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Chapter 361 The Mystery of the Dragon King's Blood, Extraordinary Manifestation Genes and CRIPR9 Gene Editing (Please Subscribe)

"It's not a favor; this is a deal we made on behalf of the pioneering team with the royal family of the Fire Dragon Dynasty!" Su Mingjin said decisively.

"We have already arranged for medical experts to oversee Queen Rhaenys's health. In addition, we are guaranteeing the absolute safety of her son Viserys and daughter Daenerys, and providing them with the best living and educational environment. This is the price we are paying."

Deng Dakang immediately understood.

Exchanging technology for tangible benefits, with clear pricing and no deception, is far more reliable than empty favors.

"Okay! That solves the problem! I'll take some people to prepare right away, and I'll make sure they don't try anything funny."

After hanging up the phone, Su Mingjin leaned back in her chair and looked at the compiled report on the screen.

With an experienced coach like Daryl Derry, the number of people learning the Knight Breathing Technique will undoubtedly increase significantly, and speed will also be greatly improved.

The leap in individual combat effectiveness and the speed of training new recruits will both enter a fast track in the future.

However, her thoughts didn't linger for long.

The Knight's Breathing Technique is just a stepping stone.

Having just finished dealing with the Knight's Breathing Technique, Su Mingjin was about to catch her breath when the encrypted telephone on the table suddenly rang.

The name flashing on the screen gave her a jolt of energy.

It is Professor Wu Shengli from the life sciences team.

"Hello, Professor Wu!"

"President Su!" The voice on the other end of the phone was brimming with barely suppressed excitement, even its tone was slightly hoarse and sharper than usual. "We've figured out the Targaryen dragon blood! Our research has made a breakthrough, and we need research resources! By the way, are you free now? Could you come take a look?"

"I'm coming right away!" Su Mingjin hung up the phone decisively, grabbed her coat, and headed out.

Earlier, when the pioneering team provided medical assistance to the Targaryen family, they legitimately collected a large number of blood samples from the royal family members under the pretext of a comprehensive health analysis.

It is no secret that extraordinary powers exist in this world, and that some individuals are stronger than ordinary people.

Elves can uniquely influence the brainwaves of other creatures by resonating with energy particles through their hair.

Dwarfs are naturally strong and healthy, with an astonishingly slow metabolism and a recovery ability far exceeding that of ordinary people.

Not to mention the Ice River tribe, which they had come into contact with earlier. The half-primitive people of Jinhe were not only naturally resistant to cold, but their cardiopulmonary function was also abnormally strong. Their chieftain himself was able to perform a set of mystical prophetic magic that still cannot be fully explained by science.

The origins of these extraordinary properties have always been a key research focus for various scientific research teams.

Now, Wu Shengli says they've figured it out?

Su Mingjin's mind raced, and her pace quickened.

When she arrived at the Institute of Life Sciences, a unique smell, a mixture of disinfectant and heat from the instruments, wafted out as the staff pushed open the heavy isolation door.

Inside the comprehensive laboratory at the forefront, a large number of researchers, consisting of PhDs and Masters, are engrossed in their respective posts, while a small number of professors are handling their own tasks.

Professor Wu Shengli and several core researchers were at the entrance. When they saw Su Mingjin arrive, they immediately went to greet her.

This professor, who is over fifty years old and usually doesn't smile, had repeatedly encountered setbacks while researching the secrets of longevity in elves' genes with his colleagues.

They never expected that by changing their perspective and studying human blood, they would achieve so many breakthroughs.

Upon seeing Su Mingjin, his face flushed with excitement, and his eyes practically shone with light.

"President Su, you've arrived!" Wu Shengli rubbed his hands together, so excited he was almost incoherent. "We have to report to the organization this time—we've struck gold! A real treasure!"

"Let's go see what it is!"

"Okay, please follow me!"

He led Su Mingjin to an electronic screen specifically for demonstrations to leaders, which displayed a complex and dazzling gene sequence model.

