Chapter 11: Joe
If it weren't for the more serious doctor who spread the news to his classmates, the people at the institute would not have known that there would be such an outbreak, and then there would not have been this investigation, and they would not have known what the city of Avik would have developed.
In addition, since the mobile phone signal in this city is gone, I don't know if there is a network to use? Ling Xiao's feeling should be no, so that the time will be delayed to the maximum, so that outsiders have no chance to find the problem, so that the virus has the opportunity to follow the patient to other cities, and then spread again.
The only thing that is not so wrong is that the virus is so rapid and so strong, and these two points on the virus directly make most people who are sick have no strength at all, let alone drive a car to leave the city, naturally they can't go to other cities to survive, after all, the distance between cities is relatively long, and there is no car and cannot move.
Listening to the three people, there is no gasoline in the city of Avik, so is there no gas at the gas station? No, if there is no gas at the gas station, you should go in. If not, someone must have taken most of the gasoline, who could it be? And why do you do this? There is always a need for a reason.
Or is it...... A bold idea popped up in Ling Xiao's mind: If there was not much gasoline, would the citizens fight? But now that most of the citizens are lying down, naturally they won't fight, could it be that someone has gotten rid of it? She couldn't help but think so.
Eventually, she discovers that these are unanswered questions, and there are no answers to them until they can be found. In addition, Ling Xiao feels that this so-called virus should be a new variety.
Ling Xiao quickly had a headache when he thought of this, if a new virus appeared, it would mean that everyone didn't know anything, which meant that everything needed to start from scratch.
She thought about a series of questions, put on her gloves and began to prepare to inquire about the situation, she wanted to know what good things were in the research center.
Also take a good look at the research philosophy of these researchers, and see as soon as possible whether the things they store can be used for the current situation.
Since this virus is new, if you want to study it thoroughly, you don't know how long it will take, why don't you see if there is a key?
When Ling Xiao came in this time, he also brought a lot of hard disks to copy the data, so that he could take them back and study them well.
Before she arrived, David gave a list of personnel, and he investigated it after discovering that there was something wrong with the research center.
Ling Xiao read the relevant information on the plane, and soon had the focus of attention.
The person she was eyeing was a researcher at the research center, named Joe.
The original owner used to pay attention to him, because he had read many of the papers he had published.
This is a person who knows at a glance that he is dedicated to studying the subject.
David had wanted him to come to the institute.
Unexpectedly, he went to the research center.
The reason why David wanted to poach him into the institute.
It's because Joe's IQ belongs to a super high family.
Although he came from a civilian background, he has the potential to become a top scholar.
It's a pity that the research center took the lead and didn't know how to catch up with Joe.
The original owner felt a little pity when he found out, and then he was gradually busy with his own affairs and didn't care about him.
This time, after the research center may have had an accident, David deliberately put a mark on Joe's information.
Ling Xiao naturally took a quick look at the information, and quickly understood what David meant, there was indeed something wrong.
You must know that there has been no paper on the work since Joe entered the research center, which is a little wrong, and it is impossible to look at it.
I think that before Qiao graduated, he published several papers with great research value when he was studying, why did he suddenly lose them when he arrived at the research center?
According to the memory of the original owner, this research center is funded by a large consortium, and if you can enter the research center, you will find that there are more things to study and all the equipment is better.
In this case, it should be more papers published, unless Qiao is already Jiang Lang's talent, is it possible? Ling Xiao also found many papers published in journals with a high impact factor.
If you look closely, you will find that Joe's name still appears in the paper, but he is often the last author, and you must know that only one or two works in the paper are useful in many cases.
So there must be something greasy about this, Ling Xiao looked at the names of these works, checked it, and they were all the heads and brains of the research center.
Bah! It's definitely a bit of a cat! This is definitely not a coincidence, Ling Xiao does not think that people engaged in scientific research are all perfect characters.
There has never been a shortage of people in this world who like to cheat and rob others of their achievements, and a high degree of education does not equal high quality.
In fact, someone once co-wrote a book with his colleague, and he wrote a chapter of the entire book.
