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After half an hour.

The infection and spread of the virus is very rapid.

All major cities have been wiped out, and people who have not yet shown symptoms of infection will not keep one in ten. The streets were full of roaring and staggering zombies, and when they saw the living, they swarmed and swallowed them alive.

At this time, the floating castle was fairly stable.

Under the dual control of Hermione and Rhythm Virus, no major casualties have occurred.

It's just that the growth rate of infected people is relatively fast. In the "Snake Snake" team, there were originally twenty-six human beings, but under the continuous bubbling of bubbles in the back row, only seventeen were left as zombies.

Inside the medical school laboratory.

The heavily armed Professor Sun carefully picked up the reagents, poured them into the distillation flask, observed the changes in the information on the screen for a while, turned around and looked at Chen Yu.

"Principal, can you give me some more muscle tissue from the infected person?"

"No problem." Chen Yu nodded and snapped: "The one in front, take twenty steps forward."

The thin and tall boy immediately took a step forward and walked more than ten meters. The team moved forward and exposed the infected person in the back row outside the window of the laboratory.

Professor Sun held the scalpel in his left hand and the glass plate in his right hand. He stepped forward, first glanced at the giant panda on the left, then at the infected person on the right, and asked: "That panda meat can give Do I cut some points?"

"Cut whatever you want, and everything will be done after decomposition."

"Then I'm not welcome." Professor Sun licked his lips, raised the scalpel, and stabbed the infected panda into the abdomen.

Surrounding audience: "..."

"Wow!"

"Roar!"

Accompanied by the crisp sound of muscle cutting, the giant panda was cut open in its abdomen in pain, and a pool of black mud-like material flowed out of it.

"Infected fat?" Professor Sun's eyes lit up, and he quickly handed out the plate, collected the fat, and stored it in the refrigerator.

Then, he used the same "butcher" technique to collect two human muscle tissues.

"Come back principal."

"Okay, the previous one, go back."

"Understand!" The tall and thin student nodded and turned around, dragging the long line, really like a gluttonous snake. He circled in the narrow corridor, stuck to the "tail" of the line, and brought Chen Yu to the laboratory window. before.

"I feel that the sand sculpture virus among you is more powerful than the mutant virus." Professor Sun said.

"It's a rhythm virus! Not a sand sculpture!"

"Okay, Rhythm Virus." Professor Sun took a step back, checked the protective clothing on his body for half a minute, and confirmed that there was no leaked position, then sat in a chair and said: "Some research results have been obtained about this mutant virus that has swept the world. Although it is still very simple, it is not a problem to explain its transmission mechanism."

"This is enough." Chen Yu immediately adjusted the camera angle, leaving the C position to the opponent.

"Start now?"

"Wait a minute. Before you explain, I personally have a small question."

"Excuse me."

"All mankind will be extinct soon, and the disaster experience will end in at most one day. Why do you collect so many experimental materials from infected people? You can't use it at all?"

"I've already prepared." Professor Sun smiled, pointed to the fully enclosed protective suit on his body, and turned around to show the portable oxygen tank: "When you broadcast the asteroid disaster from the principal, I knew that the virus was also When I will come, I changed my equipment in advance. So I should be healthy now, without any possibility of infection."

"Oh!" Chen Yu suddenly said, "Do you want to linger for a while in the last days and study this virus specifically?"

"Yes." Professor Sun nodded: "I am a virus researcher. Researching this kind of virus that has never appeared in human history will have considerable growth and gains. But if you use the term protracted to describe it, is it a bit different? civilization?"

"Don't care about the details." Chen Yu said haha ​​and pointed to the camera: "Back to the topic. Tell the audience in front of the screen about this virus."

"Where do you start?"

"Just start from the beginning."

"Oh." Professor Sun nodded again and cleared his throat: "In the early universe, gravity grabbed atomic clouds and shaped them into stars and the Milky Way. The formation of stars was bound to..."

Chen Yu: "...Wait...Wait for Professor Sun. Didn't it start a bit "too"? Or let's move the time back?"

"Then move to my childhood. I was born in a small county in Sichuan Province in 1962. My father is a local doctor in the city..."

"Move it to half an hour ago." Chen Yu interrupted: "Just talk about the virus. I will go and read the others when you write your autobiography."

"Half an hour ago." Professor Sun said regretfully: "Yes. In short, this virus is a variant of a common virus, but the infection mechanism is ingenious, far beyond the imagination of normal people. It can cause this kind of similar biochemistry. The crisis situation really broadened my horizons."

"Common virus? Which one?" Standing aside, the old professor whose facial blood vessels were all black asked.

"Bacteriophage." Professor Sun's eyes shone inexplicably.

"Bacteriophage?"

"Yes. It is the most indispensable virus in nature, especially for living things, the phage."

[What is a phage? 】

【The same question. 】

[One of the most common viruses, specifically killing bacteria. 】

[I have seen the pictures, it looks like an alien spaceship. 】

[+1, every time I see a phage, I think it’s an alien. 】

[Doesn't bacteriophages kill bacteria? How can you attack people? 】

Blinking his eyes, Chen Yu said: "Professor Sun, although I know bacteriophages very well, most of the audience in the live broadcast studio is not clear. Please explain in detail what is bacteriophages."

