Chapter 146: Longevity Company

"This should be considered the most primitive application of spiritual energy."

After the contrast agent was injected into the human body, meridian circuit diagrams appeared on the surfaces of both the human and the spirit beast. The researcher in the sterile suit then injected another unknown atomized substance into the test subjects.

Lin Ying and Chen Zhiyu could clearly see something seemingly wandering within the fluorescent human meridians.

Director Yang just watched, without offering any explanation to Lin Ying and the other.

Director Yang seemed to have said nothing, but thinking of the popular science introduction he gave on the way, it was as if he had said everything about this place.

The research in the sunken courtyard utilizes scientific means to replicate the ancients' use of spiritual energy.

And the known result is that, with a lifespan of over seven hundred years, the limited osteoblasts in the human body have mutated, so that even bones thousands of years after death can still withstand explosives.

Research should be rigorous science.

But the researchers here are unconventional, imitating orthopedic surgeons who just swing a sledgehammer and "clank, clank" smash away.

After visiting the sunken courtyard research.

Director Yang led the group to a vertical-management-like plant factory.

Display racks stood twenty meters high, with a large number of vertical unmanned electronically controlled lifting racks transporting pots of different plants to different light zones, conducting different spectral irradiations to promote plant growth.

"Before spirit beasts appeared, in fact, plants were the most sensitive to spiritual energy."

"The plants in this plant factory are all crops cultivated from a certain university, currently undergoing three-fold, four-fold, five-fold speed ultra-high-speed cultivation..."

Director Yang said with a hint of regret: "We have not yet developed a low-cost technology to capture spiritual particles. If we want to study this substance, we can only use medium purification and extraction processes."

"Besides being a medium and a foundation, they are also conducting research on different medicinal effects, um... drugs."

Director Yang pondered slightly, looking at Lin Ying with a very certain expression, and nodded heavily.

Drugs!

Extracted from the medium containing spiritual particles, containing substances that supplement the nutrition needed by the human body.

Understand? Look at these plants; don't they look like raw materials for refining longevity drugs? Does your family want to invest in our research project and pre-order some spirit medicine?

"..."

Lin Ying's expression was like an old monk in meditation, quietly looking at Director Yang, and said: "Let's visit the next project."

In terms of spirit beasts, Lin Ying's knowledge level might not be as good as Director Yang's.

But in terms of pharmaceutical processes, the knowledge Lin Ying possesses could pin Director Yang down and beat him.

The norm in the pharmaceutical industry is to go all-in with tens or hundreds of billions of funds, betting on the possibility of developing a certain blockbuster drug, and then lying on the laurels of monopoly dividends for nearly decades.

Just like sildenafil; the pharmaceutical company originally wanted to develop a drug for cardiovascular disease, but as a result, the current application market for sildenafil is common among weekend couples.

The institute's plant factory here might be able to develop drugs that increase lifespan.

But they might also develop drugs that make humans return to their ancestors and climb trees, howling loudly after eating them.

This is a world-shaking gamble.

To put it inappropriately, it's lucky that electronic devices are prohibited inside the institute; otherwise, if Director Yang's words fell into the anti-fraud center, a red light would immediately warn, and the Public Security Bureau could burn out Lin Ying's phone.

Director Yang looked at Lin Ying and didn't see anything from her expression, feeling slightly disappointed.

Pharmaceutical investment is exceptionally large, and it is one of the scientific research projects that their Dongxiang Spirit Beast Research Institute wants to launch but is unable to proceed with due to a lack of funds.

Next, Director Yang led Lin Ying to visit the Dongxiang Spirit Beast Research Institute's area of expertise.

Research on animal nutrition, microbiology, and animal medicine.

Chen Zhiyu's expression was strange, and he whispered to Lin Ying, explaining: "The content of animal nutrition, to put it broadly, is 'Pig Raising and Postpartum Care for Sows'; they are mainly engaged in spirit beast breeding here..."

Animal microbiology and animal medicine...

