Chapter 3034 The green trees are dense and the summer is long (42)
Chapter 3008 The green trees are dense and the summer is long (42)
Zatanna still came, she screamed the first second she saw Schiller's current form, and jumped back more than ten meters in the second or third second.
"It's me." Schiller wanted to reach out and push up his glasses, but unfortunately he didn't have any hands now, so he had to pull the tip of his tail over, push up his glasses and said, "I know you are curious about how I became like this, but don't stop now.
Out of curiosity...can you come over here?"
"I..." Zatanna pursed her lips tightly and said, "I swear I have no prejudice against snakes, but I really..."
"Okay, then just stand there." Schiller didn't want to force her. After all, if she turned into broccoli one day, Schiller would never want to get close to her.
"Have you ever heard of the witch Circe?" Schiller asked.
In fact, he doesn't need Zatanna to introduce him to Circe's background, because this witch is quite a famous villain, mainly appearing in Wonder Woman issues.
Her backstory has been changed several times, but no matter which version it is, it is more complicated. To simplify the complex, the long story short is that she is one-fifth of the God of Witchcraft, the source of magical power, and Wonder Woman Diana is the other fifth.
one.
Then she thought that if the God of Witchcraft and Diana died together, then all the power would belong to her, and then she planned a series of plots just to kill them both, but of course they failed in the end.
For some reason, Circe hates men very much. She will use witchcraft to turn men into animals, and then mock and insult them wantonly.
And the short Edgar Schiller also has some impressions. This guy is also the villain of Wonder Woman, codenamed Dr. Neuro. He has the ability to control other people's thinking and read minds, but he is not as strong as Professor X. He needs to be contacted.
Only others can control and read minds.
Because Edgar suffers from dwarfism, is ugly and short in stature, he has always been unpopular with girls and was ostracized by his classmates. Therefore, he has a strong hatred for women and has always targeted Wonder Woman.
One hates men and the other hates women. I don’t know how they got together.
Moreover, the enemy of the two of them should be Diana, why did she end up in Gotham?
Schiller remembered Brand's words that Circe and the others seemed to be looking for a girl, which reminded Schiller of Circe's plan in the original comic.
The God of Witchcraft divided his power into five parts and sent them into the bodies of five girls. Wonder Woman and the witch Circe are two of them. Is Circe looking for the other three?
Schiller remembered that in the original plot, the three were not ordinary people, and there seemed to be no Gotham people. How could she find her way here?
However, after all, the plot of this universe has been changed so much, it is not impossible that the butterfly effect will cause the power to be passed on to different people than in the original work.
"Cersei?" Zatanna thought carefully, and then said: "This name is familiar, but it is also a bit old. I remember she is not a magician, right?"
"She calls herself a witch and uses witchcraft power. I don't know what the difference is between the two."
"That's a big difference. There is no need to pay copyright fees for witchcraft power. To a certain extent, it is a free magic power. But they don't see it that way. They think witchcraft is above magic.
, is older and more original.”
Zatanna looked at Schiller, and then said: "She gave you a curse? It couldn't be a beast-turning curse, right? That would be a bit troublesome."
"How to say?"
"Witchcraft is an independent power system, and the source of power of witchcraft... In short, we cannot break this curse by finding the source of power. We can only find a way on the person who cast the curse."
Schiller immediately thought that Circe had a fatal weakness, which also came from Greek mythology. According to legend, taking the magic grass "Moly" can protect you from Circe's poison. The comic also borrowed this setting. Moly can make Circe
Akane's witchcraft is ineffective.
But the problem is, no one knows what kind of plant this mysterious spiritual grass is. Moly is not the scientific name of any existing plant, and there are very few plants on the earth that have not been discovered by humans.
You only have one chance to take action against Circe. If you get the wrong plant, you'll never catch her again.
Zatanna has obviously heard of this rumor, but she doesn't know what kind of plant this mysterious spiritual grass is. According to her, there is no plant directly called Moly among magical plants.
To be on the safe side, Schiller called Pamela over.
Pamela was simply stunned when she saw Schiller in this form.
"Professor, you...are you finally going to physically spray venom on your students?"
Schiller rolled his eyes again. There are advantages to becoming a black snake, that is, the white eyes will be very obvious.
Pamela was not afraid of this. She walked up and poked Schiller's snake body, then directly picked up Schiller and put it in front of her eyes to look at it carefully.
"Professor, open your mouth and let me see if you have venom glands."
Schiller was actually quite curious about this, but he still said: "Let me bite you and you will know."
"Then I'll taste like broccoli right away."
"Better say goodbye."
Schiller opened his mouth, Pamela looked inside with a flashlight, and then said: "Congratulations, professor, you are a venomous snake, but according to common sense in biology, it should not be highly venomous."
"It seems that I can't kill those students who don't hand in their papers. It's such a pity."
Pamela put Schiller down, and Schiller wrapped himself around the back of the chair again, talking to her about the legendary magic grass.
Unexpectedly, professionals are different, and Pamela actually has some insights. She said: "In the Mediterranean area, Moly generally refers to wild garlic, whose scientific name is Minggong allium, a plant of the Amaryllidaceae family, but I don't think this is the case.
