Plague Doctor

At four o'clock in the morning, the sky was still dark.

The frontline personnel were transferred in batches by the command center on a five-square-kilometer round of the barren place, but they did not know that this was an emergency evacuation.

From the beginning, front-line personnel have done a series of radiation tests there, and have not detected any high-intensity abnormal radiation, but of course there is natural radiation.

But now no one in the top management can be sure whether there is a kind of "isolocust radiation" in those "natural radiations" that can invade human genes?

How was human DNA used to be?

This "before" refers to the origin stage of mammals many and many years ago, hundreds of millions of years ago.

Before modern humans complete the whole genome sequencing, it is difficult to believe the fact that about 5-8% of the human genome information comes from ancient viruses. Most of them are retroviruses. These viruses can invade the host's cells, and then implant their own genes into the host's DNA to achieve parasitic.

These viral genes will participate in the operation of the host cell and be modified to the way they want to operate. Retroviruses can also be transmitted to the next generation of the host with sperm or eggs, and then to the next generation, thereby becoming endogenous retroviruses.

The reason why human beings are today's humans is that they look like these, with those organs and tissues, the nerves and thinking of the brain ... inseparable from these viral genes.

After hundreds of millions of years, humans and these viruses have long been a symbiosis.

Not only humans, but mammals.

If some of these viral genes are knocked out, the scientific community has conducted experiments on mice, and the mice died soon.

These viral genes are in a relatively stable state in the human body, and if any new virus also wants to join this symbiosis, such as HIV virus-this is also a retrovirus, then there is a big problem, it will cause The so-called diseases are difficult to deal with.

However, implanting a virus carrying a specific foreign gene into the human body to achieve therapeutic effects is a direction of gene therapy.

So, is it possible that the causative agent of locust disease is a piece of specific genetic information, which is implanted into human genes by radiation or causes specific gene mutations?

"Hypothesis and acute infection hypothesis" "Parasitic gene hypothesis"

Wang Ruoxiang's two hypotheses about locustization were immediately highly valued by the command center.

She has always been a school bully and a smart man. Although these hypotheses are undetermined, there are good reasons.

The first is that the patient's whole body tissues can be transformed into different locusts, which is likely to be at the cellular, DNA, and genetic level.

The second is the possible connection of aberrant regions. Nuclear radiation can mutate DNA and have a genetic effect.

In fact, before this, the scientific research department has done some DNA testing comparisons, comparing patients with parasites, comparing patients with each other, just to see if there is any trace of virus intrusion. Now the command center also supports these hypotheses of the scientific research department, but testing will take time.

Except for the six patients with different locusts in the body who were urgently transferred to another empty and isolated building, the other patients were temporarily unable to transfer.

The infectious range formed by President Cui's self-detonation, that is, the possible radiation range, with him as the center point, has a circular area of ​​about 8,000 square meters.

"I keep thinking, what's so special about the unusual dirt?"

This is another reason why Wang Ruoxiang made such a hypothesis. It is no different from the component detection, but has the soil there been already contaminated by another kind of radiation? The difference is that the existing detection technology can not be analyzed? The eggs in the soil are not the key at all, but may also be the product of radiation.

Among these thoughts of hers, it was the thought that made Tong Ye the most anxious.

If that wasteland is really another aberrant area ... then it is only more sinister than the nuclear radiation aberrant area.

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 are not noticed, because the wasteland and grassland are almost everywhere, and there are already few people there, as long as the buildings and roads do not disappear No one knows even some minor changes.

"If the wasteland is also connected to a different space, the things in the two spaces can only enter and leave their respective spaces, like the abnormal area. But what if Li Yuhao, the insect carrier, is not? Can they enter the different space?"

Wang Ruoxiang's idea is also very reasonable. Even though Mobei is sparsely populated here, with the technology and manpower of the Tianji Bureau, the other party has more than 300 people, and it is difficult to find their whereabouts. Existing monitoring clues indicate that either they were heading towards the wasteland, or the cars were still parked there.

Where did they go? Another space? Like the motley cat, like the locusts.

Compared with these people, the primary task of the command center now is to deal with everyone who has gone to the wasteland area.

Will these people become insect carriers?

If it is really spread by radiation, and the self-radiation of the carrier before detonating is not strong enough to infect others, the only good aspect 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 passed the safety value are sick, and people who have not passed the safety value are in the recessive period.

Principal Cui stayed there for about 1.5 hours that day without any protection. This is the exact value that can be tested.

Some stationed personnel have been there for more than 30 hours and have worked shifts, but the temporary camp is there.

Even when wearing protective clothing, the duration of exposure to radiation exceeds dozens of times ...

