"Peptide chain fit?"
"A perfect match!"
"Close connection?"
"Absolutely correct!"
"I personally oversaw the preparation of all reagents for groups 1-6. Chen Ang, what was the task I assigned you yesterday?"
"Don't worry, Team Leader Jiang! There won't be any problems!"
Inside the laboratory, everything was proceeding smoothly, and everyone was in an atmosphere of extreme tension.
Everyone's body was tense, and no one dared to relax even for a moment.
Chen Ang, who was not yet forty, had huge dark circles under his eyes, but his expression was unusually excited.
He has been in the research group for two days now, and he is so excited about being able to participate in the human gene therapy research program that he can hardly express it.
And Jiang, the eighteen-year-old team leader, became his idol.
Upon joining the crew, Chen Ang spent nearly 24 hours straight familiarizing himself with everything he needed to know.
A few days ago, when Group Leader Feng Zhen was selecting people from the research institute, he happened to have other research tasks on hand, so unfortunately he was not selected.
With Shen Yiran's withdrawal, the research team is short one member.
Chen Ang suddenly felt that fate had smiled upon him and given him another chance, so he took this scientific research task especially seriously.
He quickly became Jiang Cheng's right-hand man, the kind who could stand on his own.
The only sounds in the entire laboratory were the rustling of machinery and quiet conversations.
From the stage, the team appears to be working together seamlessly, just like the gears Jiang Cheng had described earlier.
The unspoken understanding between everyone was clearly visible.
They've almost reached the point where they can cooperate at any time without exchanging words; sometimes, all it takes is a glance.
The research elites were determined to prove to their team leader that they could do it.
Now, the situation where someone couldn't even remember their genetic variant and needed Jiang Cheng to remind them no longer occurs.
I'm becoming more and more adept at operating it.
The Human Genome Project is a massive undertaking. When twenty top researchers truly immersed themselves in the project, they all felt a soul-stirring joy.
From zero to one.
From one to two.
Even small steps forward are so delightful.
"Report to Team Leader Jiang, the reagents are ready!" Chen Ang said.
"I understand. Set up the equipment and the camera, and I'll demonstrate the reagents on-site."
More than twenty research elites left their workbenches and moved the wheeled equipment to the center.
The microscope was aimed at the reagent, which had a slightly greenish tint.
Three days of tireless effort were the prerequisite for success; this reagent was essential.
"Next, I will inject the reagents into the live mutant single-point gene. You will observe the gene's reaction on the large screen and make records. I will report it after today's research is completed."
This is a routine we follow every day.
Every small breakthrough and every step of the process must be recorded in the archives, approved by Professor Zhong and the research institute, and then handed over to the state.
Research is not just a matter for twenty research elites and one team leader, Jiang.
This concerns the entire nation of China.
However, after Jiangcheng was fully injected with the reagent.
Something unexpected happened.
The mutated single-point genes fused together the moment they came into contact with the reagent.
The molecular structure formed in the peptide chain afterwards is completely incompatible with the gene.
Instead, it begins to wither and eventually dies...
In front of the big screen.
Everyone held their breath.
But they hadn't expected this outcome. They stared blankly at Jiang Cheng, who was frowning deeply.
"How could this be? The connection and fit were clearly at their peak."
Jiang Cheng envisioned that even if the two could not be closely connected after merging, they should at least absorb a small portion.
Then, based on the ratio of the absorbed reagents, we will continue the next step of the study.
However, the direct death of the gene cells left him completely at a loss.
Could it be that the research direction is wrong?
People started whispering among themselves.
It can be said that no one in the world understands the human gene formula better than Jiang Cheng. If even he cannot determine the correct direction, then the development of gene drugs will be a distant dream.
"Switch the ratio and try again."
Jiang Cheng calmly said something.
"Change the ratio again, reducing it by fifty percent."
He spoke again half an hour later.
"Cut it again..."
One hour later.
"No, it still won't work! Jiang Group, even though the situation of gene chain breakage has improved after changing the ratio, it is still breaking too fast. This is not medicine at all, it is poison!"
Jiang Cheng couldn't imagine what kind of reaction such a drug would have on already weakened child patients if it were injected into their bodies.
This could potentially accelerate the decay of genes within the body.
This can lead to premature death.
He grabbed a handful of hair in anguish.
This was completely different from the image he had previously imagined.
The research team's direction was absolutely correct... The secrets of the human genome that the system gave them were revealed through variations.
The conditions for the establishment of this gene reagent are also based on the variant.
Thirty thousand rigorous and complex sequences were used to arrive at a single reagent answer...
Is it too late to rethink our direction?
That means he has to overturn all his previous ideas.
Under these circumstances, even the Jiang Group was helpless, let alone the elites below the stage who had been following his plan step by step.
These people could only look at Jiang Cheng with pleading eyes.
He rubbed his face, staring blankly at the broken gene chain under the microscope.
The laboratory was completely silent.
There was silence for several minutes.
After this period of time, as if all of Jiang Cheng's strength had been drained, he walked to the chair on the stage and sat down in full view of everyone.
"Let's take a break, that's enough for today."
"Jiang Group..."
"Chen Ang, you and the others go first. We're not continuing. I need to calm down and think things through for a while."
Suddenly, everyone took off their protective suits and walked towards the door.
In the end, he was the only one left in the laboratory.
Jiang Cheng stared blankly at a certain point for a long time, his expression vacant.
After a moment, he suddenly grabbed his hair and rubbed it vigorously, his face full of pain and frustration.
In fact, he was on the verge of collapse when the shattered pieces could not be reconciled for the fourth time.
He couldn't vent his anger in front of everyone, as he was the backbone and had to maintain the composure expected of a clan leader at all times, regardless of any deviations in the direction of events.
At the entrance.
There was a person standing there.
Chen Ang originally wanted to come back to get his things, but seeing the clan chief's pained expression, he stood there for a long time... and finally decided not to disturb him and left.
Jiang Cheng just sat there in the lab, lost in thought.
Until the sun set in the west, the sky was filled with the glow of sunset.
Until night fell and it was pitch black.
He walked out, looking utterly dejected.
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