Chapter 283 Deep in the Jungle
All seasons are like summer, and clouds and rains all year round.
This is the Lung of Earth: Amazon Rainforest.
A very inconspicuous town on the map.
To the west of Balek Town, close to the river, there is a very abrupt building. Judging from the situation of these buildings, it is obviously a relatively special scientific research institution.
Several speedboats approached here quickly through the river from another nearby town with roads.
Hearing the roar of the engine not far away, the security guard at the scientific research base looked at it with a telescope and found that it was the boss behind the scenes coming. He quickly woke up his colleague: "Hook, the boss is here, get up quickly."
"What..." Hook, who was sleepy and confused, wiped his eyes.
"Hurry up, the boss is here." The security guard holding the telescope pulled out a hair from Hook's arm.
"Oh..." Hook woke up instantly: "Hiss... Old Ryan, what are you doing?"
Old Ryan reminded again speechlessly: "Idiot, the boss is here. Open the door quickly and go to the dock to greet him."
"Oh." Hook quickly got up from the recliner, then quickly tidied up his grooming and clothes, and put on his assault rifle on his back, and hurried downstairs with Old Ryan.
When the two opened the door and came to the small dock built with wooden boards, three speedboats had already arrived at the side of the dock and tied the cables.
A middle-aged woman with sunglasses jumped out of the speedboat under the escort of several female bodyguards.
"Hello, boss!"
"Welcome to come and inspect."
The middle-aged woman wearing sunglasses hid her eyes and looked at the two of them full of contempt and disgust, with cold faces on her face.
The female assistant beside her said with a slight smile: "Lead the way! Don't waste time."
"Yes, boss, please." Old Ryan had become accustomed to the boss with a cold face. For the sake of money, he didn't say anything and led the way directly.
Soon the group came to the scientific research base.
The head of the scientific research team who received the notice and the management of the base also came to the base gate.
The head of the research team is a middle-aged woman with brown hair and mixed race, while the base management is a middle-aged woman with blonde hair and white skin.
Seeing the two, the woman with sunglasses smiled slightly and said, "Dr. Ada, Alice, it's been a long time since we met."
"Ms. Christine."
"Hello, Ms. Kristen."
The female assistant turned her head and looked at Hook and Old Ryan following behind, and waved her hands lightly: "Two, please go to the dock to see the speedboat."
"Okay." Old Ryan shrugged and left the base gate with a loose movement.
Then the base gate slowly closed.
Inside the base, looking at the mosquito incubator boxes in front of her, Christine had already taken off her sunglasses, and her eyes were filled with fanaticism: "Dr. Ada, how is the experiment progress?"
"Sorry, there is no way to infect vertebrates yet." Dr. Aida pushed his glasses,
Listening to Dr. Ada's helpless voice, Christine frowned: "Is it a lack of funds? Or is it a lack of researchers?"
"No, no..." Dr. Aida shook his head: "Ms. Kristen, the $50 million you invested every year is indeed enough, mainly because my talent is limited."
"Aren't there enough scientific researchers?"
"It can also be said that, but you should be very clear about the situation at this base." Dr. Ada did not say what he said, but everyone present knew it.
Because their experimental projects are shameless, the dozen or so female researchers currently researching at this base have been recruited from all over the world after many inspections.
For researchers who have no way to confirm their position, Christine and his organization are simply unsure of their contact with the base's scientific research projects.
Although Christine used her local relationship to smear this scientific research base, claiming to be a study of "controlling mosquito scale and preventing dengue fever and malaria", the actual research content is to transform Wolbacillus through genetically modified technology and gene editing technology.
What is Wolbacci?
This bacteria, also known as Wolbachite, belongs to the alpha subphylum of the Proteobacteria, the Ubachite tribe of the Rickettsia family, and is a Gram-negative intracellular symbiotic bacteria.
It can infect arthropods, including a large number of insects and some nematodes, and are commonly found in the phylum of the Arthropods and some nematodes. It is estimated that about 65% of insect species and 28% of mosquito species naturally carry Wolbachite.
So what are they studying Wolbacillus?
The answer is some of the special abilities of Wolbacillus.
For animals infected with Wolbachella, their hosts will be affected by Wolbachella. The specific impact is that they can induce cytoplasmic inaffinity. When males carrying Wolbachella mated with females without Wolbachella, the fertilized egg will die; they can turn a bee egg into a female, destroy the production of androgens or its effects in male embryo development, and make it female fecundity; they can also enhance female reproduction, and the birth rate of infected parasitic wasps is twice as high as that of uninfected.
Therefore, many scientific teams have infected various pests through research on Wolbacillus.
For example, preventing the dengue virus from replicating and proliferating in mosquitoes and allowing mosquitoes to coexist with them through artificial means, which can cause mosquitoes to lose their ability to spread dengue fever.
A scientific team has taken advantage of this feature to reduce the number of mosquito populations by releasing male mosquitoes infected with Wolbachite and mating with female mosquitoes from the outside, thereby inhibiting the spread of diseases such as dengue fever and malaria.
