Qin Yi's words were very subtle, but Zhang Dada and Zhao Kang both knew that Huaguo had touched the threshold of the zombie virus.

Wen Fuchang did not completely mutate after being infected with the virus, only his body changed, but his thinking ability and habits were preserved. If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, I'm afraid no one would have believed it.

Zhao Kang, the gene mentioned by Qin Yi, also understands a little bit, it is a polypeptide chain or nucleotide sequence. Genes support the basic structure and performance of life, and also store all the information of life's race, blood type, gestation, growth, apoptosis and other processes.

The Changping Research Institute has actually found some clues through many experiments conducted on Wen Fuchang: after the zombie virus enters the human body, it will quickly find surrounding cells for fusion. This fusion is very secretive because once the virus arrives in the body, its appearance and properties are almost indistinguishable from the body's own cells.

This is a disguise, but it was discovered by scientists in Huaguo on Wen Fuchang. Soon after the zombie virus fuses with human cells, it releases an enzyme that causes specific mutations in the cells, which in turn cause changes in the gene chains in the cells.

The specifically mutated cell still looks like a human cell, but it has become an accomplice to the zombie virus. These mutated cells begin to extend around, like dominoes, and they quickly infect more cells and turn them into companions. In this way, the human body unknowingly began a spectacular genetic modification project, and when the project ended, zombies were born.

After the zombie virus infects the human body, it will conduct targeted editing of the genome in the human body, which is the conclusion that Qin Yi has already reached. The human genome is made up of many pieces of genes, which can be thought of as a piece of code similar to a computer program, and the human being is this program. Normally, the program runs according to the content set by the code, but once the code is modified, the program may be paralyzed or out of control.

Qin Yi is an expert in life science and genetics, and he is actually very conservative about what Zhang Dada and Zhao Kang say, because Wen Fuchang's existence is a secret of Huaguo's S++ level, and it is only out of the needs of "Operation Glacier" that he allows these two to have a little contact with some information. You must know that except for Wen Fuchang and their project team, there are no more than two people in the entire Huaguo who know about this situation, and there are even fewer people outside Huaguo.

In the process of researching the zombie virus, Qin Yi also encountered many problems, the biggest of which was that he found that the zombie virus was not an alien species, and it was even likely to come from humans themselves. Because through many experiments and researches, he found that the zombie virus has a super high similarity with the cells in the human body, and if the gene fragments in the virus and cells are not analyzed, the two are almost identical.

Moreover, the human body does not reject those viruses, and the immune system sees them as if it is "its own person", and they accept these viruses and allow them to spread and wreak havoc in the human body.

"Could these viruses come from inside the human body?" This was the biggest question in Qin Yi's mind. Zombie viruses only infect humans, which has been confirmed by many countries a long time ago, and human close relatives primates will not undergo any changes in their bodies after being exposed to these viruses, and even skin rashes will not occur, so Qin Yi concluded that zombie viruses will only modify targeted gene segments.

As for which gene fragments the zombie virus modified, Qin Yi and his team are still studying it.

The brown drug injected into Wen Fuchang's body is a targeted agent, and although its effect is limited, it is also extremely rare. If it weren't for Wen Fuchang's willingness to use his body as an experimental subject, maybe the function of this medicine would not have been discovered. After all, there will be no visual changes in the injection of this targeted agent into the corpses.

There was only one test subject in the whole project, Wen Fuchang, and it was impossible for Qin Yi and them to find other people to do this experiment, and someone had proposed to use death row prisoners as test subjects, but this kind of suggestion was finally rejected by Qin Yi and his team.

Genetic engineering is complex and magical, and Qin Yi must maintain the "purity" of the test subject, that is, the individual as the test subject must be voluntary and self-sacrificing. If death row inmates are used as test subjects, if they feedback some subjective data during the experiment, the direction of the research is likely to be deviated.

For example, if the death row inmate exaggerates his physical reaction or pretends to be insanity after using the drug, the project team's evaluation of the drug's results will be very different from the reality.

Zhang Dada and Zhao Kang did not discuss the project on the deck of the warship, because when they were at the Changping Research Institute, they were repeatedly told to keep it a secret.

Can't discuss what they have seen and heard in the Changping Research Institute, the two of them can also talk about the software for cracking alien characters, this software Zhao Kang has been working on some time ago, but the progress is not very fast.

