Although he had some doubts about Miriam, Arkaim was not his territory after all, and the Ancestral Mausoleum was not somewhere he could enter whenever he pleased. Murphy could only begin with the empress's vampire symptoms and rule out those possible factors.
Because it might be used to extend human lifespan, Murphy had allocated a great deal of resources to the vampire research team. It had now become one of the most important projects within the Transfiguration Research Group.
Murphy first had Lucas look into the vampire research team's recent progress.
He needed to go through Lucas because the transnational fiber-optic cable between the Soviet Union and Britain had yet to be connected. Murphy's Pioneer computing power could not extend into Britain. If he wanted to connect the tendrils of his mind to Britain's internet, he could only link with Lucas through the psychic network and use him as a relay.
He soon discovered that the vampire research team had made several major moves. For instance, they had already used second-generation sequencing technology to sequence specific bat chromosomes.
At the same time, they were collaborating with a British company called Nanopore to develop third-generation gene sequencing technology.
Murphy then had Lucas search for Nanopore and discovered that its founder was a professor from Oxford University named Hagan Bayley. Umbrella Corporation held a 67% stake in the company, making it its largest shareholder.
Last year, the company had also submitted the Human Genome Project to UK Parliament, more than two years ahead of the genome sequencing project in Murphy's original world.
This was the butterfly effect Murphy had brought about.
Murphy returned to the Magic Research Institute and found David Deamer, the head of the Vampire Research Group.
"How is the research into vampire defects progressing?" Murphy asked.
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