Enter the Immortal Cultivation

So, in the end, Song Shufu allowed Chen Feng to come to his empirical department the next day.

People who choose obscure research fields because of their personal ambitions are mostly open-minded people. However, there are not always those who are full of resentment.

Especially for Tianling Ridge.

Funding is the basis of research.

The reason why the Tianling Palace project excludes the Divine Plague Forest is here. After all, results are the decisive factor in determining the allocation of funds, especially for such large-scale projects that are closely related to the lifeblood of humankind. If you can occupy the right to speak, you can basically determine the direction of the entire Tianling Ridge's internal funds.

Chen Feng felt a little unhappy, but he couldn't tell what he was unhappy about.

In the evening, he returned to Ai Qinglan's ward.

At this time, Ai Qinglan's entire body was enveloped in a ball of clear light. This group of clear light is constantly rhythmic, as if it is breathing.

Things are still improving.

"Hey, Sister Lan, it's appropriate for me to do this... right? If I accidentally hurt Comrade Shenwen Lin's feelings, I'll... feel really bad about it."

On the second day, after briefly reporting to Ye Suqi, Chen Feng came to Song Shufu's empirical department as promised.

The Divine Plague Forest is called "Lin" because it is surrounded by spiritual plants. In addition to building a spiritual barrier to restrict air convection, these spiritual plants can also secrete a large amount of pseudoalkaloid poison [toxic alkaloids].

Ordinary animals would be poisoned and die if they walked into this forest just by breathing.

Except for a few species, it is difficult for even ordinary vegetation to survive here.

This is to ensure that the disaster caused by accidental leakage can be controlled to a minimum - at least it will not be further expanded due to small animals and insects.

After that, there is a long circle of stone pavement, with no grass growing on it, and inorganic disinfectants - including lime, concentrated carbonic acid, etc. - are regularly sprayed to ensure that no small animals will be interested here.

Inside, each empirical department still has its own independent sealed magic circle.

Truly foolproof.

Even if a strong person bombards it with magic, it can guarantee that it will not cause chaos. [Of course, the "strong" here is limited to those who were strong according to the "ancient method" one thousand and five hundred years ago. It does not include the immortal beasts that the Immortal Alliance regards as enemies today. 】

After going through a series of complicated procedures, Chen Feng finally met Song Shufu.

Song Shufu's empirical department was not large - in other words, it was very small, and apart from Song Shufu, there was only one apprentice who had just started practicing Qi. More than half of the area is used to raise horses, sheep and mice.

However, several instruments are excellent.

"Oh, you're here." An uninterested smile appeared on Song Shufu's face.

Chen Feng saluted respectfully and said: "Senior Brother Song, I heard that you are the top expert in this field, so please don't hesitate to..."

"Top experts...hehehe, it's because there are not many people studying this zombie-refining horse plague." Song Shufu laughed mechanically.

Chen Feng remained silent.

"Okay, do you understand the basic concepts?"

Chen Feng nodded: "The corpse-refining horse plague is one of the dozen or so existing 'corpse-refining plagues'. The corpse-refining plague is not very contagious, and there is no record of it being transmitted to humans. It is extremely likely Some corpse-refining plagues are parasitic diseases, and a few are fungal infections. There are several types of corpse-refining plagues whose pathogens have not yet been isolated, and corpse-refining horse plague is one of them."

"Well, it's okay." Song Shufu nodded, and then smiled nervously: "Hahaha, in fact, if you really want to isolate and cultivate pathogens... With the technology of the Immortal Alliance, gather a wave of high-level monks, and a few It takes a day to isolate the parasite, but it takes a little longer, half a month to a month, and how about now?"

"This..." Chen Feng hesitated for a moment and then comforted him: "After all, this is human nature..."

Xianmeng papers, in addition to special rewards for cutting-edge projects, generally rely on the number of citations. In unpopular fields, if there are few citations, the merits and subsidies received will be less, and then the research in the next stage will be more difficult, and so on, a vicious cycle continues.

In popular fields, it will be easier to get citations and resources.

In more ancient times, many mortals were unable to distinguish the zombie plague from other plagues that caused dramatic changes in the behavior of livestock. During the period from 800 years ago to 200 years ago, plagues such as the Corpse Refining Plague were indeed a minor hit. But with the establishment of Yangshen Pavilion's theoretical system, this kind of plague targeting the nerves and will has lost a layer of mystery. Further research on Weishengju and Jiyin Valley has made this field less and less secret.

"After all, this plague rarely infects humans, and it is even impossible to infect monks." Song Shufu said: "Even if you are only in the Qi training period, you will not be afraid of this plague. Even those who practice the Plague Huang spell don't pay much attention to it. This plague."

This is of course normal.

When making biological and chemical weapons, even if you are not aiming to make the enemy's entire army die of illness, you must ensure that they can make them suffer from diarrhea and lose their ability to fight.

