Conan: The Mechanic

Not far behind Dr. Agasa, the tour guide, Mitsuhiko, Motota, and Ayumi, Chiba and Haibara Ai walked side by side.

"Future?" Haibara Ai was slightly stunned. "You mean... my future with you?"

"Yeah," Qianyu nodded. "It's important."

"Did something happen?" Haibara asked suspiciously. "The organization over there?"

"Yes," Qianyu nodded helplessly. "It's about APTX-4869..."

"What's wrong?" Hai Yuanai frowned.

"After a lot of experiments, the team of professional researchers hired by Belmod found a group of white rats that were not poisoned at all like us, but were just regressed to a juvenile state."

"Wait a minute, one group?" Haibara Ai asked again. "What does it mean?"

"Literally," Qian Yu said lightly. "They found several lineages of white mice that would not be directly poisoned. All the white mice with the characteristic genetic sequences of these families survived."

"Then what?" Ai Haibara asked. "What are the results of the follow-up test?"

"The conclusion is that your antidote is a waste product." After Chiyu finished speaking, she looked at Haibara Ai and was not surprised to see an interesting expression.

It seems like... a little tigress whose territory has been violated?

"What do you mean?" Haibara Ai asked. "You just said that the antidote I developed is a waste product?"

"I didn't say that," Qianyu spread her hands. "But the report from the organization is indeed like this. As for the details... It seems that the antidote can indeed help some mice return to their original bodies, but the mice also seem to be permanently damaged."

"What do you mean?" Haibara Ai continued to ask. "In what way?"

"In the first experimental group, 29% of the experimental mice died on the spot after the antidote was injected; 33% of the experimental mice recovered successfully but died within one hour; 35% of the experimental mice recovered successfully but died within three days, Only 3%, or 4 experimental mice, survived for 15 days, but their telomeres were severely damaged, and their physical activity in a seemingly healthy state was a little different from before the first decline."

"This..." Haibara Ai's original appearance of asking for guilt softened instantly. "how so……"

"Haven't you done follow-up related experiments?" Chiba saw the abnormality of Haibara Ai.

"I didn't conduct follow-up universal experiments at that time..." A little helplessness appeared on Haibara Ai's face. "Because the research indicators given to me at the time did not include the development of antidote, I just recorded individual smaller individuals and made antidote for them... But the antidote is obviously good for those individuals. The efficacy of the drug... Although I didn't test the body's function, there are no cases of recovery failure and rapid death mentioned in the experiment?"

"You have to ask the experimental team that Belmod found," Qianyu shook her head. "I'm not an experimenter, you have to find them for the specific data."

"Then can you help me get in touch with them?" Haiyuan asked sadly. "I want to see specific data."

"How specific? As for the individual samples, I don't think I can complete the transmission. But if it's just the core statistical data of each experiment, I can give it to you quickly."

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On the stairs of a shopping mall, Chiba and Haibara Ai walked up side by side. Just now, the two of them greeted the tour guide and Dr. Agasa, and left the team on the pretext of shopping for their own products.

"This..." Haibara Ai looked at the experimental report written by Chiba. "They mean..."

"Yes," Qianyu nodded. "It's not that it can't be developed, but it will take time."

"Yeah," Haiyuan Ai nodded. "It turns out that's true - but I think it's going to be quite a bit of work, no?"

"So it takes time." Qianyu sighed. "Really, I think maybe by the time the antidote was developed, we were old enough to have a 17-year-old body without the antidote."

In their hands, there are research materials from Belmore's side.

After the first set of experiments, they conducted a second set of experiments-providing the mice with extremely high concentrations of nutrition and injecting drugs according to the statin splitting scheme proposed by Sherry (statin is a common human body. Physiological inhibitory factor that inhibits cell division), starting from the two aspects of feeding existing cells and stimulating cell division at the same time, so that the number of cells originally reduced due to the impact of APTX-4869 on the cell structure, the individual becomes smaller and further The body that caused the death can be restored to its original form through this program.

The results of the experiment are quite subtle - most of the guinea pigs did not survive 3 days, but almost all of the guinea pigs in one family recovered, and there was no major problem in terms of physical function. (Actually, this is the kinship of the rats that Sherry used to test the antidote and found that the antidote allowed the rats to fully recover.)

In other words, only a subset of families with a certain genetic trait survived the devastating blow of APTX-4869, and only those families with another, more rare trait were able to successfully recover with the means now being used.

Now ~www.readwn.com~ Belmod's experimental group has successfully extracted the DNA family tree of a white mouse family with the resistance gene of APTX-4869. As long as the gene segments that these mice have in common are analyzed and tested one by one, it may be possible to analyze which gene segments make these mice more able to accept human destruction than other mice.

But the problem is that, given the relationship between the number of genes, if you want to specifically confirm which part of the gene gives them this ability, it will take quite a long genetic experiment. (It may even be genes whose parts are not together at all, and in that case the amount of analysis will increase exponentially)

Technically speaking, this is completely achievable with the current level of technology, but in terms of workload, even if such a task is handed over to the world's top scientific research team, it will take a very long time to handle.

That's why Chiba said that maybe they won't be able to get a genome that can inhibit APTX-4869 and be short enough to be injected into their bodies by existing methods and take effect when they are 17 years old.

Saying so, Qianyu came to the door leading to the top floor of the rooftop and turned the door handle. "?"

Chiba's face suddenly became very strange.

"What's the matter?" Haibara Ai found out Qianyu's strangeness and asked.

"This..." Qianyu frowned, sensing the friction from her hands. "Something's wrong... This door handle is so heavy!"

Just when Chiba turned the door handle to a certain angle, the entire door suddenly opened quickly to the outside. It was only with the assistance of the auxiliary unit that Qianyu reacted in time, and was not dragged forward by the door.

Following the sudden opening of the rooftop door, Chiba and Haibara Ai found a piece of cloth wrapped around the railing in front of them, swaying slightly in the wind.