"
“It is known that the witch Circe used a poison to turn the sailors into livestock, and Hermes, son of Zeus, gave Odysseus a plant with white flowers and black roots that made him immune to the poison, and wild garlic’s
The flowers are yellow, so that doesn't apply."
"Myths and legends may not be true, but they must be adapted from folk tales. From a realistic perspective, which is the situation that people are most likely to be exposed to, I think the main component of the poison of the witch Circe is
Mandala causes memory loss and hallucinations in people.”
"In the narratives of anticholinergic drug poisoning patients, surrounding objects or people often turn into animals. This is a manifestation of delirium based on poisoning. At that time, the poison most likely to cause this manifestation was datura."
"Wild garlic cannot detoxify datura. However, there is a plant that fits the description of white flowers and black roots and can also be used as an antidote for datura, and that is snowdrops."
"Galantamine, which can be extracted from snowdrops, is an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor and is specifically used to combat anticholinergics. It can relieve the toxicity of datura and reduce the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease."
The last point Pamela made caught Schiller's attention. He didn't really care about dealing with Circe, but he remembered that Cobot's mother was at high risk for Alzheimer's disease.
Human medicine is currently unable to clarify the specific principles of Alzheimer's disease, but there is one hypothesis, the cholinergic hypothesis, which is also the basic theory on which most current Alzheimer's drugs are based. Galantamine is designed to inhibit acetylcholine.
The special ingredients of esterase can now be artificially synthesized and produced on a large scale.
However, most of the drugs produced cannot be called specific drugs, and their relieving effect is relatively limited. It can only be said that until humans completely understand the principle of Alzheimer's disease, no specific drugs can be produced.
"This is all knowledge from textbooks, tell me what you think." Schiller pushed his glasses again with the tip of his tail.
"From the perspective of the greenness of all things, I personally think that this so-called spiritual grass is more likely to be snowdrops. In addition to its similar appearance, it also has a common name of milk flower, which further confirms the belief that Hermes
The milk-like flower mentioned is also called primrose, which means purity and rebirth, and is also superior in terms of occult concepts."
"I'm talking about the Alzheimer's part."
"This." Pamela thought for a while and then said: "From a magical point of view, Alzheimer's disease is a syndrome of power disorders caused by the decline of human soul power, and Snowdrop has the ability to regenerate.
Occult properties can attenuate the rate of this decline."
"Is there no cure?"
"It depends on how to use it." Pamela said: "Ordinary people's use of this power is extremely inefficient. They might pick all the snowdrops in the world, and the new power they get will not be able to make up for it.
The soul of one or two people.”
"What about you?"
"I'm not the one doing experiments in this area..."
"I know, you're just studying the cabbage."
"No, the aspect I study is empowerment."
"Give Cabbage the ability to hit people?"
Pamela grabbed Schiller and shook her hard, then said: "Don't interrupt me! Professor!"
Schiller was a little dizzy from being shaken by her, so he had to say: "Okay, you go ahead, it's just that I'm worried about Copot, and his mother's situation really can't be delayed any longer."
"Empowerment is simpler than extraction. After all, I have the power of the Green of All Things. I only need to attach the power to the plants and I can observe various magical changes. However, extraction is extracted from the plants themselves, which originally do not have much power.
Various occult properties, which involve alchemy, are really difficult."
Pamela paused and then said: "It's not like I haven't tried to make medicine by myself before, but I can't continue after reaching the albino stage. This thing not only requires strength, but also requires mastery of the original elements."
"The four major stages of alchemy are black, white, yellow, and red. Black represents earth and white represents water. Both of them are related to plants, so I can still do it. Yellow represents air. Plants need air exchange. I can barely say that.
Yes, but the final stage of redness must use fire, which is completely a weakness of plant power."
Pamela muttered a lot of professional terms, and Zatanna came over curiously and said, "Have you tried alchemy? You can actually get to the second to last step. When I was doing albinism,
It caused a big explosion, so I gave up."
Pamela seemed to have remembered something and said, "Isn't Constantine pretty good at this?"
"He, he is good at all aspects, but what he is best at is magic circles, and he doesn't seem to have gone any further in alchemy."
"So with current alchemical technology, can a drug to cure Alzheimer's disease be extracted from plants?" Schiller asked.
"It may be possible, but it must be very troublesome, and a lot of resources will be invested, and it may not be successful." Pamela sighed and said: "If it succeeds, it will be a one-time drug. There is no way to mass-produce it, which means there will be no return at all. It is estimated that it will be a one-time drug."
No one is willing to invest."
"Perhaps someone would be willing to give me your mobile phone."
Pamela put her cell phone on the table, and Schiller quickly climbed onto the table and kept poking the screen with the tip of his tail, as if he was sending a text message to someone.
Soon, Cobot rushed into the door with an anxious look. He looked around and then said: "Where is Professor Schiller? He said there may be a new drug that can cure Alzheimer's disease. My mother just happened to... Where are the others?"
?”
"Ahem." Schiller coughed twice.
Cobot looked at the black snake on the table in shock.
"Professor!...You are not so angry with those students that you want to turn into a snake and bite them to death, right?"