Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

Chapter 58 Communication

In a sci-fi-style laboratory, five medical pods were lined up in a row, and Uncle Qing, Luo Hua, and others had already lay down inside.

The medical pod released a dark green liquid that enveloped the person inside.

"The recovery time varies depending on the severity of the injury, but it generally does not exceed three hours."

Seeing Qin Mu and Luo Feng staring curiously at the medical pod, Professor Zhou explained.

"These are the latest models of medical pods. They work even better when used with self-healing medication. If used alone, self-healing medication can also regenerate severed limbs."

However, because the limb regeneration process consumes a lot of energy, failure to replenish this energy in time can cause damage to the body.

Luo Feng looked at Luo Hua, who was sleeping, with some excitement on his face. His younger brother was finally able to stand up.

"Professor Zhou, your research is truly meritorious; countless people have benefited from it."

Qin Mu also sighed with emotion.

"It's still far from enough; the production is still insufficient. Other medicinal materials are easy to obtain, but the problem is that there isn't enough blood from the swamp salamanders."

Currently, each dose of the self-healing potion requires the consumption of one pound of blood from a Lord-level swamp salamander.

Although that lord-level swamp salamander was enormous and had a strong regenerative ability, 1000 kilograms of blood per day was its limit.

Professor Zhou shook his head, clearly dissatisfied.

"Isn't this production volume enough? Thirty thousand units a month."

Qin Mu was somewhat puzzled. He wasn't sure how many people needed the self-healing potion, but he figured 30,000 doses a month wasn't a small production volume.

"Not enough, far from enough!"

Seeing Qin Mu's puzzled expression, Professor Zhou explained.

Do you know how many beast tides occur nationwide each year?

Last year, our China experienced one first-level beast tide, seven second-level beast tides, and eighteen third-level beast tides.

Every time a beast tide breaks out, soldiers have to risk their lives to fight!

Each time, thousands of people die or become disabled!

Over the years, do you know how many wounded soldiers have accumulated?

Professor Zhou said seriously.

"We are able to have a peaceful life now because of them on the front lines, risking their lives!"

This is just the damage caused during the beast tide; there will be damage during regular missions as well!

If there were more self-healing drugs, those who would have died might not have had to die!

Qin Mu remained silent. He knew that many military personnel would be injured or disabled as a result, but he did not expect there to be so many.

Luo Feng listened from the side, his eyes also filled with shock.

The Ultimate Martial Arts Academy has many martial artists who hunt monsters, but more often they do so to hone their skills, improve their strength, and make money.

They rarely confront the beast tide directly; instead, when they encounter it, they retreat to the military's shelters.

Of course, this is related to the fact that martial artists operate in small teams, and they target some relatively powerful monsters.

The two have different roles.

This resulted in them being powerless when truly facing the beast tide.

Even a War God wouldn't dare face the beast tide head-on; once surrounded, even a War God would die!

When facing a beast tide, unless it's a truly critical moment, it won't be their turn.

Even after Luo Feng became the invincible war god, if you wanted to ask him to resist the beast tide, the military commander had to personally invite him!

Luo Feng is very patriotic and willing to resist the beast tide, but what about those who are unwilling?

The real force that fought against the beast tide was the national army, ordinary soldiers who were not strong and were not even martial artists.

Their strength is limited, and they are often powerless against powerful monsters, so they can only fight for their lives!

Under such circumstances, how could the number of disabled people be small?

"Of course, our experiments have made groundbreaking progress, and we can now produce self-healing agents in small batches."

Our next goal is to extract self-healing factors from general-level monsters, and even to enable these factors to reproduce themselves, truly achieving mass production!

Professor Zhou smiled as he said this.

"Self-healing agents are not only used for limb regeneration, but can actually be used in many other areas."

For example, it has a good therapeutic effect on some systemic diseases, such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation and other common diseases.

Or it can be used for accidental injuries, such as traffic accidents, work-related accidents, sports injuries, and even limb disabilities caused by various physical and chemical factors!

Even if production increases 100 times or 1000 times, it still won't be enough!

There are still many challenges to overcome before it can be truly widely adopted.

This requires the collective efforts of all researchers.

Seeing the shocked expressions on Qin Mu and Luo Feng's faces, Professor Zhou felt a little smug.

"That's not all. During our research, we discovered that using self-healing agents can enhance bodily activity, giving the user's body a slight self-healing ability!"

"Do you know what this means? It means that this will become an essential medicine for every martial artist, and even every soldier!"

"Because of these achievements, the laboratory has been upgraded to the highest level."

The country's top biologists are now gathered here, and three of the "War Gods" (a high-ranking military experts) are permanently stationed here for protection. Representative Zhu will also remain in Jiangnan Base City.

"Haha, if you want to learn about biology, this is the best place. You can meet any researcher here, and they'll all be top experts in their respective fields!"

Qin Mu was also quite excited, but he knew he should calm down and study properly for a while.

If we improve our technology in the biological field, perhaps the strength of the insect swarm can also undergo a qualitative change!

"This technology is far superior to that 'water of life'!"

Luo Feng muttered to himself.

"The Water of Life? That's nothing but a luxury! There are too few crippled martial artists who can afford it."

Self-healing potions will become a key technology that changes the course of history in the war between humans and monsters, and in the training of martial artists!

Professor Zhou smiled.

"No wonder you were assassinated by the HR Alliance. This technology will completely destroy the HR Alliance and even the status of Western countries in the pharmaceutical industry. Their stocks will probably become worthless."

Qin Mu was also filled with sighs.

In the original novel, Professor Zhou was not well-known, and it is very likely that he was successfully assassinated in the wild, so this technology did not appear.

Before the technology was successful, Professor Zhou, though a top talent, was not irreplaceable. But now things are different; simply losing one war god is probably not enough.