But what if Wolbachella that can infect humans is transformed through genetically modified technology and gene editing technology? What consequences will that have?
The answer is parthenogenesis.
As for whether genetic technology can do this, there is a certain difficulty at present. The main reason is that the immune system of humans, or vertebrates, is very strong and has a long life cycle. Therefore, it is necessary to use genetic modification of Wolbachella to give it the characteristics of breaking through the human immune system. As long as it can successfully break through the human immune system and make it form a symbiosis with humans, Wolbachella will naturally guide humans to the path of parthenogenesis.
It is actually not impossible for Wolbacillus to infect humans.
As mentioned earlier, Wolbachella also known as Wolbachia, belongs to an ancient microorganism between viruses and bacteria that have existed since ancient times.
Humans and most eukaryotic organisms have actually been infected by two similar archaeological bacteria.
In fact, many people know the names of these two types of archaeological bacteria, which is:
Mitochondria and chloroplasts.
That's right, mitochondria and chloroplasts.
This kind of thing that looks like eukaryotic organelles is essentially an ancient bacteria that forms a mutually beneficial and win-win symbiosis with eukaryotes through infection.
Wolbachia is also a similar archaebacterium. They also have the ability to infect eukaryotes, but they can only infect insects and arthropods at present, and there is no way to infect vertebrates for the time being.
However, researchers at this scientific research base are planning to accelerate the evolution of Wolbachite through genetic technology, so that it can infect vertebrates in a short period of time.
"Dr. Aida, I will increase my efforts to collect talents and allow more like-minded researchers to join our great cause."
However, Dr. Aida shook his head: "Ms. Kristen, it is difficult for ordinary talents to promote the breakthrough development of this project. Unless there are geniuses or new genetic modification technologies, it may be difficult to achieve results in the next ten years."
Seeing Dr. Ada's desire to speak, Christine looked at her with a different look: "Doctor, what do you think?"
"I heard that there is a technology over Cyris that can breed quickly." Dr. Ada expressed his thoughts.
"Cyris? Rapid breeding?" Christine's eyes flashed.
Dr. Aida nodded: "Yes, the Hailufeng Company should have mastered this technology. They have launched a lot of excellent agricultural products in recent years. If they can obtain their technology, maybe we will make a breakthrough soon."
"Hailufeng Company?" Christine fell into deep thought.
She is the boss behind a biological and pharmaceutical company. She naturally knows the name of Hailufeng Company, but it is precisely because of her that she feels tricky.
If Hailufeng Company is elsewhere, she has a hundred ways to get the technology of Hailufeng Company, but the area where this company is located is obviously not something she can penetrate at will. Even if she is willing to pay the price and find several chaebol families in Ameika, she may not be able to get the technology.
Looking at Christine with a tangled expression, Dr. Ada had her own thoughts in her heart, but her expression was not revealed.
After a while, Christine's face regained its coldness: "I will find a way to get that technology, but your research will continue."
"I know, but with the current technology, it is not very difficult to transform this archaeological bacteria and to infect humans. I can only say that I can do my best." Dr. Ada's voice was filled with a hint of fatigue and helplessness. "It doesn't matter." Christine didn't say anything.
One hour later.
On the side of the wooden pier.
Boom boom boom... The engine buzzed, pushing the speedboat away.
Watching Kristen and his group disappear on the river, Dr. Ada pushed his glasses, with an inexplicable look in his eyes.
"Doctor, it's raining soon, go back!"
Alice's voice sounded lightly behind her back, which immediately made Dr. Ada's body froze slightly, but she instantly recovered from indifference, turned her head and smiled, "Indeed, is there no problem for Ms. Christine's speedboat to leave like this?"
"It should be no problem, but we don't need to worry about this kind of thing, right? Doctor!" Alice stared at the other party's eyes as if she wanted to see through her heart.
"I hope everything goes well with her!" Dr. Ada put his hands in his pockets and walked towards the base silently.
Alice looked at her back, not knowing what she was thinking.
After a while, in the mid-air covered with lead clouds, drops of rain fell into this ancient tropical rainforest.
Christine and her group, who were driving a speedboat, did not return to the town with roads, but turned from another tributary river and drove for more than two hours in the face of the violent heavy rainstorm.
Although the sky was covered with dark clouds at this time, the rain stopped.
This is how the tropical rainforest is, sometimes there will be several rainfalls a day.
Looking at the muddy shore pier.
Christine was not surprised at all. She came here every few months and had long been accustomed to the climate and muddy roads of the Amazon rainforest.
Wearing long rain boots, the group stepped on the muddy road and came to a base. The facilities of this base were exactly the same as the one in Dr. Aida's team.
Emma, the head of the base, and Duna, the head of the scientific research team, welcomed their arrival at the base door with an umbrella.
"Hello, Ms. Kristen."
"Let's go inside and talk!"
Enter the base.
In an office, Emma poured Christine a cup of hot cocoa.
After taking a sip of sweet hot cocoa, Christine's face was filled with thoughts, and then she asked slowly, "Do you think Ada can trust?"
