amaotonovel Chapter 3008: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (42)
Chapter 3008: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (42)
Chapter 3008: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (Forty-Two)
Zatanna finally came. She screamed the first second she saw Schiller's current form, and jumped back more than ten meters in the second and third seconds.
"It's me." Schiller wanted to reach out and push his glasses, but unfortunately he didn't have hands now, so he had to bend the tip of his tail over, pushed his glasses and said, "I know you are curious about how I became like this, but don't be curious yet... Can you come closer?"
"I..." Zatanna pursed her lips tightly and said, "I swear I have no prejudice against snakes, but I really..."
"Okay, then you 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 heard of the witch Circe?" Schiller asked.
In fact, he didn't need Zatanna to introduce him to Circe's background, because this witch was a pretty famous villain, mainly appearing in Wonder Woman magazines.
Her background story has been changed several times, but no matter which version it is, it is relatively complicated. To simplify it, long story short, she is one-fifth of the god of witchcraft, who was once the source of magical power, and Wonder Woman Diana is the other one-fifth.
Then she thought that if the god of witchcraft and Diana died together, all the power would belong to her, and then she planned a series of conspiracies just to kill them both together, but of course she failed in the end.
For some reason, Circe hated men so much that she would use witchcraft to turn them into animals, and then laugh at and insult them at will.
I also have some impression of the short Edgar Schiller. This guy is also the villain of Wonder Woman, code-named Dr. Neuro. He has the ability to control other people's thoughts and read their minds, but not as strong as Professor X. He needs to contact others to control and read their minds.
Because Edgar suffers from dwarfism, has an ugly appearance and short stature, he has never been popular with girls and has been ostracized by his classmates. Therefore, he has a strong hatred for women and has always targeted Wonder Woman.
These two people, one hates men and the other hates women, and no one knows how they got together.
Moreover, their enemy should be Diana, so why did she come to Gotham?
Schiller remembered what Brand said, that Cersei and the others seemed to be looking for a girl, which reminded Schiller of Cersei's plan in the original comic.
The God of Witchcraft divided his power into five parts and sent it into the bodies of five girls. Wonder Woman and the witch Circe were two of them. Could it be that Circe was looking for the other three?
Schiller remembered that in the original story, those three were not ordinary people, and there seemed to be no people from Gotham. How did she find this place?
However, after all, the plot of this universe has been changed so much, and it is not impossible that the butterfly effect has caused the power to be passed on to a different person than in the original work.
"Circe?" Zatanna thought about it carefully, then said, "This name is somewhat familiar, but it is also a bit old. I remember that she didn't seem to be a magician, right?"
"She calls herself a witch and uses witchcraft powers. I don't know the difference between the two."
"That's a huge difference. Witchcraft power doesn't require copyright fees. To some extent, it can be considered a free magical power. But they don't see it that way. They think witchcraft is superior to magic and is more ancient and more original."
Zatanna looked at Schiller, then said, "She put a curse on you? It's not a beast curse, is it? That's a bit troublesome."
"How to say?"
"Witchcraft is an independent power system, and the source of witchcraft power... In short, we can't 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 magical herb "Moly" can protect one from Circe's poison. The comics also borrowed this setting, and Moly can make Circe's witchcraft ineffective.
But the problem is that no one knows what kind of plant this mysterious herb is. Moly is not the scientific name of any existing plant, and there are very few plants on Earth that have not been discovered by humans.
You only have one chance to catch Circe. If you get the wrong plant, you'll never catch her again.
Zatanna had obviously heard of this rumor, but she didn't know what kind of plant this mysterious magical herb was. According to her, there was no magical plant directly called Moly.
To be on the safe side, Schiller called Pamela over.
Pamela was stunned to see Schiller in this state.
"Professor, are you...are you finally going to spray poison on your students' physics?"
Schiller rolled his eyes again. There is one advantage to turning into a black snake, which is that the white of the eyes will be very obvious.
Pamela was not afraid of this. She walked up and poked Schiller's snake body, then picked Schiller up and looked at it carefully in front of her.
"Professor, open your mouth so I can 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 immediately taste like broccoli.”
"Better say goodbye."
Schiller opened his mouth, and Pamela shone a flashlight inside and said, "Congratulations, professor, you are a venomous snake, but according to common sense in biology, you should not be extremely poisonous."
"It seems that I can't bite those students who didn't submit their papers. What a pity."
Pamela put Schiller down, and Schiller curled around the back of the chair again and talked to her about the legendary magical herbs.
Unexpectedly, professionals are different. Pamela actually has some insights. She said: "In the Mediterranean region, moly generally refers to wild garlic, whose scientific name is Allium chrysantha, a plant of the Amaryllis family, but I don't think so."
