Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1523 Medical Advice
"Ah, thank goodness you're here. I felt like I could hardly hold it back this morning." After getting up in the morning, Yanqiu was in a very bad condition.

Shangluo, who was making breakfast, turned around and asked, "Does it hurt?"

"I feel my face starting to go numb." Yanqiu covered her face, "I feel like once this medicine is finished, I'm afraid there will be severe pain."

"How many drops are left?"

"There are probably two or three more drops. But it feels like the further you go in, the shorter the time it will take to be effective."

Phaethon sat on the other side of the table: "Will this small dose of medication develop drug resistance?"

"Ah???" Yan Qiu was shocked, "What should I do then?"

"It's okay. Don't worry." Shangluo waved his hand. "The worst that can happen is a tooth extraction. For dental problems, the worst that can happen is a tooth extraction."

This is indeed the ultimate solution. After the tooth is extracted, the wound is completely exposed, and it becomes convenient to clean the wound. Although teeth cannot repair themselves, the gums have a very strong self-repair ability. It won't take many days for her to return to her original state.

"No! I-I can't have my teeth pulled out. It will change the shape of my face."

Yanqiu’s demands are very realistic.

"Your request is very realistic. In fact, I have also been thinking about a question - if my celestial body loses a tooth, can it be repaired by itself? After all, teeth are hard, and they are not something that can grow by themselves. When humans are born, they are born with two sets of teeth. After the deciduous teeth fall out, the permanent teeth will move down to replace the deciduous teeth. If a tooth can appear out of thin air, it means that a new tooth structure has grown in the gums, creating something out of nothing."

That's really amazing. If teeth can grow, then it's possible for other things to grow as well.

"You're not going to pull out my teeth for experiments?"

"I don't want to experiment on everything and you're not a god. If you need to extract a tooth, extract my tooth. Anyway, your inflammation has eased for now, so you should be able to go for treatment today."

"Why do I think you're still a little excited?"

"Have it?"

"Of course. I see you're always smiling."

[As expected, after getting sick, you become very sensitive in some aspects. Are you really happy? ]

"I am indeed happy that someone can advance the research progress - but I don't mean to be happy just because Yanqiu has a toothache. I don't mean that. Aren't we solving problems while helping those in need?"

This issue has actually made Shangluo think recently.

What we are doing now is to prepare ourselves both internally and externally. Externally, we are preparing to completely wipe out the last resistance forces on this earth.

Internally, it was to ensure that order was maintained in Heaven after the ascension - this goal was now clearly defined as allowing Shangluo and others to be promoted to the Golden Core stage as quickly as possible, and ensuring that as many Jinyiwei as possible were promoted to the level of Heavenly Beings.

Because the gap between the foundation-building stage and the Qi training stage is similar to the gap between the Qi training stage and ordinary people, so as long as everyone's cultivation is improved by one level according to the current ratio, it will generally remain the same as before.

"So. Shangluo." Yanqiu suddenly stood up. She walked behind Shangluo, hugged his arm and shook it hard like a chestnut on a tree. "What should I do if I really need to have my tooth extracted?"

"Hmm," Shangluo pressed his forehead, "I was just thinking about how to deal with these new situations. But if it's for aesthetic reasons, can you also remove the symmetrical teeth?"

"Huh? Wuwuwu~~How can you be so cruel? Why did you pull out my intact teeth?"

"Ah, this. I think it's quite normal."

"Shangluo, you are too open-minded. How can you be so unrestrained?"

"Eh??? Why?"

"My body and hair are given by my parents. How can I pull out a healthy tooth?"

【Look, you made her cry. 】

"Oh, I really don't know. I really didn't realize this."

Although the Ming Dynasty here is a fully industrialized and modernized country, some places occasionally still maintain quite traditional ethical concepts. However, this ethical concept is sometimes not obvious, and for Shangluo, it is like a landmine that you will occasionally step on.

If a tooth is damaged, it is extracted, which is a medical method. However, if you extract the damaged tooth and then extract the healthy tooth opposite, it means you are discarding the tooth inherited from your parents for the sake of aesthetics.

