Sometimes Wang Peng really thinks that Lu Zhou doesn't take health seriously.

No matter how interesting the lab is, it won't run over without even sleeping at night, right?

What's more, he had just returned from Shanghai a few hours ago.

To be honest, at his current status, even if he doesn't do anything, his contribution is not lost to anyone. His presence 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, there is nothing more important than his health, even the series of achievements he made after completing the controlled nuclear fusion project, I am afraid that he let Huaguo's astronauts stand on the moon......

Recalling Dr. Yan and his own advice, let him urge Academician Lu to pay attention to his body, as well as the instructions from his superiors, so that he could not only be responsible for Lu Zhou's safety, but also pay attention to his health condition, Wang Peng was a headache.

How do you persuade this thing?

I can't persuade at all.

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

This is probably the longest, most troublesome, and most difficult task he has ever performed since he left the army......

……

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

Arriving at his destination directly, 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 nothing was left behind, he removed the metal tube from the system space.

In the light of the incandescent lamp, the surface of the metal tube glowed with a faint silver glow, which contrasted sharply with the viscous dark green liquid that shook behind the glass tank.

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

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

In addition, a high-power air pump can be pumped into a relative vacuum, an ultraviolet sterilization system, and an acid-alkali tank for inactivating special strains...... It's hell for microbes, and it's theoretically safe.

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 miserably.

At the same time, in addition to two manually operated latex gloves, there are also two electrically driven flexible robots.

In addition to manual operation, researchers using this equipment can also accurately manipulate the samples in the biological cabinet with numerical control programs.

In fact, the average researcher will not need this system, after all, most experiments can be done by hand. However, for Lu Zhou, with a smart and clever laboratory assistant like Xiao Ai, those trivial things naturally do not need him to do in person.

Of course, to match these powerful features, the cost of the device is quite high. Star Technology has purchased a total of two, and the cost of a single unit is as high as 10 million RMB.

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

However, cryo-EM is cryo-EM, who would generally spend 10 million for a biological safety cabinet that is only 20,000 yuan on average?!

It can only be said that poverty limits the imagination of people.

The degree of tyrants of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study has far exceeded the imagination of domestic scholars in the same field.

It is said that because the experimental equipment is so expensive, many scientific research dogs have their legs and stomachs shaking from the moment they step into the laboratory door when they apply for this laboratory.

For fear of scraping off a layer of paint and losing the down payment on a house.

But in fact, this kind of thing will not happen at all, at least in Lu Zhou's opinion, the experimental equipment is a consumable, and if it is broken, it is enough to buy it, there is no need to hold it like a treasure in the palm of your hand.

Rather than 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 worth it, even if it may not be worth it now, it will definitely have the opportunity 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.

Quietly waited for a while.

Soon, a series of crude test data, including microscope images, toxicity tests, etc., were all listed in an experimental report and presented in front of him.

As he guessed, the dark green liquid was made up of a special microorganism and was toxically safe.

The observer civilization in the void didn't stuff a tube of bioweapons or anything into that metal tube to trap him. At least for now, he didn't see any sense of aggression in this thing.

They are shaped like shuttles, slowly agitating under a microscope at a specific frequency.

In addition to the organelles that are found in most living organisms, these microbial cells also have a special layer of mucus attached to their surface. This layer of mucus is like a kind of hydrophobic adhesive, which binds microorganisms tightly together and exchanges some special pheromones with each other.

In addition to this, this microorganism has a peculiar property, which is that DNA and RNA are extremely stable. Generally speaking, in order to ensure the dominant position of their own population in the environment, most microorganisms have a certain probability of removing their RNA or a fragment of DNA after devouring other microorganisms and viruses to achieve the purpose of strengthening themselves.

However, these microorganisms are different, and after devouring other, smaller microorganisms, they do not take their DNA or RNA fragments for themselves, but destroy them and convert them directly into energy.

Not only that, but they are united, advancing and retreating together, rejecting not only foreign variations, but also their own variations.

