It was a long night. Everyone is anxiously confirming their physical condition, although everyone does not want the bad situation to happen, but it is slowly coming.
Most of the landing personnel had initial infection, and even those who stayed on the spacecraft had cases, because they had been in the same room with the landing people—low-grade fever, dizziness, fatigue, according to Lucia’s statistics, The disease progressed faster in ordinary people, and slower in those who underwent "limitless" modification.
Some people with rapid disease progression have begun to cough up blood. Dempsey’s vital signs are extremely dangerous, and his organs are close to failure. The medical cabin cannot heal his body—modern medical technology can cure any disease recorded in the database, but for unknown The virus is helpless.
Ling Yi remembered that Lin Si once said that he wanted to be a doctor the most, and he embarked on the road of research because of the influence of Ye Selin - Ye Selin said that the number of people a doctor can save in his life is always limited, and if you overcome A new disease has been discovered, and countless people will escape from death.
But Lins also mentioned that the diseases they can cure and overcome are still limited. Facing many unknown diseases, both doctors and researchers are faced with exactly the same powerlessness. Therefore, Lins feels that only a more perfect body is the key to solving the problem, which is also his original intention of insisting on the "limitless" plan.
Today, the nightmare of the past strikes again, and the virulent virus from an unknown planet once again shows them how fragile and vulnerable the human body really is.
The whole cabin broadcast sounded again, it was the voice of the colonel, his tone was not so serious this time, but he seemed to be discussing with everyone: "Everyone knows that the current situation is extremely serious, and we may die from the virus soon. The solution given by Lucia is to freeze all staff. She will enter the fully automatic driving mode and bring us back to the Voyager. Freezing can slow down the spread of the virus a lot. Before our bodies are completely damaged, the scientists on the Voyager We may be able to figure out how to overcome this virus."
After a pause, he said again: "This is indeed the only way, we can execute it immediately. But I have another idea. Before leaving this planet, we have to bring something back, although this ghost place is terrible, but Its environment is so good, I don’t want to give up. I plan to take a team to the surface to catch the creatures in the water, the voyagers will definitely be able to analyze its composition, and we may be able to settle here in the future.”
"I respect everyone's opinions. I will launch a vote later. Those who are willing to go down with me will go to the negative floor immediately. The premise is that you have been infected with the virus, but the condition is not too serious. For the rest, confirm the health Go to the freezing area as quickly as possible, and after all enter the freezing cabin, the infected will leave their room and be frozen."
—Healthy people go to the freezing area first, this is to reduce the infection rate and ensure the largest number of survivors, after all, no one knows whether the infected people will survive to wake up after entering the freezing chamber.
The voting interface has popped up, and there are many people who choose to follow the colonel, and almost all the mildly infected people have pressed OK.
Although the way this planet greets them is so cruel, it does not mean that they will give up this place with water, sunshine and oxygen.
Ling Yi raised his eyes and looked out of the window. There was a vast river of galaxies in the night sky. It was beautiful. These stars were always shining in the sky and would not change for hundreds of millions of years. But life was different. Compared with the stars, it was like a particle floating among the stars. dust.
But dust also has its own world, and it wants to last forever like a star. A limited body cannot support an infinite life, so use continuation instead of eternal life for comfort, and never give up even if the hope is slim.
Ling Yi's signs were fairly stable, his body temperature was normal, and the infection could not be confirmed, so he did not follow the colonel down.
But he couldn't really be uninfected. Ling Yi clearly remembered that he had talked to Dempsey before he went back to his room to sleep, and they were also very close during the routine training at night. It didn't make sense that everyone else was infected, but he wasn't.
Therefore, he didn't go to the freezer either.
Under the atmosphere of fear pervading the spaceship, his expression turned out to be very calm.
If a better body has a better immune system, then your body may be fighting the virus at this time. He is also a mortal body. In battle and exploration, such a body is not very useful except to execute some dangerous people and avoid more casualties, but at this time, it may have greater significance.
Time passed slowly in silence, and at the sixth hour, Ling Yi coughed up a mouthful of blood.
He dealt with the blood stains expressionlessly, and sat in front of the main console, as if he was looking at the galaxy outside the window, or just looking at a certain point in the void.
Lucia stood behind him for a long time without saying a word.
At the eighth hour, the colonel's team returned.
They used a huge rectangular container to contain two creatures more than one meter long.
I have to say, this thing looks really ugly. They float irregularly in the water. Their dark purple oval bodies are covered with dense black dots. The surveillance video is very clear. When you zoom in, you can see the details of their bodies, as if covered with countless tiny radial tentacles. Just looking at it is disgusting.
Lucia helped to operate the equipment, and the colonel was spitting out blood while watching the thing being sent into the freezing device with his own eyes. After the freezing was complete, the two of them stopped moving before lying down in their own freezing cabin.
He said with difficulty: "Lucia, I leave it to you."
Lucia replied: "Please rest assured, Mr. Colonel."
The moment before he closed his eyes, he didn't know what he was thinking, and suddenly said in a sighing tone: "It really looks like..."
Ling Yi coughed up another mouthful of blood. He stayed in the main control room of the spaceship all the time. He didn't show up in front of people the whole time, and he didn't send a message to the colonel. The colonel must have thought that he had been obediently lying in the cryogenic cabin.
If the colonel knew that he had not obeyed his orders, he would have stuffed himself into the freezer and watched himself being frozen like he was looking at those two animals.
So he didn't go out, and Lucia didn't expose it. She didn't have this kind of procedure for making small reports.
It wasn't until the colonel's freezing program was completed and he fell into a deep sleep that there was no one active on the entire spaceship. Ling Yi walked out of the main control room and came to the spaceship's laboratory. It is not high-end, and no one has used it, but Ling Yi has been in various laboratories all year round, and he is already familiar with their basic structure.
He found a series of equipment such as syringes and test tubes with ease, installed the appropriate needles, searched for blood drawing tutorials in Lucia's database, and recalled Lin Si's movements, and stuck the sharp needle point into his arm .
The position was not right, and there was also a problem with the depth. He tried many times, and after the skin was covered with red dots, he finally found the correct position.
He drew half a tube of blood, poured it into a test tube, and then turned on the freeze dryer to preserve the blood. The machine works, and after a few minutes of humming, the operation is successful, and the blood can be preserved for several years.
After doing all this, the entire spacecraft fell into a deathly silence.
His body began to ache, a pain spreading from the deepest part, as if his whole body was corroded by strong acid, but he felt that he could still hold on.
He returned to his room, picked up a pen, and started writing today's diary.
"We're going back, and we'll be back on Voyager soon. Everyone's frozen, and hopefully the virus will be contained by the cryogenic temperatures.
I told the colonel that I didn't go to the freezer. Lins said that my genes are always changing. I often feel that my body is alive. It may be dealing with the virus now. My onset is really much slower than others.
I want to know how far it can go, so I plan to save my blood every once in a while. I don't need to do other tests now, and I will talk about it later. Even if the virus cannot be overcome in the end, this process can be left to Lin Si for reference.
hope everything is fine. "
After writing these, Ling Yi closed the diary, climbed onto the bed, hugged his knees and looked out the window.
The spaceship trembled slightly, and time and space rippled at this moment. The "expeditionary" entered the subspace, and the starry sky outside the window became pitch black.
As time went by, the pain intensified and he curled himself up.
What was expected to be a two-year journey, much lonelier and more painful than it came, is only just beginning.
—But, no matter how lonely and painful it is, I will go home after all.
The author has something to say: I will go back tomorrow.
I feel so bad qwq