In the holy city, a place full of modern technology.
It is filled with the most advanced technological equipment from all over the world, and in the middle, Jane Foster is placed in a life-support device filled with blue liquid. Those blue liquids are dragon bone extract!
"How is she?" Kai asked as he walked up to Merlin.
Merlin, the head of Kingsman's Science and Technology Department, is also the chief scientist of Kingsman. After Kai brought Jane back, he immediately sent her to the Science and Technology Department, asking them to try their best to make up for Jane's lost vitality.
Although Kai doesn't like Jane, he's not stingy enough to see her burp. What's more, fundamentally, the reason why she overuses ether particles is also the reason why Kai can't do anything. It is reasonable to cure her.
Sif and Frigga also came to the life-sustaining warehouse to check on Jane's status.
Asgard's technological level is very high, at least much higher than that of Earth. Although they are still a mainly magical civilization, it does not mean that they are unfamiliar with technology. For example, they are familiar with the data of the life-sustaining warehouse.
After that, you can understand it.
"It's very bad." Merlin was a little surprised when he saw Sif and Frigga, but he didn't ask much. "When she was just delivered, we found that the cells in her body had begun to decline... Her current body
The tissue has been seriously aged, and it can even be said that she has a face of thirty years old, but her body is that of eighty years old."
Humans have been aging since birth, but aging can be controlled. The key to controlling aging lies in a special structure inside the cell - telomeres. In order to stay healthy, the cells in our body need to be constantly renewed. In this process
Some senescent cells will be eliminated by themselves, but other senescent cells will accumulate and increase in the body, releasing inflammatory signals to other cells, causing aging of surrounding tissues and damaging body functions. These cells are called "senescence" by scientists.
"Cell". Why do cells age? This depends on a special structure in the cell - telomeres. Our genetic information is stored in segments of DNA, which are genes, and genes are located on the chromosomes in the nucleus of the cell. In each cell,
At the ends of each chromosome, there is a small segment of special DNA-protein complexes that are responsible for maintaining the integrity of the chromosomes. These complexes are called telomeres.
But the problem is that every time a cell divides, the telomeres will shorten a little, just like the soles of shoes will wear out. When the telomeres are shortened to a certain extent or even fall off, the cells will stop metabolism and no longer divide to produce new cells. At this time
Cells will age and die. Generally speaking, people with shorter telomeres are more likely to get sick and have weaker bodies.
But the damn thing is, Merlin and the others discovered that the telomeres in Jane's body were greatly consumed!
In other words, the number of Jane's cell divisions will be greatly reduced!
What Merlin just said didn't mean that Jane's body was really aging, but that her remaining time was like that of an old person.
"How effective is dragon bone extract?" Kay asked.
Kai didn't know what the mechanism of ether particles was, but one thing was certain that the changes in Jane's body were definitely related to ether particles.
Now we only hope that dragon bone extract can restore this situation.
"The effect is very good. But... we noticed that the decline of the dragon bone's power in her body is very abnormal. We need to further verify the specific situation. After all, there are too few experimental samples of dragon bone extract, and we are not sure whether it is different from individual to individual.
Caused."
There are many dragon bone extracts, but they are limited after all, so this non-renewable substance has been strictly restricted. For now, there are not many people who actually use dragon bone extracts. The base is not large enough, so it is naturally impossible to conduct thorough research.
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"In addition... we have to consider another possibility." Merlin pushed up his glasses: "That is cancer..."
Cancer is a very special disease. It is also related to telomeres. Telomeres inhibit the proliferation of aneuploid cells by generating stress signals and respond to aneuploidy. However, telomerase, which synthesizes telomeres,
Perhaps it can indirectly promote the survival of aneuploid cells by slowing down the stress signals induced by telomeres, thereby promoting the occurrence of carcinogenesis in the body. Telomeres and telomerase play dual functions in inhibiting and promoting tumorigenesis. Telomeres and telomerase play dual functions in inhibiting and promoting tumorigenesis.