Even if an individual has a mutation, it will quickly be engulfed and decomposed by other microbial individuals if the exchange of pheromones cannot be completed properly...... It's like cleaning up cancer cells.

This community of microorganisms rejects all forms of variation to the extreme, and maintains the purity of the community's genes.

It is hard to imagine that such a "paranoid" microorganism could survive the elimination of natural selection.

Considering the treasures that the Void gave to itself, most of them were "cultural relics" left behind by civilizations that had already died. Lu Zhou speculated that this microorganism was probably also the work of a civilization with advanced biotechnology.

In order to observe its feeding process, Lu Zhou tried to instruct 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 come into contact with the mucus on the surface of the microorganisms, these crumbs are gradually broken down into smaller pieces of organic matter as the mucus is transported, and finally transported to the inside of the cells.

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

This ketone is a bit like a synthetic intermediate of some kind of trans fat, but Lu Zhou is not observing any further reaction.

He could only tell from toxicity tests that the ketones were harmless to other organisms, but they inhibited the microorganism's own division and proliferation.

"A special kind of decomposer?"

"It should be good for domestic sewage and urban feces, but the rate of reproduction seems to be a little too slow."

"The secretion has a single component, and there are no allergens that may induce allergic reactions in the human body, so it should be eaten directly as food...... But it probably won't taste great. ”

“…… Might it be good as a mask or something? ”

Thinking of this, Lu Zhou's face couldn't help but have a strange expression.

Honestly, this is the last possibility he wants to believe.

You know, this is a gift of vanity.

If it is only the two uses of sewer cleaner and mask mud, although the economic value is not small, it will still disappoint him a little.

After all, sometimes this thing can't be measured simply by money.

As time passed, the sky outside the window had gradually brightened from the deep darkness to a touch of whiteness.

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

Overall, there was a lot to gain from the night.

Unfortunately, this mysterious microorganism does not seem to exhibit any other useful properties than scavenging.

Not only that, but it grows quite slowly, and even when the macroscopic size grows to the size of a fist, it will not continue to multiply.

The pheromones that circulate between microbial substances seem to automatically regulate the population size, keeping its overall size within a finite range.

In order for it to continue to reproduce, it must actively physically segment its individual, blocking the pheromone exchange between microbiota and microbiota.

If it is simply used as a septic tank expert, the slow reproduction alone may not be better than other similar microbiota.

As for the mask......

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

It's so cheap!

Xiao Ai: [Master, do you want to end the experiment?] （?? v｀）】

Lu Zhou nodded: "That's all for today...... Remember to clean well. ”

Xiao Ai: [No problem, it's on Xiao Ai!] By the way, speaking of which, master, you haven't named this microorganism yet, do you need Xiao Ai's help to do it for you? (????????????)???? 】

"No need ......"

Of course, you have to come by yourself to choose such a thing, so how can it be handed over to the artificial retardation?

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

"That's it."

Xiao Ai: [Eh...... Does the name have any special meaning? (??????????) 】

Lu Zhou: "Must have?" ”

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

Lu Zhou: "......"

This guy, there is really more and more nonsense.

After registering an entry for [Dr-111] in the database and summarizing all the experimental data from the cache, Xiao Ai began to operate the biosafety cabinet to disinfect and sterilize the residue inside.

The metal tube is ejected from the inlet, and the air pump pumps the air inside the biosafety cabinet into a vacuum, and as the UV sterilization system is opened, the entire interior of the biosafety cabinet has become a purgatory for microorganisms.

However, at this moment, an unexpected scene happened to Lu Zhou.

I saw that the dark green slime lying in the petri dish, although it was evaporating and shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye, its intact form was still tenaciously maintained.

It's like a slug struggling to support itself under the burning of table salt......

"Turn off the UV killing system!"

Xiao Ai: [Hmm? 0.0】

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

Just when the ultraviolet radiation gradually weakened, Lu Zhou, who was staring at the interface of the control system, suddenly flashed a spiritual light in his mind.

Perhaps, he knew.

What is the reason why that dead civilization created this "stubborn" microbe?

Or rather,

He finally knew where the real purpose of this thing was......