69novels Chapter 118
Chapter 118
After sending away Scott, who was so excited that he was crying in the office and repeating his thanks incoherently, Lex's flawless smile showed some cracks.
He frowned, and asked Moxi, who was standing in the corner of the office before Scott entered, with a tired mood: "Are the news and interviews ready?"
"Yes, boss. I have already disclosed the news that you were moved by the wishes of the family of three and determined to overcome your mother's terminal illness to the informant of the editor-in-chief of the Planet Daily. Perry is a cautious person, and he will continue to pay attention to your information." Progress, and choose an appropriate time to expose the matter." Moxi bowed her head respectfully, not daring to look directly at the boss's face.
Mainly because I dare not look at the boss's hair.
"The editor-in-chief of the Planet Daily, Perry, I remember him, he always knew how to choose the headlines and the time to release the news." Lex sneered when he remembered something, "Very good."
Mercy responded by dropping her head even deeper.
She stood there for 2 minutes, without hearing any other orders from the boss, she quietly exited the boss's office, and hurried back to her desk to deal with the company's affairs.
And Lex also sat behind his desk, frowning and opened Lisa's case.
The germs she was infected with were things he had never heard of or seen before. They multiplied aggressively in petri dishes, and their powerful invasion ability was the best among all the existing microorganisms on the earth. The most interesting thing about them was, It lies in their high mutation ability and low infectivity after mutation.
According to Lex's research, this kind of bacteria can only be infected by humans when it is in its original state, that is, in an unmutated state, and once it invades a specific organism, they will be infected according to the genes of the invaded object. The composition is constantly changing.
The mutated germs become the exclusive germs of the invaded subject. They will defeat the invaded subject's immune system time and time again, flood the invaded subject's blood, and finally gather in the invaded subject's alveoli and ventricles, resulting in Cardiopulmonary lesions of the compromised subject.
Bacteria are very troublesome to solve, they mutate too fast, and their ability to reproduce is too strong.
Lex tried to make targeted medicines, and finally determined that the speed of making medicines by himself was far slower than the speed at which bacteria got used to medicines and mutated; the most appropriate and most feasible way was to replace Lisa's heart, lungs and blood throughout her body.
Needless to say, how rare are heart and lung donors, and how high is the probability that the donated heart and lung will match Lisa.
If we go backwards, instead of actively waiting for donors, but looking for suitable hearts and lungs, and then letting those people "donate" their own hearts and lungs, it will not be difficult for Lex, but he has to consider Superman's attitude towards this matter. Pay attention, in this way, there is only one way to choose.
Fit Lisa with an artificial heart and artificial lungs.
And it can't be the artificial heart and artificial lung that are currently on the market. After replacement, patients have to use a lot of wires to connect to external equipment to maintain their work. Instead, they are about the same size as a normal heart and normal lung. Working independently, it will hardly affect the normal life of the artificial heart and lung with powerful functions.
It's a huge challenge, no doubt about it.
At present, the level of artificial heart and lung is already very high, but the most expensive artificial heart and lung still cause a lot of discomfort to the user.
They cannot be alone, and must be watched and followed at all times to prevent machine failure; they are always carrying a schoolbag-sized external energy source to provide energy for the artificial heart and lungs; they must take a large amount of blood thinners to keep their body temperature low, so that The machines worked; they couldn't do any more strenuous exercise, couldn't do most of the work, and the noise from the artificial heart and lungs was so loud it kept them awake at night.
The most important thing is that the mechanical and physical functions of the heart and lungs can be replaced by mechanical products, but the chemical and electrical functions cannot, including the hormones and other functions, which must rely on a large number of drugs.
And there is no trace of the rejection reaction produced by the artificial heart and lungs and the human body.
The artificial heart-lung was working fine yesterday, but today it might endanger its owner. God knows when such a thing will happen.
Therefore, the artificial heart and lung can only be used as a temporary aid in the final analysis, and there is always only one optimal option-replace Lisa with a biological heart and lung.
The question is back to the original point, where can I exchange the biological heart and lungs for Lisa?
It’s not impossible, Lex thought, he always knew that there was a way to solve all the problems, that is to use one of Lisa’s cells to differentiate into a young and complete heart and lungs, and replace them with Lisa’s. During this period, he temporarily used an artificial heart and lung to maintain his life.
The technique of using one cell to differentiate the heart and lung is really difficult to overcome.
How difficult is it?A certain scientist used a cell to differentiate a single cardiomyocyte, and won the Nobel Prize and the highest praise from colleagues all over the world.
And this happened last year.
But Lex is not worried about technical issues. He has always arrogantly claimed that he is the top representative of the intelligence on Earth, which is actually true. The secret laboratories under the Lex Group are more than 20 years ahead of the scientific and technological level that is disclosed to the outside world.
