Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Sometimes Wang Peng really thinks that some of the Ark boats take health too seriously.

Even if the lab is more interesting, it won't even sleep in the middle of the night, will it?

Besides, he just got back from Shanghai a few hours ago.

Honestly speaking of his present status, even if nothing is done, his contribution will not be lost to anyone. His presence is like a business card, or a flag, just standing there is enough to make the world invisible.

At least in Wang Peng's own view, nothing is more important than his health, even though he made those series of achievements after completing the controlled fusion project, fearing that he put the astronauts of China on the moon...

Recalling Dr. Yan and his own orders, he reminded himself that he must urge the Master to pay attention to his body, as well as from his superiors, so that he was not only responsible for the safety of the Ark, but also to pay attention to his health condition, Wang Peng was a headache.

How can you persuade this thing?

There is no way to persuade.

Thinking of this, Wang Peng silently touched the cigarette out of the bag, lit it and smoked it, then leaned against the door and spit a cigarette ring.

This is probably the longest, most headache, and most embarrassing task he's ever had in his life...

……

When I was in the car, I applied for a lab.

Upon reaching the destination, the ark first washed its hands by the pool and then instructed Ai to take over the surveillance of the entire building. He removed the metal tube from the system space only after making sure that it did not leave any trace.

Under the incandescent light, the surface of the metal round tube was slightly silvered, creating a clear contrast to the viscous ink-green liquid that swayed behind the glass trough.

Without wasting time, the ark took this metal tube and came to a fully white, about two refrigerator-sized bio-safety cabinets, carefully placed it on the feed port and started the equipment.

This biosafety cabinet is tailored by the German Medical Devices Corporation for the Jinling Institute of Higher Studies and is equipped with ULPA ultra-efficient filters with 99.999% shut-off efficiency for particles > 0.12 microns, double filtered and discharged.

Plus high power air pumps that can be drawn into a relative vacuum, ultraviolet killing systems, and acid-base ponds for inactivating special species… It's like hell for microbes, and it's theoretically absolutely safe.

Even the Ark can say without exaggeration that the inhabitants of Raccoon City will not die as tragic if the Umbrella Company spends as much money on experimental safety as it does on its own.

At the same time, in addition to two manually operated latex gloves, there are two electrically driven flexible manipulators inside the entire unit.

While simultaneously operating manually, researchers using this equipment are able to perform precise manipulations of samples in the biocabinet with the help of numerically controlled control procedures.

In fact, researchers do not use this system, after all, most experiments can be done by hand. But for an ark, with a clever lab assistant like Em, those trivial things naturally don't have to be done by him.

Of course, matching these robust features is the cost of this device. Startech purchased two units at a cost of RMB 10 million per unit.

Though the cost of 10 million RMB is nothing compared to other biological laboratory equipment, such as a better refrigeration mirror, there is no budget of 30 million.

However, frozen electrons are frozen electrons, who would normally spend 10 million dollars on an average fake biosafety cabinet of 20,000?!

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

Jinling Institute of Higher Studies is well beyond the imagination of domestic researchers in the same field.

It is said that the lab equipment was so expensive that many of the research dogs were shaking their legs from the moment they entered the lab door when they applied for the lab.

Afraid of scratching off a coat of paint, I lost the down payment on a suite.

In fact, however, this will never happen, at least in the view of the ship, the experimental equipment is consumables, and if it breaks down, it is simply not necessary to hold it in your hand like a baby.

Instead of saving on his behalf, he was more inclined to encourage researchers at the Institute to boldly invest resources in the laboratory.

In his view, every penny spent on scientific research is worth it, even if it may not be worth it now, it will certainly be useful in the future...

After setting the experimental parameters, the ark went to the coffee maker and made itself a cup of coffee.

Wait quietly for a while.

Soon, a series of coarse lab data, including microscopic images, toxicity tests, and so on, were all listed in an experimental report and presented to him.

As he guessed, this ink-green liquid consists of a particular microorganism and is toxicly safe.

The observer civilization in the void didn't put a tube of chemical or biological weapons in that metal tube to pit him. At least so far, he can't see this thing being aggressive in any way.

They are shaped like shuttles, slowly stirring under a microscope at some particular frequency.

In addition to having organelles that are mostly biologically present, these microbial cells also have a special layer of mucus attached to their surface. And this layer of mucus, like some kind of hydrophobic adhesive, binds the microorganism tightly together with the microorganism, and exchanges some particular pheromones between them.

In addition, this microorganism has a peculiar characteristic, which is that DNA and RNA are extremely stable. In general, in order to ensure the dominance of their populations in the environment, most microorganisms, after consuming other microorganisms and viruses, have a certain probability of removing a fragment of their RNA or DNA for their own purposes of strengthening themselves.

