44. Attack on Yanggong Street
In the case that Zhenguo could not come up with an effective drug against the Sam virus, the domestic epidemic gradually escalated, and the matter of stopping the terrible disaster caused by the Sam virus could not be delayed for a moment, and the only hope was that Professor Heng's prescription would work, no matter how unbelievable her words were, she could only let her try.
Fortunately, Heng Liya's antiviral prescription can be found in the real country, and the main medicinal material is actually a common Chinese herbal medicine.
Due to the urgency of the situation, in order to stop the spread of acute respiratory infections caused by the Sam virus and save more patients who were on the verge of death, the institute did not have more time to verify the effectiveness of Professor Heng's prescription, but simply studied the ingredients and determined that there would be absolutely no harm and direct side effects.
Subsequently, under the heavy atmosphere of various experts and government officials who did not dare to shoulder their responsibilities, Professor Heng's prescription was directly taken to the pharmaceutical factory for emergency production.
The pharmaceutical factory soon made an antiviral injection, which was named "Antiviral No. 1".
When the medicine was obtained, Director Chen was relieved and began to directly treat the seriously ill patients in the Yanggong Street area.
Director Chen also did this with the attitude of "treating a dead horse as a live horse doctor", after all, he had no way out, and he could only fight against the water.
He once thought desperately: [If Professor Heng's "Anti-Virus No. 1" does not work, in the face of this sudden and unprecedented large-scale plague, the real country may really be helpless, and the consequences are really terrible...... If this continues, the entire True Kingdom will suffer a catastrophe, and the vast majority of the True Kingdom will die in this plague, and neighboring countries will most likely take advantage of the situation and tear the True Kingdom apart...... This kind of disaster is coming, not to mention the black gauze hat on his head is difficult to protect, and the biological research institute of the real country may also disintegrate......]
However, after not waiting for too long, the results were revealed - the medical effect of the "Antiviral No. 1" injection was very obvious, and the seriously ill patients who underwent the drug test were cured within a week......
There was a cheer in the medical system of Zhenguo, and the medicine was quickly distributed in batches, and, soon, the Institute of Biology researched a vaccine against the Sam virus on the basis of the prescription, so that the vaccinated people of the real country were no longer afraid of Sam virus infection.
In less than three months, the Sham virus, which ravaged Zhenguo, was finally completely eradicated by Professor Heng's "Anti-Virus No. 1", and did not leave any sequelae for Zhenguo people.
The Sam virus came and went quickly, and the major newspapers, radio and television in Zhenguo were the first to report the good news in the headlines, and Professor Heng Liya became a news figure in Zhenguo.
In the news, the press reported Heng Liya as an authentic Zhenguo person, saying that she was an excellent biological scientist in Zhenguo.
The biological research experts received a collective commendation from the government, and Director Chen was a blessing in disguise and received a first-class medal - the turmoil of the Sam virus has finally calmed down, and Director Chen's position has naturally been retained.
The aftermath of the turmoil is still warm, and the president has not forgotten the ultimate reason - since he heard Professor Heng say that "the Sam virus is artificially created" at the Sham virus research debriefing meeting, he felt that the virus came from a strange place, and the source of infection was a mystery......
He immediately sent someone to investigate secretly and issued an order to the investigation team: "This matter must be investigated, if there is really a person who caused the Sam virus, he must be brought to justice, and he must not be allowed to go unpunished!" ”
After a period of investigation, the investigators finally had an eyebrow on this day.
The head of the investigation team told the president by secret phone call: "The sam virus that is raging in our country is indeed man-made, and we have identified the culprit who spread the sham virus, and we are now pursuing it." ”
The president immediately ordered that he should be caught alive, and found out who was behind it.
After the president put down the phone, he once again remembered Heng Liya's words, and couldn't help but fall into thought:
Why does Professor Heng say with certainty that the Sam virus is man-made? Does she know what's going on? 】
So, the president called the office of the director of the Institute of Biology, and on the phone, the president asked Director Chen and Professor Heng to come to the president's office immediately.
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Soon, Heng Liya followed Director Chen to the president's office.
