Cataclysmic Era: I can unlock the tech tree

As the question was raised, the atmosphere between the two gradually became tense.

After a long silence, Mao Zhengzhi let out a soft breath and shook his head vigorously.

"We're going in the wrong direction; we shouldn't be targeting deep-sea fluids."

"Deep-sea fluid with a density similar to air—that's practically impossible!"

Lü Yongchang didn't speak, but simply nodded silently.

He looked up at the little white mouse beside him, its body covered in tubes, quietly submerged in the pale yellow deep-sea liquid.

Gradually, his dim eyes brightened.

"you say……"

Lu Yongchang said in a slightly low voice, "Why don't we just insert the catheter directly into the lung?"

"Like a feeding tube, deep-sea fluid is directly injected into the lungs of hibernating mice, and then the exchange of deep-sea fluid is facilitated by the tube?"

Mao Zhengzhi's eyes suddenly lit up!

"That's right!" He reached out and slapped his thigh hard, his expression slightly excited. "That makes sense! Since they can't inhale deep-sea fluid after hibernation, why don't we just pour it in directly?"

As he spoke, he excitedly stood up and walked to the lab table.

The laboratory was well-equipped, and in no time, a thin catheter, similar to a gastric tube, appeared before Lü Yongchang's eyes.

Unlike a simple gastric tube, considering the fragility of lung tissue and the fact that an organism has two lungs, the "lung tube" splits into two thin ducts at the end of the main tube.

After the device was completed, new problems arose.

Unlike gastric tubes, inserting pulmonary tubes is obviously many times more difficult.

On the one hand, the lungs and trachea are intricately connected.

On the other hand, lung tissue is extremely fragile.

Therefore, it took the researchers quite a bit of time just to insert the pulmonary tube into the lungs of the hibernating mice.

After inserting the pulmonary tube and connecting it to the machine, Mao Zhengzhi carefully placed the white mouse, which had entered deep hibernation, into a glass container filled with deep-sea fluid.

After confirming that everything was in order, Mao Zhengzhi breathed a slight sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Alright, there shouldn't be any problems now."

He said casually, "Professor, this deep-sea fluid should be used in conjunction with hibernation hormone!"

"Huh?" Lü Yongchang was taken aback, and subconsciously asked, "Why do you say that?"

Mao Zhengzhi gave a wry smile: "Professor Lü, you have never seen a white mouse put into deep-sea liquid."

"Breathing liquids goes against biological instincts, so the initial process of inhaling deep-sea fluid is extremely painful."

"Hibernation technology perfectly solves this problem."

……

It must be said that although this solution was a bit simplistic and crude, it did have some effect.

"It seems this time it was a success."

Even Lü Yongchang, seeing the stable vital signs data, felt relieved.

"Now, the question we need to consider is how to intubate quickly."

"We can't expect to need several doctors to intubate patients when it's actually used on humans, can we?"

Upon hearing this question, Mao Zhengzhi looked somewhat troubled.

That's right.

Currently, the difficulty of intubation seems to be the only disadvantage of this approach.

"Can we let zero do the work?"

Mao Zhengzhi subconsciously looked at the camera next to him.

The next moment, a holographic projection appeared.

Zero's image remains that of a refined man in a suit.

"Academician Mao, as it stands, my computing power is not yet sufficient to support intubation operations for billions of people simultaneously."

"Moreover, even if I were to perform the procedure, the entire intubation process would take more than ten minutes."

Mao Zhengzhi nodded thoughtfully.

Intubation time of more than ten minutes is not a big problem.

After all, once a person enters deep hibernation, the oxygen carried in their blood is sufficient to sustain them for several hours.

"So you mean, if the computing power allows, this operation is possible?" As he spoke, Mao Zhengzhi turned his pleading gaze to Lü Yongchang.

Lü Yongchang: "..."

Faced with Mao Zhengzhi's "obvious" gaze, he silently shook his head.

"The third-generation quantum computer technology is still under development, and I haven't heard any good news from Academician Mo recently."

"Sigh..." Mao Zhengzhi sighed with disappointment.

Just as Lü Yongchang and Mao Zhengzhi were about to continue discussing the intubation plan, Ling's voice suddenly rang out.

"Professor, something's happened to that white mouse."

……

When the two rushed back to the lab, the mouse had already been placed on the dissection table by the researchers.

"What happened?"

As soon as he entered, Mao Zhengzhi hurriedly asked.

"Academician Mao, the mice still died from lack of oxygen," a researcher said with a somber expression.

"Lack of oxygen?"

"Are the bronchi useless?"

When Mao Zhengzhi asked the question, the researcher simply shook his head silently: "We are also investigating the specific reasons. The data has just been uploaded to the server, and it will probably take a little longer for the analysis results to be available."

Perhaps because of the repeated failures, the atmosphere in the laboratory was particularly heavy.

Each researcher stood quietly in place, heads bowed, awaiting Mao Zhengzhi's orders.

Sensing that something was amiss, Lü Yongchang didn't say anything. He simply walked slowly to the white mouse that had been gutted and examined it carefully.

Subserosal and subepicardial hemorrhages in the lungs.

These are very typical signs of death by asphyxiation.

"Approximately where is the pulmonary duct located?" Lu Yongchang suddenly asked the researcher beside him.

"Huh?" Faced with Lü Yongchang's sudden question, the researcher was taken aback, then quickly pointed with his finger, "It's probably in this area."

Lü Yongchang frowned slightly: "So short..."

"Professor Lü, there's no other way. The lung tissue is too delicate, so we can only lower the bronchus to this extent."

Looking at the pale yellow liquid remaining in the mouse's lungs, Lü Yongchang said in a deep voice, "Take a sample of the remaining fluid in the lungs and check its oxygen content."

"Also, Zero, model the lung structure of mice."

Lu Yongchang's voice was like a shot of adrenaline to the somewhat sluggish laboratory. Within minutes, all the researchers returned to their posts and began their inspection work according to his instructions.