Correct use of scientific spells

Listening to the stumbling description of the younger generation in front of him, Xia Youjie finally figured out the identity of the other party.

——Moeka Kiryu, they once met in Hokkaido.

It is said that she is also a member of the Future Science Research Office, but she seldom shows up and does not live with everyone on weekdays. Most of the time, she will maintain the relationship with Senior Yuanshan and the others.

In the Tiannai Lizi incident, the other party made a lot of credit for Lizi's successful escape, and it is not known what channel they used, and finally successfully sent Lizi and Miss Kuroi to Russia.

It sounds normal for the senior to know her very well...

But it makes sense rationally, but it is hard to accept emotionally.There are a total of 12 members of the Future Props Research Institute, of which girls accounted for more than half. Among them, Mayuri, Ms. Kurisu and Phyllis have met him a long time ago. Everyone gets along very well, but none of them seem to be alone with their seniors. Types of jewelry store visits.

Should I ask?

But to ask this out of the blue, it would seem abrupt and offensive...

Ms. Kiryu is good-looking and mature, and it is easy to have a common language in the same club. Apart from being a little reticent on weekdays, she can hardly pick out any shortcomings. For ordinary people's daily life, "Strong strength" "Conjurer" does not seem to be a big plus item.

I feel sick.

The stomach belt and esophagus shuddered.

The curse spirit is so heavy that it makes people want to vomit.

Obviously, he had taken X-rays himself, and from the moment he swallowed his throat, the curse spirit jade disappeared in some unknown place, and it never really entered his stomach.

Xia Youjie went to the infirmary again, took out the medicines he temporarily stored here from the refrigerator, took out a small handful, stuffed them into his mouth and swallowed them, barely suppressing his stomach discomfort.It is indeed a good idea to use drugs to suppress the gag reflex, at least for now he can eat more spells with this method...

—Maybe there could be something better.

Since he could suppress the physiological vomiting reflex, there might be something that would prevent him from tasting the disgusting taste of the curse spirit.

It just so happens that this is also a legitimate reason for chatting.

"senior."

He sent a message to the other party: "Senior, do you know any medicine that makes people lose their sense of taste temporarily?"

"Hey? Why are you asking this all of a sudden?"

Toyama Minato was a little surprised.

"Another conjurer asked me to ask... probably because of the spell."

Xia Youjie's voice was very steady, and he couldn't tell that he was lying at all. If a person has been honing this ability continuously since childhood, then it is normal to be able to distinguish the real from the fake when he is 16 years old.

As expected, Toyama Minato did not suspect him. After all, there are many kinds of spells. He had seen a magician with a keen sense of smell like a canine on the Internet, so he was troubled by the rich smell information around him every day: "Suppress the sense of taste? Loss of taste or dysfunction is often a side effect of some drugs... There are not many cases of taking medicine just for this matter, and there are many kinds of taste receptors. Do you want to suppress a certain kind alone, such as sour taste or bitter taste? ...or all of them?"

Taste buds are updated very quickly, and can be replaced within a week, so Toyama Minato is not too worried about the scene of "it can never be restored after being destroyed".

Xia Youjie pondered for a while: "All of it, I hope it's the kind of effect that you can't taste the taste at all after eating it."

"Well... I don't know much about medicine, but I can consult with acquaintances who are more powerful in this field. I will try my best, but I don't guarantee that it will be [-]% effective."

"It's okay, seniors can help and ask, there is no need to be particularly stressed."

Xia Youjie put his ear on the phone and said softly, "It's not a big deal anyway."

The tongue coating is the taste receptor of human beings. Depending on the type, it can sense four different tastes, sour, sweet, bitter, and salty. Some research results say that humans can feel umami, but his goal is to completely destroy the sense of taste, so it is not yet available. Need to go into too much detail.

Thinking about it carefully, it's been a long time since I had a conversation with Xia You about the curse spirit... Sure enough, after entering the second grade, both the Tokyo Electric Power University and the Conjuration College have become busy.