"What, an assassination attempt?"

Luo Feng was shocked; how could such a talented person be assassinated!

"Yes, I know Professor Zhou because they went into the wilderness to conduct experiments, and the warriors of the HR Alliance found an opportunity to assassinate them."

You need to understand that the pharmaceutical industry has always been a highly profitable sector, and it's one of HR Alliance's core businesses. The emergence of self-healing drugs would have a huge impact on them!

Qin Mu shook his head. Since ancient times, people have died for wealth, and birds have died for food; it's all the same.

"How could they do this! The emergence of such a great technology is of immense significance to all martial artists and even to all of humanity."

Although he didn't understand the technology, as a martial artist, Luo Feng could easily imagine the huge impact it would have on all martial artists once the self-healing drug became widespread!

In their battles against the monsters, they will be even more fearless and unafraid of injury!

"These guys deserve to die!"

Luo Feng was also furious.

"The military is already conducting a thorough investigation, and I've heard they've uncovered quite a few people involved. However, this is none of my business, and I trust the military will handle it properly."

"I will never go into the wilderness again, and I will not give them another chance."

Professor Zhou, on the contrary, took it all in stride; at his age, he had seen this kind of thing many times before.

"Let's not talk about that now. Have you read the books I gave you before? I need to check."

Professor Zhou clearly didn't want to deal with those things and changed the subject.

Upon hearing Professor Zhou's question, Qin Mu smiled.

"Of course I've seen it."

Although Qin Mu has focused most of his attention on cultivation these days, he has not neglected to take time to read those books.

In particular, Qin Mu discovered that his learning efficiency could be greatly improved when studying in virtual space. As long as his consciousness was strong enough, his learning speed in virtual space was at least several times, or even dozens of times, faster than in reality.

After discovering this, he spent most of his study time in the virtual world.

Which books did you read?

Professor Zhou's eyes lit up.

Professor Zhou was very fond of Qin Mu. Where could one find a student as powerful as him, a spiritualist, with amazing talent for taming beasts and an interest in biology?

"I've almost finished reading it, but there are still some parts I don't understand."

Qin Mu replied.

"Huh? You've finished reading it all in just a few days?"

Professor Zhou was astonished. What kind of speed was this? Dozens of books, and they were professional books at that. An average student couldn't finish reading them in a year.

"Then let me test you to see if you've really mastered it."

As he spoke, Professor Zhou inquired about the professional knowledge contained in those books.

Qin Mu answered seriously, some of which he could answer immediately, while others required careful thought.

Seeing the two people start discussing professional issues, Luo Feng was dumbfounded.

At first, Luo Feng could understand a little bit, but as the two talked about more and more profound topics, Luo Feng couldn't understand at all.

Although he couldn't understand it, it didn't stop him from being deeply shocked.

Qin Mu not only far surpassed him in strength, but he also took the time to study professional knowledge of biology!

"You're incredibly talented; you were practically born for biology!"

The more questions Professor Zhou asked, the more surprised he became; Qin Mu's talent in biology completely exceeded his expectations.

During the Q&A session, Qin Mu occasionally raised some of his own questions, which Professor Zhou answered one by one.

"You have a strong ability to understand things, and you can apply what you've learned to other situations even if the books don't cover them."

With your talent, there's absolutely no need for you to attend classes like regular students. I'll give you a list of books for you to read on your own when you get home. If you don't understand anything, you can ask Lin He, or just come and ask me directly!

Starting tomorrow, you'll join Lin He's project team. If you don't understand something, listen more, ask more questions, and observe more!

I've already informed you.

After the conversation, Qin Mu also benefited greatly, and many of his questions were answered.

This is one of the advantages of having a mentor; if you don't understand something, someone will immediately answer it.

"Okay, I've finished everything I needed to do here, so now I can focus on my studies."

Qin Mu also smiled.

Just as the two were chatting enthusiastically, the medical pod where Luo Hua was lying started beeping.

As the dark green liquid receded, the warehouse door slammed shut, and Luo Hua, who had been sleeping, awoke.

"Luo Hua's body has recovered, and he can stand up now."

Professor Zhou said with a smile.

"He needs some time to adjust, Luo Feng, go and help him."

During the casual conversation just now, Professor Zhou also inquired about Luo Feng's situation.

"Okay, Professor Zhou, thank you so much."

Seeing Luo Hua regain consciousness, Luo Feng was also excited and quickly stepped forward to help Luo Hua up.

When Luo Hua managed to stand up on his own, the two embraced each other excitedly, and Luo Hua burst into tears.

During the years he was paralyzed, he felt a lot of grievances and inferiority, and he didn't even dare to pursue the girl he liked.

"Brother Mu, thank you so much! If there's anything I, Luo Feng, need to do in the future, just let me know!"

After calming his younger brother down, Luo Feng walked up to Qin Mu and said solemnly.

"It's nothing, you don't need to do that!"

We're all classmates, and I didn't do anything wrong. Even if I hadn't brought you here, you could have bought your own healing potion after a while.

Qin Mu smiled and waved his hand; he knew Luo Feng's personality.

"This is different."

Luo Feng didn't say anything more, but kept his gratitude in his heart.

After a while, the medical pod where Uncle Qing was located was also activated.

Stroking his fully grown arm, Uncle Qing was excited, clenching his fist repeatedly, his eyes filled with disbelief.

"It's grown! It's really grown!"

Qin Mu stepped forward and smiled at Uncle Qing.

"Uncle Qing, congratulations!"

Soon, Uncle Qing's comrade-in-arms, Zhang Ke, also woke up.

Another wave of excitement washed over me. Everyone who has ever lost a body cherishes their healthy, intact body all the more.

"Let's go celebrate! Celebrate your new beginnings!"

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