Therefore, this evacuation was carried out in secret and could not arouse the suspicion of front-line personnel, because no one knows what their state is now.

As for the GOA Concentric team, it was hurriedly recalled on the side of the nuclear radiation aberration area.

At that time, a total of 12 members entered the wasteland, including 6 personnel from the Tianji Bureau, Lou Xiaoning, Feng Wei, Deng Ximei, Peacock, Mo Qing, and Uncle Egg. They arrived at the same time and left at the same time. They all stayed for 31 minutes, made a trip, and were transferred again.

Therefore, these 12 people have the possibility of infection, but because of different constitutions and inconsistent dose equivalents, the symptoms shown are different.

Among them, peacocks are the most symptomatic.

At this time, the concentric team was still on the evacuation road, and Peacock was in a separate car, doing a small experiment.

She gave Catherine control of her body and retreated herself to a second personality. This change, Catherine suddenly had a weird feeling of being physiologically affected, because she did not have the mental strength as a peacock, and the impact was more intense, "I am hungry ... I want to eat mud, there is a resistance, let me not Say……"

On the contrary, the peacock felt a lot easier.

Ever since she suddenly had the idea of ​​eating an locust, she has kept herself thinking but has been lingering, but now she is calm.

This also means ... their body is indeed infected with locust disease.

There was silence in the secret command room. Tong Ye, Yao Shinian and others all looked very ugly, and the situation slipped more and more towards Wang Ruoxiang's hypothesis.

Before they even thought about it, another bad news came out urgently from the communication station, "Some people refuse to evacuate from the front line of the wasteland! Some people refuse to evacuate!"

A total of 163 personnel from the curse department, 10 from the old printing department, and other agencies and departments.

These 178 people are the frontline garrison personnel, operating in the area of ​​two square kilometers of wasteland.

"Connect me over there!" Tong Ye sighed, and the person in charge was Yu Xiaoyong sent by the Curse Department.

Yu Xiaoyong, the captain of the former Arctic Wolf Squad, has always performed well, and was also expected to join the spell department, but later because of the "Seven Secret Secrets of the Earth" syndrome, the insanity occurred, together with Wang Ruoxiang and others Imprisoned, but was reinstated with him last year.

Tong Ye urged everyone to re-use Wang Ruoxiang and Yu Xiaoyong, and if any of them rebelled again, everyone would be affected.

And now, as it is now, the Tianji Bureau does not need more chaos ...

Soon, the image on the front of the wasteland appeared on the communication screen. It was Yu Xiaoyong's tense face in the temporary camp headquarters.

Behind him, there is a team of people, all familiar faces of Tong Ye and Yao Shinian, who were selected into the curse department and the old seal department in person.

"Tongye ... We ate a lot of mud. At first, but suddenly ... I couldn't help it ..." Yu Xiaoyong's messy words quickly became slightly trembling, and his eyes were red. "We can't help it, I think Say, but the body is restrained, as if there is a voice to stop, I can't fight ... "

It turned out that these people had not lost their minds, and they were not sick to that extent.

But they knew what was happening to them now, and guessed that the personnel transfer was not easy.

"I can feel that some parts of my body are transforming ... I can see the bugs in my palm ..." Yu Xiaoyong choked, "I'm not saved, I can't help, we eat too much mud." It ’s enough to transform ... When we go back, if we do n’t eat mud, we will lose our senses, and if we stay here, we will also go crazy. Those of us will always lose control ... "

Seniors like Tongye and Yao Shinian were also at a loss.

The rational monitoring stone has no effect. This is not dark erosion, but radiation and mutation.

"We wrote the suicide note before we set off, and it was used this time ... 163 of us here, 82 of whom are willing to commit suicide, and the spells and old Indians are all willing, and the rest of our colleagues, we do n’t make reluctance. But I suggest using missile Blow up here, don't let them go, they will become enemies ...

We have to act ~ www.NovelMTL.com ~ While we are still sane now, while we are still ... mud, we want mud, and eat more, we can see God ... as if there was a voice saying that, maybe I Spellcasting, I heard more ... Flying locust team, I think I can become a flying locust ... No, I am Yu Xiaoyong ...

Now, do n’t look at the screen, but it may be valuable to record ... Tongye, sir, sorry, our battle is here ... "

Yu Xiaoyong saluted a military salute to the camera. This right hand pulled out the pistol around his waist, aimed at his head, and pulled the trigger.

Slam! The bullet passed through the head, spilling blood, and also the white translucent locust larvae.

The others behind him, with pain, struggle and determination, also raised their guns.

Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang ...

There were fifteen shots in total.

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