Lu Mingfei doesn’t want to be a superhero

In Zhao Helen's private laboratory.

In a small regenerated cradle, a white mouse with a missing tail crawled quietly, with a translucent "tail" extending from the section of the tail behind it.

"The biological tissue printing function currently only has the most basic function of building a model, and lacks a method to realize the model," Zhao Hailun said. "In my vision, a complete regenerative cradle can make up for all the missing tissue cells for organisms."

Lu Mingfei walked to the computer and reproduced the technology part of the project he saw in the equipment department, while saying: "Speaking of the final form of this project, as long as the necessary elements are provided for human beings, can it be achieved?" Print the human body directly?”

From a scientific point of view, there is no essential difference between human beings and anything else. They are nothing more than an aggregate of various atoms.

"This goal is too far away," Zhao Hailun shook his head. "If we can achieve this level, we can create humans out of thin air."

Looking at the lines of formulas and models copied by Lu Mingfei on the computer, Helen Zhao shook her head slightly: "It's useless. I have tried to work in this direction before, reconstructing stem cells based on the DNA in adult cells, and then letting the stem cells Split reproduction was used as the raw material for the regeneration cradle, but it didn’t take long for the research to reach a dead end and we had to give up.”

Lu Mingfei didn't pay attention to Zhao Hailun's denial. What he was replicating now was only the technology part of the equipment department's successful research. The equipment department's projects generally used alchemy and technology at the same time, and both were indispensable.

After replicating the technology part, Lu Mingfei looked at Helen Zhao: "Dr. Zhao, what I say next may be a little strange. I hope you can be patient and listen to me."

Helen Zhao nodded confused.

"Ahem," Lu Mingfei cleared his throat with a serious look on his face, "Excuse me, do you know alchemy?"

Helen Zhao:? ? ?

…

Four hours later.

As Lu Mingfei put a refined active crystal into the regeneration cradle, a layer of crystal-like fibers gradually began to grow on the broken tail on the back of the mouse in the regeneration cradle, and began to grow along the predetermined tail model - if it does not appear If unexpected, these crystals will eventually grow into the shape of a tail.

Helen Zhao opened her mouth and stared at the newborn long tail of the white mouse, her eyes blank, with an expression of "Who am I and where am I? Biology no longer exists."

Lu Mingfei wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Active crystal is a relatively basic material in alchemy, but refining active crystal is a very advanced special material. It is made by an alchemist master with reference to alchemical metals. It usually takes an experienced alchemist at least half a month. In order to create the same amount of refined active crystals, he was able to do it in four hours with his strong mental power, which was inevitably a bit tiring.

Highly pure quartz is "killed" and given life, which is the so-called "active crystal". After the active crystal undergoes a complex refining process, a "refined active crystal" can be obtained, which can accommodate living beings.

The so-called "living spirit" is the aggregation of spiritual elements of living things. From a popular perspective, it is the soul.

In the concept of alchemy, in addition to being able to exist in the state of the Philosopher's Stone, the spirit must reside in life, which means that the soul can only be accommodated by living beings.

Generally speaking, only alchemical metals that have been completely killed and given new life can accommodate living beings. From the concept of alchemy, these metals themselves are "alive", so they are also called "regenerated metals" and are alchemical It is the pinnacle of metal craftsmanship, and the injection of living recycled metal is essentially a unique life.

However, hybrids do not have the ability to make regenerated metals. Although they can obtain dragon-like animation by slaying dragons, they cannot be used until the master of alchemy invented the refined active crystal. Massive refined active crystals were gathered into the alchemical matrix. , it can accommodate a living dragon and use it to expand the field of alchemy.

However, the reputation of this master is mixed. The reason is that since the emergence of active refining crystals, there have always been a group of desperate and fallen alchemists who hunted other hybrids in an attempt to make living beings - although the living beings transformed by hybrids are not the same as dragons. The flexibility is incomparable, but it is better than safety.

Lu Mingfei is not interested in this conflict between ethics and technological progress, nor does he intend to rely on refining active crystals to contain living beings - after all, using refining active crystals to contain living beings means that regenerated metal cannot be produced. His goal was to refine the low-tech technology that was born next to him, so there was no need to use this substitute.

On the contrary, the concept of "living" repeatedly mentioned in alchemy inspired him, so he tried it with the refined active crystal. Unexpectedly, he did not expect that it could be used as a material for regenerating the cradle to restore the tail of the mouse.

"This... this is so amazing! What... is the principle of this substance?!" Zhao Hailun took out the refined active crystal from the regeneration cradle, and the tail of the white mouse, which had recovered to half of its size, immediately stopped growing.

During the production, Lu Mingfei had briefly introduced her to alchemy and the concept of refining active water. Zhao Hailun went from disdain for "medieval witchcraft" to feeling that these things seemed to make sense. From his pensive expression to now, it was as if his world view had been reshaped, and Lu Mingfei saw it all.

