Defeating Magic Chapter 57: Scientific experiments are interesting.

Chapter 57: Scientific experiments are interesting.

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Mimosa

The parts cut off from those two mystics have been kept in frozen conditions for some time, and they did not expect that when they were re-thawed and activated, their cells would maintain a fairly high-level of activity. Under such existing conditions, it was too late to study the principle of maintaining their activity, but it was still possible to try to simply replicate such cells for culture and production on a large scale.

This was not a difficult process.

Zhou Yan wondered if the extraordinarily long lifespan of these cells was also related to the fact that they were exceptionally active and seemed to be able to divide and turnover constantly without dividing indefinitely. This was amazing.

Zhou Yan was observing these newly grown cells under the microscope, and they emitted a faint blue fluorescence in the lens, which was different from ordinary cells at first glance.

Of course, they were also different from artificially stained cells, which was amazing to say the least.

Luo Futu pushed in with a black bag and threw the bag in front of Zhou Yan with an expression of disgust on his face.

Zhou Yan subconsciously raised his eyebrows and untied the bag to look inside, “There’s a lot, High Priest is really great.”

Luo Futu did not succeed in smoothing his hair with this compliment, and sat down on a side chair, “If you can, I hope you will give this kind of work to the cat next time.”

Zhou Yan froze for a moment after hearing this, and then looked at the contents of the bag – he had given Luo Futu a task to catch a few rats and use them as experimental subjects. Zhou Yan was speechless, “Why are they all crushed to death, I want them alive, unharmed and healthy.”

Luo Futu recalled a little, “But most of the rats after your experiments have to be dissected, so why care whether they are healthy or not at the beginning?”

“The purpose of the rats is to verify whether a factor will have an effect on its health in the process of use. If I use a rat that already has health problems, how can I verify that if it dies, the cause of death will be counted on the experimental factor or on the factor of his own injury?”

Luo Futu suddenly smiled, “Why bother, why don’t I go catch two people and give you experiments? This way, the experiment will produce more accurate results.”

Zhou Yan knew he was playing a prank and simply ignored him, continuing to observe the cells under the microscope, while saying, “What nonsense are you talking about? Haven’t you read the code?”

He finished looking up at Luo Futu, “On our side, even the use of small animals for experiments will be opposed, so you must not use the cute kind, to use mice – of course, the cute looking mice also can not be used, we would be scolded.”

Luo Futu couldn’t help but sneer when he heard this, “These guys who like to do nothing should be thrown to Endbringer Swamp for a few days.”

“It’s rare to agree with you…. Come and take a look.”

Zhou Yan stepped aside and gestured to Luo Futu to look at his microscope, who came over and looked inside the lens like Zhou Yan. There were some twisted cells that were increasing in value, which looked weird and interesting.

“Wow…. it’s like it’s alive.”

Zhou Yan laughed a little and propped one hand on the table while looking over. He fiddled a little with the probe and the cells moved again, “It’s the first time I’ve seen cells that move, it looks dangerous…. I don’t know if I should continue.”

Luo Futu looked back and found Zhou Yan very close to him and couldn’t help but say, “Professor Zhou, do you always tease people like this?”

–Taking the opportunity of doing the experiment….

Zhou Yan glanced at him and pushed Luo Futu away, “Don’t look.”

“I still want to be teased by you, professor.”

“Go catch your mouse.”

Luo Futu saw that Zhou Yan no longer paid attention to him, so he did as he was told – catching small animals was not a difficult task for him, and if it was just to catch animals for experiments, he was willing to catch some that looked relatively clean or looked cute. For example, carrier pigeons.

“It has to be ordinary mice, not the ones with magic, can’t make a comparison.”

“….” Luo Futu slightly raised his eyebrows – well, there are cute looking critters without spiritual power.

“Would you be unable to lay your hands on a cute little animal?”

“Hmm?” Luo Futu just asked the question and felt that he was asking for nothing as Zhou Yan could even lay hands on people, so how could he not lay hands on small animals?

