"So, it was your Papa Charles who saved my parents?"
When he heard Stark's question, Eric immediately rolled his eyes, talking is talking, can we not mention the "Papa Charles" thing?
Unfortunately, he had to jump into the hole he dug for himself with tears in his eyes!
"Yes, my father saved your parents, they were so badly injured that my father entrusted them to a friend, who unfortunately died before he could tell you the news." Eric pretended to be sad and said, "I too have only recently received a message from his friend and learnt that your parents are still alive."
"But why did they get so young?" Stark hesitated, and if he hadn't already had a paternity test done, he would have suspected that these were two actors that Eric had found.
"It was your father's doing! At the time, my father found some tubes of a serum in your parents' car, and your parents wouldn't have survived if it hadn't been for that serum!"
Stark nodded in deep understanding, he had stayed up all night doing extensive tests on the two and found that there was indeed a substance in their bodies which was constantly transforming their bodies, making them younger, stronger and healthier.
At the same time, it was also the transformation of this substance that had kept his parents awake so far, and according to the analysis of the data from the tests, it would take at least another year or so for his parents to wake up.
Stark also extracted some of the substance and did a lot of analysis, and went through a lot of Howard's notes. He already had a vague guess as to what the substance was, and it was this guess that made him think about it and had trouble sleeping.
Understanding the cause and effect, Stark left with alacrity. He didn't even ask the cause of the crash, he knew it must not be simple, but so what, his parents were still alive and looked like they would have little problem surviving another 30 or 40 years, and that was enough!
As for a possible conspiracy or crisis, let it come, I, Tony Stark, will take it!
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After sending Stark away, Eric finally had time to discuss academic issues with Maya Hansen
Er, really academic issues, the gift promised to Maya Hansen was finally going to show up.
Eric took out a small suitcase and slowly opened it under Maya Hansen's nervous gaze, inside lay six test tubes silently.
"This is ..." Maya Hansen's eyes widened as she reached out and gently ran her hand over the top of the test tubes as if she was caressing some precious work of art.
"That's right, this is vampire blood!" Eric's mouth turned up at the corners, looking slightly smug, "Not just blood, but skin samples, hair samples. And, they come from two special vampires."
"Special? How special?"
"One set of samples, from Blade, he's half human, half vampire, a day walker, he has the advantages of vampires without their disadvantages, and his genetic samples will help you understand how genes combine with human genes."
Eric removed in fact three test tubes, which held Blade's blood, hair and a small piece of skin.
"So the rest, that's from ..." Maya Hansen looked at the samples in the test tubes and looked a little disoriented, like an addict seeing a large cigarette.
"That's right, they're from Dracula! The second vampire in the world and the originator of all modern vampires!"
When Dracula was sealed, Hank wanted to draw a tube of Dracula's blood for research, but was rightly told off by Eric, but Eric actually extracted some for himself.
Instead of feeling guilty about what he had done, Eric was excited to go into the lab with Maya Hansen and analyse the possibility of combining the Extremis virus with the vampire genes.
In Eric's vision, this was entirely feasible.
Although the Extremis virus was called a virus, it wasn't actually a real virus, but a biotech micro-component designed by Maya Hansen.
It's like a hack against a creature's genetic system, hacking into the area where the creature controls limb repair and then rewriting it to make self-healing faster, more efficient, more perfect.
Yes, every person, every creature has the ability to heal itself. When a knife cuts a finger, the brain commands platelets to clot and plug the wound, and then the cells around the wound begin to divide and regrow new skin tissue; this is the body's self-healing.
To put it bluntly, the Extremis virus is more like a miniature robot, only it has been created to look like a virus.
The virus that the vampire is infected with, on the other hand, is the real virus. It is a parasitic type of virus that, upon entering the human body, rapidly replicates and takes over the human brain, stimulating the cerebral cortex and creating a bloodlust in humans. By feeding on blood, they not only gain energy, but also gain more effective propagation.
Transferring certain gene fragments from the vampire virus to the Extremis virus, allowing the two to fuse perfectly, is like transferring herbicide-resistant genes from a drug-resistant caterpillar to a soybean, typical of genetic engineering.
Keeping the useful genes and eliminating the harmful, useless genes and adding them to the Extremis virus involves a lot of repetitive work such as sequencing the genes, which is not enough for Maya Hansen alone.
The A.I Future has helped, and Erik has personally designed automated gene extraction and gene amplification equipment for Maya Hansen, saving a lot of time and allowing Maya Hansen to devote herself to her research.
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Thus, after a gap of more than two years, Maya Hansen was finally unable to escape Eric's clutches and was placed in a position of clarity.
Eric's lab also went from six people to seven.
For some reason, Skye was quite hostile to Maya Hansen's arrival, and seemed to be guarding against Maya Hansen like a thief for fear that she would steal her own old man.
This made Eric very distressed, Unfortunately, when faced with his daughter, who was acting silly and cute, Eric couldn't help but follow Alexander's example and put up with it if he could....
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Originally, Eric intended to stay in the laboratory to retreat, but did not expect to be called out by Jennifer less than a week later, because there was someone who wanted to see him.
Victor Von Doom.
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