Putting the refined active crystal on the table, Helen Zhao grabbed Lu Mingfei's hand: "What kind of technology is this? Are the witchcraft and black magic in the Middle Ages real technologies?"

"Uh... from a certain point of view, it should be the technology of the previous civilization." Lu Mingfei said - alchemy is the technology of the dragon civilization.

"Can you tell me a little bit about it?" Helen Zhao stared at Lu Mingfei and asked eagerly, "I can tell you about the technology of the regenerative cradle in exchange."

"Yes, yes, but now it seems that refining the active crystal cannot solve this problem," Lu Mingfei said, "Although it can be combined with a mouse like biological tissue, it is still a crystal itself and cannot move. In other words, in the end, the mice will only get a beautiful prosthetic limb that has no rejection reaction, has no feeling, and cannot move like a real tail."

"Indeed... You said that it has the concept of 'living' in alchemy, but it can only be used as a container for... the soul, and cannot move like a body." Helen Zhao rubbed her temples and her eyes lit up, " Could it be that in alchemy, the concept of 'living' means that matter has certain qualities that can be combined with spiritual energy? Is this quality the key to distinguishing living bodies from non-living bodies?"

Lu Mingfei nodded thoughtfully: "It makes sense! If we can find this key, maybe we can use inorganic matter to replace organic matter as the regeneration cradle... Wait, will we be able to transform the legendary Silicon-based life forms and mechanical life forms! Can the Transformers and Terminators in the movie also be made?!"

"Yes, yes, and there's more..." Helen Zhao excitedly pulled Lu Mingfei to build models in front of the computer, and occasionally danced.

Of course, when Lu Mingfei became interested, his behavior was similar to hers.

…

late at night.

There are countless holographic screens open in the laboratory. Each screen displays different formulas, models, notes and even graffiti. They were all jotted down by Lu Mingfei and Zhao Hailun as they happened. Since there is no artificial intelligence assistance, After sorting it out, all these records were kept intact and processed manually when Zhao Hailun and Lu Mingfei were free.

The knock on the door of the private laboratory interrupted the conversation between Lu Mingfei and Zhao Helen.

"Who!" Zhao Helen looked dissatisfied.

"I'm fast, I'll open the door!" When Lu Mingfei finished speaking, he was already standing in front of the door.

Opening the door, Lu Mingfei's upper body leaned out of the door frame, and there was Natasha outside holding two boxes of pizza.

"Natasha, what are you doing here? Didn't you say don't disturb us if you have nothing to do?" Lu Mingfei frowned - he was just building a new model with Helen Zhao when he was suddenly interrupted by Natasha.

"I'm here to deliver food to you. You haven't been out for thirteen hours." Natasha held the pizza box to her forehead. "Two Frankensteins, don't any of you feel a little hungry?"

"Hungry? It seems a little..." After Natasha said this, Lu Mingfei realized that he was indeed a little hungry. He turned to the laboratory and asked: "Dr. Zhao, are you hungry?"

"When you tell me, I'm really a little hungry. I still have a few boxes of instant noodles here. Do you want to eat them?" Zhao Hailun replied.

"No, Natasha is here to deliver pizza to us. Let's talk while eating." While speaking, Lu Mingfei took the pizza from Natasha's hand at lightning speed and thanked her sincerely, "Thank you. You, Natasha."

"Need not……"

Before Natasha finished speaking, Lu Mingfei took the pizza and retreated behind the door, closing the door with a loud "bang" sound, interrupting Natasha's words.

Through the closed door, Lu Mingfei's voice could still be vaguely heard inside: "Hurry, hurry, Dr. Zhao, let's continue while eating..."

Natasha standing outside the door:...

No, my share is also in it! What should I eat?

…

Ten days later.

In Zhao Helen's private laboratory.

Lu Mingfei and Zhao Helen were sitting together. Both of them seemed to have not taken care of themselves for a long time. Zhao Helen's beautiful black long hair was tied up and was shiny because she hadn't washed it. Lu Mingfei was similar to her. .

Both of their white coats were stained with food stains. During this period, they had not left the laboratory once and had been conducting experiments.

Natasha delivers all three meals a day. Physiological problems can be solved by going to the bathroom in the laboratory. If you want to sleep, lie down on the office chair. Anyway, the laboratory has a constant temperature control system, so you won’t catch a cold. When will you sleep? Continue the experiment when you wake up.

Ten days later, Zhao Hailun, who was originally considered an intellectual beauty, had developed thick dark circles under her eyes. The light makeup she wore when they first met had long since been washed away, revealing a beautiful but haggard bare face.

Lu Mingfei's condition was much better than hers, he was just a little sloppy, but he was still very energetic - after all, not only was his physical fitness now inhuman, but he had also experienced Tony's devilish training back then.

And after ten days of high-intensity testing, progress was finally made.

In the regeneration cradle, as Lu Mingfei injected a sobriety agent, the anesthetized mouse stood up unsteadily.

