Chapter 42: Protoviruses
Although she was still laughing at Lu Jiyao's weak interpersonal skills just now, she was actually half a pound or two.
Lin Yulin's adoptive mother died early, and her adoptive father went out to work, every once in a while, the aunt of the Lin family would send some daily necessities according to her adoptive father's instructions, and she learned to live independently at a young age.
And because she is an adopted daughter, the relatives of the Lin family are very cold to her, so she gets along very little with her elders, and compared with Lu Jiyao, she is not much stronger.
Just as he was hesitating, Song Ke frowned, and he felt that there was a trace of abnormality in the energy in Lin Yulin's body.
"Yulin, I'm going to extract the life force in your body now, I'm going to be a little dizzy, you bear with it."
"Huh? Oh good. Lin Yulin woke up from the question of how to greet the elderly and sat down on the chair that Lu Jiyao had moved over at the right time.
Dizzy and dizzy, she was in a trance for a while, and then she could only see Song Ke and Lu Jiyao's lips open and close.
Song Ke looked at her stunned, put the beads in his hand into an empty teacup on the table, got up and pushed Lu Jiyao, who was about to come forward, and was about to carry Lin Yulin to the sofa.
Lin Yulin finally heard what he was saying, but the voice was very unreal, like a door.
"Good girl, it's okay, it's okay, just close your eyes and sleep for a while."
……
Lin Yulin pushed his hand away and insisted on coming by himself.
She stood up and staggered to the couch to lie down, she was not a good girl, she was already an adult.
Lu Jiyao looked at Lin Yulin's performance and knew how much he disliked "good girl".
He thought with some schadenfreude, if you knew the previous "little Jiaojiao", he would probably be even more speechless.
However, seeing Song Ke treating a twenty-three-year-old adult as a little baby and feeling distressed, he couldn't help but feel sour in his heart: I was your only nephew just now, why didn't you care if I was dizzy or not when I was draining my life force, I was really a superficial nephew!
But now the more important thing is Lin Yulin's problem.
"Uncle, how is it, is there any problem?" Lu Jiyao saw that Song Ke had been looking at Lin Yulin, as if he was distressed by her strong appearance, and couldn't help but interrupt him.
"Oh, she said that she had successfully extracted your life force before, didn't she condense the energy beads?
That's why she's used the life force of you, a "modified" supernatural being. Song Ke said, glaring at Lu Jiyao fiercely.
Lu Jiyao, as the culprit, had no choice but to suppress the doubts in his heart, shut up obediently, and wait for Lin Yulin to recover.
After about a quarter of an hour, Lin Yulin finally stopped fainting. She also vaguely heard just now that Lu Jiyao's vitality was problematic.
"I'm much better, you can explain it to us."
Song Ke originally wanted to tell her to lie down for a while, but Lin Yulin insisted that he had no problem, so he had to give up and explain instead.
"The problem is this unknown substance in Guillau's body, which is called a modifier for the time being.
I hadn't heard of anything like that before.
As far as I know, the inhibitors and scavengers in the current research institute are all enzymes that target the abnormal activity of the brain, but this in Lu Jiyao's body, I don't know what it is, will directly act on the appearance of life force.
The vitality in Yu Lin's body just now was also a little offset. ”
Song Ke's expression was very solemn, "It seems that this thing can still be transmitted through deeper contact, could it be a virus?" ”
When Lin Yulin heard this, he simply explained his previous "bacterial symbiosis ability theory" to Song Ke, and guessed: "If what I said about the 'bacterial symbiosis ability theory' is true, then this kind of thing that may be a virus, I think it may be a prophage or a protovirus." ”
Lin Yulin was particularly interested in microorganisms during his studies, and he also had an understanding of virology.
She looked at Song Ke and Lu Jiyao's still puzzled looks, and carefully popularized science: "Proviruses are a kind of viruses that invade the host cell, and the genetic factors are incorporated into the host's genetic material through reverse transcription, and will be inherited with the daughter cells of the host cell.
The genome of all the offspring of infected cells will have the genetic material of this provirus.
It can be understood that there is a latent parasitic virus on the body of bacteria, and this virus will become part of the genetic material of bacteria. ”
Lu Jiyao probably understood, he also had knowledge reserves in this area, while Song Ke only understood the last sentence.
After his limited scientific common sense understanding, it is a chain of parasitic organisms, with bacteria in people and viruses in bacteria.
Song Ke's breathing involuntarily lightened.
A non-professional of his age will always subconsciously think that it is something bad when he hears about this bacteria and viruses and the like.
He nervously asked, "What then?" How do you kill them? Are antibiotics or something else? ”
Lin Yulin can understand Song Ke's nervousness and anxiety, but he is a little unaccustomed to being cared for like this.
She is calm enough, anyway, there are a lot of bacteria and viruses on her body, and it has been half a year since Lu Jiyao's vitality was extracted, and nothing abnormal was found except that she could no longer extract his vitality.
What's more, she herself can't be sure whether it's an objective cause or a subjective factor.
"It is only when the environment or health status of the host of this virus changes that the latent infection transforms into a significant infection, leading to eventual necrosis of the host cells.
In addition, proviruses can occupy about 8% of the human genes. Don't be too nervous. ”
The deeper you look at the microcosm, the more you are in awe of the power of nature.
A microbiologist in the United States once said: "Nature is naturally disgusted with the phenomenon of any living thing monopolizing the world, so there will never be a single creature on the earth." ”
"I want to see the energy beads drawn from Brother Guillao's body." Lin Yulin was still a little puzzled, and she had to compare her and Lu Jiyao's vitality beads to be sure.
took the two beads in Song Ke's hand, except for Lu Jiyao's slightly larger one, she couldn't see any difference.
Lin Yulin thought for a while and tried to explain to Song Ke in the simplest language: "If you just change the taste, there is no problem, it should be a potential infection."
But then again, I'm not sure if there's such a bacterium that can create supernatural abilities.
Not being able to extract energy may also be the reason for my lack of ability, after all, when I extracted energy for the second time, Brother Guillao was mentally prepared. ”
"There's a point in what you're saying." Song Ke does make sense when he thinks about it. Although he succeeded in extracting it very casually just now, and he hadn't met anyone who couldn't extract his vitality, he was almost twice as old as them, and his strength was a lot higher than them, so this situation was still very normal.
Lu Jiyao was also beside him to help, "Yes, there shouldn't be any problem, don't you think I'm okay after so many years?" ”