Lin Xiao didn't give it for nothing, and in just a few words, he had already judged that Dr. Wei was now under house arrest, otherwise how could someone come over to check the main R&D room every day.

He suddenly thought of what Huang Que had said—to replace the research of the Academy of Sciences—and seemed to understand in his heart what the so-called 'end of the month' was about.

They put Dr. Wei under house arrest for a period of time in advance, because of the secrecy of his work, it is normal for Dr. Wei to disappear for a period of time, and the entire Academy of Sciences is under the control of Huang Que, and Huang Que is still loyal to Wei Lao on the surface, and it is not unreasonable to tell Wei Lao that Dr. Wei is doing research.

Then, they would substitute something from the stocky mysterious man for Dr. Wei's research, and would be able to falsely claim that it was the latest research from Dr. Wei.

If everything is true, then the so-called 'end of the month' thing is nothing more than taking advantage of Wei Lao's outing, forcibly convening a general meeting, and voting for the second 'supreme spiral'.

Lin Xiao knew that if the situation was urgent, the vice state had the right to convene a general meeting to vote on the bill, but Zhengguo had to participate in the situation of a satellite teleconference.

Although on the surface, Wei Lao still participated, but in fact, the people were far away in Geneva, and in fact, the most vocal person in the entire Zhongjing became Ouyang, and the situation in Zhongjing was not something that Wei Lao, who was far away in Geneva, could quickly control.

"What the hell are you here for," without answering Lin Xiao's question, Dr. Wei stared at Lin Xiao with a frown and said, "If you are here to test me, then please go back, and by the way, give a message to Huang Que for me, and tell him that I will not go anywhere, and I will die in the Academy of Sciences." ”

Lin Xiao knew that Dr. Wei must have misunderstood, so he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "I don't have the leisure to come and test you, and besides, I'm not here to save you at all, I just want to know the details of the 'Supreme Spiral' plan, which is related to the life and death of six million people in the Central settlement." ”

Dr. Wei was obviously a little angry at Lin Xiao's straightforward words, and said in his heart that if you don't come to save me, you won't save me, why do you say it.

Thinking about it, Dr. Wei rolled his eyes at Lin Xiao, turned around and walked to the rest room of the R&D room: "I don't know." ”

"Hey," Lin Xiao greeted, and seeing that Dr. Wei had no intention of stopping, he had to follow helplessly: "It's not that I don't want to save you, I can't save you at all, just because we can't even get out of the gate of this academy." ”

Of course, Dr. Wei knew that she just wanted to hang Lin Xiao for a while.

I saw her walk into the rest room, pour herself a cup of tea, take a sip, and finally sighed and said, "What did you just say?

Lin Xiao nodded, but did not rush to explain, but hesitated to ask, "You and Old Wei ...... What's the relationship?"

"My dad," Dr. Wei blurted out, as if he felt it was just a trivial thing.

"But he's him and I'm me," Dr. Wei took another sip of tea: "I can get to this point completely on my own, I haven't touched him at all, and he has even rejected the plan I made, what's wrong, someone wants to make a fuss about me?"

"Sort of," Lin Xiao pulled a chair from under the desk next to him and sat down: "But it's not all." ”

"What do you mean," Dr. Wei asked, not understanding, putting down his teacup.

"You tell me about the 'Supreme Spiral' plan first," Lin Xiao said as he looked up at Dr. Wei.

Seeing that Lin Xiao insisted on understanding the 'Supreme Spiral', Dr. Wei knew that if he didn't get the answer he wanted today, he probably wouldn't tell him what was going on outside, so he didn't hide it anymore, stood up and walked back to the small whiteboard in the main R&D room.

I saw Dr. Wei first draw a jujube pit-like pattern on the small whiteboard and said, "You know what this is." ”

"Strengthen the core," Lin Xiao simply didn't know about this thing anymore.

"OK," Dr. Wei gestured, "First of all, you have to know that the contents of this enhanced nucleus are essentially the same thing as the C-10 fungus, as for why the transmitted C-10 will turn people into zombies, but the reinforced nucleus will not, you don't need to ask me, I don't know." ”

Dr. Wei was very honest, and Lin Xiao shrugged his shoulders to show that he understood.

"Second, I'm telling you very clearly that this thing absolutely didn't exist on Earth before this fungal outbreak," Dr. Wei said.

