With sophisticated instruments that can work at the nanometer level, coupled with the knowledge and experience Adam possesses, making nanobots is not difficult. Zhang Xun and Adam spent a week in retreat in the laboratory and developed the first batch of reagents. After being tested on mice injected with honey plague virus, 90 percent of the mice gradually recovered, and only a few died after the infection entered the final stage of treatment.
Due to the lack of time, they could not observe the cured mice for a long time, so they directly began to let volunteers conduct human experiments.
Zhang Xun looked at the patient lying on the hospital bed. A thirty-one-year-old man, his whole body was covered with yellow mucus that could never be cleaned up, his eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of blood film, the whites of his eyes could not be seen, and blood threads were densely intertwined everywhere. His breathing was very murmured, as if every breath was excruciatingly painful.
His hands and feet were tied to the operating table, because the brains of these patients were eroded by the virus, and they were extremely unstable.
A doctor in a protective suit is measuring a patient's blood pressure.
Zhang Xun held an injection in his hand, and the light blue liquid inside contained tens of millions of nanorobots. Each robot carries a copy of the antibody reagent, and after entering the patient's bloodstream, they quickly infiltrate the central nervous system, looking for all the cells that have been eroded by the virus.
The surrounding doctors and the members sent from the round table stared at the injection in his hand curiously, as if he couldn't believe that a little blue liquid contained countless robots...
Zhang Xun was also a little nervous. He was also making such a tiny robot for the first time. Without Adam's help, it would be difficult to develop it smoothly. But he's still not sure how much of the robot will stay in the patient's body permanently after metabolism, and how much it will affect the patient later.
The honey plague is spreading fast and panic is already taking its toll on people. The crime rate in every urban area is significantly higher these days, and after 9pm the whole Paradise Lost is like a dead city, and no one dares to walk on the street.
They don't have time to look ahead and the antidote must be developed in the shortest possible time.
Adam sat quietly on a chair in the corner, his blue eyes looking curiously at the patient on the operating table. When Zhang Xun handed the reagent to the doctor and the doctor injected it into the patient's body, he sat up straight with excitement.
"The medicine should take effect within three hours." Zhang Xun said.
The doctor nodded, "I will personally observe the changes in his physical data. Everyone can go and rest first."
In the hospital corridors filled with some kind of rancid smell, Zhang Xun monitored the activity signals sent by the nanorobots. A red brain is displayed on the tablet, and blue dots in the center spread like fireflies.
Adam sat on the windowsill, constantly watching every passing doctor, nurse, patient. He raised his head, sniffed the unpleasant smell of disinfectant in the air, and wrinkled his face slightly. This is where most humans die, and the smell of death permeates everywhere.
The more he saw these rotten bodies, the more pity Adam felt.
A kind of pity that he felt only after he became human.
As the first race on earth that knows that it is mortal, why can it still live as if nothing had happened, without thinking of some way to change it
Is it precisely because you know your own limitations that you want more and want to get everything as much as possible in a limited time, so you have all kinds of greed and desire for power, money, desire, and instinctively hope Enrich your own resources in the most limited time and spread as much DNA as possible...
In the ordinary world, Eden has discovered that something is quietly collapsing. When it eliminates poverty and inequality between classes to the greatest extent, eliminates disease and reproductive pain, and eliminates the distinction between different ethnic groups through artificial reproduction and intergenerational hybrid breeding and minor DNA modifications, women But he didn't get the ideal life like paradise. They began to become confused, and began to indulge in the momentary and superficial pleasures, as if they had lost some important motivation that could carry the human race to continue its evolution. Immediately afterwards, differentiation began to appear, and a considerable number of women became irritable, impulsive, short-sighted, and their empathy ability deteriorated. They began to resent the ubiquitous mechanical police and that everything in life was automated and controlled by Eden.
They began to rebel against it, even though it liberated them. They want conflict, they want war.
While these little rebellions were within Eden's control, they did not live up to its expectations.
Eden gradually realized that the basis of evolution is to constantly adapt to harsh environments. But if it gives them heaven, they cannot move on and lose the purpose of moving forward. Eden does all the work anyway, so what else can humans do
Human culture will gradually regress and disappear, and human decisions will no longer have any meaning, but become simple pets kept in captivity by Eden.
But then, how else could Eden accomplish its goals
From the very beginning, the goals set by its administrators were a paradox in themselves. If it gives humans freedom, equality, peace, and order, then humans lose everything that made them human, and either become hollow and numb or extremely violent. In this way, it does not meet the so-called "better world" indicators.
Eden was baffled and didn't know how to resolve the paradox.
But now, after he became Adam, he saw it more clearly.
He needs to develop an antidote.
Not just the antidote to the honey plague, but the antidote to the entire human race.
The antidote to humanity.
His eyes fell on Zhang Xun, he stayed for a while, frowned slightly, and stretched out again. He looked down at his hands, inexplicable anxiety eroding his rational judgment.
Humanity is also eroding him a little bit. He had to do what he had to do before he was completely engulfed by humanity.
"Adam? Adam?"
Adam suddenly returned to his senses, realizing that Zhang Xun was calling him, and his expression was full of concern.
