As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 223 Project Hydra
Although the people around him didn't know what happened to Wiles, they could clearly feel that his condition had improved.

Zheng Li added some special ingredients into the life-extending potion that could disrupt external perception.

Magnetic field is a very common scientific phenomenon, but the human body's magnetic field is considered by many to be pseudoscience.

Historically, many civilizations in Asia and Europe have had similar definitions of the human body's magnetic field, and these definitions have different names.

In China, it is called Qi. Chinese traditional medicine believes that Qi is the first line of defense of the human body.

Of course, in modern China, traditional Chinese medicine is questioned by many people.

Although the human body's magnetic field is not clearly defined, it obviously exists.

Electroencephalogram (EEG) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are applications of the human body's magnetic field after scientific analysis.

Zheng Li knew that they would definitely use the life-extending potion given to humans.

And from what he knew, he would be watched by countless eyes when using it.

Therefore, in order to make the longevity potion more attractive, Zheng Li deliberately added special ingredients into it.

The special ingredients come from extracts of magical plants, which can cause disorders in human perception.

Some people are usually full of energy, while others are listless. Their human magnetic fields give others different feelings.

This requires the human body's magnetic field to be coordinated with personal behavior and the image in other people's minds. Only this triple combination can achieve a significantly differentiated effect.

The special ingredients added by Zheng Li infinitely elevated the human body's magnetic field component.

The "audience" present clearly felt that Wiles looked much younger.

The wrinkles on his face, the white hair on his head, and the gray beard have not changed at all, but he just feels younger.

Adding special ingredients can also confuse the Blue Star people's reverse cracking of the life-extending potion ingredients, making their reverse engineering more difficult.

"As for the more subtle feelings, it's hard to find words to describe them. I need time to sort out my thoughts."

"In short, I can feel that my body has recovered significantly, as if I have returned to the state I was in five years ago."

After Wiles took the life-extending potion, he was taken for a physical examination before he could finish speaking.

After the physical examination, his physical examination report was compared with the most recent physical examination report, and all indicators had improved significantly.

You know, after being injected with the magic brain, they have to undergo physical examinations very frequently.

England found Wiles' physical examination report from five years ago for comparison. From the physical data level, it showed that many of his indicators had returned to five years ago.

"We still can't say whether Wiles lived five years longer or five years younger, but the length of his life span would not have changed.

Just one sample doesn't prove what Merlin says is true."

What current science on the Blue Planet calls life extension is actually fighting aging.

When the human body is 70 years old, its condition will be the same as when it is years old.

But it won't make you live to be 70 and then live to be 80 after using anti-aging treatment.

Of course, there are also efforts to extend life expectancy.

For example, by increasing the telomere length of cells in the body through gene editing, the cells can be indirectly allowed to divide multiple times, avoiding the removal of useful DNA during division.

The problem with this approach is that death is not determined by telomeres alone, and there is no proven strong correlation between extending cell telomere length and extending lifespan.

However, in reality, many wealthy people have undergone similar operations.

"I believe Merlin will not fool us on this matter. Compared with the magic brain that builds a bridge between reality and will, the technology content of the life-extending potion is much lower.

Blue Star has a lot of ideas in its technology for life-extending medicine.

We still have no idea how the magic civilization developed the magic brain.

Moreover, the production method of the life-extending potion costs 50 magic coins, which seems a lot, but I believe that within five years, there will be countries that can afford it.

So I don't think Merlin would deceive us about this, there's no need.

The life-extending potion was supposed to be a bonus."

“Yes, I agree.

Were the researchers present at the time able to control the situation?

They need to be silenced for a while.

If they want to meet their families during this period, they can bring their families to the research base.

But once you get in, you can’t get out in the short term.

Anyway, how we obtained the life-extending potion must not be revealed."

It was a valuable discovery when the Europa League discovered that making a contribution could bring unexpected rewards.