Hearing Dr. Wei's words, Lin Xiao couldn't help but think of Wu Zong's remarks when they were still in school when they broke out in the last days at the beginning, and retorted: "But the way this thing opens is exactly the same as an insulin syringe." ”

"Again, I don't know about that," Dr. Wei shrugged, "I only believe in facts with evidence." ”

She continued: "The fact is that a gene sequencer can't sequence it at all, genes are different from species, and we may have species in the world that we haven't found yet, but as long as the organism has DNA, there is no gene that can't be sequenced." ”

"In addition, I also found a question, have you studied chemistry?" As he spoke, Dr. Wei drew a perspective sphere in the shape of a football with a marker on the small whiteboard: "Do you know what this is?"

"Carbon element," Lin Xiao didn't know what Dr. Wei was going to say, but he knew that this model of a spherical dome structure composed of 60 C atoms was discovered by scientists at Ross University in Texas in 1985, known as 'football ene', and was the world's first carbon group model to be given a shape structure.

"So what?" Lin Xiao didn't know.

"At present, 100% of life in the world is made up of this," said Dr. Wei, who sketched a carbon atom with a pen on the 'football ene': "Carbon-based, whether it is humans, flowers, plants, or even viruses and fungi, are essentially carbon-based organisms. ”

Lin Xiao suddenly seemed to know what Dr. Wei was going to say, and couldn't help but gasp: "What do you mean?"

"Yes," Dr. Wei nodded, pointing to the 'jujube pit' above, "Self-confidence has hurt us." ”

Speaking of this, Dr. Wei sighed with some self-reproach: "The shape and structure of C-10 is too perfect, as a fungus with a single-cell structure, it has a cell wall, a cell membrane, and the nucleus is also eukaryotic rather than nucleoid, even the endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, mitochondria, centrosomes, etc., and even its cell wall components are chitin." ”

"It is precisely this chitin that makes our judgment biased," Dr. Wei put a cross on the 'football ene', and at the same time drew an arrow on its side, marking a question mark.

As he spoke, Dr. Wei took out a test sheet from the file drawer next to the small whiteboard and handed it to Lin Xiao.

Lin Xiao only glanced at it and returned the list to Dr. Wei: "Don't embarrass me, if I can understand it, I don't have a high school degree." ”

"To put it simply, it doesn't have half a carbon atom in its core except for the cell wall made of chitin, which means that in essence," Dr. Wei paused, "it's not a carbon-based life." ”

"Isn't it carbon-based?" Although he had already guessed, Lin Xiao still looked at Dr. Wei in disbelief.

Lin Xiao knows a little bit about this aspect, and at present, among the known life on the earth, even if it is a creature composed of silicon atoms, even diatoms, biological macromolecules such as nucleic acids, sugars, fats, and proteins in its cells are essentially based on chain compounds formed by carbon elements.

To put it bluntly, all life on earth is carbon-based, with no exceptions.

Except for this C-10.

For a while, Lin Xiao couldn't help but think of the silicon-based life in Asimov's science fiction short story, and subconsciously said: "Silicon-based, hydrogen-based, extraterrestrial life?"

Dr. Wei shook his head: "I don't know if it's an alien creature, but at least, it's not carbon-based, let alone silicon-based or hydrogen-based. ”

Seeing that Dr. Wei had denied the two elements that were most likely to form the basis of life in addition to carbon, Lin Xiao couldn't help but be a little stunned and said, "What is that?"

"I don't know," Dr. Wei shook his head.

"Don't know?" Lin Xiao didn't understand what Dr. Wei meant for a while.

"Yes, you heard it right," Dr. Wei repeated, "I don't know." ”

"I don't understand," Lin Xiao still shook his head: "There are 118 elements in the periodic table, even if it is a life composed of unstable elements, it is unknown if it exists in a certain form......"

Originally, Lin Xiao's voice was quite reasonable, but as he said his rebuttal, his voice became smaller and smaller, because he seemed to know what Dr. Wei meant by 'I don't know'.

As soon as Dr. Wei saw Lin Xiao's appearance, he knew that he should finally understand what he meant.

When Lin Xiao finally swallowed the rest of the words back into his mouth, Dr. Wei looked at Lin Xiao word by word and said calmly:

"It was an unknown element that didn't exist at all in the periodic table. ”

Then, Dr. Wei added: "And it is not subordinate to any elemental cycle, it is a life form formed by an unknown element, if you are not afraid of trouble, you can call it the eighth cycle element-based life, or the nineteenth group of element-based life." ”

Since 1869, when the Russian scientist Mendeleev created the periodic table, this table full of elements discovered by mankind has been revised several times, and up to now it has formed a periodic table composed of 118 elements, which represents the 'family' vertically and the 'period' horizontally, and people arrange them together regularly by examining the properties of the elements.

