The night was close and the stars were twinkling, and it was an ordinary night for the ordinary citizens of Red Umbrella City. If you have to find something out of the ordinary, it is that there is too much news recently, which makes everyone feel dazzled, but many of the news are outrageous and make it difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake.

However, at Daewoo headquarters, there is a sense of tension that is about to come. The gathering of bigwigs, who are usually rare, inevitably makes people want to look up to see if there are black clouds pressing down on the city.

Outside a laboratory with the highest isolation level in the Ministry of Medicine, Zhu Yan, the actual controller of Daewoo, Bai Yi, the mayor of Red Umbrella City, Qinghe, the mayor of Qingtu City, and Ran Wu, the second leader of the Phantom Blue CDC headquarters, are staring at the glass curtain wall and preparing to start a series of experiments.

"Mr. Ran Wu, all the data will be displayed on the projection screen on the left-hand side. While waiting for the experiment to be completed, Zhu Yan said to the people around him, "The initial test experiment of the virus will start soon, and we will conduct four sets of experiments, which will be carried out simultaneously by the CDC headquarters team, Qinghe's advisory group, Daewoo Medical Department, and the initial virtual data link simulation of the virus to ensure the authenticity of the results." ”

Bai Yi, Qing Tu, and Ran Wu didn't care about responding to Zhu Yan, but looked solemnly at the picture in front of them, on which a record was played, which was Ye Qingmian introducing the initial video in the conference hall in the afternoon.

The three of them had speculated as much as they could about the initial threat of the virus, but the young man's words in the picture turned their worst predictions into happy hopes.

"This is impossible! How can there be such a thing? It exists to destroy human civilization? It is difficult to limit the height of human cognition?" Qinghe could not accept such a statement.

"Who is this young man?Does he have proof?Why would you believe him like that?" Bai Yi looked at Zhu Yan, and no longer bothered to ask her about the android.

Zhu Yan raised his hand and pointed behind several people. The three of them looked back, Ye Qingmian was smiling and beckoning to a few people, "Whether it is true or false will be verified soon, you don't need to be in such a hurry." ”

Ran Wuben thought that this trip would witness an absurd scam by Daewoo, but he didn't expect that as soon as he entered Daewoo's headquarters, he was hit by the oppressive atmosphere here. Subsequently, Ye Qingmian told that the original video was shared by Zhu Yan, which made Ran Wu's heartbeat immediately enter another frequency band. He only hopes that everything is fake now, otherwise...

Zhu Yan walked up to Ye Qingmian's side, "Your friends have arrived one after another, and we have arranged rooms for them to live in." Would you like to invite them to come and see it?"

"No, you don't. Ye Qingmian shrugged, "There is no need to look at this experiment, each of them already knows how terrible the virus was in the first place." ”

"Who are you? How do you know this?" Qinghe asked Xiang Ye Qingmian with a dark face.

Ye Qingmian rolled his eyes, "At this time, is this kind of thing still important?"

"The experiment is ready. The old housekeeper trotted in front of Zhu Yan, nodded at Bai Yi and said.

Qinghe's gaze stayed on Ye Qingmian for two seconds, then retracted his gaze and turned to the place where the four sets of experiments were going to be conducted.

Through the huge glass curtain wall, Zhu Yan and his party could see that in the laboratory, three groups of scientific researchers were ready to start experiments at any time, and a biological computer that simulated experiments with the initial data link of the virus was also on standby.

"It's time to go. The old butler whispered beside Zhu Yan.

Zhu Yan nodded, opened the communication with the laboratory, and his eyes solemnly swept over the bodies of everyone inside, "Swear!"

In the laboratory, the three teams of Daewoo Medical Center, Disease Prevention and Control Headquarters, and Qinghe's Medical Advisory Group raised their right hands at the same time, clenched their fists and placed them on the side of their temples, looking at Zhu Yan and the others.

