Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 885: Chapter 522: The Elixir of Immortality! (5,000 Words!) (Part 2)

The cells, tissues, and organs that no longer divide gradually age, and the human body reaches the end of its life.

Therefore, researching telomerase is a direction for studying immortality.

However, this enzyme is not easy to control.

In fact, in a normal human body, there are some ordinary cells that are not content with silence and want to be immortal. Their telomerase activity is very strong and can divide indefinitely.

And everyone is very familiar with these kinds of cells.

Cancer cells.

The culprits behind cancer.

The telomerase activity of cancer cells is abnormally high. Once cell division damages the telomeres, the telomerase can immediately repair the damage and achieve endless division.

But because cancer cells are uncontrollable, their incredibly rapid division and spread can lead to the formation of tumors within the body.

If they go unnoticed for a long time, these cells that can crazily divide will spread throughout the body through blood circulation and other means, leading to advanced cancer, for which there is no cure.

The cells that seek immortality ultimately lead to premature death of the individual. Perhaps this is the body’s struggle with lifespan.

Yet he didn’t expect that the potion in his hand could actually achieve controlled, infinite division!

Isn’t this true immortality?

Of course, you may have a long life, but death is still inevitable.

However...that would mean death from starvation, freezing, or being killed. Dying of old age is almost impossible, and even dying from illness is difficult with a perpetually young and vigorous body and a strong immune system, unless an extraordinarily strong virus that the human body cannot withstand appears.

This is truly an extraordinary treasure!

"How much of this stuff have you discovered?" Xu Xin immediately turned his head to look at the three women.

"I discovered it," Lou Fei’Er, who was sitting on the sofa petting Keke, said, quickly raising her head when she heard Xu Xin’s question, "Not a lot. I counted, and there are just over a hundred vials, right?"

Over a hundred vials is not a lot?

It could grant over a hundred people nearly immortal lifespans!

He was utterly shocked.

He thought there would at most be a dozen or so, maybe even just a few.

Unexpectedly, there were over a hundred!

At least all the explorers here can achieve long lifespans.

Nice!

Xu Xin rummaged through his backpack again and did not find the syringe mentioned in the introduction.

"Didn’t you bring back a syringe?" Xu Xin turned to look at her.

"Syringe?" Lou Fei’Er was taken aback. "What syringe? Aren’t these potions to be drunk?"

Xu Xin frowned, "There’s no syringe?"

"No..." Lou Fei’Er seemed confused, "There were only these potions in the box."

...What?

Can’t be injected?

At this moment, Jin Yue, who was nearby, spoke up: "The syringe you mentioned might be that immovable device in the room."

"Oh?" Xu Xin turned his head to look at her.

"In that room, there is a crystal table with a crystal instrument on it, all connected to the crystal room. That instrument...seems to require you to put your hand in," Jin Yue recalled.

"Ah! I remember now!" Zeng Tao, who was lying on the sofa petting Keke’s ears, immediately looked up, "That thing was so strange, it couldn’t trigger any introduction, I even tried putting my arm in, and it didn’t do anything."

"That thing!" Lou Fei’Er suddenly realized and then gave her a sideways glance, "I can’t believe you dared to put your arm in."

"Hehe, nothing happened, right?"

Xu Xin finally breathed a sigh of relief, so there was no problem.

Luckily, there is an injection device; otherwise, just looking at it without being able to use it would be too frustrating.

However, this means that to inject this potion, you need to go to that crystal room, which only he can open, meaning he has complete control over the potion’s usage rights.

Is this the benefit bestowed upon him by that several-hundred-year-old self?

Not bad, at least there’s no worry of someone with ill intentions stealing the potion.

Xu Xin put the gene serum away and continued to search through his backpack, finding another kind of potion.

[Beast Bloodline Serum (Purple): Oral, no injection needed. After digestion and absorption, it grants a beast bloodline or enhances an existing beast bloodline, accelerating the body’s growth, but requires enormous energy consumption, it’s best to prepare a massive amount of food beforehand.]

This potion was also in a small bottle, but unlike the previously sealed bottle, this one had a cap that could be unscrewed for direct consumption.

Beast Bloodline Serum...

"There are a lot of these bottled potions, the entire crystal box was full of them, impossible to count, but there must be at least a thousand bottles?" Lou Fei’Er, standing nearby, said, "I can’t say more, but...like the potion just now, there’s basically no introduction, just told me it’s a kind of special gene serum, nothing else. But you surely know what it is, right?"

Xu Xin certainly knew.

Perhaps his several-hundred-year-old self’s ability to discern was more about identifying these special resources for him to use.

Holding the two bottles of potion, he explained their functions to the three women.

Then, they all looked at the bottle of gene serum one by one.

They had little interest in the Beast Bloodline Serum, but the gene serum was extremely captivating!

"This thing...is it really so powerful! You can be immortal and perpetually youthful?" Zeng Tao’s eyes widened into circles, almost pouncing to snatch it away.

"...But haven’t we already got quite a long lifespan?" Jin Yue leaned against the wall and spoke, "Our mutated bloodline has such effects, too."