Chapter 2835: 2632 A Path for the Future (Alliance Leader Tang Clarity Extra Chapter 1)

When Su Yun was looking up related information, he suddenly saw a picture, frowned, and immediately turned past it.

"Boss, every time I see people eating bats, I feel this kind of suicidal behavior can't be described in words." Su Yun frowned, speaking with some disgust.

"Hmm, have you watched wilderness survival?"

"I have." Su Yun said, "You mean the one with Bear Grylls, right? That's what I was going to say too. Bear Grylls really dares to eat anything; in wilderness survival, many things go straight into the mouth. But that's experience accumulated over many years by British special forces. Dead zebra meat, elephant dung juice... just looking at it makes you nauseous."

"Hmm, that episode where he ate bat, I saw it roasted for a full five hours, and when eating, his hands were shaking." Zheng Ren said.

"Bat sashimi... and even boiled in soup... sigh." Su Yun sighed, "This stuff looks cold and evil. If Mr. Yuan has already kept us from going hungry, why eat these things?"

"Bats themselves carry a large amount of viruses; they have little reaction to the viruses, and it might also be their defensive weapon. Estimates say that without these viruses, bats would have gone extinct long ago, no need to wait for white-nose syndrome." Zheng Ren said.

"Someone has already researched bats' internal immune response to viruses, trying to find a new way to treat viruses. Then they discovered... bats' bodies simply do not react to viruses at all." Zheng Ren sighed, "So bats are really powerful; from a certain angle they're the most badass mammals, and we should have reverence."

"By the way, what do you mean by longevity?" Su Yun asked.

"Bats are the only mammals not limited by terrain..." Zheng Ren said.

"You could just say it can fly; no need to talk like you're giving a report." Su Yun disparagingly interrupted the boss's words.

"Afraid you'd argue back." Zheng Ren said lightly.

"Let's talk about serious matters." Su Yun changed the subject.

"Just mentioned, the genes related to bats' DNA damage repair are quite unusual; one could say their ability to repair DNA damage is high."

"That is to say, the increased metabolic rate from flight makes DNA damage more likely; over long evolution, bats enhanced their DNA damage repair ability to counteract it."

"The baseline expression level of heat shock proteins in bat cells is very high, and the genes related to the type I interferon pathway will also provide novel ideas for future clinical drug research."

"Some research says bats lack the PYHIN family of genes, so they rarely show inflammation, and thus tumors related to inflammation and abnormal cell proliferation are also rare."

Zheng Ren spoke in fragments, and as he spoke he also summarized and reflected on himself, thereby making his words more complete.

"In other words, white-nose syndrome, bats infected with fungus, is a side effect of their ability to resist tumors?!" Su Yun asked.

"It's possible; this is also the purpose of Kelisian's research." Zheng Ren said, "But saving bats, the preliminary results could first treat cancer—this is truly an unexpected gain. And Ke Li's research... if it could overcome tumors through bat gene research, it would have profound significance."

"Boss, watch your wording." Su Yun said, "For us humans, being able to cure cancer is a huge matter."

"Who knows? Possibly opening a Pandora's box would trigger a series of side effects." Zheng Ren said, "Only a ghost knows what it'll finally become."

"Bats chose flight, so their metabolic rate rises, thus oxidative stress level also rises; to counteract the results brought by flight, bats evolved to adapt to a high level of DNA damage repair."

"It's not that bats chose flight, but rather that among mammals capable of flight, only the bat group remained." Zheng Ren said, "Sometimes people think natural selection is full of fantastical fate. Creatures that could have ruled Earth died out because of fungus."

"I never thought bats could rule Earth; only you would think that. But when I was young, my family said bats are just flying mice, and they are the two largest groups of mammals. Boss, you say if they grew to that shape they'd be numerous?" Su Yun's questions are always quirky.

"Cut the nonsense, we're saying bats can't resist fungus." Zheng Ren said, "If Kelisian's research yields results, bats might temporarily have no natural enemies."

"Why don't you save the world, save humanity?"

"Just like what we're doing, Kelisian is trying to save bats, we're trying to save Xiao Shitou and treat cancer. After getting over this hurdle, there will surely be another high mountain." Zheng Ren said, "So a perfect body does not exist..."

"A rotten sack of skin, what's there not to dare say?" Su Yun disparagingly said, "The final direction of evolution will definitely be a spiritual form."

"Spiritual forms also have many problems."

"You're going off on a tangent!" Su Yun immediately cut off Zheng Ren's words, "Boss, you say bats have a stronger baseline level of innate immune response, so when carrying viruses they rarely get sick or don't get sick at all. Can this be used to develop some drugs to treat viruses?"

"No money." Zheng Ren said, "This research isn't something we can do. Pouring funds into a large lab, over ten or twenty years we don't know how much money would be thrown in, and there might still be no results."

Su Yun shrugged.

"If we permanently solve humanity's immune situation regarding viruses, who knows what else will come afterward."

"You're too pessimistic, take it step by step, eyebrows on fire yet still looking at the present. I remember this was something you said earlier; how did you end up splitting yourself?" Su Yun disparagingly said.

"So, let's first think about Xiao Shitou." Zheng Ren said, "Bats are the second largest mammalian group after rodents, making up 20% of global mammal species, over 1,300 kinds. Moreover, they are extremely widely distributed; everywhere outside the poles bats exist. Moreover, bats have a long history, traceable back to nearly 50 million years ago."

"Kelisian's research is very careful, very cautious. We don't have the conditions for it, and I'm not very interested in this research either. Actually sometimes I suddenly feel that choosing basic research back then wasn't wrong; I'm just more interested in surgery."

After Zheng Ren finished speaking, he let out a long sigh, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Let's go, go find Chang Yue and Yi Ren to eat." Su Yun said, "You've made Kelisian unhappy, so tonight there's no meal."

"He's not unhappy; rather, after being seen through he became a bit panicked and frightened." Zheng Ren said, "Tomorrow he'll come with a smile and sincerity, you can rest assured."