"Elder Lin, calm down! Take a deep breath!"
Guo Yi looked at Elder Lin who stood up, and quickly rushed forward to support him.
At that moment, Elder Lin's face was strangely flushed.
It was clearly a temporary physical abnormality caused by excessive excitement.
Guo Yi was drenched in nervous sweat, at a complete loss.
Elder Lin's disciple ran out immediately.
Before long, he returned to the conference room holding a bottle of quick-acting heart pills and dragging a doctor along with him.
"Phew~"
Afterwards, the doctor carefully checked Elder Lin's condition, and said with a wry smile, "Elder Lin, don't get excited. Calm your mind."
With that, the doctor slammed his hand on the table in fury, pointing his finger at them one by one, especially the disciples and Guo Yi. "What are you people doing?
Don't you know that at your age, you can't take too much intense stimulation?
What the hell are you playing at? If you want to die, go find another way to kill yourselves!"
"..."
The disciples looked at Guo Yi with aggrieved gazes, not daring to retort.
As for Guo Yi, he chuckled awkwardly and scratched his head, not daring to meet the doctor's eyes.
"Alright, little Qin." Elder Lin calmed down and immediately interrupted the doctor's reprimand, explaining, "It has nothing to do with these little fellows; I just got a bit too excited for a moment.
I'm fine, you can head out first."
"Mm." Hearing Elder Lin's words, the doctor obediently nodded.
Only, as he left the conference room, he swept a fierce glare at those disciples and Guo Yi.
"Guo Yi, continue."
"Wait!"
Elder Zhou interrupted Elder Lin, turned his head and said to several disciples beside him, "Go to the medical ward and get some quick-acting heart pills.
A bottle for everyone!
I don't want to lie in bed staring blankly and waiting for rescue at a critical moment like this.
By the way, let us calm down again, otherwise if Guo Yi pulls out some other terrifying gadget later, I'm afraid I'll just kick the bucket right here!"
The national treasures were momentarily stunned, and then all instructed their disciples to go get the medicine.
After the disciples left, Elder Zhou sternly instructed Guo Yi, "I've already told you, you should just keep certain things to yourself.
Why on earth are you telling us?
Do you think we live too long?"
Guo Yi stood obediently by Elder Lin's side, lowering his head to take the scolding, though he muttered softly under his breath, "You can't blame me for this either. I call it like I see it, and I have plenty of similar gadgets stuck in my head.
There are even darker ones..."
"Darker ones... Let us catch our breath first, calm down. It's too stimulating."
Elder Zhou rubbed his temples with a slight headache.
Wasn't today supposed to be a joyous moving day?
How come it suddenly felt like one surprise after another—and mostly shocks at that?
After a long while, the conference room finally quieted down, with everyone holding a bottle of quick-acting heart pills.
On top of that, Xiao Qin, the doctor from earlier, quietly sat in a corner of the conference room, warning Guo Yi with a glare: Take it easy, these are all national treasures.
Even if you're a national treasure yourself, you can't bully the old national treasures!
You couldn't blame Xiao Qin for having such a bad attitude; after all, before Guo Yi arrived, the old national treasures were all doing just fine.
With Guo Yi showing up, he had almost scared his little aunt half to death to begin with, and now he had suddenly brought so many quick-acting heart pills into the meeting room—he couldn't help but worry.
At the same time, he was curious about what on earth Guo Yi had done to warrant a bottle of heart pills per capita.
So just in case, he decided to sit right there to guard against accidents, while a medical team stood by outside the door.
"Alright, back to the main topic."
Seeing that everyone had calmed down and made various psychological preparations and physical protective measures, Elder Zhou presided over the continuation of the discussion.
"First, limb regeneration—are you certain about this?"
"Mm!"
"Mm!?"
"Whoosh~"
Everyone looked at Xiao Qin who had stood up with his mouth wide open, wearing expressions of utter disdain: You can't even handle just this much?
Meanwhile, Xiao Qin's jaw hung slack as he stiffly swept his gaze around the conference room.