They immediately thought that if this was true for artificial intelligence, then the same would be true for the Mars base.

Mars is too far away. It will take at least seven to eight years to build a base on Mars, even a small base that can accommodate three people.

But perhaps America would also receive additional rewards if it established a base on the moon.

If America or China knew, they would definitely choose to build a base on the moon first.

But if they don't know how to get the extra rewards, they may not build a base on the moon.

America's original plan was to land on the moon first, then launch a lunar space station, and then establish a base on the moon.

After building a base on the moon, we will gradually explore Mars.

The problem now is that the best orbit for the lunar space station is occupied by the Chinese.

Now they have to find a new track, but it is not easy to find a more suitable one.

In particular, the lunar space station has to take on the important task of traveling back and forth between the space and the moon, and between the space and the earth.

Previously, it took NASA more than a year and cost 200 million US dollars just to confirm this orbit.

So America's current plan is to bypass the moon and land on Mars directly.

Then consider building a base directly on Mars.

We can't waste any more time, the pressure from the Chinese is increasing.

China is still progressing steadily according to plan.

In 2024 alone, Chinese astronauts have made more than three round trips between the Blue Planet and the lunar space station.

They plan to land on the moon in March 2025, and then make frequent round trips between the blue planet, the space station and the moon in 3.

Move some special construction materials to the moon in 2025.

A small lunar base will be completed in 2026.

China's plan is very sound.

“All researchers who know about this matter have signed stricter confidentiality agreements. They have to remain silent for two years and cannot contact the outside world.

We will regularly package the processed external information and put it into the base's database.

Their news will lag behind the outside world by one month." "Now there is another problem that England insists on getting the remaining life-extending potion.

We need to convince England that the overall situation is important. The remaining two life-extending potions will be analyzed and studied, and the results will be shared by the countries in the alliance.

England is no exception.”

The English side was very persistent and insisted on giving them at least one more life-extending potion.

The Europa League cannot accept this because in their view, everyone is one now, so why do you have to use two?

The two sides were deadlocked, and finally England compromised.

There is no way to not compromise. The life-extending potion is not in their hands, but in Brussels.

If the potion is in London, the English will give you all three.

Based on the life-extending potion, the Europa Union launched a project named Hydra.

Hydra is an animal that ages very slowly. Some people believe that if certain conditions are maintained, it can achieve immortality.

"The Hydra genome is rich in A and T bases"

"More than 70 percent of them are A and T, and A and T contain about 60 percent of transposable elements."

"We have now reproduced the strain treated with the life-extending agent asexually in the laboratory through asexual budding and found that it is a diploid with a large amount of heterozygosity."

"That means the SNP between alleles is about 0.7%, and it's currently distributed along the genome as expected."

"These features currently enable shotgun sequencing and assembly to generate two complementary components, CA and RP."

"Both CA and RP were deposited in base pairs. The contig and scaffold N50 values ​​of the CA assembly were 12.8 kb and 63.4 kb, respectively."

“The contig length of the RP assembly was 9.7 kb, and the scaffold N50 length was 92.5 kb.”

"The CA assembly gave a non-redundant genome size of 1.05 Gb. The RP assembly gave a non-redundant genome size of 0.9 Gb."

"We chose the assembly that minimized sequence redundancy due to the separate assembly of haplotypes. About 99% of known hydras had genes found in both assemblies, demonstrating a tendency for cells to become hydras when treated with life-extending agents."

"But there is still a question: how can life-extending drugs ensure that cell expression does not change, but only keeps the changes at the genetic level?"

"It's incredible that changes at the genetic level don't lead to differences in expression!"

“All major bilateral signaling pathways, including Wnt, transforming growth factor-β, Hedgehog, receptor tyrosine kinases, and Notch, were specifically expressed.”

"Neurons in the treated colonies formed synapses onto contractile epithelial muscle cells that contained dense core vesicles, paramembrane density, and fission filaments 26"

"It's fascinating to me that these synapses look and feel similar to typical neuromuscular junctions in bilateral animals."

