Chapter 67: New Healing Agents
When Rorschach settles Wanda and Pietro into place, he rushes to Connors and Banner's lab to see the latest cure.
Dr. Connors excitedly showed Rorschach a green potion that didn't look any different from before, and said, "Rorschach, the experiment has finally come to fruition, and this is the latest cure." It has a significant healing effect on most traumatic injuries. ”
Dr. Connors grabbed a mouse with a missing forelimb, cut a wound in its back, and injected a few milliliters of the drug into the mouse's body.
Rorschach saw that the wound on the mouse's back had healed quickly at a speed visible to the naked eye. However, there is no change in the severed forelimb.
"After removing the side effects, the effect of regenerating the severed limb is lost?" Rorschach asked.
Although this elixir is almost equivalent to a life-saving elixir in times of crisis, if the regeneration of severed limbs cannot be realized, it is much worse from the perspective of economic benefits.
Not many people buy an expiration date potion to protect themselves from fatal injuries, but those who have been crippled want to be healthy again all the time.
The former belongs to the rich people, while the latter belongs to the necessities that you have to buy even if you have to go bankrupt.
"If the severed limb is regenerated, some other auxiliary means are needed." Dr. Connors sent the freshly healed mice to a sealed box and began to operate them.
"Rorschach, stay away, you will emit a lot of gamma rays later, and getting too close will cause damage to your body." Banner reminded from the sidelines.
"Gamma rays?" Rorschach had a bad premonition.
A bright light flashed, and a rat's scream came from inside the sealed box. But at the same time, a tube of healing medicine was injected into the mice's body at the same time.
Wait until the gamma rays have stopped and the box is reopened. Rorschach noticed that the mouse had regrown its forelimbs, and seemed to have no effect on walking, as nimble as any other mouse.
"Doesn't cause madness and deformation? Will the efficacy of the drug not wane? Rorschach asked.
The biggest side effect of the previous healing potion was that it would turn people into giant lizards, and when the effect of the medicine dissipated, they would revert to a state of mutilated limbs. This agent can only take effect for a while, but not for a long time.
"Based on observations over this period of time, the effect of the potion should be permanent. We didn't notice any difference between the new limbs and the originals, and there was no madness and deformation. It can be said that we have eliminated most of the side effects. Dr. Connors said.
"Mostly? In other words, there are side effects? Rorschach asked with concern.
"It's true, but it's not too serious." Dr. Connors looked at Banner a little embarrassed, then said.
"But your expression looks serious. Dr. Banner, can you tell us what this side effect is? Rorschach asked.
Banner was not embarrassed, and said generously to Rorschach: "Through my research on the original formula, I found that the reason why the effect of this treatment has declined is entirely because of the insufficient supply of energy to the human body. The potion only provides elements that stimulate the regeneration of severed limbs, but flesh and bones can't always grow out of thin air. ”
"So, eat more after the injection?" Rorschach joked.
Banner shook his head and said, "It's too late, the consumption of food requires a process, and the purpose of this healing potion is to heal the wound in a short time, so it makes no sense to rely on supplemental nutrition." ”
"And your solution is gamma rays?"
Rorschach finally knew where the bad premonition was coming from. Sure enough, it's still the original recipe, and it's still the same taste. Isn't that how Bruce Banner became the Hulk?
Anyone who wants to replicate the super-soldier potion used by Captain America can't do without gamma rays. Bruce Banner's mutation, though considered a failure, gains more power than the original.
"So, the side effect should be that this guinea pig will turn into a big guy who tears the tank when he gets angry?" Rorschach asked.
"It's not that exaggerated." Dr. Connors said.
Under Rorschach's suspicious gaze, Dr. Connors sent the injected guinea pig to a box, and then passed a faint electric current into the box.
This electricity does not kill the guinea pig, but it makes it very uncomfortable. After a while, the mouse's mood was obviously agitated, and his body began to swell.
However, to Rorschach's surprise, the little mouse did not turn green.
It's just that the muscles are knotted, and the body size is bigger, but the body hair is still white, and the skin has not changed.
Won't it turn into a forgiveness color? Well, sure enough, the "biggest" side effects are eliminated.
However, although the transformed mouse did not change color, it was also very aggressive, knocking the glass box full of cracks.
"If you're going crazy with emotions, then the side effects of your potion are too great." Rorschach shook his head.
"This madness is not permanent. The main reason for the madness is that the amount of gamma ray energy absorbed is too much energy for limb growth. And each madness consumes this energy, and after it is consumed, the side effects of this madness will disappear. Banner said to Rorschach.
"Can't you adjust the energy of the gamma rays just right?" Rorschach asked.
"It's not a process where you consume as much energy as you put in.
"There must be a lot of energy surplus in gamma rays, but if the concentration of gamma rays in the human body does not reach a very high value, it will not be able to combine with the ingredients in the healing potion at all.
"For example, to promote the regeneration effect of the healing potion, it would take only the amount of a glass of water, but the cup was located on the edge of a tank several meters high. If you want to fill the water glass, you can only fill the water tank first, and then let the water overflow to fill the water bottle.
"After the water cup is filled, the regenerative effect of the healing potion solidifies, but the gamma ray energy in the water tank can only be vented and digested by madness."
After listening to Banner's explanation, Rorschach probably understood the principle of this potion.
"This means that when used alone, the potion can heal wounds at most, and if you want to regenerate a severed limb, you need to receive gamma radiation at the same time......"
Rorschach suddenly changed his words and said to Banner, "Dr. Banner, it seems that your research and development of potions is not just as simple as improvement, do you want to develop a solution to your own problems?" ”
Constant anger transformation can consume excess gamma ray energy and return to normal. I'm afraid that this is the real direction of Banner's research, how to consume the gamma ray energy in the body and completely solve the problem of Hulk Hulk losing control.
Hearing Rorschach's words, Banner couldn't help but fall silent.
Dr. Connors looked puzzled and asked strangely, "Bruce, what's wrong with your body?" ”
Banner didn't answer Connors's question, but said to him apologetically, "I'm sorry, I've been cheating on you, but I'm the more terrible monster." ”