Chapter 135: Science and Magic
There's no time to blame yourself now!
Gritting his teeth fiercely, Ryan put away his emotions and immediately looked for the production method of the corresponding antidote in the book. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The Ghoul Plague, a biotoxin, is the most terrifying attack of the walking dead undead. While harming the lives of the infected, as long as they die, they will be transformed into newborn walking corpses within a certain period of time, not only destroying the infected physically, but also torturing their souls, so that they will never be able to live beyond the dead!
For biotoxins, there are two commonly used methods of detoxification, one is to use the antidote made of powerful detoxification materials that are harmless to the human body, and the other is to extract the corresponding antibodies to eliminate the virus in the blood of the recipient.
The former is easy to make, but the materials are expensive and precious, not to mention the green forest, even Scout has never sold such materials.
Therefore, Ryan can only focus on the latter, which is the method of extracting antibodies.
Viruses are not like magic, they only have instinct and no consciousness, they can't distinguish between friend and foe, and if they don't have antibodies, the ghoul plague will be affected to some extent, even if it's the walking corpse itself.
However, this antibody can only be produced by undead creatures, and undead creatures have no life, and flesh and blood are no longer corrupted all the time.
Ryan pulled out a tightly wrapped leather bag from the mess of luggage on the side, and Ryan slowly opened it, only to see that it was filled with bones and plants of various shapes.
A sharp, blackened knuckle was removed from it, and a solemnity appeared in Ryan's eyes, and even after treatment, the ghoul's fingertips still emitted a faint stench.
That's right, ghoul, this is Ryan's finger that was cut off from Mescal after he killed him in Horncreek!
Thankfully, Mescal is a half-ghoul, his body is barely alive, but at the same time, he also has the ability to spread ghoul disease.
In other words, in order to prevent the body from contracting this disease, Mescal has absolutely safe protection measures!
Compared with the extraction of unsafe antibodies from the corpses of the food walk, the antibodies on Mescal are more suitable for Lanier, and the extraction is more difficult.
It's really hard to find a place to step on iron shoes! Ryan looked at the terrifying finger with a relieved smile on his face.
Although there is a shortage of medical supplies, there are still a few basic pharmacists and physicians. Hurrying back to the logistics unit, Ryan borrowed a few glassware from the doctors and immediately began to refine the potion.
The process of extracting antibodies is similar to that of Ryan's previous world, requiring the isolation of serum from the target organism. However, Ariel does not have centrifuges, and if you want to isolate serum, you have to rely on manual labor. To make matters worse, Ryan did not take samples of Mescal's blood and body fluids due to preservation issues, and now he can only work on these severed fingers.
Picking up the boning knife borrowed from the kitchen, Ryan scraped the carrion off his severed finger little by little, and the carrion piled up into a lump of flesh on the other side of the boning knife, and seeing that it was about the same, Ryan put it in the prepared glass container.
As the carrion ball fell into the clear water, the bottom of the originally clear test tube suddenly became extremely turbid, and a foul smell also emitted.
Ryan, who was in a state of concentration, was not affected at all, and gently shook the test tube in his hand, and the deliberately chopped carrion was quickly mixed with the water. Next, it's time for separation.
Ariel doesn't really have a centrifuge, but it does magic. Magic is no worse than technology for the promotion of alchemy chemistry!
Magic tricks!
A wisp of wind blew the black hair on his forehead, and the turbid liquid in the test tube suddenly began to shake violently, and the turbid liquid turned completely black in a blink of an eye.
As the minutes passed, the magic continued to be outstretched, and Ryan's sideburns began to overflow with a little sweat. However, the hard work paid off, and I saw that the mixed liquid in the test tube had become gray, and the aggregated impurities began to settle slowly, and the liquid in the top layer gradually returned to clarity.
Aiming the test tube at the sunlight outside the window, the slightly yellowed clarification liquid on the top looks extremely crystal clear against the background of the pitch-black impurities below.
However, the refining is not over yet, the half-ghouls are also undead, and Mescal's severed fingers have begun to rot, not to mention whether the isolated serum is pure or not, whether it is still active is also a big question.
Using a magic trick to remove a small drop of clarification and place it on a thin glass slice, Ryan picked up the severed finger again, then scraped a small piece of muscle tissue from the severed finger and carefully placed it in the serum.
Next, there is the testimony ... No, it should be said that it is a moment of waiting.
As the minutes ticked by, Ryan stared at the thin sheet of glass, not daring to blink an eye. I don't know how long it took, but the original yellowish clarifier was contaminated by rotten flesh and gradually became turbid.
Almost.
Picking up the glass piece, Ryan applied it to the veins of the plant that had been prepared on the side, and then stared expectantly at the deliberately cut wounds in the veins.
Accidentally, the turbid liquid slowly seeped into the veins of the leaves, and in just a moment, with the wound as the center, as if it had been dyed, a cloud of withered yellow and gray color quickly spread.
In the blink of an eye, the whole leaf dried up and withered.
Failed ...
The sense of loss made Ryan's heart extremely heavy, and he looked at the withered and dry veins in front of him in a daze, and an extremely uncomfortable emotion poured out from the bottom of his heart, and the grievance of wanting to cry made him feel suffocated.
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I can't lose yet!
Remembering that Lanier's condition was deteriorating step by step, Ryan's eyes froze, and his determined expression dispelled the gloom that had been hanging over his head.
With a long sigh of relief and relief from the discomfort in his chest, Ryan picked up a pen and paper to explore the root cause of his failure.
There is probably only one reason why the extracted serum is not anti-toxic, and as Ryan thinks, the antibody components in the serum have lost their activity.
In other words, it became impossible to extract useful antibodies from a severed finger.
Antivenom serum is an essential ingredient in the preparation of antidotes, and there are no 'living' ghouls nearby, so at least for now, the idea of extracting antibodies from this route has been shattered.
Now there is only one way left.
This was also the most common method of obtaining serum in the world, injecting the inactivated virus into the organism, and after a period of time, causing it to produce antibodies, and drawing blood for separation.
However, this method has a fatal flaw, it takes time to generate antibodies, and what Ryan lacks most now is time. Moreover, it is not easy to inactivate the ghoul plague disease, and even if it is successfully injected into the organism, there is no relevant instrument, and it is not possible to determine whether the antibody content in the organism is sufficient.
Unless, inject into yourself!
Glancing at the silver syringe next to him, Ryan's dark eyes flashed with an inexplicable light.