I See through Everything

He Youwei didn’t go back. Instead, she took an extended leave of absence from Peking Union Medical College Hospital and temporarily moved into a standalone villa owned by the Hailufeng Company.

Jiang Miao was incredibly busy. Plus, it would have been awkward for a man and a woman to be living alone together, so he arranged for Shuya to mentor He Youwei.

Shuya was currently researching Termitomyces mushrooms. Thanks to the Strong Brain diet and the genetic laws Jiang Miao had taught her, her research was progressing by leaps and bounds.

She had already figured out the underlying mechanism of the symbiotic relationship between Termitomyces and termites. By mimicking this symbiosis, she could selectively cultivate the mushrooms with a growth cycle of about 75 days and a yield of 3,000 to 4,000 kilograms per mu.

At that moment, Shuya finally understood where Jiang Miao got his ability to rapidly develop all sorts of new technologies. She realized he possessed this power because he had mastered the laws of genetics.

Considering how the outside world might react, Shuya didn’t immediately publish the technology and papers related to Termitomyces. To the public, she still claimed to be researching Morchella.

Jiang Miao had discussed He Youwei’s situation with Shuya. While they couldn’t teach her all the genetic laws, there were eleven relatively simple ones—unrelated to brain enhancement or life extension—that they could pass on to her.

The Edible Fungus Laboratory.

He Youwei, already dressed head-to-toe in a protective suit and helmet, stared at a pig’s gene sequence on the computer screen.

Shuya approached the teaching task as a welcome break. "Based on the laws of growth-related functional genes, identify which gene fragments might affect its growth."

He Youwei subconsciously reached up to adjust her glasses, only for her hand to tap against the plastic face shield. She scrutinized the pig’s gene sequence, then picked up a small notebook and began jotting down information, working through calculations and deductions.

Lacking an eidetic memory, He Youwei’s research was much slower than Shuya’s. Combined with her unfamiliarity with the genetic laws, she stumbled through the calculations.

「A little over three hours later.」

She had managed to deduce only seventeen growth-related gene fragments. Six of them formed one group and five formed another, but she had yet to find corresponding groups for the remaining six.

After a quick lunch, she hurried back to the lab.

Using specific nutrients and drugs, she attempted to activate the functions of these gene groups within pig stem cells in a petri dish.

The drugs and nutrients she used were all common. They were either substances that could pass through the cell membrane to act directly on the gene sequences of the chromosomes, or they worked by producing intermediate compounds that would then influence the genes.

The afternoon passed by in a blur.

He Youwei’s eyes, however, grew increasingly bright.

Shuya glanced at the gene groups He Youwei had selected. "Gene fragment #3 in this group enhances the rate of bone growth under the influence of trace amounts of calcium and vitamin K. Are your stem cells showing signs of transforming into bone cells?"

"Ah... yes, Professor Shuya." He Youwei nodded emphatically. "Professor, have you researched this before?"

"There’s no need to research it. You just haven’t learned the third genetic law yet. Once you do, you can simply apply it to know which gene fragments correspond to which functional cells. It’s fundamental to inducing stem cells to become functional cells. When you get familiar with it, you’ll be able to identify the corresponding functional cell the moment you see a gene sequence."

"I see." ’Some "fundamentals,"’ He Youwei thought. ’Even the top experts specializing in directed stem cell induction probably don’t know these "basics."’

She also realized that Jiang Miao and Shuya were both geniuses. Only after learning a mere fraction of their knowledge did she begin to understand just how incredible their research was.

Simply put, she had no idea she was dealing with people using cheat codes for life.

For the next few days, He Youwei continued her research with Shuya in the lab. As she learned more, she became increasingly adept at applying those few genetic laws.

However, she was still no match for Jiang Miao and Shuya, who both possessed eidetic memories and had mastered all the genetic laws.

Even so, He Youwei felt as if her Ren and Du Meridians had been unblocked, ushering her into a whole new world of biology.

She found the experience utterly captivating, and it solidified her confidence that she could cure her own systemic lupus erythematosus.

Especially after learning the two genetic laws related to the immune system, she realized that shutting down part of the body’s immune response wasn’t a difficult task at all.

During an experiment, under Shuya’s guidance, she fully activated the immune system of pig stem cells, putting them into an indiscriminate-attack mode. Then, by stimulating a few specific gene targets with drugs, she made the overactive immune system gradually shut down until it returned to normal.

If Shuya hadn’t forbidden her from experimenting on herself—insisting she first conduct in-vitro cell cultivation and research—He Youwei would have impatiently tried it on her own body.

After all, the drugs used on the pig stem cells were common ingredients extracted from several natural herbs and animals. When calculated by body-weight ratio, the dosage was well below the toxic level.

In fact, He Youwei had also discovered that this method of treatment was not only incredibly precise, but the required drug dosages were also relatively small.

For example, take one of the organic macromolecules, which was extracted from plantain. Other research institutions in the country had conducted animal experiments with it, establishing the toxic dose at 0.032 milligrams per kilogram of body weight.