As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 232 Accidental Injury
The reason why Neon was able to discover this anomaly is closely related to their achievements in the field of ocean research.

At the Institute of Marine Science and Technology of the University of Tokyo, a research group specializing in the circulation of nitrogen, carbon and phosphorus has discovered the presence of unknown components in marine organisms.

Later, after Mochizuki Shinichi used the magic brain, Neon was able to determine that the new unknown substances appearing in marine organisms were related to Merlin.

Neon is terrified because they are an island country and if the surrounding marine life cannot be eaten, Neon will face skyrocketing prices.

You should know that a large part of Neon Island's food comes from seafood, and even seafood from all over the world occupies a large share of the food.

If marine life is affected and cannot be eaten, will this effect spread to terrestrial life?

If that happens, the entire ecology of the blue planet will be reset, and agriculture will become the crude oil of the new era.

The number of hungry people will increase exponentially.

Therefore, after confirming this matter, Neon knew that this matter was too big and he couldn't handle it alone.

Then we contacted America as soon as possible and invited several major powers to form a joint research team.

So far, humans have not found that these unknown substances will have any negative effects on the human body.

But one obvious phenomenon is that similar unknown substances will also appear in humans' bodies after eating raw marine life.

But as long as it is cooked, there will be no impact.

After discovering this phenomenon, countries have repeatedly issued announcements, emphasizing that their residents must cook food at high temperatures before eating it.

Japanese cuisine, which focuses on the original flavor of the ingredients, suffered a devastating blow.

Other countries issued announcements strongly recommending that their residents not eat sashimi, and China directly removed raw food products from Japanese restaurants.

Originally, Chinese netizens thought that Japan would protest, but in the end they themselves suggested that Japanese people should stop eating seafood.

For a time, there were many speculations and rumors among the people.

Omakase, which was once popular in China, can no longer be operated. How can omakase without sashimi be sold at a sky-high price of 2,000 yuan per person?

This is an industry that has been accidentally injured.

Of course, this does not mean that Japanese food will disappear in China. The boss of Omakase has invested so much that it is impossible for him to give up hastily without making a profit.

Omakase has transformed into making high-end skewers, and as long as they look exquisite enough, they will charge you two thousand yuan per person without any negotiation.

When Zheng Li was chatting with Li Miaomiao, he remembered hearing Li Miaomiao say that Japanese food restaurants in Suzhou were undergoing transformation.

Japanese food has transformed into skewers and barbecue, which has directly affected the Korean barbecue business.

As for Northeastern barbecue, there are almost no similarities in categories and prices, so it is not affected much.

Zheng Li continued: "There is no need to panic, since this substance has appeared in all the creatures in the ocean."

"Then it means that this has become a common phenomenon."

"Since nothing has happened now, we don't have to worry too much."

"All we can do now is wait for Merlin to make his move."

Academician Zhao sighed: "I am not as open-minded as young people."

"We were initially afraid that this was some kind of virus that was transmitted to humans through marine life."

"Studies have found that these unknown substances are not toxic and can even be broken down by simply cooking them at high temperatures."

"It also cannot be carried by bacteria and then spread through the air."

What Blue Star researchers fear most is that these unknown substances could be carried by viruses and then enter the human body.

Because of the characteristics of the current human immune system, it is powerless against unknown substances.

"We really don't know Merlin's purpose at the moment."

"I always have a feeling that Merlin has been accumulating strength. If we wait until he accumulates enough strength, things will become unpredictable."

"Although this is just my personal feeling, the internal character portrait of Merlin believes that Merlin is someone who can be cooperated with."

Zheng Li nodded and said, "I think so too. With the ability that Merlin has shown, he can definitely hide himself."

"Instead of doing magic coins and technology exchange, if Merlin and humans are in a confrontational relationship, this will not do him any good."

Academician Zhao sighed and said, "I hope so."

He changed the subject: "Do you know that someone in the market is deliberately targeting you recently?"

Zheng Li shook his head: "I don't know, targeting us? Kechuang Biotechnology?"

