Alice's true physical strength is certainly not consumed so simply, and after simply filling her stomach with a hamburger, she continues to fight as the main force of the porter team. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info After a busy afternoon of carrying not only cardboard boxes, but also assembling equipment and laying out basic laboratory shapes, all the work was finally solved.

"Success~success!"

Shouting like this, an exaggerated bonsai was finally moved into the seven basement floors of the huge bungalow.

"Is it, my dear Flowey?"

"I knew I was going to die of exhaustion."

Sissi did as she said, lying lazily on a chair and looking at the potted plant.

There is no doubt that it is the mysterious flower that Alice found in the Everglades.

It's just that although the flower bones are not big, the root system is really amazingly developed, with dozens of roots more than one meter long...... Maybe it's a swamp plant after all, not a desert plant? Anyway, the pot used to hold it must be big enough, so small a flower, so big a porcelain pot, that is, Alice has the energy to move it in.

Ashley sat on a swivel chair and spun back and forth: "The question of this flower is put aside, is it okay to lay out the laboratory like this?" Wouldn't it be too messy? ”

This room is about 1,000 square feet, which is slightly larger than a standard two-bedroom apartment. As the current main laboratory area, it is most valuable for the seven advanced centrifuges, of course, in addition to microscopes, computers, and glassware such as graduated cylinders and beakers, there is no shortage of tables, chairs and benches, just ......

"Let's put it like this first."

Facing the furnishings in the room like a medical warehouse, Alice smiled and said, "You know, we don't even hire professional researchers now, so it's easy to say anything if I'm alone." ”

Maiya was standing at a table, looking at a centrifuge that had not yet removed the plastic packaging: "Declare in advance, the four of us are absolutely incapable of helping you." Since your brain is so developed, you can even ask a university professor to be an intern, right? I don't think I can help, Sissi, Ashley, what do you say? ”

The two girls nodded their heads again and again, and Alice looked at her watch and said, "It's not early today, so go home and go to bed quickly." I've already graduated, and you all have to go to school, so don't be out of bed the next morning. ”

As soon as these words came out, Sissi was the first to jump up from the chair, and seemed to have forgotten the previous exhaustion: "Say it again!" I've been able to do as many questions as I have been able to do in the past few days. Let's go, Maiya, you have your driver's license here, and Alice looks like she's going to spend the night here, how about you? ”

Of course, Maiya nodded, and Ashley also stood up lazily: "I don't care~ It's not a big deal to be amorous for a day off, hey, Alice, are you going to start the experiment right away?" ”

"Of course."

Alice touched the budding flower bone in her hand: "I didn't see that bag, I would have already sliced a rhizome, just waiting for these things to arrive and study them quickly!" ”

"Well, then I'll stay with you. Sissi, are you jealous? ”

Even if you're jealous, it's not as important as going to school, and the situation between the two girls is still very different. Now that Ashley has been asked for help with Eton's registration exam, it would be too much to say if Sissi still didn't do well.

In this way, Maiya and Sissi immediately waved goodbye. Walking out the door, the hum of the elevator faded away, and the two girls quickly left the seventh basement floor.

"Wow~!

As soon as the sound of the lifting and lowering disappeared, Alice screamed and said to Ashley, "So man, I'm going to do an experimental slice here, what do you want to do?" ”

Ashley naturally had nothing to do in a hurry, and seeing that Alice couldn't wait to unpack the microscope, she said, "You are free." But Alice, what secrets are you going to discover in this flower? ”

"Of course, why can I block my mental power, or if there are other secrets, it depends on what I can discover."

Alice was busy preparing for various experiments, and said by the way: "And Ashley, don't you think Caesar is also valuable for research?" ”

"Caesar......

Ashley muttered thoughtfully.

For the orangutan that everyone met last summer, of course, everyone knows how special it is.

Of course there are zoos in Los Angeles, and who hasn't seen what a chimpanzee should be like.

So in contrast, Caesar's various behaviors are much more advanced than ordinary chimpanzees.

It uses a toilet and learns the basics after only seven lessons, and it costs nothing for a banana.

It knows how to close the lid on the box after eating the nuts, and it knows to close the trapdoor when it returns to the attic bedroom.