In fact, everyone on this land thinks this way to some extent. But the specific part of what is considered "received from parents cannot be abandoned" has been different from ancient times to the present.

Shangluo is of course the same, but his understanding of the "inherited from parents" part is more introverted. For example, he thinks that limbs and internal organs are the parts inherited from parents and cannot be discarded at will.

In more ancient times, hair was also not disposable.

The current Ming Dynasty is stuck in the middle of the two - in principle, hair cannot be discarded casually, but there is also a custom of cutting children's hair. So as long as you feel that you are still a child, you can keep trimming your hair. And on the military side, soldiers also have a bun, but they usually don't grow it too high, because if it is too high, it can't fit into the helmet, so soldiers will keep it at a specific length.

So like many problems, there is a compromise: as long as you consider yourself a soldier, or consider yourself a child, you can cut your hair however you want.

But from a social perspective, if you don't have a military background and cut your hair casually, it will be seen as childish.

Shangluo was just observing this subtle difference.

But the teeth. The teeth now touched his blind spot, because the teeth were in his mouth. He was not aware of it until he encountered it.

"I'm really sorry. If you want to cry, just cry. I'll give it to you. Wait, you're not crying?"

"Wuwaaaa~~" Yanqiu covered her eyes, "You said something hurtful to me, I want you to compensate me~~ I want you to study how to implant teeth."

"Ah?" Shangluo was stunned for a moment, "What dental implants?"

"Ahem." Yanqiu stopped pretending. "Crying was just a joke. If I pretend to cry, I won't be able to shed tears. There's nothing I can do about it. But I do want you to do me a favor, because if the tooth has to be extracted, it will be really difficult for me. So, can you implant a tooth in my body?"

"What do you want?"

Shangluo knew the term "dental implant". But Shangluo also knew that his understanding of dental implant was definitely different from what Yanqiu was talking about.

The dental technology in his "hometown" is much more advanced than here, but [tooth regeneration] is still an unstable cutting-edge technology. The more common method is to implant an artificial titanium tooth root. You need to first drive a threaded tooth root into the alveolar bone, and then embed the all-ceramic crown onto the artificial tooth root. This is called "implanting" teeth.

"Let me confirm with you first. Although I know that's probably not what you're talking about, does the dental implant you want involve driving a stake in and then twisting the tooth in?"

"Ahhh???" Yan Qiu was really scared, "This is too scary! I mean, bury a seed in there and then plant a tooth or something..."

"That's the problem. How do we make this seed?"

"Please help me, think of a solution, you are the best, right?" Her eyes were full of stars. Although she didn't pretend to cry just now, she did not hide her trust in Shangluo.

"Okay. Let me think of a solution. Actually, this is a good idea."

In theory, there are some standards for the state of celestial beings - such as being able to control one's sleep, or rejuvenating oneself, etc. But in the final analysis, this is the result of improving the ability to control the body, which is generated from the inside out.

But from another perspective, it is not impossible to modify it from the outside. For example, if you want to control your sleep like a god, you can actually achieve a similar effect by strengthening specific glands in the brain. Because humans have a biological clock, and human sleep has deep sleep and light sleep, which is the product of human evolution.

Evolution is not evolution. Not all evolution is necessarily the "best", and evolution is not necessarily based on one's own species. For example, many defects and bugs in humans come from mammalian ancestors and even chordate ancestors. For example, the optic nerve cells and photoreceptor cells in human eyes are installed in reverse, and the photosensitive part can only see light through the nerve. Another example is that the recurrent laryngeal nerve is connected to the wrong wire.

There are also some problems that are characteristics that seem incompatible with the human species, especially the living conditions of modern people.

For example, the depth of sleep is to enable us to react in time when we encounter danger. The current history of human civilization is not enough for humans to evolve this shallow sleep state.

Another example is impacted wisdom teeth - the human jaw was not so short even 1 years ago. After humans started eating cooked food, their teeth wore out more slowly, causing the spare tooth to become the culprit of many oral problems, easily damaging the molars and causing both teeth to be scrapped together.

