Helen Zhao's private laboratory.

In a small regenerative cradle, a mouse missing a tail crawls quietly, with a translucent "tail" extending from the section of the tail behind it.

"The biological tissue printing function now has only one basic function for building models, and there is no way to implement the model," said Zhao Helen, "In my vision, a complete cradle of regeneration can make up for all the missing tissue cells for organisms." ”

Lu Mingfei walked to the computer, copied the part about science and technology in the project he saw in the equipment department, and said: "In other words, the final form of this project is that as long as the necessary elements of the human body are provided, the human body can be directly printed?" ”

From a scientific point of view, there is no essential difference between human beings and anything else, it is nothing more than an aggregate of various atoms.

"This goal is too far away," Zhao Hailun shook his head, "If you can achieve this level, then you can create people out of thin air." ”

Looking at the lines of formulas and models that Lu Mingfei copied on the computer, Zhao Hailun shook his head slightly: "It's useless, I have tried to work in this direction before, reconstruct stem cells according to the DNA in biological adult cells, and then let the stem cells divide and multiply as raw materials for the cradle of regeneration, but it didn't take long for the research to enter a dead end and I had to give up." ”

Lu Mingfei didn't care about Zhao Hailun's negation, what he is reproducing now is only the part about science and technology in the successful research of the Equipment Department, and the projects of the Equipment Department are generally applied to alchemy and technology at the same time, both of which are indispensable.

After completing the reproduction of the science and technology, Lu Mingfei looked at Zhao Hailun: "Dr. Zhao, what I say next may be a little strange, I hope you can be patient and listen to me." ”

Zhao Hailun nodded confusedly.

"Ahem," Lu Mingfei cleared his throat with a serious expression, "Excuse me, do you know alchemy?" ”

Helen Zhao: ???

……

Four hours later.

As Lu Mingfei put a refined active crystal into the cradle of regeneration, a layer of crystal-like fibers gradually began to grow on the tail of the mouse in the cradle of regeneration, and began to grow along the predetermined tail model - if nothing else, the crystals would eventually grow into tails.

Zhao Hailun opened her mouth, staring at the long tail of the new mouse with an empty gaze, with an expression of "who am I, where am I, does biology not exist anymore".

Lu Mingfei wiped the fine sweat on his forehead.

Living crystal is a relatively basic material in alchemy, but refining active crystal is a very high special material, which is made by an alchemy master with reference to alchemy metal, and usually an experienced alchemist also needs at least half a month to produce the same amount of refined active crystal, and he can get it in four hours with his strong spiritual power, and it is inevitable that he will be a little tired.

The so-called "living crystal" is called "living crystal" when highly pure quartz is "killed" and then given life, and after the active crystal goes through a complex refining process, it can obtain "refined living crystal", which can contain the existence of living spirits.

The so-called "living spirit" is the aggregate of the spiritual elements of living beings, and from a popular point of view, it is the soul.

In the concept of alchemy, in addition to being able to exist in the form of a philosopher's stone, the spirit must reside in life, which means that the soul can only be contained by a living being.

Generally speaking, only alchemical metals that have been completely killed and given new life can contain living beings, and from the concept of alchemy, these metals themselves are "alive", so they are also called "regenerated metals", which is the pinnacle of alchemical metal craftsmanship, and the regenerated metals infused with living spirits are essentially a unique life.

However, the hybrid does not have the ability to make regenerated metal, although it can obtain dragon living spirits by slaying dragons, but it cannot be used, until the alchemy master invents refining active crystals, and a large number of refined active crystals are integrated into an alchemy matrix, which can accommodate a dragon living spirit, and use it to expand the alchemy field.

However, the master's reputation is mixed, due to the fact that since the advent of the Active Refining Crystal, there has always been a group of depraved alchemists who have taken the risk of hunting other hybrids in an attempt to create living spirits - although the living spirits of the hybrid can't compare to the living spirits of the dragon type, but it is better to be safe.

Lu Mingfei was not interested in this conflict between ethics and technological progress, and he did not intend to rely on refining living crystals to accommodate living spirits - after all, in the final analysis, using refined living crystals to contain living spirits was a low-end technology that was produced when it was impossible to make recycled metal, and his goal was to refine recycled metal, so there was no need to use this substitute.

On the contrary, it was the concept of "alive" repeatedly mentioned in alchemy that inspired him, so he tried it with a refined active crystal, but he didn't expect that it could really be used as a material for the cradle of regeneration to restore the tail of the mouse.

"This ...... It's amazing! This...... What is the principle of this substance?! Zhao Hailun took out the refined active crystal from the cradle of regeneration, and the tail of the mouse that had recovered to half of it immediately stopped growing.

At the time of production, Lu Mingfei had briefly introduced to her the concept of alchemy and refining active water, Zhao Hailun went from the beginning of her disdain for "medieval witchcraft", to feeling that these things seemed to make sense, showing a contemplative expression, and now it seems that the world view has been reshaped, and Lu Mingfei sees it all.