It even knows to follow its owner closely when it is led for a walk, so as not to disturb the children.

Such a special little guy does have the potential to be studied, and Ashley knows better that if any biologist knew about Caesar's existence, he would definitely make the same choice.

"That's right."

And so, the research began.

It was night, the moment when the great scientist Alice became a botanist for the first time. In fact, from an outsider's point of view, this is a waste of money like a prodigal girl's game, and the equipment that has been bought for a total of millions of dollars is placed in a staggered manner in the depths of this seventh underground building, just for the whims of some people. If this wayward behavior is placed in any normal and ordinary family, it must be disciplined to death by parents.

Ashley was curious at first, for example, when Alice operated an ultracentrifuge worth tens of thousands of dollars, and for the first time struggled to slice cells taken from flower rhizomes, the excitement was still very good. But over time, I get tired of it.

At half past nine in the middle of the night, she was lying in the hammock and reading today's newspaper, and not far away, Alice was still staring at the microscope, not knowing what those plant cells were looking at.

“…… Housing prices have risen again. ”

At this time, Ashley is reading financial news, and this issue is about the recent investment hotspots in Japan.

"In three months, it has risen by another seven percentage points? Tsk, although it is a little lower than the 10% in the previous three months, this is the price of the house......"

Since the Plaza Accord was signed last year, Japan's investment community has been heating up, and as the yen continues to rise against the dollar, a large number of wealthy people, led by major capitalist groups, are pouring money into the stock market and the housing market. According to newspaper statistics, in recent times, bank microloans have risen vigorously, and a new round of investment boom will come at any time.

"Hey, Alice, look at the news, Murdoch bought a fancy apartment in Ginza, and that's eight million dollars. Alice? ”

Hearing no answer, Ashley looked up at the lab equipment.

I don't know how long it has been, but Alice has been in the state of the observation microscope, and this is not an ordinary observation, the computer next to the instrument is showing a lot of unclear things, and that is ......

"Inside the cell?"

The rumored electron microscope, which is a very rare thing for Ashley, came to Alice's side and whispered, "Did you find anything?" ”

I didn't think Alice would answer anything, but she suddenly said: "It's useless to ask me now, it's the first time I've played with scientific observation, and the stem cell itself is enough for me to see." ”

Ashley nodded repeatedly, she is now a ninth-grade high school student, and the school also has a biology practice class, so she still knows a lot about this aspect: "What is the resolution of the electron microscope?" “

"0.2 nanometers, a thousand times that of an ordinary optical microscope."

Ashley looked at the computer monitor, and there was indeed a very incomprehensible cell pattern on it, but in terms of her poor biology, being able to distinguish the nucleus was already the limit, and nothing else was clear.

"I remember...... Mr. Sammer in our class said that the observation specimen of an electron microscope must be specially processed. ”

With that, Ashley looked around. The current laboratory layout is, of course, relatively simple, that is, the big guys put the relevant instruments on the table, except for expensive equipment such as ultracentrifuges, the surrounding environment is really not much different from ordinary high school chemistry laboratories.

On the table next to it, graduated beakers were staggered, clearly looking like they had just been used.

"Yes, it requires special handling, when I was just preparing...... Ah yes, you're reading the newspaper. ”

Alice stared at the microscope without raising her eyes or opening her eyes, an optical version of her colleagues, rather than staring at the computer screen connected to the wired electron microscope next to her.

"There are many ways to deal with them, depending on the research requirements. For example, in order to preserve the sample as much as possible, glutaraldehyde is used to harden the sample, or osmium acid is used to stain fat; Another example is cold fixation, where the sample is placed in liquid ethane and quick-frozen, so that the water will not crystallize and form amorphous ice, which can make the sample less damaged, but the contrast of the image is very low. Another example is ......"

"Ah~ I don't understand, I don't understand! Just tell me when you'll find out what's going on! ”

Alice looked up and smiled at a depressed Ashley.

"My dear, although I am a director and screenwriter, we are not making third-rate science fiction movies now. As soon as you put a so-and-so sample in the lab, you can immediately discover the secret, you think I'm dealing with the zombie virus directly? ”

As she spoke, she rolled her eyes at Ashley, who didn't understand anything, and lowered her head again. (To be continued.) )