21st Century Necromancer-Chapter 679 - 675: Research Team (Please Subscribe, Please Vote for Monthly Tickets)

On the chessboard of the Necromantic Space, the piece representing the Chariot moved forward one step.

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After his conversation with Yamada Nobuyosuke, Chen Yu returned to the hospital.

A month had passed, and the various groups of people who had been surrounding the hospital had gradually dispersed as the fervor of the news cooled down.

The child of Egawa Saho, though the first human individual to mature outside a maternal womb in this world, was eagerly taken home by the Egawa couple after his body was checked and found to have no defects or genetic diseases, and even appeared to be healthier than a typical infant.

While society still hotly debated the Artificial Womb experiment, it might take another two months for the fervor of public opinion to cool down, but journalists and protesting crowds had largely dissipated, no longer causing the blinding flurry of camera flashes whenever one entered or left the hospital.

Inside the hospital, Jounouchi Hiromi's previous Artificial Womb experiment was undoubtedly given great attention, not only was the experimental equipment specially protected, but research materials and experimental data were heavily encrypted and sealed, becoming confidential.

A brand new research team, led by her, was being assembled with great intensity, and those able to enter this research team were without exception elites and experts in their fields.

Jounouchi Hiromi's position also rose rapidly from associate professor to full professor with the success of her research, and if not for her wish to remain in General Surgery, the hospital might well have created a new department just for her to manage Artificial Womb research and the cultivation of fetuses.

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Don't think that people will shun this new technology like the plague. In fact, as soon as the first fetus cultivated in an artificial womb was confirmed to be healthy after an examination, countless celebrities and tycoons nearly blew up the hospital's phone lines.

For numerous wealthy women who want children but do not wish to be pregnant themselves, or their husbands who are willing but unable, artificial wombs are a far better choice than in vitro fertilization by untold multiples.

However, Jounouchi Hiromi always adhered to her original decision: the artificial womb technology would temporarily not be applied outside of medical research and disease treatment, which led many people to feel deeply disappointed.

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But for some infertile patients, this was nothing short of a godsend. For the research team, this was also an acceptable situation. After all, in order to commence research, there must be trial samples, right?

Under such circumstances, Jounouchi Hiromi could hardly object. As a result, half willingly and half reluctantly, ten couples with immense wealth and power moved into the hospital, and ten brand new artificial womb devices were rapidly produced and delivered to the research lab.

Clearly, these wealthy couples didn't need to wait for the embryo to develop in the mother's body before transferring it to the artificial womb, like Egawa Saho did. If so, they might as well just have the mother carry the pregnancy to term.

What these wealthy couples needed was the true cultivation of fetuses outside the body.

This posed a challenge for Jounouchi Hiromi, neither too big nor too small, but it was not a major problem.

After all, the technology for in vitro fertilization was already very mature. It was completely feasible to perform artificial insemination outside the body right after retrieving eggs from the mother, to let the embryo develop to maturity in an artificial setting, and then transfer it into the artificial womb.

As for the fact that Egawa Saho's child emerged from the mother with a placenta and amniotic sac, while artificially cultivated embryos lacked these attachments—this was not a serious issue. The artificial womb equipment was designed from the beginning without the expectation that the fetus would still need a placenta and amniotic sac.

Or rather, the artificial womb was designed to replace the mother's womb as well as the placenta and amniotic sac, so even without these things, the fetus could still develop normally.

With these experiments underway, Jounouchi Hiromi was incredibly busy during this period, and Nakagawa Susumu, who had originally been her assistant, became hot property. His position was promoted to lecturer, and his status within the entire research team rose with the tide—experience was key, and every artificial womb device required his experienced guidance.

Regardless of the abundance of helping hands, for Jounouchi Hiromi who oversaw the entire research team, there was still an almost endless pile of work every day.

"Ah! Seriously, I'm a surgeon, and at most I moonlight as an anesthesiologist. Why do I have to do such troublesome work now?" A weary Jounouchi Hiromi returned home and collapsed onto the sofa, complaining to Chen Yu.

After pouring a cup of hot water for his wife and handing it to her, Chen Yu then sat down beside her. "Hiromi, you're now the leading figure in world artificial womb research. The whole research team revolves around you. Just delegate the work to people below you. Why must you do everything yourself and get so tired?"

"I wish I could! But right now, no one in the research team has experience, and the only experienced one, Nakagawa-kun, is only in charge of the specific operations; he can't help at all with the theoretical research. When those experts and scholars have questions, they still come straight to me! Just answering their questions and organizing a workable theory these past few days has been enough to give me a headache." Jounouchi Hiromi vented to Chen Yu. Her research team had just been formed, and now was the critical time for everything to come together. Even if she wanted to pass on her tasks, she would have to wait until the team had become cohesive.

Faced with this situation, Chen Yu also felt somewhat powerless and could only encourage his wife as best he could.

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