That chapter is 8,000 words, and it was written very ordinary, and later the co-writer made a major revision.
If you correct the wrong places, the number of words has become more than 10,000 words, and it can be said that many places have been changed.
But that colleague still listed him as the second author, and it was said that this colleague was very good to him.
Even later, after the book was published, the man happened to be transferred out of his original university.
I took that book and went to another university and got a senior title.
When it came to the book, he didn't mention any revisions.
Slandering former colleagues when they are mentioned to outsiders.
I can't wait to put the credit for writing the book on my head.
Without mentioning it, the main credit for this book goes to former colleagues.
Faintly, the main chapters of the book were written by him.
I can't wait to be the first author of the story, not a former colleague.
It can be seen that high-level intellectuals are not all self-reliant, and some like to take it.
Ling Xiao naturally felt that Qiao was only afraid that something had happened to him, and he had to give up his paper.
But after one or two times, will Joe always care? One side is getting an inch, and the other side is always suppressing feelings.
It's like magma rolling under the ground, and you can't see it from the outside, but it's definitely not exploding, and it's amazing.
There is a good saying: rabbits are anxious to bite, blindly squeezing will only get revenge, in fact, it is unbearable to change it to their own words, and they will definitely find a way to get out of this situation.
Even after Ling Xiao brought in Qiao, he thought about it for a while, maybe he would think about revenge, he was squeezed to this extent, and it would be strange if he didn't retaliate.
I don't know what would have happened if Joe had said that. After all, she's not Joe, this is the taste.
Only the person concerned can feel the right and wrong in the middle, and no amount of empathy is as good as the person's feelings.
And if a person with a high IQ is blackened, the average person will not be able to predict his thoughts at all.
Anyway, Ling Xiao could see Qiao's depression from the information and understood that it was his own child.
But it was regarded as a resource for advancement, and all this has to continue.
Of course, Ling Xiao admits that this is more of her imagination, and she doesn't know if it's true or not.
Is this speculation wrong?
It can only be left for later verification slowly.
Anyway, there should be a chance to see if it's correct.
Ling Xiao decided to copy the contents of Joe's computer for a while.
It was a gut feeling that she had something to do with Joe.
After entering the research center, Ling Xiao has ruled out a possibility: the research is out of control.
First of all, I found that the mobile signal was missing, and the mobile phone was useless, and Ling Xiao felt very wrong.
This was followed by the discovery of a trap for security personnel, the discovery of bodies lying lying outside, and the welding of security doors.
This is all full of doubts, and then the Trojan virus and crawler were found when invading the host, which means that something is wrong.
Just as she was about to recover the data, she found that there was an extremely murderous trick in the host, and as soon as it was recovered, it triggered the program that destroyed the entire research institute.
Fortunately, Ling Xiao got the highest authority of the host and directly destroyed the program, which proves that someone is behind all this, is it Joe? Or someone else?
Therefore, Ling Xiao ruled out the possibility of research getting out of control, generally the place where this virus is studied is carefully paid attention to for safety, and the original owner is a member of the research institute, so that Ling Xiao has the opportunity to see the internal structure of the research institute in person.
It is impossible for the institute to be far away from the city, after all, it is impossible for researchers to stay away from the city, and in order to safely study the virus, the place needs a double power supply, in addition to a special cable for research, there is also a backup power supply.
In order to ensure the safety of the public, the air in the research center is disinfected again and again when it is discharged, and it will not carry the virus, unless there is any major accident.
When David investigated, he found that there was no power outage in the research center, and he asked the doctor to know that there was no explosion alarm in the city.
Then it is impossible to appear in the study that the virus is out of control and leads to the leakage problem, in fact, no matter how you look at it, a large number of viruses appear.
If that's right, it's more like someone deliberately spreading the virus, because the patient is poking and pushing.
Even the doctor's investigation showed that the patients had not crossed paths at all.
The only thing they have in common is that they both live in the city of Avik, but they don't know each other.
One by one, they are living well, thinking that a festival is about to be ushered in.
As a result, the festival was ruined because they got sick one by one.
Ling Xiao was glad that after entering this place.
