The night was deep, but when Chen Bufan stepped into the laboratory, he found that it was still as bright as day, with dazzling lights. The researchers here seemed to have no idea what tiredness was, and each of them seemed to be possessed. As long as there were unsolved mysteries, they would not feel sleepy at all.
Look at the project teams. Everyone has dark circles under their eyes and messy hair, as if they had been ravaged by a strong wind. From time to time, they will take off their thick glasses and gently rub their sore noses, trying to relieve the fatigue caused by long-term concentration.
Seeing this, Chen Bufan could only shake his head helplessly.
In fact, he never put any urgency in the tasks he gave to these researchers, so they didn't need to rush to thoroughly understand the research object right away and could take their time.
However, the researchers ignored his advice and worked hard day and night.
This really gave Chen Bufan a headache, because among his subordinates, only this group of people were disobedient.
Over time, Chen Bufan simply stopped caring whether they rested or not.
He thought to himself that when they could no longer hold on, they would naturally find a place to lie down and rest.
Currently, there are three project teams working hard in this laboratory.
One of the groups is committed to conducting in-depth research on the crystal nucleus, another is focusing on the powder rain, and the last project team is focusing on the mutant mouse corpse obtained today, which is a good choice for research.
Chen Bufan walked around the spacious and bright laboratory and came to the team studying crystal nuclei. The researcher told him that there had been some breakthroughs in the research on crystal nuclei.
The outer layer of the crystal core is a diamond-like crystal, which contains a transparent liquid. The researchers extracted the liquid and found through experiments that the liquid is composed of zombie virus and a substance that can replenish the energy of a living body.
After a period of research and experiments, researchers discovered that the zombie virus is actually a type of bacteria that can promote biological evolution. The bacteria themselves are harmless, but sadly, the human body is very fragile and cannot withstand the changes brought about by the bacteria, so the body collapses.
After zombie bacteria enter the human body, they will multiply rapidly, infecting some human cells in the process, and catalyzing the infected cells in the body to multiply and become stronger rapidly, so as to achieve the purpose of making the human body strong.
However, the human body does not have enough energy to supply rapidly reproducing cells, so most cells die quickly after lacking nutrition. While cells reproduce rapidly, they die rapidly at the same time. This is reflected in the rapid decay of the human body.
The massive reproduction of cells causes the host body to quickly lose nutritional energy, leading to rapid failure of the host's internal organs and loss of normal functions. The brain cannot get blood supply from the heart, the brain dies from lack of oxygen, and the body gradually loses vital signs.
However, the zombie bacteria in the host's body are foreign bacteria, and they are not affected by the host's death when they parasitize the human body. According to the host's current state, they secrete pheromones to make the dead stand up again, and rely on the original biological instinct to obtain external energy to continue to transform the body.
Therefore, the dead humans became what people called zombies. While they relied on devouring flesh and blood to maintain their lives, mutated zombies also appeared.
In the final analysis, the zombie bacteria are too powerful for humans to bear. If one could develop something that could quickly replenish the human body's energy and maintain a balance with the zombie bacteria in the body, then this person would become more and more powerful.
The crystal core taken out of the mutant zombie's body is the source of energy, and it is also the source of powerful strength for the mutant zombie's body.
However, the crystal core contains the virus of mutated zombies, which the ordinary human body cannot withstand, so the energy needs to be extracted and then added with primary zombie bacteria to achieve the purpose of promoting human cell generation without losing energy and causing the human body to turn into a zombie.
Another point is that the zombie virus will continue to multiply in the human body, which requires the human body to constantly replenish energy.
This is a disadvantage because the energy from eating is not enough, and relying on crystal cores is not a solution.
After all, crystal cores can only be extracted from the bodies of mutated zombies.
If the crystal core supply is lost, the person will die from lack of energy.
But this still doesn’t make sense!
So after hard research, the researchers successfully found a way to castrate the primary zombie virus.
The virus is turned into a eunuch without losing its function of stimulating rapid reproduction of human cells. This part of the zombie virus allows the host to enter the human body and promote cell reproduction in the host, making the host stronger while producing antibodies.
The host becomes stronger, but the zombie virus itself does not reproduce. It can only use its existing abilities, combined with the energy liquid in the crystal core, to allow the two to cancel each other out and allow the host to grow to a certain range.
So the first stable genetic drug was successfully produced. This drug can increase the overall strength of the human physique by 1,000 kilograms. However, although it has been produced, there is no experimental data yet because it has not undergone clinical trials and there are no people to experiment with it.
When Chen Bufan heard the news, he was greatly excited. There was finally good news about the crystal core. In the past few months, the corpses of mutant zombies had been continuously transported in, and there were countless crystal cores, but there had been no progress. Now there was finally good news.
"Can this evolution potion be mass-produced?" Chen Bufan asked the person in charge impatiently.
"As long as we have the crystal core, we can make it at any time because we have mastered the technology."
The person in charge of the crystal core said very confidently.
"Is this drug stable? What are the side effects?"
"Theoretically, it is stable and will definitely not turn the host into a zombie. This has been calculated by the base's intelligence. However, whether there are any side effects depends on the host's physical condition. Since we haven't conducted any experiments, we don't know if there are any side effects or what they are."
Chen Bufan nodded and asked again seriously, "Are you sure you won't turn into a zombie?"
He was ruthless and merciless to his enemies, but he also never hurt innocent people. As long as you didn't provoke him, he would never be mean to anyone. He had his own principles. If this potion really worked, he might need to find some people to do experiments on, but he also didn't want the people being experimented on to die at will.
"No, even if it fails, it will only make the host hungry. The person will suddenly become thin and weak, but if they eat a full meal, they will recover in a few days."
Hearing the researcher's guarantee, Chen Bufan felt relieved. If this was successful, his soldiers would become much stronger. When he reached the top, he wouldn't mind releasing this achievement to the survivors. There were too many zombies and it was not possible for him and his group to clean them all up.