From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star.

Chapter 212 Preventing the spread of super-powered potions
Lu Heng still remembers clearly the proliferation of super-powered potions in the previous life.

That happened one year after the abyss arrived. At that time, super-powered potions were already widely available and the prices were not high.

During the period when super power potions were most rampant, their prices were even much lower than ordinary crystal cores.

If the purity requirements of the medicine are not high and a higher impurity content can be accepted, the price can even be reduced to 10 yuan per tube.

This price is not high for psychics. After all, psychics have extraordinary powers and have many ways to get paid.

Anyone with super powers has enough money to buy super power potions.

In addition, the effect of the super energy potion comes on very quickly. In just a few hours, the combat power can soar, and the source energy level can be increased in a few days.

The lower the original source energy level, the greater the improvement.

With such an immediate effect, which psychic would not be tempted after seeing other people getting the injection?
Therefore, in the previous life, the proliferation of super-powered potions in Da Xia was very serious.

It has almost reached the point where every psychic has one.

What followed were the side effects of the super potion, which began to gradually appear within a month.

First, there’s the addiction.

Once injected, no psychic can resist the pleasure brought by the superpower potion.

What's more, the temptation of being able to greatly improve combat effectiveness is hard to resist.

In fact.

Before the side effects appeared, human psychics experienced a period of pushing back the fog because their combat power soared.

Due to the effects of super-power potions, the overall combat power of the group of psychics has been greatly improved.

More psychics began to break into the fog to hunt abyss creatures and close the rifts.

This resulted in a period of time when the fog restricted area was being pushed back.

During that period, there were even people with special abilities who shouted slogans, calling for the fog to completely disappear from the continent.

The powerful force gave these psychics strong self-confidence.

But the good times didn’t last long.

As the side effects of injecting the super power potion gradually emerged, these psychics who had been injected with the super power potion gradually found that they had become dependent on the super power potion.

Moreover, this dependence arises from both psychological and physiological aspects.

If you don't get the super-powered drug injection for a long time, you will experience a strong withdrawal reaction.

Some people with special abilities even resort to any means necessary to obtain super-power potions.

Therefore, after a brief period of counterattack fog, the darkest period came.

In order to fight for a super power potion, the superpowers started fighting and killing each other.

Even many once powerful psychics fell during this dark period.

that time.

Lu Heng happened to awaken when the super power potion just began to spread, and the side effects of the super power potion had not yet fully appeared.

When I first awakened, my source energy level was too low.

Lu Heng even thought about buying a super potion to inject and quickly increase his level.

At that time, the price of super potion had dropped to 10 yuan per bottle, and my family could barely afford one by gritting their teeth.

Fortunately, Lu Heng was more cautious. Having seen how arrogant the psychics became after being injected with super power potions, he always felt that this super power potion was a little abnormal.

Sure enough, half a month later, the side effects of the super power potion began to appear.

There have been many conflicts among people with special abilities, all of which were over the fight for super-power potions.

Lu Heng even saw with his own eyes a mutant rolling on the ground in pain due to his addiction to super-powered potion.

Lu Heng would never forget that scene.

In order to relieve the physical and psychological pain, the psychic scratched his skin with his nails, letting the blood flow out, as if this physical pain could alleviate the psychological pain.

Lu Heng saw with his own eyes that the psychic had scratched his skin all over, leaving it bloody and bruised, and then he grabbed Lu Heng's feet and begged Lu Heng to kill him.

The scene was so horrifying that it gave me nightmares.

……

Because of the memories of the previous life.

Therefore, Lu Heng’s understanding of super power potion goes far beyond this.

Lu Heng even knew how this super-powered potion was produced.

From a technical perspective, the technology for producing super power potions is very simple.

This is also the reason why super-powered potions are so prevalent.

If the production technology requirements are high, the output will definitely not be able to keep up, and it will naturally not be able to flood the market.

The production method of super power potion is actually to use animals as carriers and feed them substances containing demonic energy, energy crystal cores, demonic flesh and blood, and even abyss ores.

Anything that can provide energy is fed to animals.

After animals eat these energy-containing substances, they will mutate and then generate source energy in their bodies.

Afterwards, the source energy is extracted from these animals to prepare super energy potions.

The production process of super power potion is so simple. It has a certain technical content, but it is not high.

With the current level of human technology, it can be easily produced.

The super-powered potions produced have grades.

The quality of super energy potion is related to the energy substances consumed by the animal carrier.

If it is fed with energy crystal cores, the super energy potion produced will be of the first tier.

If fed with demon flesh and blood, the super power potion produced will be of the second tier.

They are fed with waste materials such as abyss slag, and the super-powered potions they produce are of the worst quality.

Relatively speaking, the higher the quality of the super power potion, the lighter the side effects.

The most common super potion is actually the lowest quality. After all, the price is there, and a super potion that costs 10 yuan per bottle is naturally the lowest quality.

In fact, Lu Heng also knew another higher-level super potion, which was the super potion extracted from the blood of people with special abilities.

