Chu Meng's family lived on the 21st floor. She stood by the window and looked down. The entire Yingshan Mountain was like an empty city. There were no people or cars on the ground, and she was killing her.
Being deserted is one aspect, and she can't get rid of the panic and anxiety that continue to loom over her heart.
Under this torment, Chu Meng became ill and began to feel hot. She forced herself to eat milk and eggs to prevent her body from breaking down. One day and two days passed, and she didn't know how many days passed. Finally, she recovered.
Chu Meng is like a flower in a greenhouse. When did she experience such ordeals, when she was most desperate, she even thought of suicide.
However, suicide is not that simple, it requires courage.
The free time suddenly swelled, but the things that could be eaten at home gradually shrank. Finally, Chu Meng realized that she had to go out, otherwise she would have to starve to death.
She is a researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She has medical protective clothing, masks, helmets and other items issued by the unit at home. She is neatly dressed all over, and she did not think of what weapons to bring. She only carried a large travel bag and went downstairs tremblingly .
There was nothing but the rustle of the wind blowing leaves on the street, she was indescribably scared.
On both sides of the road, all shops had shutter doors. She didn't dare to pry the door for fear of being charged with theft, but hunger tortured her like a devil. Finally, she started.
Chu Meng pried open the rolling door of a small supermarket, like a thief, first pushed the monitor of the supermarket crookedly, then tore a bag of bread, took off the medical helmet, took off the mask, and gulped down.
She didn't know what happened. On the day of the corpse, she went downstairs to work and was blocked at the gate of the community. Although she received a group of early warning text messages, she only asked residents to stay at home without explaining the situation.
There are a lot of fruit stalls in small supermarkets, many of which are imported goods... Unfortunately, most of the fruits have rotted.
Chu Meng sighed, regretting that he came down too late. Only get a few mad apples.
The bread was eaten too fast and Chu Meng choked uncomfortably. She twisted a bottle of peanut milk and drank it with a touch of her mouth. The image of the old lady has disappeared.
Afterwards, she opened herself to bring
The large travel bag contains instant noodles, ham sausage, self-heating small hot pot, noodles, rice and other staple foods. Finally, don’t forget to bring a few packs of sanitary napkins.
When Chu Meng put on a mask and a medical helmet, she actually understood that doing so was more psychological comfort. Since Yingshan has become a dead city, what does it mean? It shows that the air can also be contagious.
Chu Meng shuddered involuntarily. The air was flowing. To put it bluntly, there might not be a safe place on the earth.
Suddenly heard the sound of footsteps approaching, she hurriedly hid behind the shelf, only to see a man dragging his heel, walking past the door step by step.
Chu Meng hadn't seen anyone for more than half a month. She was so excited that she almost called the man out, but instinctively aware of the danger, she swallowed abruptly and rushed to her mouth: "Hey!"
She watched the man walking away step by step, in an unspeakable posture, her waist buckled, and she was dragging a leg. Chu Meng wondered a little ridiculously, could it be that the man is born with a disability and has a lame leg
Chu Meng returned to the community and looked up at the surrounding tall buildings. She knew that everyone was in the house, but why didn't anyone come out
She thought of the word "zombie", but it was ridiculous to her.
Chu Meng crawled to the door of the house out of breath, carrying a bulging large travel bag. The 21st floor faced her who didn't usually exercise much, but it was a big challenge.
Her legs were weak, she took out the key to open the door, and suddenly heard a bang from the door, like the sound of a glass cup falling to the ground.
Chu Meng knew that there was a family of three living on the opposite side. The couple had an eight or nine-year-old boy. She patted the door to see how they are now, but there was a low growl behind the door, it was like scraping out of hell. The cold wind made her feel cold to the bone.
Chu Meng fled into his house, closed the security door, and slowly slid on the ground, gritting his teeth and crying silently.
There was arrogance in her bones, she was crying, she put away her tears, she began to exercise, first to improve her physical fitness, and then she would go back to the CDC to find out what virus caused the disaster.
One day, she observed the separated virus sample under a microscope, but what made Chu Meng puzzled was that
She graduated from medical graduate school, but she didn't even know this virus.
Existing creatures, no one is more primitive than others, they are all at the end of the evolutionary tree, belonging to the same level.
But this kind of virus shows the simple properties of the original ecology, but its internal structure is much more complicated than any existing virus.
In other words, this is an ancient and "advanced" virus.
Its age seems to have surpassed the origin of life.
Chu Meng even suspected that this virus does not belong to the human planet, so she named the virus X virus. It means a virus of unknown origin.
But with the deepening of the research, Chu Meng overturned his previous suspicion that this virus was born on the earth.
Because at the beginning of life, in order to maintain the density of the material around nucleic acids, life evolved a layer of membrane, thus forming individual cells. This is a huge advancement in the development stage of life.
But there are always exceptions. Some nucleic acids have not evolved into cells, but they still have a protein membrane for themselves, but such nucleic acid structures can’t replicate themselves. In order to survive, it can only "invade" into other cells. Use the material of the cell to replicate yourself.
This is how the X virus survives! They are the invaders in nature!
It is also a life form earlier than cell life!
Chu Meng worked day and night to develop a vaccine against the virus.
She "crushed" the infected human cells, filtered the juice and bacteria, and found that the sterile filtrate was still infectious. There seemed to be an invisible, ultra-microscopic infectious living thing in the filtrate.
In layman's terms, not only is the X virus difficult to kill with the existing methods, but it also seems to have wisdom, knowing how to transform itself, change its appearance, and evade "chase and kill"!
Limited to her knowledge, Chu Meng was helpless against the X virus.
She even used a biochemical crystallization technique: in an ultra-low temperature environment, the virus was made into crystals like chemical molecules, but she finally found to her frustration that the crystals were still infectious after being re-dissolved.
Just like the X virus, it already lives in an ultra-low temperature environment.
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