"But common components of bilateral neuromuscular junctions, such as choline transporters and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, are not encoded in the genome of the bacterial community."

"The role they play is consistent with that in neuromuscular signaling.

It is possible that these ingredients are present only in their original form.

Can we assume that carnitine acetyltransferase is selectively expressed due to the lack of choline?
And components like the vesicular acetylcholine transporter don’t exist?”

"The microbiota uses neuropeptides to control behavior, and these may be contained in dense-core vesicles at synapses.

The bacteria did survive longer after being treated with the life-extending agent."

"What the hell! The life-extending potion can also work on organisms like fungi.

Moreover, judging from the duration of the bacterial flora's existence, the proportion of extended lifespan to its normal lifespan is exactly about 6.5%.

The five-year extension of life accounts for about 6.5% of the average human lifespan.”

After the countries within the Europa Union reached a consensus, they began to promote relevant work as soon as possible.

Major pharmaceutical companies such as Bayer and Roche have deployed top scientific research teams to participate in related research work.

In the field of biomedicine, the Europa League's strength is second only to America.

Especially in the field of anti-aging, it has a very long history, which can be traced back to the Renaissance.

Fortunately, the official researchers of the European Union present were all very receptive to magic.

But the researchers transferred from major pharmaceutical companies looked incredulous.

When they knew they were going to study magical creations, they were very excited.

However, when they saw a drug that violated pharmacology, they found it hard to believe. Even after seeing it with their own eyes, they were still full of doubts in their hearts.

Especially after the bacteria were treated with trace amounts of life-extending agents, the various properties they displayed were even more incredible.

"And there's also the question of whether the mechanism by which humans extend their lifespan after taking life-extending drugs is the same as the mechanism by which bacteria extend their lifespan?
I used to wonder how it was possible for the same potion to have different effects when used on different creatures.

Even if the effects are different, this is due to the differences in the organisms themselves.

But I can't guarantee that now.

We don't know as much about magic as we do about space."

They plan to continue studying the changes in the microbiota after treatment with life-extending agents, including neurogenesis, organizer induction, sex reversal, symbiosis, aging, feeding behavior, light regulation, pluripotency of somatic stem cells, temperature-induced cell death, neuronal transdifferentiation, and so on.

Optionally model phenomena such as reaction diffusion, positional information, and autocatalysis with side-binding inhibition.

We attempt to use modeling to solve a series of problems such as evolutionary mechanisms, maintenance of dynamic homeostasis, stemness regulation, innate immunity, and bioactive compounds in ecosystems.

While relevant research was being carried out within the Europa League, intensive negotiations were taking place outside.

Relevant personnel from America, China, Neon and Kangaroo Country all went to the Europa League.

They hoped to learn all they could about the life-extending potion.

But the problem is that only a few people know about this matter, and now they are all isolated from the world by the European Union.

They cannot get information from any source other than official sources.

The Europa League is also very tight-lipped. They won’t tell you anyway. If you ask me, I’ll just speak in an official tone.

It was not until the Chinese side revealed that the production of life-extending potions might be related to magic.

China takes biological storage technology as an example, the key links in it require magical processing to manufacture.

This is not possible with current technology.

Huaguo said that the production of life-extending potions would most likely require the intervention of magic.

The Europa League had never exchanged biological storage technology and had no idea that magic could directly process molecular materials.

China found some evidence and showed it to the European Union, and after seeing it, the two sides negotiated bit by bit.

Finally, the Europa Alliance cooperated with China on some aspects of the Hydra Project.

As for why America was not chosen, it is because cooperation with China can ensure the sharing of results.

There is no guarantee of success in cooperating with America.

The previous incident with the Webb telescope is still fresh in our memory.

As for Japan, Japan has nothing to offer in exchange and there is no basis for cooperation.

(End of this chapter)