Maybe the lab was trying to do all of those things, and the serum was just the most successful project. So the others were put on the backburner because of limited funding and personnel...
Like, from a chemistry perspective, why 'give us special powers too' and not 'take their special powers away'? Why not 'recreate the massive creature this skull came from and set it loose in Dixing'?
Excellent questions! I feel like the first question can be at least partially answered with "because it lets us mundane Haixing people gain cool superpowers". ;-) I mean, Ouyang is very eager to test the serum out himself - I think there are some very un-scientific "damn it, I want to have superpowers too" things going on there.
But it would absolutely make sense for them to also be looking into taking away Dixing superpowers. I imagine that it's a related field of study, and the knowledge they gain from developing the serum will help this project along, too.
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Date: 2019-06-12 03:24 pm (UTC)Like, from a chemistry perspective, why 'give us special powers too' and not 'take their special powers away'? Why not 'recreate the massive creature this skull came from and set it loose in Dixing'?
Excellent questions! I feel like the first question can be at least partially answered with "because it lets us mundane Haixing people gain cool superpowers". ;-) I mean, Ouyang is very eager to test the serum out himself - I think there are some very un-scientific "damn it, I want to have superpowers too" things going on there.
But it would absolutely make sense for them to also be looking into taking away Dixing superpowers. I imagine that it's a related field of study, and the knowledge they gain from developing the serum will help this project along, too.