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If you need more protein, you can add a little bit of inexpensive insect protein, at a ratio of 3.5%.

If you want a fruit flavor, you can get a strawberry milk drink with acesulfame potassium, allura red, or aspartame.

Furthermore, it contains absolutely no strawberry or milk ingredients, and you cannot detect it without using instruments. All additives are legal and harmless to the human body even under the most stringent standards.

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Paid long vacation, great!

A red health code appeared at the supermarket entrance; someone had returned from Nanjing. I pass by there every day on my way to the gym. I reported it to my superiors, and it turned out to be a paid long holiday.

Why am I so excited? Because if I don't find some humor in this hardship, I'd almost want to use a hand cannon to control the insects.

Two years of strict prevention and control measures resulting in zero infections—look, snap! It's gone!

Think about how your superiors feel. Concealing your travel itinerary and then storming into a supermarket in the busiest central business district—you're like a venomous bug with a jump ability… Damn it!

Chapter Ninety-Four Specific Immunity

Chapter Ninety-Four

If the first winter was a difficult one, both farm laborers and those in nearby infected communities could only survive on nutritional biscuits and simple wooden huts.

Although the abundance of food and the availability of cold-weather gear from farms meant that no one was freezing to death, many people still suffered from frostbite.

However, this year is much easier to deal with. The previously felled timber has been completely processed into a large number of carbon fiber sandwich panels, which allows the infected to easily assemble and install standard colonial houses.

To save time, most houses are square boxes made of a double-layer carbon fiber frame and two layers of plywood material, with aerogel filling the interlayer, which provides excellent moisture-proof and heat-insulating functions.

In the hot summer, the aerogel layer and the reflectors installed on top help to keep the indoor temperature from getting too hot.

Although they all look exactly the same, large and small boxes, the skillful girls still decorated the exterior walls and interiors with exquisite and lovely designs. The cylindrical Originium generator became the central device of each settlement, installed in the center of the village square, providing power to every house surrounding it.

Moreover, the winter off-season does not mean that the infected have nothing to do. Every morning, people need to gather in the settlement square with their tools, and then, led by the squad leader dispatched by the infected integration movement, they go to their respective areas to dig drainage ditches.

The Covenant's agricultural and forestry production has always been characterized by its violent use of the local ecological environment. Most secondary disasters can be suppressed by technology, while some long-term problems that cannot be solved are often turned to industrial and mining use when the problems become too large to be contained.

Even without dismantling the planet, simply extracting mantle fluids would be enough to turn a normal planet into a lava planet within a few decades, and then gradually into a desolate planet like Mars, where only cheap iron oxide sand remains, and even the star's core dies completely due to mass loss and cooling.

This means that Xia Lin, lacking the crucial support of the Star Alliance's industrial forces, has to consider the issue of ecological impact.

For example, since the entire snow forest was completely leveled and the ground was covered with artificial soil and insulation film, the ability of precipitation to penetrate the ground was greatly reduced.

When the snow melts, the meltwater flows everywhere, turning the surrounding area into mud and causing flooding. Therefore, it is essential to dig drainage ditches in advance to guide this rainfall to water storage areas.

The water storage area will use multiple sedimentation tanks to accelerate the sedimentation of silt and debris using recyclable alum, and then pass through a water purifier to become drinking water, domestic water, and, most importantly, heating water.

Xia Lin certainly wouldn't use coal to power the boiler, nor would she waste her precious nuclear fuel. Instead, she used a water heater system that was very characteristic of Terra—a sister product to the Melt Gun.

Talulah brand Yuanshi Power gas boilers are installed below the heat collection tower to address the problem of reduced sunlight and difficulty in heat collection during winter in high latitudes.

Not only can it provide heating, but it can also maintain power generation. In the summer, you only need to replace the core Originium Arts trigger module with the White Rabbit version, and it will become an air conditioner. The cold water, cooled to about 5 degrees Celsius, will quickly remove the heat accumulated indoors and maintain a cool environment to cope with the long days in the summer in high-latitude regions.

In any case, the core serum is just a catalyst; it only needs to be replaced with a new serum after all the living cells have died. This is the main factor limiting the production capacity of hot melt guns.

Through a complex process of inducing the differentiation of somatic degenerative stem cells into bone marrow cells and artificially cultivating them, Xia Lin is now able to produce various components of Terran blood and nerve cells.

It is used for both Terran industrial equipment with Covenant characteristics and blood banks in Kal'tsit's territory.

While manual blood collection and storage are sufficient for daily use, in the event of war, a large number of wounded soldiers could deplete the blood bank in a very short time. Therefore, Xia Lin's production effectively addresses this problem.

The only problem is that the cultivation and manufacturing process seems a bit off-putting. The artificial nutrient cell structures, which look like fleshy balls, surround the central bone marrow cells and hematopoietic stem cells, and are soaked in genuine, thick, dark red blood plasma. Human blood flows through sterile, temperature-controlled pipes just like tap water.

The blood-drawing process was comparable to turning on a tap and letting water run. Even the well-informed Kal'tsit, after seeing it once, suggested that Xia Lin add a shield.

