With the continuous allocation of various equipment, a microbiology laboratory with comprehensive facilities and cutting-edge technology was quickly set up in the hall on the first floor of the Binhai Building. Under the leadership of two professors, Shen Lei and Wang Zhi, many scientists also gathered here. Subsequent experiments followed.

But as soon as the work began, the experts found that the task was not easy.

At this moment, a scientist took out a total of more than 20 petri dishes from a special incubator.

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

Theoretically, after this period of special cultivation, there should already be a lot of this new bacillus in the petri dish. But after putting it under the microscope for observation, Professor Shen found that all he saw was a piece of liquid and a few miscellaneous bacteria.

The miscellaneous bacteria were obviously foreign contamination. However, there is not a single new bacillus that they wish to cultivate.

However, the environment in the incubator and petri dish is already as close as possible to the background environment inside the Marina Building. If this new bacillus can survive in the Marina Mansion, there is no reason why it will all die in the incubator.

"Is there a problem with the environmental parameters?"

At this moment, he can only put his doubts on this aspect.

Next, he made some fine-tuning of the environmental parameters and adopted a multi-group control approach. In other words, set up multiple incubators and petri dishes, and the environmental parameters of each incubator are closely related to the real environment, and some subtle adjustments are made to make different incubators have subtle differences.

With so many incubators and so many different combinations of environmental parameters, even if you're lucky, there's always one that hits just right, right? Can't all the incubators die, right?

But once again, something unexpected by the experts happened.

With 35 incubators and 35 different combinations of environmental parameters, none of them were suitable for the growth of this new bacillus! Follow-up examinations showed that the new bacilli scattered in these 35 incubators were once again all dead, and none remained!

That's a bit counterintuitive.

"It doesn't make sense...... What went wrong? ”

At this moment, even well-informed experts could not help but fall into confusion.

"Equipment failure? Inaccurate environmental monitoring readings? Electromagnetic interference? Equipment contamination? ”

"Outside the Marina Building, you will die, and this time inside the Building, you will still die? Still unreasonable? ”

Professor Shen Lei did not believe in evil, and Lu Ming simply transferred the technicians of the manufacturers of various experimental facilities to assist the scientists in checking the equipment, eliminating faults, and investigating possible hidden dangers.

For Lu Ming's call in the name of the public security department, the experimental equipment manufacturers attached great importance to it, and sent out a technical team led by senior leaders such as chief engineer, chief scientist, and scientific director. A large group of people gathered around the Marina Building, starting from every subtle point to the site environment, current and voltage, signal interference and other aspects, from beginning to end.

"Sergeant Lu, Professor Shen, Professor Wang, you can also see that our equipment is completely fine."

At this moment, the chief engineer and chief scientist also looked very helpless: "You see, it is completely normal to do other strain cultivation." We recommend that you look for problems outside of your device. ”

A huge technical team comes and goes like the wind. They came in a hurry, cleared their own problems, and hurried away.

Professor Shen Lei was ruthless.

"No more cultivation! Take the original specimen directly! ”

The so-called primitive specimens are objects taken directly from the interior environment of the Marina Building. For example, a piece of wall skin, a sticker on the wall, a speck of dust on the ground, and so on. Professor Shen directly took these things, put them in the equipment and began to inspect and observe.

This time, he did not interfere with the specimens in any way. He just kept watching, recording the changes in the new bacilli over time.

So, he was amazed to see that even so, those new bacteria would still die.

They gradually lose their vitality, move more and more slowly, and eventually become completely immobile, and then melt into the background as if they had never existed.

The only point of concern is that the bacilli that were taken for observation in the Marina Building at this moment are dying much slower than they are outside the Marina Building.

Specially conducted controlled experiments have shown that all new bacilli, whether they are in the original specimen or in a petri dish or something, will die in no more than half an hour after leaving the Marina Building.

Inside the Marina Building, their mortality rate was stretched to more than two hours.

But the most fundamental problem remains unresolved.

In other words, why do they die as soon as you take them for observation?

You know, they live well in the natural environment inside the Marina Building.

