Opened a martial arts school, and his eldest disciple Batman

Chapter 157 Scientists
Du Mu returned to the sky above the city.

But it was at this time that he remembered that he didn't seem to have left any contact information with Tom.

Neither of them had each other's phone number...or rather, neither of them had a cell phone.

Tom didn't pray again, and Du Mu found that it actually took some effort for him to find Tom.

But only a little bit.

Because Du Mu only stayed above the city for a few seconds, he captured a lot of information from the city streets below.

Since Du Mu already knew which company was developing the chimpanzee virus when he came here last time, all the conversation information about this company among the crowd was captured by Du Mu.

Within a week, more than eight senior executives of Cossex had disappeared, and the company's branches around the world had suffered serious server damage, causing losses that could be called fatal. The company's stock price almost plummeted overnight.

In modern society, the disappearance of eight people is a very common thing, but if all the senior executives of the same company disappear mysteriously, it will almost attract worldwide attention.

After all, compared with high-risk low-paid workers, the disappearance of rich people in groups is more likely to cause panic among certain groups of people.

Du Mu touched his chin. It seemed that Tom was quite quick in his actions.

But he was a bit too rough and caused such a big mess. Didn’t I tell him to be more low-key?
Du Mu listened a little more and confirmed that the last missing executive was in the company's New York branch, which was quite close.

He simply mobilized the power of the Ark reactor, condensed an electromagnetic mana coil in front of him, and then let out a fighter-like roar, flying from San Francisco to New York at eight times the speed of sound.

But during this process, Du Mu's heart moved slightly and he received a ray of power of faith.

It was Caesar. He was still staying in his own home, but he was afraid of being discovered by his neighbors in the attic every day, and felt a little depressed.

So in addition to trying to learn to read and write, the activity that best calmed him down every day was praying to God.

However, after reading the book, Caesar had many distracting thoughts for no reason, and his image of Du Mu became more and more imaginary, which led to a significant decline in the quality of his faith.

Du Mu didn’t have time to care about the little gorilla’s psychological problems for the time being. It didn’t take him long to arrive in the familiar New York.

The layout of New York is similar to that of Marvel, except that there is an inconspicuous Cossex Corporation and there is no eye-catching Stark Enterprises Building...Oh, and there is no Osborn Building.

Du Mu secretly came to the office building of the Gosses Company, and then he felt that all the employees in the building were in panic.

The only ones who remained calm were the two people in the top floor office.

Or rather, too calm.

Du Mu immediately understood and went straight to the top floor office.

He saw an ordinary white woman, sitting in front of the computer with an expressionless face, typing something non-stop.

The other young man with brown hair was reading a newspaper leisurely, holding a magic wand in his hand.

When Du Mu showed up, Tom stood up instantly, his face full of vigilance, and condensed several magic steel needles around his body with magic power.

Only when he saw clearly that the person coming was Du Mu did Tom breathe a sigh of relief. He bowed slightly and said, "Professor Du Mu."

He laughed at himself in his heart, wondering if he had been with Muggles for too long and had become less courageous and more stupid.

In this world without wizards, the only person who can be invisible and not noticed by himself is Professor Du Mu who came from the martial arts school.

Professor Du Mu looked at the white female executive and asked, as expected, "Did you use the Imperius Curse?"

The Imperius Curse is one of the three Unforgivable Curses. If the Ministry of Magic discovers that it is used on someone, the person will be immediately thrown into Azkaban.

The specific effect is simple and crude "control", completely manipulating another person's body and mind and turning him into a puppet.

Although if this spell is cast on a person too many times, resistance will be generated, thus weakening the power of the spell, but this is meaningless to Muggles, especially when the caster is Voldemort, who has twice his previous mental strength.

Du Mu also observed Tom's mental state, but he didn't find any impact of the Unforgivable Curse on the other party's mind.

However, Tom's current mental strength is far beyond his original heyday. If his mind can be affected by the side effects of the Unforgivable Curse cast just a few times, then I really don't know who the spell is affecting.

Tom sighed, "There's nothing I can do. Muggles are just too stupid. They can't understand the magic they see and find it difficult to see it as a threat... It's difficult for me to communicate with them effectively. If I want to take a more efficient approach, I can only use the Imperius Curse."

Du Mu did not question directly, but asked patiently: "Didn't I tell you not to alert the enemy and to patiently dismantle the gorilla virus? How could you just let eight supervisors disappear and cause such a big commotion?"