Based on Chen Zhiyu's understanding of these disciplines, they can basically be called: "On How to Serve Spirit Beasts" or "A Few Things About How Zoologists Become Servants."

"No! We are specializing in medical research, as well as spiritual energy-related diseases and parasite prevention!" Director Yang defended himself with a serious face:

"This is a serious discipline and also a problem we have to face in the future. Parasites and fungi are too closely related to us humans; any change will affect the whole body."

While speaking, Director Yang led the group outside the isolation room to monitor the patients inside through surveillance.

Among these patients, there was surprisingly the 【Willpower +4】 patient who had shocked An Sheng.

He was still in a coma, but some blood vessels were protruding on his face and cheeks, as if rainbow-colored colors were flowing unimpeded inside his blood vessels.

"This is a seriously ill patient who has been infected by both spirit beast parasites and fungi," Director Yang said seriously. "We cannot cure him, even if we look at all the antibiotics in the world, they cannot save him."

"We tried to treat the parasites, but our medical staff were grabbed by the collar by the parasites and given a fierce warning, and they had to drink three bottles of glucose before returning to the patient's organs!"

"This is the most important task and mission entrusted to our institute: before everything arrives, develop several special drugs that can fight against parasites and fungal infections, ensuring that we humans will not be defeated during the sluggish process of spiritualization..."

Normal, healthy humans will not be easily infected by fungi.

But now, because of environmental changes, some fungi are quietly changing.

The human immune system is not as powerful as people think.

In front of those evolved germs, the human immune system is like streaking. Although it is said that as long as humans regain spiritual energy and participate in this recovery, they can be exempted from these influences.

But the human body is too precise and complex, and there is a lag in the recovery process.

Therefore, humans need to use technological means to protect their own ethnic group during the recovery process, and also to deepen the research on spiritual energy recovery, deriving a brand-new systematic discipline from the original disciplines.

After the morning tour, Lin Ying was taken by Director Yang to a special guesthouse located outside the institute but within the restricted area for lunch.

On the side, a soldier said something to Director Yang, and Director Yang nodded slightly and said to Lin Ying:

"Your Lin family patriarch has called you three times. I think you might need to reply. Regarding the matters here, except for the location of the institute, Elder Lin can know everything else."

Director Yang said this out of habit, but it was just a routine statement.

In the current era, except for bases built deep underground that can hide from detection, anything on land has no secrets to speak of.

The Dongxiang Spirit Beast Research Institute currently only has a secret classification, not reaching the top-secret or sealed level.

But the institute is built inland, so even if some spies want to do something, they are helpless. Visitors cannot come into contact with secret-level research.

Lin Ying took back her phone, went to a single room in the guesthouse, and called back to the Lin family patriarch.

On the other end, the Lin family patriarch said:

"I saw your text message. Is there any project at the Dongxiang Institute that wants to pull us into investing?"

The Lin family patriarch's words made Lin Ying pause, and she asked with a little doubt: "Grandfather knows?"

"It can't be said that I know, just that I have had some contact with some relevant people," the Lin family patriarch said with a smile. "Otherwise, how did your political review pass?"

"Did their people ask you about the Longevity Club?"

"Currently, they haven't talked about that aspect, just visited the projects that the institute needs to pull people into investing in," Lin Ying replied.

"Hmm..." The Lin family patriarch also fell into deep thought, and then said:

"... Regarding the Longevity Club, if anyone asks, just say you don't know. If the other party keeps pestering you, you can also make a scene and say the other party is sexually harassing you, and just call the police."

"The origin of the Longevity Club..."

"Grand-niece... a family that has been passed down to this day without any interruption, and a family that has been accumulating wealth, do you know how many generations they have been passed down?"

"As far as I know, there are already nine generations," the Lin family patriarch said softly.

"The origin of the Longevity Club is that they discovered new profit growth points, and the possibility of longevity..."

"Because of historical issues, their organization has names like the Biological Science and Technology Sect, the Longevity Club, the Gentlemen's Society, etc... They are a company formed by billionaires."

(End of chapter)