Chapter 4 Milk Peanuts

I don't know who made it, but the world on one side of the portal is unbearably hot, and on the other hand, it is beautiful and frozen.

The moment Beslong took the travel bag into the door, on the other side of the portal, a man with a handcuffed handbag hurried into the equally dimly lit room.

The projector marked the factory logo in black on a white background on the screen, and the computer and the projector radiator roared together in the silent room.

Outside the window is the frozen lake, and the delicate November snow. The visitor calmly saluted the audience in front of him who was a hundred times higher than his status, and then took out a USB flash drive from his handbag.

The red wall of the Forbidden City across the lake still looks so peaceful at this time.

How much food is produced, and tens of thousands of workers are trained...... These huge results are reduced to numbers on paper. The photo only flashed on the PPT, and everyone on and off the stage knew that they wanted more than this.

"Now I'm going to talk about the magical issues that the chiefs are quite concerned about." The man on the stage took a beautiful wand from his handbag, opened the stopper at the end of the wand in front of everyone, and poured a little beautiful powder from the glass tube.

"Magic powder, wands, and spells." He pressed the stopper, "As long as we have these, we can use magic on the other side of the portal." ”

He took a spell-casting gesture and quickly recited a spell in his mouth. Some of the audience members stood up and held their glasses - but nothing happened.

"As our earliest research shows, 'magic' doesn't work in our place. And the plants they planted for magic powder, although they were cultivated locally, then to nutrient hydroponics, and then in exchange for the local soil in the new area, they either did not grow flowers or withered directly. ”

There was a sigh from the audience. This thing cannot be used by the country, and it is really a great loss.

Based on this, the research group had a bold inference. That is, the universe in which this planet is located and the universe we are in now have some basic parameters that are completely incompatible. ”

The head-to-head exchanges in the audience stopped, this is the drama bone.

"Researchers in the new area need more observation means and measurement tools, and hope to add them to the budget for the first half of next year. Not only do they want to explore the starry sky, but they also want to explore the mysteries of the world at the bottom of the sea and underground. Perhaps the universe with different parameters will allow us to break the shackles that are now preventing the progress of physics more quickly. ”

It is true that physics has now reached the "second level" of Mount Everest for mankind, but how high is it at the top? Nobody knows. It's like the "island of superweights" stuck in middle school chemistry textbooks and encyclopedias, which seems so real, but so far away.

A certain elder sitting in the chief was slightly distracted, and the young man on the stage was already talking about the progress of biology. Fortunately, after the meeting, the materials will be distributed again, and he is not afraid of missing any important content.

“…… The biggest discovery was in the comparison of the genetic sequencing of the Erta and the Twin Moon prisoners of war. Let's start by looking at the age of the Elta people as a starting point. "The presenter pressed the remote control in his hand, and a statistical chart appeared on the screen first." The average life expectancy of the Erta people does not look high, less than 65 years. However, please note that this includes factors that affect the epidemic prevention and the low level of medical care! That is to say......"

The graph on the screen on the infant mortality rate by age group was swept at high speed. Pictures of Elta's old man fill the screen. It can be seen that they are all pampered aristocrats. But I don't know how old they are, and they don't look very old.

"In other words, the elderly among them are in a much better situation than on our side." The lenses of the presenter's glasses flashed with a cold light. He pressed the button again. The ages of these old people were shown in their photographs in an instant.

"What!" Some of the older chiefs couldn't help but shout. The old guys who look like they're in their fifties or sixties are actually at least seventy. The oldest, who looked to be 90 years old, still had a bright look in his eyes, and the number on his photo reached 120......

"That's right. Not only field trips, but even the records of the nobles with documentary evidence show that the elderly among the Elta people can reach 150 years old. The prisoners of war also pointed out that there were also non-divine people over 150 years old in the Twin Moon Church. ”

The audience was amazed again. At the age of 150, the social structure of human beings and many rules will be rewritten. At the very least, the retirement age will be extended by another 30 years......

"In response to this phenomenon, we sequenced the genomes of the Erta and the Bilunar prisoners of war, 30 of them for men and 30 for each sex, and 50 for the Bilunar prisoners of war." Charts and analysis charts have replaced the old man's head on the projector. "First and foremost, we have made significant progress in telomerase. Whether it is the Elta or the Lancas, their telomerase activity is fundamentally different from that of the yellow and white races. According to our analysis, this is the reason why the average life expectancy of some of them is far beyond the level of what is known to humans. ”

A few chiefs who knew a little bit about biomedicine covered their mouths. Telomerase. This double-edged sword penetrates deep into the cell. Here's the problem.

