In the blink of an eye, several days had passed. Soon, it was ti for another regular eting of the Life Furnace Knights Order.
All the vice captains present at the base gathered once again. Since the captain was far away on Mars, he only sent his remarks and the general order arrangents via email.
Devinia assud the captain’s duties to host the eting. The vice captains exchanged updates, shared so new data, discussed new discoveries, and exchanged ideas. Additionally, they deliberated on so matters of the order—such as the allocation of formal knight confernt titles, the evaluation of titles like "Yangtze," who to send, and whether to open new collaborative projects with other friendly knight orders.
In the latter half of the eting, Vice Captain Mr. Mississippi asked, "Mr. Devinia, what about the new arrival... Mr. Frey? How’s his performance?"
Mr. Frey, now within their small circle, is code-nad "The Knight Who Escaped from the Martial God’s Hand," and has so fa.
"Oh, Mr. Frey." Devinia nodded, "He’s already started working on projects. I looked at his schedule; it’s very professional. He’s also skilled in team managent. He’s continuing the sample research, and seems to have gotten on the right track."
But at this point, Vice Captain Mr. Parmion remarked, "The only issue is... were we deceived?"
"What’s wrong?" Vice Captain Pennsylvania, who had been less involved in the matter, curiously asked a couple of questions.
Vice Captain Mr. Parmion, known for his caution, said, "That knight who escaped from the Martial God’s hand—how should I put it—I suspect he doesn’t know much more about that sample than we do. I looked at his plan. He seems unaware of the detailed techniques used in the sample and wants to reverse engineer the synthesis pathway of the protein frawork structure."
Devinia nodded, "Indeed, although he understands the sample, it seems not extensively."
"With that perspective, his research focus becos very apparent. He doesn’t know much about the sample, so he aims at completing the reverse study. This is fundantally different from his proclaid ’I have devoted much to the project’ situation." Vice Captain Mr. Parmion said, "I even suspect he plans to exhaust all possibilities."
The current modification technology is very advanced. Just the "appearance of specific proteins within cells" includes many different modification thods.
For instance, transferring a gene segnt into target cells using reverse transcriptase virus and then activating it with specific signaling factors (electrical signals preferred).
Or directly injecting specific enzys and reactants, using the cell’s own complex reaction network of the enzy system to create reaction pathways.
The forr has the benefit of enabling cells to synthesize specific proteins long-term, usually by adding large quantities of organically produced and consud substances, such as peptide neurotransmitters to enhance specific brain functions. The latter is generally used for one-ti, semi-permanent enhancents, like the star-shaped glial cell hardening surgery commonly used by external martial artists.
In addition, there’s even more complex operations like "generating specific organelles through transgenics," and these operations can coexist.
Moreover, it goes further. So modification surgeries can generate specific forms of the endoplasmic reticulum through signaling factors to aid specific substance synthesis. When the substance concentration reaches a threshold, the newly ford extra endoplasmic reticulum is re-decomposed, leaving no trace.
The birth of this technology is partly to save space in the increasingly crowded cells of benchmark humans and also for confidentiality purposes. It can hide part of the substance synthesis pathway. Even if an enemy obtains a cell sample and carefully studies the genes, they might not necessarily glimpse which unactivated genes correspond to the modification.
In conclusion, the internal competition humans undergo in this field has considerably increased the workload for orders like the Life Furnace and Bloodline Blessing Knights Order.
And naturally, this has aroused Mr. Parmion’s dissatisfaction.
In his view, the knight "escaped from the hand of the Martial God" now seems insignificant. He doesn’t know more than the other knights of the order, aning his research direction is no more accurate than other scientific knights. He might even need to try every possibility to find the answer.
This falls far short of his reputation for having "devoted much effort to the project."
Devinia nodded, "On this point, Mr. Frey indeed lacks sincerity."
Mr. Parmion said, "Did he really dare deceive an elder of the Six Dragons Sect...? I think we should give him so punishnt."
Vice Captain Mr. Parmion very much disliked this Knight Frey. No scientific knight could appreciate a young knight coming to compete for funding.
Especially this person who claims to have deep insight into the project and then imdiately exposes his limited knowledge.