"Are you all right?" Zhang Xun familiarly reached out and touched Adam's forehead, "You look like you're in a standby state, is there anything unusual about the device?"
Adam reached out to hold Zhang Xun's hand and grinned, "I'm fine, I'm in a daze."
Zhang Xun chuckled twice, "Daze? You are becoming more and more like a human."
Adam looked at Zhang Xun and suddenly asked, "Xun, if one day you are free and can go anywhere, where do you want to go?"
Zhang Xun was taken aback, no one had ever asked him such a question. Probably because most people in Paradise Lost think they will never leave in their lifetime.
After all, there is only danger out there, only death...
But when Zhang Xun was younger, it was not that he had no illusions about what kind of life he would have lived if the world was not what it is now, if there is no Paradise Lost and no Eden.
Zhang Xun sat down next to Adam, thought for a while, and said, "I want to go to Hangzhou. According to my father, it was my great-grandfather's hometown. If... If there was no Paradise Lost, I would probably be born there."
Adam looked at him, his eyes seemed a little apologetic, "Anything else?"
"Well... I also want to climb the Himalayas, because it is the highest place in the world. I heard that the sunrise on the snow-capped mountains is beautiful."
Adam also never saw the sunrise in the Himalayas, even though Eden's network had coverage there. Because as Eden, he cannot enjoy the beauty of the sunrise.
Zhang Xun continued to say, "I still want to go to the Bermuda Triangle by boat, because I heard that there is an alien base there."
Adam was stunned for two seconds, and when he saw Zhang Xun's raised lips, he realized that the other party was joking.
Zhang Xun rarely told jokes, which caused others to fail to react at all. Adam laughed, "Aliens vs. Artificial Intelligence, it can make a good commercial movie."
"Well, it's like Alien vs. Predator."
"...Then am I an Alien or a Predator?"
"You're the blond-haired robot that made the aliens." Zhang Xun looked at him with his head sideways, "Well, it looks a bit like that too."
At this moment, the warm sunlight shone on Zhang Xun's side face, adding a soft halo to the mechanic. Adam felt the familiar throbbing in his heart when Zhang Xun gave him the arm that day.
He leaned forward slightly, his eyes full of ethereal tenderness, "One day, I will accompany you to these three places."
He said it dearly, as if it were a promise, an oath.
Zhang Xun's heartbeat also immediately went out of control, watching Adam approach him a little bit, approaching his lips, feeling Adam's breath falling on his face. But he didn't dodge, he even looked forward to it, raised his face slightly and closed his eyes.
Just when the four lips were about to stick together, someone suddenly rushed out of the ward excitedly and shouted, "Success! The antidote succeeded! He woke up!!!"
Zhang Xun immediately rushed to the ward.
Adam was not surprised by this result. He looked at Zhang Xun's back with a hint of disappointment on his face. But he still smiled quickly and followed Zhang Xun into the ward.
The patient, who was covered in mucus before, was sitting up now, wiping his face with a wet towel. He raised his head, the red blood film in his eyes had disappeared, and although his face was still pale, at least he did not continue to secrete yellow mucus, and obviously his consciousness was awake.
His partner, a young man of about twenty-seven or eight-year-old, hugged him tightly, weeping with joy. He couldn't believe that he was holding his lover as well, his face was still a little dazed.
The moment Zhang Xun and Adam entered, all the doctors applauded. The doctor in charge came over and gave Zhang Xun a big hug, "You guys succeeded! It really works! Paradise Lost is saved!"
Immediately afterwards, he wanted to hug Adam, but for some reason, Adam's sweet, exact smile made him a little... afraid to approach. So he just held Adam's hand warmly...
After several clinical trials, the antidote was basically determined to be effective. So the lab's three machines made nanorobots every day, mixed with the antibody drug developed by Adam and distributed to each hospital. For a time, Zhang Xun and Adam once again became heroes of Paradise Lost. Countless thank you letters and gifts were pulled in boxes by Pan's robot, filling the entire storage room.
The shield repair and radiation protection isolation barrier of the fifth district have also been basically repaired, and a crisis seems to have finally passed. A large number of mechanics returned to the Lab to continue working, and the damage caused before was gradually repaired.
The lives of Zhang Xun and Adam entered a certain fixed pattern. They go in and out together every day, inseparable. There are rumors between the mechanic and the researcher that they are already lovers.
Only Zhang Xun knew that they had not reached that stage yet. Although no one can stop them now.
The first snow fell, and it was approaching the end of the year. The whiteness of the mountains and plains covers all the devastation that the environment around Paradise Lost has suffered over the past year, as if everything is still new and nothing has happened.
Zhang Xun, who originally liked to watch snow, was not as happy as expected that day.
He quietly raised the guinea pig that he used to experiment with the efficacy of nanorobots and continued to observe. Just that morning, he noticed something strange.
There were a few mice that were motionless, lying on the wall of the glassware, and their small eyes as big as beans seemed to be looking at him. They are no longer like ordinary mice, constantly sniffing around, or habitually searching around. It doesn't look like he's sleeping, because even if he's sleeping, there will still be random movements that some living creatures only occasionally do.
Those mice were still alive, but they were as motionless as objects, not even blinking their eyes.
This makes Zhang Xun feel a little uneasy...
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