Chapter 227: The Elixir of Life
There are many legends about the elixir of life from ancient times to the present day. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The furthest can be traced back to the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty.
In 219 BC, Qin Shi Huang sent Xu Fu to lead thousands of boys and girls to go overseas to seek immortals and medicines, but in the end Xu Fu did not come back at all, some say that Xu Fu found himself to eat, and some say that he found it for Qin Shi Huang to eat.
Since then, almost every dynasty has had immortality as the ultimate goal of their lives!
There are roughly two folk sayings about the elixir of life, one is something similar to Tai Sui, also called meat lingzhi.
As long as you eat a bite, you can prolong your life, immortality, and even some ancient books describe more bizarre, exaggerating that as long as you eat Tai Sui, you can soar in the day and so on.
In fact, under the scientific and technological 'unraveling' of Tai Sui, people have long figured out what is going on.
The so-called Tai Sui is actually just a slime fungus complex, which belongs to the fungus family.
It lives on water, so it will not rot and will not deteriorate if placed in water.
At the same time, this slime fungus is very active, mainly relying on spores and hyphae to reproduce, and its regeneration ability is also very strong, and it can be cut at will and can be regenerated.
Once this slime fungus loses the environment in which it lives, it will enter a dormant period and will not die easily even if it is not given water.
Once it is in an environment that is suitable for its life, it will wake up and continue to grow.
Of course, this slime mold does not mean that it will not die, such as boiling, burning, etc., beyond the life limit of this slime mold, it will still die.
According to historical records, Qin Shi Huang asked Xu Fu to go overseas to find it, which was actually this meat Ganoderma lucidum.
The second theory of the elixir of life was common to later emperors, and it was to invite people who had attained the Tao to make alchemy for them.
The pill that is practiced is also called the elixir of immortality, but most of the emperors' fate is not immortality, or even old death, but is eaten to death by the elixir of immortality.
The current mercury, also called mercury, was discovered by Taoist priests when they made alchemy, and there are also the most famous sulfur and saltpeter, which are the main raw materials of gunpowder in later generations, in addition to lead, copper and other metals, which are also discovered through alchemy.
It was not until modern times, when the door of science was opened, that people finally understood that immortality was just a trick that had been passed down for thousands of years.
However, although modern people can't do immortality, they have also studied some ways to maintain eternal youth, such as sheep placenta, which can keep people looking ageless for a long time.
Rich big stars almost use it, which means that many stars in the entertainment industry are obviously in their fifties and sixties and still have faces in their twenties and thirties, not because they maintain them well, but because of the sheep placenta.
There is an anti-aging factor in sheep placenta, which can inhibit the release of acetylcholine from the presynaptic membrane of peripheral motor nerve endings, block the information transmission between nerves and muscles, and thus cause flaccid paralysis of muscles.
According to the principle of incapacitating human muscle tissues and organs, the muscles that do not contract and relax for a long time will be incapacitated and atrophied, and finally will not contract again, so as to eliminate wrinkles and other skin phenomena!
Sheep placenta is a type of cell that is particularly rich in active substances extracted from lamb embryos grown in the mother of Alpine black sheep at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters for about 5 months.
Then the researchers use the latest biochemical equipment and technology to purify the essence, the extracted active substances are repeatedly separated and then extracted with cutting-edge centrifugal equipment, and the impurities and bad proteins are constantly thrown out, and finally only a single substance is retained, which is the living cells of sheep embryos.
In addition, it must be sterilized by Pasteur, and the sheep embryo is concentrated in a sterile environment and then drawn into the syringe, which is eligible to be named sheep placenta.
However, what is sold on the market now is basically a parallel sale under the guise of sheep placenta, real sheep placenta, the price of an injection has long become sky-high, not to mention ordinary people, even the average second- and third-tier stars can't afford it, because the number of black sheep goats in the Alps is very small, so the output of sheep placenta is obviously not very high, and the real sheep placenta injection is only bought by people who are particularly rich and eat by their faces.
And the information that Zhou Cheng got from the system this time, as mentioned above, is a drug extracted from Tai Sui, that is, meat Ganoderma lucidum.
As we all know, people are made up of cells, and human aging and death are all controlled by the metabolism of cells.
There is a saying called telomere theory, which means that after each division of human cells, telomeres will shrink a little until they disappear completely, and the life span of a person will come to an end.
The principle of this information in Zhou Cheng's hand is to extract a special enzyme from the body of the meat lingzhi, which is used to repair the contraction phenomenon after each cell division, so that the cell will remain in its original state no matter how many times it divides.
This theory sounds almost the same as sheep placenta, but the difference is that sheep placenta only keeps the appearance of immortality, while this enzyme can make you look ageless at the same time, suspend your growth and development, to put it bluntly, it is to make your life suddenly suspend for a period of time in the process of growth, and then continue to grow after the effect of the enzyme disappears.
Thus, the effect of prolonging life is perfectly achieved.
But the problem now is that this method is more difficult to implement, first of all, the problem of raw materials, Tai Sui is too random, although it has been proven that this kind of thing is usually in the relatively wet soil, but where it is, no one knows at all.
As long as this condition is met in the world, the meat Ganoderma lucidum may appear, and if you are lucky, you may be able to dig a nest with a hoe, and if you are unlucky, you may not be able to dig out a piece even if you drive a bulldozer every day.
Zhou Cheng sighed, sat back on the sofa and lit a cigarette, turned on the computer and checked it, but he cried when he checked it.
Meat Ganoderma lucidum has actually been found a lot among the people for so many years, but most of them are like baby bumps, let alone selling, they can't wait to spend money to buy another piece back.
It really conforms to the saying that there is no market, and the country has also done several large-scale exhibitions on this thing in the past 30 years, which shows that this kind of thing is by no means ordinary, even if it can be bought, a palm-sized piece is estimated to be millions!
The current intelligent system can no longer directly buy ready-made physical objects from it, otherwise, it will save trouble to buy a piece directly, and it is precisely for this reason that Zhou Cheng judged that the intelligent system may have unknown problems.
This is also a material problem, in addition to this key problem, in order to develop an elixir, it is also necessary to solve the complicated work of restoring the test data.
This information, in addition to the complete data before and after, the data that appeared in the middle was as if it had been erased off with an eraser, and a large piece was directly missing.
However, this problem is simple, as long as you find a suitable research specimen and take the data, so that Li Chunhua and those people in Laboratory No. 33 can push two, two, three, and thousands of thousands to fix the complete data.
"How do you get some meat reishi?"
Zhou Cheng was thinking about it on the sofa, and saw the breathing light of the mobile phone flicker, and a push advertisement popped up.
The name of the advertisement is cheesy, with only three words - network!