Chapter 198: Viruses from 6500 million years ago
Chapter 198: Viruses from 6500 million years ago
The downside is that progress is quite slow.
It's a bit unfair to those who are at the back.
after all.
The most effective disinfection method that Su Wu currently has is the use of special light for irradiation.
This method works well in open areas.
It can eliminate all viruses in the air within the range of light in one fell swoop.
But it is hard to say whether it can be used inside a shelter with a complex structure.
It is very likely that a drop of water containing the virus will seep into some debris or into the gap in a corner and escape the disaster.
This can only be done by using a large number of robots to rummage through the boxes, combined with artificial intelligence modeling and gap filling.
Takes long enough.
To ensure safety.
3 pm.
Several medium-sized hovercrafts were installed with virus detectors by Su Wu and were patrolling various surface waters.
Finally, we have completed data collection for the entire city.
A body wearing a diving suit was salvaged from a deep water area.
According to routine testing of the body.
Artificial intelligence determined that it was the earliest case of death from the Rosavirus discovered so far.
Then, Su Wu, who was far away in a farmyard.
Relevant reports were received simultaneously.
"Owen's Sanctuary."
The source of the corpse is easy to find out.
The diving suit he was wearing had the markings of the Owen Shelter.
Plus the work badge you carry with you.
The identity can be locked quickly.
Look at the name.
Su Wu felt vaguely that the person looked familiar and recalled the situation carefully.
I just remembered that it was after the storm.
The medium-sized shelter that competed with him for the ranking of clearing urban ruins.
Afterwards, Su Wu checked the Jianghe City epidemic map again.
It was discovered that the shelter had never uploaded any infection data from beginning to end.
It seems to have completely lost contact with the outside world.
"This virus didn't break out in them in the first place, did it?"
With doubts in his mind, Su Wu took action immediately.
A reconnaissance team consisting of three spider robots, two humanoid service robots, and two combat drones.
Take a medium-sized hovercraft.
Start driving in the direction of Owen's shelter.
As the reconnaissance team arrived at the destination.
Start diving at the entrance to the underwater Owen Sanctuary.
A body stuck in the corner of an open outer door came into view of the robots.
"It really happened."
Su Wu, sitting behind the screen, held his breath and concentrated.
Let a spider robot equipped with professional tools go forward to crack the door lock password.
A few minutes later.
The reconnaissance team successfully passed through the isolation cabin and entered the shelter.
One came here.
The testing reagent carried by the robot immediately formed dense yellow spots on the original pure white color.
That represents the density of the virus in the air.
It has reached the level equivalent to a severely infected person.
In this kind of environment.
Even if anyone here has any skin exposed.
They will be infected immediately.
"There's still electricity in the shelter."
“All items in the hall were neatly arranged, with no signs of disorder.”
"The virus outbreak here should be extremely violent and sudden."
With the help of the robot's camera.
Su Wu noticed that the entire shelter was brightly lit.
In the guard room at the exit, several security personnel were all lying on the table.
If it weren't for the traces of coagulated blood near the mouth and nose.
Just looking at their postures, it looks like they are taking a rest.
This means that the process from the outbreak of the virus to the death of the host is quite short.
It is far lower than the death cycle of half an hour to 24 hours in the outside world.
After searching for several minutes, no more valuable clues were found.
The reconnaissance team continued to move deeper inside.
Along the way, we didn't meet any living people.
Until entering the deepest seventh underground level.
They found a row of corpses soaked in liquid in a heavily sealed warehouse.
"Human experimentation."
Su Wu raised his brows.
There is almost no need to guess, and you can immediately realize what was done here.
He told the reconnaissance team to disperse.
Conduct a detailed search around the warehouse.
Soon, the research log was unlocked on the terminal computer in the warehouse through the magnetic card of a nearby dead researcher.
Su Wu concentrated on looking at the log for a while.
Follow the tips above.
Let the two spider robots break into a secret room deep in the warehouse.
In the secret room.
A fist-sized brown-yellow rock placed in a low-temperature glass cabinet appeared in front of Su Wu.
"The origin of the Rora virus."
“It’s in this thing.”
Two hours later.
Jervy Shelter.
In the newly built biological laboratory.
A severely infected person is injected with medicine through a needle controlled by a robotic arm.
Finally, no more blood oozed from his mouth and nose.
"The treatment we developed for the original Rora virus extracted from the rock has taken effect."
“But it didn’t heal.”
"It just slowed down the spread of the virus in his body."
"At the latest, after three to five days, death will still occur."
Su Wu looked at the physical examination report of the infected person.
Noticed some unusual data.
After the potion slowed the spread of the Rola virus.
That kind of virus, on the contrary, begins to bring some additional side effects to the infected person's body.
Its physical fitness has been slightly but continuously enhanced.
Some chronic diseases that are already present in the body and are almost impossible to cure are also healed silently.
Watching this strange change.
Su Wu vaguely understood why Owen Shelter would take the risk to conduct research on it.
If we exclude the lethal nature of the Rola virus itself.
Its side effects.
It is almost the panacea that mankind has always dreamed of.
More importantly, it can also comprehensively strengthen the human body.
That kind of enhancement does not transform humans from ordinary people into supermen, or from ordinary people into Olympic champions.
Instead, it allows people to go back from the aging state to middle age or even youth.
in other words.
That is, it has the potential to bring longevity to people.
In the face of this temptation.
Not to mention Owen's shelter, it could be anyone else, including Su Wu.
As long as the conditions for research are available, we will never give up trying, no matter how great the risk.
“Let’s focus on the vaccine first.”
“Then consider the follow-up matters.”
Having made the decision, Su Wu looked at the end of the report and the identification of the brown-yellow rock itself.
The rock itself has nothing to do with the virus.
But the many traces on it are all revealed.
This virus has strong infectiousness and lethality.
Perhaps it has existed for far longer than anyone could imagine.
"Before it sank deep into the earth and fell into a deep sleep."
"Did they once live in the dinosaur era 6500 million years ago?"
(End of this chapter)