Chapter 164: An alternative human immortal life individual!
After the call was connected, John's tone on the other end became extremely happy. Knowing that Chen Jue actually accepted his invitation, John arranged an itinerary for Chen Jue.
It is said that as long as Chen Jue arrives at the high-speed railway station in Hangzhou, someone will be there to pick him up.
“Hangzhou?”
"After going around in circles, we end up back in that city?" Chen Jue muttered to himself after hanging up the phone.
Instead of going to Hangzhou directly, Chen Jue took advantage of the large amount of food he had eaten in the morning and while the digestion was in progress, he used [Inner Vision] to observe the operation of cells in various parts of the body.
After Chen Jue discovered that he had awakened to the state of [inner vision], he went deeper into the microscopic observation of his body, as if he was watching a grand documentary about the mysteries of the body.
From nerve cells, white blood cells, red blood cells, platelets, macrophages, epithelial cells, cardiomyocytes, stem cells, etc., the coordinated operation of each cell allows Chen Jue's body to maintain a stable state.
In addition, Chen Jue also saw that the food in the stomach and intestines was converted into nutrients under the action of digestion and began to be transported throughout the body. It felt like seeing trucks carrying nutrients and running quickly on the various blood vessels in the human body.
"Break through the void and you can see God!"
"This 'God' actually has some magical meaning!" Chen Jue came out of the introspection with a bit of amusement. He thought that he should do more introspection when he had free time in the future, and learn some microscopic knowledge about the human body, so as to detect abnormal movements of the body in time and correct them.
Taking another look at the attribute panel, food intake is accelerating the disappearance of the negative status [Mild Malnutrition], and the health index is also recovering rapidly.
Since Chen Jue's physical attributes are different from those of ordinary people, his digestive ability is several times stronger than that of ordinary people.
If an ordinary person falls into a state of malnutrition, it will take a long time of intake and supplementation to recover, but Chen Jue can compress this long process.
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After studying his body for a while at home, Chen Jue went to the reservoir dam to practice Tai Chi for a while. He found out yesterday that Mr. Huang was buried this morning.
With the help of Tai Chi's energy-nourishing and mind-calming effects, Chen Jue calmed down his fear of facing the mystery of life and death. Then he joined the funeral procession and paid tribute to Grandpa Huang's tombstone among the huge crowd.
The moon waxes and wanes, and people are born, grow old, get sick and die. This is a reality that has remained unchanged since ancient times.
Fortunately, Mr. Huang died of old age, and there was not much sadness in the funeral procession.
Chen Jue stood in front of the tombstone and paid tribute to the old man who taught him the boat fist. Then he went down the mountain, went home to wipe the sweat off his morning exercise, packed his backpack, closed the door, and took a ride to An County High-speed Railway Station.
Having just returned to Chen Village yesterday, Chen Jue had to leave in a hurry again today. He found that even after practicing, he was still sinking in the world of mortals.
“Practice... cultivate the mind... and also face the fear of life and death caused by the transformation of the body. It seems that being an immortal in this mortal world is not that easy.” Chen Jue bought a ticket and boarded the high-speed train. While enjoying the scenery along the way, he observed the mysteries of the body at the microscopic level through introspection.
When he arrived in Hangzhou, Chen Jue found that a staff member of Hongmou Group was waiting for him at the exit with a sign.
Chen Jue stepped forward, said hello, and introduced himself. The staff member then led Chen Jue into a luxuriously decorated Leierfa business car.
The car sped all the way from Hangzhou East Station to Binjiang Gaoxing Industrial Park. Chen Jue looked at the familiar streets nearby and the various office workers, and felt as if his yesterday self was right in front of him.
If he had not embarked on the path of spiritual practice, perhaps he would still be mixed in with the crowd.
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After more than half an hour, the car turned into a large square park. The bronze statue of Hongmu placed at the entrance of the park was extremely eye-catching.
When the car drove into the foot of a white enclosed building, Chen Jue saw the foreigner John who had been waiting for a long time.
"Mr. Chen Jue! Welcome to our Hongmu Group!"
"This is the production and research base of our Hongmou Group in Zhonghuajia. Although it looks ordinary from the outside, it is a world of its own. I guarantee that your trip will be worthwhile, Mr. Chen Jue!" John was still as gentlemanly as before. When he saw Chen Jue appear, his face was full of smiles.
