Chapter 1007: What is the limit of [Epidemic Technique]?
"It's boring."
"Meow."
"so boring."
"Meow."
"Mr. Trocca, you are also bored, right? Lynn won't pay attention to you anymore, right?"
"Meow……"
Cerela squatted boredly at the entrance of the research institute, holding a god-level cat teasing stick - the golden feather of the Eagle God - in front of the tip of the black cat's nose, saying something and shaking it.
Mr. Trocca huddled up languidly, his eyes half-opened and half-closed. Serira shook his feathers, and he stretched out his paws and patted him. He would never extend his paws too much, and he would never pat him again if he missed the first pat.
No need to mention standing up or even jumping up to take the photo:
Obviously, the first strand of Jin Yu has not been digested yet, and he has no interest in biting the second strand. He just wants to play with Miss Silver Dragon to save face.
Cerira shook the cat stick, rubbed the cat's head, stroked the cat's back and tail, and scratched the cat's chin. She kneaded the black cat until it felt comfortable, squinted its eyes and collapsed into a piece of cat skin, and made a purring sound in its throat.
Serira simply held it on her knees, rubbing its back with one hand and holding the cat's belly with the other. A force penetrated the black cat's body from the palm of her hand, helping it digest the power of the Eagle God. She shook it gently at the same time.
, while complaining:
"Grete is too much, isn't he? He brought me so far away and didn't even play with me! I stayed alone in the research institute! Just study, he didn't even allow me to stay around! He obviously did it before
When the bacteria came out, he kept me alone..."
If Gretel hears Cerera's complaint, he will definitely cry out. Can the study of bacteria be compared with the study of viruses? Can the mutation and iteration speed of bacteria be compared with the mutation and iteration speed of viruses?
He didn't even know - he had never memorized it in his previous life and could not recall it in this life - whether the yellow fever virus was a DNA virus or an RNA virus, whether it was a single-stranded or a double-stranded virus!
If unfortunately it is a single-stranded RNA virus, it will iterate very quickly. If you copy it once, you will lose something, and if you copy it again, you will get something randomly...
Just like the new crown, before Gretel traveled through time, that thing had been iterated so many times that I couldn't even come up with a name.
In fact, if it is not a particularly influential and powerful variant, it does not have a name at all, and even the code name is not known...
Study this kind of thing, especially to screen out the less virulent variants, keep iterating, and find the weakest one, the one that can only stimulate immune responses but not harm health. Give Serela a look at it.
Station, is that okay?
Gretel had no choice but to send Cerela Christine out of the laboratory, roll up his sleeves, and conduct experiments himself. He took out one of the test tubes from the row in his belt and pointed it at the stacked mouse cage in front of him.
Calm down, activate the [Plague Technique] in the meditation world, and reduce its power to the lowest level:
"Serum No. 001! Go!"
The serum in this batch of test tubes was all taken from the patients with the mildest disease - that is, those who only showed symptoms such as fever and headache. What? The symptoms also include mild proteinuria?
Sorry, normal urine and mild proteinuria cannot be distinguished by the naked eye, and Grete does not have a way to conduct a laboratory test of the liver...
Of course, God knows whether these patients are mildly ill because they have strong immunity or because the virus strain is weak. Grete doesn’t know either. All he can do is keep experimenting and choosing:
Under the influence of the disease technique, the serum turned into a cloud and rushed towards the mice. The cage was filled with chattering and chaos, and soon, the mice lay down one by one.
"Well... next..." Grete took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and then opened them again. In the meditation field of vision, the observation mode kept switching:
"[Fortune Observation Technique]! Well, mice No. 1, No. 4 and No. 8 have the mildest symptoms... Let's change the perspective! [Infrared Vision]! Hmm..."
[Infrared vision] improved from [Dark Vision], the observation range is smaller, the observation distance is closer, but the observation accuracy is higher, and it is more sensitive to temperature differences. Grete squinted slightly and observed carefully:
In the infrared field of view, there are deep and shallow areas. The nose is redder, the body is darker; the abdomen is redder, and the tail is darker...
However, if we only compare the nose and head, we can see that they are indeed mice No. 1, No. 4 and No. 8, with a slightly lower body temperature. Grete nodded and ordered the skeleton standing behind him:
"Skeleton No. 9, please measure the body temperature of each mouse and observe their condition. Measure it every hour... no, half an hour. Record their food, drink amount, defecation, mental state, whether they vomit blood, and finally
What matters is when you die."
Skeleton No. 9 clicked his teeth to express his agreement. Grete nodded, walked to the next compartment, and took out another test tube:
"Serum No. 002! Go!"
It is undeniable that [Epidemic Technique] has greatly accelerated the research process - even though the incubation period of yellow fever is usually only one day, there is a big difference between being able to see the effect immediately, and having to observe and wait for a day before seeing the effect.
