These things are not very complicated, and after Dr. Liao's guidance, Xia Ren quickly mastered the use of black mobile phones - just ask the master brain if you don't understand.

What makes Xia Ren feel new is that although it is an intelligent AI, the intelligence of the main brain is far beyond his imagination, it is completely different from the AI outside that must get specific commands to respond, whether it is meaningless small talk, or vague descriptions, the main brain can give the right response.

Xia Ren couldn't have doubted if there was a beautiful sister on the other side of the phone.

"Alright, most of the space in the headquarters is completely open to you now, except for the eighteenth floor, and some special containment procedures prohibit entry, the remaining seventeen floors are free to move around."

"You're leaving?" Xia Ren glanced at Dr. Liao.

The latter stretched and said, "Your treatment is over, the rest will recover slowly, I have more important things to do, the time is very urgent, and I will leave soon." ”

"May I ask what it is?"

"Plague. You should also know that after all, you are from the center of the plague. ”

"You mean atypical phobia?"

"Yes."

Dr. Liao put his hands in his white coat and said, "According to the book "Underground Diggers" you brought out from the Dream Realm, the Superman Association has already obtained information about the pathogen that caused this plague, the Drill Demon Worm.

But the current situation is a bit unoptimistic, the pathogen is found, the life history of the parasite is basically clear, where they come from, how they spread, how they parasitize, how they lay eggs, and the impact on the human body during the parasitization process, etc., all have sufficient research data. ”

"That should be relatively easy to treat, right?"

In the dreams of the patients that night, Xia Ren saw the cocoons hatch with his own eyes, and the larvae of the second stage took off from the flowers and gathered into the air, forming a withered yellow cloud representing death;

He saw with his own eyes the entrance of the hospital, the mountain of flesh made of human corpses, thousands of people crowded together, and the larvae manipulated them to desperately climb upwards, climb! Even if the limbs are mutilated, even if the body is squeezed into flesh, it is impossible to stop.

Eventually, the larvae that emerge from the cocoon leave their hosts, taking countless lives with them and flying far away.

Xia Ren was deeply aware of the power of atypical insect phobia, so in order to be able to find the root cause, he did not hesitate to take great risks and enter the unknown door alone and go to another world.

Fortunately, his efforts have paid off, Niu Changshou said that if you want to treat atypical insect phobia, you must first understand the parasitic life history of the pathogenic parasite, and Xia Ren brought back from the dream world "Underground Diggers", which happened to record all the information of the Drill Demon Worm.

Compared with the smear crossing the river at the beginning, at least the road is clear now, so Xia Ren thought that the progress of the treatment of the plague should be advanced.

But it didn't seem to be as smooth as he predicted.

"The life history of parasites is understood, but the problem now is that we can't do anything about the larvae, their evolutionary path is different from that of any native species on the blue star, and they are able to lay eggs in all six stages of growth, so even the first instar larvae parasitic in human dreams can complete the task of reproduction.

Based on the investigations of the cases and the descriptions of the investigators and the Plague Advisors of the Superman Society who have entered the dream, we have found that the main route of transmission of atypical phobia is through people's dreams.

Existing data show that parasitic patients unconsciously enter deep dreams during sleep, but are usually unable to get rid of them on their own, and it is currently speculated that this state is manipulated by larvae.

When entering a deep dream, the larvae can use the host's dream as a medium to enter other people's dreams, and it is known that the radiation range of this transmission is centered on the patient and can cover an area with a radius of 10 kilometers, that is, when the infected person enters a deep sleep, as long as someone also enters sleep within 10 kilometers, there is a risk of infection. ”

Xia Ren thought carefully for a while and found that this route of infection could not be prevented by conventional means.

"Isn't there a way to stop the spread?"

"It's hard."

Dr. Liao shook his head and said, "Unless we kill the patients, there is no way to stop them from falling into a deep sleep, and in the same way, in urban areas, we can't cut off the transmission route at all, and we can't let everyone go without sleeping, which is not realistic." ”

"What if you concentrate patients in remote areas where there are no people?" Xia Ren tried to ask.

Dr. Liao sighed: "But have you ever thought about it, if you gather the patients, the larvae that gather together will multiply at a very fast rate, and then fly in groups. ”

"......" Xia Ren.

"It's hard to understand, isn't it?"

Doctor Liao smiled and said, "But don't worry so much, there have been more intractable plagues in the past, and now human beings are also living well?" ”

"There's always a way."

With that, he turned and pushed the door open, disappearing into the metal hallway.

Xia Ren was silent alone in the room for a long time, glancing at his backpack, and a thought suddenly popped into his head.

In the past, he thought that if he had the opportunity to go to the Foundation one day, he would definitely touch each containment object and contain it, and then the system would give him achievement points +50, +50, +50......

Now he's at the Foundation, and it's the headquarters, where countless containment items are contained, and most importantly, he's a legendary investigator with plenty of access to the less dangerous ones.

"Don't forget the original intention, you have to always!"

Although his body has not yet recovered and his whole body aches, Xia Ren still cheers up and intends to fulfill his dream when he was young.

"It turns out that as long as you persevere, your dreams will come true one day!"

He left the ward in high spirits.

The underground structure of the Foundation headquarters isn't all cold metal corridors.

In fact, many of the personnel in charge of guarding the shelter live here, and each floor here is very large, so there is no shortage of living quarters.

Xia Ren felt that he should be in a special ward, because according to the map provided by the black phone, he should have been in the hospital just now, but strangely, until he walked out, he didn't see any other medical facilities or the patient's doctor or anything like that.

He estimated that he should have taken the independent passage.

Leaving the hospital and approaching a nearby living quarter, the metal corridor disappeared and Natsuhito came to a place that resembled an underground parking lot, with many small cars suspended in mid-air against the wall.

According to the mastermind's description, this is a scooter that can be used at will in the living area, and it is forbidden in other areas.

Xia Ren felt novel, the shape of the scooter was somewhat similar to that of an electric car, but the appearance was more rounded and comfortable, and there were no wheels, and there was a gap of about thirty centimeters between the floor and the ground, and I didn't know what it was floating on.

He sat on it, twisted the handle slightly, and the scooter moved forward smoothly.

I don't feel the slightest jolt at all, it's like sitting in a chair playing a VR racing game, and you can only see the scenery move behind you.

"It's fun."

I don't know if he came at the wrong time, these scooters obviously have traces of being used, but there is no one in this parking lot.

Xia Ren drove the scooter out of the parking lot, and for a moment, the bright light made his eyes a little uncomfortable.

Rubbing his eyes, Natsuhito raised his head and saw the blue sky above.

"This is ......"

The sun, the white clouds, the roads, the yellowing trees, and the buildings on the side of the road that are not very tall.

Xia Ren looked at the scene in front of him, and then looked back behind him, yes, it was the exit of the dark parking lot.