However, this microorganism is different: after eating up other smaller microorganisms, they do not own their DNA or RNA fragments, but destroy them and convert them directly into energy applications.

Not only that, but they are united, moving forward and backward, rejecting not only alien variations, but also their own.

Even mutated individuals can quickly be swallowed up by other microbial individuals if the exchange of pheromones is not completed properly… as if cleaning up cancer cells.

This community of micro-organisms extremely rejects all forms of variation and extremes the purity of the community's genes.

It is difficult to imagine such “paranoid” microbes surviving a naturally chosen phase-out.

Most are “relics” of extinct civilizations, taking into account the treasures that emptiness gives to them. The Ark speculates that most of these microbes are also masterpieces of a biotechnologically developed civilization.

To observe its feeding process, the ark tried to instruct Em to add 1 g of bread crumbs about 0.3 mm in diameter to the dish, and then to observe the reaction of these microbes under an electron microscope.

Soon after the bread debris came into contact with the mucus on the microbial surface, the bread debris was gradually broken down into smaller organic fragments and eventually transported inside the cell as the mucus moved.

After a special respiratory reaction, these organic matter debris are eventually 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 trans fat, although no further reactions are observed in the ship.

He can only judge by the toxicity test that the ketones are harmless to other organisms, although they inhibit their own divisive proliferation.

“A special decomposer? ”

“It should be good for domestic sewage and urban excreta, but the rate of reproduction seems a little too slow. ”

“The ingredients of the secretion are single, and there are no allergens that can induce allergic reactions in humans, and they should be edible directly as food… but they probably don't taste good. ”

“… might be nice as a mask or something? ”

Thinking about it, the face of the ark couldn't help but have a strange look on it.

To be honest, this is one of the possibilities that he is least willing to believe.

You know, it's a void gift.

If it was just a sewer cleaner and mask mud, he would still be somewhat disappointed, albeit of modest economic value.

After all, forcing this thing, sometimes, cannot be measured simply by money.

Time went by, and the sky outside the window grew from the deep night and lit up white.

Spent the whole night doing countless sets of experiments on the ark, watching the experiment report on his hand, rubbing the sour nose beam.

Overall, there was still a lot to be gained this evening.

Unfortunately, however, this mysterious microorganism appears to be outside the corrosion and does not appear to exhibit any other useful properties.

Not only that, it grows at a fairly slow rate, even when the macro volume grows to fist size, it does not continue to grow.

Influentials flowing between microbial masses appear to automatically regulate the number of populations, leaving their overall size within a limited range.

In order for it to continue to thrive, it is necessary to proactively physically divide its individuals and block the exchange of pheromones between the microbiota and the microbiota.

If it is simply a small septic tank player, it does not necessarily work better than other similar microbiota simply because of its slow reproduction.

As for the mask…

He really doesn't want to sell it as a few bucks a face mask.

It's so discounted!

Em: [Master, do you want to end the experiment? ('v')]

The ark nodded down: “That's it for today… be sure to clean up. ”

Em: [No problem, just put it on Em! By the way, master, you haven't named this microorganism yet, do you need help with Em? (๑ • ㅂ •)✧]

“No...”

Of course you have to do it yourself. How can you give it to an artificial retard?

Thinking about it, the ship swept a few lines of data from the experimental report in its hand, and with a first impression, it picked up the pen and wrote down the name [DR-111] on it.

“Just call it that. ”

Xiao Ei: [Eh... what's the special meaning of this name? (• ̀ ∀ • ́)

Ark: “Must there be? ”

Em: [Of course not, it's just Em thinks it might be better to be named after Em next time... slip away. | ○ ωp) Ah]

Ark: “…”

This guy, that's a lot of bullshit.

After registering the entries about [DR-111] in the database and aggregating all the experimental data from the cache, Em started operating the biosafety cabinet to sterilize the residue inside.

The metal round tube ejects from the feed port and the air pump vacuums the air inside the biosafety cabinet, which, as the ultraviolet sterilization system opens, has transformed the entire interior of the biosafety cabinet into microbial purgatory.

But that was when an unexpected scene happened to the Ark.

Only the ink green mucus lying in the dish, although evaporating shrinkage at visible speeds of the naked eye, remained intact.

It's like a bitterly supported slug under the burning of salt...

“Turn off the UV system! ”

Em: [Hmm? 0.0]

Although confused by the orders of the ark, Em turned off the ultraviolet sterilization system.

Just as the ultraviolet radiation diminished, I stared at the ark at the interface of the control system, and suddenly a light flashed in my head.

Maybe he knows.

That extinct civilization is why it created this “stubborn” microorganism.

Or,

He finally knows where the hell this thing is for...