In the laboratory
"Dead Ridge Lak" was contributed and soaked in a mild analytical solution that would not cause any harm to him.
With Reagan as the leader and Yi Chen as the assistant, they conducted sleepless research on the plague.
There were so many lunch boxes delivered to the laboratory door that they were piled up several layers high. However, the two of them did not feel tired at all. Even their hunger was masked by the gradual progress of their research results.
Reagan lost weight and became a handsome young man in the process. All mental and physical consumption was assisted by fat.
As for Yi Chen, he had long been accustomed to the feeling of being hungry. When he was in the orphanage, it was common for him to go without food for several days.
Many of my friends will become mentally ill and have organ disorders due to hunger.
Perhaps it was because of his genetic genes, Yi Chen was able to slowly develop a habit of being hungry for long periods of time, and his body was able to adapt to this state of not absorbing external energy since he was a child.
Two days passed in a flash in the busy research.
The two still did not realize the passage of time. They only felt that the research was slowly progressing, the truth of the plague was being revealed, and something that could cheer them up was slowly being revealed.
Even the Hippocrates Hospital only briefly recorded the "death plague" and did not conduct detailed research on the disease. The reason is very simple. The real deaths basically did not appear in the past until recently.
If you can write a paper on the plague, it will definitely be included in the organization's important library and will definitely be rewarded.
But on the second night,
Yi Chen was sitting in front of the laboratory table, recording and checking experimental data with one hand and writing down the conclusions related to "infectiousness" with the other hand. Suddenly, he heard a strong tinnitus in his ears.
Tick-tick~
A mass of black mucus overflowed from the nasal cavity and fell on the experimental manuscript paper he was writing on. This was a mixture of blood and brain matter, and was also stained with Yi Chen's unique 'death in the previous life'.
Obviously,
This is because not eating for two days, coupled with high-intensity mental work, leads to fatigue and even brain damage.
but…
Yi Chen just stood there in a daze, silently observing the special blood that kept flowing out of his nasal cavity.
His thoughts seemed to be drawn back to a certain period in his life, and some deep memories that had been completely blocked were slowly being opened up.
Recalling the real memory fragments before his death, pictures flashed back quickly in his mind, and Yi Chen seemed to be bound and fixed in a dark, strange laboratory.
He did not die because of writing the thesis, but was used as someone's 'thesis material' which eventually led to his death. It was just that this real memory was modified and covered up.
In addition to Yi Chen, there are other living materials in the laboratory, and these "materials" are not normal humans.
They all have the same 'death' characteristic as Yi Chen to a greater or lesser extent, and will be labeled as 'weird' in society.
They are all imprisoned here now and used as a special experimental material.
All the skulls were opened, and each person's brain was exposed to different lethal environments for a long time, providing relevant experimental data.
Or they breed a kind of parasite in the skull that can drill holes and eat the brain, or even lay eggs in the skull cavity.
Or use the brain as a petri dish and culture different types of pathogens between the grooves.
Or inject potent viruses such as rabies, Ebola, etc. directly into the brain.
A "mentor" in charge of this project will regularly record the status of each material, and will even provide first aid and replenish nutrient solution to the surviving materials after the experiment.
Just when Yi Chen wanted to see the appearance of the mentor in his memory,
"William!"
A strong mental stimulation went straight into his brain, bringing Yi Chen's thoughts back to reality.
The scattered Tong Kong gathered together again and returned to the laboratory full of electric light and the fog of death plague.
The person standing in front of him was no longer a black shadow, but Reagan, who was so thin that his cheeks were completely sunken and looked like a skeleton. He could see emotions called anxiety and worry in the other's eyes.
At the same time, Yi Chen's clothes and the area under his seat were covered with black body fluids flowing from his nasal cavity.
"William, let's put this research aside for now. Your thoughts just now seemed to be out of your body, and you even had a strong tendency towards death. It scared me to death.
Moreover, just now all the flagella of the plague bacteria in the laboratory were pointing at you... What's going on?"
Yi Chen answered calmly, "Well, I recalled some things related to death in the past, and I was a little absent-minded. So how long have we been in the laboratory?"
"Two days and three hours."
"It seems that we really need to take a break."
"I have applied to the director for the highest level of nutrition and rest cabin, and a staff member will take you there... I can still hold on for a while and finish writing the last bit of stuff.
Maybe you’ll see a draft ready when you wake up.”
"good… "
Yi Chen also accepted the arrangement and was suspended in a cabin filled with nutrient solution, wearing a respirator.
Before falling asleep, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.
"I didn't expect to have such an unexpected gain. This memory, which is more secretive than the orphanage, has finally been 'uncovered'. I hope to see its full original appearance as soon as possible.
Then maybe I can figure out the source of the black dead fluid in my body and the real cause of death. 』
…
Wow~
When Yi Chen woke up in the cabin, put on his clothes and went out, the manuscript completed by Reagan was directly placed on his chest.
"Come and see it when you have time. It's a very interesting fungus... I can't hold on any longer. I'm going to go back and lie down for two days. Remember to come and inform me before taking the First Gentleman's Assessment. It would be best if you could take me to the scene."
As for the finished paper, it will take some time to revise it and I will submit it later.”
"Thanks for the hard work Reagan."
"As long as this thing can possibly help Fei Yin, it doesn't matter if I'm a little tired. Thank you for your help, William!"
Farewell Reagan,
Yi Chen returned to the previous laboratory and put away the dead ridge.
Sitting alone at the laboratory table, he read the manuscript on the plague that Reagan had compiled and written on his own.
The first chapter discusses the nature of the plague bacteria in detail, and also renames this bacteria based on existing bacteriology.
Since the paper involves numerous professional terms and detailed descriptions that are easy for relevant researchers to fully understand, we will not go into details here. The following is a condensed version:
The essence of the death plague is a highly contagious disease caused by "gangrene bacillus", which has the highest mortality rate known so far. It is often a short and thick Gram-negative bacillus, with blunt and dark ends, and is also easily colored by aniline dyes.
They have specialized flagella (flagellum) with a length ranging from 100 to 150 μm. The structure, number and function of the flagella may vary greatly depending on the rank of the deceased.
This specialized flagellum is tube-shaped and can expel the metabolic products (black) inside the bacteria in the form of smoke.
The flagella of different bacteria will actively entangle together, and through the joint emission of metabolic products, they can achieve group characteristics such as long-term floating movement, arrangement and combination, and even rapid directional propagation.
Therefore, to outsiders, every breath of the deceased seemed to emit black mist, which was actually the entangled colony of gangrene mist bacillus.
It takes into account all the communication channels known so far, and also has a special "visual communication".
Any type of gangrene bacillus will have visual proteins on the surface of its cell membrane to sense "observation" from different directions.
Once the presence of an observer is sensed, the visual protein will stimulate the bacteria to transmit the "symbol of death" through various channels*
The * symbol is often in the shape of a cross, short at the top and long at the bottom, with an elliptical structure connected to the top.
When an external individual sees the "sign of death" expressed directly or indirectly by Clostridium difficile, the visual feedback will guide brain cells to transform into the structure of Clostridium difficile, leading to direct infection at the brain level.
This infection will act on the individual's central nervous system, producing a strong suicidal instinct.
During the infection period, the infected person's brain will be "atomized and replicated". When the suicide behavior is over, the individual will exhale the "breath of the dead" that carries all the brain information, and then the dead will be resurrected through various dead objects.
Thanks to book friend Zhatianbang Wolf King for sacrificing the leader of this book!