Chapter 18: The End of Curiosity

"There's something even stranger!" Yuan Aida walked to a stand covered with a white cloth, uncovered it, turned around and said, "The cause of death of these people is not caused by insects, but neurotoxins released by the symbiotic fungi on the insects!" ”

When Li You saw the bloody corpse, his eyes immediately blurred, and his legs softened unconsciously. Old Peng was quick-eyed, took advantage of the situation to support him, and shouted to Yuan Aida: "Hurry up and give me some cotton swabs, just now it was cold and hot, he has a little snot, don't suffocate to death again!" ”

"Good!" After Yuan Aida finished speaking, he walked to Peng Lao with a cotton swab from the test bench and helped clean up the snot of the confused Li You.

After a few minutes, Peng Lao called out to Li You softly: "Young man, wake up, wake up." ”

"Me, am I dizzy again?" Fortunately, this fainting was only a superficial coma, and after Li You sneezed a few times in succession, his consciousness gradually became clear.

And seeing Li You who woke up, Yuan Aida said as if he had discovered a new world: "Sickness, this symptom that has almost disappeared, this is the first time I have seen it, the young man is really not simple." ”

After Li You heard this, he almost didn't laugh, this kind of problem is very common in his own world, but it seems that it is a good thing to have this problem here?

After the state was stable, Li You walked back into the distance, looked down at the microscope, and ignored the corpse lying there. The sound of the two talking intermittently reached his ears.

"I guess, she must still be alive, or else she would......"

"Shhh ”

"I don't know what to do! When these insects were first discovered, they didn't have habits such as bloodlust, so why did they suddenly start eating meat? Also, the fungus that lives in symbiosis with it seems to have been genetically modified, so do you need to think about it? ”

After hearing Yuan Aida say these words, Peng Lao fell silent. And Li Youzheng, who was playing happily behind him, picked up a petri dish on the table, unscrewed it and looked at it, and looked up to ask them what it was.

"Can't open it, boy!" Yuan Aida yelled and ran to Li You and snatched the petri dish, and before he could close the lid, a pale yellow, dust-like thing suddenly erupted from it, and went straight to Yuan Ida's front door.

Seeing this scene, Peng Lao didn't say a word and pulled Li You out, and after going out, he slapped the button to open the door, and then the airtight door was quickly closed.

"What's the situation?" The frightened Li You asked Peng Lao, who was panting beside him.

And Peng Lao didn't respond for a long time, and then suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly said: "It's spores, and the fungus will spray spores." Fortunately, I remembered its molecular structure, so let's hurry up and go to Lab 2! ”

"What about Yuan Lao?"

"Let's go, I have to hurry up and make the antidote serum, you can help!" Peng Lao threw down a sentence and ran to the No. 2 laboratory, and Li You hesitated and followed.

"Put these in the centrifuge, the one on your right, quick!"

Li You, who had never been in contact with these instruments, was yelled at by Peng Lao, and he didn't know what he was doing at all, so he was running around in a hurry, and the sweat on his forehead ran down his cheeks.

Time passed minute by minute, and it didn't take long for three serums to appear in Peng Lao's hands, and after pulling them out with a syringe, he injected himself and Li You first, took the last syringe and said, "I don't know if this serum can save him, let's give it a go." ”

The two hurriedly put on chemical protective suits and returned to Laboratory No. 1, trying to rescue Yuan Ida, only to find that he was already out of breath inside.

"It's all my fault, if it weren't for my curiosity, I wouldn't have been like this." Li You's mood at the moment made him unconsciously recall the scene when his father reprimanded him.

But Peng Lao did not do it like him, he still injected the serum into Yuan Aida's veins, and also instructed Li You to go to the No. 2 laboratory to get the isolation foam, and seal the doors and sewer pipes of the No. 1 laboratory.

Li You could only do so, he knew that this time he was really in trouble, and other scientists might treat him as a guinea pig if they saw this scene.

After dealing with these, Li You saw Peng Lao walk out of the No. 2 laboratory with an oversized syringe, and stabbed it Yuan Ida's chest without even thinking about it.

"Hah!" Yuan Aida stretched his neck, took a big breath, and sat up with bloodshot eyes, frightened Li You.

"I knew you old boy wasn't so easy to die! Hahaha! ”

Although Peng Lao looked very happy, Yuan Aida's expression was very wooden, and he said to Peng Lao: "It's her, it's her!" I saw it, we're all going to die sooner or later! ”

Leaving such abrupt words, Yuan Aida collapsed to the ground with staring eyes, and Li You hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Old Peng, what did you give him, I'll go get some more." ”

"There's no need, the amount of adrenaline just now didn't save him, I'm afraid this time it's really dead." Peng Lao reached out and closed Yuan Aida's eyelids, and then walked to the room on the left with his body in his arms. "Don't come with me, this room is for storing corpses, I'm afraid you'll faint again, I'll say goodbye to him and come out."

These sudden changes made Li You even take the effort to blame himself. He also understood that self-blame could not bring the poor old man back to life.

At this time, a rush of footsteps gradually sounded outside the door, and the sound was coming towards the laboratory. As soon as he opened the door, Li You saw the nervous appearance of several scientists, and he subconsciously dodged to the side, hoping to find a crack in the ground to get into.

Seeing that they didn't pay attention to themselves and walked directly into the room on the left, Li You breathed a sigh of relief, but he didn't have the heart to listen to what they were talking about. took off his chemical protective suit and took out the "key" from his coat pocket.

It still shows "charging", which makes Li You upset. The heart said, is there a problem with the time here, how it seems that it has been a century here.

"Okay, don't blame yourself, these things are inevitable, and sacrificing for science is also an honor!" Peng Lao walked up to Li You's side and said in a solemn tone on his shoulder.

But Li You didn't think so, after all, the matter was caused by him, and he wanted to say something, but his voice couldn't come out of his throat. Out of the group of white coats, a wrinkled but energetic old lady came to Li You and opened her mouth and said:

"Your name is Li You, right?"

"Hmm", Li You nodded and said, "I really don't have the intention to do this." ”

The old lady waved her hand and said, "Needless to say, people die like lights going out." However, we just discussed, you can still do something. ”

"You say."

"It's to go to the source of fungal emission, one is to collect samples, and the other is to see if those missing people are dead or alive."

Hearing her say this, of course Li You had no way to refuse, and he had a premonition that he would definitely look for the truth like the previous team. As for the plan to travel through time and space, to find his own world, he had to put it on hold for the time being.

"Okay, I'll go." Li You, who had been pondering for a long time, finished speaking firmly, and found that Peng Lao, who had been silent, had his face twitching, and there was also a trace of concern in his eyes.

The old lady looked at Li You's eyes, smiled knowingly, and turned to leave. Peng Lao still didn't say anything, just told Li You to get dressed and go back to the camp first.

After climbing out of the stairs, Li You's body was already a little unbearable, after all, he had too much exercise to climb mountains and wade through rivers on this day. Peng Lao was just panting, still with a worried expression.

Li Youxin said, it seems that there is really a secret in this, and the words at the beginning will not change so quickly for no reason. I wanted to ask, but I didn't know where to start, so I had to follow him out of here with my mouth closed.

After crossing the bridge, Sister Hua and the others were looking at Li You, seeing that the two of them came out disheartened, they felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask what was going on.

"It's hard to put into words, so let's go back before it gets dark." Peng Lao sighed and walked out on his own.