In the cabin, Richard pursed his lips and looked at the two liquids, one yellow and one basket. Instead of pouring the dark blue one directly, he used the dark blue potion and the light yellow potion, combined with a lot of raw materials that he had already obtained. Make a finished product respectively.
After all, the purpose of studying this potion is not to simply make it and use it, but to understand some of its principles so as to optimize and improve it to better meet its own requirements - this is the meaning of science.
Thinking like this and looking at two completely different finished medicines, one blue and one yellow, Richard began to think about how to test the effects of the two medicines.
Testing it with your own body and drinking it directly is naturally the simplest, intuitive and efficient way, but it is very risky.
Why should we test other organisms before conducting our own human experiments
So…
Richard raised his head and looked at Pandora, who was still sleeping on the bed.
By the way, Pandora has been sleeping almost every day since getting on the boat. She wakes up occasionally, is in a daze for a while, and then continues to sleep, like hibernating.
But the thing is... it's already spring.
If it's hibernating, is it a bit sluggish? If it is aestivation, is it too early
Richard could only conclude that this was a stage in the development of a creature like a giant dragon. Maybe after a long period of sleep, Pandora would be able to grow to a certain extent, become stronger, and eventually become peaceful little by little. The original Gregory was just as strong.
But how long will this time last
A month? Two months? Half a year? One year? ten years
Richard felt that carrying Pandora now was like carrying a sleepy pet. According to the degree of sleepiness of the other party, it is no longer a cat. After all, cats only sleep about 12 hours a day, more like a sloth - sleeping 22 hours a day - and the remaining 2 hours are used to prepare for sleep.
By the way, what will be the effect if the other party pours the medicine into him under this situation
Richard stepped towards Pandora, then... turned around and walked out of the cabin.
Considering Pandora's condition, Richard felt that even if he really had to give Pandora the potion, the other party might just turn over and continue sleeping, which would have no value for testing at all, so...
A few minutes later, after walking several times in the corridor of the cabin, Richard walked back to the cabin carrying two unlucky rats—rats are still very common on ships. Whether it is the wooden ships of the current medieval world or the advanced steel warships of modern Earth, rats are present. There are many harmful effects, such as chewing food, disturbing the crew's rest, and even spreading diseases such as plague.
For Richard, these mice are also good, at least they don't have to worry about the subjects of live experiments.
After catching the two mice back to the cabin, Richard quickly started testing the medicine.
There were two rats, one big and one small. Richard poured the yellow potion into the larger rat. This was the "one-eyed violent potion" made according to standard procedures.
Afterwards, Richard poured a blue potion into the smaller mouse. He made the potion by changing the core raw materials in his own way. It can be called "Richard's unknown potion" for the time being.
After pouring in the potion, Richard waited patiently and then observed the reactions of the two mice.
After a while, the two mice looked completely different.
The big mouse's eyes turned red little by little, and it kept shaking its head and tail, looking very irritable. The little mouse shrank and shivered, looking a little scared.
So, the yellow potion causes euphoria, and the blue potion causes fear
Richard blinked, took out the scalpel, dropped it from behind the big mouse, and cut off the tail of the big mouse.
The big rat showed no reaction and continued to shake its head, apparently losing its sense of pain and danger.
Richard put the scalpel in front of the big rat's body, and the big rat realized something. Then it screamed "Zhi Zhi" and bit the scalpel hard, biting the blade hard and fighting with its teeth. of biting.
However, due to the special material of the scalpel, the rat's teeth were still not strong enough. In just a moment, the rat's teeth had broken into pieces and bleeding continued from its mouth. But the big rat didn't let up and continued to bite. Richard pulled out the scalpel and actually lifted the whole big rat up.
"Hmm..." Richard narrowed his eyes slightly and analyzed to himself, "Is this because the ingredients were extracted using experimental methods and the purity was too high, causing them to become even crazier? In this case, some of the previous ideas can be used Try it, like letting the enemy absorb it and lose their sanity.”
As Richard spoke, he swung the scalpel and shook off the big rat with great force. With a "bang", the big rat fell hard into the corner of the cabin.
Who knew that the big rat thrown out was like a spring, jumping up like lightning and biting the scalpel again.
Richard raised his eyebrows without any politeness, stabbed the big mouse with a scalpel, and nailed the big mouse to the wooden board on the ground.
Taking out the scalpel, Richard looked at the trembling little mouse again and carried out the experiment according to the plan.
As I got closer with the scalpel, I saw the little mouse shivering gradually intensified. Richard tentatively cut the tail of the little mouse to see if the result would be the same as that of the big mouse. Then he found that when the scalpel was still a few centimeters away from the tail of the little mouse, the little mouse had already turned around suddenly and retreated quickly. back.
Richard's eyes flashed.
With a slight breath, Richard moved his hand and threw out the scalpel. It was quickly caught by the other hand and then stabbed down. The little mouse made a "squeak" sound and quickly dodged again without being stabbed like the big mouse. Wear the body.
"Hmm... It's a bit interesting..."
Richard muttered to himself, and continued to stab the little mouse with the scalpel. The speed began to increase a little bit. The little mouse was controlled by the air wall in a fixed range, and it kept dodging. After a long time, unexpectedly Not hurt at all.
"Dodge...or is your reaction more sensitive?" Richard guessed, his eyes brightening slightly.
The current behavior of the mice can indeed be explained by physiological knowledge.
After all, according to the previous speculation about the "One-eyed Violent Potion", the principle of the potion's action should be to act on the nerves, weaken the transmission of specific pain signals through a certain component, and cause the continuous excitement of another specific signal, and finally It causes the person who uses the medicine to become irritable, lose their sense of pain, and lose their sense of danger.
The light yellow liquid purified from the blood of "Griffin Colorful Bird" plays this role, while the dark blue liquid may have the opposite effect: making people who use the medicine fearful and strengthening pain nerve signals. transmission, increasing danger perception.
Is it really
Richard looked at the extremely vigilant little mouse trapped in the wall of air and his eyes flashed, but he did not draw any premature conclusions. After all, everything is just speculation now, and some experiments need to be continued to prove it, at least to rule out individual chance.
The next moment, Richard stepped out of the cabin door again.