The second time, Luo Futu caught a litter of rabbits, two of which were just born. They were white and soft, and very cute. Luo Futu grabbed one of them and handed it to Zhou Yan, “How about this one? It looks very vigorous.”

Zhou Yan looked at the rabbit for a while and shook his head, “These can’t be used, they are not physically fit.”

Luo Futu stared at him as if he didn’t believe him and asked again, “Really?”

“Yes.”

“It’s not because you saw the bunny and thought of the omega?”

“….” Zhou Yan paused for a second and snatched the rabbit out of his hand, “Nuts! Don’t be unreasonable.”

Luo Futu reacted very quickly and pressed Zhou Yan’s shoulder, his voice gradually became scary, “Am I being unreasonable or are you being vain? Don’t forget that I can feel it.” He pulled Zhou Yan into his arms and wrapped his arms around him, “Let me help you catch a mouse and a rabbit, but you still have another rabbit in your heart, do you think you can afford me?”

Luo Futu suddenly opened his hand and wrapped it around his palm, taking Zhou Yan along with him to hold the white rabbit. His eyes glowed green and he said without question, “Let’s use this one.”

Luo Futu’s image at this moment was like a big wolf with bad intentions, and Zhou Yan felt that his nostrils were about to emit white gas. He looked at Luo Futu with a blank expression, who did not give him any face and looked like he wanted to pull him to “stick” again.

Zhou Yan gave in, “…. You should read me less in the future.”

“I’m not honest enough to read you, and you’re even more dishonest if I don’t.”

Zhou Yan reduced the number of cultivated cells in the same proportion as human beings and implanted them in the back of the rabbits’ necks. One rabbit died because it did not want to live in the cage and kept hitting the cage, so it killed itself. It was better to use experimental animals from a young age.

Zhou Yan was surprised by this result and tried to feed them with crocus flowers, but the rabbits did not respond to crocus flowers either. There was no way to tell whether these rabbits had produced mystic-like changes or not, let alone knowing whether his experiment was a success or a failure.

Luo Futu saw him squatting on the ground sighing at the rabbits and asked, “Aren’t they alive and well, why are they so unhappy?”

Zhou Yan shook his head, “Living is not the meaning of their existence, they failed to prove my conjecture is correct.”

“Listen, what a cruel man, so soon to change his face.”

Zhou Yan ignored him and sighed deeply again, “I’m annoyed, I’m not in the mood to fight with you.”

Luo Futu saw that he was indeed troubled, so he squatted down beside Zhou Yan, “Then why don’t you just try to see if they can get A1 to start up, if they can, it means the experiment is successful, if not, give up before it’s too late.”

Zhou Yan looked at Luo Futu suspiciously. The latter smiled gently and reached into the cage to grab a small white rabbit, “Have you ever tried to make a rabbit a pilot?”

Zhou Yan stared at him for a moment and then raised his hands to applaud Luo Futu, “Bold hypothesis, careful proof, High Priest, you are a bit of a scientist.”

It would have been better if he hadn’t said this with a blank face, it would have seemed more sincere.

Luo Futu spread his hands, “What else can you do?”

No, indeed…. He had to say, Luo Futu’s idea seems absurd, but it was the most direct way to verify.

Zhou Yan didn’t have much hope, because all the mecha, including A1, had connection columns for humans, so he didn’t know if it would work if he suddenly put it on a rabbit. He carried several rabbits to the mecha seat, turned on the power switch, and waited for a miracle to happen. Since several rabbits were too small, they did not enter the detection range of the mecha, and they bounced around on the seat, but still could not connect to the mecha.

While Zhou Yan was about to lose his patience, Luo Futu was one step ahead of him, grabbing a rabbit and placing it on the synaptic head of the back of the seat, and several other rabbits were also placed on top of the other synapses as if they were plugs.

…. This was too simple and crude!

