Chapter 181: Sess


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    Needless to say, Yao Yuan rejected Saburo’s insane offer. This was not only an issue of safety but also Saburo’s unique importance. Even though Zhang Heng, Ren Tao, and the likes were exceptionally important to the Hope and were mankind’s heroes in their own right, Yao Yuan couldn’t just add another Whisperer to the death toll for the sake of an experiment.


    If there was no other way forward but human experimentation, Yao Yuan would opt for civilian volunteers, or if all else failed, inmates... Yao Yuan knew it was immoral and inhumane, but to him, Saburo’s life was much more important than all the inmates’bined.


    However, Saburo said directly, "I’m sorry, Captain, but before I came, I ingested a sample of the’s air and took a shot of the vine. In about 30 minutes, we’ll know definitively whether the vine is sessful or not."


    "You?!" Yao Yuan stood from his chair and yelled at Saburo, an angry finger pointing at his face.


    Saburo continued firmly, "This vine is not infectious. After it enters the human body, it’ll react positively with our immune system to create new proteins to kill this’s viruses, bacteria, and microbes. Of course, if it fails, the disease contracted via exposure to this’s air could still spread via my bodily fluids. Therefore, I shall ce myself under quarantine right this moment following the protocol. I’m sorry, Captain. Hopefully, we shall meet again..." Saburo then bowed deeply at Yao Yuan before turning to head towards the electromobile waiting outside of centralmand.


    Yao Yuan stood there dumbly, his finger still in the air. He finally sighed. "Themand rights will be handed over to Major Guang Zhen. I... have to step down temporarily to deal with the development regarding the’s virus. Reach out to the Major and ask him to return to the Hope immediately. Over." Yao Yuan then left centralmand and headed towards the quarantine rooms.


    In the next 30 minutes, even though Saburo was kept in quarantine, his situation was wildly different than others. Since he was essentially ab rat, his body was wired to many machines and his bodily reactions were recorded on a screen outside of his quarantine room.


    "His lymphoid system already shows signs of infection, but why hasn’t the vine given any response?"


    A researcher looked at the screen and mumbled to himself.


    This had puzzled not only him but the whole room of researchers. This was because the vine should have already disyed its effect several minutes into the experiment since it took that long for the vine to react within the ZH mice. Naturally, there is a metabolic difference between mankind and mice, but even after taking that into ount, some sort of a reaction should have happened at the 30 minutes to 1 hour mark. Weirdly enough, there were no conspicuous changes to Saburo’s life signs even though it had already been more than 1 hour since the experiment started.


    Suddenly, Saburo, who had been lying quietly on a cot, started to shiver. What followed, as shown on screen, was a spike in his body temperature.


    "He’s now at 39 degrees, and it’s still increasing... We’re over the 40 degree danger mark! It’s still not slowing down!" a researcher yelled.


    A scientist beside him added hastily, "Give him a shot of Potion A. It should be able to neutralize the vine’s negative effects. He must have taken a dosage that’s too high. This is bad; if this continues, I worry his body will not be able to take it."


    After a shot of Potion A was administered by a mechanical arm, Saburo’s temperature finally got under control. However, it still hovered at around 39.5 degrees Celsius, and it showed no signs of decreasing beyond that. Saburo by then was already unconscious. If this situation continued, his body would die from overloading before they could even find out whether the vine was of any use.


    Yao Yuan paced outside the quarantine rooms. Every time news about Saburo came, his frown deepened. He was reading a report on the vine’sponents and their rtionship to the virus handed to him by a group of scientists when he heard someone whisper into his ears...


    He quickly waved over a soldier, saying, "Go to the Homo Evolutis Faction immediately and ask them to bring over 3 doses of Form X. Here, take my ID. Be quick."


    The soldier epted Yao Yuan’s ID and saluted. He then took an electromobile and sped to his assigned destination.


    The researchers who overheard Yao Yuan were dumbfounded. One of them asked, "Captain, what is this Form X? Some kind of new medicine?"


