Chapter 22: Two Kinds of Anomalies

Liu Chengchao looked at the thick stack of documents, his brows furrowed tightly.

He was thinking.

Liu Chengchao read them earnestly.

The dozen or so people in the room were all silent.

It was quiet, with only the sound of Liu Chengchao turning the pages.

After about twenty minutes, Liu Chengchao finished reading these documents.

Of course, he did not read them in detail, but rather took a rough look.

Otherwise, the people here would have to wait a long time.

However, even so, seeing these documents left him with a trace of shock in his heart.

"Chengchao, you also have some research in biological science, so you should know the purpose of our team coming to Cangxi, right?" Qin Jiawei spoke, his voice calm.

The team he led had not only brought more than half of its personnel, but also a portion of its basic facilities.

"The Wolf Tribe skeletons in the Dahuang Mountain Range have remained for over a thousand years without decaying.

With such a large scale of skeletons, no one has the time or energy to perform special treatments.

Our people have also been to the Dahuang Mountain Range to conduct tests and inspections.

The environment there is quite ordinary; if skeletons were left there, they would completely decay in about four or five years."

Qin Jiawei kept looking at Liu Chengchao.

Liu Chengchao nodded: "Old Qin, you are right."

The matter of the skeletons had always been a mystery.

However, it seemed that those above intended to suppress this matter, and combined with a group of experts debunking it, there was no major stir.

Liu Chengchao knew that it was the fact that the skeletons were left in the open and remained undecayed for a thousand years that caught many people's attention.

"Hmm." Qin Jiawei turned on the projector, "We conducted detailed testing and comparisons on these skeletons."

Liu Chengchao saw that there were dense amounts of data and special symbols on the projector.

"We discovered some interesting things."

Qin Jiawei spoke, and everyone present was very quiet, looking at the image on the projector.

"On the gene fragments of these skeletons, a sequence has disappeared.

We have named this sequence the Decay Sequence.

Our team has done quite a bit of research on genes.

However, gene sequences are extremely complex, and human research into them can only be described as the tip of the iceberg.

We do not know the function of this Decay Sequence fragment."

Qin Jiawei's eyes shone.

This discovery could be said to be very important.

It was of great help to both biology and medicine.

If the function of the Decay Sequence was something like decay, then when they performed gene editing, would deleting this gene sequence also mean immortality?

Of course, these were just guesses.

"Time is urgent, so we conducted a small experiment.

We deleted the Decay Sequence gene in one of the cells of a white mouse, and we discovered a problem.

This white mouse was still very normal, jumping around, but there was a subtle difference.

Its body weight was less, inexplicably missing 0.2 grams!"

Qin Jiawei's tone was already somewhat excited.

This no longer seemed to be a biological problem, but a metaphysical one.

"We clearly only deleted a gene sequence in one cell, yet its body weight decreased out of thin air, and the mass lost was far more than the mass excised!

It was not because the air inside the body decreased, nor was it caused by other external conditions.

This is bizarre and does not conform to the law of conservation of energy!"

Liu Chengchao had been listening earnestly.

He also had quite a bit of research in biology.

Specific gene fragment sequences have different functions.

However, deleting a gene sequence in one cell should have no effect on an organism.

Yet in a short time, the body weight dropped by a chunk.

"We have been monitoring that white mouse in every aspect.

Its various metabolic processes and cell divisions were all normal.

However, the body weight disappeared in that very instant.

Ultimately, we discovered that it was the blood that had decreased by 0.2 grams!

We did not discover such a large amount of blood disappearing at first; it was only after subtle testing that we knew the white mouse's mass was lost in the blood.

It was as if, out of thin air, a deity had taken back that 0.2 grams of blood.

Of course, this was limited to the first time!"

The more Qin Jiawei spoke, the more excited he became.

Liu Chengchao was also shocked.

If he remembered correctly, the white mice used in laboratories were generally around 20 grams.

The mass of circulating blood accounts for about 6% of body weight, which is to say about 1.2 grams.

Losing 0.2 grams of blood was equivalent to losing about one-sixth.

The white mouse has lost so much blood, it must have other reactions.

This matter reveals something strange.

Liu Chengchao frowned; he was very puzzled.

What did those Wolf Guards experience, and why did the Decay Sequence disappear?

Qin Jiawei looked at Liu Chengchao: "Besides this, we have another special discovery."

"Oh?" Liu Chengchao looked at Qin Jiawei and began to listen attentively.

Judging by Qin Jiawei's tone, this special discovery might be no less significant than the missing Decay Sequence.

"We discovered the Tailiang Element on these remains."

"What?" Liu Chengchao was incredibly shocked.

Liu Chengchao and Qin Jiawei had always been in contact; Qin Jiawei once asked him for advice on a professional aspect, which was how Liu Chengchao learned of the Tailiang Element.

He had also always known that for these past years, the direction of Qin Jiawei's research had been the Tailiang Element.

This originated three years ago, when a large tomb was excavated.

That large tomb, dating back over two thousand years, was the tomb of a prince known as the Tailiang King.

At that time, when the coffin of the Tailiang King was opened, it caused a sensation.

The corpse seemed not to have undergone any special treatment, yet it was lifelike, its body not decaying even after two thousand years.

Qin Jiawei noticed this, and his superiors also issued him a secret mission.

That was to research the secret of the Tailiang King's incorruptible body.

Over these years, Qin Jiawei had been researching it, and he finally discovered the difference between the Tailiang King's body and that of an ordinary person.

That was the presence of an additional element.

Qin Jiawei named this element the Tailiang Element.

This element is extremely special.

It cannot be refined at all, nor can it be directly observed.

That Qin Jiawei was able to discover it was only after thousands of comparisons that he realized the existence of this element.

To give a simple analogy for this comparison:

It is like two volumes of Water of the same size, yet their masses are different.

This proves that one is definitely not pure Water.

"It is actually the Tailiang Element." Liu Chengchao was shocked.

He knew that Qin Jiawei had researched this a great deal.

The Tailiang Element is not that simple.

Within it, it seems to involve many secrets.

A mysterious expression remained on Qin Jiawei's aged face: "For now, we will not discuss these things; let us talk about the Dahuang Mountain Range, and talk about Heize."

Liu Chengchao nodded.

"How exactly did these Wolf Guards die, and who killed them?

Why would their bodies remain incorruptible after death, and why would these two anomalies appear in their remains?" Qin Jiawei looked at Liu Chengchao and asked.

Liu Chengchao pondered.

He knew.

If these questions were clarified, it might be an astonishing discovery for this world.

PS: The above content is all made up; everyone should just enjoy the show!

PS: Thanks to the big boss 【Henyi】 for the 500-point coin tip!

(End of this chapter)