"President Su, look! We've cracked most of the secrets of the Targaryen bloodline! If—if we can test them on test subjects and resolve some potential safety hazards, we might be able to achieve extraordinary mass production of our warriors!"

Su Mingjin's pupils contracted slightly.

She looked at Wu Shengli and asked, word by word, "Professor Wu, are you sure you have cracked the secret of the Dragon King's royal bloodline?"

Also, is the experimental subject you just mentioned what I understand to mean?

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"Ah, yes!"

Wu Shengli didn't notice the change in Su Mingjin's tone. He waved his arms and pointed at the model on the screen, like a child showing off a new toy.

"President Su, although there are special energy particles in this other world, it still basically follows science. The special phenomena of those royal bloodlines are not magic, but the result of targeted genetic modification and resonance evolution with this spacetime!"

"We discovered traces of fusion and embedding in many of their gene segments. Those royal family members, their ancestors used some technology we haven't yet figured out to specialize their genes!"

"They weren't born this way; they were designed this way!"

"And if we carefully study and master this design, we can then apply the same targeted enhancements to our soldiers!"

"Professor Wu, I don't quite understand this. Could you please explain it again?"

Su Mingjin's request, though not loud, was like a bucket of ice water poured over Wu Shengli's feverish head.

Only then did he belatedly realize that Su Mingjin's expression was serious and there was something wrong with her tone.

"Uh, Mr. Su, what I mean is—we can use gene editing technology to give our soldiers similar biological characteristics."

Wu Shengli stammered a little, subconsciously adjusting the data to prove that he wasn't just daydreaming.

On the screen, densely packed data and charts scrolled wildly.

"You see, the somatic cells of Targaryen royalty possess extremely strong heat resistance. We raised the temperature of their blood cells to 80 degrees Celsius in the laboratory, and they still remained viable!"

"Can someone survive at 80 degrees Celsius?" Su Mingjin exclaimed in surprise.

"Yes, Mr. Su, it's a vitality that defies common sense," Professor Wu Shengli pointed to a gene fragment. "Besides this, the F1 mutation-induced sustained expression of the heat shock protein P110 is also very special—well, in layman's terms, when their cells encounter high temperatures, they automatically adsorb energy particles that accumulate near the blood and turn them into a cooling system to protect the proteins inside the cells from failure at high temperatures!"

Wu Shengli spoke more and more fluently, and his spittle began to fly everywhere.

He pointed to the energy curve that showed dramatic fluctuations during another set of gene tests.

"Starting from a single point, when the concentration of energy particles in the environment increases, an invisible energy barrier layer forms on the surface of these dragon kings' bodies. This energy protection is fully activated by consuming energy. Through simulation, we have confirmed that this layer can withstand instantaneous temperatures of several hundred degrees Celsius. If it is actively activated, it is estimated to be even stronger."

"If we master this technology, we can completely transform it into super soldiers tailor-made for future high-temperature energy weapon battlefields!"

He paused here, as if recalling something amusing, and pointed to another gene sequence.

"Oh, and there's another interesting discovery. Their family's FOXP2-B gene has undergone a very benign mutation, which precisely regulates the symmetry of facial development. To put it simply, that's the scientific reason why everyone in their family is so exceptionally handsome. A pure surprise, ha, a pleasant surprise."

"We call this 'beauty gene optimization'!"

Su Mingjin's gaze swept over the incomprehensible symbols on the screen, his expression blank, but he took a second look at the FOXP2-B gene fragment he mentioned.

Although she recognized the characters, she couldn't understand them when they were put together.

However, she could understand the blueprint Wu Shengli described, and she also understood the prerequisites for realizing this blueprint.

She didn't say anything, just listened quietly, letting Wu Shengli dance around in front of her.

As the silence deepened, the air in the laboratory became thick and viscous due to the quiet.

"President Su, when we were treating Queen Rhaenys, we used some resonance devices to conduct a preliminary probe of her brain. At that time, we detected a very active energy particle resonance phenomenon."