"Oh?" Professor Sun was surprised: "President, do you know a lot about viruses?"

"A little knowledge of one or two." Chen Yuqian said.

"Then tell me, what is a bacteriophage?"

"...Who, what is the annual bonus of Professor Sun?"

"Don't do it, I won't ask." Professor Sun waved his hand quickly: "I'll do it."

"Say it."

"Bacteriophages are viruses that invade bacteria. They are mainly parasitic in living bacteria and have strict host specificity. Generally speaking, they are the nemesis of bacteria. An indispensable and important role in the earth's biological world. If there is no such virus, The reproduction speed of bacteria leaves no room for other organisms in the world. Therefore, bacteriophages are also one of the few viruses that are beneficial to humans."

"Is the source of this virus disaster the phage?"

"Correct."

Chen Yu thoughtfully: "Since it is a beneficial virus, why would it attack humans?"

"It didn't attack humans." Professor Sun stood up a little excited, dancing with his hands: "This is the subtlety! From beginning to end, the target of phage attacks is not humans! It is still attacking bacteria!"

"It's just attacking bacteria. Why did it cause this situation?" Chen Yu looked around at the infected person at the end of the team.

"It has become more aggressive. The original tail has mutated into four. In each tail, a piece of RNA genetic information is stored separately. This makes them more aggressive against bacteria countless times. After injecting genetic information into the bacteria, in order to continue their survival, they will cleverly help the bacteria to accelerate the reproduction speed in a short time."

As he said, Professor Sun picked up the tablet on the table and showed the pictures taken by the electron microscope: "Look here, there were originally a hundred bacteria. After being invaded by a mutant phage, the number of bacteria can quickly expand to Tens of millions of levels. Regardless of whether humans or animals, where is the most bacteria in the body?"

"The gut."

"Yes, it is the intestine! When the bacteria in it divide unbalancedly, it will soon rupture the capillaries of the intestine, flow into the blood circulation, and invade the liver, lung, brain, and muscle tissue. At this time, the bacteria are in the phage. Under the control of RNA, a special enzyme is released, causing errors in the human body’s electron transfer chain, and the probability of giving electrons to oxygen is greatly enhanced, so that the oxygen is reduced to hydrogen peroxide."

"hydrogen peroxide?"

"It's the main substance of hydrogen peroxide. Everyone knows hydrogen peroxide? The disinfectant that bubbling when applied to the wound."

"It can kill bacteria!"

"Yes, the bactericidal ability is very strong." Professor Sun nodded: "This led to the death of a large area of ​​the flora. The phages produced in batches will escape from the cell wall dissolved by the bacteria, infect and multiply more. Bacteria. Eventually cause the human body to collapse."

"Something's wrong here?" The old professor frowned: "The phage infects bacteria, reproduces bacteria, lets the bacteria secrete enzymes, stimulates the body to produce hydrogen peroxide to kill bacteria, and then comes out again by themselves... It's too much trouble. It swells the cell wall like other viruses. Isn't it more reasonable?"

"The most amazing thing about it is here!" Professor Sun pointed at an infected person: "Did you not find these zombies blowing bubbles?"

"You mean..." The old professor was shocked.

"Yes. Hydrogen peroxide, or hydrogen peroxide, will decompose when it meets the blood, combining O atoms into oxygen, producing a lot of bubbles. Because the blood is full of dead bacteria, the resulting bubbles contain phage. It is conceivable."

[Fuck, it's amazing...]

【I understand. The burst of bubbles will spray the virus far away. As long as one virus is absorbed by the organism, more and more bubbles will be created. Mad, the scalp is numb. 】

[There is no shortage of phages in the Earth's ecosystem, so this virus has no solution. 】

【Comprehensive calculations and interlocking links, this virus simply cannot be born naturally. 】

[Future humans, if they want to destroy themselves, they may send a biologist...]

[The more developed the technology ~www.NovelMTL.com~, the more we can feel the fragility of human civilization. 】

"Okay, the explanation ends here. Make a summary." Professor Sun looked at the camera and said solemnly: "The phages inject RNA into the bacteria to manipulate the bacteria to produce viruses and speed up division."

"Because bacteria are mostly in the stomach and intestines, and energy is needed for division, it will stimulate the brain-damaged creatures to produce hunger. This is the origin of the so-called zombies. At the same time, the bubbles that are spit out increase the infection."

"When an infected person is injured and flows out of blood, the blood will come into contact with oxygen in the air and produce a large amount of hydrogen peroxide. This hydrogen peroxide kills bacteria, releases viruses, and creates hundreds of millions of bubbles... "

"This is how the mutant virus works."

"Just a little bit of the gene of the bacteriophage was artificially modified, and an irreplaceable beneficial virus was turned into a devil that destroys the entire ecology."

"So in my opinion, any artificial intelligence crisis, asteroid impact... are far less fierce than the virus blessed by human nature, and it does not leave a way behind."

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