Chapter 44: The Secret of the Ice Flower

"Can I go now?" Wei Sen carefully took the white flower plant from Ding Yi's side. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Ding nodded and opened the automatic door remotely with his consciousness. Wei Sen hesitated for a moment, he couldn't see through Ding Yi's thoughts. When he tried to calculate what was about to happen in the next moment, Ding Yi was also calculating his thoughts, and the temptation and counter-temptation were in a stalemate. Vieson took a slow step towards the automatic door.

"Is this flower fake?" It dawned on Weisen that the "ice flower" was melting, and it was just a fake flower sprayed with hoarfrost. And what he really wants has been dropped by Ding Yi.

"That's right, I changed my mind!" Ding closed the automatic door again in an instant, and rushed towards Wei Sen with a fist. He's seen that Wieson will have a 37.2% chance of pulling out a gun, a 15.5% chance of taking his right hand and giving him an over-the-shoulder throw, and a 42.2% chance of trying to dodge his punch. Of course, Ding Yi was also ready for everything. After injecting black blood, his computing power was far superior to that of Wei Sen in a short period of time, so he was almost completely prepared in front of Wei Sen. He wears ceramic body armor under his suit, and the pistol bullets are basically harmless and lethal. And in terms of hand-to-hand combat alone, Wei Sen is not Ding Yi's opponent. Ding Yi has been immersed in professional martial arts training all year round. Even Ah Fu couldn't resist Ding Yi's ruthless moves. Although Wei Sen is an all-round hacker, he can also make some correct predictions with the instinct of a forty-seven-body person, but he is indeed not as ruthless and professional as a guy like Ding Yi. Just by a heavy punch from his abdomen, Wei Sen fell unsupportably, and Ding Yi immediately reflexively wound and grabbed him like a spider, pressing him down. Although Visen has a body armor under the skin, it is not resistant to heavy punches.

"Why did you do this, didn't you say okay, you untrustworthy guy!" Visen coughed up a mouthful of blood and reached for his shoulder bag in panic.

"Hey! Things have changed, and now we can't just let you go! Ding Yi skillfully handcuffed Wei Sen's hands that were lying on the ground.

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Tamyun City Police Station, Biological Laboratory.

"The flowers left by Si Qi really hide shocking secrets!" Wen Ying couldn't wait excitedly, and pulled Ding Yi to the microscope quickly, "Under the six-hundred-fold light microscope, there is nothing wrong with it, only an improved variety of tulip that has been edited and added with cold-resistant genes." Its white appearance is made by introducing fragments left in the DNA by specific crushers, which are combined into new genetic memories. Finally, through genetic reverse transcription, it will show an ice-white, solid-colored flower. But that's not the point, and if that's all, it's a relatively rare and successful improved variety. ”

"So, what's the secret?"

"I've deciphered all the genetic sequences, the real secret," Wen Ying continued, before she had time to catch her breath, "This is a mirror image of the five-fold magnification effect." I used fast DNA sequencing to map the genogram of the plants. In addition to being strong cold resistance, it was found that this ice tulip also has the strongest disease resistance among lily plants. ”

"I don't understand, disease resistance is not unusual, and even then, it's just an improved tulip, right?" Ding Yi scratched his face, looking at Wen Ying's eager expression, but he didn't understand.

"But it always grows in a cold environment. Plant viruses usually go dormant at this temperature and have long ceased to infect and replicate, so there is no need to improve pest control. This should not be a useless task that a normal biologist would do. So, I tried to warm it up until it was 24 degrees above normal temperature. Wen Ying took out two pictures taken by an optical microscope, "When the temperature reaches room temperature, something begins to revive when it is photographed outside the cells of its leaves." And then, you look at this, magnify it three thousand times. ”

"Ahh No, I can't see anything clearly! Ding Yi compared it and didn't find anything abnormal.

