Liu Shiya lowered her eyelashes and did not answer immediately.

She is essentially a businesswoman who can keep a clear head in any negotiation, but at this moment she finds that her usual business logic doesn't seem to be working anymore.

If the cutting-edge technologies Lin Mo mentioned are true, then he might become a man standing at the top of the world in the future.

If she refuses now, she may miss a stepping stone to the top.

After a long silence, she looked up, a slightly unnatural blush rising on her face, and her voice became a few decibels softer than before:

"Mr. Lin, what you meant by 'becoming your person'..."

Does that include that?

Lin Mo was slightly taken aback before realizing what she was asking, and couldn't help but chuckle:

"You've misunderstood. By 'our own people,' I mean people we can trust and entrust with core matters."

"Oh, then there's no problem."

Liu Shiya visibly breathed a sigh of relief, then nodded solemnly.

"I do."

Seeing Liu Shiya agree, a glint of light flashed deep in Lin Mo's pupils, and the Mind-Bending Technique silently entered her sea of ​​consciousness.

A moment later, when Liu Shiya looked at him again, there was an indescribable trust and obedience in her eyes.

Lin Mo immediately handed over the production management rights of the Great Rejuvenation Pill to her, entrusting her with full responsibility for the daily operation of the production line and subsequent expansion plans.

Liu Shiya nodded solemnly in agreement, opened her notebook and began to record the production parameters and quality inspection standards that Lin Mo had explained, and quickly got into work mode.

After arranging the matter of the Great Rejuvenation Pill, Lin Mo returned to his residence, and Han Yue put on Lin Mo's favorite phone case to charge it.

After working non-stop in the apocalypse, dealing with radiation zombies and mutated beasts, even an iron body needs a break.

The next morning, he sent Han Yue to World No. 1 and put her in charge of the security reform in Lianhai County.

Han Yue has been a police officer for many years and is very experienced, making her the most suitable person to lead the construction of the police system in Lianhai County.

After settling Han Yue in, Lin Mo went to the laboratory of Dajiang Pharmaceuticals again.

He also brought over a nanocentrifuge that he had brought back from the nuclear bomb base.

Without delay, the three immediately threw themselves into a new round of research.

However, the difficulty in cracking the gene-editing agent far exceeded everyone's expectations.

The first round of basic component analysis went smoothly, and the structures of more than a dozen known compounds and proteins were quickly identified.

However, starting from the second round, the experiment reached a stalemate.

Each attempt to synthesize a sample failed the activity test, either because the cell fusion rate was not up to standard or because the gene chain broke on its own in the third step of replication.

The three of them took turns working on the synthesis route and catalytic conditions, working for more than a week and filling several thick notebooks with experimental records, but the effective ingredient of the reagent was still missing the most crucial link.

"We're missing one last element."

Wang Gengsheng wearily took off his reading glasses, staring at the blank area on the chromatography analyzer, his tone revealing an unusual sense of dejection.

"The atomic spectrum of this element is not in any database of known elements; it is neither calcite, nor curium, nor any of the transuranic elements."

I compared all the existing data on hyperheavy elements, and none of them matched.

This should be a new element that humans have not yet discovered.

Without it, this medicine could never be made.

All that work for nothing these past few days.

Lin Mo frowned and stared at the chromatogram for a long time.

His fingers tapped unconsciously on the edge of the lab table, his mind racing, trying to connect all the possible clues.

The apocalypse, zombies, mutated beasts, mutated humans, gene serums and mutated zombies are essentially from the same source: the modification of human cells by some unknown energy.

Since the production of gene-based drugs was completed in the apocalypse, its raw materials most likely also came from the apocalypse.

In the apocalypse, the most valuable and essential resource is the crystal core.

He put his hand into his pocket, and under the cover of the pocket, took out a crystal core from his spatial storage and placed it on the experimental table.

This was a crystal core that he had dug out from a zombie's skull when he first arrived in World Two. Its surface glowed and emitted a faint light under the fluorescent lights.

Wang Gengsheng picked up the crystal core and examined it under the light for a few seconds, looking puzzled:

"What is this thing? Why is it glowing? Could it be radioactive?"

"This is a crystal taken from some kind of organism. I suspect that the unknown element in the gene serum is hidden inside this thing. Let's test it."

"OK!"

Wang Gengsheng placed the crystal nucleus into the sample analyzer with some skepticism.

A few minutes later, when the test results came out of the printer, Wang Gengsheng jumped up from his chair, almost dropping his reading glasses.

He excitedly slapped the table:

"Found it! It's this unknown element, and it matches perfectly with the missing component in the gene serum!"

Lin Mo took the test report, glanced at it, and a smile appeared on his lips.

Just as he guessed.

In the post-apocalyptic world, crystal cores became a form of hard currency not only because they could be used as money, but also because they were essential raw materials for producing gene-based drugs.

Once the key raw materials were found, the cracking process progressed rapidly.

The three extracted the new element from the crystal core and added it to the formula system that was already mostly completed, carefully adjusting the ratio between the components.

Late that night, the first relieved cheer finally rang out in the laboratory.

The first drop of the gene-imitating agent has been successfully synthesized.

The pale blue liquid swayed slightly in the test tube, its color and texture almost identical to the high-grade potion Lin Mo had brought.

The three of them eagerly sent the samples for testing, but the test results dampened their joy.

Its overall efficacy only reached 50% of the original potion, roughly equivalent to the level of an intermediate gene potion.

Lin Mo wasn't too disappointed.

Fifty percent is already within his acceptable range.

As for why there was a difference, he figured it out after thinking about it for a while.

The problem likely lies with the raw materials.

The crystal cores he used as raw materials were dug out from ordinary zombies, and the energy purity of the crystal cores was far from sufficient.

If a higher-level mutated beast core could be used as a substitute, the effect should be significantly improved.

"I'll go out and get some more crystal cores!"

As Lin Mo spoke, he left the laboratory, got into the car, took out a bag from his spatial storage, and poured out all the crystal cores inside.

Returning to the lab, Lin Mo poured all the crystal cores onto the lab table, piling them into a small mountain.

The fireflies flickered under the fluorescent lights, casting alternating light and shadow on the three people's faces.

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