Chapter 134: Initial progress
After that day, everything seemed to accelerate.
First, Melon and his group cultivated their spiritual bodies one after another, and most of Aiyou's invisible forces also succeeded in their cultivation, and their overall strength increased.
Then Pu Bo accurately configured the promote02 potion.
Don't think that this matter will be easy just because you have the raw materials.
Imperial Research Institute's promote02 is made by diluting cyan powder.
Before they met Sli and Slang, Pu Bo had not fully analyzed the ingredients of the blue powder, and two of the components were unclear.
One of the ingredients was found by Sli and Slang, which is various types of mental power extracts.
As for what the other ingredient was, Pu Bo's rigorous attitude prevented him from making random guesses, but he knew that it was this substance that allowed the spiritual powers of creatures that were not of the same kind to be barely integrated, and promoted the use of this spiritual power by the experimental subject.
Therefore, in order to prevent the chaotic mental power from harming the experimental subject, the drug must be re-injected every once in a while, using that unknown ingredient to suppress the chaotic mental power and once again promote the experimental subject to accumulate the substances needed for evolution.
Pu Bo also speculated that the last injection before the experimental subject matured should actually be two injections, one injection of unknown ingredients, and the other injection to extract more pure mental power.
The two components use the body of the experimental subject as a battlefield. If the experimental subject can hold on, he will survive, otherwise he will be blown up by the two powerful forces.
Later, the Imperial Research Institute's experiments failed repeatedly. It was probably because there was not enough unknown substance to suppress the violent and chaotic mental power, which caused the experimental subjects to be exploded as well.
Sli and Slang said that after injecting the promete02 drug, one would feel very uncomfortable because injecting promote02 is equivalent to a maturation experiment on a weakened version of the experimental subject.
Based on what Sli and Slang said, Pu Bo added some strengthening and nourishing medicines to the original promote02, making the originally violent medicine much milder.
These medicines for strengthening the body and replenishing the vital energy are not ingredients known to the empire, but were provided by Nan Qi.
Pu Bo was very surprised that those plants that they usually wouldn't even look at and that tasted bad could actually be used to extract ingredients that were beneficial to almost all living things.
He said to Nan Qi, "It seems that relying too much on technology and science and ignoring the gifts of nature is an extremely wrong decision. You have taught me a vivid lesson."
"As long as it's useful, it's fine. I just have a little more experience than you guys in surviving in harsher environments."
Nan Qi did not take credit for it. The scientific development in this world was far more advanced than that in his previous life, and the technology for extracting useful substances from plants was also very mature.
They did not find those plants useful, largely because these plants were poisonous, and also because of different civilization heritage.
In today's world, hunger is almost non-existent. Nutritional supplements are convenient and nutritious, with a wide variety of flavors and prices that cater to all classes of insects. This is completely different from their own era, when hunger was common due to various plant and animal mutations and industrial decline.
No matter what kind of creature it is, only when it is hungry will it try to find out what is edible and what is not, thus discovering the functions of plants and compiling them into books to pass them down.
These sentinels walk in the wilderness all year round, and these edible and life-saving things are engraved in their minds.
After all, Nan Qi felt that he was just standing on the shoulders of giants, which was nothing.
Of course, Pu Bo didn't know any of this. He used substances extracted from plants like ginseng and angelica to make the medicine milder and reduce its side effects without changing its original effect.
The brothers Sli and Slang strongly requested that the medicine be used on their bodies without waiting for Pu Bo to conduct experiments on mice.
With Pu Bo's cold eyes, like those of a killer, Sly said, "The situation of the mice is different from ours. We are stronger than them and won't die so easily."
Slang chimed in, "Every time we inject Promote02, we're in excruciating pain. Since the drug's properties haven't changed, at most this time we'll be in more pain. It won't be dangerous, and it'll also give you real experimental data to adjust the drug. It's like killing two birds with one stone."
Pu Bo still disagreed, saying that the medicine could not be used without testing. Sli saw his persistence and hugged Pu Bo.
Silang took the opportunity to pick up the injection gun in the low-temperature cabinet and shot himself in the arm and shot Sli in the arm again.
Pu Bo: “…”
Pu Bo was so angry that he pressed Sli and Slang onto the examination table and examined them carefully.
Sly remained silent, but Slang smiled nonchalantly: "We already agreed to provide you with research, why do you have such an expression? I'm not going to die."
"Shut up!" Pu Bo said with a cold face, "Do you think I'm a researcher at the Imperial Research Institute? If they don't respect your own wishes, do you also not respect yourselves? What do you think of yourselves? A piece of meat that anyone can manipulate?"
Si Lang was startled, then quieted down, letting Pu Bo manipulate him. After a while, he moved his lips: "Sorry, I don't think you are the same. I just..."
"It's just that they haven't seen any insects for a long time, so they think we are the same kind." Sli's voice was calm, but it made Pu Bo's movements gentler.
After the inspection, Pu Bo again forced the two insects to stay in the monitoring room, forbidding them to leave even for meals. After 12 hours had passed and he was sure the drug had no strong effect, he released the two insects, which were almost asleep, to rest.
