The first night in the laboratory was full of gunsmoke, and the Cosmic Cube project team stayed up until half past eleven and decided to stop fighting, but the Ice Corpse Virus project team put on a posture of being ready to stay up late and explode the liver.

"Xiu, don't you take a break? The ice corpse virus is indeed tricky, but the first night is all-nighter, which is not conducive to the follow-up work, right? Professor Servig persuaded worriedly.

"It's okay, Dr. Zhao and I just happened to make some progress here, you guys should rest first." Luo Xiu waved his hand.

Helen Zhao was so immersed in her research that she didn't hear what Professor Servig had to say.

"Well, pay attention to proper pauses, it's easy to get stuck in a loop of continuous work." The old professor kindly reminded him.

Fitz took the initiative to ask, "Do you need me to stay and help?" ”

"No need, you can go back and rest." Luo Xiu shook his head and said.

So Fitz followed the others and turned away, the laboratory lights on the side of the Cosmic Cube dimmed, and although only Luo Xiu and Helen Zhao were left on the side of the Ice Corpse Virus, it created a busy atmosphere.

Originally, there was no one in the laboratory late at night, and Luo Xiu and Helen Zhao were lonely and widowed side by side, which was quite romantic for scientific research dogs, but both of them were too involved at this time, and they had no leisure at all to use the short alone time to develop a personal relationship.

Most of the time, the two don't even see each other's faces, and most of the time they are busy with their own backs and backs, until someone has a little spark of thought, and the two will communicate face-to-face.

"Xiu, I took a closer look at the microstructure of the Ice Corpse Virus, and I found that it is very similar to a biological virus, with only a long chain of genetic code and a protein coat, and no other structure." Helen Zhao tapped her chin lightly with an electronic pen and said thoughtfully.

Luo Xiu raised his own suspicions: "If the microscopic structure of the ice corpse virus is exactly the same as that of a biological virus, then it means that it cannot reproduce independently without the host, but it has been proven that it has this ability, which also proves that it has its own unique metabolic system." ”

"But it doesn't have a metabolic system, which can't be observed at the microscopic level." Dr. Zhao was a little impatient by this trouble, "This doesn't make sense at all......"

"Unless......" Luo Xiu deduced the only explanation, "unless these ice corpse viruses carry a small amount of energy inside them, which can sustain their self-reproduction outside the host, after all, their self-reproduction after leaving the host is limited, not indefinite. ”

"It does make sense!" Dr. Zhao's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she couldn't help but be impressed by Luo Xiu, a biology tyrant who was not from a major class.

"It's just that we can't capture these residual energies at the moment, and the other question is how these residual energies are retained in the Ice Corps Virus, and how do they replicate with the Ice Corps Virus's self-proliferation?" Luo Xiu threw out a bombshell puzzle.

"It would be nice if we could simulate the self-proliferation process of the ice corpse virus, but unfortunately with today's biological science and technology, this cannot be done, and human beings have only cracked the first step of the genetic code, but they have not been able to find the key second step. We can't accurately simulate protein folding, and the entire genetic code can't be spied on......"

Dr. Zhao said melancholy, with a strong sense of powerlessness in his tone.

However, Luo Xiu, who was sitting on the side, couldn't help but smile.

Dr. Zhao felt offended and glanced at Luo Xiu depressedly, "Hey, does watching me get into trouble will give you pleasure?" ”

Luo Xiu hurriedly explained: "No, Dr. Zhao, you misunderstood, I laugh not because you are in trouble, but because our experiment has progressed." ”

"Progress? What progress? Helen Zhao was confused, "I just said that you can't crack the genetic code with today's technology, are you selectively ignoring this technical obstacle?" ”

"What if I told you that I could accurately simulate protein folding?" Luo Xiu said with a smile.

"Accurate simulated protein folding?" Helen Zhao was stunned for a moment, and then pouted decisively, "It is impossible to simulate protein folding, at least there is no hope for five years, you must know that the amount of computation involved in the protein folding process is very large, unless it is ......"

However, while Helen Zhao was chattering, Luo Xiu had already started a program that simulated protein folding when he and Fitz and Zhenma were studying super soldier serums, and the core algorithm used the mysterious infinite formula.

"This ......" Helen Zhao stood up with wide eyes, the three-dimensional image suspended on the operating table was simulating the process of protein folding, the second step of the genetic code was perfectly cracked, and the proliferation process of the ice corpse virus was seen at a glance.

Standing in front of the operating table, Luo Xiu seemed to be a magician who controlled life sciences, and like an omnipotent creator, he raised his hand to drag and push the three-dimensional imaging of the virus protein structure, and looked for clues of residual energy.

"It's amazing! How did you do that? Helen Zhao couldn't help but exclaim, she felt her heart beat faster, her blood boiled, and her long legs trembled with excitement, the puzzle that had plagued the biology community for many years was solved by Luo Xiu, and he had even developed a set of programs specifically for simulating protein folding.

Luo Xiu looked back at Dr. Zhao, whose cheeks were flushed, and said with an indifferent smile: "The black technology that I mastered by chance." ”

Dr. Zhao really felt the spiritual high-tide, and witnessed Luo Xiu's accurate simulation of the satisfaction and stimulation of protein folding make her breathless short, her pupils constricted, and the spike in the body's hormone levels unexpectedly drove her physiological response.

"I'm sorry, I'm going to ...... Toilet. ”

Dr. Zhao snorted, turned around and slipped away, but she was reluctant to persevere until she witnessed the whole protein folding process.

Luo Xiu didn't pay attention to Dr. Zhao, who was behaving differently, he was now bent on the Ice Corpse Virus, and Dr. Zhao's proposal did play a vital role, simulating the process of the Ice Corpse Virus proliferation, Luo Xiu did catch traces of residual energy.

During protein replication, the core of the ice corpse virus has an extremely delicate design, and the proteins at this position will release a certain amount of particles during the combination process, and these particles form a fixed pattern of energy circulation in the virus through microscopic vibrations.

It was not easy to observe these particles, but they were actionable, and Luo Xiu found that they emitted a faint yellow glow as they moved at high speeds.

This discovery not only proved the existence of residual energy, but also gave Luo Xiu a new revelation.

It seems that the creator of the Ice Corpse Virus is someone other than King Laufey.