In a sense, the efficacy of the blood orchid is really only worthy of the word "legend".

The slurry it secretes has the power to keep people young forever, and the massive primordial anacondas are the extreme embodiment of such effects - they devour blood orchids, breaking through the limits of Hayfrick with the help of the special botanical ingredients in orchids.

The so-called Hyfrick limit refers to the limit of the number of divisions of normal somatic cells in vertebrates. The number of somatic cell divisions in a normal human is about 40 to 60 times, and each time it is about two years.

— and this law applies to other species as well.

Studies have confirmed that each animal has its own "limit", such as turtles that live to 175 times from 90 to 125 times. Specifically, the more generations of cells are cultured, the longer the lifespan of the organism, and vice versa.

After all, this is a very simple truth, there is a limit to the number of cell divisions, and after reaching that number, it will not divide again. As a result, the old cells are gradually dying out, and the new cells are no longer able to maintain life......

The so-called lifespan has come to an end, but in fact, it is the embodiment of the essence of such a law of life.

All in all, in modern gerontology, the Hayfrick limit has become a fundamental law, and cells follow this law not only in vitro, but also in vivo.

Only germ cells and some somatic cells of plants and invertebrates do not have this limitation.

By the way, cancer cells also don't have the Hayfrick limit, but unfortunately that kind of thing can only kill, but there is no way to continue life......

Anyway, that's it, otherwise, why is the primordial anaconda here in Borneo able to grow to such a huge extent?

You must know that the Amazon Python is the largest python in the world today, and it is considered to be the largest giant snake in the world, but under normal circumstances, it is only six meters, and it is generally only five and a half meters...... Why is the primitive anaconda here in Borneo often more than ten or twenty meters long?

Or maybe there will be a few aliens in the group, but the problem now is that the deepest part of the entire primeval jungle is full of these aliens!

There is no normal at all, or rather, a normal python is an outlier -

Think about it, in a group of terrifying giant snakes that are often ten or twenty meters long, and a small one with a body length of five or six meters is mixed in, you say that you yourself are really normal? The question is who would believe it!

Giant snakes are actually not a problem, they are several times larger in size, and they are meaningless in front of Mo Chen now. Or it should be said that if they are several times larger in size, they are still ordinary life forms with nothing special in themselves, and they will first be crushed by their own gravity.

As for the blood orchids that have passed the flowering period, this is also not a problem, and it does not mean that they only bloom once and will be directly extinct from then on, as long as they wait until the next rainy season comes.

The only problem is that there is no way to use the blood orchid directly.

Humans are not pythons, which grow all their lives and have the basis for infinite growth. It's just that most of them don't have the conditions to grow wildly, and they will slow down after growing to a certain age and entering the gradual period, and eventually the adults will stay at a certain size.

Theoretically, even if the snake itself does not ingest the special ingredients in the blood orchid, it will continue to grow throughout its life. It's just that the growth trend is getting smaller and smaller, and the growth situation is less obvious the later they go, and the blood orchid is on this basis to help them break through this hidden limitation.

However, there is no such basis for human beings, unless they have cancer, after all, cancer cells can multiply indefinitely......

Therefore, the blood orchid cannot be directly used by humans, if it is taken directly, the effect will definitely be there, but the side effects caused by it are absolutely terrifying enough. Pythons can grow like crazy under the influence of their own biological mechanisms, so what about humans?

Because he hadn't done any experiments, Mo Chen couldn't say for sure, but he estimated that it was definitely not a good development - if humans directly took the blood orchid, it might be impossible to become a giant, but it was very likely to become a mass of infinitely proliferating pieces of meat.

Well, it's probably Resident Evil...... It's even the Cthulhu style.

The extent to which the SAN value of a normal person decreases when you see it.

The reason why Mo Chen transformed the dragon king, a ferocious super giant snake, on the basis of the primordial anaconda, was because the spells and mysterious knowledge about bloodline transformation sorted out from Himiko's memory fragments gave him a kind of itchy idea.

Besides, it was a bit frustrating to directly transform humans, so he had to use those giant pythons to practice his hands, reduce the difficulty and accumulate experience by the way.

The second reason is that he hopes that in this way, from the body of the giant snake that has taken the blood orchid, the special ingredients that belong to the blood orchid effect that are acceptable to the human body can be extracted. After neutralizing it in the giant snake's body once, the effect of the medicine should not be too domineering.

In fact, this is how the "ancient witchcraft medicine" used to spread the bait was obtained, and the name "Blood of the Dragon King" can be said to be well deserved.

The effect of the hemopolins extracted from the giant snake's body has been weakened for the most part, but it is still immediate in terms of rejuvenating the body. Even if it is used by a dying person, it may be able to live for an extra half a year or something.

It's not as exaggerated as eternal youth, but it's also stripped of the horrible side effects that can cause cells to mutate and transform from human form to flesh.

