269: Chapter 269 Simple Small Projects?

When Lin Yuan's light words landed.

The entire lobby of Research Building No. 7 fell silent for a moment.

The next moment.

"Hiss—"

A uniform intake of breath exploded without warning among the crowd.

This is the Super Soldier Serum!

It is that forbidden technology that only exists in sci-fi movies from The Other Side of the Ocean, capable of pushing the human body to its limits!

Now, it is actually going to be brought onto the real-world stage?

Feverish excitement spread and erupted wildly through the crowd; several old professors were even trembling with agitation.

A full minute passed.

Chen Jingshan, standing beside Lin Yuan, was the first to regain his composure from that scalp-tingling shock, relying on his immense willpower.

He took a deep breath, suppressing the frantic beating of his heart in his chest.

Suddenly, his pupils constricted slightly as he keenly caught a word in Lin Yuan's previous statement that everyone else had almost overlooked.

Chen Jingshan turned his head, his gaze fixed directly on Lin Yuan's profile, and spoke tentatively.

"Academician Lin."

"You just said... one of the goals?"

As soon as these words were spoken.

The dozens of experts who were still immersed in extreme excitement collectively snapped back to reality.

The deliberately hushed noise in the lobby ceased abruptly.

Dozens of eyes turned in unison, locked firmly onto Lin Yuan's face.

Seeing this, Lin Yuan's expression did not change in the slightest.

The corners of his lips curled up slowly, revealing a smile that seemed completely natural.

"Seniors, there is no need to be so surprised."

"The research direction I am undertaking this time is in the field of Life Sciences; how could a single Super Soldier Serum support the entire field?"

"Although the Super Soldier Serum is somewhat interesting, at the end of the day, it is just a branch on the towering tree of Life Sciences."

"It cannot represent the whole tree."

As his words landed.

In the lobby, dozens of top biological experts nodded subconsciously.

That's right, from an academic logic standpoint, Lin Yuan was completely correct.

No matter how heaven-defying the Super Soldier Serum is, essentially it is just a sub-field in the application of Life Sciences.

True Life Sciences covers a scope far beyond that.

Fundamental gene editing, regeneration of damaged organs, telomerase repair and life extension, complete remodeling of the immune system, and even... reversing aging!

Every single sub-field is a vast sea of stars capable of causing a leap in human civilization.

But precisely because they understood these things, the waves rising in their hearts were even more violent.

According to what Lin Yuan meant—

The Super Soldier Serum is just an appetizer?!

There is an even more terrifying trump card coming later?!

For a moment, everyone's breathing inevitably stalled.

They held their breath and stared at Lin Yuan without blinking, afraid of missing even a single syllable he would say next.

Everyone was frantically rehearsing in their minds what earth-shattering, ultimate concept Lin Yuan would throw out in the next second.

Taking in everyone's reactions, the smile on Lin Yuan's face grew a little brighter.

"However..."

He shifted the topic extremely smoothly, and his tone relaxed as well.

"Counting the days, there is less than half a month left until the New Year."

"Time is really too tight."

He raised his head, his gaze sweeping over everyone's tense faces, and chuckled.

"So, at this juncture, apart from the core project of the Super Soldier Serum which has a clear plan to advance, I do not intend to carry out those overly complex biological scientific studies."

"I plan to take advantage of these ten or so days before the New Year to work on a few extra, slightly simpler small projects, and strive to get the results out directly before the New Year."

"Consider it a New Year's gift for the people across the country, so that everyone can have a happy New Year."

Once these words were spoken.

Everyone let out a long breath in unison, and their previously stiff shoulders relaxed slightly.

Chen Jingshan also visibly let out a sigh of relief.

A gentle and refined smile reappeared on his face, and he replied in a lighthearted tone:

"Academician Lin's consideration is reasonable."

"Since these are simple projects prepared to make the people across the country happy for the New Year, I wonder which direction you specifically plan to start from?"

His tone was relaxed, even carrying a sense of pre-New Year small talk.

The other experts present also showed curious expressions, but their emotions had clearly calmed down a lot.

After all, Lin Yuan himself said it was simple.

Facing Chen Jingshan's question and the relaxed smiles of the crowd.

Lin Yuan looked at him and smiled.

He held up two fingers and waved them casually in the air.

"Time is tight, so I won't be too greedy."

"I've tentatively decided to work on two small drugs first."

"The first one—"

He held up his index finger.

"Vitality-Restoring Agent."

"Targeting physical weakness and kidney deficiency, repairing from the root of the organs, treating both the symptoms and the root cause."

Once these words were spoken.

The smiles on the faces of the old experts in the lobby, who had just relaxed, froze in unison.

Vitality-restoring?

Organ root repair?

Treating both symptoms and root cause?

Several people's eyelids began to twitch uncontrollably.

However, they hadn't had time to digest the first piece of information.

Lin Yuan's second finger was already held up mercilessly.

"The second one—"

"Hair Regrowth and Strengthening Agent."

"Reactivating dormant hair follicles to achieve hair regeneration and lasting hair strengthening."

The second after Chen Jingshan heard this sentence, his hand involuntarily lifted, instinctively touching his increasingly receding hairline.

And in the lobby, several other old experts with standard "Mediterranean" hairstyles suddenly widened their eyes, their breathing rapid.

Immediately after, Lin Yuan paused for a beat and then added, extremely casually.

"Complete cure."

The words landed completely.

In the lobby.

Dozens of experts and scholars at the pinnacle of the Xia Kingdom's biological field all remained in a pose with their mouths slightly open, pupils dilated, and breathing stalled.

In the current medical field of Blue Star, the single item of "root-cause organ repair."

Global top laboratories have burned through countless billions in funding, exhausting the heart's blood of generations of researchers.

To this day, it remains at the small animal experiment stage; they haven't even established a stable large animal repair model, let alone clinical application.

As for hair follicle regeneration?

That is the ultimate dream that countless hair-loss sufferers worldwide are longing for.

Countless pharmaceutical companies have thrown money at it one after another, but what was the result?

The best drugs on the market only delay hair loss, barely coaxing out a few thin, soft hairs; they can't even make dormant hair follicles recover.

Cure the root?

Don't even think about it.

And Lin Yuan?

He plans to get it done within half a month.

And he's working on two special drugs for difficult diseases that could overturn the global trillion-dollar medical market at the same time?!

The most outrageous thing is...

A group of old experts' faces were twitching wildly, their inner hearts roaring madly:

"You call this stuff... a 'simpler small project' that you're just casually working on because time is too tight???! "