Chapter 24: The Pinnacle at a Cost
NYPD.
New York is a metropolis, bustling and lively, is her characteristic, is her temperament,
The New York Police Department, located in the center of the metropolis, is no exception, although it is not luxurious, but it is absolutely spacious, with rows of neat police cars parked in front of the door.
Well, each one is a Mercedes.
At the intersection of heaven and hell, the New York Police Department comes and goes every day, filled with endless crowds, tall buildings, and a huge flow of people, incessant and muddy.
Well-dressed upper-class people, embarrassed losers, wounded people with limited mobility, villains with grim faces. A lawyer with a righteous face, and so on.
The profession of police can be said to be related to every profession in this city, and it is closely related to anyone.
From lost and found, to life lawsuits. As long as you live in this city and live in the civilized world, then the police are definitely not far from you. Especially in this world metropolis, this distance will become more blurred.
At this time, the police station, the restaurant.
At this time in the past, it was past meal time, and the police would be busy with their work again.
However, in the restaurant, the police officers who had finished the meal did not leave, but gathered in the restaurant, watching something with great interest, and at the same time, there were no applause and exclamations from the restaurant. In this noisy voice, a boy in the period of voice change is unusually clear.
"Charlie, your steak is amazing, juicy, and delicious!!"
"Haha, that's right, my old Charlie can make steaks for more than ten years, which is naturally very good. How about it, do you want another piece? A rough voice rang out, echoing back and forth in the dining room, revealing such a joy. It feels like you've met a confidant.
"No, Charlie. How can one be enough, two more! The boy's voice rang out.
"Haha, I like you, boy, men should eat meat!!" Charlie's loud voice rang out again.
"By the way, Charlie, bring me two more breads, I haven't eaten yet."
"No problem."
"Boy, do you want a fruit salad, old Charlie's fruit salad is also good."
"Thank you."
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At this time, in the crowd on the third floor and the outer three floors, at a table of four, a pale blonde boy was eating a tender steak. The seats of the four were filled with all kinds of plates, and a table was piled up.
It can be seen that the boy has been here for a while. The blonde boy is none other than Edward.
Edward, munching on the steak, Edward enjoying his face. And opposite him, sat a burly middle-aged white man with a big belly, just like the white uncle who appeared in many American dramas, with an authentic American atmosphere.
Old Charlie, the chef here.
At this time, Chef Charlie looked at Edward with a happy and proud face, and his face was full of indescribable satisfaction, as if an artist's work was genuinely praised.
For chefs, the best compliment is the gobbling up of diners. The most important thing is that the boy in front of him is still a eater, and he can clearly taste the difference in the heat of the food, the amount of ingredients, and comment on the difference.
The praise of such a person makes him even more proud.
Around it, countless people looked in amazement at the boy in the middle, chewing heavily, or more precisely, their eyes slowly wandering back and forth between the boy's stomach and the plate on the table.
They were shocked. I was shocked by the amount of food of the boy in front of me.
One person eats ten people's meals, which is really challenging the limits of human thinking.
And on the other side, along with the steak, pieces of steak are constantly being eaten. Edward's pale face began to turn rosy, like a dried seedling, moistened by the rain.
In fact, it is.
If the people here have clairvoyance, they will find that in Edward's chest, a very energetic stomach is vigorously peristalsis, and the mucosal cells of the stomach wall are carrying out intense life activities.
The information of specific DNA gene fragments in the cells of the gastric wall mucosa is transcribed into RNA, and then, the process of translation is completed, and specific proteins are synthesized and enzymes are digested.
Digestive enzymes act on food to break down specific components of food, which is the process of digestion.
This is the activity of life, and even Edward could not avoid the procedure, absorbing energy directly from food. But there is one exception. That is, the metabolism rate of Edward's mucosal cells is very fast.
The rate of metabolism of a cell is limited by a variety of factors, such as the external environment. Acclimatization to temperature, adequate nutrition, etc., all of these will affect the rate of metabolism of cells. The main reason is the activity of cells.
Not only cells are active, but also digestive enzymes with protein as the main component are active, and the activity of digestive enzymes affects the efficiency of digestion. During a certain period of time, the activity of digestive enzymes will remain high, and beyond this time, the activity of digestive enzymes will decrease, as if aging.
This affects the efficiency of digestion.
Cells do not produce digestive enzymes at a rate of more than one value. All these reasons affect the speed of digestion in the human body.
Edward, on the other hand, broke that limitation.
As mentioned earlier, because of the rapid development of the brain, Edward's own nutritional supply can only be completed by improving his own metabolic efficiency.
For example, to get more nutrients and energy. Edward's gastric lining mucosal cells metabolized at three times the rate of the average person.
The activity of the cells is kept at its peak, and new digestive enzymes can be produced more quickly. This ensures that at the moment when the original digestive enzyme activity is reduced, more and more energetic digestive enzymes will be replenished to quickly complete the life activities of digestion.
Digestion is just one of the activities of life.
The human body is a whole, a delicate organic unity. A single function cannot guarantee the operation of the whole function.
So, every cell in Edward's body was at the peak of its activity.
However, this situation is by no means what Edward wants to see.
The individual and the whole, there are differences, and there are similarities.
For example, individual cells, as well as the human body as a whole, have a lifespan limit.
The beginning, the peak, the decline, the end.
How to ensure that the cells are always in peak condition.
Speed up the renewal of cells!
When the old cells are about to decline, new cells are replenished to continue life activities. This can ensure that the metabolism of life is always at a peak state!
However, all of this comes at a cost.