The super potion used by Alex Austin is actually of this kind.

Since this super-powered potion is extracted from the body of a psychic, it has lighter side effects and is more compatible with the human body.

However, any energy source obtained from outside the body will eventually lead to addiction and irreversibly inhibit the body's energy synthesis.

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In his previous life, Lu Heng had studied in depth the principles of how human energy is generated, so he had a deep understanding of why super-energy potions can make people addicted.

Source energy is a kind of energy substance produced by the human body, which only appears after the abyss comes.

In terms of the principle and method of production, source energy is very similar to another substance in the human body, that is, endorphins.

Endorphin is a morphine-like biochemical hormone secreted by the pituitary gland.

Endorphins bind to morphine receptors and can produce the same analgesic effect and sense of pleasure as taking illegal drugs.

As long as endorphins are injected, humans can easily get a sense of pleasure.

If happiness is so easy to obtain, then why do humans prohibit the abuse of this drug?
Because the injection of endorphin-like substances will lead to a decrease in the endorphins secreted by the human body.

This means that after injecting endorphin-like substances, if you do not continue to inject them, people will not feel happy due to the decrease in endorphin secretion in the body.

In order to get pleasure, you need to continue injecting endorphin-like substances. The more you inject, the less endorphins the body secretes.

This vicious cycle eventually leads humans to become dependent on endorphin-like substances, and they will continue to be in pain as long as they are not injected.

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Interestingly enough, source energy also has similar properties.

When injured, the guided source energy gathers at the wound site, which can produce analgesic effects similar to endorphins.

Source energy is synthesized in the energy factories of human cells.

The energy factory in this cell is the mitochondria.

Mitochondria exist not only in humans but in the cells of most animals on the blue planet.

After humans awaken and become superpowers, they will synthesize source energy in their mitochondria through absorbing energy, exercising, eating, etc.

In other words, only the source energy converted through mitochondria belongs to the human body.

Mitochondria convert energy into energy through a mechanism that meets the needs of the human body.

For those with low energy levels, the speed and total amount of mitochondrial energy conversion are naturally lower.

As energy levels increase, the efficiency of mitochondria in converting source energy will continue to increase.

In other words, the amount of source energy converted by mitochondria is controlled by a set of human body mechanisms.

Once this source energy conversion mechanism is changed, it will cause a chain reaction.

What effect will the injection of super-powered potion have?
After the source energy in the super energy potion enters the human body, the body's mechanism will sense that the source energy content in the body is very high.

When the energy content in the blood is high, the human body mechanism will feel that it does not need to continue converting energy, and the mitochondria will stop working.

Over time, mitochondria become less and less efficient at converting energy.

This means that if a mutant who has been injected with a super power potion does not continue to receive injections, the source energy content in his body will continue to decrease, and his combat power will also drop significantly.

Coupled with the addictive nature of super power potions, it is natural for psychics to become dependent on them.

Eventually, people with special abilities will start fighting each other for the super-power potion.

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Lu Heng did not need to explain the principles of the human body's ability to synthesize energy to the scientific research experts at the Academy of Sciences.

Because since the emergence of people with special powers, scientists have never stopped studying them and source energy.

The principle of energy synthesis is not a difficult research topic for scientists at the Academy of Sciences.

It is now the end of September when the abyss is approaching, and the theory of source energy synthesis has been studied clearly long ago.

Now, Lu Heng has reported the information about the addictive nature of the super power potion.

Combining these information together, it is not difficult to analyze the truth about the super power potion.

What happens next is no longer something Lu Heng can control.

To prevent the proliferation of super-powered drugs, we need national-level power.

The power of one person cannot be stopped.

Lu Heng has done what he should do, and now it’s just a matter of seeing how this change will play out.

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Ten months into the abyss, Lu Heng received a message.

Some financial groups began to invest in building factories in Daxia, preparing for large-scale production of super-powered potions.

The reason why Lu Heng was able to receive this news was because Lin Zeyu received a cooperation invitation from a multinational consortium.

After all, Daxia is the largest industrial country on Blue Star. If you want to mass-produce a certain product, investing in building a factory in Daxia is a common strategy.

Since the super power potion has spread among the upper circles, it currently costs tens of millions per bottle, which is more expensive than gold.

Therefore, many domestic companies accepted investments from multinational consortiums and began to invest heavily in building factories to produce super-powered medicines.

However, these cross-border collaborations had just begun when the Daxia government suddenly issued a red-headed document prohibiting domestic companies from producing and selling super-powered potions in any form.

The authorities have also officially listed super power potions as banned drugs.

After seeing this news, Lu Heng felt a little emotional. The bill to ban super-powered potions was nearly two months earlier than in his previous life.

In this way, perhaps that dark period could be prevented from happening.

However, after the super power potion was listed as a banned drug, some upper-class groups became very worried, because many people who controlled the capital of the old era had already been injected with this potion.

(End of this chapter)