Paranormal Investigation Notes

Chapter 122 Five Star Dishes

With the constant allocation of various equipment, a microbiological laboratory with comprehensive facilities and cutting-edge technology was quickly set up in the lobby on the first floor of Binhai Building.Under the leadership of two professors Shen Lei and Wang Zhi, many scientists also gathered here.Subsequent experimental work was carried out accordingly.

But as soon as the work started, the experts found that the work was not easy.

At this moment, a scientist took out a total of more than twenty petri dishes from the special incubator.

Theoretically speaking, after this period of special cultivation, there should already be a lot of this new type of bacillus in the petri dish.But after putting it under a microscope for observation, Professor Shen found that what he saw was only a piece of liquid and a few bacteria.

Those miscellaneous bacteria are obviously external pollution.However, none of the new type of bacilli that the side wanted to grow existed.

However, the environment in the incubator and the petri dish is already as close as possible to the background environment inside the Binhai Building.If this new type of bacteria can live well in the Binhai Building, it doesn't make sense that they will all die in the incubator.

"Is there something wrong with the environmental parameters?"

At this moment, he could only place his doubts on this aspect.

Next, he made some fine-tuning of the environmental parameters, and adopted a multi-group comparison method.That is to say, multiple incubators and petri dishes are set up, and the environmental parameters of each incubator are close to the actual environment, and some minor adjustments are made to make different incubators have subtle differences.

With so many incubators and so many different combinations of environmental parameters, even if you try your luck, there will always be one that hits right?It's impossible for all the incubators to die, right?
But something unexpected happened again.

There are 35 incubators and 35 different combinations of environmental parameters, but none of them are suitable for the growth of this new type of bacteria!Subsequent inspections showed that the new bacilli scattered in these 35 incubators were all dead again, and none remained!

This is a bit unreasonable.

"It doesn't make sense...what's the problem?"

At this moment, even well-informed experts couldn't help but fall into confusion.

"Equipment failure? Inaccurate environmental monitoring readings? Electromagnetic interference? Equipment pollution?"

"When you die outside the Binhai Building, you will die. This time, inside the building, you will die? Is it unreasonable?"

Professor Shen Lei didn't believe in evil, but Lu Ming simply transferred the technicians from the manufacturers of various experimental facilities to assist the scientists in checking the equipment, troubleshooting, and troubleshooting possible hidden dangers.

All experimental equipment manufacturers attached great importance to Lu Ming's recruitment in the name of the public security department, and dispatched technical teams led by senior leaders such as chief engineer, chief scientist, and scientific supervisor.A large group of people gathered around the Binhai Building, and checked everything from the smallest details to the site environment, current and voltage, signal interference, etc., from beginning to end.

"Captain Lu, Professor Shen, Professor Wang, you have also seen that our equipment is completely fine."

At this moment, the chief engineer and chief scientists also seemed very helpless: "You see, it is completely normal to do other strain cultivation. We suggest you to look for problems outside the equipment."

A huge technical team comes and goes like the wind.They came in a hurry, and left in a hurry after eliminating their own problems.

Professor Shen Lei was furious.

"No breeding! Just take the original specimen!"

The so-called original specimens are the objects taken directly from the internal environment of Binhai Building.For example, a piece of wall covering, a sticker on the wall, a speck of dust on the ground and so on.Professor Shen took these things directly, put them into the equipment and began to inspect and observe.

This time, he did not disturb the specimens in any way.He just kept observing, recording the changes of the new bacillus over time.

So, he was surprised to see that even so, those new bacilli would still die.

They gradually lost their vitality, moved slower and slower, and finally did not move at all, and then melted into the background environment, as if they had never appeared before.

The only point worth paying attention to is that compared with outside the Binhai Building, the death rate of the bacilli that were taken for observation in the Binhai Building at this moment is much slower.

Specially conducted controlled experiments have shown that within half an hour at most of leaving the Marina Building, all the new bacilli, no matter whether they are in the original specimen or in a petri dish, will die.

But within the Binhai Building, their death rate was stretched to more than two hours.

But the most fundamental problem is still not resolved.

In other words, why did they die as soon as one took them for observation?

You know, they live well in the natural environment inside the Binhai Building.