When granzyme is missing, telomeres will shorten the lifespan of cells and inhibit the occurrence of tumors. However, cells with shorter telomeres are more likely to lose their cap structure, which will lead to cell disasters and genetic instability, leading to many
Types of cancer.
Ordinary cancers can be cured, but the situation in Jane's body is completely different from that of ordinary people. At least according to the current monitoring situation, it is very pessimistic!
Ether particles have completely escaped the detection range of human science today. At least all the current instruments cannot detect it. Jane's current state is very bad.
Sif and Frigga looked at each other, helpless.
Ether particles are also a mystery to Asgard, and they don't understand many things, let alone solve them.
"It seems that if you want to really save Jane's life, you really have to find a way from the dark elves."
…
Soon, Kai showed up at Stark Tower with Frigga, Sif and Jane.
When they teleported to Stark Tower, Tony and Paige were... well, doing some exercise.
As a result, a large group of people suddenly appeared, which almost scared Tony out of his mind. Paige was the most direct, screaming and running into the bathroom wrapped in flyers...
"Fake! You must give me a reason not to kill you today!!! Otherwise..."
"The world is about to be destroyed, and you are still here to show off your prostitution in the daytime! You let me down so much!!!" The villain complained first, after all, suddenly running into Tony's room at this time... It is really unreasonable, but this
It’s Tony’s own fault too! Who told him that the accuracy of the teleporter he designed was so poor?
He originally planned to teleport people to the living room.
Tony held a pillow under his crotch and pointed at Kai, unable to even speak.
"Okay, put on your clothes quickly. There are two distinguished guests here. Don't scare them with your little things." Kai waved his hand and led Frigga and Sif out first.
"Little?! How dare you call me little?!! Believe it or not, I'll take it out now and scare you to death!" Tony yelled, jumping behind him.
Unexpectedly, Xif actually turned her head and looked over, as if she wanted to really confirm the size.
Then Tony immediately became scared.
About five minutes later, Pepper came out with a red face and a drink to help Tony greet the guests. As for Tony... he was still angry at the moment.
Although Pepper was a little scared, she was really not as shy as the little girl.
"This is Sif, you should know. This is Frigga, yes, the Frigga from Nordic mythology, Odin's wife, Thor's mother." Kai introduced Frigga and Sif simply and clearly.
Sif once hung out with the Three Warriors of Asgard on Earth for a while, and Pepper really knew her. But she had never met Frigga. Then Kai pointed at Jane who had been unconscious: "You may not know this, she
The name is Jane Foster, Thor’s girlfriend on Earth.”
"I know her." Pepper nodded. She knew that Thor and Jane were in love, but they were not familiar with them.
Kai also forgot whether the two of them had met before, after all, it didn't matter at all.
At this time, Tony also prepared himself mentally and ran out angrily.
Pepper quickly grabbed him.
"Don't be rude, Tony. That's the Queen of Asgard!"
Pepper has a better perspective on the overall situation than Tony. After all, Frigga's status is extremely noble. If something happens, the entire earth will be in trouble.
"Queen? That idiot Thor's mother??" Tony blurted out.
Then Pepper saw with embarrassment that Frigga's face became even more ugly.
There is no way, one son is not known whether he is alive or dead, and the other son is being called a fool. Even a mother will not look good.
Pepper quickly changed the subject: "I remember you went to London and then disappeared. Now the White House and SHIELD are in chaos. They are looking for you everywhere. How come you are here?"
When Kai heard this, he didn't react at first, but he immediately realized something was wrong: "Wait a minute... you two bastards! Even the politicians in the White House and the 25 people from S.H.I.E.L.D. are worried about you two.
You are actually still interested in showing off your prostitution during the day?!? Are you still my friend?"
Pepper also felt weird, and only Tony knew.
This bastard is talking nonsense again!
"Fart! We don't believe anything will happen to you at all! This is trust! Trust! Know your fault! You bastard!"