As for Lex himself, his wisdom is almost omnipotent, and it is not fair to him to describe him as "how many years ahead".
He's worried about Superman—God knows how Superman would react to something he'd do if he just cloned a Lisa and individually harvested and grown her heart and lungs until he could replace them in Lisa's body.
Lex would have done it if he had his way, but his intellect told him never to provoke an enemy when he knew he was at a disadvantage, even if his enemy was a saint.
What a shame, he thought, not to see Superman exasperated.
What was the look on that guy the last time he flew into his office?
Lex tried to remember, but only remembered Superman's powerful body and his abnormally perfect jaw, and the sound of his red cape being blown by the wind.
"Tony." In New York City, in Tony's villa, Carl and Tony stared at each other, "You can't go into the lab anymore, you need to eat and sleep."
"My God!" Tony, who was blocked by Carl outside the laboratory door, yelled angrily, "Where did you come from wasting so much free time with me? I am in a very good state, don't worry about it! Let me go!" Come on, the formulas in my head are about to be squeezed to the floor, let me in while they're still in my head!"
"Listen, Tony, science and experimentation are important to you, but eating and sleeping are also important to you, and giving up eating and sleeping for the sake of science and experimenting, and giving up science and experimenting for the sake of eating and sleeping is not advisable. ..."
"Then let me in!"
Tony tried to break through, but Karl seemed to know what he was going to do next. He moved to the left, and Karl's arms opened to the left; he moved to the right, and Karl took a step to the right; When Carl breaks through under his arm, Carl will suddenly bend down and push him out from under his arm, so as to guard against death and guard the door of the laboratory tightly.
"You are such a good goalkeeper, why don't you go to play in Europe?" Tony was furious, "Maybe you can become the second Beckham Karl!"
"Beckham is not a goalkeeper, and it's too bullying for me to play football." Carl was still smiling, not angry at all, and he said half coaxing and half lying, "You listen to me and go to dinner, Take a good rest after eating, and I will send you the phone call with Howard that I secretly recorded before."
For nearly a week, Carl avoided mentioning Howard in front of Tony.
One is because Tony is obviously still immersed in the grief of losing his parents, and mentioning Howard will inevitably make him sad, and the other is because he himself sees Tony holding his breath and feels sorry for hiding the truth from Tony.
And Tony himself didn't want to mention Howard or Maria at all.
He's grieving over the death of his parents, but he just can't say it, at least not right now, he just keeps all his emotions in his head, drinks too much, or is obsessed with his research.
Perhaps it was precisely because Carl had never mentioned Howard before that, as soon as the name was uttered, Tony's expression changed immediately.
"... what is it?" Tony said. "I don't want to hear it. Who knows what stupid things the old man said again."
"It's not stupid, Tony, absolutely not." Carl smiled. He is an excellent actor, but the lightheartedness he tried to pretend in this passage is so vulnerable. "It's a good word. Howard rarely praises you Woolen cloth."
"Old man? Praise me? What are you talking about in your sleep, Carl. Ha! I know you're trying to amuse me, but you have to tell the truth when you lie. The old man praises people? I've only heard him in my life." Praise Captain America and you." Tony pushed Carl's arm and was about to rush into the laboratory, perhaps because he hadn't eaten for a long time, and the strength in his hands was terribly weak.
"It's true." Carl said, lowering his arm and no longer blocking Tony, but took out his phone and rummaged through it carefully.
"Very good, very good, it's getting more and more realistic, Carl, keep it up, I'm almost convinced." Tony didn't leave, he just stood there, arms crossed, chin up, waiting for Carl's movement.
He pretended not to care.
Carl clicked on a piece of audio on his phone.
It was indeed the voice recorded by him a long time ago. His mobile phone is a high-end device, and there is no noise or mixing when playing the sound. Everything is very clear, as if the speaker is standing in front of Tony.
The speaker did have one standing in front of him.
"What do you think of Jarvis?"
It was Carl's voice, with obvious ridicule and laughter.
"How about what?"
Howard rang, in his usual loose tone. Usually, Tony wanted to give his father a few slaps when he heard his father speak like this, but listening to it now, he actually felt a little nostalgic.
"Oh come on, Howard, don't play dumb with me," Carl said on the recording.
After a very short silence, Howard in the recording let out a long sigh of relief, with a sense of "I'm afraid of you, can I say it's okay?"
"Well, I have to admit that even I can't create an artificial intelligence of Jarvis' level. The ideas it contains are brand new, and I'm old. You know SHIELD has now prioritized the use of Did Tony make something? This kid is even better than when I was younger."
"Hmm," Carl said in the recording, "do you dare to say these words in front of Tony?"
"I guess he wouldn't," the real Carl said, turning off the recording. "I knew he wouldn't."
He paused, then said, "Are you crying, Tony?"
"Who the hell is crying! Get out!"