You went on a blind date and presented an A-level wanted criminal as a meeting gift?

As Lin Chen walked toward the top-of-the-line mass spectrometer worth tens of millions, Jiang Tingxue instinctively wanted to speak up and remind him.

That's no ordinary instrument. Its operation is as complex as piloting a space shuttle. Setting each parameter requires profound knowledge of physics, chemistry, and biology. If you're not careful, you may not only fail to get the correct results, but you may even damage the expensive detector.

However, before she could utter her words, they were abruptly stuck in her throat.

Lin Chen walked up to the instrument and, contrary to her expectations, did not appear flustered. Instead, he acted as if he had returned to his own territory, skillfully putting on sterile gloves and goggles. His entire demeanor underwent a dramatic transformation in an instant!

If Lin Chen, who had just cooked soup for her and gently comforted her, was a tender and considerate perfect lover...

At this moment, dressed in a white lab coat and standing in front of cold instruments, he transforms into a cold and rigorous god of science who controls the laws of the microscopic world!

Om-!

Deep within Lin Chen's mind, three god-level skills were suddenly activated!

[Amazing Chemistry Knowledge!]

[God-level mastery of biology]!

[God-level mastery of materials science]!

In an instant, the whole world appeared completely different in his eyes.

The dust floating in the air, the cold metal on the instruments, even the cells in his own body... everything shed its macroscopic appearance, revealing its most essential microscopic form, composed of countless molecules and atoms.

What Jiang Tingxue saw as an incomprehensible three-dimensional toxin molecule model, Lin Chen perceived as a pile of Lego bricks that even a toddler could easily disassemble and reassemble!

"That's interesting."

A faint smile curved the corners of Lin Chen's lips.

His fingers moved across the instrument's touchscreen, creating a dazzling array of afterimages!

Jiang Tingxue, standing to the side, was completely dumbfounded!

She saw that Lin Chen didn't go through the tedious process of calling up the database for comparison like she did. Instead, he went straight into the instrument's underlying operating logic and manually wrote a series of analysis commands that she had never heard of or seen before!

Those instructions, as if possessing magic, bypassed all the disguises and mutation traps of the toxin, pointing directly to its core and most primitive genetic code!

Immediately afterwards, Lin Chen turned around and walked towards the ultra-high-speed centrifuge and gas chromatograph on the other side.

Sampling, dilution, injection, setting the rotation speed, adjusting the column temperature...

His series of operations were fluid and graceful, full of an indescribable sense of rhythm and beauty. Every movement was a hundred times more precise than the most standard demonstration in the textbook!

That was no longer an experiment; it was practically an elegant and magnificent art performance!

Jiang Tingxue stared blankly, feeling as if her brain had completely shut down.

She is a national-level chief forensic doctor and a recognized genius in the field of toxicology in China. But in front of Lin Chen, she felt like a primary school student who had just entered a chemistry lab and couldn't even distinguish between a beaker and a test tube!

Is this...is this really knowledge that humans can grasp?

She even had a ridiculous illusion that Lin Chen wasn't analyzing an unknown toxin, but rather examining a slightly crude toy that he had created himself.

Is this... a dimensional reduction attack?

"Found it."

Just as Jiang Tingxue was lost in thought, Lin Chen's calm and confident voice pulled her back to reality.

She suddenly looked up and saw that Lin Chen had somehow appeared in front of a huge electronic whiteboard, holding a stylus and writing rapidly on it.

Lines of densely packed chemical derivation formulas and gene sequence maps, resembling celestial script, flowed forth from his pen like a ceaseless river!

"This is not a natural toxin at all, nor even a simple artificial toxin."

As Lin Chen wrote, he explained his discovery in a calm tone, as if he were expounding a simple axiom that one plus one equals two.

"The killers, or 'scavengers,' have mastered a very sophisticated gene-editing and cutting technique."

"They extracted the skin toxin from one of the most poisonous species in South America, the golden poison dart frog, which can effectively block the neuromuscular junction, causing respiratory muscle paralysis."

"However, the drawback of this toxin is that its molecular structure is relatively simple, making it easy to detect and decipher. Therefore, they extracted another basal toxin from a very rare deep-sea anaerobic algae that lives more than 7,000 meters below the Mariana Trench."

Lin Chen drew two completely different molecular helical structures on the whiteboard.

"This deep-sea algal toxin is not highly toxic, but it has a very interesting characteristic—'mimicry.' It can mimic the protein structure in the host's body, thus deceiving the immune system. More importantly, it also has a very strong ability to self-repair and reorganize, which is the source of the 'mutation' you mentioned."

"The 'Scavenger' uses gene-editing technology to perfectly 'graft' these two toxins with completely opposite properties at the molecular level, creating a monster that combines super toxicity with ultimate stealth."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Tingxue was so shocked that she couldn't speak.

How to genetically graft two toxins that transcend species and land and sea?

She had only ever seen this technology in cutting-edge science fiction movies!

However, Lin Chen's next words made her truly understand what terror was.

"Of course, that alone is not enough to make it so 'intelligent'."

Lin Chen's pen tip pressed heavily on the whiteboard, circling an extremely tiny metal atom that was located at the core of the entire molecular structure.

"The real finishing touch is this—the catalyst."

"In the process of synthesizing this toxin, they added a very special osmium-based organometallic catalyst—osmium tetroxide."

Lin Chen turned around, staring intently at Jiang Tingxue, a cold smile curving his lips.

"This catalyst is like equipping this toxic monster with an artificial intelligence brain. It not only greatly improves the synthesis efficiency and stability of the toxin, but also gives it the ability to 'judgment logically,' allowing it to choose the optimal mutation path under different chemical environments."

"This kind of catalyst is extremely rare and is subject to the highest level of strategic control. No more than three countries in the world possess its purification technology and synthesis process. In China, the number of institutions qualified to import and use it is even more limited."

"It has only one purpose—"

"Top-level biopharmaceutical and genetic engineering research involving core national secrets."

The words fell.

The entire laboratory was deathly silent.

Jiang Tingxue stared blankly at the perfect derivation process on the whiteboard, which could be described as a work of art, and then looked at Lin Chen's handsome and confident face. She felt that her worldview had been completely overturned and reshaped in just half an hour!

The century-old problem that had troubled her for hours and even made her question her life was so easily and thoroughly analyzed and solved by Lin Chen!

She finally understood that the gap between herself and Lin Chen was something that could not be bridged by hard work and talent.

The next second, this female forensic doctor, who was as aloof as an iceberg in front of outsiders, could no longer suppress her excitement and admiration. She pounced on him, hugged Lin Chen's neck tightly, stood on tiptoe, and offered her hot and passionate lips!

"Honey...you're simply a god!"