This is certain. Professor Shen Lei knows that in the natural environment at this moment, there is absolutely no large-scale death of this new bacilli. Because if that were the case, the new bacilli in the Marina Mansion would have been extinct long ago, and they should no longer be visible in the specimens I had collected.

Their death is definitely related to their own gathering. But the key point is, why?

No one can answer this question.

When the result was signed by a number of experts and endorsed its accuracy and authenticity, it was submitted to Lu Ming. Faced with this result, Lu Ming's heart was also full of helplessness.

He didn't expect that at the beginning of the experiment, he would face such a situation.

Ensuring that the bacilli are alive and growing to form colonies is the basis for any subsequent experiments.

Only in this way can we confirm all the issues such as their habits, interaction mechanism with the external environment, and their own functions. Now, I can't even pass the most basic level, so how can I talk about the follow-up?

After thinking about it, Lu Ming simply said, "Can this be done?" Since it can't be cultivated, then don't cultivate, take out the fungus specimens directly from the natural environment, and directly carry out follow-up research while they are not dead. ”

Professor Shen smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid it's not easy. ”

"Try it, check as much as you can, and count what you can find."

In the face of Lu Ming's insistence, Professor Shen could only respond.

So the follow-up experiments were carried out under this extremely unprofessional and extremely improvisable situation.

Professor Shen Lei is a top microbiology expert. Despite all the disadvantages and constraints, the research on this new bacillus is still slowly beginning to show results.

"Take the Rs7 test strip."

"It's a dehydrogenase."

"Reagent Six, quick! This thing is dying! ”

"The body structure of this gadget is unexpectedly complicated......"

The experiment lasted two days. Two days later, the team led by Professor Shen and Professor Wang reluctantly announced that they were going to call it a day.

Limited to the experimental conditions, at this moment, all the tests that can be done and the experiments that can be carried out have been carried out. Everything that can be found has been discovered. If the experimental conditions do not improve, there is basically no hope for discovering anything in the future.

However, at this moment, we don't even know what the cause, what mechanism, and what principle caused the death of this new bacillus, so how can we improve the experimental conditions?

Lu Ming had no choice but to agree to the temporary end of the experiment.

"We will input all the data we find at this stage into the simulation model, and then use supercomputing to simulate it. It's going to take about a day. ”

"Okay."

It is not yet known whether the new bacilli are capable of secreting phobic toxins, and the corrosive substances that caused severe structural damage to the Marina Tower. Because their "experimental lifespan" is too short, it is simply too late and cannot be tested in this area.

The only option is simulation. The body structure of this bacillus, various enzymes in the body, various hormones, various elements and other data are input into the model, simulate, and try to see if they can really synthesize that compound.

This simulation is possible because the molecular formula of the phobic toxin is now known. Otherwise, you will not know which direction to verify, and this kind of simulation will be impossible.

A day later, Professor Wang Zhi found Lu Ming again.

"The simulation results are in."

He handed a document to Lu Ming. Lu Ming took a look at it and found that it was full of inexplicable symbols, which seemed to involve some kind of extremely complex chemical transformation.

Lu Ming is not a biologist, so he is almost completely incomprehensible about this. But based on a superficial understanding of biochemistry, he also saw at least seventeen enzymes involved in the catalysis of a certain chemical reaction, with at least dozens of different pathways, and his head was full of question marks.

He turned his attention away from the document and looked at Professor Wang Zhi, waiting for further explanation.

"Based on the available data, we can only confirm that this new bacillus ...... Theoretically, it is possible to synthesize a phobic toxin. ”

Lu Ming's spirits perked up, but then he noticed the caution in Professor Wang Zhi's words.

"What do you mean in theory?"

Wang Zhi spread his hands: "It's like giving you some seasonings and some ingredients, then theoretically speaking, you also have the possibility of turning it into a five-star dish." ”

Lu Ming thought for a moment and nodded slowly.

All the ingredients needed for the "five-star dish" of the "five-star dish" of the phobic toxin are all available in this new bacilli. Moreover, in the simulation, Wang Zhi also found a synthetic pathway.

Theoretically, then, this new bacilli does have the ability to synthesize phobic toxins.

However, in reality, because there is no definite evidence, it is still uncertain.