The Goddess Shines on America

Of course, Alice's real physical strength would not be consumed so easily. After simply filling her stomach with hamburgers, she continued to fight as the main force of the porter team. Not only moving the cardboard boxes, but also assembling the equipment and laying out the basic laboratory shapes, etc. After a whole afternoon of busy work, all the work was finally solved.

"Success!"

Shouting so loudly, an exaggerated potted plant was finally moved into the seventh basement of this huge bungalow.

"Really, my dear Huahua?"

"I knew I was going to die of exhaustion."

As she said, Sissi lay lazily on a chair, looking at the potted plant.

There is no doubt that it is the mysterious flower that Alice found in the swamp.

It's just that although the flower bud is not big, its root system is surprisingly developed, dozens of roots are more than one meter long... Perhaps it should be fortunate that it is a swamp plant after all, not a desert species? Anyway, the flower pot used to hold it must be big enough. Such a small flower, such a large porcelain pot, only Alice has the energy to move it in.

Ashley sat on a swivel chair and turned back and forth: "Leave the question of the flower aside, is the layout of the laboratory okay? Will it be too messy?"

The area of ​​this room is about 1,000 square feet, which is slightly larger than a standard apartment with two bedrooms and one living room. As the current main laboratory area, the most valuable thing in it is the seven high-end centrifuges. Of course, apart from glassware such as microscopes, computers, and measuring cylinders and beakers, there are no shortage of tables, chairs and benches, just...

"Let's put it like this first."

Facing the decoration like a medical warehouse in the house, Alice chuckled and said, "You know, we don't even hire professional researchers now. If I'm alone, it's easy to say."

Maiya was standing in front of a table, looking at a centrifuge that hadn't been removed from the plastic wrapping: "Beforehand, the three of us are absolutely incapable of helping you. Since your brain is so developed, even if you It’s okay to have university professors as interns, right? I don’t think I can be of much help, Sissy, Ashley, what do you think?”

The two girls nodded repeatedly, and Alice looked at her watch and said, "It's getting late today, you should go home and sleep quickly. I graduated a long time ago, and you all still have to go to school, don't worry." Couldn't get out of bed the next morning."

As soon as these words came out, Sissy was the first to jump up from the chair, seeming to have forgotten the exhaustion before: "What's more! I can do as many questions as I have asked for these few days off. Let's go, Maiya , here you have a driver's license, Alice looks like she's going to spend the night here, how about you?"

Maiya nodded of course, and Ashley also stood up lazily: "I don't care~ It's no big deal if you have a day off. Hey, Alice, are you going to start the experiment right away?"

"Of course."

Alice touched the budding flower at her hand: "Didn't you see that bag, I already sliced ​​a rhizome, and I'm just waiting for these things to study as soon as they arrive!"

"Well, then I'll stay with you. Sissy, are you jealous?"

Even if you are jealous, it is not as important as going to school. The situation of the two girls is still very different. Now that Ashley has been asked for help in the Eton registration exam, if Sissy still has poor grades, it will be too unjustifiable.

In this way, Maiya and Sissy immediately waved goodbye. Going out the door, the buzzing sound of the elevator gradually faded away, and the two girls quickly left the seventh floor.

"Wow~!

As soon as the point-up-down sound disappeared, Alice yelled strangely, and said to Ashley: "Then buddy, I'm going to do experimental slices here, what do you want to do?"

Naturally, Ashley had nothing urgent to do. Seeing that Alice couldn't wait to unpack the microscope, she said, "You can do whatever you want. But Alice, what secrets do you plan to discover on this flower?"

"Of course it's why it can block my mental power, or there may be some other secrets, it depends on what you can find."

Alice was busy doing various experimental preparations, and said by the way: "And Ashley, don't you think Caesar is also of great research value?"

"Caesar..."

Ashley murmured thoughtfully.

As for the orangutan that we met last summer, of course, everyone knows that it is special.

Of course Los Angeles has a zoo, who hasn't seen what a chimpanzee should look like.

So in contrast, Caesar's various behaviors are much more advanced than ordinary chimpanzees.

He can use the toilet, and he's learned the basics in just seven lessons, and it doesn't cost a single banana.

It knows to snap the lid on the box when it's done eating its nuts, and it knows to close the trapdoor when it returns to the attic bedroom.

It even knows to keep close to its owner when being led for a walk, so as not to disturb the children.