Seeing that Du Mu was only concerned about the noise caused by the disappearance of eight supervisors, instead of questioning whether his behavior was ethical, Tom relaxed.

Yes, after all, he is Professor Du Mu, so of course he can distinguish the priorities of things.

"Because those eight people...including the one in front of you, the nine of them are the core managers of the ALZ-112 project."

"Everyone has a historical version of this drug and a backup of the formula. They even have some of the original data in their minds. Just to be on the safe side, I controlled them to destroy all the experimental data and then made them disappear..."

"I did try very hard to avoid causing a widespread commotion. After all, if someone is missing, the Muggle police can only investigate at most, which is different from confirming death."

While they were talking, the white female supervisor also pressed the confirmation button on the keyboard.

Afterwards, all the data that cost hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars were destroyed in the formatting process.

But Du Mu showed a strange expression.

He looked at Tom and asked, "Do you know that it is possible to recover the data even if it is formatted?"

Tom was stunned for a moment, then he immediately recalled it, and finally heaved a sigh of relief and said, "I didn't notice this kind of information before, but fortunately, the Muggles controlled by the Imperius Curse can act completely according to my instructions."

"I was wondering why they would pour water on the server or chop it up with an axe after deleting the data."

Du Mu nodded. If it was physically destroyed directly, it might be better to start the experiment from the beginning to restore it.

However, as he spoke, Tom showed a hint of hesitation.

This hesitation was naturally caught by Du Mu.

"Any questions?"

Du Mu watched the white female supervisor stand up and obviously go to look for the server room.

They didn't need to follow him, Du Mu could sense all the movements in the entire office building from his office.

Tom hesitated again and again, but still asked: "Professor Du Mu, what should I do with the elderly who have already used ALZ-112?"

"Once they stop taking the medication, their brains begin to deteriorate rapidly, with brain tissue being broken down by the active viral infection."

"And after death, these viruses will spread rapidly from their bodies throughout the natural ecology, looking for the next primate host."

Du Mu's expression moved slightly. It was obvious that Tom, who knew nothing about Muggle technology, had actually done an in-depth study of the transmission method of this virus potion in order to complete the task assigned to him.

No wonder... No wonder in the original book, this potion had already worked on Caesar and his grandfather, but it suddenly broke out among humans several years after Caesar led the apes to escape from the city.

It turns out that these viruses will only spread on the corpse after the host dies.

Du Mu looked at Tom and asked curiously, "How do you know such detailed side effects? Even this company itself probably hasn't done any specific research on post-death phenomena."

Tom shook his head. "Because I didn't kill those executives. Instead, I used the Imperius Curse to control them. I conducted research on an old man who had died because he had no money to buy medicine. That was the final result of the experiment."

"Now the brains of those executives have also been infected by the virus. They have become smarter and more flexible in thinking, but I can only keep them taking the drugs I produce. Otherwise, the greedy viruses in their minds will continue to decompose their brains, and they will either die or become idiots."

"You called this drug 'orangutan virus', which is indeed appropriate. This is because the ultimate host of this virus is the orangutan, and only the orangutan's brain tissue has a certain hormone that can coexist with them. Humans do not have such hormones. Only by constantly extracting hormones from orangutans and then taking them into the medicine can we barely keep the virus in our brains from erupting."

The first question Du Mu wanted to ask was: Can executives also do research?

But it is also possible that he is under the control of the Imperius Curse and is able to focus on his daily work. After all, these are the things he deals with on a daily basis.

"What if the gorilla host dies?" Du Mu asked.

Tom shook his head. “When the gorilla host dies, the virus will die with it. Unless the brain is eaten by other predators during this process, it will not be transmitted or spread.”

This is barely good news.

Du Mu frowned and said, "If you stop taking the medicine, the condition will get worse. Hasn't this company discovered such a serious side effect over the years?"

Tom showed a complicated expression again and shook his head: "No... they know."

"Not only do we know that, in fact, the original virus was not that vicious at all."

"They did it on purpose. During their research, they discovered for the first time a variant that would cause serious side effects but could be alleviated with continued medication. The company executives were simply ecstatic."

Du Mu was stunned for a moment, then instantly understood what was going on.

Grass!
Du Mu couldn't help but curse in his heart.

He had previously said that in the world of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, it was just a young man who loved his father and wanted to create a drug that could cure Alzheimer's, but he accidentally destroyed the world.

It is a case of good intentions leading to bad results, and there is nothing that can be done about it. There is no villain who really wants to destroy the world, nor is there any vested interest chimpanzee behind the scenes.

