Meow Ba

Chapter 446 Blood Orchid

It was late at night, and the moonlight shone through the dense canopy in the quiet jungle.

Sitting quietly cross-legged on a crooked-neck tree trunk growing on a cliff, Old Tea restrained his breathing.

Today is the fourth night.

The moonlight became brighter and brighter, a bright disc followed the trajectory, slowly floated to the center of the sky, and shot a beam of light from Lao Cha's side.

"It's started~"

Pursing his lips, Lao Cha lowered his head and looked down the cliff.

Under the bright moonlight, the bottom finally revealed its true face—under the cliff was a circle of deep pits about the same thickness as the beam of moonlight, as if it had been shot out by the beam of moonlight for countless years.

And with the moonlight, Laocha can clearly see that in the middle of the cliff, several clumps of green mistletoe are slowly stretching out several slender flower buds.

It's about to bloom.

And as the mistletoe flower buds stretched, water splashes began to surge in the deep pit under the cliff, and thick and long strips could be faintly seen entwining and swimming in the water.

"Ok?"

Old Tea, who was collecting the sound of splashing water and estimating the time with his ears sideways, suddenly received some messages that should not have appeared.

"Shuh, huh~"

"Sam, the front is where the Blood Orchid grows."

"see it?"

"What a beautiful bud."

"As long as we can pick these blood orchids back, we will be able to break through the limit of human life span and achieve immortality."

The boots rubbed against the slender plants of the Amazon jungle, leaving for the first time the traces of the soles on these plants that grew in unexplored wild places.

Lao Cha's ears trembled slightly, he amplified the sound that could only be heard faintly, collected it again, and made it clear.

He could hear excitement in it, but apparently others didn't think so.

"Jack, don't be so excited."

"We're not you mad scientists."

"We just want to pick the Blood Orchid and get out of this ghostly place!"

There was a female voice, and it was obvious that it was not the only one—from the friction between the footsteps and the plants, Old Tea could tell that there were three people walking over.

One of them, Jack, was either the leader or the coercion.

Lao Cha could tell that he was the last one walking, with vigorous steps, while the other two walking ahead were short of breath and staggering, and one of them took a deep breath from time to time, obviously injured.

"Oh no no no."

"Dear Sam, excitement is what I need right now."

"You don't know, I almost pee at the beauty of my wish coming true."

"Especially the thought that the telomere, which has been worn out in human evolution, has been repaired in my research and has become the source of human immortality, I am shaking with excitement."

"Oh~~~"

A chill almost disrupted Lao Cha's breathing.

But is Bloodland so easy to get?

20 years ago, the old tea came - not for the blood orchid, but also for the blood orchid.

The Alimu tribe was nearby, and they had already discovered the extraordinary secret of Xuelan at that time.

These blood-red mistletoe orchids are extremely rare, and the sap they secrete from their buds when they bloom can keep them "perpetually young."

Whenever the blood orchids bloom, the Alimu tribe will pick these rare blood-colored orchids for the young people and children of the tribe to use, so that the tribe can continue for a longer time.

In fact, this is also the reason why the Alimu tribe can last for so long.

They have lived in the Amazon jungle for so long that they have become reproductively isolated from other humans.

But their number is too small, so few that the offspring produced by reproduction in the normal human life cycle are simply not enough to continue the existence of the tribe.

It is the effect of the blood orchid that continues the reproductive cycle of the women in the tribe, allowing them to produce more offspring.

However, even the Alimu tribe had to pay the price of blood if they wanted to pick blood orchids.

"Whoa~"

The buds of the mistletoe stretched even longer, and the slight blood red on the head could already be seen slowly opening in the moonlight, and the sound of waves surging from the deep pit became more intense.

A few minutes later, when the blood orchid is about to fully bloom.

Lao Cha finally saw the men and women who were talking - the same as what he heard from the voice just now, the man named Jack was completely camouflaged and intact.

He held a gun in his hand and aimed it straight ahead.

In front of him was a man and a woman in a state of embarrassment. The man's feet were bound with bandages, limping and crying out in pain from time to time.

The other woman kept cursing Jack, but there was nothing she could do.

"Okay, the blood orchid will open soon."

"Go, pick the blood orchid back for me!"

Jack swung the muzzle of his gun, signaling a man and a woman to act immediately.

He couldn't wait to see the wonderful plant he'd taken such a risk to find—a dried blood orchid petal fell into Jack's hands years ago.

He researched with great interest, but discovered the legend - the blood blue cell extract can repair the telomeres of human DNA!

What is a terminal particle?

The so-called telomere is a small piece of enzyme on DNA responsible for recording the number of cell divisions. Its function is to protect the integrity and accuracy of DNA during cell division. Every time a cell divides, the telomere will be worn out.

There is an upper limit to the number of cell divisions known as the Hayflick limit.

When cells continue to divide beyond the Hayflick limit, the unprotected DNA will come into contact with the coding region during replication, causing chromosomes to fuse with each other, resulting in a large number of mutations.

The biggest possibility is the generation of cancer cells.

The whole human body will also turn into cancer cells and die in mutual devouring.

However, this usually doesn't happen.

Because when the telomeres are too short for DNA to replicate safely, cells age.

It changed into another state.

In this state it can survive for a long time and continue to perform its usual functions, but will not divide again and eventually die.

This is the natural aging and death of human beings.

Jack found that the effect of blood blue extract on repairing terminal particles, in general, is to increase the number of times human cells can divide, which means that human beings can have a longer lifespan and youth.

So, after Jack submitted his research argument to the company's board of directors, the entire senior management was boiling.

They immediately realized the huge business opportunities contained in blood orchid extract - no woman does not care about her youth.

What a terrible torture it is to watch the face age and the skin sag.

But now this kind of torture has the possibility of being released after serving his sentence.

Exploration funds are credited immediately.

In the face of money, all difficulties are not difficulties.

The best fighters, the best guides, the best assistants, and the best ships, all work together quickly, as smoothly as lubricated gears.

In addition to time, seasons, weather and animals of the Amazon jungle.

(End of this chapter)