Chapter 90 Coincidence
With time as the horizontal axis and the concentration of neon trifluoride gas in the atmosphere as the vertical axis, in this graph, the concentration curve of neon trifluoride gas has been rising at a roughly similar angle until the 58th year of the catastrophe, when it becomes a horizontal line.
But that's not the point. The point is, if we extrapolate back from this concentration curve, from the first catastrophe when neon trifluoride gas was detected 26 years ago, and maintain a similar upward trend, then...
The zero point just happened to fall on the first year of the catastrophe era!
The huge conference hall was filled with solemnity. Zhou Cheng's heart was beating uncontrollably, nearly jumping out of his chest.
At present, the gas analyzers used in the Atmospheric Evolution Laboratory are state-of-the-art.
It was the most advanced in human civilization in its twilight years and it was also the most advanced in its peak years.
So, is it possible that this extremely small amount of neon trifluoride gas appeared as early as the first year of the Cataclysm Era?
But at that time, the content was so low that even the most advanced gas analyzers could not detect its presence.
While human civilization was completely unaware of it, the content of this gas continued to rise year by year, with its content in the atmosphere becoming more and more, until 26 years after the disaster, when its concentration rose to a level that could be detected by the most advanced gas detectors.
But at that time, people had not discovered this gas.
The reason is simple: in the 26 years since the disaster, people have already conducted countless air quality tests, and each time they have found nothing.
After countless testing experiments, people have long given up hope of finding clues from the composition of the air.
After that, such high-precision air analysis tests were never carried out again.
Until this year, just because of the requirement of "permanent marker detection in the atmosphere" proposed by itself, the Atmospheric Evolution Laboratory once again started such long-dormant high-precision air composition detection, and then, it happened to discover the existence of this gas.
After roughly thinking about this possibility in his mind, Zhou Cheng immediately stood up and asked, "What effect does this gas have on the human body?"
Zhou Cheng has reason to suspect that the loss of human fertility is due to the influence of this gas?
"We don't know yet. We know almost nothing about the nature of this gas. But..."
Wei Ming pondered for a moment and gave a somewhat unexpected answer: "Even if there is an impact, it is almost impossible for us to detect it. Its concentration is too low.
The total mass of air an adult breathes in their lifetime is about 400 tons. Of this 400 tons of air, the total mass of neon trifluoride is only about 0.3 grams.
Such low concentrations, such small quantities... I think it's unlikely that this is what caused us to lose our fertility. No, there's no chance of that happening."
Zhou Cheng asked, "What exactly is the special feature of this gas?"
"Specifically, it's almost impossible for it to exist. At least, under our current scientific theory, it shouldn't exist."
"Is it possible to synthesize it naturally? Does it exist naturally?"
"It doesn't exist. It can't exist."
Wei Ming was very decisive about this and immediately shook his head to deny it.
Zhou Cheng looked at the scientists with chemistry-related majors and saw that they gave the same answer.
"So, am I to understand that... synthesizing this gas requires technology beyond our human civilization?"
Wei Ming nodded silently.
The conference room fell into silence again.
The concentration curve shows that the gas most likely appeared in the Earth's atmosphere starting in the first year of the catastrophe.
It was also from that year that human civilization lost its fertility.
There is a very high probability that there is a correlation between the two, or even a direct connection.
At the same time, humans do not have the ability to synthesize this gas, and it is not possible for it to be synthesized naturally. Therefore, there is only one entity that can release this gas into the human atmosphere.
Moon goddess.
But its concentration is too low, so low that it is almost impossible to have any impact on any living organism.
Wei Ming looked down at the computer and spoke again: "I received some new experimental data.
We increased the concentration of the gas to one part per ten thousand, which is more than ten billion times higher than the content in the atmosphere. We then used mice, birds, pigs, and monkeys as experimental subjects and had them stay in this environment for two hours.
We then dissected these animals and concluded that their bodies were not affected in any way, especially their reproductive capacity, which was completely unaffected.
Of course, there are also cases where the impact is long-term and therefore not noticeable in the short term. But generally, if there is no impact now, there is a high probability that there will be no impact later.
In addition, we isolated some human cells and exposed them to high concentrations of neon trifluoride gas for up to two hours, and activity analysis showed that these cells were also unaffected."
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The meeting lasted a full day.
As questions were raised and answered one after another, and as experimental data continued to come in from various laboratories, people gradually reached a consensus.
The gas neon trifluoride is almost certain to come from the Moon God or its affiliated forces.
At the same time, this gas is almost certainly directly related to the loss of human fertility. Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence?
Also, with the current technological capabilities of human civilization, it is almost impossible to figure out how the gas neon trifluoride causes humans to lose their fertility.
Because all experiments have shown that this gas has almost no effect on the human body.
It is not yet clear whether there is a lack of some other key substances, for example, it is the combined effect of neon trifluoride and some other unknown substances that causes human infertility, rather than the effect of neon trifluoride alone.
Faced with this almost biggest breakthrough since the Age of Cataclysm, the decision makers made the decision immediately without any hesitation to devote all their efforts to research in this area, but it is still unknown when a breakthrough will be achieved.
Zhou Cheng's thoughts were on another aspect.
Where did Luna... produce these gases? And how did they release them into the Earth's atmosphere?
Recalling the two slips of paper and a nameplate that had been placed in his hands earlier, clearly made and written by humans, as well as the words that the First Decision-maker had seen...
Did it do all these things by itself?
Perhaps, there really exists a human organization composed of humans and dependent on the Moon Goddess. It is right here on Earth, hidden in the human world.
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