Putting the refined active crystal on the table, Zhao Hailun grabbed Lu Mingfei's hand: "What kind of technology is this?" Could all the witchcraft and black magic of the Middle Ages be some kind of real technology? ”

"Uh...... In a way, it should be the technology of the last civilization. "Lu Ming Fei Dao - Alchemy is the technology of dragon civilization.

"Can you tell me about it?" Zhao Hailun stared at Lu Mingfei and said eagerly, "I can tell you about the technology of the regeneration cradle in exchange." ”

"It can be, but now it seems that refining the active crystal can't solve this problem," Lu Mingfei said, "Although it can combine with the mouse like biological tissue, it is still a crystal and cannot move, which means that in the end, the mouse will only get a beautiful prosthetic leg with no rejection reaction, no consciousness, and it is impossible to move like a real tail." ”

"Indeed...... It is said that it has the concept of 'living' in alchemy, but it can only be used as a ...... The container of the soul cannot move like a physical body," Zhao Hailun rubbed his temples, his eyes lit up, "Could it be that in alchemy, the concept of 'living' means that matter has some quality that can be combined with spiritual energy?" Is this the key to distinguishing living and non-living organisms? ”

Lu Mingfei nodded thoughtfully: "It makes sense!" If we can find this key, maybe we can replace organic matter with inorganic matter as the cradle of regeneration...... Wait, in this case, will you be able to transform the legendary silicon-based lifeforms and mechanical lifeforms! Can the Transformers and Terminators in the movie also be made?! ”

"Yes, yes, yes, there are still ......" Zhao Hailun excitedly pulled Lu Mingfei to build a model in front of the computer, and occasionally danced with his hands.

Of course, Lu Mingfei, who was in high spirits, behaved like her.

……

Late at night.

I don't know how many holographic screens are open in the laboratory, and each screen displays different formulas, models, notes and even graffiti, all of which were written down by Lu Mingfei and Zhao Hailun when they talked about it, because there was no artificial intelligence to assist in sorting, these records were all kept intact, and they were manually processed after Zhao Hailun and Lu Mingfei were free.

A knock on the door of the private laboratory interrupted the conversation between Lu Mingfei and Zhao Hailun.

"Who!" Zhao Hailun looked dissatisfied.

"I'm fast, I'm going to open the door!" When Lu Mingfei finished speaking, he was already standing in front of the door.

As soon as he opened the door, Lu Mingfei's upper body leaned out of the door frame, and outside was Natasha holding two boxes of pizza.

"Natasha, what are you doing here? Didn't you say it's okay not to bother us? Lu Mingfei frowned - he was just building a new model with Zhao Helen when he was suddenly interrupted by Natasha.

"I'm here to bring you food, you haven't been out for thirteen hours," Natasha said, holding her pizza box, "Two Frankenstein, don't any of you feel a little hungry?" ”

"Hungry? It seems to be a bit ......" After Natasha said this, Lu Mingfei realized that he was indeed a little hungry, and turned his head to the laboratory and asked, "Dr. Zhao, are you hungry?" ”

"As soon as you said I was really hungry, I still have a few boxes of instant noodles here, do you want to eat them?" Zhao Hailun replied.

"No, Natasha is here to bring us pizza, let's talk while we eat." While speaking, Lu Mingfei took the pizza from Natasha's hand with lightning speed, and sincerely thanked him, "Thank you, Natasha." ”

"No need to ......"

Before Natasha finished speaking, Lu Mingfei retracted the door with the pizza, closed the door by the way, and made a loud "bang" sound, interrupting Natasha's words.

Through the closed door, Lu Mingfei's voice could be faintly heard inside: "Hurry up, Dr. Zhao, let's continue to ...... while eating"

Natasha standing outside the door: ......

No, my share is in there! What am I eating?

……

Ten days later.

Helen Zhao's private laboratory.

Lu Mingfei and Zhao Helen sat together, both of them seemed to have not taken care of themselves for a long time, Zhao Helen's beautiful long black hair was coiled up, because she had not washed her hair and was already shiny, Lu Mingfei was similar to her.

Both of them had food stains on their white coats, and they had not been out of the laboratory once during this time, and had been experimenting.

Three meals a day are delivered by Natasha, physiological problems can be solved in the laboratory's own bathroom, and if you sleep, lie down on the office chair, anyway, there is a constant temperature control system in the laboratory, you won't catch a cold, and you can continue the experiment when you wake up.

After ten days, Zhao Hailun, who was originally an intellectual beauty, had already boiled out thick dark circles under her eyes, and the light makeup that she had when she first met had already been washed off, revealing a beautiful but haggard face.

Lu Mingfei's state is much better than her, but he is just a little sloppy, and his spirit is still very strong - after all, he is not only physically inhuman now, but he has also experienced Tony's devil training back then.

The ten-day high-intensity test has finally made progress.

In the cradle of regeneration, as Lu Mingfei injected a sobering agent, the anesthetized mouse staggered to its feet.

