Chapter 341 Raising Gu
Yuri suddenly felt that Sun Hang was right.
The concentration of the toxin does not appear to affect the final results of the test.
"How about we observe it for a while longer?" Yuri said. "If your body still doesn't show any reaction after an hour of intradermal injection, we will start preparing to swallow the crimson spores."
"Okay, my mouth is a little dry. Can you bring me a bottle of water...or a bottle of Fanta?"
"As for carbonated drinks... the vending machines inside Tianshu Tower should be available for sale, but in order not to pollute the test environment, we need to sterilize and filter the containers and drinks multiple times... This may affect the taste and texture of the drinks..." Yuri said.
"Okay, okay, then pure water won't have so much trouble, right?"
"This can be provided to you immediately," Yuri said.
Purified water is a very common experimental material. Although according to laboratory regulations, drinking of experimental materials is strictly prohibited... But these researchers all know that in addition to lacking those trace elements needed by the human body, these pure water In addition, it is 100% in compliance with drinking standards, and is even cleaner than those bottled drinking water sold outside that claims to be deep natural water from a certain water source but is actually canned with tap water.
Even when Yuri was young, he drank glucose solution as an experimental material. Nine consecutive hours of high-intensity experiments directly caused Yuri, who had not eaten for half a day, to develop symptoms of hypoglycemia. If he hadn't had an idea, If he found a bag of glucose solution in the laboratory cabinet and tore it open and drank it, he might have passed out in the middle of the night in the laboratory where he was the only one.
Two bottles of pure water without any labels quickly slid into the holding room from another channel. The medical robot's mechanical arm directly helped Sun Hang unscrew the bottle caps and handed the bottle mouth to his lips.
"What kind of life can you just stretch out your hands for food and open your mouth? You can even drink water with a robot?" Sun Hang joked. As soon as he opened his lips, the medical robot that detected the changes in facial muscles brought the bottle up and accurately Without any mistake, he put the mouth of the bottle to Sun Hang's lips, tilted the bottle slightly, and let the liquid inside flow into Sun Hang's throat.
Sun Hang didn't even have to raise his head. It felt like he was drinking water from a bottle with his hands.
"This robot is good." The moment he spoke, the robotic arm immediately corrected the angle of the bottle and moved the bottle away. "There must be a market for it to be developed into a household robot."
"This... the cost of this robot... together with the supporting electronic sensing equipment and software... totals 1.1 billion." A researcher muttered softly.
"One billion one billion? That's okay." Sun Hang said.
Although the researcher's voice was very small, it was still captured by the microphone hanging on Yuri's ear and transmitted to Sun Hang's ears.
"He...he can hear my voice?" The researcher was slightly startled, and then closed his mouth when Yuri turned his head to glance.
"Fifty-seven minutes." Yuri said, "There are still three minutes."
Three minutes is neither long nor short. In these last three minutes, Sun Hang's body did not undergo any dramatic changes. The crimson spore toxin injected into his skin was like a mud cow entering the sea. There was no trace at all.
"Let's go."
Sun Hang got down from the recliner, walked out of the containment room, stretched out the arm injected with crimson spore toxin, and patted Yuri on the shoulder.
Yuri subconsciously shrank his shoulders, as if he wanted to avoid Sun Hang's contact.
"What are you afraid of?" Sun Hang asked, "Didn't it say that the toxin of the crimson spores will be inactivated in an hour?"
"That was without a host... The possibility that the toxin is latent cannot yet be ruled out. After all, it will change on its own based on the characteristics of the host..." Yuri said.
"What you mean is that this toxin doesn't think it can kill me, so it feels like it's lurking in my body, trying to turn me into a so-called 'asymptomatic infected person', and then use me as a springboard to infect more people. People?" Sun Hang asked.
Before Yuri said anything, a look of fear suddenly appeared in the eyes of the researchers on the side. Some of them took two steps back without leaving any trace, widening the distance between them and Sun Hang.
"Since the crimson spores are so toxic, you probably won't be able to hold on for a few seconds... After all, you don't have a physique like mine." After saying that, Sun Hang directly held Yuri's hand, and the skin between their palms They stick together without any barrier.
Sun Hangneng noticed that Yuri's face obviously beat twice, and his heartbeat suddenly became much faster.
Five seconds, ten seconds...thirty seconds passed.
Yuri showed no signs of poisoning.
"Now you should completely believe it. This poison is useless to me." Sun Hang let go of Yuri's hand.
"Huh...yes, yes." Yuri took a long breath, and his whole body suddenly relaxed.
He is just an ordinary person, but he does not have the "poison-resistant" abnormal physique of Sun Hang. If the toxins of the crimson spores are really transmitted to his body through Sun Hang, then they will instantly change their characteristics and remove the useless "latency" , turning back into the kind of potent toxin that can kill someone in a matter of seconds.
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Yuri took Sun Hang to a cold storage - compared to the place where B423 was housed, this cold storage was relatively "warm" and maintained a constant temperature of minus 75 degrees Celsius. There was no need to spray any insulating liquid when entering. Just wear thick enough cold weather clothing.
Embedded on the wall of the cold storage are a dozen metal cylinders one meter in diameter and three meters high. After Yuri entered a series of instructions on the console at the door, all the metal cylinders turned around, turning the transparent side to the front. Sun Hang could see that most of these metal cylinders contained human corpses. Due to the low temperature, the skin of these corpses showed a blue-purple color, and the surface of the bodies was also covered with a thin layer of white frost.
"Zombie?"
"No, it's not a corpse... these people are still alive." Yuri said.
"Isn't this the containment room for crimson spores? What's going on with these frozen... people who were frozen into popsicles?" Sun Hang asked.