Sli and Slang ran away like rabbits as if they had been pardoned. From then on, the two brothers became more obedient, which made Mellon marvel at the sight.
While Pu Bo was researching potions and battling wits with the twins, Nan Qi fulfilled his promise and cleverly brought the news of a huge living laboratory hidden in the sewers to the desk of the Insect King Hoover Walker.
The crude and simple method left Mellon and the others dumbfounded.
There are some killers in the interstellar space who are wanted by many countries. On a dark and windy night, Nan Qi wrapped himself tightly and rushed straight to the palace.
Of course, before they could even sneak in, the White Band female soldier arrived. The massive noise alerted the Silver Wings, who were under Hoover Walker's command, and they secretly dispatched.
Then, the pursued Nanqi brand thief disappeared into the sewer manhole at the entrance of the laboratory below.
The killer being hunted disappeared out of thin air, and the Silver Wing Brigade was shocked. They quickly locked down the area and applied for the highest authority.
The killer entered the Central Star silently and almost sneaked into the palace. Everyone knew that the killer did not enter the palace to tour the palace. This put the Central Star Police Headquarters in a difficult position and gave Livo Katon another eye drop.
As the commander of the military, Bai also has responsibilities, but his quick reaction and scaring off the killer made him more useful than the Star Police Department and the Silver Wing Squadron that lost the killer.
Hoover Walker couldn't blame them too much, so he could only vent his anger on the Star Police Department and the Silver Wing Squadron.
The Silver Wings were slapped in the face, so naturally they were unwilling to give up. After the permission was granted, they dug deep into the area within a hundred miles where the killer disappeared, even catching rats. The things that the Harberson Psychological Institute wanted to hide could no longer be hidden.
The Silver Wing Squadron's report was delivered directly to Hoover Walker's desk.
The Silver Wing Brigade acted quickly enough. Even if the underground laboratory received the news, they were unable to move collectively. Only a few important senior executives escaped, and the rest all stayed behind.
No matter how secretive the Silver Wing Brigade's actions were, they still alarmed some citizens. The public relations department was dispatched to appease the citizens, and they told such lies that Nan Qi and the others almost believed them.
Hoover Walker had something to hide and didn't dare to speak out, so the laboratory equipment, experimental subjects, various miscellaneous things, and most importantly, the information and researchers were all secretly transported back.
However, what he thought was a secret was seen by Nan Qi and others who had already known about it and lured them into the game.
But they didn't move, they waited.
"What are you waiting for?" In the villa, young Carter scratched his head. "If the Insect King gets these, wouldn't that be like adding wings to a tiger?"
Arnold ruffled his brother's hair and said softly, "For a lab this large, unimportant research equipment can be repurchased, and unimportant lab consumables can be re-obtained. However, research materials and researchers are non-renewable resources."
"For these reasons, the owners behind the underground laboratories will not be willing to give them up."
"Ah, I see. We are waiting for them to take advantage of the situation!" Carter suddenly realized.
"Smart," Nan Qi looked at Carter with admiration, "but not entirely correct. I'm waiting for them to make a big noise."
"Massive?" Carter was puzzled. "Isn't it said that even if we make a big fuss now, we won't be able to find all the pest laboratories, and it might even alert the enemy and destabilize the country?"
"It's not the kind of big fuss that everyone knows about." Nan Qi smiled slightly. "Just make a big fuss in front of Hoover Walker. As long as he feels uneasy, everything in the underground laboratory will most likely be moved outside the central planet. That way, we will have a real chance."
There is a chance to rob everything, let the insects that have not been harmed go free, and let the insects that have been harmed survive as much as possible. This is also one of the original intentions of deciding to eradicate the Haberson underground laboratory.
Maybe God is on their side this time, and everything develops according to their ideas.
The incident in Harberson's case is getting bigger and bigger. Many citizens have begun to realize that the matter is not simple and are discussing it on the Internet.
Public opinion quickly fermented, and various speculations emerged one after another. Nan Qi arranged for Ai You's subordinates to fish in troubled waters and publish half-true and half-false news on the Internet. Even though the public relations department urgently deleted the post, the news still leaked out.
Hoover Walker became increasingly uneasy, fearing that the secret would be discovered if the night went on. Under the pressure of the other party becoming even more rampant if he left the central star, he decisively moved these things and issued an order to destroy them.
But before they could destroy it, the space pirates raised by the Harberson Psychological Institute arrived.
Bai brought Aiyou's "Legion" Huang Que. Because they had cultivated spiritual bodies, their combat capabilities were much stronger than the Silver Wing Brigade and the pirates. They quickly captured prisoners and killed people, and the operation was a great victory.
Two days later, after arranging all the living and dead creatures on the new planet they had bought, Mellon excitedly recounted how they heroically captured all the bad bugs.
"It's a pity that those important information are still hidden." Mellon sighed.
The information can help them better understand the experiments so that they can save the poor surviving test subjects.
Bai was more open-minded this time. He said to Mellon, "It's good enough to be like this. We can't be too greedy."
"That's right." Mellon felt relieved. He picked up the apple on the coffee table and took a bite. He asked vaguely, "What about Herbert Griffin? Should we let him go this time?"
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