Seeing Su Mingjin's calm expression, Wu Shengli, though somewhat slow to react, sensed something was amiss, and his voice unconsciously lowered.

"That—we've been comparing and analyzing for a while now, and we strongly suspect that there's some kind of structural mutation in her brain—mainly in the pineal gland region—that made Queen Rhaenys similar to the elves, granting her the ability to capture energy particles from the air, convert them, and use them for her own purposes!"

"These are the data, and they all prove our previous assumptions!"

"Therefore, Mr. Su, we need more experimental materials to conduct this research."

Wu Shengli finally finished speaking. He took a deep breath and looked at Su Mingjin with an almost pleading gaze, like a student awaiting final judgment.

"So," Su Mingjin finally spoke, her voice so calm it betrayed no emotion, "your technology is still not mature enough?"

"Yes! But any scientific experiment comes at a price," Wu Shengli straightened up abruptly. "This technology will have a huge impact on our future. We've applied for a large number of live subjects for clinical trials to verify and optimize our scientific findings!"

He looked at Su Mingjin expectantly, waiting for her to nod.

However, after hearing this, Su Mingjin frowned deeply.

After waiting for a while, she suddenly smiled.

However, there was a hint of unspeakable distress in his smile.

"Professor Wu, this isn't the United States! We don't have that many homeless people or hardened criminals willing to participate in experiments here. Nor do we have that many people to donate blood!"

"We certainly don't have the ability to conjure up a bunch of Gundams out of thin air to be used as expendable resources for your experiments!"

Wu Shengli's expression froze instantly.

This reminded him of his time studying medicine abroad.

The core researchers behind him, who had just been beaming with pride and excitement, now had their smiles frozen, and they all lowered their heads, pretending to check their shoelaces.

The temperature in the entire laboratory seemed to plummet to freezing point after Su Mingjin's words.

The lively atmosphere from just moments ago has vanished completely.

Wu Shengli opened his mouth, but his face, which had been flushed with excitement, visibly collapsed.

Yes!

Their surname is She!

Even though they are very close to completing the design drawings and even have the necessary tools, don't be fooled by the fact that they have already done so.

But they still need to build the skyscraper.

As we all know, humans haven't even figured out how to DIY human organs yet, so it's completely impossible to achieve accurate replication.

He loves the issue of clones.

Not to mention genetic issues, which can't be resolved overnight.

By the way, the steel and concrete used to build skyscrapers also need to be manufactured.

Where did these come from?

Are we going to use human lives in experiments to fill the gaps?

If they did that, what difference would they make from those old nobles who treated human life like dirt, and those evil eagles who treated life as an asset?

Slaying a dragon today is easy, but if done this way, the dragon slayer will eventually become the dragon himself!

Admittedly, it's fun to be a dragon, but how is that any different from Big Brother next door who's destroying himself?

Seeing that her words had influenced everyone's mindset and morale, Su Mingjin nodded in satisfaction, then smiled and said, "Everyone, but don't be discouraged! Tell me—if someone has committed grave mistakes and is willing to donate their sinful body to selflessly help humanity, are such people great or despicable?"

When Su Mingjin said this, many researchers were stunned.

"Uh, Mr. Su, you mean...?"

"No, I didn't say anything, don't overthink it!" Su Mingjin smiled, then looked at the demonstration screen in front of her. "Please wait patiently, I think soon there will be volunteers willing to offer their bodies to participate in your testing!"

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"Yes, all you need to do is conduct the docking experiment and make sure it's successful!" Su Mingjin raised her hand expressionlessly. "Oh, and by the way—we need to quickly upgrade the laboratory's defense level to prevent any mutated individuals from causing a disaster after the experiment!"

Although these words didn't say much, they were already the biggest promise he could make.

Wu Shengli and the others were overjoyed.

"President Su, we know what to do!"

