More than an hour later.
Lü Yongchang quietly watched the lab mice scurrying around the cage in front of him.
"What are you planning to do?"
Mao Zhengzhi asked softly from beside him.
Lü Yongchang pondered for a moment. A ruthless glint flashed in his eyes as he pointed at the untreated fungal sample nearby.
"Grind the fungus into powder and inject it directly into these mice."
Mao Zhengzhi's expression changed drastically. "Have you lost your mind?!"
"This is alien life! The mice have no resistance to it whatsoever!"
Lü Yongchang let out a deep sigh.
"We're running out of time. We can't afford to slowly analyze these Martian organisms."
"What we need now is the fastest, most direct solution."
"First, I need to know whether these fungi actually contain the substance I'm looking for."
After grinding an entire fungal specimen into powder, Lü Yongchang and Mao Zhengzhi mixed it with saline, ultimately preparing fifteen fungal solutions of different concentrations.
To ensure the experiment was rigorous, Lü Yongchang carefully selected twenty lab mice. Five served as the control group and received only equal volumes of saline.
The remaining fifteen formed the experimental group, each receiving an equal volume of fungal solution at a different concentration.
Once all the preparations were complete, Lü Yongchang placed the mice in specially designed housing cages, his expression grave.
All they could do next was wait patiently.
At first, both the fifteen mice in the experimental group and the five in the control group appeared alert and healthy.
But then!
Within just over ten minutes, abnormalities appeared.
All fifteen mice in the experimental group closed their eyes and collapsed in their cages.
The higher the concentration a mouse received, the less time it took to go from being awake to "unconscious"!
The mouse injected