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Chapter 669 Cell Activation Experiment! (Second Update!)
The CIA also uses viral weapons, but Navarro only needs to give the order, and professional agents will handle these matters.

For him, there was no difference between being infected with the virus in 6 hours and in more than 10 hours.

Since we're already infected anyway.

Noticing the confusion on his face, Edcia quickly explained:
"Don't underestimate the difference of a few hours. A qualified viral weapon needs to be highly infectious, highly contagious, spread quickly, and have a wide range of transmission routes."

"Six hours to get infected means that a person only has six hours from exposure to the virus to the onset of symptoms to the loss of fighting ability."

"If this were on the battlefield, and if the enemy were soldiers or medical personnel, then we would have won after these six hours."

"But if it's a dozen or so hours, the situation will be drastically reversed."

"Because more than ten hours is much longer than six hours, it is very easy for things to change."

Edcia's words made Navarro nod, but he quickly shook his head.

Because on the battlefield, what's used more often isn't viral weapons, but poison gas.

The simplest is chlorine gas, or mustard gas.

The CIA is not good at direct combat; it is better at causing destruction in cities, especially in bustling urban areas.

He tilted his head and asked the question that had been on his mind: "But what if we lived in a normal city?"

"That should only be effective against viruses that cause longer-lasting illnesses."

Hearing his words, Edcia still shook his head. He turned around, carefully sealed the flu virus he had just collected, replaced it with a new virus, and meticulously fused the viral solution with Adria's cell sample. He then placed it under an electron microscope, adjusted the image, and turned back.

"the same!"

"In fact, the shorter the infection time, the stronger the virus is within the city, because the flow of people in a city is much stronger than on a battlefield."

"Assuming there are 10 pathogens, and each infection cycle lasts 6 hours, there are 4 complete infection cycles in a day."

“假设每个传染周期内，每个人平均感染两个人，那4个感染周期后，就是10*2*2*2*2=160，160个人。”

“Taking Tokyo’s population density as an example, we can raise the infection rate for each pathogen to 10 or even more.”

“就按每个人感染10个人计算，10*10*10*10*10=100000，那就是足足10万人。”

"Then you calculate the infection cycle of more than ten hours."

"The gap is not small."

Edcia's words reminded Navarro of the Tokyo subway, where the crowds were so dense they could make someone pregnant.

Under these circumstances, it's possible for one person to infect 10 people, or even 100 people.

Recalculate the infection cycle...

It seems that the 6-hour infection cycle is still stronger, much stronger.

Okay, I need to make a note of this and then inform the Ministry of National Defense so they can handle it.

The CIA doesn't manage virus labs.

After making a remark, Navarro turned his attention back to the screen in front of me. As he turned, he saw a large number of "earthworms" on the screen, slowly sticking their heads into those round cells.

The areas where the cells were pierced by these earthworms appeared to be darker in color, almost black.

After staring at it for a while, Navarro turned back and asked, "What is this thing?"

Ebola virus!

"Holy crap!" Upon hearing that it was this thing, Navarro quickly took a step back, increasing the distance between himself and the monitor, while Edcia slowly turned her head and pointed to Navarro's left:

"The equipment is there!"

These words made Navarro quickly jump to the right, then pat his chest: "Next time you do something so dangerous, can you at least tell me first?"

“Don’t worry!” Edcia walked over, adjusted the parameters of the electron microscope to make the image projected onto the monitor clearer, and then crossed her arms, looking at the monitor and saying:
"As long as the protective suit doesn't tear or leak, you don't need to worry while wearing it."

"But if it breaks, you should be worried."

Hearing his words, Navarro quickly checked himself to make sure his protective suit was intact before letting out a sigh of relief and turning around: "How long will this last?"

Edcia turned around, picked up the documents from the cabinet next to her, and glanced at them casually: "We are using the Zaire strain. This strain takes about 12 hours to engulf cells and replicate itself."

"We only need to look at the adsorption process, which takes about 30 minutes to an hour."

"This is a common adsorption time for Ebola virus strains."

"If Adria's cells can withstand the effects for more than an hour, or even just half an hour longer, we will need to adjust the estimated value of this gene therapy upwards."

Navarro breathed a silent sigh of relief; it would only take an hour, thank goodness.

Before Edcia spoke, he didn't think there was anything wrong with the place. But now that Edcia had spoken, he felt that the place was full of viruses, and that he would be poisoned to death if he took a single breath.

Waiting is agonizing, especially when one is distracted; it is even more agonizing.

Navarro kept glancing at the clock beside him, but every time he looked, he found that the damn minute hand just wouldn't move.

When he looked over again, that damned minute hand had finally completed a full circle.

He breathed a sigh of relief, turned to look at Edcia, and saw that Edcia's brows were furrowed. She then turned to walk towards the electron microscope, adjusted it again, and returned to the monitor.

The image on the monitor didn't change much. If I had to say, it was just a little clearer than before. Maybe it was an illusion, or maybe it was real.

Edcia remained silent, and Navarro was also hesitant to speak.

The two of them stood there, staring at the computer monitor.

Meanwhile, some researchers nearby began frantically flipping through books and searching for information after Edcia's demonstration.

Then, all the information was presented to Edcia, and after seeing it clearly, Edcia's expression froze.

More than an hour later, there was finally some activity on the screen. The circular cell membrane seemed to have gone mad, slowly sucking the earthworm stuck on the cell membrane into the cell membrane.

The instant the earthworm was completely absorbed, Edcia pressed the timer next to her.

The timer shows 2 hours, 13 minutes and 24 seconds.

