Chapter 1226 Dr-111

Sometimes Wang Peng really felt that Lu Zhou didn't take health seriously.

No matter how interesting the laboratory is, it wouldn't be too late to run there without even sleeping, right?

What's more, he just came back from Shanghai a few hours ago.

To be honest, with his current status, even if he doesn't do anything, his contribution will not be lost to anyone. His existence is like a business card, or a flag, just standing there is enough for the world to ignore.

At least in Wang Peng's own opinion, nothing is more important than his health, even the series of achievements he made after completing the controllable nuclear fusion project, I am afraid that he made Huaguo's astronauts station On the moon...

Recalling Dr. Yan and his own instructions to urge Academician Lu to pay attention to his health, and the instructions from his superiors to not only be responsible for Lu Zhou's safety, but also to pay attention to his health, Wang Peng felt a headache .

How to persuade this thing?

There is no way to persuade.

Thinking of this, Wang Peng silently took out a cigarette from his purse, lit it and smoked it, then leaned against the car door and breathed out the smoke ring melancholy.

This is probably the longest, most troublesome, and most embarrassing task he has performed since he joined the army...

...

When I was in the car earlier, I had already applied for the laboratory.

Arriving at the destination, Lu Zhou first went to the edge of the pool to wash his hands, and then ordered Xiao Ai to take over the monitoring of the entire building. After making sure that no traces would be left, he took out the metal tube from the system space.

Under the light of the incandescent lamp, the surface of the metal round tube glowed with a faint silver light, which formed a sharp contrast with the viscous dark green liquid swaying behind the glass tank.

Without wasting time, Lu Zhou took the metal round tube to a white biological safety cabinet about the size of two refrigerators, carefully placed it on the feed port, and started the device.

This biological safety cabinet is tailor-made for Jinling Institute of Advanced Studies by a German medical device company. It adopts air curtain isolation technology and is equipped with a ULPA ultra-high efficiency filter, which has a 99.999% interception efficiency for particles > 0.12 microns. Exhaust after double filtration.

Coupled with a high-power air pump that can be drawn into a relatively vacuum, an ultraviolet killing system, and an acid-base pool for inactivating special bacteria... This place is like hell for microorganisms, and it can be absolutely safe in theory .

Even, Lu Zhou can say without exaggeration that if the Umbrella Company is as willing to spend money on the safety of the experiment as he is, the residents of Raccoon City will not die so miserable.

At the same time, in addition to two manually operated latex gloves, the whole set of equipment also has two electrically driven flexible manipulators.

In addition to manual operation, researchers using this set of equipment can also rely on the numerical control program to achieve precise manipulation of the samples in the biological cabinet.

In fact, ordinary researchers do not use this system, after all, most experiments can be done manually. But for Lu Zhou, with a clever lab assistant like Xiao Ai, he naturally doesn't need to do those trivial things himself.

Of course, to match these powerful functions, the cost of this device is also quite high. Xingkong Technology has purchased a total of two sets, and the cost of each set is as high as 10 million RMB.

Although compared to other biological experimental equipment, the cost of 10 million RMB is nothing, such as a better cryo-electron microscope, without a budget of 30 million RMB, it is impossible to get it.

However, a cryo-electron microscope is a cryo-electron microscope. Generally, who would spend 10 million for a biological safety cabinet whose average cost is less than 20,000? !

It can only be said that poverty limits people's imagination.

The level of local tyrants at the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study has far exceeded the imagination of domestic researchers in the same field.

It is said that because the experimental equipment is too expensive, when many scientific research dogs apply for this laboratory, their calves tremble from the moment they step into the laboratory gate.

I'm afraid that a layer of paint will be scratched off, and I will lose the down payment for a flat.

But in fact, this kind of thing will never happen. At least in Lu Zhou's view, experimental equipment is just a consumable, and you can buy it after it breaks. There is no need to hold it like a baby in your hand.

Compared to saving costs for him, he is still more inclined to encourage researchers in the research institute to boldly invest resources in the laboratory.

In his opinion, every penny spent on scientific research is worthwhile, even if it may not be worth it now, there will definitely be opportunities to use it in the future...

After setting the experimental parameters, Lu Zhou went to the coffee machine to make himself a cup of coffee.

Waited quietly for a while.

Soon, a series of rough test data, including microscope images, toxicity tests, etc., were all listed on a test report and presented to him.

As he guessed, this dark green liquid is composed of a special microorganism, and it is safe in terms of toxicity.

The observer civilization in the void didn't stuff a biochemical weapon or something into the metal tube to trick him. At least so far, he can't see that this thing is aggressive in any sense.

Their shape is like a shuttle, according to a certain frequency, slowly agitated under the microscope.

In addition to having the organelles that most living things have, a special layer of mucus is also attached to the surface of these microbial cells. And this layer of mucus is like some kind of hydrophobic adhesive, tightly combining microorganisms and microorganisms, and exchanging some special pheromones between each other.

In addition, this microorganism has a peculiar characteristic, that is, DNA and RNA have extremely high stability. Generally speaking, in order to ensure the dominant position of their population in the environment, most microorganisms have a certain probability of taking a certain fragment of their RNA or DNA as their own after devouring other microorganisms and viruses, so as to achieve Strengthen your purpose.

