At four o'clock in the morning, the sky was still dark and dark.

On that wasteland with a radius of five square kilometers, the front-line personnel were transferred out of the command center in batches, but they did not know that this was an emergency evacuation.

From the very beginning, the front-line personnel have done a series of radiation tests there, and no high-intensity anomalous radiation has been detected, but of course there is natural radiation.

It's just that no one at the top level can be sure whether there will be a kind of "locust radiation" in those "natural radiations" that can invade human genes.

What was human DNA like before?

This "before" refers to many, many years ago, hundreds of millions of years ago, when mammals were at their point of origin.

It is difficult for modern humans to believe the fact that about 5-8% of the human genome comes from ancient viruses until the whole genome is sequenced. Most of them are retroviruses, which can invade the host's cells and implant their genes into the host's DNA to parasitize.

These viral genes are involved in the functioning of the host cell and are modified to function the way they want. Retroviruses can also be transmitted with sperm or eggs to the host's next generation, and then to the next generation, thus becoming endogenous retroviruses.

The reason why human beings are today's human beings is that they look like this, with those body organs and tissues, the nerves and thinking of the brain...... It is inseparable from these viral genes.

After hundreds of millions of years, humans and these viruses have long been a symbiote.

This is true not only for humans, but also for mammals.

If you knock out some of these virus genes, the scientific community has done related mouse experiments before, and the mice die quickly.

These viral genes are in a relatively stable state in the human body, and if there is a new virus that also wants to join this symbiont, such as HIV virus, which is also a retrovirus, then there is a big problem, it will cause so-called diseases, diseases that are very difficult to do.

However, in the past, the human body implanted a virus carrying a specific foreign gene to achieve therapeutic effects, which is a direction of gene therapy.

So, is it possible that the causative agent of locust disease is a specific piece of genetic information that is implanted into human genes by radiation or causes specific genetic mutations?

"Worm carrier and acute infection hypothesis" and "parasitic gene hypothesis"

Wang Ruoxiang's two hypotheses about locust disease were immediately highly valued by the command center.

She has always been a top student and a smart person, and although these are undetermined hypotheses, there are good reasons for them.

The first is that the patient's whole body tissue can be transformed into a locust, which is likely to be a matter of cells, DNA, and genes.

The second is the possible correlation between the anomalous regions, where nuclear radiation can mutate DNA and have genetic effects.

In fact, before this, the scientific research department has done some DNA testing comparisons, comparing patients with parasites, and comparing patients with each other, just to see if there are any traces of virus invasion. Now the command center has also branched out to the scientific research department of these hypotheses, but it will take time to detect.

Except for the six test subjects who already had locusts in their bodies, who were urgently transferred to another empty isolation building, the other patients could not be transferred for the time being.

The contagion range formed by Principal Cui's self-detonation, that is, the possible radiation range, has a circular area of about 8,000 square meters with him as the central point.

"I've always wondered, what's so special about that anomalous dirt?"

This is another reason for Wang Ruoxiang's hypothesis, which is no different in terms of composition testing, but has the soil there already been contaminated with another type of radiation? What is the difference that can not be analyzed by existing detection technologies? The eggs in the soil are not critical at all, and may also be the product of radiation.

Among her thoughts, this idea made them even more anxious in an instant.

If that wasteland is really another anomalous area...... Then it is only more sinister than the area of nuclear radiation anomaly.

They couldn't even figure out where the dividing line was, there was no obvious radiation, movement, or change, and maybe there was a change but they didn't notice it, because the wasteland, the grassland, everywhere is almost the same, and there are already sparsely populated there, and as long as the buildings, roads, etc. do not disappear, no one knows even some slight changes.

"If the wasteland is also connected to a different dimension, things in the two dimensions can only enter and exit their own dimensions, like the abnormal area. But what if Li Yuhao and these insect carriers are not? Can they enter another dimension? ”

Wang Ruoxiang's idea is also very reasonable, even if Mobei is vast and sparsely populated, with the technology and manpower of the Tianji Bureau, there are more than 300 people on the other side, it is difficult to find their whereabouts. Existing surveillance clues indicate that they are either heading towards the wasteland, or that the cars are still parked there.

So where did they go? Another space? Like the variegated cat, like the locusts coming and going.

Compared to these people, the command center's priority now is to deal with everyone who has been to the wasteland area.

Will these people also become insect carriers?

If it is really radiation-spreading, and the self-radiation of the insect carrier before the self-explosion is not strong enough to infect others, then the only good thing is that a large number of contacts or indirect contacts do not need to be quarantined and supervised. In addition, there may also be a dose equivalent, where people who have passed the safe value develop the disease, and those who have not passed the safe value are in the recessive phase.

Principal Cui: They stayed for about 1.5 hours that day without any protection, which is an exact and testable value.

Some of the garrisons have been there for more than 30 hours and have had shifts, but the makeshift camp is there.

