At four o'clock in the morning, the sky was still dark and gloomy.
On the five square kilometers of that barren land, the frontline personnel were transferred away by the command center in batches, but they didn't know that it was an emergency evacuation.
From the very beginning, the frontline personnel have conducted a series of radiation tests there, and no high-intensity abnormal radiation has been detected, but of course there is natural radiation.
It's just that no one at the top can be sure now, whether there is a kind of "different locust radiation" among those "natural radiation", which can invade human genes
What was human dna like before
This "before" refers to the origin stage of mammals many, many years ago, hundreds of millions of years ago.
Before modern humans complete genome sequencing, it is difficult to believe the fact that about 5-8% of the human genome comes from ancient viruses. Most of them are retroviruses, which can invade the host's cells and then insert their own genes into the host's DNA to achieve parasites.
These viral genes will participate in the operation of the host cell and modify it to work the way it wants. Retroviruses can also be transmitted to the next generation of the host along with sperm or eggs, and then to the next generation, thus becoming endogenous retroviruses.
The reason why human beings are what they are today, what they look like, those body organs and tissues, the nerves and thinking of the brain... are inseparable from these viral genes.
After hundreds of millions of years, humans and these viruses have long been a symbiont.
Not only humans, mammals have this situation.
If some of these virus genes are knocked out, the scientific community has done related experiments on mice before, and the mice died soon.
These viral genes are in a relatively stable state in the human body, and if any new virus wants to join this symbiont, such as the HIV virus, which is also a retrovirus, then there will be a big problem, and it will cause the so-called diseases, very difficult diseases.
However, implanting a virus carrying a specific foreign gene into the human body to achieve therapeutic effects is one direction of gene therapy.
So, is it possible that the pathogen of locust disease is a specific piece of genetic information, which is implanted into human genes or causes specific gene mutations through radiation
"Carrier and Acute Infector Hypothesis" "Parasitic Gene Hypothesis"
The command center immediately attached great importance to Wang Ruoxiang's two hypotheses on locust disease.
She has always been a top student and a smart person. Although these are unconfirmed hypotheses, there are good reasons.
The first one is that the patient's whole body tissues can be transformed into alien locusts, which is likely to be a matter of cells, dna, and genes.
The second is the possible connection of the mutated region. Nuclear radiation can mutate DNA and have genetic effects.
In fact, before this, the scientific research department has done some dna test comparisons, comparing patients with parasites and comparing patients with each other, just to see if there are any traces of virus invasion. Now the command center has also supported these hypotheses of the scientific research department, but it will take time to test them.
Except for the six test patients with locusts in their bodies who were urgently transferred to another empty isolation building, other patients could not be transferred for the time being.
The contagion range formed by Principal Cui's self-explosion—that is, the possible radiation range, with him as the center point, has a circular area of about 8,000 square meters.
"I've always wondered, what's so special about those abnormal soils?"
This is another reason why Wang Ruoxiang made such a hypothesis. There is no difference from the composition test, but has the soil there been polluted by another kind of radiation? Its difference is not analyzed by existing detection technology? The insect eggs in the soil are not the key at all, they may also be the product of radiation.
Among her thoughts, this thought made Master Tong and the others even more anxious in an instant.
If that wasteland is really another mutant region... then it is only more dangerous than the nuclear radiation mutant region.
They can't even figure out where the dividing line is, there is no obvious radiation, movement and change, and there may be changes but they can't notice it, because wasteland and grassland are similar everywhere, and there are already sparsely populated there, as long as the buildings and roads don't disappear. No one knows even if there are minor changes.
"If the wasteland is also connected to a different space, things in the two spaces can only enter and exit their respective spaces, like the mutant area. But what if Li Yuhao and other bug carriers are not? They can enter the different space?"
Wang Ruoxiang's idea is also very reasonable, even if Mobei is sparsely populated, with the technology and manpower of Tianji Bureau, there are more than 300 people on the other side, it is difficult to find their whereabouts. Existing monitoring clues indicated that they either headed towards the wasteland, or the cars were still parked there.
Where did they go? Another space? Like that motley cat, like those locusts coming and going.
Compared with these people, the priority of the command center now is to deal with everyone who has been to the wasteland area.
Do these people also become vectors
If it is really radiation transmission, and the self-radiation of the carrier before self-explosion is not strong enough to infect others, then the only good thing is that a large number of contacts or indirect contacts do not need to be isolated and supervised. In addition, there may also be a dose equivalent. People who have exceeded the safe value will get sick, and those who have not exceeded the safe value are in the recessive period.
Principal Cui and the others stayed there for about 1.5 hours that day without any protection. This is an exact and testable value.
And some garrison personnel have been there for more than 30 hours and have had shifts, but the temporary camp is there.
