"What did you say?" Is the "multi-species gene mixing" technology one of the culprits? ”

I nodded heavily.

Through Dr. Chan's thick spectacle lenses, I could still see the sparkle in his eyes.

Suddenly, Dr. Chan stumbled to the whiteboard standing in the corner of the tent, took out a black marker and began to write and draw on the whiteboard.

"Dr. Chen, I have one more question."

I looked down and pondered for a long time, and then thought of an unrealistic question.

Dr. Chen nodded without looking back as he wrote various chemical formulas.

"What happens if I lead a Multi-Species Gene Pooling project that combines it with your Nuclear Cloning and Regeneration technology? ”

When Dr. Chen heard my question, the marker pen that had been flying up and down suddenly stopped in the air. After a few seconds, take out the eraser attached to the whiteboard, erase all the chemical formulas you just had, and start writing again.

Looking at the various formulas written by Dr. Chen, my heart was puzzled, and my eyes narrowed slightly.

"Dr. Chen, how are you so familiar with the "multi-species gene mixing" technology? I don't think I had an in-depth discussion with you, right? ”

After waiting for a long time, Dr. Chen ignored me. I slowly became wary, this Dr. Chen doesn't seem to be as simple as it seems, and he may even be in the same boat as Paula's company!

In fact, Dr. Chen wanted to participate in this project very much, and the company let the doctor only choose one of two scientific researches, and the project of "nuclear clonal regeneration" at hand had not been developed at that time, so the doctor and the company's senior management had some unpleasantness. ”

I nodded as if I didn't understand, this explanation seems to be more reasonable, and I probably understand a little bit about the style of the senior management of Paula.

"Ruohan!"

Dr. Chen suddenly turned around and called Ruohan's name angrily.

Ruohan pursed his lips apologetically, and then continued to explain to me in a low voice.

At that time, Dr. Chen was very dissatisfied with Paula's behavior, and tried his best to block it, saying that if this technology was not personally involved by Dr. Chen, there might be problems, and there would be many unknowns in the research process. After that, the company's senior management and Dr. Chen each took a step back, and the company finally agreed to let Dr. Chen know the research and development report of the "multi-species gene mix" project, but Dr. Chen still could not participate in the experiment himself. ”

After listening to Ruohan say this, I understood the ins and outs of the whole thing. It turned out that Dr. Chen knew about the R&D progress and experimental report of my project from the very beginning. It's no wonder that the most central equations of this project can be written now.

In fact, Dr. Chen's worries are not unreasonable, but once the company's top management decides what to do, it is not something that a doctor can control. Considering that Dr. Chen has been working hard in the company for so many years, everyone has seen it, and finally has to make an exception to let Dr. Chen have the right to know. So in this matter, neither party is actually at fault.

As I thought about this, Dr. Chan had already written an entire whiteboard. By the end of the book, he began to tremble slightly, and his marker fell to the ground, and he was about to lose his feet. I hurriedly stood up and stepped forward to hold Dr. Chan by the hand.

"Dr. Chen, what's wrong with you, Dr. Chen!"

I quickly helped Dr. Chen to sit down in a chair, and Ruohan took out two morphine extended-release tablets from the pill box behind her, poured Dr. Chen a glass of water, and told him to take the medicine.

It was only when Dr. Chen's face eased a little that I began to ask what was going on.

"Dr. Chen, did you find anything? What the hell was going on? ”

"Evil, what a sin, I Chen Yi thought about benefiting mankind all my life, but I didn't expect to end up becoming a demon who slaughtered the world."

Dr. Chan looked at the top of the tent with empty eyes and muttered. My heart sank, and it seemed that my guess was correct, but I still wanted to hear Dr. Chen's explanation.

"Dr. Chen, what the hell is going on?"

Dr. Chan's face was now as dead as ashes, and through the thick lenses of his glasses, I could see that his two cloudy eyes were covered with dense red blood.

"I don't know the progress of the research and development of the "multi-species gene" hybrid technology, but the "nuclear autonomous cloning and regeneration" technology is very mature, and I don't know what will happen in the end if the company's top management combines the two scientific research results. But no matter what step you go, the result will not be beneficial to humanity. One of the worst outcomes is that the genes of multiple species combine to reject, which becomes very violent, combining with the normal nucleus and rewriting the genes inside the original nucleus. And then... With the ability to regenerate on its own..."

"What? Are you saying that the mixed genes make the whole cell self-conscious? In addition, it will continue to clone and reproduce on its own, and it will continue to produce more mutant cells... And once these cells are fused into the human bloodstream, they will engulf the original cells and occupy the cerebellum, and then control the entire host."

On the basis of Dr. Chen's theory, combined with the scenes I witnessed with my own eyes in the past two days, I finally deduced the answer I could think of.

Dr. Chen's face turned red, he kept shaking his head and sighing, and he took off his glasses with one trembling hand, and two lines of tears flowed from his eyes.

"You're not wrong at all. What's even more terrifying is that this cell is neither a virus nor a bacterium, it is exactly the same as other cells in the human body, but the internal genes are very different."

The average person may not understand it, but I understand what Dr. Chan means. Being exactly the same as other cells in the human body means that under conventional means, this renewable mutant cell cannot be killed at all! Because it has the same properties as other cells in the human body, killing it with drugs will also destroy other tissues in the human brain, so that the fate of death cannot be escaped, which is why those elite scientific researchers have never been able to make a special drug against the virus, because this is not an ordinary virus at all!