Such an extremely special little guy really has great potential to be studied, and Ashley is even more aware that if any biologist knows the existence of Caesar, they will definitely make the same choice.

"It's true."

In this way, the research officially began.

It was night, the moment when the great scientist Alice became a botanist for the first time. In fact, from an outsider's point of view, this is a complete waste of money like a prodigal girl's game. The equipment bought at a total cost of millions of dollars is arranged in a patchwork in the depths of the seventh floor of the basement. For some people's whim of curiosity. If this willful behavior is placed in any normal and ordinary family, it must be disciplined to death by the parents.

Ashley was quite curious at the beginning. For example, when Alice manipulated an ultra-high-speed centrifuge worth tens of thousands, for the first time, the sliced ​​cells collected from the rhizomes of flowers were struggling, the excitement was still very good. But over time, it gets boring.

At 9:30 in the middle of the night, she was lying in the hammock and flipping through today's newspaper. Not far away, Alice was still staring at the microscope, wondering what the plant cells were so interesting about.

"...The housing price has gone up again."

Right now, Ashley is watching financial news, and the topic of this issue is the recent investment hotspots in Japan.

"In three months, it has increased by another seven percentage points? Tsk tsk, although it is a little lower than the 10% in the last three months, but this is the house price..."

Since the signing of the Plaza Accord last year, the Japanese investment community has become hotter. As the exchange rate of the yen against the US dollar continues to rise, a large number of rich people, led by major consortium capitalists, are investing their funds in the stock market and real estate market. Rising prices have also stimulated the investment desire of the common people. According to newspaper statistics, in the recent period, bank micro-loans have seen a huge increase, and a new round of investment boom will come at any time.

"Hey, Alice, just read the news. Murdoch bought a high-end apartment in Ginza, and the sum is eight million dollars. Alice?"

After hearing no answer, Ashley looked up at the experimental equipment.

I don't know how long it lasted. Alice has been observing the microscope, and this is not an ordinary observation. The computer next to the instrument is displaying a lot of things that I don't understand, and that is...

"Inside the cell?"

The rumored electron microscope, this is a very rare thing for Ashley. She came to Alice's place quietly, and said softly, "Did you find anything?"

I didn't think Alice would answer anything, but she said suddenly: "It's useless to ask me now. This is also the first time I have played with scientific observation. The stem cells alone are enough for me to see."

Ashley nodded again and again. She is now a ninth grade high school student, and the school also offers practical biology classes, so she is quite familiar with this aspect: "What is the resolution of the electron microscope?"

"0.2 nanometers, a thousand times that of ordinary optical microscopes."

Ashley looked at the computer screen, there was indeed a very incomprehensible cell pattern on it, but as far as her poor biological knowledge was concerned, being able to distinguish the nucleus was already the limit, and she couldn't figure out anything else.

"I remember...Mr. Summer in our class said that the observation samples of the electron microscope must be specially treated?"

Saying so, Ashley looked around. The current laboratory layout is of course relatively simple, that is, do you put the relevant instruments on the table? Except for expensive equipment such as ultra-high-speed centrifuges, the surrounding environment is really not much different from ordinary high school chemistry laboratories. .

On the table next to it, measuring cylinders and beakers were arranged in a patchwork pattern, obviously looking like they had just been used.

"It needs special treatment. When I was preparing just now... Ah yes, you are reading a newspaper."

Alice stared at the microscope without raising her eyes, a colleague with an optical version, instead of staring at the computer screen connected to the electron microscope next to her.

"According to different research requirements, there are also many processing methods. For example, in order to preserve the original shape of the sample as much as possible, glutaraldehyde is used to harden the sample, or osmic acid is used to stain fat; another example is cold fixation, where the sample is placed in liquid acetone. Quick freezing in alkane, so that the water will not crystallize and form non-crystalline ice, which can make the damage to the sample relatively small, but the contrast of the image is very low. Another example..."

"Ah~ I don't understand, I don't understand! Just tell me, when will you discover any secrets!"

Alice raised her head and smiled at Ashley who looked depressed.

"Honey, even though I'm a director and screenwriter, we're not making a third-rate sci-fi movie right now. Put a certain sample in the laboratory and you can immediately discover some secrets. Do you think I'm dealing directly with zombie viruses? ?”

As she spoke, she rolled her eyes at Ashley who didn't know anything, and lowered her head again.