However, the latter stated that he needs to observe frequently to avoid cell carcinogenesis caused by such high-intensity hematopoiesis, and that he cannot cover it with a shield.

Moreover, since this blood is genuine artificial blood, it can be produced for all blood types, and the content of Originium particles in the transfusion bag can be freely controlled according to the Terran's physique, thereby neutralizing and alleviating Oripathy to a certain extent.

"I really want to ask what this device was originally used for, but I don't want to ask it now. You'll definitely give me an answer that will make me feel sick all day."

What is the "Very Wise" device for? Of course, it's used to cultivate blood curds using animal blood. Otherwise, if the billions of units of pig blood canned food produced each year were really made by slaughtering pigs to obtain blood, then the scale of the Covenant's livestock industry would have to double.

Canned pig's blood is a major agricultural export for the Covenant, with most buyers being "swarm intelligence beings," commonly known as "Zerg." The annual sales volume is in the tens of billions of units, and without some artificial synthetic industrial production methods, agriculture and animal husbandry alone cannot supply it.

"Can you create humans?"

"Theoretically, it's possible, but there are limitations..." Xia Lin said that cloning or replicating humans is theoretically possible, but it is limited, and it's best not to misuse this function.

"Maintaining an in vitro hematopoietic microenvironment using technical equipment, and producing a large amount of blood using artificially manufactured hematopoietic stem cells and bone marrow cells, is quite an impressive technology. However, considering that its actual function is probably not legitimate, I don't know whether I should praise it or not."

Kal'tsit looked at the hematopoietic tumors floating inside the hematopoietic tank, which resembled bunches of grapes connected by artificial arterial structures. Her expression was quite complicated. From a doctor's perspective, this was a medical device. Everything inside was artificial and controllable, and the blood produced could save countless lives.

However, from a human nature and ethical perspective, this has crossed Terra's moral and ethical bottom line.

In particular, human organs can also be cloned and cultured in the same way as these hematopoietic tumors.

Furthermore, the rejection reaction of these autologous cloned organs, cultivated in a blood microenvironment that is completely replicated from the body itself, is almost zero. In essence, it is as if something has grown inside another version of oneself.

"So, you're here today to discuss ethics with me?" Xia Lin scratched his head. "I thought you were here to get blood."

"No, we're here to collect blood." Clean, sterile blood bags were connected to a device in the corner by a dense network of flexible tubes. As the valves were opened, blood quickly filled the bags, as if flowing water.

They were then picked off one by one, placed in a refrigerated box, and labeled with their corresponding blood type. In addition to this blood, they also included artificial immunoglobulins, artificial serotonin, and artificial lymphocytes.

Moreover, it is derived entirely from autologous stem cell differentiation, and can directly exert an immune effect when injected into the human body.

Therefore, in a sense, the Covenant's cancer has been conquered. By taking live samples of cancer cells and training these artificial immune cells, and then injecting them back into the body, combined with an induced attack mode, cancer and other problems can be solved quickly.

Of course, this technology was later replaced by symbiotic technology. As a transitional technology, it is now more often used in agriculture to deal with various livestock diseases. It is simple, brutal, and effective. From an immunological perspective, it is like deploying an army of clones that have been instilled with combat information from birth to the battlefield, and their numbers are endless.

As for issues like short cell lifespan and cloning errors, they are meaningless for livestock. When will these problems even occur? It's enough if they live long enough to be ready for market.

Similarly, these problems will also exist for the Terrans who use these "medical products".

However, as I said before, which Terra infected person can survive until these problems erupt? People who might not even live to see tomorrow are simply crazy to be thinking about these side effects.

"Actually, normal muscle tissue is fine too..."

"No, don't talk to me about this. Although I'm a doctor and have seen plenty of disgusting things, what you're saying is really beyond my comprehension." Kal'tsit's calm expression instantly became distorted and filled with fear.

"Actually, there's not much difference between it and tissue-cultured beef..." To be honest, if we don't consider ethics and morality, that's true. If you can tissue-culture beef, you can tissue-culture human flesh. There's not much difference in technology between the two.

Similarly, if bovine placental extract and pig blood stem cells can be used to create human cells, from an industrial technology perspective, there is no difference between humans and pigs, cattle, and sheep. The main limitation comes from the intellectual and emotional aspects of humans.

“Okay, let’s get down to business. When I was inducing Talulah’s blood stem cells, I isolated something very interesting. I wonder if Dr. Kal’tsit has isolated something like this before.”

“Source decomposition enzyme?” Kal'tsit frowned.

This enzyme enables the Originium to decompose in the extracellular environment, turning it into particles that can pass through the cell membrane. Cell membrane transport proteins then deliver these particles into the cytoplasm, supplying them to the Terrans' mitochondrial-like organs. Through complex redox effects, a complex energy transfer compound is formed, which combines Originium particles.

In other words, the compounds in Terra's body that act as ATP, transferring and providing energy, and even acting as hydrogen carriers, will form a complex organic compound and Originium particles after decomposition, releasing energy.

In a normal human body, waste Originium particles are expelled through cellular activity, carried away by the blood, and then excreted through the filtration function of the kidneys.

