Mythical Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1839: Chapter 1699: Utterly Inhumane

Chen Xi had never imagined that Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing would have such terrifying execution power. By the time their group had agreed to start the day after at 7:45 A.M., Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing had already begun to analyze some strange things from Dian Wei’s blood.

The next morning, with dark circles under their eyes, Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing came to Chen Xi with a test tube to join in for breakfast. Most of the military generals also had breakfast with Chen Xi’s small group, since there were many varieties of food in the morning at Chen Xi’s place, and the taste was better.

”You’re saying you’ve already figured it out?” Chen Xi asked, holding an egg custard and looking at Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing with a strange expression. This speed was too fast.

”Yes, we’ve done this too many times; it’s quite easy,” Zhang Zhongjing replied, somewhat weary. They had practiced so many times on Zhou Tai, it was quite simple.

”How are things looking?” Guo Jia pushed Chen Xi aside to ask, as he was very interested in this kind of thing.

”There are too many components, and even with our talent, we can’t keep them indefinitely. We eliminated most possibilities and retained the most feasible one, but it doesn’t mean much for normal people.” Hua Tuo said, pressing his temples as he felt dizzy after using up his talent overnight, knowing that staying up was bad, but he couldn’t control it.

”Oh, then what’s the significance?” Chen Xi asked, puzzled, looking at Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing.

”Ahem, ahem, it’s used up,” Zhang Zhongjing said awkwardly.

”You drew so much and it’s already used up?” Chen Xi asked incredulously.

”There are too many studies to conduct, and once the talent stops, there is a self-destructive phenomenon, no, not exactly self-destructive, more like regenerative, with too many complex substances inside.” Hua Tuo said with a hint of fanaticism.

Zhang Zhongjing glanced around and transmitted, ”Marquis Chen, how long do you think Dian Wei’s lifespan will be?”

”Three to five hundred years, maybe,” Chen Xi estimated and replied via Voice Transmission.

”No, we saw a glimpse of immortality in him,” Zhang Zhongjing transmitted to Chen Xi, which left Chen Xi stunned.

”The cells you’ve defined, through our research, we’ve confirmed that there’s a limit on the number of times these can divide. However, there is a substance in Dian Wei’s body that can reverse cells back to their original state, to what you defined as multipotent stem cells that can become any type of cell.” Hua Tuo also scanned around and transmitted to Chen Xi.

In Zhang Zhongjing’s and Hua Tuo’s view, Chen Xi was also a top-notch doctor, especially with his self-contained system of cellular theory, so perfect that they dared to share such information with Chen Xi.

”Uh, mature cells decompiling into stem cells?” Chen Xi pondered; this ability was somewhat terrifying, meaning that if Dian Wei’s limbs were severed, he could naturally regenerate them by decompiling stem cells.

According to what Hua Tuo had mentioned, it seemed Dian Wei’s body cells could revert to stem cell status at any time, and using the potential of stem cells, transform into other necessary somatic cells. This was extraordinarily miraculous.

”Uh, but even reverting to stem cells doesn’t mean you’ve glimpsed immortality, right?” Chen Xi asked back.

”After reverting to stem cells, when they differentiate again, their activity becomes first-generation...” Hua Tuo transmitted to Chen Xi.

”Telomere restoration?” Chen Xi pressed his temples, feeling defiant; this wasn’t scientific.

”?” Hua Tuo didn’t understand what Chen Xi meant.

[If it’s telomere restoration, that’s not just a glimpse of immortality; that’s peering into the Gate of Eternal Life. However, the best microscope I have is only an optical one, crafted purely by spending money to gather optical crystal artisans’ experience, and it offers just about six hundred to eight hundred times magnification.] Chen Xi thought while nodding slightly.

[Without an electron microscope, there’s no way to observe. Uh, I’m just being silly; I just need to conduct a cellular division experiment with Dian Wei’s cells.] Chen Xi suddenly realized there was no need to observe telomeres.

”You should conduct an experiment on cell division algebra, find out that enzyme capable of decompiling stem cells, and just do the experiment to see if it’s the Gate of Eternal Life. Adding growth hormones, the research would be quick,” Chen Xi suggested.

Both of them were stunned. Although it was true Dian Wei’s blood contained many strange things, with their capabilities, it wouldn’t take a month or two to find that enzyme capable of decompiling stem cells, and adding hormones wouldn’t take long to conduct once.

”Indeed, we overlooked this. Thank you, Marquis Chen, for the reminder,” Zhang Zhongjing nodded, expressing his intention to study this further. As for immortality, doctors might not like the concept, but they love researching such things...

”By the way, what did you research out?” Chen Xi asked curiously. Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing often burned their talents to come up with strange things.

”This,” Hua Tuo said after a moment of silence, extending his hand to produce a transparent test tube. Whatever was inside looked no different from water, yet its viscosity clearly indicated to Chen Xi that it wasn’t water.

”What’s this?” Chen Xi asked curiously, as several people strolled over to take a look when Hua Tuo brought it out.

”An extract that I reverse-developed into a purified product; animal testing confirmed it can unlock the body’s constraints, though most animals died shortly after large increases in various attributes upon unblocking,” Zhang Zhongjing spread his hands helplessly.