If a virus could only make people's throats itchy at most, then the devil would be willing to use it as a biochemical weapon.

In this regard, it is really different from Topaz Plague.

Topaz Plague is a plague that even immortals are afraid of, but Corpse Refining Horse Plague cannot even be infected by ordinary monks.

Chen Feng nodded and said, "I have indeed heard of it."

"However, there is a very small probability that it will indeed infect mortals." Song Shufu said.

Chen Feng stared at Song Shufu and said, "Could it be that Senior Brother Song... ah, pretend I didn't ask."

"It's nothing." Song Shufu's eyes were a little bloodshot: "It's not a big secret. My grandmother, an ordinary grassland woman, died of the corpse-refining horse plague. The Immortal Alliance decades ago and now There are some differences. At that time, I had not yet entered Taoism, so I could only watch my grandmother dying little by little under the spell."

"It's just that it's ridiculous. The outer gate of Tianling Ridge who was stationed in my hometown was a mediocre person. He had never seen the Corpse Refining Plague, so he just believed that the Corpse Refining Plague would not infect the human race. He thought it was an organic disease caused by aging. Hanging on for one’s life.”

Speaking of this, Song Shufu's voice trembled with meaning: "For the first time, I know that the Corpse Refining Plague is so terrible to the human race... It is a disease that tramples on the innate wisdom, will and soul. Finally..."

He took a breath.

"Finally, my father applied to cancel the hanging spell. Then, according to the regulations, my grandmother's body was cremated. To this day, I am the only one who believes that the real cause of my grandmother's illness was that she drank a mouthful of broth made from dead horse meat. ”

"This is not..." Chen Feng opened his mouth instinctively, and then shut up.

He wanted to say that this was impossible. Since it is broth, it must have been boiled at least - Qiangdi in the North is not from the southeastern coast, so they like to cook the soup through water to ensure that the temperature of the soup does not exceed the boiling point. The diet of heavy oil in the North leads to the temperature of the soup being greater than the boiling point of water.

Not much plague virus can remain active at this temperature.

Furthermore, it is impossible for only the old man to drink this kind of broth.

but……

Song Shufu nodded: "Yeah, I've thought about it too. But it's so ridiculous. The temperature of the soup didn't kill the plague. The whole family drank it, and only the weak grandmother suffered. But that's it. "

Chen Feng lowered his head and said nothing. He personally does believe in Song Shufu, but...

From an "academic" perspective, Song Shufu's personal experience and long-standing judgment cannot be used as evidence.

Song Shufu also admitted this. That's why he is so down and out now.

"I am suffering from this disease." Song Shufu said: "If no one studies it, then I will do it myself. Anyway, I am not satisfied with the progress of my practice. Even if I don't live forever, I still have ten thousand years to live. Work slowly. That’s it.”

From Chen Feng's own point of view, Song Shufu's fastest way is to join a large project team, first become a high-level monk, accumulate reputation, and then attract a sum of funds to use in the direction he wants to research.

After all, the Corpse Refining Plague hardly infects humans and does not require urgent research.

But...some people are a little persistent after all.

Song Shufu continued: "The pathology report you gave me, although I don't know why, concealed most of the things, but it clearly stated that this was a plague spread by some kind of black-painted monster cannibalism, and then this patient was eating It’s the flesh of the black monster, right?”

Chen Feng nodded. The fact that the "patient" and the "blackened monster" belong to the same race... doesn't need to be explained, right?

"Do you know how animals that die of old age, disease, or disease are treated in our hometown?"

Chenfeng shook his head. This is not his area of ​​expertise.

"Well, the meat of animals that died of old age is hard and sour because they are too old. Ordinary people are not allowed to eat animals that have died of illness. So, some people cut off large pieces of meat from those animals and fed them to dogs. The rest were cooked and beaten into bones. Puree, mixed into hay feed, and fed to livestock.”

This is indeed normal practice. Grass-eating animals cannot digest meat because they have no teeth to chew it and no digestive enzymes. However, this situation can be avoided by steaming and beating the meat into bone paste. Meat and bone paste is very rich in crude protein, minerals, protein and fat, vitamins, etc.

On Earth, this is at least something that only existed in the industrial era.

"Qiang Di had this practice in ancient times. Usually, horses killed in battle were dragged back, and the meat was divided among the sergeants. The bones were ground, mixed with forage and fed to the war horses. Those war horses ate the same kind of bones and flesh, and then "Inheriting their fighting spirit," Song Shu replied, "Of course, I also inherited their plague."

"This is the original origin of the corpse-refining horse plague."

"A war horse infected with this kind of plague will walk forcefully, stumble, occasionally foam at the mouth, and be extremely aggressive. At the beginning, the sorcerers on the grassland thought it was the enemy's curse to raise the corpse, and felt that these The war horse has become a corpse."

"That's until today."