"If their telomerase is similar to anything, according to the analysis of the team of academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the activity of these telomerase enzymes is almost similar to that of cancer cells. This also means that the Erta and Lancas people are able to live a long life while also avoiding cell cancer forever. ”

Eternal life! Thorough cancer prevention! Either concept, it is simply unimaginable for human beings at this stage. It's even more striking than the leg that just lifted against the physics barrier. The venue exploded in an instant.

The powerless and powerless speaker naturally couldn't stop the people below from talking to each other, so he could only drink saliva and wait for the silence below.

"Since our researchers started with telomeres immediately after sequencing, there were no major discoveries in other areas. Several other small findings include the fact that the Elta people have a lactose exclusion rate of almost zero, and none of our respondents have reported lactose exclusion, or even in the records. ”

As a result, after three sentences of the biological report, it is still inseparable from eating. It is true that most of the people in the East are not lactose, and most of the people in the West are allergic to peanuts - the characteristics of these peoples are the most indicative. Agrarian peoples are not accustomed to milk, while nomads do not like peanuts......

"Another important allergen, peanuts – we found that the Elta people hardly recognize this crop and have never tasted it. But in practice, we have found that isolating peanuts from the other side of the world is completely redundant. To this day, peanut oil, peanut products and peanuts are widely used in canteens around the country. Examination of chromosome 6 of all sequenced Elta people has also revealed no genetic association with peanut allergy......"

There was silence again. Peanut? What does it represent?

"You must know that peanut allergy is a hereditary disease that has a chance to occur for Chinese people. However, most of the manifestations in China are rashes and swollen skin. The Elta people are actually exempt from any symptoms, and from our close observation, this exemption is total, and there is no single case so far. In other words, it's as if this race is naturally perfect for eating peanuts and drinking milk. ”

Someone raised their hand to ask a question. The old man's appearance startled the presenter slightly.

"Little comrade, as far as you know, is there any genetic trait or genetic magic on the other side of the door?"

The presenter thought for a moment. To say that he is organizing language is not so much to say that he is thinking about how to address the big man in front of him who respectfully asks questions. Come to think of it, let's call it the chief.

"It is an honor to answer your questions, Chief. The principles of traditional medical standards and magical medical standards on the other side of the portal are basically at the same stage. Magic can connect bones and even nerve endings, but the user has no contact with anatomy or even human body structure, and does not know anything about the direction of various flesh and bones, let alone the delicate endings of nerves. At their current level, I don't think it's possible to be genetically precise. ”

"That is to say, it is not feasible to know why it is? Is there any kind of magic that you young people call 'foolish' and directly makes the human body obey orders? ”

"Chief, we do not have enough information and contacts to provide an answer to this question. But according to the information we have now, such magic is also almost impossible. ”

"Hmm. We haven't figured out the answer yet, but it's nice to be able to restore the full functionality of a severed limb with magic, a rowing boat! I hope that the little comrades on the scientific research front will continue to work hard. The future is in your hands! The old man returned to his place satisfied.

The presenter sweated slightly. There was a round of applause below, and it was audible that there was for him and for the elders. When the applause was quiet, the presenter turned to an important page.

"These research results are independent of the revenue share of the Egyptian Investment Bank. In other words, these studies are carried out in a Class C electromagnetic shielded room. On this side of the portal, the research conclusion and I personally came here by special plane. The chiefs should be the first to see these outside the shielded room. You should know all of this before you participate. The presenter glanced at the handcuffs placed next to the table between him and his bag, and his face instantly became solemn. The lives of all of us researchers hang in the balance, and we may face the risk of the portal closing and being separated forever. We hope that these achievements will not be leaked out before benefiting the Chinese people, and will not become bargaining chips for some people to seek status and money, let alone be stolen by shameless villains......"

Inside the shadow wall, young people are explaining the new security plan voted on by all the scientific researchers, and outside the shadow wall, in the distance of the guards' leather shoes, the first snow of November is still falling one after another......