Chapter 589

"Brother Su, did Big Dumb and I really regrow our severed limbs because of this?"

Liu Tianji stared at the two pale gold substances in his hand, his eyes full of disbelief.

Zhang Su took the self-sealing bag back into his hand and nodded: "An ordinary thalamus can heal very serious wounds in a very short time. When Dr. Xie was seriously injured by an explosion, he ate half a thalamus. Many of our brothers in the Yama Legion have eaten them.

If the pale gold thalamus is an upgraded version of the blue-gray thalamus, and the effect of healing wounds is upgraded to regrowing severed limbs, it seems to make sense. However, whether it can cure neurological problems like Fu Weijun's is another matter."

"I can answer this question."

Xie Yanshan smiled: "If it can achieve severed limb regrowth, then solving Weijun's predicament is not a big problem. Totipotent stem cells can completely repair nerves. This is a miracle drug in the true sense!"

After hearing this news, Liu Tianji secretly felt happy for Fu Weijun. Although he had become a "lab rat" for Fu Weijun to test the drug's efficacy, he, this "lab rat," had truly benefited.

He felt that with his ability and status in the Yama Legion, it would be difficult to get a pale gold thalamus if rewards were based on merit.

"But we don't know the source of this miracle drug now!"

Zhang Su shook his hand, feeling a bit melancholy.

He wasn't a scientist and was too lazy to go through the series of processes of assumptions, verification, and then assumptions and verification again. After a simple logical deduction, he determined that the pale gold thalamus could regrow severed limbs.

Then the next question became where to get this miracle drug! "Actually, if we want to know whether the golden thalamus is related to the degree of mutation, we have a way to verify it!"

Xie Yanshan said very certainly.

Zhang Su's heart was filled with joy: "What way?"

"We can take it from the skull of the fire-breathing zombie..."

"Don't even think about it!"

Zhang Su immediately interrupted Xie Yanshan's "golden idea."

Regrowing severed limbs was indeed important, but even if ten people regrew their limbs, it wouldn't be as helpful to the camp as one fire-breathing zombie!

"Uh... then there's no way for now."

Xie Yanshan rubbed his hands awkwardly, feeling that his suggestion was very bad, and then sighed.

"Speaking of which, this thalamus is really unusual. Usually, taking a thalamus is done while the zombie is not dead, or craniotomy is performed at the same time as it is killed. Only then does the thalamus taken out have activity.

But according to your words, Mr. Zhang, the liquefied gas zombie has been dead for more than twelve hours. If it were an ordinary zombie, the thalamus would have shrunk and withered, becoming like a dried flower bud, without activity."

"That is to say, when this thing was originally in the zombie's brain, the color might have been deeper and the size larger?"

Zhang Su grasped the key point.

"According to experience, it should be like this..." Xie Yanshan nodded seriously, then his expression tightened. He patted his palm with the back of his hand and said anxiously: "It's bad."

Everyone looked at Xie Yanshan with confusion.

Xie Yanshan didn't sell it short and said hurriedly: "Mr. Zhang, I extremely admire Dr. Fu's bold attempt. He knew the magical effect of the thalamus earlier than most people, even everyone. But if others discover a thalamus of this quality, then... then they definitely won't turn a blind eye. They will definitely invest in research, and by then..."

He didn't finish his sentence, but the people present weren't stupid and understood what he wanted to express. Only when you have what others don't can you guarantee an advantage. If everyone has it, all that's left is internal competition! "Dr. Xie, you are usually active in the laboratory and rarely go out, so you might not understand the situation outside. If our previous judgment is correct, only zombies with a higher degree of mutation will produce this kind of special thalamus, so there is no need to worry too much. The number of such zombies is too rare!"

Zhang Su waved his hand, making a reasonable inference.

If zombies with high mutation levels were everywhere, then severed limb regrowth wouldn't be that important. People should consider how to survive...

Imagine hundreds of liquefied gas zombies rushing over with black balls on their heads. With one flick, one shrink, one squeeze—let alone people, even buildings couldn't withstand it.

Fire-breathing zombies were even more terrifying. If some suddenly popped up, they wouldn't need many—twenty or thirty would be enough to completely destroy the entire Tianma Island! "The things brought by this civilization are really too advanced, incomprehensible, and difficult to peek into."

The more he researched, the more Xie Yanshan felt that what he had learned was too little. He wasn't as eager for high-precision instruments as Fu Weijun, because he was afraid of entering the microscopic world. That was a brilliant technology created by another civilization. He was shocked, and he was jealous.

"Wait!"

Liu Tianji had also been sighing earlier. He was very happy to be the first beneficiary of the pale gold thalamus, but suddenly he heard an explosive piece of news.

"Dr. Xie, you just said... this civilization? Which civilization? Do you know what's going on with the zombies?"

There had been various speculations circulating in the camp before, but there was no fixed statement. Now, hearing the researchers' confident words, he couldn't help but be curious.

"I... I request to recuse myself."

Ke Zhiyu was numb. An accidental injury brought him to the core area of this camp, where he was exposed to too many secrets that someone at his level shouldn't know. He didn't have Liu Tianji's strong curiosity. He wanted to escape; he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to leave after knowing too much.

Zhang Su understood Ke Zhiyu's thoughts, showed a half-smile expression, and said: "You already know too much."

"Eek!"

Ke Zhiyu felt a chill, which made his bladder tighten, almost dripping urine.

"I guarantee I won't say a word. I don't know anything. After I go out, if others ask me, I'll say I've been in a coma. If I reveal a single word, I will... I will never get an erection again!"

Without anyone reminding him, Ke Zhiyu made a poisonous oath with great self-awareness.

"Fine, this is what you said yourself. If there is any relevant discussion outside, you will be the first one caught, and you will be castrated directly."

Zhang Su patted Ke Zhiyu's shoulder, then said to Liu Tianji: "Judging from everything we know now, the cause of this disaster should be a higher civilization. It's just that I don't know if this higher civilization comes from outer space or the center of the earth, and I don't know what the purpose of doing this is."

"Looking at us from a higher civilization... is it like us looking at ants? Perhaps there is no special purpose at all, just treating the earth as a petri dish, playing around..."

Liu Tianji thought of himself using a magnifying glass to burn ants with friends when he was a child, and threw out an explosive statement.

Saying this, everyone fell silent.

"It sounds quite sad, but we live our own lives. Humans still have their own happiness. Don't think about those things you can't reach. Alright, you guys rest!"

Zhang Su nodded to Liu Tianji and Ke Zhiyu, not wanting to continue this topic that made people's will negative, and then said to Xie Yanshan: "Dr. Xie, shall we go see Qiu Hui?"

"Oh? That's exactly what I intended!"

Xie Yanshan hadn't forgotten the experiment Zhang Su mentioned and immediately became interested.

Awoo, awoo.

The two walked out of the room, and the zombie crawling in the corner of the corridor immediately protested, as if accusing Zhang Su of abusing prisoners.

"Mr. Zhang, how shall we experiment?"

Xie Yanshan looked at the zombie on the ground, missing arms and legs and tied up like a hairy crab, his expression very strange.

"My experiments aren't as cumbersome as yours. I just look at the zombie's reaction. Let's go."

After saying that, Zhang Su picked up the zombie and signaled Xie Yanshan to open the door.

(End of chapter)