"The crimson spores, like their toxins, are difficult to preserve and must be preserved using living hosts... These people are actually 'seedbeds,'" Yuri said.
"Are these people parasitic with crimson spores?" Sun Hang walked closer and observed the "seedbeds" inside through the thick layer of glass.
The states of these seedbeds are different - some look like a normal frozen human corpse, while some have skin covered with a layer of dark red carpet-like stuff. There are also cases where most parts of the body are normal, but clusters of long bacilli pop up in the mouth and nasal cavity...
Yuri is right, these people are the seedbed of crimson spores.
Rather than saying that they were human beings, Sun Hang felt that they were more like rotten tree trunks that had fallen in a moist place in the forest. The fungus had completely eroded them from the inside out, leaving only an empty human-shaped body.
"The growth rate of crimson spores will become very slow when the temperature is below minus 65 degrees Celsius. But even so, it is difficult for the seedbed to be stored for more than ten years." Yuri came over and said.
Sun Hang noticed that many metal cylinders were empty. These empty containers were either prepared for the "new seedbeds", or they were vacancies created after the "old seedbeds" originally contained in them were scrapped and disposed of. .
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"Although these 'seedbeds' are infected with crimson spores, we have divided them into more than a dozen different strains based on the different mutations that have occurred in the crimson spores." Yuri pointed to the label attached to the metal cylinder. , "The numbers, time, origin and general characteristics of these strains are all written on it."
"Are there big differences between different strains?"
"It's very big... because their hosts are also very different." Yuri said, "The 21-year-old young man and the 39-year-old middle-aged woman infected by strains No. 17 and No. 29, these two Everyone is ordinary people; the strain No. 26 infected a 45-year-old middle-aged man, who was an infected person and was also a monster hunter; strains No. 35 and 36 The corpse infected by strain No. 40 is a completely transformed creature.”
Sun Hang walked to the metal cylinder marked "Forty". As Yuri said, the "seedbed" in this metal cylinder was a humanoid monster-it had a human head, torso and The limbs, but on its back, are densely packed The hemp field is covered with arms. Judging from the size of the arms, these arms seem to be the arms of babies... But now the surface of these arms are covered with mottled crimson moss. At first glance, they look like some kind of living things. Tube worms in the deep sea.
It's just that Sun Hang can hardly feel the memetic fluctuations of this strange thing... Now, to put it bluntly, it is just an empty shell of a monster with a weird appearance.
"Bing858 Baby-Eating Monster first appeared in Suzhou in the 4703rd year of the lunar calendar." Yuri introduced, "It broke into a maternal and child health hospital late at night, killed two nurses on duty, and It devoured four newborns who were being cared for in the hospital... In the next three months, it committed many more crimes, and the death toll rose to eighty."
After a pause, Yuri continued, "Later, it disappeared for a while. It was not until 4711 in the lunar calendar that it appeared again in a small town in the countryside of Suzhou. It broke into the house of an expectant mother and brutally cut into pieces. The pregnant woman's belly was opened and the baby was taken away... The next day, the monster was captured, and after preliminary research, it was escorted to the Chunming City Tianshu Tower headquarters
"In the year 4715 of the Yellow Calendar, after approval, Bing858 was removed from the containment list and was instead sent to the crimson spore research project team as an 'experimental material'. In the year 4716 of the Yellow Calendar, Bing858 was used as a seedbed for crimson spores. Contained until today."
"So, is there anything special about this strain?" Sun Hang asked, "Is it related to Bing858 as a seedbed?"
"This is still unclear." Yuri shook his head, "We have not yet understood many characteristics of the crimson spores... Our existing equipment cannot even observe the complete mutation process. The currently known strain mutation process , 80% is based on data derived by computers..."
Yuri walked to the metal cylinder marked "No. 17" and said to Sun Hang: "If you want to devour it, I recommend strain No. 17, because it is the most 'original' strain among these strains. , almost no obvious changes.”
"Didn't you say that the crimson spore seedbed cannot be preserved for more than ten years?" Sun Hang wondered, "Where did this 'original strain' come from? Or, compared to other strains, it is' Relatively primitive'?
"Seedbeds can be 'updated'... Seedbed No. 17 is not a natural person, but a clone." Yuri said, "We have cloned many 'No. 17's. When the last seedbed fails, We will transfer the strain to the 'new seedbed'. Since the old and new seedbeds are almost identical, strain No. 17 will hardly mutate."
"So that's it. I thought these seedbeds were the death row inmates you picked from prison." Sun Hang nodded, "Then the original body of 'No. 17' is the one that was first discovered to be infected with the crimson spores. The unlucky guy?”
"No... the earliest infected person, when we found him, he was already a pool of blood, and we were unable to collect his genetic data at all. The genes of Seedbed No. 17 came from a man who rushed to the scene The temporary investigator who was unfortunately infected was able to clone him because he entered his genetic information when he joined the company.”
"How about making a platter." Sun Hang said thoughtfully, "You have to taste the original ones, and you also have to taste the new ones, so that you can be considered healthy."
"Platter?" Yuri was startled, obviously not understanding what Sun Hang meant.
"That is to say, extract a part of each strain and make a platter." Sun Hang glanced at him and said, "Have you never ordered takeout? Haven't you ever eaten the kind of two-part rice and three-part rice?"
"Huh? However, if you do this, it is likely to cause conflicts between different strains..."
Before Yuri finished speaking, Sun Hang interrupted him again: "Speaking of the platter, I suddenly had a better idea."
"A better idea?" Yuri suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.
"Grow Gu!" Sun Hang raised a finger, "Put all these different strains on a new seedbed and let them fight each other. The winner who survives and occupies the new seedbed will definitely win. It is the strongest strain... Survival of the fittest is the principle. ”
(End of chapter)