The ability to eliminate spores had always been the most important indicator for measuring various disinfection and sterilization methods.
The world leader in this area was probably the German company Oxytech. Their vaccine bactericidal disinfectant used in vaccine production was the world’s most powerful spores disinfectant. Its main component was hydrogen peroxide.
After the X-0172 bacterial invasion was discovered, a batch of a customized version of this type of antiseptic was imported to the Moon Palace. However, this antiseptic was only for sterilizing surfaces; it couldn’t be used on human beings.
The Moon Palace didn’t know what to do with the parasitic spores.
So far, it seemed like the research was in a hiatus.
Lu Zhou felt like if he didn’t do something now, nothing would get done.
With the metabolite extract from Professor Liu, Lu Zhou went to the third level underground laboratory at the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study.
Lu Zhou sat at his desk and placed the glass test tube containing the metabolite extract on the corner of his desk. He found the research paper published by the Moon Palace research team and read it for a while. He finally sighed.
“Unfortunately, biology is not my area of expertise. I can’t help even if I want to.
“Does that mean I have to ask the system for help?”
Lu Zhou looked at the reagent on the table and pondered for a moment. He then closed his eyes.
“System, is there any way to kill the X-0172 spores.”
He opened his eyes and saw a shining blue dialog box in front of his eyes.
[Solution for removing X-0172 parasitic bacteria from the human body.
[Required general points: 10,000 points]
“Ten thousand points?”
Lu Zhou nearly fell off his chair.
If he recalled correctly, he only had 4,835 general points.
He started to have doubts about his life.
Is this bacterium that hard to deal with?
I’ve saved up so many general points over the years, but it’s still not enough…
Wait a minute…
Lu Zhou suddenly remembered something, and he patted his head.
“Jesus Christ, how did I forget?”
The system’s pricing of “questions” were based on the content of questions. If he asked for the solution to the entire problem, the system would obviously require a lot of general points. However, if he divided the problem into many parts and only asked for the solution to one of the parts, the required general points would be much lesser.
So far, the international research team was bottlenecked on how to kill X-0172 spores.
Therefore, he had to modify his question…
“System, is there a way to prevent X-0172 bacteria from producing spores?”
The reason why the X-0172 bacteria were difficult to kill was that when they were attacked, they would actively produce spores to protect themselves. Even physical countermeasures such as high temperature, high pressure, ultraviolet light, and even radiation couldn’t kill the spores, let alone the antibodies produced by the host itself.
Therefore, the key to removing the X-0172 bacteria was to prevent them from producing spores!
As long as the bacterium’s active defense mechanism was removed, it would only be a matter of time before the research team found the appropriate antibodies.
After a while, another blue dialog box appeared in Lu Zhou’s sight.
This time, the price was much more reasonable.
[Prevent X-0172 bacteria from producing spores.
[Required general points: 2,500]
2,500.
It was roughly equivalent to half of his general points.
Even though he didn’t want to, he had to save the future of humanity and complete his urgent mission. Lu Zhou clenched his teeth and pressed the redeem button on the dialog box.
“Redeem!”
The moment his index finger touched the button, a huge stream of information hit his brain like a tidal wave.
Lu Zhou hadn’t experienced this sensation in a long time.
It was almost like his brain was being written with memories that did not belong to him.
After half a minute, that strange sensation disappeared.
Lu Zhou sat in his chair for half an hour and finally finished digesting the information in his brain. He opened his eyes and felt enlightened.
“I see…”
Although it might not be possible for him to design the solution, with his level 6 biochemical and Nobel Prize-level chemistry abilities, he could easily understand the solution provided by the system.
Simply put, in order to prevent the X-0172 bacteria from producing actively dormant spores, the system proposed a special pheromone.
This pheromone could deceive the X-0172 bacteria, and it would make them think that they were in a comfortable environment. Thus, the bacteria would no longer produce spores when they were attacked by antibodies.
“We just have to inject the infected person with the special pheromone before taking the antibody. This will make the X-0172 bacteria give up.”
Without hesitating, Lu Zhou immediately opened his laptop and began writing a thesis.
The preparation method for the pheromone that blocked the spores was already provided to him by the system, so there was no need for him to modify anything.
As for the clinical effects of the X-0172 antibodies and metabolite extracts… Lu Zhou cited several papers published by Professor Leslie and Professor Zhao Shuxuan.
Time slowly passed by…
The time on the clock went from morning to afternoon.
Lu Zhou looked at the completed thesis and couldn’t help but smile with satisfaction.
He hadn’t written a thesis for a long time.
The more influence he obtained, the less he had to personally complete scientific research tasks. Most of the time, his work was focused on high-level planning rather than participating in specific research tasks.
“When this space race is over, I’m going to take a long-deserved break.”
Lu Zhou converted his thesis into PDF format. He was about to submit the thesis when he suddenly remembered something.
Do you think it is suspicious that a mathematician produced such an advanced biology thesis?
Even though this research came from his own brain, he wasn’t the one that came up with the solution. He bought the solution from the system using general points.
If he won a Nobel Prize for this thesis, he would feel a little embarrassed.
Lu Zhou contemplated for a second and had an idea. He removed the author’s name and replaced it with a “Z”.
“Perfect.”
Lu Zhou smiled at the thesis and opened arXiv. He created a new account and uploaded the thesis.
Explaining this would be too cumbersome.
I’ll just post it anonymously.
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