"Mr. Gu, why don't you give it a try? Maybe it can help your mental state."
After successfully persuading Gu Haiming, Xia Xu was not stingy and directly handed over the bag of super brain potion.
"No need for it now. Let me save one and try it when I get sick again."
Gu Haiming smiled and took one and kept it close to his body.
The two of them talked in detail about issues such as remuneration. Gu Haiming was easy to talk to in this regard. He only asked for sufficient experimental funds and did not mention aspects such as salary and benefits. Whatever Xia Xu said was what it was.
Afterwards, Gu Haiming took the initiative to take Xia Xu to visit his laboratory.
In fact, it is just a simple laboratory converted from a basement. It looks rather simple inside, but it has all the necessary equipment. Only some high-end equipment that is difficult to buy is either missing or extremely old.
At this time, Xia Xu also asked the question that had been in his heart: "Dr. Gu, did you pick up a used modified serum syringe before?"
"A syringe? Oh, you mean this, right? There is such a thing."
Gu Haiming patted his forehead and really found a syringe.
It's not that fancy, just an ordinary plastic syringe. The only iconic feature is a tree-shaped logo engraved on the plastic syringe.
"I picked this up when I was having an attack, but I probably picked it up because I subconsciously recognized the logo."
Gu Haiming explained: "This is a syringe produced by a medical device company under Andela. Although it is sold to the outside, it actually has little market share. It is mainly used internally by Andela."
Xia Xu nodded slightly and asked, "Then Dr. Gu, you should have also studied the contents inside, right?"
"It contains a special gene-editing virus that carries a gene fragment that looks like a bat, and then some unknown biological serum that contains a lot of nutrients and ingredients that accelerate cell division and differentiation..."
Gu Haiming became excited when he heard this. He explained to Xia Xu in detail for a long time. Finally, he made a conclusion with a lingering feeling: "Obviously, this is an immature gene fusion technology, but I see the shadow of werewolf manufacturing technology in it. Originally, according to my analysis, the success rate of this transformation serum is very low, but..."
"But have you seen the media reports about the German City Batman recently?"
Xia Xu said playfully.
"That's right."
Gu Haiming nodded.
The next plot is actually easy to guess.
According to news reports, Yao Fu's behavior was indeed not like that of an ordinary person, and he even called himself Batman. Gu Haiming also picked up a used bat gene fusion serum syringe, so he naturally subconsciously linked the two together.
If you add the 'coincidence' of meeting Yao Fu, the Batman in the report, lying on the side of the road, there is no reason not to pick him up.
"Doctor Gu, are you sure you can replicate this transformation serum?"
Putting the plot aside for the moment, Xia Xu asked the question that concerned him most.
"I'm afraid not. At least not in a short period of time. This transformation serum actually uses a lot of unpublished cutting-edge technology."
Gu Haiming smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Take this gene-edited virus for example, it seems to be a strain specially cultivated by the Andela Group, called Scalpel.
But as far as I know, this has been iterated for countless generations, and it also has an encryption mechanism that prohibits self-replication. Unless we can get the strain from their base, this first step will not work.
Then we need to analyze the gene fragments carried inside, the components that can provide a lot of nutrition and accelerate cell differentiation, etc...."
"So there's no hope at all?"
The disappointment on Xia Xu's face was beyond words.
"Unless you can get the same Scalpel strain, or you provide me with sufficient funds and manpower, I can use this sample and some of the techniques I have mastered to conduct research from scratch, but this will take time."
Gu Haiming also shook his head regretfully: "And to be honest, the success rate of this transformation serum is actually terribly low. It may be difficult for one out of thousands of people to successfully integrate. It is a pure miracle that the child outside can integrate so perfectly."
The child he was referring to was naturally Yao Fu. Apparently he had made some attempts after picking Yao Fu up last night.
"Okay then. I'll try to think of a solution regarding the virus strain."
Xia Xu nodded slightly and continued, "However, Dr. Gu, you shouldn't have gained nothing recently, right?"
He remembered the mysterious medicine that Gu Haiming was supposed to give Yao Fu in the original plot.
"You know that, too?"
Gu Haiming was really shocked this time. He looked around his laboratory, as if he was wondering if he was being monitored.
After all, he was the one secretly figuring this out himself, and there was no one else who knew about it.
How can you know this? You must have installed hundreds of cameras to spy on an old man like me
"Well, some special intelligence channels that cannot be disclosed, you know."
Xia Xu explained after a moment's pause.
As for the plot, the intelligence channel he used to fool Gu Haiming just now was indeed referring to this, so naturally he continued to push the idea towards this.
Gu Haiming didn't dwell on this. The more Xia Xu showed his magical powers, the happier he was. He nodded and replied, "In addition to extracting a small amount of residual serum and virus from the syringe, I actually found a very small amount of transformed blood cells. These blood cells have extremely strong vitality.
And I unexpectedly discovered that they seem to have a violent reaction to a special protein in the human body. In theory, after being injected or even taking this protein, the transformed person can temporarily or even permanently enhance their physical fitness. However, this special protein cannot be synthesized, and only a small number of people have it in their bodies..."
"Special protein?"
Xia Xu's cheek twitched.
He thought about his fate.
The reason why he and his original self tragically became supporting characters in "Hunter" was because they contained special proteins in their bodies that only very few people possessed.
Werewolves use this thing to activate the wolf enhancement serum.
Bat people use this thing as a breeding potion and a tonic pill
Don’t tell me these two things are the same, otherwise wouldn’t I be a walking weakened version of Tang Monk’s meat
Very unfortunate.
The answer is yes.
There are not so many similar special proteins in the human body. After Xia Xu took out the data related to the special proteins in the wolf enhanced serum for comparison, he found that the two were purely the same substance.
Now the only thing he could be thankful for was that he was not born in some messy fantasy world. This rare physique with special protein could not be discovered at a glance, nor could one's strength soar casually by taking a bite. Otherwise, he might really have to prepare a coffin and tombstone for himself in advance.
Wait, how did the Star City werewolves hunt them so accurately