Chapter 14: Totoro Awakens
"Evans, you seem to be in good spirits, and it appears there has been a new breakthrough in your research."
Evans smiled and waved his hand, "It's not the final step yet, but thanks to your unconventional ideas."
Dudley grinned, downplaying his role, "I mentioned the genetic connection between dragonfly larvae and hairy rat eyes in passing. I didn't expect you to actually discover a correlation from that."
Evans responded with emotion, "You may have mentioned it casually, but in the field of biology, many insights come from a single thought. Sometimes, when you have that thought, you grasp something you wouldn't have otherwise."
"By the way," Evans continued, "you'll also need to visit the observation lab. I'm heading there to check on my experimental progress, and I've got something interesting to discuss with you."
Dudley nodded and followed Evans to the laboratory's second floor.
On the way, Evans explained, "Dudley, I won't hide it from you. After observing the cell structure of a hairy mouse's eyeball with an electron microscope, I found similarities with the cell structure of dragonfly larvae. To test biogenetic characteristics, I extracted proteins from the eyeball cells of the hairy mouse and injected them into dragonfly larva embryos. I observed them for two weeks. I can't reveal the full results yet, but I did witness new eyes growing on the dragonfly larvae. That alone is evidence. It shows that the dragonfly embryos successfully interpreted the gene fragment in the cell of the hairy mouse's eyeball and began to reproduce and divide. You may not fully grasp this now, but it's something you'll delve into when you go to college..."
On the second floor, Evans hurriedly left to attend to his own tasks, leaving Dudley shaking his head. He had casually mentioned a piece of genetic analysis he had learned in his previous life, and Evans, with his keen intuition, managed to independently complete that step. It was a testament to the advanced level of biology at Cambridge University in the late 20th century.
However, Dudley's main objective was to find a reasonable excuse for Evans to request importing chinchillas into the lab. Chinchillas had valuable fur, a docile temperament, and were quite costly. Buying them himself would raise questions from Vernon or Penny, and he didn't want to get caught in another web of lies. Once one lie is formed, it usually necessitates countless more to cover it up, and that was too exhausting.
Dudley arrived at a room he had prepared in Morrison's laboratory. Inside, under a glass cover, sat a chinchilla about the size of his palm.
The date at the top indicated that two weeks had passed since today, and the chinchilla had tenaciously survived with the nourishment of nutritional reagents. On the glass cover, the number three [III] was clearly marked in bold black letters.
Dudley took a couple of steps forward, retrieved a record book from a shelf on the side, and began to write on the latest page:
[So far, this chinchilla appears to have lost its ability to observe with its eyes, retaining only basic physiological characteristics, and showing no signs of aggression.]
Unbeknownst to him, while Dudley was engrossed in writing, the chinchila name Totoro, suddenly opened its eyes.
Dudley continued to read the record in his hand:
[Totoro Observation Daily Records!
Culture Observation No. 3, which was injected into the embryo from the earliest stage, infected with the protein from the eye part of the [Magic I Virus] black-spotted giant python. Since chinchillas are not oviparous, detailed observation can only be conducted after the female chinchilla gives birth. However, something extraordinary has happened that defies the norms of biology. After copying the [Magic I Virus] from the dead skin cells on Harry's mouth, it successfully stimulated the eye cells of the black-spotted giant python. From this, it can be deduced that the [Magic I Virus] can infect cells of species other than humans. In the biological world, it's another virus that naturally suppresses influenza viruses. That virus is the bacteriophage! Injecting bacteriophages into ordinary organisms infected with the [Magic I Virus] can result in suppression?
Dudley scrutinized the record in his hand, and his gaze instinctively drifted towards the three glass containers on the side. Two of them held chinchilla larvae.
The experiment this time was divided into three phases:
1. Direct injection into the embryo without interference from the [Magic I Virus].
2. Injection into the embryo after infection with the [Magic I Virus], followed by injection of ordinary bacteriophages.
3. Injection into the embryo after infection with the [Magic I Virus], followed by injection of new bacteriophages that had multiplied within wizard cells.
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