Chapter 49 Mitigation Plan
"So....", String looked at the bottles in front of him, all of which contained some paste, but the color was different.
"That's what you've done?" Paul pointed to the bottle containing the pale green paste.
"This one is mine.... The early version was probably made by James and me. I think the most important thing is to improve the body's own immunity, since the virus can make people weak, it is best to quickly improve the patient's endurance in a short period of time. Dr. Agnes made no secret of his concerns, and Paul had always been unreliable in this regard.
"So what exactly did you add?" Paul sat down in his chair and spun around, just smiling and not answering the question, but the mysterious gesture caught James' attention.
He walked over, first leaned near the mouth of the bottle and sniffed Paul's work with his hand, and then frowned, as if he had some idea.
Immediately afterward, he boldly took a bite and tasted it.
"You can't be wrong." James smug a smug expression.
"You added a strong spirit later, it seems to be a condensed version? I remember the smell very well...."Paul whistled.
"Awesome, James, I can't hide it from you, it's so obvious?" James lifted his sunglasses and began to brag about it.
"Passing the prize.... For some reason I've been exposed to knowledge since I was a child, and now I can tell the difference between drugs by looking at and smelling them, and that's a good idea for you, that is.... Strength Spirits are not a bargain, maybe there is some stock in the storeroom of the Great Dome, but not too much, and..."
"Besides, I'm afraid you're going to kill people before you can survive." Xian took over indifferently.
"The Spirit of Strength has caused a great burden on the heart, and if this thing is taken by those who are already terminally ill, I am afraid that it will die suddenly." Paul spread his hands, he was not in a hurry at all, because the virus was already harmless to him, and he was not interested in Dr. Goddard, and this development was just a casual development.
James had some disagreement.
"Wait, strings, don't be in such a hurry to deny it.... If you mix Jet, Healing Needle and Strength Spirit, and then add it to the tonic cream, then the effect will not only be better, but the side effects will not be so great, I think this idea is completely feasible, but I am slightly lacking some now.."
"Missing materials?" The strings broke him again.
"Save it, James, are you making medicine to cure diseases and save people, or are you doing those small commodities that your family produces and sells? I'm afraid that thing will become a kind of thing that causes social harm. And, on the current condition, where to find the Jeter you need? Needless to say, even if it is a semi-finished product, there is not a single two-headed cow within a hundred miles of this ghost place. "The string puts his last hope in the project that Agnes and Dr. Donald are working on.
What was in that bottle was a grayish-black paste. Dr. Agnes looked confident.
"This is a product that I invented in collaboration with Donald, and we took some of the herbal drug development data from the big dome and combined it with other data to create this tonic cream, which is not only made mostly plant-based but also has almost no side effects... Except for probably some radiation ingestion? "The brain asked Dr. Agnes for the relevant data, and together with the strings, analyzed whether the tonic was really that good.
"Uh-huh...."The brain looked at it for a while, and seemed to have a lot of questions.
"Where did you find these strange plants? .... The medicinal properties of these things are very strange, such as this black flower, the ingredients of this thing are so interesting. The string looked twice and explained.
"It's called an ash flower.... This thing grows near puddles in areas with strong radiation, and it's not surprising that this thing is here, the crater in the northeast.. Those areas that linger all year round with glowing species... I used to go to the state of the Solaris when I was in New California, and there were markets where it was sold, and it was extremely expensive, because you had to wear heavy protective equipment or have to go by ghouls. She looked at Dr. Agnes and Dr. Donald.
"Where did you get that?" Dr. Agnes smiled slightly, mentioning that she and Dr. Donald had been thinking about whether they could implant the maintenance robots left behind in the Great Dome and send robots that were not afraid of radiation and did not need physiological needs to go to those dangerous places to recover materials and reconnaissance information, and that they had actually achieved some results a long time ago.
Dr. Donald has cracked a small robot to go to the outside of the Dome for detection activities, and recently he has successfully built an assembled autonomous scavenger robot from the original of a brain-controlled robot that was previously destroyed by Andy, and has successfully collected some animal and plant samples from the wasteland for recording and analysis.
Part of this was used for the development of the tonic cream. The brain screamed at this, calling out the wasteland outside made him extremely curious, and he must go out and explore this world that he was no longer familiar with when he had the chance.
Xian didn't care about him, just continued to stand in front of the machine and analyze the medicinal properties. Andy couldn't read the data, but he was just by his side.
Xian endured his gaze for a moment, then turned to look at Andy with a test eye.
"What do you think of this recipe? What are the drawbacks? Andy immediately came to his senses, touched his chin and pondered, and after pondering for a while, he put forward a few ideas.
"That's... I don't know much about science, but as far as I know, there are not a few people out there who are infected with the new plague, and it would undoubtedly be a waste of resources to develop this thing for only a few people, and since it is necessary to consider a large audience, then the ability to mass produce is a key. The ingredients for Dr. Agnes' tonic balm seem to be a bit complicated, and there are many things that cannot be obtained in large quantities...."String snapped his fingers and looked at Andy in surprise.
"It seems that the implant surgery has not been done in vain.... Not only that, but the effect of this thing is too slow and not strong enough, and compared to Paul's version, it focuses more on the suppression of the virus and ignores the replenishment of the human body's deficit. I think we can combine the best of both worlds to make a perfect version. Xian stood in the middle of everyone and spoke her mind.
"There's a molecular synthesizer in the big dome, and with that stuff you can mass-produce tonic creams, the only question is the potency and the material. I have an idea to keep the needles and some of the common plant materials, and replace the rest with biological proteins, which is less difficult to make and more effective. We can start by creating some of the effects that we can experiment with, and if it works, we'll publish the recipe to help curb the spread of the new plague. James pinched the bridge of his nose and thought of a question.
"Sounds doable, but where do you get animal protein now? The most in the vicinity of... Animals, those glowing ghouls that go crazy. Andy stood up this time and excitedly added.
"I know where to get this, listen to me, the truck driver Eddie you relied on before went out to exchange supplies, and the place where he traded was an abandoned city called Dog City in the south, where a group of people settled, they were in need of relics from the old world, and there were countless wild dogs, and you could exchange some scientific objects in the big dome for lots and lots of dog meat." Speaking of this, Andy had a flash of inspiration and continued to extend along the train of thought.
"We can use the machine to quickly produce a batch of tonic paste, and then use the railway transportation of Unicom Dog City to sell it, now this thing must be very marketable, because many people are infected with the virus, after we have profits, we deliberately spread the formula, so that businessmen and various forces will spontaneously try to make tonic cream, and it will not be long before this thing will be popularized as a sought-after commodity outside, and our goal will be achieved." James asked in surprise, "What?" Is there a working railway? Paul looked at James with disdain.
"You don't know about this... Our original plan was to take the train all the way to the northeast as quickly as possible, so that it would be not far from the Great Dome, safe and fast, but unfortunately the railway was suspended with the fall of the Alashid fortress, and it seems that you were really rushed when you first came. ”