Even if they are wearing protective clothing, they are exposed to radiation for dozens of times......

Therefore, this evacuation was carried out in secret, and it should not arouse the suspicion of the front-line personnel, because no one knows what their current state is.

As for the GOA Concentric Squad, they were hastily recalled to the area of the Radiation Mutation.

At that time, there were a total of 12 members who entered the wasteland, including 6 personnel from the Tianji Bureau, Lou Xiaoning, Feng Wei, Deng Ximei, Peacock, Mo Qing, and Uncle Dan. They arrived and left at the same time, stayed for 31 minutes, made a turn, and then were transferred away.

Therefore, all 12 people have the possibility of infection, but because of different constitutions and inconsistent dose equivalents, the symptoms they show are also different.

Among them, peacocks are the most symptomatic.

At this time, the Concentric Team was still on the way to evacuate, and the Peacock was alone in a carriage, doing a small experiment.

She gave Catherine control of her body and retired herself to a second personality. With this change, Catherine suddenly had a strange feeling of being affected by physiology, because she did not have the strong mental power of a peacock, and the impact was even stronger, "I'm so hungry...... I want to eat dirt and there is a resistance that tells me not to say ......"

On the contrary, Peacock felt much more relaxed.

Ever since she suddenly had the idea of eating the locusts, she had been letting herself stop thinking about it but it had been lingering, but now she was calm.

This also means...... Their bodies are indeed infected with locust disease.

There was silence in the secret command room, and Tongye, Yao Shinian and the others all looked very ugly, and the situation slipped more and more towards Wang Ruoxiang's hypothesis.

Before they could think about it, another piece of bad news came out of the communication station urgently, "There are people on the front line of the wasteland who refuse to evacuate!" There are people who refuse to evacuate! ”

There are 5 members of the Spell Department, 10 members of the Former Printing Department, and a total of 163 people from various other institutions and departments.

These 178 people are all front-line garrisons, operating in an area of two square kilometers of wasteland.

"Connect me over there!" Tongye was calm, and the person in charge over there was Yu Xiaoyong sent by the Spell Department.

Yu Xiaoyong, the captain of the former Arctic Wolf Squad, has always performed well, and he has high hopes for joining the spell department, but later because of the practice of the "Seven Secret Classics of the Earth" syndrome, that insanity occurred, and he was imprisoned with Wang Ruoxiang and others, but he was reinstated last year.

Tongye tried his best to reuse Wang Ruoxiang and Yu Xiaoyong against public opinion, if any of them rebelled again, everyone would be affected.

And now, with the current state of affairs, the Heavenly Machine Bureau does not need more chaos......

Soon, the image on the front line of the wasteland appeared on the communication screen, and it was Yu Xiaoyong's tense face in the temporary camp headquarters.

Behind him, there was also a team of personnel, all of whom were familiar faces of Tongye and Yao Shinian, who had personally selected them into the Spell Department and the Old Seal Department.

"Tongye...... We ate a lot of puree, at first, but suddenly ...... I can't help but ......" Yu Xiaoyong's messy voice quickly became slightly trembling, and his eyes were red, "We can't help it, I want to say, but my body is suppressed, as if there is a voice to stop it, I can't fight against ......"

It turns out that these personnel have not lost their minds, and they are not sick to that extent.

But they knew what they were in now, and they could guess that this transfer was not easy.

"I could feel that there was something in my body that was transforming...... I can see from the palm of my hand that there are insects inside......" Yu Xiaoyong choked up, "It's hopeless, there's no way, we've eaten too much mud, it's enough to transform...... If we go back, we will lose our minds if we don't eat mud, and if we stay here, we will go crazy, and we people will always lose control......"

Tongye, Yao Shinian and other elders were also at a loss for a while.

The rational monitoring stone did not work, it was not dark erosion, it was radiation and mutation.

"The suicide note we wrote before we left was used this time...... Of the 163 of us here, 82 are willing to commit suicide, all the spells and old seals are willing, and we don't force the rest of our colleagues. But I suggest, blow up this place with missiles, don't let them go, they will turn into enemies......

We have to act, while we still have our senses, while we are still ...... Dirt, we want dirt, eat more, and we can see God...... There seems to be a voice saying this, maybe I can spell, I hear more...... The Locust Team, I think, can be a locust...... No, I'm Yu Xiaoyong......

Now, don't look at the screen, but record it, maybe it's valuable...... Lord, sir, I'm sorry, but that's the end of our battle......"

Yu Xiaoyong saluted the camera, and with his right hand, he pulled out the pistol at his waist, aimed it at his head, and pulled the trigger.

Bang! The bullet passed through the skull, splattering blood and splattering a wisp of white translucent locust larvae.

The others behind him, in pain, struggle, and determination, also raised their guns.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang......

A total of fifteen gunshots rang out.

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