However, this kind of microorganism is different. After swallowing other smaller microorganisms, they do not take their DNA or RNA fragments as their own, but destroy them and directly convert them into energy.

Not only that, they are united, advancing together and retreating together, not only rejecting external mutations, but also the same for their own mutations.

Even a mutated individual, if the exchange of pheromones cannot be completed normally, it will be quickly engulfed and decomposed by other microbial individuals... just like cleaning up cancer cells.

This community composed of microorganisms extremely rejects all forms of variation and extremely maintains the purity of the community's genes.

It is hard to imagine that such "paranoid" microorganisms can survive the elimination of natural selection.

Considering that most of the treasures that Void gave to him are "artifacts" left by extinct civilizations. Lu Zhou speculated that this kind of microorganism is probably also a masterpiece of a civilization with advanced biotechnology.

In order to observe its eating process, Lu Zhou tried to order Xiao Ai to add 1g of bread crumbs with a diameter of about 0.3mm to the petri dish, and then observed the reaction of these microorganisms under an electron microscope.

Soon, when the bread crumbs came into contact with the mucus on the surface of the microorganisms, these bread crumbs were gradually broken down into smaller organic matter fragments with the transport of the mucus, and finally transported to the inside of the cell.

After a special respiration reaction, these organic matter fragments are finally converted into energy and carbon dioxide, as well as a special ketone substance.

This ketone substance is a bit like a synthetic intermediate of some kind of trans fat, but Lu Zhou did not observe any further reactions.

He can only judge through the toxicity test that this ketone substance is harmless to other organisms, but it will inhibit the division and proliferation of the microorganism itself.

"A special decomposer?"

"It should be good for treating domestic sewage and urban waste, but the speed of reproduction seems a bit too slow."

"The secretion has a single component, and there are no allergens that may induce allergic reactions in the human body. It should be edible as food...but the taste may not be very good."

"...maybe good as a face mask or something?"

Thinking of this, a strange expression appeared on Lu Zhou's face.

To be honest, this was the last possibility he wanted to believe.

You know, this is a gift from the void.

If it is only used for sewer cleaners and mask mud, although the economic value is not small, it will still disappoint him to some extent.

After all, sometimes it is impossible to measure simply by money.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and the sky outside the window had gradually changed from the deep night to a pale white.

Lu Zhou, who spent the whole night doing countless experiments, looked at the experiment report in his hand and rubbed the sore bridge of his nose.

All in all, there was still a lot to gain this evening.

However, it is a pity that this mysterious microorganism does not seem to show more useful properties other than scavenging.

Not only that, its growth rate is quite slow, even when the macro volume grows to the size of a fist, it won't continue to proliferate.

The pheromones circulating among the microbial biomass seem to automatically adjust the population size, keeping its overall size within a limited range.

If you want it to continue to reproduce, you must actively physically divide its individuals to block the exchange of pheromones between microbiota and microbiota.

If it is simply a small expert in septic tanks, the effect of its slow reproduction is not necessarily better than other similar microbial groups.

As for the mask...

He really didn't want to sell this thing as a mask for a few yuan.

It is too cheap!

Xiaoai: 【Master, do you want to end the experiment? (v`)]

Lu Zhou nodded: "Let's go here today... remember to clean up."

Xiao Ai: 【No problem, just leave it to Xiao Ai! By the way, speaking of it, master, you haven't named this microorganism yet, do you need Xiaoai's help? ()】

"No……"

Picking a name, of course, has to be done by oneself, how can it be left to the artificial mentally retarded?

After thinking about it, Lu Zhou glanced at the few lines of data on the experiment report in his hand, and based on his first impression, he picked up a pen and wrote the name [Dr-111] on it.

"Just call it this."

Xiao Ai: [Hey... Does this name have any special meaning? ()】

Lu Zhou: "Does it have to be there?"

Xiao Ai: [Of course not, it's just that Xiao Ai thinks that it might be better to name it by Xiao Ai next time... Slip. |○ω)っ】

Lu Zhou: "..."

This guy, the nonsense is really getting more and more.

After registering the entry about [Dr-111] in the database, and collecting all the experimental data from the cache, Xiao Ai began to operate the biological safety cabinet to disinfect and sterilize the residues inside.

The metal round tube pops out from the feed port, and the air pump vacuums the air in the biological safety cabinet. With the ultraviolet sterilization system turned on, the entire interior of the biological safety cabinet has become a purgatory for microorganisms.

However, at this moment, something unexpected happened to Lu Zhou.

I saw the dark green mucus lying in the petri dish, although it was evaporating and shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye, but its complete shape was still tenaciously maintained.

Like a slug struggling under the sea of ​​salt...

"Turn off the UV killing system!"

Xiao Ai: [Huh? 0.0】

Although confused by Lu Zhou's order, Xiao Ai turned off the ultraviolet sterilizing system.

Just when the ultraviolet radiation was gradually weakening, Lu Zhou stared at the interface of the control system, and a flash of light suddenly flashed in his mind.

Maybe, he knows.

Why did the extinct civilization create such "stubborn" microorganisms?

Or,

He finally knew where the really awesome use of this thing was...

I recommend an urban novel, "Becoming a Tycoon at Losing Money From the Game", readers who are interested in Shenhao's novels can read it~