, Dulin would think that they were more normal.
"These are patients we have collected who have obvious brain defects. Some are congenital and some are acquired. In the past, we did not find any effective way to help them, but now we are here A breakthrough has been made.”
The group of people walked to the main research room, put on a set of sterile biochemical suits and entered the interior of the laboratory. Some large, stupid-looking precision instruments were constantly working, and they processed many liquids and solids.
The female doctor angrily led Du Lin to the largest table in the laboratory, and held up a culture vessel. In this culture vessel were some pure blue crystals, only half the size of a wheat kernel.
"These are our protagonists. We named it 'Origin'. It is the origin of all life and the crystallization of wisdom given to living creatures!"
The female doctor seemed a little fanatical, which she had never shown before, and the male doctor also looked very fanatical. The two people looked at the blue crystal in the culture vessel with eyes that were as pious as looking at God, and also full of something. A terrible craze.
"Sorry... I'm rude..." After being excited for a while, the female doctor suddenly came back to her senses. She calmed down her emotions, apologized, and then continued, "Mr. Kewen... he is a very great person." A biologist, he believes that the future of biomedicine lies in deciphering the human body itself. Only by uncovering the code of intelligent life can we go further in medicine and biology."
"So we established a lot of projects, including research on the human brain."
"We found that Origin plays an irreplaceable role in brain growth. It can effectively allow brain cells to reproduce and grow, which is an ability that no other hormone has."
"Once human brain cells are formed, it is difficult to regenerate and divide. Unlike other cells in our body, such as muscle cells, damaged cells will be repaired through reproduction and proliferation after these muscles are torn."
"But brain cells are not good. Once they are injured and die, they will not regenerate and it is impossible to continue to recover. This is why we have always believed that the process of life is irreversible."
"Until... we discovered it. After our communication with the East, we found that the origin can reactivate brain cells for division and regeneration under certain conditions, which means that we will touch the realm of God... "
The female doctor who was a fanatical follower of Scientology stopped abruptly. The male doctor poked her lower back from behind, which also made her wake up.
These things are still top secret. Except for a very few people, outsiders have no idea what has happened in the past few years.
In fact, the female doctor doesn't know much. In deeper places, some more secretive projects have gradually begun to operate, including the Origin Project and the continuation of this plan - the Immortality Project.
Biologists believe that the main reason for human aging is that the pituitary gland gradually stops secreting some hormones, which leads to a gradual reduction in the cell division and regeneration ability of many organs. In the end, they will no longer divide new cells. This also means that humans have reached a close level. death.
Assuming that under certain conditions, the pituitary gland can always secrete various hormones to ensure that the cells of each organ in the body will be eaten by new regenerative cells after normal death, then the human body will always maintain its peak state, that is, ten Between the ages of four and twenty-four.
Origin is the most important part of this plan. Origin can help dead cells in the brain to divide and regenerate like a miracle. This means that the pituitary gland will secrete various hormones and pheromones again to promote the maintenance of cells throughout the body. Regenerative division state.
This is like cancer, an optimized cancer with accurate tropism and no harm. People are cancer cells and they are constantly regenerating. As long as the energy supply can keep up, they will never die.
This plan has been invested in research. Invisible to people, almost all leaders, presidents, chairmen, and dictators with a little status in the entire world have invested a lot of money in this project.
There were many similar projects in the past, and they also invested a lot of money. Basically, 98% of the projects ended in failure. For example, the previous "Body Project" maintained immortality by replacing the brain with a younger body. ”, it was an obvious failure.
However, in the process of the failure of these plans, there will also be many valuable by-products. For example, although the body plan failed, the organ transplant surgery has achieved unprecedented success and has entered the operational stage. All major hospitals in the empire have begun Organ transplant cases.
It doesn’t matter if you fail ninety-nine times out of a hundred investments, but as long as you succeed once, the income you get will exceed the sum of the previous ninety-nine times that failed!
In fact, Du Lin also had the qualifications to know these things, but the top parliament had not yet opened, so he missed the mark.
"These experimental subjects have begun to use origins. We have adopted intracranial injection..." The male doctor took the initiative to change the topic, without giving Dulin time to ask or think. "We will use a special syringe to pierce the skull." , but it will not damage any brain tissue, and then spray the melted origin directly on the brain tissue... "
He raised his hand to make a virtual squeeze, then raised his index finger and pressed it down, as if pressing a watering can. This action was actually not funny at all, but he seemed to find it funny.
After laughing a few times, he realized that Du Lin was just looking at him, and the female doctor was also looking at him. He stopped his so-called "joke" in embarrassment and continued to introduce Du Lin to the clinical performance of these people.