Su Mingjin nodded: "I wish you all the best in reaching the pinnacle of scientific research and breaking through your own limits!"

After Su Mingjin left, several students and assistants beside Wu Shengli asked directly, "Teacher, has the leadership confirmed that they want to study our discovery?"

"What?"

"Uh, it's just—um—a possible D-grade consumable!"

"We're not a foundation that treats people like expendable resources! As for the disciplinary camp—hehe, well—don't overthink it, just focus on preparing our lab!"

"OK!"

In the modern world, Zhu He is in Li Weiguo's office.

A mouthful of warm millet porridge made my stomach feel much better.

Li Weiguo slowly peeled a tea egg, paired it with a crispy fried dough stick and a refreshing cucumber, which was his relatively balanced breakfast for the day.

Simple, but reliable.

After eating and drinking his fill, he picked up the large enamel mug containing tender green tea leaves before turning his attention to the mountain of documents on his desk and the constantly updating data stream on the screen.

He habitually glanced at the military situation in the other world first, making sure that the guys on the front lines hadn't caused any major trouble, before arriving in the other world from Earth and starting to handle the matters, big or small, urgent or not, step by step.

There was no war!

However, upon closer inspection, everyone else was reaching out for things.

The lists of raw material requirements in various emails have become ridiculously long and are skyrocketing at an almost savage pace.

Behind this lies the ever-growing mouth of Industrial Cthulhu.

In the past six months, the industrial system in this other world has begun to show results. The mining and smelting technologies for various minerals have matured. For example, the production of refined gold, which used to be measured in kilograms, has now stabilized at several hundred kilograms per month.

Mithril, after being smelted and purified, has a monthly production volume of an astonishing two tons!

The yield of magical minerals such as magic stones varies, with some rich ore deposits yielding hundreds of kilograms per month.

The exploration team found a lot of dense magic stone ore zones in the previous extinct volcano area. If they dig like they're draining a pond, they can definitely get even more.

However, after learning from the locals that as long as enough dragon crystals and the corresponding materials are provided, magic stones can gather and grow on their own, humans no longer carry out thorough sweeping excavations. Instead, they dig in a scattered manner, letting them grow like leeks in a mine, and then dig and harvest them again after ten or twenty years.

In fact, this is the true nature of normal magic stone mining.

In some fantasy novels, once a spirit stone vein is completely mined, it can no longer be mined. That's a huge plot hole.

The real mineral veins should be similar to magic essence stones. As long as the environment is still there, magic essence stones can continue to condense after a period of time. However, the quantity and enrichment level will depend on time.

Recently, geological exploration teams and research teams seem to have been injected with adrenaline.

During this period, they successively discovered several light and heavy rare earth elements that were previously unheard of on Earth.

While these new elements don't possess the all-purpose magical compatibility of adamantite and mithril, the effects of incorporating them into alloys are immediate and remarkable.

Take the already excellent high-temperature alloy as an example. By adding other rare earth elements from other worlds, the performance indicators are directly increased by 30%.

Furthermore, some special alloys, when fused with specific rare earth elements, can produce unimaginably high-temperature resistant metals. With material recombination and appropriate coatings, they can even withstand the direct burning of some high-temperature energy weapons for a short period of time.

This thing has been hailed by materials scientists as "the new dawn of energy weapon armor".

As the research institute's understanding of the new world periodic table deepened, all sorts of strange alloy formulas emerged like dumplings being dropped into a pot, and many new pieces of equipment naturally began to be deployed.

Six months ago, the demand for these new metals from various departments was only in the hundreds of kilograms, and everyone was very frugal in using them.

Now, things have gotten even worse; the units in the application report have been upgraded from kilograms to tons.

When Li Weiguo saw an application from a military-industrial consortium, with the demand for refined gold listed as 10 tons per year, he almost spat out a mouthful of scalding green tea onto the screen.

Ten tons?!

He rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't seeing things.

"These guys are getting more and more greedy! The amount of supplies they're requesting is way too outrageous!"