    "No," Yao Yuan borated, "It is a mysteriousponent secreted by the Homo Evolutis when they use their powers. They help neutralize the load that was ced on our bodies and increase our various bodily functions like reaction time when we’re in the Homo Evolutis state. To put it simply, it’s a kind of stimnt."


    The bunch of researchers looked at one another curiously before one of them said, "But Captain, I don’t think it’s wise to inject a stimnt into Professor Saburo’s body at this juncture... His body is already under a lot of stress, and I fear adding the stimnt into the mix will only make things worse."


    Yao Yuan replied firmly, "I know, but doing nothing is not going to help his situation either. The man is stupid enough to use his own body as an experiment, so the least we can do is not let him die foolishly and wastefully like this. We might as well make the most out of it. Furthermore, he is a Homo Evolutis, so the form should do nothing more than increase theponent that is already naturally urring in his body which in turn will hopefully help stabilize his body conditions..."


    10 minutester, Saburo was injected with Form X, which was secretly researched by the Homo Evolutis Faction. The shot was clear and looked very much like distilled water. A single dosage of Form X was only several micrograms in volume. It containedponents that was secreted by the human brain when the Homo Evolutis entered his or her superhuman state. Thus far, animal experiments done using Form X had caused the animals to die from hyperethism within 10 minutes after injection. Such ghastly results were why Form X was kept a secret.


    It was also why there hadn’t been any Form X human experimentation. Yao Yuan held firm that they would not toy with the sanctity of human lives.


    In a twist of fate, Saburo also became the first human test subject to try out Form X...


    Time slowly passed by. At the 30 minute mark before the sh frozen troopers would suffer from irrevocable body damage, Saburo’s conditions showed drastic changes.


    First, his body temperature gained a sudden rise, stopping at 44 degree Celsius. The temperature was high enough to be lethal. It would burn out internal organs and sever brain synapses. This was noughing matter because even if Saburo was to survive, his IQ would be seriously damaged.


    However, the researchers realized right then that his immune system had started to kick in. Initially, after the Saburo was exposed to the’s virus, his immune system hadpletely shut down. However, at this moment, his immune system suddenly decided to start working again, and it began coding special proteins that couldbat the pathogens in his body...


    In the next 10 minutes, the screen showed that the viruses, microbes, and bacteria in Saburo’s body had beenpletely annihted. Simultaneously, his body temperature started to drop back to normal levels. The result also showed a high amount of Component X in his body, about 10 times the amount he was injected with. However, weirdly enough, this Component X wasn’t secreted by his brain but... by his immune system.


    "The reason the ultimate vine is dangerous is because it is not a simple antibiotic. In other words, its main purpose isn’t to directly engage the pathogen but to evolve the human body’s natural immune system. Yes, it’s an evolution medicine, one that could evolve mankind’s immune system to gain the capability to naturalize to its environment, to create immunity."


    "Absolute immunity is scientifically impossible because normally, one antibiotic or vine could only react to one or several disease strands. Nheless, bacteria as a form of living organisms are always evolving. They be drug-resistant. Our medicine will need to keep on evolving as well to keep up with the bacteria’s evolution. However, this limits our research to a single environment, and this means that we won’t have the time and resource to focus on the viruses, microbes, and bacteria from other environments."


    "The danger of such tunnel-vision in science is obvious. The troopers we have in quarantine are prime examples. Therefore, instead of following such linear research progress, I believe it is more beneficial that we focus on our immune system instead. If our own defense is strong enough, we won’t have to worry about the attacks from different bacteria, microbes, and viruses. Instead of researching for a new vine whenever wend on a new, with the evolution instigated by the vine, our immune system will be able to adapt to the’s environment and create immunity. I dare say if this experiment is sessful... this will be thest time mankind will ever hear of epidemic and disease!"


    Yao Yuan read carefully the boration on the ultimate vine that was left behind by Saburo. He sighed. "Unfreeze all the infected troopers, inject them with the vine and Form X."