Zheng Li really didn't know. He was so busy with his own affairs that he had no time to care about these things.

Academician Zhao explained: "The main reason is that the truth system you created has affected the interests of too many people."

“So you are currently the target of public criticism. But your response was very clever and did a good job of dispelling the public’s doubts about the truth system.”

Zheng Li: "The truth system was developed in accordance with the requirements from above, not something I made up on a whim."

“The truth system looks simple, but it actually took a lot of effort.”

Academician Zhao: "I understand. The problem is that you need to understand that the government is also made up of individuals."

"Everything is good for some people and bad for others. The truth system is of course good for the top leaders because they can see the real facts."

"But for those below, there is no room for deception or maneuvering."

“Although I have always been a professor, I have at least been a dean and president for a long time.”

"I manage thousands of people. What they tell you may be a far cry from the truth."

Zheng Li interrupted, "The truth system is only used by the media and governments at all levels to issue announcements. It will not become a normal mechanism for internal communication."

"They will have less leeway, but it will only prevent them from fooling the general public and will not be used for internal communication."

Academician Zhao: "You can't guarantee that technology won't be abused. Once you start, you can't stop it."

Zheng Li shook his head: "No, we communicated very clearly at the beginning that it would not be abused."

"And even if they want to abuse it and change it to the effect they want, the Chinese official technicians really can't do it without my cooperation."

Academician Zhao asked, "What if I ask you to cooperate?"

Zheng Li said frankly: "If I don't cooperate, no one can force me to do something I don't want to do, and when we discussed the requirements, there was a document signed and confirmed by the other party as proof."

Zheng Li actually doesn’t care whether it is done or not, but he really doesn’t want to see the truth system being abused.

Because if the truth system is abused internally, it will inevitably lead to the same abuse externally, and then power will expand again with the help of technology.

In Zheng Li's opinion, the personal boundaries of the general public have already been compressed enough. The compression of personal space and the spirit of pursuing science are in some sense contradictory. Academician Zhao smiled and said, "It's good to be young. If the truth system can be limited to the level of public opinion, it is undoubtedly a good thing."

"But it still affects the interests of too many people. However, both the people above and below are satisfied. The people in the middle may just criticize you in their hearts at most."

Academician Zhao thought that there was no need to talk to Zheng Li about how to behave in society now. It would not be too late to talk about it when he really fell into trouble.

In the opinion of Academician Zhao, given Zheng Li's status and ability, he will be forgiven as long as it is not a mistake of principle.

"This is the end of the small talk. Our main goal today is to test the optimized brain-computer connection technology to see if we can reproduce magic in the virtual world."

Zheng Li said: "The currently optimized brain-computer connection technology only covers the full range of human movements."

“But I have communicated with the researchers you assigned to me before. They have built a demo during this period. You can try it.”

For magic to be reproduced in VR, it must be consistent with reality, and most importantly, logically consistent.

For example, the function of a certain brain wave analysis is to decompose molecules into atoms. How can this be replicated in the virtual world?

Creating fire involves raising the temperature, so how can this be reflected in the virtual world?

Things like flames, light, and object movement can all be achieved through light and shadow effects.

The problem is that Chinese mages do not know these basic spells, and are unable to use brain nerve signal capture devices to capture the brain nerve signal images corresponding to these spells.

What they know are some operations at the molecular level, which are almost impossible to reflect through light and shadow effects in the virtual world.

But Zheng Li still thought of a way to fool people.

Clark Island can no longer recognize its original appearance. Except for the white villas that show a little trace of human presence, the entire island is covered with green vegetation.

Fortunately, the entire island is far away from human habitation and the surrounding islands have not been developed, so no one has paid attention to coming here yet.

In addition to using gene editing technology to produce Circe Herb, the main ingredient of the longevity potion, Zheng Li also started the reproduction of Magnolia.

Magnolia is one of the main ingredients for improving spellcasting ability. It can effectively stimulate the magical substances in the body and greatly increase their activity.