This is not the original guinea pig, as the experiment progresses, there are countless guinea pigs that have been hung up, Natasha will regularly help replace them when she delivers food every day, and now she doesn't have to knock on the door when she enters the laboratory, she pushes the door and enters, puts down the food and the new one, takes the body of the mouse after the last experiment, and then silently closes the door and leaves, living like a housekeeper.

The mouse that had risen from the cradle of regeneration at this moment had all four limbs and tail, but it had a special luster all over its body—a luster that should have been found on inorganic gemstones.

It's not just the change in appearance, the mice in the cradle of regeneration, after a brief period of confusion, run quickly, and the speed is significantly faster than other similar ones.

The scanning light swept over the mouse repeatedly, and Zhao Hailun's bloodshot eyes stared closely at the cross-sectional and analytical drawings on the screen: "The hair follicles, skin, muscles and bones of the mouse are all infused with unequal amounts of refined active crystals, although there are signs of internal organ failure to prove that the fusion is not perfect, but there is no rejection reaction......"

She turned her head to look at Lu Mingfei: "Do you know what this means?" ”

"We've had initial success?!" Lu Mingfei asked tentatively.

"That's right! This means that our first phase of the study has been completed! As long as the problem of internal organ failure is solved, the technology of organic combination of inorganic matter and living organisms will be completed! Zhao Hailun screamed with excitement on her face, pounced on Lu Mingfei, and grabbed his shoulder, "We are making the history of biology!" ”

"Yay! You can make Transformers in the future! Lu Mingfei was also full of excitement, and grabbed Zhao Hailun's shoulders, if it weren't for the other party being a girl, he would have hugged and kissed him, "Dr. Zhao, you are really a genius!" ”

"Ahem!" Natasha's cough came from the doorway.

Lu Mingfei put down Zhao Helen and looked at the door, Natasha was holding her arms over her chest, looking at them expressionlessly.

"Natasha? You're here to deliver food? Lu Mingfei greeted him excitedly, "Let me tell you, our experiment has made a major breakthrough, if it goes well, we may be able to create the Transformers in the movie!" ”

Natasha blackened her face and grabbed Lu Mingfei's arm: "You come with me!" ”

Lu Mingfei did not resist, and Natasha pulled out of the laboratory in a daze, leaving Zhao Hailun, who was still not out of the excitement, humming a song to sort out the research materials.

Lu Mingfei was dragged all the way to the corner of the corridor by Natasha, and then pressed against the wall, Natasha glared at him with a serious face.

"Natasha, why do you look at me like this......" Lu Mingfei was confused at first, and then reacted, "Oh no! I forgot about Fury! I'm sorry, I'm going to find Dr. Zhao and unfreeze Director Fury......"

He was about to run back to find Zhao Helen, but unexpectedly, Natasha suddenly spoke: "The director of the thaw is not busy beforehand, let me ask you, what are you doing with Zhao Hailun?" ”

"It's all said, we are engaged in an epoch-making research, as long as we continue to go deeper, in reality, Transformers are not a ......dream," Lu Mingfei said.

"How can you casually study something so dangerous?" Natasha's face darkened, "What if she has bad intentions?" What if she's like me? ”

"Agents like you?" Lu Mingfei glanced at Natasha and shook his head, "Natasha, you think too much, Dr. Zhao is indeed a genius in bioengineering, this kind of person can't be an agent, I know that your agents are very good at acting, but culture and knowledge can't be pretended......"

Natasha:......

"I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about what if she has some special organization behind her like me? What if she was also a Hydra person? Be cautious when you interact with her! Natasha said.

"Natasha, you think too much, she was recommended by Tony, Tony must have investigated her origin a long time ago, and if she was Hydra, Fury's fake death would have been exposed a long time ago." Lu Mingfei shrugged.

……

"I have long investigated Zhao Hailun's origin," Tony hugged Pepper and said, "She is the youngest daughter of a small chaebol in South Korea, she has no inheritance, but she has been a genius since she was a child, she is obsessed with the research of bioengineering, she does not understand human feelings, her life is all focused on research, she has never been in love, her interpersonal relationship is also very single, and she doesn't like to socialize. ”

"Excellent background, simple-minded, never in love, don't like to socialize, Asian beauty, genius bioengineer, and Lu Mingfei have a common language......" Pepper nodded, "From Lu Mingfei's point of view, it should indeed be the perfect girlfriend." ”

"This is already the most suitable girl I can find," Tony said, "I don't believe that Lu Mingfei can not be tempted this time!" ”

"What if?" Pepper said, "You've looked for him several times before, and haven't they all failed?" ”

"It's impossible to fail this time......"

In the middle of Tony's words, the phone suddenly rang: "Hey, it's Mingfei!" How are you getting along with Dr. Zhao? ”

On the phone, Lu Mingfei's tone was full of excitement: "Tony, Dr. Zhao is amazing!" ”

"Really?" Tony smirked at Pepper.

"Of course, she's an absolute genius in bioengineering!"

Tony:???

(End of chapter)