Free Web NovelChapter 601: Chapter 347: The Research Institute’s Long Suffering ’Doctor Li’_2
By the time he woke up, Fan Lei and Li Renzhe were gone.
Zhao Yi made a call, and then decided to go straight to the laboratory. Fan Lei was at the laboratory, squatting next to several petri dishes, seemingly watching them carefully.
"What are you looking at?"
"Just these!" Fan Lei pointed at several petri dishes, which have been used in experiments with his blood, "It’s already been over a week, and there haven’t been any changes."
"It’s only been a week, I estimate it would take half a month!"
Zhao Yi also looked at them, the petri dishes in front of him were those where ’no sample was added’, and it had already been a week. Should the infection be in the ’ongoing’ stage now?
So, has the immune response occurred? Obviously, nothing can be seen on the surface.
He suddenly thought of his ability, and decided to try making an enquiry.
[Do the petri dishes in front of me contain antibodies from the previous effect?]
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[Answer: No.]
Next.
[Do the petri dishes in front of me contain antibodies from the previous effect?]
[Causality Law!]
[Answer: No.]
Next.
After trying five times in a row, Zhao Yi found that it consumed a lot of energy. Each question consumed an average of ten energy points. He spent three study coins and continued to ask questions persistently.
Anyway, he had plenty of study coins.
The amount of study coins he currently had was a bit far from the amount needed to obtain the next ability, but it could be used without considering the consumption in daily use. If it’s used up, it’s used up.
Next question--
[Do the petri dishes in front of me contain antibodies from the previous effect?]
[Causality Law!]
[Answer: Yes.]
Next...
"Yes?" Zhao Yi’s eyes widened, and he stared at the second petri dish from the left. The type of bacteria for the experiment was labeled on it.
"E. coli?"
"That’s impossible, right?"
When they designed the experiment, they discussed which types of bacteria or viruses to choose. In the end, they selected the most common ones that wouldn’t cause too much harm. E.coli seemed to be the most unlikely one because when Zhao Yi asked Fan Lei last time, his response was that his throat seemed a little itchy and he had coughed a few times, but he got better very quickly.
Based on Fan Lei’s description, it should be some kind of bacteria or virus that invades the respiratory tract.
E.coli is present in the intestines and affects the digestive system. Anyway you think about it, it has nothing to do with the immune response that occurred last time.
"What’s wrong?" Fan Lei noticed the change in Zhao Yi’s expression and asked curiously.
"Let me think."
Zhao Yi didn’t answer directly, but just sat down to think. He accessed the National Microorganism Database through the internet to look up detailed information about E.coli. The network in the research institute could directly connect to the National Microorganism Database for the most detailed information.
Zhao Yi carefully read the information and didn’t find anything problematic.
E.coli was still E.coli, the same as he remembered. It indeed exists in the intestines and has almost no connection with respiratory diseases.
Zhang Wei just walked in through the door.
Zhao Yi pointed at the petri dishes and asked Zhang Wei, "Can these petri dishes be tested now?"
"Test? Isn’t it too early?" Zhang Wei didn’t quite understand, "It’s just over a week, and no original sample has been added. It’s impossible to get results from the AIDS virus infection experiment."
She sounded very confident.
Zhao Yi knew he was overthinking. Whether it’s infection or anti-immunity, any substance needs to reach a certain concentration to be ’detectable’ or ’functional’.
For example, a drop of blood with only one bacterium in it can never be detected.
He knew that the antibodies that worked last time existed in it because he used the Causality Law, which only has ’exists’ and ’does not exist’ as results.
Even if there are very few ’antibodies’, it will still give a conclusion of ’existence’. But because the content is extremely rare, a normal experiment would not detect anything abnormal.
"Escherichia coli, Escherichia coli..."
Zhao Yi couldn’t disclose the results to others, he was just incessantly muttering to himself, staring at the data on the computer screen and thinking meticulously. Suddenly, he noticed a phrase: Gram-negative bacilli.