But this is not enough, if you want to fully use the effect of the blood orchid, you still need to go deeper and more time-consuming to study slowly, Mo Chen alone would not be able to do such a thing-

Unless, like Himiko, he survives generation after generation and has enough time to complete the entire research project on his own.

But now, after Tracy, an old man who is greedy for life and afraid of death, is beaten by his combination punch to the point that he can't find West, it is only natural that he has boarded his thief ship. There is such a big man who contributes money and efforts, and the research project on Blood Orchid does not have to worry about Mo Chen at all.

Anyway, with the means of the other party, equipped with the best experimental environment and researchers, there is basically no doubt.

And there is no need to worry about leaks and other things, Mo Chen doesn't think that this old guy has the consciousness to hand over such things as Blood Orchid to the state or share it with other old friends, but he is afraid that he will only be more concerned about confidentiality than himself.

The only problem is that as time goes by, this old guy will definitely gradually have some bad thoughts, for example, he is so knowledgeable and interested now, because he has fallen into this jungle, and his net worth and life are in Mo Chen's hands.

So what would he think when he returned to his familiar surroundings, became safe again, and was able to command vast amounts of money and resources?

- No matter how strong those pythons are, can they block all modern military weapons?

- No matter how terrible that person is, can he really resist the huge amount of wealth and resources he has?!

At that time, it is estimated that there will definitely be some tentative small actions, and it may even be possible to go all out to try to counter-kill. Mo Chen didn't care about this, he had long known that his charm value was insufficient, and he could only use carrots and sticks.

So come on, come on, and when the time comes, he will slap back again, and only the more painful the old guy will be, the longer he will remember.

……

……

When the first "jackpot" was found and processed, more than half a month had passed.

Mo Chen returned to the vicinity of the Sunset Shrine in Tokyo, and he was ready to concentrate on the Warring States period five hundred years ago before the next "grand prize" was found by himself.

Unless it was news of the "Divine Source" of the Siberian wilderness, nothing else would be expected to distract him. Besides, he now has a strange idea, that is, he wants to see if he can interfere with history or something.

The earth of 500 years ago should be no different from the earth of 500 years from now, and history must have fused together, so to speak...... He could even try to find the legend of the "Divine Source" five hundred years ago?

However, in that case, according to his estimate, either it is not possible to change history due to various "coincidences", or it seems to have changed history and at the same time becomes history itself...... Otherwise, the logic of cause and effect will definitely go wrong.

Maybe when Miss Crawford goes to find the City of Legends, she will still find the ruins left by Mo Chen five hundred years ago or something, and at that time, it is estimated that she will make up her brain to an even more terrifying degree.

That's where it gets really interesting.

It was already evening again when he returned from the airport to the vicinity of the Sunset Shrine, but Mo Chen found that it seemed that it was not the right time to come back. He passes near the Sunset Shrine and discovers a terrible crime scene.

The police car stopped next to it, and the police pulled up a cordon, and the corpses inside were covered with a white cloth, and the ground around them was all red with blood, and a large area looked like a lot of blood.

The crowd of onlookers next to him was very noisy, everyone was frightened, and they couldn't hide their fear desperately to spread fear to the people around them, talking about the terrible scenes they had seen before or heard others say they had seen, and even the police couldn't control the scene.

After all, there are seven or eight people who die, even if they are all thugs in the neighborhood, it will definitely make other people fearful, not to mention that the death is still miserable.

Mo Chen just sensed it outside the crowd of onlookers, and it was naturally impossible for the distance and the white cloth covering the corpse to affect his actions in investigating the scene.

And the story of a bloated monster with a long neck who eats people desperately spread and discussed by the people around him also made him determine what the murderer was.

- The mask finally can't help it?

No, why is it only bubbling now, according to Mo Chen's estimation, this matter should have been perfectly solved by Inuyasha and them when he came back!

Moreover, Mo Chen happened to go abroad during the murder case, and he had a perfect alibi, so he didn't have to worry about being targeted or anything because he had been involved in a mysterious phenomenon before...... But now it seems that the script is not going according to his ideas!

Forget it, there is no point in dwelling on these, the most important thing at the moment is to solve the problem first.

Dragging the suitcase for disguise, Mo Chen turned around and walked in the direction of his rented address, looking like the kind of person who didn't like onlookers and turned around and went home directly after a glance.

But just as he turned around, a cool night breeze suddenly began to blow on the street, but everyone didn't think there was anything wrong, isn't it the most normal thing for a gust of wind to blow?

It's just that everyone can only know that there is a cool night breeze blowing here, and they don't know that every block and street in the city is playing the same air movement at this moment.

The atmosphere slowly played a low melody, and the night breeze blew through the whole city, looking for the special atmosphere of incongruity.