"I will respect and learn from the scientific achievements and knowledge of our forefathers over the ages. I will not hesitate to pass on this knowledge to my successors. ”

"I will keep in mind that the fundamental purpose of science is to benefit human civilization, and it should be a force that brings peace, health and happiness. I would be ashamed to apply the results of my research to the realm of destruction, slaughter, and destruction. ”

"I will pledge the authenticity of every experiment with my humanity and conscience, honor and dignity, and I will do my best to ensure the accuracy of the experiment with my professional knowledge and my own judgment. ”

"I will believe in truth and truth, even under duress, and will never use my knowledge and authority to turn my back on human security and world justice. ”

"I will do my best to promote the progress of human civilization, I will dedicate my life to ensuring the continuation of human civilization, I will maintain the security of human civilization to the death, and I will sacrifice my life to prevent the destruction of human civilization. ”

"I will keep this oath with the weight of my life, and I will always remember my solemn oath in this life, and I will honor it with the utmost honor to keep my vow. ”

"For humanity!"

Outside the laboratory. Bai Yi, Qinghe, Ran Wu, Zhu Yan, and even Ye Qingmian all looked solemn.

"What is this?" Ye Qingmian asked Zhu Yan in a low voice.

"Sisrita's "Declaration of Doom", after the ecology of the origin star was completely destroyed, when human beings were forced to leave and began to wander in the universe, the greatest scientist at that time, Sisrita led almost all the scientific researchers to initiate a manifesto, which determined the basic principles of scientific research since then, with the intention of remembering the catastrophe of the origin star, and not allowing future human beings to repeat the mistakes of the past due to selfishness and hypocrisy. The manifesto has eight parts, and the prologue they use to take the oath. ”

Qinghe turned his head and looked at Bai Yi, who was also looking at him. The two rarely did not quarrel, but they were equally dignified, and when the oath said, 'I will die of sacrifice to prevent the destruction of human civilization', both of them were almost physically and mentally shocked, and they understood that today, maybe it was the turning point of the Phantom Blue Star, or it could be the turning point of human civilization.

Ran Wushen exhaled and gestured to the assistant beside him. The assistant then opened a suitcase that he had been keeping with him, and there was nothing in it, only an old communicator.

Ran Wu picked up the communicator in his suitcase and explained to Zhu Yan and the others, "The virus threat level defined by Phantom Blue Star is from one to five. But it was only at the top of our CDC headquarters that we knew that we had a plan for the Grade 6 virus that should not exist. This communicator... Skip the leader of the Blue Star Federation and gain the power to directly take over all rights in any city. Mr. Zhu, I hope I won't have the opportunity to start it later. ”

Zhu Yan looked at Ran Wu and didn't speak, just waved his hand lightly at several groups of people in the laboratory, and the experiment began.

"The first item, the virus initially, the test for contagiousness, began. "In the laboratory, someone spoke up.

In the laboratory, each group entered into rigorous and busy work at the same time. Compared to them, the pressure of people outside the laboratory is not weak at all, even a little.

Ran Wu couldn't remember how long it had been since he had had so much energy as he had today, and he checked the data and progress of four sets of experiments at the same time, hoping to find obvious loopholes and mistakes to undo the results he least wanted to see.

Time has become especially long, and every second seems to be stretched infinitely. Half an hour later, everyone was covered with a fine layer of sweat. The four sets of experiments were completed within two minutes, and the results were surprisingly consistent, and there were no even particularly subtle errors in the whole process.

"The contagious test is complete. The virus is initially transmitted through air, water, contact, blood, and vertical transmission. ”

Bai Yi looked at the data screen on the left, the overly professional things on it he couldn't understand at all, so he reached out and grabbed Ran Wu next to him in a hurry, "What about the susceptible people and the source of infection?"

"All. Ran Wu's expression was a little sluggish, and he said in a wooden voice.

"What do you mean? What do you mean? Qinghe pulled Ran Wu's body towards him and looked at his face.

Ran Wu came back to his senses for a moment, "The data shows that the virus can completely ignore the human immune system at first, and even if it recovers from the disease, it will not reduce susceptibility. In other words, all human beings, all of whom were initially susceptible to the virus. ”

Qinghe felt a little dizzy for a moment, and the secretary next to him hurriedly assisted him. Bai Yi swallowed his saliva, I don't know why, his throat was too dry, "What about the source of infection?"

"The results show... Sources of infection include, but are not limited to, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and fish. Ran Wu rubbed his neck, which felt stiff, "Although the virus was originally discovered from insects in the Antarctic ice sheet, it doesn't seem to be able to survive in invertebrates at the moment, which may be a good thing..."