That's for sure.Professor Shen Lei knows that in the current natural environment, there is absolutely no large-scale death of this new type of bacillus.Because if that happens, the new type of bacillus in Binhai Building would have died out long ago, and they should no longer be observed in the specimens I collected.

Their death is definitely related to their own collection.But the point is, why?
No one can answer this question.

After the result was signed by many experts to endorse its accuracy and authenticity, it was submitted to Lu Ming.Faced with this result, Lu Ming was also full of helplessness.

He did not expect to face such a situation as soon as the experiment started.

Ensuring that the bacilli are alive, growing and forming colonies is the basis for all subsequent experiments.

Only in this way can we confirm their living habits, the interaction mechanism with the external environment, their own functions and other issues.Now, if you can't even pass the most basic level, how can you talk about the follow-up?

After thinking for a while, Lu Ming simply said: "Is it possible to do this? Since it can't be cultivated, then don't cultivate it, just take the bacteria specimens from the natural environment, and start the follow-up research directly while they are still alive."

Professor Shen smiled wryly, "I'm afraid it won't be easy."

"Try it, check as much as you can, and what you can find is nothing."

Faced with Lu Ming's insistence, Professor Shen could only comply.

So the follow-up experiments were carried out under this extremely unprofessional and extremely makeshift situation.

Professor Shen Lei deserves to be a top microbiology expert.Although there are various unfavorable factors and constraints, the research on this new type of bacillus is still slowly beginning to produce results.

"Take the Rs7 test strip."

"It's a dehydrogenase."

"Reagent No. [-], hurry up! This thing is dying!"

"The body structure of this little thing is unexpectedly complicated..."

The whole experiment lasted for two full days.Two days later, the team led by Professor Shen and Professor Wang announced with a little helplessness that work was over.

Due to limited experimental conditions, at this moment, all tests and experiments that can be done have been carried out.Everything that can be discovered has been discovered.If the experimental conditions do not improve, it is basically hopeless to discover anything later.

However, at this moment, our own side doesn't even know what is the reason, what mechanism, what principle caused the death of this new type of bacillus, so how can we improve the experimental conditions?
No matter what, Lu Ming had no choice but to agree to temporarily end the experiment.

"We will input all the data found at this stage into the simulation model, and then use supercomputers to simulate. This will take about a day."

"it is good."

At this moment, it has not been determined whether this new type of bacillus can secrete poisonous toxins and the corrosive substances that caused serious damage to the structure of the Binhai Building.Because their "experimental life" is too short, it is too late, and they cannot be tested in this regard.

Then the only option is to simulate.Input the data of the body structure of this bacillus, various enzymes, various hormones, and various element compositions in the body into the model, simulate it, and try to see if they can really synthesize that compound. .

This simulation is only possible because the molecular formula of the narcotic toxin is known at this moment.Otherwise, the eyes will be smeared, and they will not know which direction to verify, and this kind of simulation will be out of the question.

A day later, Professor Wang Zhi found Lu Ming again.

"The simulation results are out."

He handed a document to Lu Ming.Lu Ming glanced at it, and found that it was full of various inexplicable symbols, which seemed to involve some kind of extremely complicated chemical transformation.

Lu Ming is not a biologist, so he almost doesn't understand it at all.But based on a rough understanding of biochemistry, he also saw at least seventeen kinds of enzymes participating in the catalysis of certain chemical reactions, which have at least dozens of different pathways. question mark.

He turned his attention away from the document, looked at Professor Wang Zhi, and waited for his further explanation.

"Based on the existing data, we can only confirm that this new type of bacillus... theoretically speaking, does have the possibility of synthesizing toxins."

Lu Ming was refreshed, but then he noticed the caution in Professor Wang Zhi's words.

"What do you mean theoretically?"

Wang Zhi spread his hands: "It's like giving you some seasonings and some ingredients, so in theory, you also have the possibility to turn it into a five-star dish."

Lu Ming thought for a moment, then nodded slowly.

All the materials needed for the "five-star dish" of the poisonous toxin are all available in this new type of bacillus.Moreover, during the simulation, Wang Zhi also found a synthetic pathway.

So in theory, this new type of bacillus does have the ability to synthesize toxins.

However, what is going on in reality is still uncertain because there is no definite evidence.

(End of this chapter)