Fortunately, the multi-layer neural network algorithm provided by Wiles enabled Zheng Li to optimize the primary artificial intelligence on the biological cloud.

Now the computing power that BioCloud can exert is even greater.

Originally, the primary artificial intelligence could only control biological computers in some areas of the Pacific Ocean near Southeast Asia.

The upgraded artificial intelligence can now control biological computers across the Pacific Ocean.

Thanks to the improvement in computing power, Zheng Li's progress in reproducing the magic plants was smoother than expected.

However, the European Alliance researchers responsible for researching life-extending drugs did not have such a smooth journey.

"We always stay on the surface and cannot find the essence of the mechanism of life-extending drugs. This is obviously not feasible."

Of the three life-extending potions obtained by the Europa League, one was used by Wiles, and the remaining two are in Brussels.

A certain force in the Europa League wanted to make a substitution and replaced the two life-extending potions.

Fortunately, the Europa League’s security measures were in place and did not allow the other side to succeed.

Instead, he took the opportunity to clean out the suspicious elements within the organization.

"Do you understand the generation gap? We can only trace back its mechanism if we study the surface functions and effects thoroughly.

It is unreasonable to try to figure out the mechanism of the life-extending potion from the beginning."

"Now that this life-extending potion is almost used up, how can we report that our research is still at the surface level?"

"One life-extending potion is studied to understand its life-extending mechanism, and the second life-extending potion is used as a basis to reverse-engineer the production process of the life-extending potion?
It’s a good idea, but can we do it?
If penicillin was given to Archimedes of ancient Rome, would he be able to reverse-engineer the process of making penicillin?

Just kidding?
The people above do not respect the objective laws of science, but we must respect them.”

“The problem is if we don’t have results, we’ll all be marginalized.”

“I think it’s enough for us to get some clarity.

We just need to make sure that the life-extending potion can really extend your life, rather than deceiving your perception.

Unlike the so-called life extension on Blue Star, it actually makes your body younger, but it cannot prevent the acceleration of its aging speed. "

The so-called life extension of Blue Star only makes you feel younger now, but this youthful state will decline faster than normal aging.

It is equivalent to a five-minute video being stretched to ten minutes and played at twice the speed.

This will not extend the time.

“The big guys can’t wait to take mega-doses of antioxidants, mega-doses of nutritional supplements to help prevent tooth decay, and add BHT or ascorbyl palmitate to cooking.

These are scientifically proven ways to extend your life.”

"You and I both know that these have a minimal effect on extending lifespan, and it has not been proven that they can actually extend lifespan.

We all know this, how could the big shots not know it?"

"The life-extending potion has also not proven itself. There is only one sample from Wiles, and he has only used it for less than half a year. Does this prove that his life span has been extended by five years?"

“The problem is that the big shots trust Merlin, and Merlin’s credibility in the eyes of the big shots cannot be compared with a few papers.

The magic is here, Merlin can parasitize anyone, does this mean that he has eternal life?"

“If Merlin could really achieve eternity, he wouldn’t be in such a hurry to jump out.

And isn't there a potential connection in our research on the soul that we have discovered that the aging process of the human soul is irreversible?"

“It’s just a potential connection, the correlation is not strong enough.

Should we open up more data to our Chinese counterparts?"

“I think we can open up more data to our Chinese counterparts.

My Chinese colleagues are obviously more knowledgeable in magic than I am, so maybe they can come up with a better experimental plan."

Some Chinese experts in the field of biomedicine are in Brussels, and Chinese masters provide technical guidance remotely.

Even though they are in a cooperative relationship now, China is not comfortable sending its mages to Europe.

As for why American dared to send his wizard to Stockholm at that time, it was because he relied on the prestige he had built up over the years.

When it comes to the long-distance transmission of information, things can easily go wrong.

The communication equipment used throughout the European continent basically comes from Ericsson and Cisco.

The news that the Europa Union and China were cooperating on life-extending drugs was captured by America during network communication.

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