Magic world

Seeing this, Kyuubi didn't waste any time and slashed with his sword, knocking off the ghost girl's palm that was stained with a small amount of black substance.

The ghost girl didn't react at all to this. She just recirculated the ghost energy after she was released, and then completed the palm in the wriggling movement of the faint black mist, as if everything that happened before was an illusion.

However, the chopped off palm was once again dispersed into a faint black mist, and burned into nothingness by the flames in the pavilion that were clearly burning, but did not burn away any material of the pavilion.

"It's so contagious." Kyuubi said to himself with a gloomy expression as he looked at the black substance left in his hand.

Then he closed his eyes and began to meditate without knowing what he was thinking.

For a moment, there was no sound except for the sound of the blazing flames in the living room.

At the same time, in Akiruno City, in the house behind the shrine, a pleasant phone ring rang. Ito Cheng turned his palm, and the phone automatically appeared in his palm. He lowered his head and looked at the caller number displayed on the phone's LCD screen.

"090-*****"

Ito Cheng, who knew who the number on the caller ID represented, smiled lightly, pressed the answer button, and put the phone to his ear.

"Why do you have time to call me?" Ito Cheng said with a joking tone in his tone.

"Okay, I was bitten." The familiar voice of Masami Nagasawa came from the phone. It's just that compared with the previous voice that was full of lightness and cheerfulness, the voice at this time is as low as possible and as depressed as possible.

Obviously. For a well-known person like her, there are many ways to know about the situation of the new disease. What's more, there has been no news control on this matter since the outbreak. It is only treated as a common epidemic infectious disease and is reported to the whole country. Naturally, it is understandable that it will be reported to the whole country. What happens after you bite. In addition, during the spread of the disease, Ito Cheng called her and Kuraki Mai again and asked them to pay attention. It would be the strangest thing if they didn't know.

"How did you get bitten?" Ito Cheng frowned and asked in a deep voice.

"because……"

Subsequently. Nagasawa Masami on the phone told how she was bitten.

What happened is simple. It was when Nagasawa Masami was participating in the filming of a certain film and television drama that she was unlucky enough to be chased by a bento worker who suddenly fell ill and was her first target. Under normal circumstances, with Nagasawa Masami's current skills, she really wouldn't be like this guy who bites people like a mad dog. But the trouble was that the position she was in at that time was not very good. The timing wasn't quite right either. Coincidentally, there were a lot of staff gathered around, so she was unable to fight back immediately, so she was unlucky to be bitten by that guy.

"Where are you now?" Ito Cheng asked.

"At home. The crew gave me a long vacation." Nagasawa Masami said with a grievance.

Being given a long vacation under such circumstances is no different than preparing to change roles, not to mention that at a time when the filming is obviously going to be completed in more than half a month, it is as depressing as possible.

"I understand. You pack your things now. I will pick you up and then stay here in Akiruno City." Ito Cheng sighed.

"Yes." Masami Nagasawa responded softly.

Then, Ito Cheng cut off the phone call, disappeared, and appeared in the biological laboratory of the Rubik's Cube World.

"How is the development of treatments for new diseases going?" Ito Cheng approached Emma, ​​the main person in charge of the biological laboratory, and asked directly.

"Sir." Emma turned around after hearing the question, greeted Ito Cheng, and then reported, "It has been developed."

"What do you mean?" Ito Cheng raised his eyebrows.

"That's it..." Emma led Ito Cheng to the workbench on one side, started pressing the buttons on the operating table, and called up groups of experimental data on the virtual optical screen in front of her. "Through cloning experiments and supercomputer deductions, we found that this new disease pathogen is similar to a superpower development agent to some extent, except that the superpower development agent is a benign mutation, and the new disease pathogen is a malignant catalyzer. .”

"So in response to this situation, we contacted Babel and conducted secondary research."

As she spoke, Emma slid her palm on the optical screen to switch the information screen to another image.

"At first, we were still developing therapeutic agents, but what is troublesome is that this pathogen has terrible evolutionary capabilities and resistance. If you want to cure it all at once, new types of therapeutic agents will burst out instantly. The substance will extract a large amount of water from the human body, squeezing the vitality of human cells, and turning people into mummies! However, if a progressive treatment method is followed, the pathogen will develop strong drug resistance during the successive treatments, accelerating the treatment. The human body is destroyed and this is the final result.”