"Gram-negative bacteria?"
"Yes!"
"If Escherichia coli can work, maybe some of its Gram-negative relatives might also work?"
"It’s worth a try!"
Zhao Yi suddenly stood up and said, "I’ve been thinking hard, and I feel like Gram-negative bacteria could be excellent subjects for study. Let’s conduct a few more experiments, including some with Gram-negative bacterial species."
Zhang Wei didn’t fully understand, but everyone in the lab listened to Zhao Yi, so she nodded and said, "That could be worth trying. The only issue is we don’t have enough equipment and resources."
"That can be easily addressed."
Zhao Yi swiftly left for other labs, and soon returned with borrowed equipment and materials. Upon his return, he heard Zhang Wei gently persuading Fan Lei, "It’s okay, it’s just another blood draw, fifty milliliters will do."
"Teacher Li on the upper level is really skilled, it might be just your imagination that it hurt last time."
"Try it one more time. As you heard, Zhao Yi said we need to conduct more experiments, this is contributing to science!"
Despite Zhang Wei’s gentle voice, Fan Lei looked positively pale with fear.
Zhao Yi entered the room and saved him, "Sister Zhang Wei, we don’t need him this time. Let’s get a pass from the institute and go directly to the medical blood bank..."
"No."
Zhang Wei shook her head decisively, "For this kind of experiment, freshly drawn blood is best. What if we..." She insinuated that they all should contribute.
Zhao Yi didn’t object to giving a bit of his own blood, after all, it wasn’t fatal. But it felt slightly better not to use his own blood.
He looked back at Fan Lei, "Fan, how about you..."
"No!" Fan Lei shook his head fiercely.
Zhao Yi laughed, "What I meant was, go to the other labs and see if anyone is willing to donate blood. They won’t donate for free, we’ll give a hundred for twenty milliliters. I guess some might agree."
"Leave it to me!"
Fan Lei was relieved he didn’t have to give his own blood and assured them with a thump on his chest.
He first phoned a few nurses he knew to ask if they had time to help. Soon, he found a nurse who was willing to assist.
An hour later.
Fan Lei, with the nurse carrying the blood draw equipment, went around the labs explaining their experiment. He shared that they needed freshly drawn blood for the experiment, and for every twenty milliliters, the person would get a hundred yuan.
He was very successful.
A hundred isn’t much, but for some married men, it seemed their pocket money was a bit short. Contributing to the experiment while earning a hundred seemed like a reasonable deal for getting poked by a needle.
Something interesting happened in Liu Hongwen’s lab.
Liu Hongwen asked Fan Lei if the nurse could draw more blood from several people in his lab. They also needed fresh blood for their research, but they were all a bit scared of ’Doctor Li’ upstairs.
Doctor Li’s blood drawing skills were remarkably regrettable.
After one round, Fan Lei collected more than ten tubes of blood, about two hundred milliliters. He only had to promise the nurse he would ’take her out for dinner’ sometime.
The nurse made a good deal too.
By helping Fan Lei, she won the favor of many researchers. They said they’d ’call on her next time when they needed blood drawn’ and were willing to ’pay’ for it, even if it cost a bit more.
It seemed she might have an ’additional job’ in the future.
In addition, she managed to have a photo taken with Zhao Yi. She cheerfully left, phone in hand.
Zhao Yi couldn’t help but give Fan Lei a thumbs up. Finding a skilled nurse was indeed a very ingenious solution.
The institute had suffered at the hands of ’Doctor Li’ for a long time.
The materials were ready.
The equipment was ready.
Now, they just needed to get hold of different species of Gram-negative bacteria.
It wasn’t necessary to submit a specific request. Zhao Yi called Wei Shiqing and found out that the lab of Microbial Technology had stored samples of many types of bacteria. They just needed a little cultivation before they were ready for the experiments.
All they had to do now was wait.