Even wearing protective clothing, the exposure time is dozens of times longer...
Therefore, this evacuation was carried out in secret and could not arouse the suspicion of the frontline personnel, because no one knew what state they were in now.
As for the goa concentric team, they were hastily recalled from the nuclear radiation mutation area.
At that time, there were a total of 12 members who entered the wasteland, including 6 members of the Tianji Bureau, Lou Xiaoning, Feng Wei, Deng Ximei, Peacock, Mo Qing, and Uncle Dan. They arrived at the same time and left at the same time. They both stayed for 31 minutes, made a transfer, and then were transferred away again.
Therefore, all 12 people may be infected, but because of their different physiques and inconsistent dose equivalents, the symptoms they exhibit are also different.
Of these, peacocks are the most symptomatic.
At this time, the concentric team was still on the way to evacuate, and Peacock was alone in the carriage, doing a small experiment.
She let Catherine take control of her body, and she retreated into a second personality. This change caused Catherine to have a strange feeling of being physically affected, because she did not have the mental power of a peacock, so she was more strongly affected, "I'm so hungry... I want to eat dirt, there is a kind of resistance, let me not say …”
In contrast, Peacock felt much more relaxed.
Ever since she suddenly had the idea of wanting to eat locusts, she kept telling herself not to think about it but couldn't get rid of it, but now she is calm.
This also means... their bodies were indeed infected with locust disease.
There was silence in the secret command room, Master Tong, Yao Shinian and others all looked very ugly, and the situation was slipping more and more towards Wang Ruoxiang's hypothesis.
Before they could think about it, another bad news came out urgently from the communication station, "There are people on the front line of the wasteland who refuse to evacuate! Some people refuse to evacuate!"
There are 5 personnel from the Ministry of Conjuration, 10 personnel from the old Indian Ministry, and a total of 163 people from other institutions and departments.
These 178 people are the frontline garrison personnel, and they are active in the area of two square kilometers of wasteland.
"Get me connected there!" Master Tong said in a serious voice, the person in charge over there was Yu Xiaoyong sent by the Department of Magic.
Yu Xiaoyong, the former captain of the Arctic Wolf team, has always performed well, and he was expected to join the magic department. However, due to the syndrome of practicing "The Seven Secrets of the Earth", he suffered from insanity. Together with Wang Ruoxiang and others He was imprisoned, but he was reinstated with him last year.
Master Tong tried his best to reuse people like Wang Ruoxiang and Yu Xiaoyong again. If any of them rebelled again, everyone would suffer.
And now, with the current state of affairs, the Astronomy Bureau does not need more chaos...
Soon, the image of the wasteland front line appeared on the communication screen. It was Yu Xiaoyong's tense face in the headquarters of the temporary camp.
Behind him, there was another team of people, all of whom were familiar faces of Master Tong and Yao Shinian, who had been personally selected into the Magic Department and the Old Seal Department.
"Master Tong... we ate a lot of mud at first, but suddenly... I couldn't help it..." Yu Xiaoyong's messy voice quickly became slightly trembling, and his eyes were red, "We can't help it, what I want to say, But my body suppressed it, as if there was a voice stopping me, I couldn't resist... "
It turns out that these people haven't lost their minds, they haven't gotten that sick yet.
But they knew what they were doing now, and they guessed that this transfer of personnel was not easy.
"I can feel that some parts of my body are transforming... I can see bugs inside from the palm of my hand..." Yu Xiaoyong choked up, "It's hopeless, there's nothing we can do, we've eaten too much mud, we've already Transformation is enough... If we go back, we will lose our minds if we don't have mud to eat. If we stay here, we will also go crazy. We people will always lose control... "
Tong Ye, Yao Shinian and other elders were also momentarily at a loss.
The Rational Monitoring Stone didn't work, it wasn't the erosion of darkness, it was radiation and mutation.
"The suicide note we wrote before we set off was used this time... 82 of our 163 people are willing to commit suicide, spells and old seals are all willing, and we will not force the rest of the colleagues. But I suggest using missiles to It's bombed here, don't let them go, they will become enemies...
We have to act, while we have reason, while we are... Dirt, we want dirt, eat more, we can see God... A voice seems to say, maybe I can spell, I hear more How many... Migratory locust team, I think, I can become a migratory locust... No, I am Yu Xiaoyong...
Now, don't look at the screen, but record it, it may be valuable... Lord Tong, officers, I'm sorry, our battle is over here... "
Yu Xiaoyong saluted the camera with a military salute. With his right hand, he pulled out the pistol from his waist, pointed it at his head, and pulled the trigger.
Bang! The bullet passed through the head, splashing out blood, as well as streaks of white and translucent locust larvae.
The others behind him, with pain, struggle and determination, also raised their guns.
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang...
A total of fifteen shots were fired.