The remaining compounds will then combine with newly absorbed Originium within this Originium-binding organ, forming new energy substances through biochemical reactions. This creates a perpetual cycle that consumes oxygen, Originium, and energy to synthesize and decompose, releasing energy and Originium, thus forming an important component of Terra's biological life activities.

The cause of Oripathy is that when you absorb a large number of Originium particles in an instant, the cytoplasm contains both waste Originium particles and newly inhaled Originium particles at the same time per unit time, and the number exceeds the standard. They will then clump together to form large particle clusters.

Then, because the particles are too large, they cannot be transported out of the cell membrane by transport proteins. As a result, they accumulate and combine in the cytoplasm, eventually growing into dendritic crystals that pierce the cell membrane.

The amount of Originium in the cytoplasm is one of the reference parameters for the important indicator "somatic cell binding rate".

Certain special Originium radiation and Originium effect fields may also cause Originium particles to agglomerate abnormally, turning into large particles that cannot leave the cell membrane, which can also lead to Oripathy.

Conversely, if we can understand the mechanism of action of this enzyme and use a similar Originium enzyme to catalyze and decompose the excessive crystals in the patient's cells into particles that can pass through the cell membrane, it means that the crystals in the patient's cells will gradually disappear, which is manifested as "Originium disease cured".

Similarly, if a hormone or drug can inhibit the work of this decomposing enzyme, the amount of Originium dissolved in the blood will decrease, which can also suppress Oripathy to some extent.

"I've tried many methods, including tree frog venom, but while they're not entirely ineffective, almost none of them meet my expectations."

"Almost? That means there is?"

"Yes, the doctor's blood contains a substance that can inhibit enzymes, alleviating and suppressing Oripathy, but it still cannot break down enzymes and coenzymes to remove the crystals that have already formed in the cells."

"The tree frog's venom can break down coenzymes, but the problem is that it does so through a hydrogen-containing hemolytic substance. It not only breaks down Originium particles, causing them to dissolve rapidly within the prey, but it also causes red blood cells to rupture, denature, and become inactive. Simply put, while it cures Oripathy, it also kills you completely. More accurately, you'll be killed before Oripathy is slowly cured."

"Yes, I also isolated this thing. Similarly, I haven't found anything that can break down the large Originium particles inside the cells, otherwise cleaning the crystalline cells in the hematopoietic tank every day would be too troublesome."

"However, it also shows that by controlling diet and adopting a reasonable lifestyle, the worsening and spread of orthophyte disease can be inhibited to some extent..."

"But how many people on Terra do you think can live the kind of reasonable, controlled diet lifestyle you're talking about?" Kal'tsit countered.

"Not to mention the infected, even ordinary civilians in Ursus would risk their lives for a single bite of moss, and there are even better ones than Ursus."

But these are merely people in other areas who can get enough to eat. What privilege do they have to escape the lower decks filled with Originium machinery, leave the factories permeated with Originium dust, avoid exposure to Originium radiation sources, and eat clean, Originium-contaminated food grown in urban greenhouses rather than in the wild?

"Therefore, noble ladies like Talulah can control Oripathy, but 99% of the people in Terra cannot, including the people on your farm. Their lives have certainly improved greatly, but they are still a long way from being able to control Oripathy."

"The tragedy of the infected has never been just about the disease from the beginning..." Unlike Amiya's naive belief that finding a cure would change the situation for the infected, Kal'tsit clearly knew that the tragedy of the infected had never been just about the disease from the beginning.

Therefore, Rhodes Island is less a medical company and more a government-in-exile, a mercenary group.

What if there were a vaccine?

"what?"

"What if there were a vaccine? What if it could grant ordinary people immunity to Oripathy for a considerable period of time, at the cost of almost losing their Originium Arts talent and incurring some side effects?"

How did you do that?

"I discovered that a molecular signaling factor I added to promote the departure of hematopoietic stem cells from the hematopoietic microenvironment, which was isolated from pancreatic cancer cells, in turn inhibits the function of Originium-binding proteins in Terran blood cells and also inhibits the function of Originium-decomposing enzymes."

"That is to say..."

"At the cost of mild anemia for a short period of time, temporarily immune to Oripathy."

"Immune period?"

"The effects gradually begin to appear 3 days after injection, peak after one week, and side effects also begin to appear. After six weeks, the side effects begin to subside, after eleven weeks the immune effect is greatly reduced, and after twenty weeks it disappears completely."

"Has the experiment been conducted?"

"The experiment has been conducted. Theoretically, soaking Talulah's somatic cell culture tissue in Originium solution will not cause any problems. Incidentally, the molecular pheromones released by the cancer cells isolated from Skadi and Haze samples also have similar functions."

However, since the Terrans' life activities are completely inseparable from Originium, both types of Originium will cause relatively serious side effects, such as symptoms similar to anemia.

"Human trials?"

"Isn't this what I called you here for—"

"It's worth a try. I think those infected people would understand if we used volunteers..."

Nobody wants to go out and be treated like a monster or a walking source of infection. Once basic survival needs are met, people start to pursue higher-end things.