This was no longer the original white mouse. As the experiment progressed, countless white mice died. Natasha would regularly help replace them when delivering food every day. Now she no longer has to knock on the door when entering the laboratory. Just go in, put down the food and new ones, take away the body of the white rat from the last experiment, then quietly close the door and leave, living like a housekeeper.

The white mouse standing up from the regenerated cradle at this moment has all its limbs and tail, but its whole body is glowing with a special luster—a luster that should appear on inorganic gems.

Not only did the appearance change, the mouse in the regeneration cradle started running quickly after a brief period of confusion, and the speed was obviously faster than other similar animals.

The scanning light repeatedly swept over the mouse, and Helen Zhao's bloodshot eyes stared closely at the cross-section and analysis diagrams on the screen: "The hair follicles, skin, muscles and bones of the mouse are all integrated with varying amounts of refined activity. Crystal, although there were signs of visceral failure proving that the fusion was incomplete, there was no rejection reaction..."

She turned to look at Lu Mingfei: "Do you know what this means?"

"Have we initially succeeded?!" Lu Mingfei asked tentatively.

"That's right! This means that the first phase of our research has been completed! As long as the problem of visceral failure is solved, the technology for the organic combination of inorganic matter and living bodies will be completed!" Zhao Hailun screamed with excitement, She jumped on Lu Mingfei and grabbed his shoulders, "We are making the history of biology!"

"Okay! I can make Transformers in the future!" Lu Mingfei was also full of excitement and grabbed Helen Zhao's shoulders. If she hadn't been a girl, he would have hugged and kissed her, "Dr. Zhao, you are really a genius! "

"Ahem!" Natasha coughed from the door.

Lu Mingfei put down Helen Zhao and looked at the door. Natasha was crossing her arms and looking at them expressionlessly.

"Natasha? Are you here to deliver food?" Lu Mingfei greeted him excitedly, "Let me tell you, our experiment has made a major breakthrough. If it goes well, we might be able to create the Transformers in the movie. !”

With a dark face, Natasha grabbed Lu Mingfei's arm: "Follow me!"

Lu Mingfei did not resist, and Natasha left the laboratory confused, leaving Helen Zhao, who was still in an excited state, humming a song and sorting out research materials.

Lu Mingfei was dragged all the way to the corner of the corridor by Natasha, and then pushed against the wall. Natasha stared at him seriously.

"Natasha, why are you looking at me like that..." Lu Mingfei was confused at first, but then he reacted, "Oops! I forgot about Fury! Sorry, sorry, I'll go find Dr. Zhao and unfreeze Director Fury... "

He was about to run back to find Helen Zhao, but unexpectedly Natasha suddenly said: "If you are not busy, Director Thaw, let me ask you, what are you doing with Helen Zhao?"

"As I said, we are engaged in an epoch-making research. As long as we continue to delve deeper, Transformers is not a dream in reality..." Lu Mingfei said.

"How can you study such a dangerous thing with someone casually?" Natasha's face was dark. "What if she has bad intentions? What if she is like me?"

"An agent like you?" Lu Mingfei glanced at Natasha and shook his head, "Natasha, you are overthinking. Dr. Zhao is indeed a genius in bioengineering. Such a person cannot be an agent. I know you Agents are good at acting, but culture and knowledge cannot be faked..."

Natasha:…

"I'm not talking about this, I'm talking about what if she has a special organization behind her like me? What if she is also a member of Hydra? You should be more cautious when contacting her!" Natasha said.

"Natasha, you are overthinking this. She was recommended by Tony. Tony must have investigated her origins long ago, and if she was Hydra, Fury's fake death would have been exposed by now." Lu Mingfei shrugged.

…

"I have already investigated Helen Zhao's background," Tony said while holding Pepper. "She is the youngest daughter of a small chaebol in South Korea. She has no inheritance rights, but she has been a genius since she was a child. She is obsessed with the research of bioengineering and does not understand the ways of the world. The focus of my life is entirely on research. I have never been in love, and my interpersonal relationships are very simple. I don’t like to socialize. I have contacted her several times through several scientific research seminars. It is true that she has no scheming. If I talk to Lu Ming If we had to be together, we would definitely not cheat him, and we can’t cheat him either.”

"Excellent family background, simple mind, never been in love, doesn't like to socialize, Asian beauty, genius bioengineer, has something in common with Lu Mingfei..." Pepper nodded, "From Lu Mingfei's point of view, it should be The perfect girlfriend indeed.”

"This is already the most suitable girl I can find," Tony said, "I don't believe Lu Mingfei can't be tempted this time!"

"What if?" Pepper asked, "You have tried to find him several times before, but haven't you failed all the time?"

"It's impossible to fail this time..."

Halfway through Tony's words, the phone suddenly rang: "Hey, it's Mingfei! How are you getting along with Dr. Zhao?"

On the phone, Lu Mingfei's tone was full of excitement: "Tony, Dr. Zhao is great!"

"Really?" Tony looked at Pepper proudly.

"Of course, she is definitely a genius in bioengineering!"

Tony:? ? ?