"That's right, because it's a virus, so I borrowed an electron microscope from Zhang Yi. 20,000 times, they can't be hidden anymore, look at what they look like when you zoom them in to 20,000 times! Wen Ying held up a blurry picture captured by an electronic eyepiece.

"Are you saying that its mosaic cells have viruses in them? Hmm, so it has to import a super disease resistance gene, right? No, wait, forgive me for being a layman. This virus seems to be a little familiar..... I seem to have seen it on the news, a weird guy who looks like this, what the hell is it? ”

"You're right Ding Yi, it's what experts are discussing every day on TV, the primary prototype of the world's influenza virus, the mutated super coronavirus, the ADI virus."

"What... What, what, what? ....." Ding Yi stammered for a while, he really couldn't remember what the professional biological virus term should be called. "You're saying that the virus that gave humans the flu was transmitted from mosaic plants??! Human, human plant comorbid virus? Is that what it's called, it really exists in this world.... Viruses that can cause both humans and plants to suffer from disease?!! ”

"It's an exception, but science allows exceptions. Before the discovery of the BSE pathogen, prion venom proteins, it was generally accepted that viruses had to have RNA, not just proteins to replicate themselves. Perhaps yesterday it was only believed that zoonotic viruses exist only between humans and animals; But today, I have to believe what I see in front of me, and despite the huge differences between genomes, we have indeed found viruses that can be transmitted between humans and plants, human-plant viruses, completely new viruses, and maybe man-made. ”

"So, Si Qi is creating a virus, creating a flu, in order to get ......" Ding Yi felt a chill down his spine, "Keep it secret, I have to report to the big dog!" ”

Ding Yi walked out of the laboratory and used the cage core to send an emergency assembly message to all members of the special service team at the same time. The infrared probe followed him all the way to the end of the hallway. The faintly flickering red fill light dot suddenly turned on abnormally in the light, and the transmission function was activated autonomously......

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"Are you sure that the coronavirus ADII, which causes the global flu, really comes from artificial plants?" Lu Qi asked with a stern expression and a frown.

"Just did the test results. After introducing the virus from the mosaic leaves into the alveolar mimic tissue, it took only 15 minutes for new viral cells to be generated. The new virus is very similar to the ADII virus, but it is more resistant to pharmacological responses. It can basically be regarded as an upgraded variant of ADII ADIII virus. Therefore, I am now more convinced that this white transgenic lily plant left from Si Qi's hand is the original strain of the entire ADI series of viruses! Ice Tulip itself carries the ADI virus. However, because it is highly resistant to the disease, it is not infected. When the temperature rises, the ice tulip dies naturally, and the virus becomes active, and then it spreads to the human body that has come into contact with the ice tulip. In turn, a high degree of transmissibility can lead to widespread influenza. Wen Ying spread the data of the entire experiment in the projected image, and the special service team fell silent in the face of this unfolding secret.

"So, Qishen Pharmaceutical created the virus by itself, and then threw it into the world, taking the opportunity to sell its own immunity-boosting drugs?" Zhang Yinghui said the questions that everyone thought of.

"Is that the body-wrenching adjuvant tablet? Ha, I just bought it yesterday. It turns out that it is both a virus maker and a drug producer! No wonder it works so well. And this is the reason why the virus has never been killed, because some people are constantly making targeted improvements! Ah Fu stood up with his hands on his hands and said.

"There is no way to prove that the Qishen Group created the ADI virus. After all, Si Qi, the former head of the R&D department who knew about it, is dead. So we don't know if it was the instructions of the upper echelons of the Qi Shen Group or Si Qi's own idea. Ding Yi did not rush to conclusions, and his investigation had already bewildered him.

"Leave that to the judge! Now, the secret service team should hold a press conference and make the truth public! At least the virus must have something to do with the Qi Shen Group! Li Qing and Zhang Yinghui had already stood up excitedly, and they could no longer sit in peace. The Secret Service is now standing in the secret crater of a volcano, which is about to erupt.

Lu Qi propped his forehead, closed his lips, and shook his head resolutely.

“...... Chief? ”

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