After gaining supreme control of the computer in the research center.
After discovering the problem, I swept the intranet again, for fear of being caught.
You know, sometimes there are logic bombs and small programs that look normal buried in the computer.
A bad one may trap them to come in, for example, the destruction procedure just now was strangled by Ling Xiao.
And Ling Xiao set an order, once there is any abnormal movement, she must obtain her consent, she does not want to die here in the process of searching.
She also noticed that the robots that controlled the area, even though they weren't real robots, but so-called robots, could attack with a variety of weapons, as well as spot the trail of drones.
In fact, there are still relatively few drones now, and Ling Xiao can be sure that the scientific and technological development of this world is not as good as the previous world.
Even so, she was very careful, because what if a stunningly talented guy showed up?
In fact, there was once a scientific concept left by the cattle people of the last century, and it is not outdated until now.
It can be seen that the overall development of science and technology may not be too strong, but there are cows.
It does not prevent some cattle people from crossing the times and doing everything badly.
Ling Xiao warned himself not to despise anyone.
Including that Joe.
After controlling all the hosts.
She went to Joe's office with some excitement.
I'm going to see if there are any data viruses, maybe there are or maybe not.
Ling Xiao quickly found Joe's computer, and when he opened it, he found that there was a password on it.
If she had gone through the normal channels, she should have used Joe's password, but how did she know?
Fortunately, she made up a small piece of software that could quickly detect what the password was.
She took out the USB flash drive and prepared to use the software to open Joe's computer and see the secret.
But before she could stretch out her hand, she heard an exclamation outside.
They must have found something.
"Come on!"
Startled Ling Xiao.
After putting away the USB flash drive, quickly run over to see what it is.
At this time, other people also ran over, all with guns.
It turned out that someone had followed the blood trail to find the place, and it turned out that there was a door.
It took him some effort to open it, and it was an extremely cold freezer.
I saw a lot of corpses in the freezer, all of them in unique shapes.
The others also saw it, no wonder those people did not see anyone alive or dead, it turned out that the corpses were all in it.
Ling Xiao was not very interested in the ice vault, she used to think that some viruses and bacteria would die after zero, but later she learned medicine and realized that it was not at all.
In many cases, the virus can remain active all the time at minus 70 degrees, and even regain its infectiousness as long as the temperature returns to normal, so Ling Xiao is not very comfortable with the freezer after that.
In addition, she didn't know if there would be anything in those corpses, so she quickly asked people to close the door, anyway, someone else should be responsible for their deaths.
They just ran in to see, and what they needed most now was to know what the virus was like.
Ling Xiao was going to check Qiao's computer first, but she didn't know if there were any leftovers.
If Joe could be ruthless, he would physically destroy the hard drive of his computer.
Then nothing will be left, they are tantamount to not much gain.
Now she is still a little worried, I don't know who did this incident?
But what is certain is that the people here must be somewhat related.
So many security personnel died outside.
There were so many people in it who died.
This all proves that it is the people in the research center who are doing the trouble.
Luckily, Joe didn't destroy the hard drive, and there were still a lot of things left.
When she opened it, she realized that the password-protected document turned out to be Joe's diary.
After reading the first page, the first feeling is that this Joe's head is different from a normal person, and the diary needs to be password protected?
But she soon sensed that something was wrong, just why was the diary so well password protected? No matter how you look at it, it's not worth it.
Of course, there is also a possibility that he did it on purpose, deliberately wanting to see other people's jokes, and of course there is also a possibility that he felt it was important.
In this regard, Ling Xiao thought for a moment: So now does she continue to watch it, or will she watch it again at another time? Ling Xiao quickly made a decision.
Let's take a look at the diary of the biggest suspect first, and first find that Joe's diary is not too literary and dry.
As a person studying medicine, there is no requirement for literary talent, and the narrative is very flat and straightforward.
Ling Xiao looked down at it at a glance and found that Joe's life was very boring.
His IQ is far beyond that of ordinary people, and he has no common language with many people.
Then he became obsessed with doing that kind of experimental research.
And when he saw the true face of those viruses under the electron microscope.