"Poof!"

Dr. Chen, who was sitting in front of me, suddenly covered his stomach with his hands, and a mouthful of blood sprayed on the ground.

"Dr. Chen, what's wrong with you! Dr. Chen! ”

Ruohan and I hurriedly stepped forward to support Dr. Chen, who was about to fall. Ruohan next to him was also anxious and about to cry, and hurriedly helped Dr. Chen to calm down.

"I didn't expect it.. I am old and old, and I have created such a big sin, and my wife and daughter who have harmed me don't know whether to die or live, I deserve to die, I deserve to die! ”

As he spoke, another mouthful of blood gushed out. The white lab coat had been stained red with blood. Seeing this scene made me saddened.

"Ruohan. Help me get the syringe on the test bench... Hurry.."

Dr. Chen trembled and commanded. I looked up at the table, and sure enough, I saw a tube of crimson reagent in a syringe.

"Dr. Chen, all this is not your fault, your intentions are good, the original intention is to keep human beings away from disease and suffering, it is the forced research of the Paula Company despite your opposition that has led to today's situation, it has nothing to do with you, you must cheer up!"

I anxiously explained to Dr. Chan that I hoped he would get out of this strange circle. But seeing that he had just spit out these two mouthfuls of hard work, it seemed that time was running out. But there are some things I have to make clear to him, because this disaster has nothing to do with him!

Under my astonished gaze, Dr. Chen took the crimson blood-like potion in Ruohan's hand and pricked it into his arm, regardless of whether it pierced the veins or not.

"Dr. Chen, what are you doing here?"

I was a little worried that Dr. Chan wouldn't be able to think about it for a while, and I thought he had injected something terrible.

But Dr. Chan didn't answer me, and with his left hand laboriously pulled out a delicate but somewhat worn pocket watch from his bosom, while his right hand gripped my palm tightly.

"Xiao Qi, my time may be running out, before leaving, can you promise me one thing?"

"You said that as long as I can do it, I will definitely do my best!"

I didn't have the heart to ask Dr. Chen what he had just been injected, and now all I should do is ask Dr. Chen to say everything he wants to say.

Dr. Chan was kind to me and helped me a lot in my academic and practical ways, but now it is his last wish on his deathbed, and I must say yes.

When Dr. Chan saw that I had agreed, tears of gratitude welled up in his eyes, and his right hand clenched my hand tighter.

"Thank you.. Xiao Qi! ”

As he spoke, he opened his pocket watch, which contained a miniature version of a family of three. One of them is Dr. Chen, and the other two must be his lover and daughter.

"This is my ex-wife and my children, they are in the capital now, I don't know what happened to them now, but I hope you can help me to be more careful, if I can find them, please help me take care of them, I don't want them to bear the sins I have committed!"

As he said these words, the corners of Dr. Chen's mouth kept rolling outwards with blood foam.

"Don't worry, if I can find them, I will do my best to protect them from harm!"

As soon as I finished saying this, Dr. Chen spurted out another mouthful of blood. Then my eyes slowly closed, and my hands that were holding me tightly slowly loosened. It seems that he has fulfilled the last wish in his life, and he has no regrets.

I finally saw a hint of relief in his expression, and I hope Dr. Chan will report in heaven.

"Dr. Chen..."

I regret that a knowledgeable doctor of genetics just left, still with deep self-reproach.

Ruohan was crying beside me, rubbing Dr. Chen's back constantly, trying to make him more comfortable. But it was too late, and we all knew that Dr. Chan was out of life.

"Let's mourn and change, Dr. Chen is not a sinner in my heart, he will always be a warrior for the sake of human health!"

Ruohan nodded while wiping away tears.

"Do you have any plans for the future?"

Looking at Ruohan, who was crying bitterly, I asked softly.

"Dr. Chen and I were both sent by the company, and now that Dr. Chen is gone, I don't know what I should do now."

Ruohan said to me with a crying voice. He didn't look at me, just looked at Dr. Chen's corpse.

"Hmm... I think otherwise, you are Dr. Chen's assistant, so follow us to find Dr. Chen's family. Besides, you're a girl, you're careful, after I settle them, you help take care of them more, do you think it's okay? ”

She listened to my question and nodded her head without hesitation.

"It's time to eat, it's time to eat! Queue up! Don't cut the line, everyone has a share! ”

The atmosphere of sadness was broken, and such a shout suddenly sounded outside the tent. Then I only felt a commotion in the epidemic prevention station, and the sound of clanging was endless.

I lifted the curtain and looked and saw that not far from my right, there were several oversized pots containing porridge, noodles and pickles.

The originally empty aisle was suddenly filled with men, women and children. Each of them held a small iron basin in their hands, and they looked at the large pile of food in front of them and swallowed their saliva, but none of them cut in line, it seems that the quality of these people is quite high.

"Well, Ruohan, can we also go get some food?"

This newcomer didn't know if we had anything to eat, so I asked Ruohan.

"Well, you go to dinner first, I have to report on Dr. Chen's death."

Ruohan wiped her tears and said to me. Then he lifted the curtain and walked towards the headquarters of the epidemic prevention station.