"Thank you." Chen Jue smiled and nodded at the other party. Without the meteorite fragments provided by the other party, Chen Jue would not have been able to break through the [Small and Large Circulations].
It is reasonable for Chen Jue to thank the other party.
Although John is a foreigner, he exudes an extremely smooth mental imprint and it is obvious that he knows when to advance and when to retreat in his style of doing things.
After getting off the car, I followed John into the enclosed building. On the way, I saw the introductions to the various honors of the Hongmu Group hanging in the corridor, as well as photos of extreme sports players.
Most of the staff walking around are wearing coats with the Hongmou Group's logo.
John introduced that this park is mainly engaged in the production of Hongmou functional drinks, and this building is the only place engaged in the development and research of new products.
There are security guards at the entrance and strict access control, so it would be very difficult for outsiders to get in.
After taking the elevator to the eighth floor, Chen Jue saw Linglong, who had arrived earlier and was sitting in the living room drinking tea.
"Fellow Daoist Linglong!" Chen Jue stepped forward and greeted him.
Linglong smiled when she saw him appear, then turned to look at John and said, "Mr. John, since the guests are all here, can you please stop keeping us in suspense like before? You have to know that my time is also very valuable."
"Miss Linglong, I'm so sorry to have kept you waiting." John bowed to her as a gentleman, then led the two of them into a more hidden elevator while introducing them.
There was only one button in the elevator, and it didn't display the floor number. After John pressed it, Chen Jue could clearly sense that the elevator was moving downwards.
As for John, he asked in the elevator, "Mr. Chen Jue, Miss Linglong, do you know what the longest-lived life form in the world is?"
Linglong stood there quietly without saying anything. Instead, Chen Jue listened and answered thoughtfully: "Coral? Glass sponge? Or the theoretical Turritopsis dohrnii, leech, or water bear?"
"Mr. Chen Jue, you are really knowledgeable! These life forms can theoretically live for a very long time, and even achieve theoretical immortality. But do you know? In fact, there are similar eternal life forms among us humans." John looked back at Chen Jue with a somewhat ostentatious look.
"Human beings...eternity...living beings..." Chen Jue pondered over these terms for a moment and did not respond.
Then they heard the elevator ding, and the elevator door opened, revealing an underground laboratory with a snow-white background and high-tech display screens on the walls.
The laboratory is full of staff wearing white protective suits, and their offices are isolated in glass rooms.
There was a long corridor outside the elevator. John led Chen Jue and Linglong all the way to the door of a closed office at the end of the corridor.
First, he used palm print recognition, then iris scanning, and finally voice control response. After three verification methods, John successfully pushed open the door of the office and invited Chen Jue and Linglong to come in.
The office is simply furnished with a metal desk, a high-end computer, two light red velvet sofa chairs, and a circle of one-way transparent glass around it through which one can see the scene inside the laboratory.
In addition, two images projected from an instrument overhead showed two magnified glass vessels.
In the picture, researchers can be seen using various instruments to observe the contents of containers. One of the containers contains a piece of meteorite fragment that was previously given to Chen Jue.
In another container, there was a piece of biological tissue that looked like flesh and blood.
On one side of the screen, various monitoring data and curve graphs that fluctuate all the time are spliced together, which makes people feel awe-inspiring at first glance .
Chen Jue felt like he had walked into a futuristic laboratory in a science fiction movie, and he marveled at the strong financial background of such large groups. Then, at John's invitation, he sat on the sofa in the office with Linglong.
John sat down at his desk and typed on the computer. Soon, the image of biological tissue became clearer and clearer.
Chen Jue looked at the mass of tissue in the picture and frowned slightly, as if he was observing the cells in his body through [inner vision].
"Mr. John, is this the eternal life form you mentioned?" Chen Jue asked. Linglong's eyes flickered as she stared silently at the biological tissue in the picture.
John smiled slightly, and without further ado, he explained bluntly, "Yes, Mr. Chen Jue!"
"In January 1951, a black woman born in Virginia found a lump in her abdomen and went to Johns Hopkins University Hospital for treatment. A human cell capable of 'immortality' and unlimited reproduction was extracted from her."
"After more than seventy years, it is still able to remain active, with no signs of aging or death."
"It is a different kind of immortal among us humans, and it is also a reference life form for us humans to take a shortcut to immortality - HeLa cells!"
