Everything was ready, and the experiment officially began!
The researchers surrounded the undeniably innocent test subject, starting with taking its temperature and drawing blood, followed by full-body sampling.
It sounded simple, but the procedure was far from easy. The injections were nothing compared to the rather inhumane sampling process.
It wasn't just a couple of pokes. First, an X-ray was taken. Then, under fluoroscopy, the precise location was identified, and a piercing needle over a foot long was forcefully inserted into the swift dog's body, accurately hitting its internal organs before the sample was extracted and the needle pulled out.
Ou Zhanpeng felt his liver tremble just watching.
If it were just the piercing, it would have been fine. But the swift dog's skin was unusually tough; ordinary piercing needles couldn't penetrate it. A hole had to be drilled first on the rough dog skin before the piercing needle could be inserted.
The researchers didn't have suitable drilling tools, so they used electric drills directly.
Thus, Ou Zhanpeng observed that at the beginning, the swift dog's eyes were fierce, filled with threat and ferocity, giving off an air of "I've got you marked, and if I get a chance, I'll kill you all," with a vicious expression.
However, after a short while, its gaze changed. Especially after the bone marrow aspiration, every time the electric drill started, and the buzzing sound was heard, the swift dog's limbs would involuntarily tremble, its blood pressure would suddenly rise, and its eyes would be filled with terror.
Ou Zhanpeng couldn't help but sigh. Even such a ferocious beast could be scared to this extent. The researchers' methods were truly impressive. Drilling holes without anesthesia for the entire process was an unbearable torture for anyone.
The group of people busied themselves around the swift dog for quite some time, but it was only the first step. Next, Xu Cheng asked Ou Zhanpeng for help in moving the test subject into a glass room with transparent walls on all sides.
It was double-layered, inside and out, with no air vents.
The researchers attached electrodes and wires all over the test subject. After carefully closing the cabin door, they indicated that they were ready.
"Prepare to introduce gas!" Xu Cheng said.
Ou Zhanpeng couldn't help but ask curiously, "What is this experimenting on?"
He thought it was a pressure or decompression experiment, testing the subject's sensitivity to changes in air pressure. But it didn't seem like it!
"Testing its reaction to various chemical gases," Xu Cheng replied.
He didn't say what gas was being introduced, nor did Ou Zhanpeng ask; he wouldn't have understood even if he had.
He watched as the experimenters kept looking up to observe and down to record. Periodically, they would change the gas. The glass cabin would turn red, then green, like a dyeing workshop.
After about twenty minutes, the experiment concluded. Xu Cheng immediately announced the result: "None of the known anesthetic drugs have any effect on the test subject. It can be inferred that the subject's physiological mechanism is unlike any known organism."
Ou Zhanpeng looked curious, "Can you explain it a little?"
"Certainly!" Xu Cheng nodded. "Simply put, various chemical substances harmful to humans have no effect on it. Conversely, something completely harmless to humans might be a fatal poison to the test subject... Well, we can make a rough estimation based on subsequent experimental results."
"You can infer that too?" Ou Zhanpeng was astonished.
"Of course," Xu Cheng smiled. "For example, we can first analyze the test subject's basic composition and then, based on the analysis, infer which gas might be fatal, much like carbon monoxide and hemoglobin."
He gave a very simple example.
"Oh, I understand!" Ou Zhanpeng suddenly realized.
After the anesthesia experiment concluded, various tear gases were tested in succession, with the same outcome as always.
Unexpectedly, only the chili spray had a slight effect. However, instead of paralyzing the test subject, it made it even more agitated, as if it had taken stimulants. All fear disappeared.
So, they couldn't find what was useful but managed to find what was useless? Was the plan to give the swift dog a rage buff on the battlefield?
This was a classic case of sowing beans and getting peas; it would be a joke if told!
Everyone had already prepared themselves for this outcome and found it unsurprising.
The inhalation experiment ended in everyone's disappointment, but it wasn't over. Next were external application, oral administration, and injection experiments. Shan Qiuyu specifically sent a car to scour all the major hospitals in Huaxiong City. No matter what illness the medicine treated, even if it was for hemorrhoids or prickly heat, they had to bring it back to the base, just in case it worked on this thing.
These were creatures created by extraterrestrial species. If it worked on the swift dog, would it also work on other giant creatures and non-giant creatures related to extraterrestrial species?
After several hours of work, the drug experiments concluded. The unlucky swift dog had accumulated nearly a hundred types of drug components in its body. Some had indeed had an effect, while others were completely useless.
In any case, Ou Zhanpeng couldn't figure out what could be studied by forcing so many drugs into it at once. He just watched the listless swift dog become increasingly weak.
However, due to insufficient test subjects, the researchers were still unwilling to let go of this poor creature, which had little research value left. They proceeded to conduct pressure and gas composition experiments on it, further determining the swift dog's environmental adaptability.
It must be said that all the experiments were very professional. The researchers spoke entirely in technical jargon. Sometimes Ou Zhanpeng could understand, but more often, he was completely baffled.
Although astronauts were among the most elite of all professions, their expertise was limited to space science. Faced with profound and obscure technical terms, they were like ducks listening to thunder, without even a chance to guess.
After a series of studies, the originally vibrant test subject was tormented to the brink of death by the researchers. It seemed that if they continued for a while longer, it would be completely finished.
Xu Cheng still refused to let go, letting the test subject rest for a while, feeding it some flesh and blood, and testing its digestive and recovery abilities.
Ou Zhanpeng couldn't help but lament, who on earth designed this experimental plan? Although he felt no sympathy for the swift dog, he couldn't help but admire how incredibly talented they were!
Unexpectedly, the swift dog's recovery speed was faster than expected. Xu Cheng speculated that this was due to both the test subject's inherent resilience and the influence of the drugs.
Ou Zhanpeng considered this bad news, as it meant an injured swift dog could regain its combat effectiveness in a relatively short period.
Xu Cheng, however, analyzed it from another angle: a faster metabolism, while increasing recovery ability and aggression, consumed the swift dog's own life force. In other words, this creature's lifespan would not be very long.
Ou Zhanpeng suddenly felt an urge to hit someone. No matter how short this creature's lifespan was, could it be so short that it would die of old age before reaching the battlefield?
What utter nonsense!