The results of it?
Du Mu never thought that he would be slapped in the face by the capitalists.

Even the Dark Lord couldn't help but sigh: "In order to allow customers who take the medicine once to take it for life, they constantly strengthen the single effect of the medicine, but turn a blind eye to the side effects, or even deliberately magnify them."

"In fact, even after death, the virus will spread from the corpse into the natural world. One of the senior executives also knows... I don't know much about the specific positions of the Muggle company, anyway, he seems to be a guy who holds more shares."

"According to the memories obtained through Legilimency, after he discovered this, he excitedly held several banquets and bought up a large number of company stocks, becoming the so-called chairman. In his opinion, as long as the first person who took the drug died and the virus spread, everyone in the world would become the company's customers."

Tom couldn't help but sigh, feeling ashamed of the Muggles' stupid and vicious actions.

The viciousness of these capitalists frightened even the Dark Lord.

Just to make some money, they are really not afraid of going too far and letting the whole world bury them.

And judging from what Professor Du Mu said about the future...they lived up to everyone's expectations and succeeded.

Du Mu was silent.

"Is there any other division of this company that has information on this drug?"

“Now, how many elderly people have taken this drug, and how many have died?”

Without time to judge the crimes of the capitalists, Du Mu immediately asked these two key questions.

Tom thought for a moment and said, "The information should be gone. At least I used Legilimency on those executives and found all the possible insiders."

"Perhaps there are still scientists involved who have relevant information in their minds, but at least the information stored in the server and the handwritten paper materials have all been destroyed by me."

Du Mu nodded, patted Tom on the shoulder, and said with satisfaction: "Tom, you did a good job."

Tom bowed slightly humbly and answered Du Mu's second question.

The second question also made Tom look a little serious: "There are at least hundreds of thousands of sick elderly people who have taken this drug."

"It is only this year that this drug has completely stopped animal testing and started to be sold to the public. The price is extremely high, otherwise it would not be so scarce."

Hundreds of thousands of people…

This number also made Du Mu frown.

Tom said this number is small. Compared with the nearly 700 million Alzheimer's patients in the United States, it is indeed small.

After all, there is no need to describe in detail how annoying Alzheimer's disease is.

This is one of the most torturous diseases, apart from the physically painful diseases such as bone cancer and pneumoconiosis.

Knowing that a new drug can alleviate Alzheimer's disease, there are really children who are willing to spend all their money, sell their houses, and buy the drug to treat their elderly parents.

All I can say is that it’s a good thing the price is so high.

Otherwise there are millions of potential virus spreaders.

With hundreds of thousands of cases, there is no need to ask if there are any deaths... They are all elderly people, and it is normal for them to die suddenly. And after these elderly people die, the first people to whom the virus spreads are their children who are willing to pay a high price to relieve their condition.

Just thinking about it, Du Mu couldn't help but frown deeply.

If Tom hadn't already captured the top management of those companies...

Du Mu really wanted to let them experience how he had felt when he faced those Beggars' Gang, making them feel so miserable that they wished they were dead and hated their parents for giving birth to them.

But fortunately, those senior people are still alive.

The Imperius Curse will not make people become idiots, it will just make people obey the orders of the caster involuntarily.

There is still a chance to vent this anger.

But the most urgent task is to stop the outbreak of the chimpanzee virus as soon as possible.

However, Du Mu stood in the office, not knowing where to start for a moment.

That’s hundreds of thousands of people…

Once these old people die, the same fleeting phenomenon of human civilization in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes Part II" will happen in just a few years.

Caesar traveled through time too late, and the first source of pollution had already spread the pollution. If he had traveled through time last year, Tom would have completed the mission by now.

At the same time, Du Mu also gave up his plan to look for animal disciples in this world.

They could all be hosts of the chimpanzee virus. If they run to other worlds, they could become sources of contamination if they are not careful and destroy another world.

Du Mu looked at Tom and asked, "What about you? Are you infected with the virus?"

Tom shook his head and said hesitantly, "Ever since I used Legilimency on the first executive, I have been careful not to be infected by the gorilla virus. I don't think so... I don't feel like I've suddenly become more deaf and blind."

Du Mu looked at Tom speechlessly, then suddenly stretched out his hand and put it on Tom's shoulder.

When Tom was feeling a little strange, he suddenly discovered that the magic power in his body suddenly began to generate intense heat.

"Uh!"

Tom endured the severe pain brought by the high temperature. Fortunately, although the temperature of this magic power was very high, it could also enhance the host's heat resistance when running through the meridians.