The maintenance of the forum also accounts for a large proportion of the killing time. In order to maintain the intensity of the big update every two or three weeks, a few of them have not even played the game for a year, and they have completely devoted their energy to the investigation of the curse master. On the other hand, it lost a lot of the pure joy of the initial research.

The ten-year deadline for the destruction of the world is pressing on top of everyone's heads. It seems that from that moment on, everyone can no longer enjoy the process of exploration as heartlessly as in the past.

All actions have a purpose, and they have to save the world, however—it is not yet known which critical moment will have an irreversible impact on the future.

...Just think of it as a vacation for yourself, Yuan Shan thought, and it happened to be able to help Xia Youjie.

He began to improvise some knowledge about taste.

If you simply suppress a certain taste, some don't even need to take medicine.For example, miracle fruit has a special flavor-changing protease, which can inhibit part of the sour and bitter taste receptors after eating. In the industrial field, this substance is also used as a food additive to change the flavor of food, so this protease is also used. Known as a natural odor enhancer.

Miracle fruit is not very common in fruit supermarkets, but Tokyo is an international metropolis, as long as you have money, you can’t buy fruit. Rich for a variety of experiments.

After placing an order online, wait for the courier to come to your door.

Yuanshan Minato decided to try eating miracle fruit first, and then try various taste stimuli after the taste-changing protease takes effect.

After trying it, the effect of the medicine was very good. The lemon juice, which was so sour that it was so sour, became as easy to drink as a drink. Toyama Minato decided to extract this protease and make it as the simplest form drug.

And just like the previous crow experiment, the transmission of taste is similar to vision, and it also has three different states of "signal input", "signal transmission" and "brain interpretation".Miracle fruit extract affects the sensory receptors on the taste buds, that is, affects the taste from the input end, and there may be other ways to block the "signal transmission of taste nerves", so electrical stimulation and some biological agents may be used Stimulating way to achieve taste blocking.

But this is not his specialty, he needs to make a phone call...

On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, Maho Hiyasada was very angry: It's two o'clock in the morning!At such a time, even calling it a harassing phone call is not an exaggeration!

She just fell asleep!

Toyama Minato immediately apologized, and then explained clearly the reason for his late-night phone call. Maho-senpai's anger gradually decreased with his explanation, and after she finished speaking, she basically lost her temper: "Professor Reskinen's side Basically, it’s all research on brain science, and there’s not a lot of data on taste nerves…”

"Can't you do it?"

"That's not to say, are you underestimating me?"

"If it is made and useful, someone should be willing to spend money to buy it. Are you going to try it?"

"There is no shortage of research funds... Yuanshan, if you are short of money, I will tell you how to make it later."

Hiyasada Maho hung up the phone, expressing his intention to make the drug first and then mail it across the country to Japan.

Taste suppression is not unmanned research in the industry, and there are many mature results, but due to various reasons, it has not appeared in the field of vision of ordinary citizens.A certain γ-aminobutyric acid can modulate taste information by inhibiting interneurons [1], and some researchers have done experiments on rats.

Although there is no record of human experiments, Toyama Minato waved his hand and said that anyway, it doesn’t need to be mass-produced to be useful. As long as you don’t tell me, no one knows that this kind of thing is used for human consumption.

Biwuding: "..."

She is also a person who studies the erratic morality, and agreed to the other party's plan after a little hesitation.

It took another half a month to ship by sea, and when everything was in hand, it was already approaching Christmas.During this period, Xia Youjie continued to work overtime, encouraging himself to eat a lot of curse spirits, and felt joy from the bottom of his heart after hearing that Yuan Shancourt really made the medicine.

"...As expected of a senior, even more reliable than Doraemon."

"I'm a little embarrassed, this level of praise."

Yuan Shankou scratched the back of his head, and decided that he could take this opportunity to give the other party the Christmas gift he had bought a long time ago.

