Apocalypse: The Stronghold System

Chapter 104: Taking Blood Sample of Worm

Fan Chen arrived at a large, clean laboratory dominated by white, a wide variety of advanced technologies were in place; keyboards and holographic screens were everywhere, and this not only adds to the aesthetics, but also can reduce the use of physical goods so that it saves space and maintenance.

Academy Song took them to another room that required them to pass through a large door, after which, he stopped and turned around, "The place inside should remain sterile, please, so I want you to wear covered medical clothes."

Fan Chen nodded, he turned his head to the left looking at the male-only changing room.

The clothes are completely covered, even the air cannot get in, but fortunately there is cooling in them, and there is a small oxygen tube that provides oxygen needs.

After which, Fan Chen went to the room where the Wind Pigeon was located.

The Wind Pigeon is inside a very large glass tube, inside there is a bluish green liquid, this is the nutrient liquid to feed the Wind Pigeon to stay alive, the Wind Pigeon, and in this liquid has enough oxygen content, and in the tube has the technology to extract oxygen which then gives it forcibly to the Wind Pigeon. It's like an oxygen mask used by fighter pilots.

The Wind Pigeon inside the tube was throbbing, its thick muscles twitching as if a living snake.

On the other hand was a smaller tube, not the size of a bus, but sized like a mini-fridge, and inside was a small worm that was barely visible.

Fan Chen pointed to the cultivation pod where the Wind Pigeon was located. "How are the Wind Pigeons doing?"

"After we removed the worm from his brain, the bird calmed down, but its vitality continued to decline, so we gave it nutrient fluids to sustain its life, however, every day its condition continued to decline."

Academy Song's voice sounded directly inside the medical clothes Fan Chen was wearing.

Fan Chen looked at the glass tube in front of him. "Are we humans able to live there?"

"That's an amazing result. But ..." Academy Song shook his head. "We can't live there, even if we have technology that extracts oxygen in the nutrient fluids and forces it through the skin or breathing holes, but still can't meet human oxygen needs ..."

"Oxygen we breathe in air is a separate gas from other elements, and oxygen in this nutrient fluid is a molecule chemically bonded to hydrogen. If we get into the tube and stay there, the lungs will have problems such as pleural effusion. As well, it would be vegetative, unable to get out of the tube, having to remain in it to survive, until more advanced technology was successfully created."

Fan Chen gave a small nod, this was not up to his expectations, he thought this method could be used to improve physical quality, but it turned out that there were other problems within the internal organs. "Yes, we can only use it on mutant beasts for research."

Katerina nodded her head and added, "But our technology is already capable of preserving the human brain, by utilizing virtual reality technology and wave readers developed by Scientist Xu Chen for the operation of the HK-80KAH-EP Armor. We can move the preserved brain consciousness to a new body like a humanoid robot in Mingyue Defense."

"Yes ..." Fan Chen could not disagree. "But, just reading brain waves, has not moved consciousness where humans are like in a sleep state, but their minds are traveling to a virtual world. Right now, we still can't get there, but we can still control robots like ourselves by using Smart Glasses and somatosensory sensor devices worn on the body."

"Sir ..." Fan Xiaoyu raised her hand and shook her head. "Yu'er can go first? Continuously discussing the brain, Yu'er couldn't stand it."

Academy Song looked at Fan Chen, then nodded and said, "Alright, let's go to another room. We have to keep this worm elsewhere so as not to rebel because it meets each other, we also have to take blood samples and genes in it. Since this worm is able to withstand a temperature of 10,000° Celsius, perhaps we increase the Evolution Fluid that makes humans able to withstand the hot temperature."

Academy Song brought it to another room.

The worms in the tube, which were initially wild when they saw each other, like they wanted to eat each other, suddenly calmed down.

Fan Chen did not know why this was happening, but he had a wild guess. These worms were the reason of the First Disaster, these worms spread across the face of the earth, taking control of the bodies of wild animals. Originally, they might have come from the same place, but for the resources on Earth, these worms would fight each other to make use of resources as well as swallow each other.

As for where their source came from, although this was impossible and unreasonable, Fan Chen could only think that this worm came from outer space when the meteor hit Earth.

Fan Xiaoyu heaved a sigh of relief, wiping the sweat on her forehead. He was not used to seeing the Wind Pigeon throbbing.

"Yu'er wants to leave, after all, Yu'er needs a break after going for revenge."

Fan Chen fell silent, he peeked at Fan Xiaoyu's forehead, then looked at Katerina.

Katerina tilted her head, then she nodded, understanding what that gaze meant. "Miss, I'll accompany you."

Fan Xiaoyu nodded, she left with Katerina to leave the Ecology Laboratory.

Fan Chen followed Academy Song to another room, this time divided into two parts, just like the place where the HK-80KAH-EP Armor was assembled in the Exoskeleton Factory and Robot Armor.

There was a thick glass wall in front of them, and behind the wall was medical equipment including an operating table as well as a tool to perform the operation itself. All of these tools are constructed using titanium material, and some are made of tungsten.

"Captain. Put it here." Academy Song pointed a hole at the metal table.

Song Academics usually call Fan Chen “Xiao Chen”, and Fan Chen calls Song Academics “Grandfather Song or Elder Song”, but when in business like this, they should call according to ethics.

Fan Chen put a glass tube inside the hole, and instantly also the robot arm behind the wall acted.

The robotic arm took the tube, opened it carefully. Before the worm could strike, another robot hand gripped the worm tightly and placed it on the operating table.

The syringe is taken and inserted into the skin of the worm, but not able to penetrate it, even the needle is broken.

"Her skin is able to hold sharp objects, I'm getting curious where they come from." Fan Chen muttered, he turned his head to look at Academician Song. "Kill the worms in the cultivation pod, we no longer need them, put all the resources in the Ecology Laboratory to research this new worm."

Academy Song was not against it, after all, the initial agreement he had to abide by Fan Chen's orders, and this order did not need to be opposed. After all, there was a new object that had more data than the previous worm. As well as working here, all the needs desired by him were always sought after, and all this time always granted, he also did not need to collect his own samples so there was no need to risk his life.

Academy Song operated the buttons on the table, and waved his hand to control the data floating in the form of holograms. "Captain, to research the blood and its cells takes a lot of time, but if it's just basic data, I can give it now."

"It doesn't matter, after all it's night, for now, the basic data first, tomorrow morning is continued."

Academy Song nodded his head when he heard that, he continued to operate the device on the table, reading all the data. "This blood contains an incredible amount of white blood cells, fibroblast cells and epithelial cells. We humans have it, but the number is small, if have it in this kind of quantity, the surgical wound can be healed in an hour or two."

Fan Chen gave a small nod and asked, "So, you could say this worm has regeneration ability, and if it's in the product, it's the same as the Healing Liquid?"

"You can say that." Academy Song nodded his head.

Fan Chen pondered, he observed the worms behind the glass wall. "For now, try to get as many of these cells as possible, we can catch animals out there that don't have worms in their brains. We try, whether these cells are dangerous when planted in the body. If it's not dangerous, we can use the Iron Skin that we're resistant to human trials."

"Good." Academy Song nodded back.

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