Almost in the blink of an eye, Tom's whole body temperature rose to nearly 70 degrees.

When Du Mu slowly withdrew his magic power, Tom was sweating all over and gasping for breath.

"This way, it should be foolproof."

After Du Mu raised Tom's temperature, he fell into deep thought.

What should we do to solve the problems of hundreds of thousands of elderly people...

Finally, Du Mu shook his head: "In any case, the current situation is no longer suitable for private handling."

Tom was startled and looked at Du Mu: "Professor, what do you mean?"

Du Mu also looked at Tom and said seriously: "Fortunately, you didn't kill those executives... Next, I want you to continue to use the Imperius Curse to control those executives and expose all the private projects of the entire Gossex Company."

"Let people all over the world know about this first, so that they can be aware of it and at least not fall behind."

"Next, I will provide you with some technologies and drugs. I want you to set up a pharmaceutical company to specialize in researching drugs against the chimpanzee virus."

Du Mu's mind flashed through the images of some people, and he said to Tom, "Of course, I will also extract some samples and give them to genius scientists from other worlds for research. They are all leaders in related fields, so you don't have to worry about the progress."

Du Mu thought that this time, magic power could only cut off the source.

It seems that the disasters caused by science still have to be solved by scientists.

Tom pointed at himself blankly: "You want me to be a capitalist in the Muggle world?"

Du Mu smiled and said, "It's almost like being the Dark Lord. You should be able to do the job, right?"

It’s almost like being the Dark Lord, but it’s far from it, okay?

But Tom thought about it carefully.

If you compare it with what you heard from the followers of the original body, the Death Eaters, when you were in Azkaban.

In terms of evil, the Dark Lord is not even qualified to carry shoes for high-level capitalists like Gosseth.

If the situation is allowed to develop, each of these capitalists will have hundreds of millions of lives on their hands.

The Dark Lord's wand is smoking, and he casts killing curses 24 hours a day. It will be difficult for me to catch up with even a fraction of his power in this lifetime.

It’s still far from it.

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Before Du Mu went there, he didn't expect that the problems in the world of Rise of the Planet of the Apes would be more serious than he had imagined.

But just when he thought that he might have to spend some time on this matter... the problem was quickly alleviated in just one week.

Inside the martial arts hall, Tony sat on a small stool and pointed various instruments at the door of the hall. He racked his brains to figure out what the hell was going on in this ordinary building and how he could travel through different worlds.

Du Mu tolerated the other party's behavior because of his contribution this time.

At the same time, Bruce, who was wearing a bat suit but had his hood up, saw Du Mu returning and asked carefully, "Master, did it work?"

Du Mu looked at Bruce, smiled and nodded: "The vaccine you made is indeed very effective. I thought this matter would be delayed for a long time, but I didn't expect you to be so effective."

Bruce breathed a sigh of relief.

It has to be said that the estimated number of casualties was six billion, and this still shocked Bruce.

So much so that he almost immediately put aside Gotham affairs and devoted himself to the seven days of hard work. Fortunately, the result did not disappoint.

He put the bat mask back on his face, relaxed, and said in a calm tone: "I have to thank Dr. Banner for his help. Without Dr. Banner, even if I could make a vaccine, the effect would probably not be so perfect."

Banner, who rarely wore a white researcher's robe, also smiled and said modestly: "It's mainly thanks to Dr. Connors's genius repair potion."

"That repair potion can actually act directly on DNA. When I first worked with him to make the repair potion, I was amazed and immediately learned the idea behind it."

"Our vaccine is made in the same process as the repair drug. DNA is extracted from animals. We just changed the process from lizards to gorillas and made it again. So the speed is naturally very fast."

Bruce gave the credit to Banner, and Banner gave the credit to Connors, but unfortunately Connors was not there.

It’s not that they didn’t look for Connors... but Connors made the sad discovery that from the third day on, it was difficult for him to participate in the research of the other two people.

Even though, in theory, vaccines use similar principles as repair drugs, lizards are reptiles and gorillas are mammals, and the difference between the two is simply worlds apart.

What seemed to be a simple matter for Banner was, in Connors' eyes, a new direction that would still take him several years to slowly explore.

Connors is actually considered a genius among scientists. However, compared to the other two, who can reach the top expert level in almost all technologies, he can only be considered a specialist at best...

Connors was devastated and after holding out for two more days, he stopped participating in their research and development work from the sixth day.

Although Banner usually keeps a low profile, it's mainly because he himself is not very fond of scientific research... He just needed to find something he was good at.