"It is well known that the witch Circe used a poison to turn sailors into livestock, and Zeus' son Hermes gave Odysseus a plant with white flowers and black roots to make him immune to the poison, but wild garlic has yellow flowers, so this does not match."
"Myths and legends may not be true, but they are definitely adapted from folk tales. If we look at it from a realistic perspective, which is the most likely situation for folks to come into contact with, I believe that the main ingredient of the witch Circe's poison is datura, which causes memory loss and hallucinations."
"In the accounts of patients poisoned by anticholinergic drugs, there are many cases where objects or people around them turn into animals. This is a manifestation of delirium based on poisoning. The most likely poison to cause this manifestation at the time was Datura."
"Wild garlic cannot detoxify Datura, but there is a plant that fits the description of white flower and black root and can be used as an antidote for Datura, and that is snowdrop."
"Galantamine, which can be extracted from snowdrops, is an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor that is specifically used to counteract anticholinergic drugs. It can eliminate the toxicity of Datura and also alleviate the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease."
Pamela's last point caught Schiller's attention. He didn't really care about how to deal with Circe, but he remembered that Cobblepot's mother had a high risk of Alzheimer's disease.
At present, human medicine is unable to figure out the specific mechanism of Alzheimer's disease, but there is a hypothesis called the cholinergic hypothesis, which is also the basic theory on which most of the current Alzheimer's disease drugs are based. Galantamine is a special ingredient that inhibits acetylcholinesterase and can now be artificially synthesized and mass-produced.
However, most of the drugs produced cannot be called specific drugs, and their relief effects are relatively limited. It can only be said that until humans thoroughly understand the principles of Alzheimer's disease, specific drugs cannot be produced.
"This is all knowledge from textbooks. Tell me what you think." Schiller pushed his glasses with the tip of his tail again.
"From the perspective of the green of all things, I personally think that the so-called spiritual herb is more likely to be snowdrops. In addition to its similar appearance, it is also commonly known as milk flower, which further confirms what Hermes said about flowers like milk being called primroses, which symbolizes purity and rebirth, and is also superior in terms of the concept of mysticism."
"I'm talking about the Alzheimer's part."
"Well," Pamela thought for a moment and said, "From a magical perspective, Alzheimer's disease is a complex disease of power disorder caused by the decline of human soul power, and the mystical properties of rebirth possessed by snowdrops can slow down the rate of this decline."
“Is there no cure?”
"That depends on how you use it." Pamela said, "Ordinary people are extremely inefficient in using this power. Even if you pick all the snowdrops in the world, the new power you get won't be enough to replenish the souls of one or two people."
"how about you?"
"I am not the one who mainly conducts experiments in this area..."
"I know you were too busy studying the cabbage."
“No, the area I’m researching is empowerment.”
"Give cabbage the ability to hit people?"
Pamela grabbed Schiller and shook him, then said, "Don't interrupt me, Professor!"
Schiller was a little dizzy because of her shaking, so he had to say, "Okay, go ahead, I'm just worried about Cobert, his mother's condition 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 to observe various magical changes. However, extraction is to extract various mystical properties from the plants themselves, which originally have little power. This involves alchemy and is really too difficult."
Pamela paused and said, "I have tried to make medicine myself before, but I couldn't make it past the whitening 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 are related to plants, so I can still do it. Yellow represents air. Plants need air exchange, so it makes sense. But the final red stage requires the use of fire, which is completely the weakness of plant power."
Pamela muttered a lot of professional terms. 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 good at this?"
"He, he's good at a little bit of everything, but his best skill is still magic circles, and he doesn't seem to have gone much further in alchemy."
"So with the current alchemy technology, can we extract drugs to cure Alzheimer's disease from plants?" Schiller asked.
"Maybe, but it will be very troublesome and require a lot of resources, and it may not succeed." Pamela sighed and said, "Even if it succeeds, it will be a one-time drug and there is no way to mass produce it, which means there is no return at all. I guess no one is willing to invest."
"Maybe someone would be willing. Give me your phone."
Pamela put the phone on the table, and Schiller quickly climbed onto the table, poking the screen with the tip of his tail, as if he was sending text messages to someone.
Soon, Cobblepot rushed in with an anxious look on his face. He looked around and said, "Where is Professor Schiller? He said there might be a new drug that can cure Alzheimer's disease, and my mother happens to be... Where is he?"
"Cough cough." Schiller coughed twice.
Cobert looked at the black snake on the table in shock.
"Professor!... Are you so angry at those students that you want to turn into a snake and bite them to death?"
Wearing glasses is a cobra~