Sentinel

Chapter 211 Mr. Lan, Mr. Green

The sky was gloomy, as if a heavy rain would fall at any moment.

The messy-haired Samuel Stern carried a briefcase, cursed the damn weather in a low voice, and trotted into the classroom. He was a professor in the Department of Cell Biology at Greyburn College, and was occasionally responsible for teaching students. Most of the time is spent in the laboratory, fiddling with those instruments and equipment.

This slovenly professor of biology has a very perfunctory way of giving lectures. He basically reads according to the teaching plan for a few minutes, and then lets the students read the books by themselves. He hates explaining gene regulation, protein science, cell signal transduction, etc. , and then have to accept endless questions from this group of slow-witted, slow-thinking geese who are as slow as 80-year-old grandmas.

The answers to those unimaginably simple questions can be found in books.Samuel Stern pursed his lips and thought.

He is a well-known eccentric in Greyburn College. He doesn't like socializing and entertainment. He broke into his private laboratory without permission, and he had to be responsible for cleaning and other cleaning work.

This made some teachers secretly speculate whether Samuel Stern was conducting some ulterior and illegal research in private. Of course, this was just a casual joke among colleagues, and no one would take it seriously.

An unknown independent scholar like Dr. Stern has no fixed source of funding, let alone generous investors, and can only stay in the simple laboratory of the school.The scientific world has always been a very realistic and cruel place. Individual talents and promising research projects are the key to reflecting one's own value. It is sad that he has neither of these.

Of course, the talents referred to here are veritable geniuses like Reed Richards and Bruce Banner. After all, people will only leave their attention and admiration to No.1. As for those who rank the latter, Who cares?

As the get out of class bell rang, Samuel left the classroom one step ahead of all the students. He walked quickly to his private laboratory—a narrow and old room with various instruments and equipment crowded together. More like a sprawling bachelor pad.

Independent scholars sound very free, but they don’t have enough reputation, and they can’t find investors or large enterprises to support funds. If you bury your head in low-cost off-the-shelf research, you will only be farther and farther away from the mainstream position of scientists in the long run.

Samuel Stern is a prominent representative of them. He is not an ignorant person. On the contrary, he is quite talented in science. However, he has a weird personality, extreme stubbornness, and a high self-esteem. He was kicked out by the research team several times. , In the end, he could only work as a teacher in an unknown school.

"One day, I'm going to show those idiots that they missed the opportunity to work with a real genius!"

Samuel sneered. He turned on the computer, used the ID of "Mr. Lan" to enter the encrypted channel, and waited for someone to appear with great anticipation.

He first met Bruce Banner under the pseudonym "Mr. Green" two months ago. He accidentally saw it on a rather secretive forum. Someone asked how to reduce the concentration of gamma rays in the blood, claiming to see someone Expose to massive gamma rays and survive.

Many people commented that this is nonsense. It is impossible for someone to pass through the impact of gamma rays and be safe and sound. The rays will enter the interior of the human body and ionize with cells, and the ions produced can erode complex organic molecules. , such as proteins, nucleic acids and enzymes, they are the main components of living cells, once destroyed, it will cause the normal chemical process in the human body to be disturbed, resulting in a large number of cell death.

This is the basic content of biology. When the human body is exposed to gamma rays with a dose of 200-600 rem, the human body’s hematopoietic organs such as bone marrow will be damaged, white blood cells will be severely reduced, internal bleeding, and hair loss will occur within two months. The probability of death is 0-80%; when the radiation dose is 600-1000 rem, the probability of death within two months is 80-100%; and when the radiation dose is more than 5000 rem, it can cause central nervous system Damaged, convulsions, tremors, incoordination, lethargy, 100% chance of death within two days.

The radiation dose mentioned by the "Mr. Green" far exceeds the 100% probability of death. Simply put, when that person is exposed to gamma rays for the first second, he will directly welcome the arrival of death. It must be a great miracle that cannot be explained by science.

Out of boredom, Samuel Stern communicated with the other party under the pseudonym of "Mr. Blue". After a simple conversation, he gradually believed in what this "Mr. Green" said, because all the data and The process is very convincing.

Back and forth, the two sides communicated through the secret encrypted channel. Samuel was eager to get the blood sample of "Mr. Green" to complete the research. If he could break through the key problem and use gamma rays, he would become a The world's top scientific figures may even win the Nobel Prize in one fell swoop.

With a utilitarian purpose, he provided academic assistance to Banner, whose alias was "Mr. Green", and on the other hand, the other party also tried to use Samuel to find the real reason why he would become the Hulk when he lost control of his emotions. Thoughts, but maintained a basic alert mind.

"I want more information." He called Mr. Green.

Not long ago, Samuel got Banner's blood sample and conducted a comparative study for the first time, and with his keen intuition and rich knowledge, he quickly bred several experimental samples—small animals injected with diluted serum. The white rats, even though the radiation concentration in the blood was lowered again and again, those poor little guys still couldn't survive for a few minutes, and they all exploded into a pile of light green flesh and blood fragments.

Successive failures made the self-esteemed Dr. Stern full of anger. He stubbornly believed that he had obtained too little first-hand information, so he asked "Mr. Green" to provide more information, such as the degree of exposure, gamma concentration And cell saturation, etc., but all the experimental data were sealed by the military, and Banner couldn't get it at all, and because of his inner insecurity, he repeatedly rejected the proposal to meet "Mr. Lan" directly.

This made Samuel furious. He thought that he wanted to help Mr. Green, but the other party was hiding it, which made people extremely irritated!
"Idiot! I have to get more blood samples! Experimental data!" He shouted frantically, waving his hands vigorously.

If he could not get the original experimental materials and detailed data, then Samuel would have no way to replicate the scene at that time. As for proposing a mature medicine from the serum, it would be wishful thinking!

"I can help you. Bring the information, it's time to meet." Mr. Lan made another request.

Samuel stared nervously at the computer screen. With his messy hair and greasy face, he was quite in line with the image of Frankenstein in the film and television drama.

"Okay." After waiting for about 10 minutes, Mr. Green replied to the message.

Unexpectedly, this time the other party did not reject Mr. Lan's proposal, and chose to agree to meet in person.

Samuel waved his arms excitedly, his eyes shone brightly, he seemed to see fame and wealth beckoning to him, all kinds of praise came flooding in, and he stood on the podium in Stockholm, receiving the glittering Glowing Nobel Gold Medal.

On the other end of the network, Bruce Banner, aliased as Mr. Green, has sneaked back to Corvo University in Virginia.He closed the computer silently, thinking of the bitterness and ups and downs of his escape, he couldn't help showing deep pain in his eyes.

After the arrest operation in Brazil, he understood that the military would not allow him to wander outside, so even if he took the risk again, Banner would meet with Mr. Lan to find a solution to the gamma rays in his body.

"Betty..." This once high-spirited genius fell into the lowest ebb of his life.

(End of this chapter)