Finding that apart from glaring at him for interrupting the topic, they were completely calm and unflustered about something like limb regeneration, he suddenly felt that perhaps he ought to prepare a bottle of heart pills for himself as well.
"Go on."
Elder Zhou rubbed his temples, motioning for Guo Yi to continue.
"Go on about what?"
Guo Yi looked at Elder Zhou in utter bewilderment. He had already explained it quite thoroughly earlier—why wasn't it obvious yet?
"What on earth is that universal medical pod about?"
"Just that—activating the human body's self-healing cells."
Guo Yi shrugged and said casually, "To put it bluntly, the truly universal thing is the human body's self-healing cells and self-healing system.
It can correct and repair damage to the human body, thereby indirectly treating all kinds of illnesses."
After that, Guo Yi suddenly cast a malicious look at Xiao Qin. "Once the medical pod comes out, ordinary medical staff can basically retire."
"Whoosh~"
Everyone looked at Xiao Qin once again.
After all, out of everyone in the entire conference room, he was the only professional medical worker.
According to Guo Yi's theory, if this profession continued down that path, ordinary doctors would surely vanish.
The ones left behind would only be scientists who had a much more proficient and deeply ingrained understanding of the human body and pathology.
As for Xiao Qin, he subconsciously clutched his chest. Meow, meow, meow?
Is this what a mad scientist looks like?
Offend him, and he just directly obliterates an entire profession?
"Alright, don't bully Xiao Qin." Elder Lin looked at Guo Yi and Xiao Qin, shaking his head helplessly. "Tell us what the situation is with eternal youth?"
"Clatter~"
As soon as Elder Lin finished speaking, Xiao Qin slumped straight to the floor.
The disciples nearby helplessly shared a portion of the quick-acting heart pills they were holding and handed them to him. "Eat up, you'll be fine once you take them."
"No, Aunt—little aunt, did you slip up just now?"
Xiao Qin scrambled up from the floor in agitation, frantically asking Elder Lin, while also sweeping his gaze around at the others before finally staring blankly at Guo Yi, unconsciously muttering to himself, "Eternal youth!? Eternal youth!?..."
You couldn't blame Xiao Qin for being so stirred up.
As a doctor, and a top-tier national physician at that, the very four words "eternal youth" were simply too exaggerated!
Is this scientific?
This is fantasy!
"It's not actually eternal youth." Guo Yi glanced at Xiao Qin, who was close to crushing the pills in his hand into powder, and said flatly, "It's longevity, not eternal life or immortality.
The natural lifespan of the human body is actually as high as one hundred and twenty-five years.
It's just that various external factors lead to the premature decay of human life.
I'm simply using the method of gene counting deception to indirectly increase lifespan."
Pausing for a moment, Guo Yi calmly began his explanation once more, "Current theory holds that telomeres are related to human aging; the more cells divide, the shorter the telomeres become, and eventually human bodily functions continuously decline.
This is the cause of human aging.
And death refers to brain death.
Because nerve cells are a highly differentiated cell type, they lack the ability to divide; they can only regenerate through the differentiation of neural stem cells, but this regenerative capacity completely fails to make up for consumption.
So the final conclusion is that the upper limit of the number of human brain cells is pretty much determined at the moment of birth, at around 14 billion.
Throughout the rest of life, every brain cell that dies is one less.
Under this pattern, humans begin to age in the brain around the age of 20, and brain cells begin to decrease at a rate of 100,000 per day.
Around the age of 25, it begins to affect normal life, at 27 all abilities start going downhill, and by age 80, about half of the brain cells are gone.
Finally, when the number of brain cells is no longer sufficient to sustain physiological functions, a person steps into death... Therefore..."
Guo Yi paused at that point and looked around at the crowd. "Shall we calm down? Take some medicine?"
"..."
The old national treasures shook their heads helplessly. What a well-timed cliffhanger.
Still, for men of their advanced age who had reached the twilight of their years, having steeled their minds, no storm could possibly stir up their emotions.
Only the disciples standing behind them were to be pitied.
Without even looking back, they knew just from the sound: the neat and uniform snapping open of bottles, the rattling of pills, and finally the sound of drinking water.