Chapter 385: Magic Disaster

Although he had some concerns about Miriam, Arkaim was not his territory after all, and the ancestral mausoleum was not a place he could enter whenever he pleased. Murphy could only start by addressing the Queen's vampire symptoms to rule out those possible factors.

Because it could potentially be used to extend human life, Murphy had allocated a massive amount of resources to the Vampire Research Group, which had now become one of the most important projects within the Transfiguration Research Group.

Murphy first checked the recent progress of the vampire research group through Lukas.

The reason he needed to go through Lukas was that the transcontinental fiber-optic cable between the Soviet Union and the UK had not yet been connected, and Murphy's Pioneer computing power could not be extended to the UK. To connect his consciousness to the British internet, he had to connect to Lukas via the psychic network and use Lukas as a relay.

Soon, he discovered that the vampire research group had already made several major moves; for instance, they had completed the specific chromosome sequencing of bats using second-generation sequencing technology.

At the same time, they were collaborating with a British company called "Nanopore" to develop third-generation gene sequencing technology.

Murphy then had Lukas search for Nanopore, discovering that its founder was a professor at Oxford University named Hagenberry, and that the Umbrella Corporation held a 67% stake, making it the company's largest shareholder.

Last year, this company had also proposed a human genome sequencing project to the British Parliament, more than two years ahead of the genome sequencing project in the original world.

This was the butterfly effect brought about by Murphy.

Murphy returned to the Magic Research Institute and found David Dimor, the head of the vampire research group.

"How is the research on the vampire defect problem going?" Murphy asked.

"Previously, this area had not been our research focus, but after your research task was issued, we made many attempts. We are currently comparing the similarities and differences between the vampire and normal human genomes, while also further comparing the differences between vampire chromosomes and ordinary bat chromosomes, attempting to find the cause of those defects."

"However, our current whole-genome sequencing technology speed is not fast, and this work may take some time to see results."

"The third-generation sequencing technology was developed by you and Hagenberry, right? How is the progress?"

"Commercial preparation of the polymer membrane still has some problems, but we can currently produce the key materials preliminarily in the laboratory and can prioritize building one or two sequencers."

"Oh? So fast?" Murphy was somewhat pleasantly surprised; third-generation sequencing technology in his original world wouldn't leave the laboratory until around 2010.

"Thanks to the improvement in modern computer computing power, as well as Athena's supercomputing power, it has saved us a lot of time in constructing models," David said.

Murphy nodded; this was also the reason he insisted on making chips at the time. The improvement in computing power had too great an effect on technological research and development.

"In that case, get the prototypes out as soon as possible, and then prioritize defect research," Murphy thought for a moment. "By the way, don't just compare with the ordinary human genome; compare it with the wizard genome. If possible, perform whole-genome sequencing on wizards."

The wizard genome might contain the secrets of magic. If he could find the genetic differences between wizards and Muggles, perhaps he wouldn't have to worry about the lack of wizards.

Moreover, understanding the wizard genome might also help in ultimately solving his own genetic disorder problem.

Genome sequencing was the key to studying genes and genetics, and it was very important for understanding the existence of wizards. Perhaps he could dig something out of his memory using Total Recall again?

Just as he was preparing to give his brain a few more doses of Total Recall, a message transmitted by a lightning crow caught his attention.

Since the establishment of the Raven Pavilion, Murphy had a more convenient communication method with his confidants, so he rarely used crows for contact. Therefore, these lightning crows that Murphy placed in the outside world were either used as automatic cameras to monitor certain things or used by guys who did not belong to his core circle.

The one that sent the message this time was a lightning crow Murphy had left at Malfoy Manor.

After Lucius Malfoy was implanted with the "Loyalty" Soul Seed by Murphy, Murphy relied on Lucius to do some things related to the school, and after that, he had ignored this guy.

After all, Murphy already had the Ministry of Magic and Gringotts; Lucius's little influence was meaningless to him.

That lightning crow was originally used to monitor the Malfoy family, but after Murphy stopped paying attention to this place, its work became easier.

Except for occasionally sending Murphy a few updates on the Malfoy family's movements when he remembered, to show that he was working seriously, it spent every day being fed various insect snacks by Narcissa and teasing other female crows that the Malfoy family had specially bought to accompany "Messenger Lord" in the manor.

Life was very comfortable and happy.

And Murphy basically threw the messages it sent directly into the trash can. Years passed, and he had almost forgotten the existence of this crow.

But at this moment, this lightning crow used the emergency communication mode, which surprised Murphy. Had Lucius rebelled again?

He connected to the crow, and what came into view was the crying face of a woman.

"Please, Crow Lord, now perhaps only Lord Murphy can save Draco..."

"Caw, King Moga, calling, caw..."

"Narcissa, what are you doing?!" Lucius also appeared in front of the crow. "Are you crazy?! Disturbing Lord Murphy with such a trivial matter!"

"Trivial matter? Lucius! Our child is lost, trapped in a terrible place, not knowing whether he is dead or alive, and you call this a trivial matter?!"

"I have already greeted Crouch, and they have sent Aurors in for search and rescue. Draco will be fine. And I have already contacted Snape; he will help. Messenger Lord, you didn't call Lord Murphy, did you?"

Narcissa was about to say something more when suddenly the crow in front of her let out a loud caw, and immediately after, several bolts of lightning flashed beside it, and Murphy, in a black robe, appeared in front of her.

Murphy first turned his head to look at the crow in his hand that had become as fat as a chicken, feeling very speechless. This guy had been captured by Narcissa's insect cannonballs.

However, he would talk about the crow later; he looked at Narcissa.

"What happened?"

"Lord Murphy?!" Lucius knelt down at once. "I am very sorry! Disturbing you!"

"Forget it, tell me, what happened to Draco?"

Lucius was, after all, one of the first surrenderers to follow Murphy and could be considered a banner in his camp. Although he was of little use now, it was still fine to use him to show his benevolence in caring for his subordinates.

"Lord Murphy!" Narcissa grabbed Murphy's hem. "Draco joined the special training team. They said they were going to conduct an exercise to deal with a magic disaster, but after they entered that swamp, they didn't come out, and the two Aurors who subsequently searched for them also disappeared!"

"Rasim didn't dare to tell you about such a thing, but I heard it. He said that the magic disaster was unusual, and ordinary wizards were of no help at all."

"Lord Murphy, please, save Draco."

Magic disaster?

Come to think of it, the frequency of magic disaster reports from the Ministry of Magic recently seemed to have increased a lot, and the Queen had also mentioned before that Arkaim was also exhausted dealing with similar things.

The frequent occurrence of magic disasters did not seem to be limited to one place.

Could this matter be related to the increase in magic levels?

Murphy thought for a moment. "Where did Draco go?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 386 =====