"It's a bottleneck," Zhao Kang said to Zhang Dada with a smile, his expression was quite helpless.

"Yes, there are too few samples of alien characters," Zhang Dada nodded, convinced. According to the alien texts published by George Mather, he deciphered three coordinates and time, and then the content deciphered again was mutilated and not very relevant.

"I hope that the clues that have been found can open a new door for us," Zhang Dada said, as if encouraging himself and Zhao Kang, "The Doomsday Seed Bank on the 7th of the month, there must be something beyond Earth technology." ”

"I also believe that there is, because the results obtained after countless modeling shows that if human beings do not break the game, there is no way out, and this game is in the coordinates that you cracked, Brother Zhang."

"Is that an exaggeration?" It was the first time Zhang Dada had heard Zhao Kang say this.

"Of course, otherwise why do you think other countries are responding so quickly to Operation Glacier, because their people must have done similar modeling experiments, and I'm sure they came up with the same results as mine."

"Damn, I'm so stressed when you say that." Zhang Dada took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it a few times without lighting it.

"It's windy outside," Mr. Zhao said.

"No smoke in the boat." Zhang Dada covered the wind with his hand, and finally lit the cigarette, he took a puff, his eyes narrowed slightly, and his spirit relaxed a little.

His pressure is indeed very great, the last time he went to the polar regions and deserts, nearly 100 people spent months in vain, although the higher-level government did not blame anything, but Zhang Dada's heart was very unhappy.

The "Glacier Action" is led by Hua Guo, and the core content of the plan is still based on Zhang Dada's research results.

There are risks and opportunities in unknown outcomes, and more may be nothing.

"You say, if someone in outer space were staring at Earth right now, what would he see?"

"If it is in the space area above our heads, all that person can see is the dark earth, and only North America, the coastal areas of East Asia, and Europe will have some sparse and sparse light, and those places with light are human gathering places."

"How do you know?" Zhang Dada asked.

"I've called Sputnik's perspective on my computer." Zhao Kang spread his hands, "But there is a point in the polar circle that is very dazzling. ”

"Longyearbyen City?"

"Yes, although we don't know the progress of the project there, it is predictable," Zhao Kang nodded and said, "After all, it is a project that gathers the power of all mankind, and to be honest, I am looking forward to it." ”

"Me too."

Today's Longyearbyen is like the cities that never sleeped before the disaster, and they are characterized by the lights all night long, and the lights are bright all night long, and the city of Longyearbyen is full of busy workers and machinery.

Several more freighters arrived at the port, and the porters on the wharf continued to load and unload their goods there with great spirits, this time the ships that came were Huaguo's transport ships, which were loaded with food, medicine, and other materials brought from Chongming.

Most of the Chinese members who had arrived on the "Snow Dragon" had come outside after receiving the news, and they rushed to the docks to prepare to welcome their compatriots from their hometowns and assist in the registration and management of goods.

After the increase in manpower on the wharf, the efficiency has really increased, and there is another reason why everyone is so positive, that is, the cargo brought by the freighter this time also includes family letters.

With the development of communication technology, family letters are rare in modern society, even if they are far away from the ocean, they only need a phone call, and if they are connected to video, relatives and friends can even communicate face-to-face on both ends of the computer.

The camps are full of supplies and energy, but communications are overwhelmed, as 97 percent of the equipment and lines are used to communicate with countries and their own homeland, and even 3 percent for civilians are often occupied.

More than a dozen countries sent people for this operation are concentrated in Longyearbyen, and countless messages are sent out from here every day, and countless messages are also sent in from outside, the highest priority is information related to "Operation Glacier", followed by equipment deployment, personnel arrangement, etc., and private communication needs are ranked last.

The earliest time of private calls has been scheduled for a month later, so Chen Bin and Da Fei didn't expect to be able to contact Chongming's people in the near future. The two didn't know if there was their own in the letter they came over this time, they were looking forward to it, and the others were in the same mood as them, so they came to the dock outside despite the cold.

Everyone will greet acquaintances on the dock, and others will carry things and load them, and once people come out in the ice and snow, they can't be idle there, otherwise they will freeze after a while.

In the middle of the night, the goods loaded and unloaded on the dock were finally transported to the warehouse, where some lucky people got their own letters, and when everyone dragged their tired bodies back to their quarters, no one noticed that there were a few less people who had come out together.

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