Following Hai Sanchuan's guidance, Chen Chen took a tour around the underground base.
However, to his disappointment, the construction of the underground base was only thirty percent complete in the past four months. It would take at least half a year for it to be completed.
Still, after thinking about it, Chen Chen realized that this was already very fast. The underground pyramid laboratory was built using modular construction. It was built with a large number of disposable stamped steel plates through a spliced steel structure.
The stamped steel plates were made of tungsten steel alloy, a special type of steel with extreme hardness and toughness. It also had high oxidation resistance, corrosion resistance, and high temperature resistance.
It was like building Legos. The entire laboratory was built by the modules.
In fact, this new type of construction method had already sprouted around the world. As early as 2011, the Mainland of China used the modular construction method. It only took a short 12 days to erect a skyscraper hundreds of meters high.
Because the entire building process was like building blocks, the world even called it a building that "rewrote the history of architecture".
The main reason this laboratory was designed in this way was to limit certain accidents that might occur in the future. For example, if a highly destructive creature like "Alien" accidentally escaped the laboratory, causing an irreversible [containment failure] situation.
The advantage of this structure of the laboratory was that it had sufficient strength and toughness. Its seismic resistance was dozens of times stronger than traditional reinforced concrete buildings. Even if the surface was plowed by a nuclear bomb, the underground laboratory seven hundred meters deep would remain unscathed.
Of course, the cost of building this kind of laboratory was extremely expensive.
The base area of the pyramid laboratory was about ten thousand square meters. It was composed of a square bottom with a length of 100 meters and a height of 60 meters. There were a total of nine levels inside. With each level, the area would decrease by a third until it reached the top of the cavern. It was like a huge pillar supporting the entire cavern.
Chen Chen was considering that after the underground facilities were completed, it was necessary to fill the entire underground cavern with concrete. This was the only way to make sure nothing could go wrong.
Still, this would be a waste of the vast underground space.
After visiting the underground for a few hours, Chen Chen finally returned to the surface and returned to the research center.
The first thing he did when he returned to the research center was to see Professor Wang Xi.
At this time, Professor Wang Xi had just finished today's neural stem cell transplant. He was grimacing in pain. When he saw Chen Chen return, he smiled with some pride. "You're back?"
"I'm back." Chen Chen looked at the old professor who was visibly more energetic than before and nodded. "I heard that they've already started the neural stem cell transplant for you?"
"That's right. Otherwise, how am I going to study after losing so many brain cells?" Professor Wang Xi lifted his blanket and tried to sit up.
"Don't move, I'll peel an orange for you."
Chen Chen helped Professor Wang Xi sit up and asked, "By the way, how did they perform the neural stem cell transplant on you?"
"Lumbar puncture, subarachnoid injection transplantation, plus intravenous injection transplantation …"
Professor Wang Xi waved his hand helplessly and gestured for Chen Chen to sit down. "I heard that they wanted to perform a ventricular puncture on me, but they were worried that I'm too old, so they changed it to a spinal puncture."
Chen Chen sat on a chair and peeled an orange for Professor Wang Xi. "Indeed, lumbar puncture transplantation can allow stem cells to circulate through the cerebrospinal fluid into the brain. There's less trauma and it's the most suitable transplantation method for you. However, it needs to pass through the blood-brain barrier and the loss of stem cells is greater..."
However, Professor Wang Xi seemed to have thought of something. He took out a stack of documents from the bedside and looked at Chen Chen with a strange expression. "Little Chen, let me ask you something. You have to answer me honestly."
"You have questions about the effects of neural stem cell induction?" Chen Chen did not wait for Professor Wang Xi to ask. He immediately knew what Professor Wang Xi wanted to ask.
"As long as you know."
Professor Wang Xi said solemnly, "I know the founder of induced pluripotent stem cells, Shinya Yamanaka, too well. Although his iPS technology won the Nobel Prize ten years ago, at our level, who doesn't know the flaws of iPS technology? The neural stem cells induced by it won't have the same effect as what I have now. "
As he said this, Professor Wang Xi flipped through the documents. "Also, when I first looked through the documents, I felt that something was off. I can understand the other parts of this document, but when it comes to neural stem cell induction, I can't understand it. Don't take me for an old fool."
Chen Chen nodded when he heard this. He was not surprised at all. If he could not figure out the problem after such a long time, he would not be Professor Wang Xi.
"It's true that I can't hide it from you. The neural stem cells induced by iPS technology weren't used for you, but the neural stem cells extracted from your cloned embryo."
"I knew it." Professor Wang Xi sighed, finally showing a relieved expression.
After a while, the expected criticism did not come. Chen Chen could not help but ask, "Aren't you going to scold me?"
"Why would I scold you?"
However, Professor Wang Xi was furious. "Do I look like such a pedantic person to you? You're here putting in so much effort to treat me, but I'm here to scold you because of a cloned embryo? Am I such a bastard in your eyes? The reason I'm asking this is because I'm afraid that you've secretly used some unreliable method to kill me! "
"You're right!" Chen Chen quickly smiled and nodded. "Indeed, everyone knows that you're not that kind of person!"
After flattering Professor Wang Xi a few more times, Chen Chen turned around and left.
After Chen Chen left Professor Wang Xi's ward, the smile on his face faded away and was replaced with a calm expression.
In his hand, there was a bottle of medicine that glowed with a blue light.
AD-001。
This was the medicine Chen Chen extracted from the movie he had invested in.
As long as he gave this medicine to Hannibal and the others, they could quickly determine the effects of the medicine. After confirming that this medicine was harmless to humans and could cure Alzheimer's disease, they could have someone analyze the ingredients and come up with a way to reverse engineer it.
Even if they could not reverse engineer it for the time being, it did not matter. Nowadays, the USB drive was gaining energy at a rapid rate. As long as AD-001 was not released to the public, it was still possible to supply it to a few people.
After two or three years, they could slowly come up with a way to mass-produce it.
In truth, reverse engineering NZT-48 was a wiser decision. It might even allow Chen Chen to have a team of top scientists comparable to Einstein and Niels Bohr.
However, the reason Chen Chen did not organize people to study NZT-48 was because he knew how terrifying this medicine was.
It would be fine if a stranger obtained an NZT-48 pill. However, if it was someone close to Chen Chen who obtained an NZT-48 pill, it meant that all of Chen Chen's secrets could be exposed.
The power of NZT-48 was too astounding. If someone obtained an NZT-48 pill from Chen Chen, they could instantly deduce what this medicine was based on the movie and immediately understand how an ordinary university student like Chen Chen could undergo such a drastic change in such a short period of time. Then, they could deduce why Chen Chen needed such a large amount of electricity and even deduce the existence of the USB drive...
Therefore, Chen Chen could not allow the complete NZT-48 to fall into the hands of anyone.
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