The virtual optical screen showed a scene similar to the death of a patient shown to him by Lingmeng, but in terms of image, it was more serious than the patients who died normally in the hospital outside. Because this time the picture displayed on the optical screen could no longer see any trace of meat. Instead, it looked like a fleshy thing, which was extremely disgusting.

"After many failures, we thought, can we use this power in reverse? So we launched a third study."

Emma cooperated and changed the screen, showing the data and experimental screen of the third study.

"And the result is the finished medicine I mentioned before."

"In other words, taking this potion will turn ordinary people into superpowers like taking a super power development potion?" Ito Cheng nodded slightly and asked.

"Yes. But unlike safe super power development potions, this potion is now full of instability, so if you take it directly without the support of someone who has the power to control life like you, sir, the result will be 100% More than 60% may become the kind of meat we saw before." Emma nodded deeply, confirmed, and then continued to tell the dangers it contained.

Ito Cheng nodded, indicating that he understood.

"Besides, even if it is taken successfully, the side effects will still be considerable." Seeing that Ito Cheng understood, Emma continued.

"First of all, there is the issue of vitality. Because during the cataclysmic process, a large number of biological cells will proliferate, divide, die, and be excreted with sweat. Therefore, after the drug takes effect, the life of the user will be greatly reduced. To put it more bluntly, if this person could live to be eighty years old before taking the medicine, then after taking the potion, he is likely to live to be thirty years old, or even less."

"Is there a limit to Hayflick..." Ito Cheng said softly.

"Yes," Emma agreed.

The Hayflick limit is the upper limit of cell division. All cells that reach this limit will immediately die naturally regardless of their previous condition and be excreted from the body along with the metabolism of the body. This is the so-called aging phenomenon. And the upper limit of this limit is fifty times of splitting!

"I remember that there are potions specifically targeted at Hayflick's upper limit in the medicine library." Ito Cheng thought for a while and said.

"Yes, it's called the Immortality Potion. It's Type I, which breaks the upper limit and increases the number of cell divisions, and Type II, which repairs the cell's nucleoplasm and increases the number of cell divisions in disguise without breaking the upper limit."

"But sir, we have not yet conducted experiments on the adaptability of the longevity potion and the recipients, so we have not yet determined whether the two will cause mutation conflicts, so it is not recommended to use them together for the time being." Emma, ​​who probably knows Ito Cheng's plan reminded.

"Well, I understand. Everything is waiting for the result on your side." Ito Cheng smiled.

"In addition to the lifespan reduction problem mentioned before, users who take the drug may also suffer severe psychological and spiritual trauma during the process of awakening their powers. After healing, the symptoms will be crazy, mindless madness, and even Carry out hysterical destruction." Emma nodded and continued.

"But this, I think it shouldn't be a problem for people with adult protection." Then, Emma smiled softly and half-complimented.

Ito Cheng smiled and slapped Emma on the butt when she wasn't paying attention.

"Bang!" A crisp sound echoed in the somewhat quiet laboratory.

Emma's cheeks were slightly red, and she rolled her eyes at Ito Cheng in annoyance.

"In the end, the physical condition of the person taking the medicine will become very unstable, because the pathogen was born from genetic destruction, so even with the influence of the medicine, the genes are only relatively stable. What will happen in the future? It's completely impossible to be sure and we can only conduct further observations." Although her face was slightly red, Emma still finished describing the situation about the potion in a professional manner.

"Then, for those who have just been infected, what do you think is the effect of using the sequential therapeutic agent content?" Ito Cheng thought for a while and asked again.

"Well... I haven't noticed this before. Maybe it can be successfully treated." After hearing this, Emma couldn't help but lower her head and think about it. After a while, she looked up at Ito Cheng and said. Then without waiting for Ito Cheng to speak, he quickly started operating the instruments in front of him, and performed data deductions in the supercomputer through various data in his hands.

"When will the results be expected?" Ito Cheng asked.

"I don't know, I guess it won't take long." Emma replied without looking back.

"Okay, you pay attention here, and notify me as soon as there are results, and I will go out and bring the bitten person over." Ito Cheng decided simply.

"Okay. In addition, when you come here, you can use force to freeze her body. After observation by the experimenters, in an environment of minus forty degrees, the pathogen will reduce its activity and can be used to temporarily suppress it. The virus splits." Just when Ito Cheng was about to leave, Emma suddenly turned her head and reminded.

Ito Cheng nodded and left the Rubik's Cube world. (To be continued...)