[Fortune Observation Technique] + [Infrared Vision], you can get an overview immediately. As for the subsequent detailed work, such as grabbing the mice one by one, setting small thermometers into them, and then pinching their mouths for three minutes...
…
This kind of wretched work, thanks to the diligent and hard-working skeletons who are not afraid of being bitten by mice, and are not afraid of being infected with plague and hemorrhagic fever...
Gretel worked hard to infect a group of mice with [Epidemic Technique], picked out the ones with the mildest symptoms, took the serum, and then infected the next batch of mice. In this way, he repeatedly infected and iterated, and soon he felt that he was immune to [Epidemic].
The control of magic has come to an end:
No matter how much you reduce the power of [Plague Spell], it always has a lower limit. The result of falling below the lower limit is not that the attenuated vaccine is produced, but that the spell fails to be cast.
In other words, it is definitely impossible to create a qualified attenuated vaccine by relying on the [Epidemic Spell]. At least, based on Gretel's understanding of this spell, it is currently completely impossible to create:
"That's for sure!" Archmage Heins spread his hands. Facing Gretel, who sincerely begged for advice, this necromancer who had advanced to level 18 and was working hard to become a legend, looked matter-of-factly:
"Although I am not in the plague branch, I have studied these basic spells. Disease spell. Disease spell cannot make people sick, and it cannot make people sick immediately. What is the disease spell? Look -"
He casually sketched out the spell configuration of [Plague Spell], took it apart piece by piece, and told Gretel:
"This part is used to lock the type of disease. If you want to infect him with blindness, heart failure, rotten fever, brain fever, redness, swelling, tremors or nausea, there are different configurations."
The archmage showed an ugly smile:
"Of course, after you put forward the theory of pathogenic bacteria, they also started to use pathogenic bacteria to infer and achieved very good results. Then, this part is used to promote the rapid effect of the epidemic technique. It can make the pathogenic bacteria quickly take effect.
Reproduce and immediately reach the number required to cause disease."
Gretel twitched the corners of his mouth and smiled with difficulty:
"So...if the pathogenic bacteria cannot reproduce in this amount, the result will be that the disease technique has failed?"
"Of course!" Archmage Heins nodded without thinking:
"Isn't this what the disease spell is used for? If you can't kill the enemy immediately, why do you need this spell?"
"I mean..." Grete bit the bullet and tried to make suggestions:
"That's what I said, how about using it to build immunity? For example, wouldn't it be good if you used a modified version of the disease technique...the fog of disease...to induce cowpox and vaccinate the indigenous people?"
"That must be cowpox. We have also tried using common pathogenic bacteria, but it doesn't work." Archmage Heins is obviously much more familiar with the research progress of the plague branch than Gretel:
"The part that determines the power of the disease spell. It seems that the principle is only to control the reproduction amount of pathogenic bacteria. If the reproduction is too little, the spell will not be effective, and the patient will not get sick; if the reproduction is a little more, the patient will not fall ill immediately, but there will be
You might get sick within three to five days."
However, do you want to achieve the effect of "having immunity to this disease and not getting sick for a period of time"?
More than one magician from the plague branch rushed forward bravely, only to retreat in disgrace...
"So, this magic can't control the weakening of the pathogenic bacteria themselves?"
"No." Archmage Heins shook his head firmly. Then, he came back to his senses and gave Gretel a very strange look:
"Why use this magic to control? I remember that the priest of the God of Nature can control the growth of bacteria? It seems that the penicillin or something you produce is used to control - by the way, the cause of yellow fever
Have you isolated the germ?"
"I, I have arranged for people to filter the serum...waiting for their progress..."
Gretel fled.
I also want to isolate the causative bacteria of yellow fever, but the problem is, I can't isolate it! That thing is not a bacteria, it is a virus! It is a virus!
My current ability can already target certain pathogenic bacteria and achieve targeted killing; or roughly control Penicillium and Streptomyces and let them grow in the way I want. But, control viruses?
Say to those viruses, "Let's discuss it, I will provide you with energy, and you will become weaker, and then weaker"?
Viruses don’t have that kind of brain, okay?
Just like people who raise dogs and cats, they can train cats and dogs to perform many specific actions, and can even train strong working dogs. However, you ask them to train a fish, an octopus, or a peach jellyfish.
?
Sorry, lower animals really don't have that kind of brain. Let alone fish, even if you keep a snake, the probability of being bitten is still very high.
Being able to communicate with Penicillium, Grete already felt that he was really strong. When it came to communicating with viruses, Grete really felt that he couldn't communicate with something that was less than 100 nanometers, maybe even less than 50 nanometers.
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So what should we do... In which direction can we take a detour to control these viruses and safely embark on the road of [attenuating the virus]?
Are there any descriptions of this in the memories of the plague girl?
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