But also because of this, although Banner seems to have no specialties, he is actually proficient in everything. In this era when scientific fields are becoming increasingly subdivided, it is almost impossible for a Leonardo da Vinci-like all-rounder to exist, but Banner is such a all-rounder.

Because he has no passion, Banner has never shown any imaginative creativity. He is better at not exploring unknown areas, but perfectly mobilizing all knowledge in known areas.

So in Banner's hands, you never need to reinvent the wheel during the research and development process, because Banner has all the wheels in the world in his mind.

Even if you don't have one, you can modify someone else's wheels and use them.

Therefore, Banner can almost be said to be the top assistant that any scientist dreams of in the field of modern science, which is equivalent to the ultimate assistant with 0 kills, 0 deaths and 50 assists in the game.

Batman is different. Although he is not obsessed with scientific research, he is good at solving problems.

Batman's scientific research level is problem-solving oriented. As long as he is given a problem, he can always find the solution and ideas to the problem faster than anyone else, and then use his rich knowledge reserves to realize it.

His mind has been trained to adapt to any difficulty and he will always remain calm and look for solutions. His scientific research wisdom and combat wisdom are almost identical and complement each other.

A main force who can give full play to solving problems, plus Banner as an auxiliary, the final vaccine is perfect.

Because it can not only eliminate the damage caused by the gorilla virus to the brain and neutralize the transmissibility of the virus after the death of the host, it is also almost a long-acting "gorilla medicine", which can cause slight mutations in the human brain and secrete hormones that are only found in the gorilla brain.

So, with the combined effect of the orangutan virus, Alzheimer's disease was cured almost once and for all!

If the time had not been too short and it had not been possible to specifically detect whether there were any long-term potential side effects, Peter Pharmaceuticals would have been able to launch another medical project similar to the repair potion.

This is also a terrifying market worth hundreds of billions.

Tony curled his lips when he heard what the two said: "Tsk, if I hadn't spent six days learning medical knowledge first, it would have been faster."

Unfortunately, in the field of medicine, Tony's level is indeed far inferior to the two Bruces, and is also far from Connors, so he can only save his own face.

But Tony's contribution is not in the vaccine itself.

Tony's research style is also different from the two Bruces. Tony is the kind of person who is best at using wild imagination.

He hates being bound by constraints, and every scientific research project is always about solving several problems at once, even problems that have not yet been raised.

For example, this time, although he did not make any contribution to the vaccine itself, he creatively produced test paper that was extremely sensitive to chimpanzee viruses.

As long as the patient exhales onto the test strip, it can be seen whether the entire person is infected with the simian virus.

Even just by waving it in the air, you can tell where the chimpanzee virus is.

This thing may seem insignificant, but in fact, to the entire world of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, it may be more important than the ape potion itself.

All we need to do is observe for a period of time to make sure there are no side effects and no risk of recurrence.

Before that, Du Mu ordered Tom not to return to the martial arts gym... Just focus on running Voldemort Pharmaceuticals and become a dark lord of capital.

The name Voldemort just happens to mean escaping from death, so it’s actually quite auspicious as the name of a pharmaceutical company.

But after going around in circles, although the problem with Rise of the Planet of the Apes was completely solved, Du Mu's original goal has not yet been achieved.

He had already given up on finding animal disciples from the world of the Planet of the Apes. There was no need to take the risk.

Seeing that Tony was still studying the door of the martial arts gym, Du Mu couldn't help but shake his head and laugh.

He walked forward, looked up at the door of the martial arts hall, stretched out his hand and touched the door, and said casually: "If only I could choose the next time traveler... I am now in need of an animal apprentice who is intelligent and physically strong."

The next moment.

A huge shadow enveloped the entire martial arts hall.

Du Mu looked up in surprise, but reacted extremely quickly and instantly used his magic power to cover the martial arts hall and all the nearby buildings.

With a loud bang, a behemoth whose weight far exceeded that of the 100-meter-tall Hulk landed on the mana shield.

Du Mu looked at the huge figure that suddenly appeared in surprise, and couldn't help but ask: "Can it really be selected?"

Sorry, this chapter made me break out in a cold sweat. I realized the problem belatedly and immediately switched the content in the middle.

Oh my god, how could I have forgotten this when I was writing Rise of the Planet of the Apes? I really asked for trouble. Please don't discuss related topics. Thank you very much!

I'm sorry, because I was tearing up the outline, I only have 7000 words today. I'm extremely sorry.

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