"Ada?" Duna, a black-haired mixed-race female doctor with a ponytail, pinched a coffee spoon with her fingers and stirred the caramel coffee slightly: "There is nothing wrong with her research, at least I didn't see the problem. As for other questions, you should ask Alice instead of asking me for an answer."
Instead of continuing to ask, Christine talked about another topic: "She suggested that I obtain biotechnology from Hailufeng Company. What does Dr. Duna think about this?"
"Biotechnology of Hailufeng Company?" Duna picked up the caramel coffee and took a sip before she remembered some content: "Is it the agricultural company that developed fairy beans and soybeans?"
"Yeah."
A trace of thought flashed in Dr. Duna's eyes, and then said lightly: "Their company's technology is indeed very powerful. There are rumors that it has a genetic modification technology with a new mechanism. If all their technology can be obtained, I am confident that I can complete the preliminary idea in three to five years."
"Is that true?" Christine thought again.
"But can your people penetrate in that place?" Dr. Duna said with a smile.
Christine replied with a frown: "The organization has some peripheral personnel there, but it should be difficult for them to get close to the core scientific research area of that company. Why is it the company in that place?"
Dr. Duna took another sip of coffee and suggested, "Ms. Christine, I heard that Academician Jiang's wife is also a top biologist. Can she invite her abroad for academic exchanges through relationships?"
"Don't think about it, do you think you have thought of this kind of solution?" The organization behind Christine secretly penetrated many European and American chaebol forces. She knew very well that many European and American chaebols wanted to kill Jiang Miao and his wife.
In the past year, if this invitation to go abroad for academic exchanges is printed, it can be piled up with baskets.
Not only are the various scientific research teams in Europe and the United States sending invitation letters, but those universities and official institutions of various countries are also sending invitation letters.
Even the Nobel Prize Evaluation Committee intends to award this year's Nobel Prize in Biology to Jiang Miao and Lin Shuya, with the purpose of luring Jiang Miao and Lin Shuya to go abroad to receive the award.
However, Jiang Miao and Lin Shuya have not responded to the Nobel Prize Jury Committee at present.
Jiang Miao was too clear about the tricks of the West, and he did not intend to respond. Even if the other party really awarded him the Nobel Prize in Biology, he would not respond or accept it. Just ignore such things.
As for whether people will be considered arrogant or not, he doesn't care.
With his academic achievements and scientific research achievements of Lin Shuya, he can already be his own, and he doesn't need to win the Nobel Prize.
If the Nobel Prize Jury really awards him and Lin Shuya, it would be a shame.
After all, if a science award is rejected, it will definitely be very shameless.
Anyway, Jiang Miao does not need recognition from the Western academic community, so he can directly ignore the Nobel Prize.
It is difficult to determine whether Jiang Miao and Lin Shuya will go to Sweden to receive the award.
However, Dr. Du Na smiled and said, "Who knows if you don't give it a try? And you seem to be paying too much attention to Academician Jiang. In fact, it is not necessarily the only one who masters the confidential technology of Hailufeng Company. "
"..." Christine narrowed her eyes: "You are right. I really pay too much attention to that Jiang. Among the core researchers in their company, there must be many people who know the secrets of this technology. As long as you can cheat one or two, you may know some of the secrets."
Dr. Duna smiled maliciously and said, "And you can continue to push Jiang and his wife to win the Nobel Prize. No matter whether they succeed or not, we will lose tens of millions at most, and failure will be embarrassing those who have the Nobel Prize."
"Well, after I go back, I will contact those chaebol forces immediately. They will definitely be willing to take a gamble." Christine sneered: "Even if it is not successful, it can deepen the opposition between the world and the world, make the world more chaotic, and hide some of our actions."
"It's good that you know." Duna drank the coffee in the cup in one go.
Suddenly, Christine suddenly asked, "But how is your project research?"
Dr. Duna shook his head: "The progress is still the same, and it has been stuck in the infection of vertebrates. It has not been safe to use during the animal experiment."
Hearing this, Christine was also very troubled.
Although they are very crazy, it does not mean they don’t care about their lives.
After all, after Wolbachella infects humans, both men and women must be infected. Therefore, during the experiment, they must ensure that these genetically modified Wolbachella will not endanger life, otherwise they will not dare to spread it.
This highly safe genetically modified Wolbacillus is obviously very difficult to manufacture.
The next day, early in the morning.
Taking advantage of the unpredictable weather in the rainforest, it was just a little sunny, and Christine and her group returned in a low-key manner.
Then she contacted several leaders of the organization through the Internet that day to discuss how to invite you into the trap.
At the same time, we also fully investigated the scientific researchers of Hailufeng Company, hoping to find several suitable targets, trick them out, and obtain the biotechnical secrets of Hailufeng Company.
However, they did not know that when they mobilized their forces to investigate Hailufeng Company and its biological researchers, they automatically triggered the keyword settings hidden in the global Internet.
Especially in the recent intensive searches, they have directly contacted and issued a level one warning set by someone.
Hailufeng Company headquarters on the other side of the ocean.
Jiang Miao looked at the information on the laptop, and a hint of surprise and sarcasm appeared on his face.
(This chapter ends)