The survey shows that although there is no way to solve ancient problems such as the recurrent laryngeal nerve, dental problems are indeed slowly evolving. For example, the proportion of missing wisdom teeth and wisdom teeth that do not erupt is slowly increasing among humans.

This process is extremely slow and not steady. However, this is a problem of human internal evolution and can be accelerated through some means.

"For example, you want me to give you a tooth that can grow on its own?"

"Stop, stop, stop growing those un-mouse incisors. Let's be precise. I want teeth that can repair themselves."

"Hmm," Shangluo looked Yanqiu up and down, "In fact, if we can generate a tooth, it would be amazing. Because if we can generate teeth, we can actually generate something else."

"Eh? There are bonuses? For example?"

"For example, Yanqiu, what parts of your body would you like to be enhanced in?"

"That's too much! I hope I can sleep whenever I want like you, preferably only four hours a day. Also, my job requires me to stand all the time, and standing up makes my waist very tired and sore."

The mismatch between upright walking and the body is also a problem of human beings. This leads to some comprehensive reactions, not just waist problems.

Because apart from the waist, the most troubling thing here is actually the anus.
"So Yanqiu, do you have any?"

"No! Absolutely not!"

"How do you know there isn't one when I haven't even asked you?"

"Because I know what you're asking from the way you ask it. No, I will stand after sitting for two hours, and sit after standing for two hours, so there's no problem."

"But there are still other people besides you, right?"

"Yeah," Yanqiu nodded, "In our industry, the incidence rate seems to be quite high. Because we are either standing or sitting all the time."

"In that case, we can come up with a plan to solve all these problems at once."

Mortals are perfect, but it is not difficult to make them perfect. Many problems are just a small deviation in evolution, and only a few small changes can greatly improve the overall living conditions of human beings.

At the same time, the body and hair are given by parents and cannot be abandoned - according to this principle, humans must also remain pure in the process of evolution. Neither can we drastically change the basic physiological structure of humans, nor can we universally implant mechanical prostheses, because both will change humans' cognition of themselves.

The potential of the human species has not yet been fully developed, but with the help of Reiki, humans can get closer to perfection than ever before.

This is a compromise method - it can even be said to be an alternative plan. Instead of letting spiritual energy transform humans, it is better to let humans control their own evolutionary direction. Moreover, whether it is a mortal, a Qi training stage, or a foundation building stage, this plan should be universally adaptable and can be enhanced according to their own conditions. Only in this way can it be perfect enough.

So where can we get such a perfect solution?

"What? You ask me?" In the basement of the Sky Prison, in Otohime's cell.

Although the matter has been resolved, Otohime's sentence has not yet ended. She has also accepted the defeat and will just stay here until she is released. Anyway, the sky prison has a unique flavor. At least the food here is not bad.

But Shangluo's arrival surprised her a little.

"Yes, I want to ask, does the Dragon Palace have any special technology that can transform the body?"

"So why did you think of asking me?"

"Because you guys in the Dragon Palace always come up with weird things - and there are only three technology systems in this world. Ours, Rome's, and yours. When neither we nor Rome have any, I want to find some solutions from you."

"Dragons are good at change and editing information. The expression of biological characteristics is ultimately a form of information. So if you need change, then there must be change. But to what extent do you need to achieve it?"

“To make humanity perfect without affecting the definition of humanity.”

"Ah~~" Otohime nodded, "That's true. You know, I'm in human form now. But human evolution is full of mistakes and omissions, so we fixed all these small problems when we transformed. If you count carefully, there are a total of 42 steps. We call it 'the 42 transformation operations of a perfect mortal'."

"Is there any way to fix the teeth?"

"Of course, it can be done through [Regeneration of Teeth]. Please reduce my sentence! I will help you with the plan."

"Thank you. I'll go find your father."

"Hey, hey, hey! Don't go! Don't go! You have to pay me for the consultation! It's not reasonable for you to do this! Come back!"

(End of this chapter)