Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 606 - 250: Victory in Sight

Chapter 606: Chapter 250: Victory in Sight

Cuba’s medical system, Lu Xuanyu was somewhat familiar with it.

The saying goes, "A long illness turns a patient into a doctor." After Lu Xuanyu’s incident, he and his wife did not become "doctors," but they did inquire about various medical resources at home and abroad.

Cuba had always been vigorously developing its public healthcare system, with citizens almost fully enjoying free medical resources. The per capita medical resources of this country were the highest in the world, even far outstripping developed countries.

For Cuba, the "medical system" was even a means of generating foreign exchange. They really did use their domestic medical resources to exchange for foreign currency over the long term.

And the level of Cuban healthcare was not low.

Moreover, it was one of the countries that once upheld the banner of internationalism.

On this topic, Lu Xuanyu could still understand.

If this medical powerhouse was willing to share its resources with the rest of the world, coupled with the public healthcare systems of various countries... the pressure of national standardization was indeed significant.

Lu Xuanyu was very clear that the biggest difficulty in promoting this surgery was that it required the Spirit Receivers to stay in the hospital for half a year, with several months of that time spent in a comatose state.

During this period, the Spirit Receivers were unable to work.

And not everyone could afford to be "out of work for several months."

If everyone had to go through this...

It would be too much for any country, wouldn’t it?

Lu Xuanyu’s attention was quickly captured by the latter part of Florence’s statement.

He had a bad feeling about it.

Lu Xuanyu stopped solving the problem and looked at Florence, "Excuse me, Miss Florence, may I ask... what is the ’immature Acceleration scheme’?"

"The longest part of this process is probably the ’central nervous system’ transformation," Florence nodded.

The transformation of parts like mucous membranes, hair follicles, and the immune system, which have high cell division rates, was very fast, and the entire Metal-based transformation only needed a few days.

However, the transformation of permanent cells was very slow.

The brain’s transformation was particularly slow.

The lengthy comatose time Lu Xuanyu experienced was actually spent waiting for the neurons in the brain to transform.

It was only after the transformation of brain neurons began that medical staff would proceed with the transformation of heart muscle cells and skeletal muscle cells.

And after these permanent cells were mostly transformed, they would start the transformation of other body cells.

Even though rabies was already the "fastest" neurophilic virus, and even though medical staff could artificially inject modified rabies virus multiple times to accelerate the disease, this time could not be shortened any further.

The reason for this...

"We have to wait so long because the nerve cells are very silent, with proto-oncogenes not active," Florence said. "So, by stimulating the expression of proto-oncogenes in nerve cells, we can artificially accelerate this process."

"Proto-oncogenes... that sounds... a bit scary?"

"There’s nothing scary about it. Every cell contains proto-oncogenes. Without proto-oncogenes, your cells would not grow, divide, or change," Florence said. "It’s only when proto-oncogenes get out of control do they lead to cancer."

Lu Xuanyu said, "That ’immature acceleration method’..."

"Is about touching the proto-oncogenes of the nerve cells," Florence explained. "Years ago, Mr. Vigette experimented on himself and almost failed. In order to save his life, Ms. Endebile (referring to Niyaguti) tried various methods, including ’touching the proto-oncogenes of the nerve cells’—an idea Mr. Vigette didn’t have time to realize. This method should be able to greatly compress the time of the second phase of the surgery."

"However, this technology is indeed immature. Mr. Vigette’s peripheral nervous system developed... cough, cancerous mutations."

Although rumors say "sharks do not get cancer," in reality, this is just a misconception due to the limited human observation of sharks. Sharks are not creatures that "do not get cancer."

But there are indeed "cells that do not become cancerous" within the human body.

That is, neurons.

Even though humans occasionally suffer from tumors like "brain tumors," these are not cancers of the neurons but glioma "overturns."

Even so, the majority of brain tumors are benign.

Neuronal cancer mutations are quite outrageous on several levels.

"This technology is still immature, which is why it has not been applied to anyone else," Florence coughed twice. "And in the end, everything was satisfactorily resolved, and Mr. Vigette even generously shared these rare cancer cells with the whole world for the advancement of human science."

"Ah... for the advancement of science? No, before that... um... that... Can this technology still be applied to humans?"

Lu Xuanyu felt there was so much unknown in this world.

"Technology will definitely mature," Florence said with a yearning in her voice. "The company has launched a series of major projects in these months, and will definitely figure out the ’proto-oncogenes.’ Eventually, cancer will become an easily curable disease, and AIDS can be easily reversed. Moreover, nerve damage will no longer be irreparable. Of course, of course, most importantly—the time for the second part of the Standardization Modification Surgery can be greatly compressed."

"And the compression of the second part would make the rehabilitation training for the third part less stressful."

Florence had no doubt about the significance of this series of projects.

Under the new plan, the first step of gene modification surgery, "immune system reset," could be compressed to one week, and patients could retain infant-level immunity on the last day without necessarily requiring an isolation ward.

The projects "repairing nerve damage" and "accelerating the second phase of the surgery" are interconnected. If these series of studies are completed, the second phase might be shorten to within a month.

The duration of the Spirit Receivers’ coma could be reduced to "weeks."

Spirit Receivers could have their "immune reset" one week in advance, then go back to work, and the nation could add a special holiday similar to "maternity leave" to the labor law for the following weekend.

If it’s further shortened, they might not even need a special holiday; just having a lengthy annual leave would suffice.

If this series of research really succeeds, then the ideal scenario described by the boss is truly not far away!

Light was sparkling in Florence’s eyes.

Lu Xuanyu was infected by the enthusiasm and felt that it was probably a good thing.

He continued to complete the cognitive tests.

At that moment, he suddenly recalled something and asked somewhat embarrassedly, "Oh, by the way, didn’t Mr. Xiang come today?"

After spending some time together, Lu Xuanyu vaguely regarded Xiang Shan as a friend. He felt that Xiang Shan would have come to visit.

Yet, he also felt that asking might be a bit presumptuous of him.