Zhou Yan was about to dissuade him when the A1 under his feet suddenly shifted heavily and then stopped with a long “squeak-ga” sound. Zhou Yan looked at Luo Futu in amazement as the rabbits he had stuffed into the synapses on the seat seemed to be sucked dry, turning into straight corpses that snapped and fell.

“….”

The scene was horrifying, and if people who were against animal experiments saw it, Zhou Yan might be jointly asked by them to be executed.

Luo Futu stared at the few corpses on the seats, “It’s so weak….”

“How can you talk like that? These little things have just added to the experimental data, come, join me in thanking these rabbits.”

Luo Futu saw Zhou Yan put his hands together and worshiped at his seat, only to find it amusing, “What do you mean, you have a thought?”

“Hmm.”

Zhou Yan chewed on the pen cap and pulled it off, taking out a small notebook to write and draw, ‘This experiment is not 100% successful, but it can already explain the problem, if the rabbits are still ordinary rabbits, the A1 will not respond at all, it was really activated just now, and the short time to run out of energy may be related to the size of the rabbits being too small. Related.’

“At least it can prove that the cells I implanted in them are not digested or invalidated, if that is the case, there is no way to find the direction of research.”

There is still value in continuing the research now.

“I just don’t know what happens when you put it on a human…. If those cells establish a link between mecha and ordinary people, but can’t stabilize the output, or even burn human lives, then it’s not a success.”

Luo Futu said with interest, “It’s fun to experiment, so let’s try to catch someone next. Stop saying it’s illegal, our experiment is to save more people.”

“…. I think we should consider implanting the McMahon Treaty in your head.”

Luo Futu knew about the McMahon Treaty, which was not far from his initial guess, it was a time bomb-like clause that was planted inside Zhou Yan’s head, and once he developed sociopathic tendencies, the thing would activate.

“My hands have long been stained with blood, so I don’t have to.”

Zhou Yan gave him a painful look, “That’s different, if you want to kill someone for science or an experiment, it’s my responsibility as the one who brought you in.”

Luo Futu nudged his jaw, as if teasing a child, “Are you worried about me, or are you worried about being responsible?”

“I’m worried about being responsible.”

“…. Hey.”

Zhou Yan finally couldn’t help himself, and let out “pfft” out loud. He then pushed Luo Futu down, “Go find me a bigger animal, a pig or a sheep, about the same size as a human can be, try again.”

“What about the rabbit carcass? Bury it?”

Zhou Yan shook his head, “For safety’s sake, let’s incinerate them. I’m not sure what kind of chemical reactions will occur in their bodies, and burying them at random might become a breeding ground for some super germs. Too bad there isn’t much time for me to study it now, otherwise this could be a topic.”

Luo Futu did not understand what Zhou Yan was excited about, but only listened to him. He looked at him with a smile, raised his hand and snapped his fingers. Several dead rabbits on the seats just hovered and flew up, all the time flying out of the mecha cabin while burning, as if by ghost fire.

–Spiritual power could be very useful.

Zhou Yan sat down in the pilot’s seat of the mecha, and at that moment, a piercing alarm suddenly sounded overhead. Zhou Yan was slightly stunned, hurriedly sat upright and immediately started the mecha, “Let’s postpone this for a while.”

Luo Futu was a little confused, “What was that just now?”

“I made a sensor to put on the mecha when I was free, and it will alarm when it senses Lurian.” Zhou Yan finished, and the A1 underneath moved, “The monitoring range is limited…. If the alarm goes off, it proves that the place where Lurian appears is not far from us. In Kohl Town…. The people here are incapable of fighting back, I’m going to check it out.”

He said while driving the mecha and rushed out. Luo Futu sat in the passenger seat and just stared at Zhou Yan.

“…. What are you staring at me for?”

Luo Futu hooked his lips, “Of course I’m staring at you, in case you go out to save another omega or two, what can I do?”

“Senseless.”

–It was not senseless.

At this moment, Luo Futu also had to admit, even if Zhou Yan was an omega, he was still very handsome.