Tony actually misses the cold and aloof Kai in the past. Although he was also annoying at that time, he is definitely not as annoying as he is now. When Kai treats outsiders, he gives people a reliable and cold impression.
But only acquaintances know that this guy is actually very boring. For example, he has several girlfriends, and he even has an affair with a married woman!
"Okay, okay, don't worry about these details. We are in big trouble this time."
Tony still fell for the trick, Kai changed the topic smoothly again, and Tony didn't even know it yet.
Maybe, he knows, he just enjoys this kind of conversation.
Happy to be fooled by Kai.
It sounds impossible, but it is actually like this. Tony has always been a lonely guy. He has been cursed by knowledge. His superior wisdom makes him look down on mediocre people. His arrogant character makes him unwilling to wrong himself.
.
So he has very few friends.
Currently there are only three, Happy, Rhodes and Kai.
Kai told the truth about the ether particles and the dark elves.
"The situation is like this. We have no way to remove the ether particles from Jane's body. What's worse is that the dark elves will be like wild dogs smelling poop, constantly pursuing the ether particles. Once they get them... not only
Asgard alone, even the earth will instantly become a lifeless and dead place. So we have to fight the dark elves."
"Let aliens invade the earth again?" Tony said with a headache: "You know this is not a good idea. If those people know that the dark elves came to the earth for Jane... I really can't imagine what will happen then.
What."
Tony finally grew up a lot with Kai.
If it were Tony in the past, he wouldn't care about this. He would definitely slap his forehead and start fighting with the dark elves.
As for what other people think...he doesn't care!
But now, he at least knows how difficult this matter is.
"What do you mean by this? To protect Jane is to protect the earth itself! The dark elves will not let the earth go easy just because the people on earth hand over Jane."
Sif didn't quite understand what Tony meant.
Tony opened his mouth. He was a little embarrassed to explain this matter. After all, it would make the Asgardians think that the earthlings were too selfish.
Although this is indeed the case.
"The problem is, other people have to believe it." Kai felt that there was nothing to be ashamed of. Human nature is like this. "People on Earth don't know about dark elves at all, let alone ether particles. You can't expect humans to know how to do it."
Pay the price for something you don’t understand at all.”
This is why Kai has no intention of approaching the White House or SHIELD.
Because who is going to believe this empty talk?
If you say destroy the universe, just destroy the universe?
This is completely beyond the scope of human cognition.
Of course, in the face of possible threats at any time, abandoning Jane can save the situation, so why not.
In fact, Kai thought the same way, but the difference was that what he thought was that if there was really no way to remove the ether particles, Kai would just kill Jane with an ax and release the ether particles, so as to save himself the suffering.
In short, ether particles cannot be obtained by dark elves.
"Maybe I can think of a way." Tony looked at the unconscious Jane, touched his chin, and became interested. He naturally wanted to study such an interesting thing.
Just when Kai was about to agree, suddenly there was another change in the sky.
boom!
A seven-color light beam descended.
Thor descended on the platform outside Stark Tower.
Seeing her son, Frigga immediately stood up and rushed to Thor's side.
"How is Loki? My son, how is he?"
Tony frowned instinctively when he heard the name.
“What’s up with that bad guy who looks like a gay guy?”
When Kai heard Tony's description of Loki, he couldn't help but give him a thumbs up.
"The specific situation is very troublesome and difficult to explain. Probably, something went wrong with me at that time and I couldn't fight, so I had to run away with someone, but I didn't take him with me. Now... I guess... he is dead.
."
"That's so true... what a pity." Tony's voice became louder, Thor and Frigga both looked over, and the guy quickly changed his words. "He died young! Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Ha ha……"
Tony himself is not a person who cares about other people's feelings. He hates Loki... and naturally he doesn't bother to hide it.
Just changing my words is already the limit.
Thor squeezed the hammer angrily. Sure enough, he didn't like Tony.
"It would be nice if I really died young..." Unexpectedly, Kai said with great regret.
