Chapter 503 After Killing Me
After returning to the Blue Crystal, Jon took Pei Junlin to settle his parents.
Evelyn's situation was special, so Jon could only arrange them in a room away from where people gathered, and closed the only access to this room.
Pei Junlin acquiesced to his arrangement.
When they returned to the meeting room, Ai Wanxin had already eaten something simple and was leaning back on the sofa with her eyes closed.
The light in the conference room was adjusted to a level that was not glaring. Qiao En looked at Ai Wanxin's tired eyes and said in a low voice, "The commander has not rested since last night."
Pei Junlin looked at Qiao En in surprise: "Why did you call me baby?"
He couldn't help but think of the strange dream he had in Lizhu Villa. Could it be that they really came from the previous life?
Yin Yanhan, who had been sitting next to Ai Wanxin and watching her quietly, stood up very quietly.
He walked to the door, raised his chin to Pei Junlin and Qiao En, and motioned them to go out and talk.
Jon took the two of them to a room nearby and briefly told them what had happened in their previous life.
On the other side, in the space, Ai Wanxin sat on a thick vine that was growing wildly, holding a small leopard cat in her arms. She stroked its sleek fur and said to Xiaoji, "How about it, do you know what it is?"
The little leopard cat squinted its eyes comfortably and made a gurgling sound in its throat like a small motorcycle starting.
The semicircular top cover of the small machine was removed, and the syringe that Ai Wanxin had taken from the glass cover next to the repair cabin popped out.
It said tremblingly: "This is telomerase concentrated extract, master."
"?" Ai Wanxin stopped petting the cat. "If I remember correctly, isn't this something in the cells?"
The little machine closed the lid and nodded in a gibberish, "Yes, Master, when cells divide, DNA will replicate. Every time it replicates, the telomeres at both ends of the chromosomes will wear and shorten. When the telomeres shorten to a certain extent, the cells will no longer divide and will die. The cells will no longer renew, the tissues will age, and the person will age."
"Telomerase is a nuclear protein reverse transcriptase that can repair telomeres lost due to DNA replication, allowing them to lengthen again, thereby slowing down cell aging, which is the speed of human aging."
"That's not hard to understand. So Atlas and Pei Hongshou look younger because they took this?"
"Master..." Xiaoji said hesitantly, "Don't you remember?"
"I don't remember anything?" Ai Wan wondered.
Xiaoji circled back and forth in front of her, and said anxiously: "Scientists discovered the role of telomerase a long time ago, but have not made a big breakthrough in clinical practice. One important reason is that artificially synthesized telomerase cannot achieve the same effect as natural telomerase."
"But humans really want to extend their lifespans, so they secretly used telomerase extracted from the human body, illegally conducted human experiments, and then injected it into some of the dignitaries on the new main planet at that time."
"Among all cells, the telomeres of egg cells are the most special and the longest, and they do not shorten with cell division. Therefore, the telomerase extracted from egg cells is also considered to be the most effective..."
Ai Wanxin stood up quickly, and the little leopard cat, which was so comfortable that it was almost asleep, fell to the ground in shock, not understanding why its owner suddenly stopped holding it.
Ai Wan's mind suddenly became clear. She understood why the man whose wife was chosen on the outer island told her that young women were easy to be chosen. She also understood why Anderson, the adopted son of the Black Moon Peninsula gangster in Atlas, told her that the so-called eternal life was just a bait to trick people into willingly climbing onto the operating table and contributing part of their bodies.
"What happened next?" Ai Wanxin frowned fiercely.
Seeing that she was indeed very angry, Xiaoji said carefully, "Later, a case of missing people in a remote galaxy broke out, but the investigation was extremely difficult to advance, which caused a huge public opinion storm. You knew about this matter, and you sent half of the Knights' personal guards to investigate, and only then did you restore the truth of the matter."
"After finding out the whole story, you arrested all the institutions and officials involved, all the dignitaries who had received the injection, and even impeached the then Speaker and arrested him. You also overturned the resolution to abolish the death penalty and sent the main culprit to the gallows. It's not an exaggeration to say that the new main star was washed in blood during that period."
"So," Ai Wanxin said coldly, "after killing me, they picked up this damn thing again, right?"