After pressing the timer, Edcia turned around, gave a few instructions to the researchers beside her, and then gestured for Navarro to walk outside:

"Adria's cells possess extremely strong viral antibodies."

"Even the Ebola virus can be effectively resisted." "To be honest, I think the medicines manufactured by China should be used in general biomedicine rather than in military warfare."

"Do you have the right to say that?" Navarro suddenly asked in Edcia's voice, and this question completely silenced Edcia.

He relaxed his straight shoulders, then tapped his head with his hand. "Let's go, let's do the telomere activation experiment."

"That thing takes a long time, it's quite troublesome!"

It will take a long time...

These words made Navarro involuntarily slow down. He had rushed here overnight and had been starving in the lab for a day.

Edcia said that the telomere activation experiment would take a very long time, and he couldn't even imagine how long that "very long time" actually was.

He was a little reluctant to go.

But the thought of those missions forced him to go.

After quickly catching up with Edcia, he asked in a low voice, "How long will this experiment take?"

“Probably…” Edcia uttered two words, then shrugged: “I don’t know!”

After changing out of their protective suits in the virus lab, the two underwent multiple rounds of disinfection before finally emerging from the lab.

Outside the virus lab, Navarro's men were waiting. When they saw him come out, they quickly said, "Our people, together with the Department of Defense, have brought the drug over."

"It has now been delivered to the corresponding laboratory as instructed by the research institute."

“Very good!” Navarro turned around and continued to follow Edcia toward the corresponding laboratory.

The entrance to the laboratory was packed with people.

These men were fully armed, their guns gleaming with dark muzzles, and their eyes, like searchlights, scanned the corridor as if they wanted to catch and chop down even the flies that passed by.

The tour leader saw Navarro and quickly walked towards him, saying, "Sir!"

"Where's the medicine?" Navarro asked, and then he saw the laboratory door being pushed open, revealing the black insulated box on the table in the center of the laboratory.

Edcia quickly stepped forward, circled the incubator, and then, like a believer seeing a god, devoutly and carefully opened the incubator.

Inside the incubator, a vial of medicine lay quietly.

The medicine was about the size of an adult's thumb, and only half of it was filled. Under the operating light, the medicine appeared slightly green.

After glancing at it, Edcia quickly closed the insulated box and turned to look at the lab members standing to the side.

"Is everything ready?"

The lab members quickly nodded: "We prepared a total of 12 groups of senescent cells, divided into two batches."

"Each batch consists of 6 groups. Apart from gene drug injection, the remaining 5 groups are control experiments."

"These are all internationally used drugs for inducing telomerase activation."

"We can start now!"

“Let’s begin!” Edcia waved gently to the researchers, turned and walked toward the gene serum, carefully took it out, then took the equipment prepared by the researchers, carefully extracted a tiny bit, and handed it to the researchers: “You guys operate this experiment, I’m a little tired and want to rest for a bit.”

After the researchers left with the medicine, he put it back into the insulated box, carefully placed it, and sat down to the side.

Navarro then approached him, looked him over, and said, "Why are so many control experiments being conducted at the same time?"

“Internationally, people who want to live longer mainly focus on these few research areas. How can we confirm the effects without doing more control groups?” Edcia shook her head, then looked through the tempered glass of the laboratory at the people inside, especially the group that had extracted the gene serum to conduct research.

This research institute has conducted many other experiments, which have been useful but ultimately pointless.

It's useful because it can be used to scam research funding; it's useless because it's genuinely useless.

The experimental procedures are all there, and these researchers can do them with ease.

Their operational procedures and results were all transmitted to the large screen in front of Edcia and Navarro via data equipment.

The two, who were on a mission, naturally turned their attention to the group with the gene serum.

After watching the researchers inject the gene agent into the corresponding cells, the two stared wide-eyed at the screen, watching the changes in the cells under the equipment.

And the gene-editing agent lived up to their expectations; as soon as it was injected into the cells, it began to harass the telomeres that had been tagged with a specific color.

In the cell magnified countless times, the telomeres marked with the purple drug, which were originally tiny, looked like candles flickering in the wind.

However, after these gene agents are injected into the cells, they quickly move toward that tiny telomere and then accumulate on it, like reinforced concrete, slowly making that tiny telomere bigger and longer.

From an ordinary person's perspective, that speed was very slow, extremely slow, but to researchers like Edcia, it was a terrifying speed.

After seeing this image, Edcia quickly turned to look at the clock next to him to make sure the timer didn't jump directly to 24 or 48. Then, with a look of horror, he turned back to the big screen.

In just a few short breaths, the telomeres of the cell shown on camera had been repaired.

The excess medication has begun to repair the cells.

Under the influence of these drugs, the cells that were originally shriveled and had been mostly covered with lipofuscin began to slowly come back to life.

The deposited lipofuscin is expelled from the cell, causing the shriveled cell to slowly swell and become round.

Once the cells had become completely round, Edcia turned around in horror and looked at the timer beside her.

The red timer ticked another second as he looked over, displaying 22 minutes and 32 seconds in front of them.

Upon seeing the time, Edcia gasped, jumped up from her chair, and grabbed Navarro's shoulders with both hands:

"Bring me back all 17 bottles of potion right now!"

"This gene serum has a strong repair ability. Its greatest effect is not in modifying humans, but in sustainable combat, in defending against viruses, and in treating the wounded."

"You report to the president right now and tell him to bring back all the remaining medications. I want to test them all!"

"quick!"

Navarro reached out and slapped Edcia's hand away, pointing to the screen: "Copy this scene from just now!"

"I want to give this to the President!"

"They're going crazy!"

(End of this chapter)