As soon as Director Chen and Professor Heng sat down, the President immediately asked, "Professor Heng, what is the basis for you to say that this outbreak of the Sam virus is artificially created?" ”
Heng Liya thought for a moment and said, "From the information I have so far, the human genetic engineering of the terrestrial people is still in its infancy, and it is not capable of creating the Sam virus at all, which is a foreign virus, similar to a virus on the planet I was born on...... Based on my previous experience, I suspect that the person responsible for creating the Sam virus is called Belche. He had been defeated on the battlefield of the Martian Age, and in order to reverse the unfavorable situation, he frantically spread the Sam virus on Mars, and we were helpless against the virus at that time. ”
The president asked with concern: "Belche?" Who is he? ”
"He is the leader of the Capricorn people, and since his home planet was destroyed by aliens, they want to occupy Mars and stir up internal strife on Mars...... As a result, Mars was also destroyed. ”
"So you say, Belche is also coming to our planet? This time, he made such a big move in our country, what is his purpose? ”
"I don't know if Belche is not on the planet Earth, at least he has the strain of the Sam virus in his hands, and the Sam virus should have spread from his hands to the planet Earth. As for his purpose, he just wants to occupy the resources of the real country and want to be the real king. If I don't have the information left on Mars in the past, you will never be able to fight the ravages of the Sam virus, even in our Martian civilization era, no one can crack the genetic code set up to create the Sam virus, if there is no secret recipe that should be cracked, we are also helpless against this Sam virus, if the virus is made into a genetic weapon, it will be a devastating blow, you can only watch our people die painfully one by one, and our country can only go to extinction. ”
Director Chen frowned and asked, "Can the virus on Mars get to our country and cause destruction?" …… Could it be that the genes of Martian humans are the same as those of our terrestrial humans? There's always a difference, right? ”
Heng Liya replied: "I have researched, we are all carbon-based humans. More than 99% of the genes of all carbon-based humans are the same between people, if they are relatives, the genetic similarity is as high as 99.99%, the proportion of human single nucleotide polymorphisms is about 1/1250bp, there are only 1.4 million nucleotide differences in different populations, and in the entire genome sequence, the variation between humans is only 1 in 10,000, indicating that there is no essential difference between different "species" of human beings. Therefore, we Martians and you planetarians are the same kind of people. ”
The president was most concerned about what Professor Heng called "genetic weapons", and he told Director Chen:
"Director Chen, since genetic weapons are so powerful, if you want to organize an expert group to study human genes, I don't believe it, we can't study genetic weapons. Of course, Professor Heng should be an expert in this area, and she must participate in the program to provide us with great support and help. ”
Heng Liya didn't buy the president's account, shook her head and said: "I don't agree with the research of this kind of genetic weapon that violates human ethics and is very violent. The lethal power of genetic weapons is extremely great - explosives made by biotechnology are 3-6 times more powerful than conventional explosives. It is far more harmful than nuclear weapons, and if the blood-fever bacteria genetic weapon developed in our Martian era is thrown into the Yanggong River, it can kill all the inhabitants of the entire river basin. If viruses such as the Sam virus are made into genetic weapons, these "biological atomic bombs" are enough to destroy human beings several times, so scientists call genetic weapons "doomsday weapons", genetic weapons are too terrifying...... I advise you, Mr. President, not to let us research on genetic weapons, because you will be the ones who will be hurt in the end. Therefore, I really can't join your genetic weapons research......"
The president looked unhappy, but he couldn't offend Professor Heng, after all, maybe in the future, Zhenguo would encounter some big difficulties and still need her to come forward to solve them. So, after asking about the situation, he did not leave Director Chen and Professor Heng to eat, and asked Director Chen to send Professor Heng back to the Institute of Biology.
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On the way back to the Institute of Biological Sciences, Director Chen's car passed by the Yanggong Street area. During the SAM epidemic, Yanggong Avenue was used as a quarantine area, and the entrances and exits of the streets and alleys leading to Yanggong Street were guarded by military personnel, and all personnel were not allowed to enter or leave except for special passes and medical personnel who entered the quarantine area for treatment.
The SAM virus storm has subsided, but a sentry is still set up at the main street intersection of Yanggong Avenue today to check passing vehicles.
When Director Chen's car was being interrogated, he inadvertently asked the sentry that they were interrogating the criminals who had dropped the Sam virus.
The car drove out of the street intersection checkpoint and drove to Yanggong Street, due to the impact of the Sam virus, there were no pedestrians on the street, and there were few passing vehicles, as if they had entered a city without people, and the surroundings were quiet.
Director Chen, who was sitting in the front seat, couldn't help but turn his head and say to Professor Heng, who was sitting in the back seat: "This street is deserted, there are not even ghosts, do you need to set up a guard to investigate?" Finding a few poisoners can be used to mobilize the crowd so much, this is stricter than the investigation of terrorists, and it is a bit of a fuss. ”
As soon as his words fell, I saw Heng Liya exclaim: "Be careful!" Someone attacked! ”
The driver reacted quickly, slammed the steering wheel sharply, and the speeding sedan suddenly rushed to the opposite curb, hit a large tree, and stopped.
It turned out that the driver found that someone on the opposite side was carrying a rocket launcher on his shoulder and firing a rocket at the car, and the rocket hit a car that was following closely behind, and with a "boom", the whole car was blown up into the sky.
Director Chen's car dodged the rocket attack, and after hitting the tree, the airbag in the car opened, and Director Chen was knocked unconscious, sitting on the seat with his head drooping, motionless like a dead man.
The driver was so frightened that his foot was stuck in the deformed body, and he screamed in pain, but his foot could not be pulled out.
At the moment when the car hit the tree, Professor Heng reacted very quickly and flew out of the car through the window of the car, taking advantage of the opportunity to jump into the bushes next to the street.