"Good news? Bai Yi scolded, which was completely inconsistent with his kind and kind image on weekdays. "What is the deal with the fact that the virus was able to survive outside the infectious agent for 40 hours in the first place?"

"The second item, the virus initially, autonomous mutation testing, begins. ”

"The third item, the virus initially, the population polarization test, started synchronously. ”

Voices continued to come from the lab, and the crowd outside forced themselves to control their emotions and watched with restless inwards.

This part of the experiment took a long time, and first Daewoo Medical Department provided a drug that was supposed to kill the virus in the first place, and killed some of the virus.

This is a relatively common drug in Phantom Blue Star, and it is not scarce, so seeing that it has initially worked against the virus, the outside is a little more relieved. But no one dared to let go of that breath, because they knew that they were going to witness the first self-mutation of the virus.

Four hours later, when Zhu Yan and the others felt exhausted, the result finally came. After a few hours and a dozen experiments, the virus initially became immune to the drug's attack.

"Failed?" Ran Wu felt his heart stop. "The virus that started to be quarantined and sealed was originally quarantined, is it re-synchronous evolution?!"

Without any urging, the verification has already begun, but the result... It's hopeless.

"We have found four cures in Daewoo and Antarctica, all of which have failed, and now we are seeing the fifth plan that has begun to fail. Zhu Yan said, but his voice was obviously unsteady, "Unless you can kill all the viruses in an instant, anything that can't completely wipe it out will make it stronger." ”

"Can each way only last for four hours? In such a short time, the virus can be immune to it in the first place? I don't believe it!" Qinghe smashed his head hard, trying to sober himself up.

Zhu Yan glanced at the data screen on the left, "Every process of the initial mutation of the virus is on it. ”

"The fourth, the virus initially, is a threat test. ”

Ran Wu shook the communicator in his hand, his palms were covered with sweat, he had never felt so tormented, "It's okay, it's good that the virus is completely harmless to humans at the beginning and now, he is just very difficult to kill, it's just that it's hard to be stopped from spreading." ”

Ye Qingmian glanced at Ran Wu and shook his head slightly, he was really good at self-deception, in fact, he should understand very well that judging from the independent mutation of the virus that can violate the laws of science, it is no exception to turn in any direction.

Another hour later.

"Ahh

"What's going on?!" It was late at night, and everyone was mentally tortured and extremely tired, but no one was sleepy, and they were all staring at the experiment. Hearing the exclamation inside, Bai Yi immediately cheered up and asked in a bit of a panic.

Zhu Yan instantly covered his mouth tightly, his eyes widened, and he looked at the test results in disbelief.

Ran Wu's body trembled, "The experimental results show that the virus initially has a small reduction in the number of new platelets in the human body. ”

"This isn't very serious, judging from our current medical methods..."Bai Yi said, looking at Zhu Yan involuntarily, and a trace of despair flashed in the latter's eyes.

Zhu Yan trembled and took away the hands that were covering his mouth, "But until daytime today, the virus was completely harmless at first. This means... It began, it began to arm itself. How can it be so fast?!"

Ran Wu decisively turned on the communicator and operated nervously on it. "Mayor Bai, Mayor Qing, from now on, you will have the highest authority in Red Umbrella City and Qingtu City, even the leaders of the alliance have no right to interfere in your decisions, I hope you can clearly know what you can do with this power. I will immediately report the test results to the CDC and generate an updated initial threat assessment of the virus, which will need to be submitted by you at that time, so we must hurry up as soon as possible. This will not be the responsibility of a city or a region, we must let all the Phantom Blue Stars take action, otherwise, this will be the second origin star of mankind. ”

Qinghe looked at Zhu Yan and asked without any scruples, "How many androids can you mobilize?!"

Ran Wu's pupils dilated instantly, and he was extremely surprised at what he heard, but soon he fell silent.

"Don't get your hopes up, for the entire Phantom Blue Star, the number of living androids under our protection is just a drop in the bucket. In this crisis, the main force can only be ourselves. Zhu Yan sighed and stretched out three fingers, "There are only 30,000 of them." ”