This is a relatively common sense knowledge, and Lin Xiao naturally knows it.

In the same way, he also knew that the periodic table has only seven periods and eighteen groups.

Dr. Wei's words also mean that the main element that makes up C-10 is not only a natural element that has never been discovered, but more terrifyingly, it has no trace at all.

Lin Xiao was completely stupid, and the whole person was stunned.

For centuries, human scientists have been exploring the existence of non-carbon-based life in the universe, from silicon-based to hydrogen-based, with scientists and novelists proposing countless conjectures and hypotheses.

Now it seems that there is indeed life in the universe other than carbon, but what everyone did not expect was that this life was discovered by humans in such a dramatic way.

"Meaning, it's impossible for us to develop a vaccine?" Lin Xiao said dumbfoundedly at Dr. Wei's conclusion.

"In principle, that's right," Dr. Wei sighed and nodded: "First of all, it is a life organism composed of unknown elements, but at present, all drugs in the world are essentially only effective for carbon-based life, and the mechanism of action of drugs such as antibiotics is to interfere with protein synthesis and hinder the replication and transcription of nucleic acids in cells. ”

Speaking of this, Dr. Wei was a little helpless: "Although C-10 also has a substance similar to nucleic acid, but because it is not carbon-based at all, all drugs are ineffective, and to put it simply, you can't use a piece of anti-inflammatory drug to try to dissolve the glass ballast that pierces your hand." ”

Lin Xiao frowned and thought about Dr. Wei's words, and for a while, only the breathing of the two of them remained in the research room.

It's been a long time.

Suddenly, Lin Xiao raised his head and looked at Dr. Wei: "What about genetic medicine?"

"Very good," Dr. Wei looked at the watch in his hand, "One minute and twenty-three seconds, you finally remembered this plan, you can teach." ”

Lin Xiao was stunned for a moment when he heard Dr. Wei's words, and then reflected, and couldn't help crying and laughing for a while—it turned out that Dr. Wei had been waiting for himself to come up with this plan that she had already come up with.

"So there's 'Spiral-01'?" Lin Xiao raised his eyebrows and looked at Dr. Wei.

"What 01?" Dr. Wei couldn't help but be stunned when he heard Lin Xiao's words, and asked.

Hiss.

Lin Xiao secretly said in her heart that it was not good, and said that this spiral-01 was the vaccine researched by Dr. Wei, why did she pretend to be ignorant now, did she still want to play any tricks?

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao decided to do the trick and shook his head: "It's okay, you go on." ”

I saw Dr. Wei shrug his shoulders, and then erased the fragmentary pattern logos on the entire small whiteboard with a board eraser, and wrote four words on the top of the small whiteboard - supreme spiral.

"After learning that C-10 is not subordinate to any element at all, we decided to change directions, and since it is highly similar to a known fungus, and its eukaryotic also contains substances similar to nucleic acids, we deduce that it must also have a gene chain," Dr. Wei said, gesturing with his hands outstretched. What you see is the physical enhancement and magical ability brought by the enhanced nucleus, and we are exploring the mystery of this unknown life form through a microscopic way, but in any way, what C-10 brings is far beyond the understanding of the world's science and technology. ”

"I am a genetic engineer, except for the Nobel Prize, I have won almost all kinds of awards in the field of genetic engineering and biomedicine, and it is no exaggeration to say that there are no more than ten genetic engineers in the world who can compete with me, but I swear, I have never seen such a shocking structure with my own eyes. ”

At this, Dr. Wei's face was filled with an indescribable emotion—excitement, fear, surprise—all mixed together, as if she had returned to the moment she had witnessed this astonishing discovery.

"We used the most sophisticated instruments, and as we expected, its nucleic acid did contain a gene strand, and although it could not be sequenced, we finally got a rough pattern of the gene strand through physical diffraction and architecture calculations. ”

As he spoke, Dr. Wei picked up a marker and drew a three-dimensional pattern on the whiteboard.

Lin Xiao couldn't help but hold his breath when he saw the regular three-dimensional pattern, his face was full of incredulity, and he muttered to himself:

"Oh my God, it really exists. ”