The college uniform is really a piece of clothing with some materials. The outrageous thing is that it can be worn all year round, regardless of winter or summer, and it seems to have the effect of keeping it warm in winter and cool in summer.Yuan Shan gathered among the crowd and quickly found a young conjurer who was much taller than others, and waved his hand to greet him.

"Both of these must be stored at low temperature, and the shelf life is very limited. After holding it in the mouth for more than ten seconds, wait for the medicine to take effect before swallowing it."

Yuanshan Minato carried a silver-white metal box and slightly opened it towards him. Inside were neatly stacked ice packs, and in the gaps of the ice packs, a transparent liquid contained in a test tube with a rubber stopper could be seen.

It's winter now, and the outdoor temperature itself is very low. Toyama Minato's main purpose is to prevent the medicine from spoiling when they eat in the store.

"If you drink this, the sense of taste will disappear completely?"

Xia Youjie asked curiously.

"Because I don't know what kind of medicine your magician friend needs, so I made two kinds on my own."

Toyama Minato explained: "This group of red rubber stoppers can temporarily lose the taste of sour and bitter taste. It will take effect after 1 minute of tongue paralysis in the mouth, and the effect lasts for about 15 minutes. The other It can make people lose all sense of taste, and eating anything will be like eating plastic, the duration has not been tested in detail... but it probably won't exceed half an hour."

The main reason is that this kind of biological preparation that requires special preparation is very expensive, and I don’t know if his conjurer friend is willing to pay for it, so Maho Hiyata only made a little trial product, so naturally he can’t use it as a test for him. waste.

... Is this what adults can do with ease?

Xia Youjie took a deep breath.

"...Does senior treat everyone like this?"

"Hey?"

"The matter of the conjurer—after all, to Senior, it's just someone you've never met, right?"

This medicine was made for himself, Xia Youjie knew it well, but when he thought of Miss Ming's cooperation and communication with Mr. Iwata, and saved Xiao Lizi... This time, he did not hesitate to entrust him with the medicine. Commitment down.

He stared at each other with a smile on his face, as if he had made a harmless joke.

"After all, you rarely ask others for anything..."

Yuanshan Minato was a little embarrassed: "And this kind of thing is a one-time use. If it is useful, maybe it can be mass-produced to make money."

"Ha, it's really a senior-style way of saying it."

Minato Toyama did not relax after being eased in this way. He took off his backpack and rummaged in it, and finally found a gift box with a ribbon.

"……cough."

He said, with embarrassment in his voice: "I wanted to give it to you before, but I never found a suitable opportunity. After all, you have saved us so many times... Everyone is very busy recently, and there is no chance to meet each other. As a result, It's been delayed until now."

Should the atmosphere be like this when seniors give gifts to juniors?Minato Yuanshan thought nervously, he felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere, but he couldn't say exactly what was wrong.

Sure enough, it was because Mr. Xia You was too serious, so when he connected the gift, he always had that focused attitude, and even he himself who gave the gift became embarrassed.

"...Can I take it apart and have a look?"

"Yes, yes, but this is the street—"

Yuan Shan talked halfway, observed the other party's expression, and swallowed the second half of the sentence.He watched the other party open the box, revealing the two earbuds. He was surprised at first, and then became dazed.

...It turned out to be like this.

It turned out to be the case.

To show a mature and reliable appearance in front of the elders, he knew this, but the corners of his mouth still raised uncontrollably.

"I also want to prepare presents for my seniors next Christmas."

he announced.

"...Huh? I'm really looking forward to it."

"It's the same in the year after next, and it's also the year after that. Maybe the seniors will get it in ten years."

Yeah?Minato Toyama blinked his eyes - ten years later, this is indeed a more reassuring promise.

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General notes:

[1] Modulation of taste information by GABAergic inhibition in taste area of ​​nuclei of solitary tract. Yang Dongyan, Li Qiang, Yan Jianqun. Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University. 2002

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