Because the Experimental's mouth was already tied up, it did not manage to bite it.
The assistant was startled and quickly withdrew his hand with a look of lingering fear.
"I told you to be careful." Li Lei frowned. "We don't have any antidote serum with us!"
"I'm very sorry, Mr. Team Leader." The assistant quickly apologized.
At this moment, the heart of the Experimental, who had lost all signs of life, suddenly started beating again. Not only that, but his face had also turned extremely pale. His pupils were dilated, and he no longer reacted to light. He only bared his teeth and drooled as he kept roaring at the people around him.
Like a wild beast infected with rabies.
"How is this possible..."
At this moment, the assistant looked at the brain wave meter and suddenly exclaimed, "The subject's brain waves had completely disappeared just now, but they're starting to recover now!"
On the meter, the subject's brain waves began to rise from the original straight line, but they did not return to the state of a normal person. Instead, there was a weak brain current, equivalent to a deep sleep state in humans.
"The subject's heart rate is maintained at 20 beats per minute!" Another assistant said.
"It seems that the virus has reactivated the subject, putting him in a state of extremely low energy consumption."
Li Lei complained, "So, the so-called zombies are humans in a state of perpetual sleepwalking with low energy consumption?"
After a series of tests, an experiment report soon appeared in Chen Chen's hands.
On the other side, Hannibal had also completed his experiment.
The final experiment result was that macaques and chimpanzees could also be infected with the virus, but after being infected with the virus, they would only die and would not become animal-version zombies.
Birds and felines could not become zombies. Only canines could become canine zombies after being infected with the virus.
Hannibal even conducted another experiment. He first found the corpse of a wolfhound that had been dead for several hours and injected the virus into the corpse.
As expected, the wolfhound was resurrected as well.
"I don't quite understand."
Hannibal handed the obtained experiment data to Chen Chen. "According to the conclusion of the experiment, the T-virus is likely to have the ability to reactivate dead brain cells, but doesn't this violate the common sense of nature?"
"Indeed, this already defies common sense."
Li Lei also chimed in. "I've seen a living person turn into a zombie, but can a corpse that has been dead for several hours be turned as well? Doesn't this mean that the T-virus has the ability to reactivate dead brain cells? But how is this possible... "
"Actually, this is not against common sense."
Chen Chen flipped through the information in his hand and explained slowly, "There's a paper in the journal Nature that describes a similar situation."
Taken aback, the two of them turned to look at Zhang Xuan in disbelief.
"I think it was an article in April of '19,' titled 'Restoration.'
Post-mortem … "
"The content of the paper is: Professor Nenad, a neuroscientist at Yale University, created a device called the extracorporeal pulse perfusion system, abbreviated as BrainEx. This is an extracorporeal artificial circulation machine similar to a dialysis machine, consisting of a pump, a heater, and a filter."
"In order to test the function of this machine, Professor Nenad went to the slaughterhouse and picked up 32 pig heads. These pig heads had been slaughtered for more than four hours, but Professor Nenad didn't mind and brought them back to the laboratory."
Chen Chen continued. "After bringing these pig heads back to the lab, he extracted the brains from the skulls and connected them to the BrainEx system. Through this device, special artificial blood was pumped into the pig brains to deliver nutrients and oxygen to the brain cells. The entire perfusion process took six hours."
"What was the result?" Both of them asked.
"The result was astonishing. Some of the brain cells in the pig brains were 'resurrected'. The neurons in the pig brains showed spontaneous synaptic activity. Some of the brain cells restarted their metabolic functions and even the immune system continued to function."
Chen Chen spread his hands. "The general medical community believes that a lack of oxygen for more than four minutes will cause a large number of brain cells to proliferate and that the brain will die completely after ten minutes. However, this experiment proves that brains that have been dead for four hours can still be revived."
"Of course, this has nothing to do with 'resurrection'."
Chen Chen thought for a moment and added, "This phenomenon only proves that brain tissues survive longer after death than we thought. We may have underestimated the brain's ability to recover. In reality, through certain technological means, dead brain cells can be reactivated."
"In that case, did the brains of these pigs show any brainwaves?" Hannibal asked.
"No, this experiment ended after only six hours."
Chen Chen shook his head. "During the experiment, the brains of the pigs didn't show any high-level neural electrical signals related to consciousness. This means that even if the brains of these pigs are revived, they're just vegetative pigs without consciousness."
"Perhaps this professor can try to use electric shocks to reactivate brain consciousness." Li Lei suggested with some anticipation.
"Perhaps he's already done this in secret, but he can't publicize it."
Chen Chen sneered. "Because just the publication of this experiment paper alone has been met with opposition from many people. Some people are already worried that this experiment will lead to moral problems. Others are worried that this experiment will make organ donation difficult. This is because the donors usually donate their organs after brain death. If brain death is reversible, no one will be willing to donate their organs, and so on."
"Sometimes, I really want to give these ethical freaks a good beating."
Li Lei said helplessly, "Mr. Chen, I understand what you're saying. The T-virus can't actually resurrect the dead. The reason it can resurrect a corpse that has just died is that the brain cells of the corpse haven't completely died. The T-virus is like the BrainEx system, it has the ability to revive a portion of the brain cells."
"Yes, but this also proves the miraculous power of the T-virus."
Hannibal concluded. "The BrainEx system also requires the brain to be removed from the skull before it can be perfused. However, the T-virus can directly pull dying brain cells back from the brink of death. If used well, this virus may have the potential to treat brain damage and brain death..."
"If the toxicity of the virus can be removed, it may have such a potential."
Chen Chen nodded when he heard this. "The true potential of the T-virus lies in the military. Creating zombies is only a side effect. The true function of the T-virus is to allow the host to undergo genetic recombination..."
With that, Chen Chen suddenly got up, took out a marker pen, and wrote three letters on the whiteboard behind him —
.W。
"This is the true function of the T-virus."
Chen Chen said, "Through genetic recombination, it can create extremely lethal 'biological organic weapons'..."
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