He can’t even "provide direction, thus saving expenses indirectly."
Devinia said, "But I think if I were Knight Frey, I would use the sa approach."
"Huh?"
Everyone looked at Devinia.
"I haven’t said anything wrong." Vice Captain Devinia remained calm, "Knight Frey just erged from under the excessively harsh Knight Instructor expecting not to return to that circumstance, thus desperately grasping an opportunity. Although sowhat dishonest and disgraceful, you must admit that others in that situation would do the sa. If we were under such circumstances, wouldn’t we make similar choices? For example, Mr. Mississippi, would you want to return to your apprentice days?"
Mr. Mississippi elegantly shrugged. It was certainly impossible.
"You see," Devinia said, "Moreover, from the current performance, Mr. Frey’s scientific level is quite remarkable. I’m sure Mr. Parmion will not deny that."
Vice Captain Parmion nodded, "At least very solid."
So far, the "mysterious sample research" project had just begun, far from reflecting the scientist’s level. Knight Frey had not shown his true capability yet, but judging by the exhibited part, he indeed was excellent.
This aspect was quite genuine.
"Soone at this level would not be a spy." Vice Captain Devinia said, "I think you should all have conversations with him. I believe he will have a bright future."
Up until now, Knight Frey remained under control with only Deputy Chief Devinia interacting with him. Other vice captains with high positions in the Six Dragons Sect would not directly talk with him. Everyone was cautious, fearing a surprise attack from a death warrior.
But, Deputy Chief Devinia’s words seed...
To suggest granting Knight Frey more freedom?
"I even thought about sharing one of my projects with him," Mr. Devinia said, "though the final emblem rank might be slightly lower."
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These days were simply the most relaxing days for Mr. Frey Xiangshan.
After passing the initial risk, this place was practically his to exploit.
Though unable to access the internet or casually speak with people, he could essentially obtain all the resources he desired.
Perhaps flattering the vice captain might be sowhat distasteful, but if Xiang Shan could not tolerate even this, he would hardly be able to run his company at all. What’s the harm in so complints? Although Deputy Chief Mr. Devinia has so feudal tendencies, he is undeniably a competent biology scholar. Xiang Shan even read his papers, finding many easy angles for comndation.
At least it’s better than praising clueless bureaucrats and politicians who hold significant power.
At least no need to cover the nose while praising.
And this kind of affirmation in career also seed greatly appreciated by the deputy chief.
[So sad, so sad.] While doing these things, the illusion of "criminal" groaned in the corner with a face covered in distress, [Is this the correct use of negotiation skills? Bootlicking? Oh, stop it!]
Now even feeling "disgusted inside" had to be expressed through dialogue with "other personality masks."
Xiang Shan longing for the day when his cellular research would be completed.
He wouldn’t mind yielding so benefits for this—like letting others list themselves as the corresponding authors and first authors on his papers.
However...
There were unexpected gains.
"Benchmark" comnted, "I feel I’m becoming increasingly adept at thinking about biology-related content. Carefully thinking about it... Could it be that we obtained ’biological’ module-related data from that Yawgmoth kid but lack the environnt for efficient execution? Our brain might, through regular training, automatically generate ’compatibility files’ or sothing of the sort."
In this academic environnt filled with original old-school nerd vibes, Xiang Shan easily found the feeling of young Yawgmoth. He could comfortably replicate Yawgmoth’s growth path... Hmm, possibly not.
Xiang Shan couldn’t believe the young Yawgmoth could manage laboratory team-building well.
Plus the ethical review. The scientific knight group had canceled the ethical review, just as expected.
After all, Yawgmoth was soone who wouldn’t pass an ethical review and went straight to HIV experintation himself.
"Know your limits." "Fervor" rolled eyes at this, "After acquiring the Eighth Martial God’s unverified technology, the alterations you made to your brain were far more excessive than HIV."
"Co on, don’t generalize things. External environnts are completely different, what was the early 21st-century environnt like? What’s it like now?" "Benchmark" Xiang Shan retorted without hesitation.
At this ti, an apprentice sent a ssage saying, "Sir, the entertainnt facilities you requested are ready."
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