"In the three-day clinical trial, we believe that Origin can indeed help the brain repair itself to a certain extent, which can also be said to be the regeneration of brain cells..."
He cited several examples, such as a certain experimental subject who had almost lost the ability to express himself before, but now this guy has shown an obvious desire to express himself.
A patient with spatial deficiencies who was unable to walk or even crawl without assistance before his arrival is now able to sit up from bed independently.
Of course, there are some patients who have not shown obvious benign changes, but these changes are enough for the Academy of Sciences to believe that they should pay more attention to this hormone named "Origin".
Finally, the female doctor told Dulin that because it originated from a special hormone drug that directly acts on brain tissue, they had not developed such a drug in the past, so this clinical trial will be conducted in at least three batches, with a total duration of It may take more than half a year.
During the past six months, it would be best for Dulin and the others to spend more time with Mags to ensure that his mood remains relatively stable.
Sometimes emotions are also one of the most terrifying enemies that interfere with treatment. They inexplicably produce many hormones and can even directly affect the cellular level. Until now, people have not figured out how cells that should not have intelligence are affected by emotions. Strain changes occur under conditions.
After leaving the experimental center, Dulin ate something briefly, then returned to the ward to visit Mags, and told the old man what he had seen and heard.
Mags acted quite calmly, as if... asleep.
The two-point-one-line life only lasted for a week. Just after entering the first day of March, Kubal found Dulin and told him not to go anywhere in the afternoon. He would take Dulin to a meeting.
Today is the day when the Supreme Council convenes, and Kubal takes this opportunity to push Dulin to the front desk to temporarily replace Mags, so as not to leave this position vacant and allow other people to have ideas.
Du Lin seemed to have some understanding as he spent the whole morning preparing. He came to the top of the tallest tower in the empire, sat behind the window and looked down at the entire imperial capital.
He didn't speak, just sat quietly, but there was lightning and thunder in his head like a storm.
Starting from that somewhat absurd but very important dream to him, bit by bit, he reviewed his life of more than 20 years.
His first sixteen years can be described as hazy. He didn't know why he was born in this world, and he didn't know what he should do in the future. He had no ideals, no pursuits, and only lived in numbness.
He called that state of having no ideal pursuit and no motivation as numbness.
In the following ten years, he had a bizarre dream, gained a lot of terrible knowledge, had dreams and pursuits, and shouldered a heavy responsibility on his shoulders.
He called his current state a struggle.
My numbness, and my struggle….
After afternoon tea, at about a little after three o'clock, Kubal found Dulin and walked through the streets and alleys with him to a very old house.
There was an old woman in the house wearing an apron and a hat. She was holding a clay pot in her hand, watching TV, and stirring something.
She didn't react at all to the sudden appearance of a familiar person and a stranger in her home. Her attention was always on the TV.
Kubal pulled Dulin and nodded to her, then walked through the room and pulled a candlestick in the study room next door, revealing a staircase going down.
After passing through the long stairs, the two went around several times and finally entered a dark room.
There is a large round table in the room. The round table is black and matte. There is a chandelier on the table very close to the table.
Because the tabletop is non-reflective, the light in the room is very dark. Only the middle part of each chair beside the table can be lit, and the rest is shrouded in darkness.
They arrived very early. This was Dulin's first time participating in a small circle at the highest level of the empire, so he had to show sincerity.
Not two minutes after he sat down, he heard a somewhat familiar voice.
"This damn place... If it were me, I would definitely put it somewhere else. The environment here is too terrible. It makes me feel like I am a bad person, but I am obviously... "
Another old voice suddenly sounded, "Damn it, shut your stinky mouth!"
"What did you say? Bad mouth? Does my breath smell bad? For God's sake, I clean my personal oral hygiene on time every day, and... ha... you lied to me, my breath is very fresh and smells like jasmine. , I use jasmine toothpaste, you know I like it..."
"Why did God give you a mouth when he created you? Can you please shut that damn mouth of yours for the sake of me dying?"
"Are you going to die? God, are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere? Do you need me to call an ambulance for you? I just said, this place is too remote and dark. Even if you call an ambulance, it may not be enough. Wait until they find it. You were probably already cold when we were there, so... why did you hit me?"
"Hit you? I'm going to kill you!"
The two voices came closer and closer, and Du Lin's expression became increasingly strange. He glanced sideways at the doorway from which the voices came, and then two shadows appeared in the room.
He tried to shout, "Kandy?"
(End of chapter)