Chapter 64: Infection
"Why are they doing this. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info" After being silent for a long time, Zhou Xin finally spoke.
"Who knows." Spred's tone was a little agitated, "Anyway, the massacre of civilians is wrong for any reason. β
"But the fleet has violated orders after all." "I don't think they're doing the right thing, but as the military guy said, there are some things he can't control." I don't think there's anything wrong with them firing, but the fault is that they shouldn't have killed everything, they just drove the fleet away, why wipe out the entire fleet. β
"I'd love to know what the people on the ground think about it." Spred continued, "It's impossible to completely cover up an incident of this magnitude, and I don't know how the people of that empire will react when they know that their government has done such a thing." β
"Just ask Atlas about that." Zhou Xin said, and then he asked Atlas, "Did they mention anything related to that fleet in their daily correspondence?" β
"They didn't find anything to do with the 'fleet.'" The little girl shook her head, then added, "But in the phone calls that I heard in the first few days when the fleet was destroyed, it was discovered that there was an additional word in the call that was not used beforeβrebels. And the frequency of this word is still very high, almost more than half of the people have talked about this topic, although the frequency has decreased in the past two days, but there are still people who mention this word from time to time. β
"Rebels?" Zhou Xin thought back to the content of the previous recording, and then looked a little surprised, "They don't really treat the entire fleet as a hostile target in their propaganda to the people." β
"It looks like that's it." Spred's tone was a little normal, "Only by treating the entire fleet as rebels can they cover up the massacre of civilians." How else do you want to tell the truth to everyone? He asked rhetorically.
"But, aren't they afraid of being discovered by the people?" Zhou Xin's tone still looked a little incredulous.
"At least they haven't figured out it's not." Spred replied. "That's not what we need to care about, and if the government can come up with this reason, it means that they are fully prepared, and even if the truth is found by the people, they will find other excuses."
Zhou Xin sighed deeply, and did not speak, and suddenly the entire command cabin suddenly fell silent, falling into a heavy atmosphere, and after a while, Zhou Xin reopened his mouth to ask, but he avoided some topics slightly, "Atlas, have you found anything else in those memories found in the wreckage?" β
"That's basically all there is to it." Atlas replied, "People have basically looked at all the memory, and most of the other memories are stored in books, which are basically some professional books, and people have even found an instruction document in one of the storages, which introduces the piloting methods of the spaceship and daily maintenance and other things." Except for being able to rely on those specialized books to guess the technological level of civilization, nothing else is useful. Although there are some materials that record daily life, they are all very short, and they are basically no different from the videos that people found before, so they didn't tell you. β
"So, that's the end of the investigation?"
"Sort of." Atlas nodded, "Except for some encrypted content, but these contents are not very many, only a few copies, and combined with the other contents stored in those few memories, these encrypted contents are probably some highly confidential technologies and the like, and the rest should be nothing." β
"It's so hard for you." Zhou Xin said.
"No, it's all trivial." Atlas replied, but it was still difficult to hide the joy in her heart from her words, and then her tone became a little mysterious, "Brother Captain, do you want to see what the surface of this planet looks like?" β
"The surface of the planet?" Zhou Xin didn't react for a moment, "Aren't we able to see the surface of the planet now?" β
"No, no, no, they mean from a closer distance." Atlas reminded.
"You meanβ" Zhou Xin understood what she meant under Atlas's reminder, "From the surface? Seeing the little girl nodded, Zhou Xin suddenly felt a little surprised, "How did you do it?" β
"And not so much thanks to this battle." Atlas laughed, "Inspired by the sneak attack fleet, they secretly put the probe in while the two of them were fighting fiercely. Now those probes have already landed on the surface of the planet, but for safety reasons, they asked the probes to turn off the signal transmission during the landing process, so it may take some time for the data to come back. After a while, the little girl's brow furrowed, "Strange, why hasn't there been a response for so long, it stands to reason that they should have landed half an hour ago." After a while, her tone was slightly embarrassed, "This--Brother Captain, they still haven't received the signal from the probe, according to the program they set before, they should take the initiative to send a contact request, how can this be." Her tone was a little puzzled.
"Forget it, don't worry, let's talk about it when we get in touch." Zhou Xin comforted, glanced at the time, and found that it was almost late at night, he couldn't help but be a little surprised, "Is it already so late?" Let's rest first. Hearing Zhou Xin's words, everyone realized that it was so late before they knew it, so they left the command cabin one after another and went back to their rooms to rest.
After the daytime battle, this time there was finally no unexpected incident to disturb Zhou Xin's sleep, and the time passed smoothly to the next day.
Early the next morning, as soon as he arrived at the command module, Zhou Xin subconsciously paid attention to the situation on the surface of the planet. However, it is completely different from before, the surface of the planet today seems to be quiet, and there are not many unmanned aerial vehicles that were originally dense, only a few aircraft are performing their duties in the sky above the planet, which seems to be sparse. Moreover, Zhou Xin saw that these flying machines were just patrolling their own territory in an orderly manner, and they did not dare to provoke the other party at all, and they did not even dare to step across the equator at all, as if the fierce battle yesterday had not happened at all.
"Why are they so quiet today?" After a few minutes, Zhou Xin muttered to himself strangely.
"Why is it so quiet?" Spred walked in and asked curiously.
"Well, see for yourself." Zhou Xin tilted his head in the direction of the screen.
Spred looked up at the screen, and it didn't take long for him to ask the same question as Zhou Xin.
"Maybe they're preparing something." Dart said as he walked in, "Based on yesterday's battle, it can't be over all at once. β
"That's right." Zhou Xin said thoughtfully, staring at the screen for a while, he suddenly found that there was nothing to pay attention to today. After inquiring about the Voyager and Atlas, Zhou Xin received the answer that there was no progress in all the affairs, and he was idle all of a sudden.
Suddenly, there was nothing to worry about, and Zhou Xin suddenly felt uncomfortable. Sitting in his seat, looking at the people in front of him who were busy with their daily work, Zhou Xin was in a daze while thinking about what he could do, he vaguely felt in his heart that he seemed to have neglected something, but he just couldn't remember. After a long time, he finally remembered what he had overlooked, and he stood up at once and walked towards the door.
It didn't take long for Zhou Xin to walk to the door of the isolation cabin, yes, what he ignored was the aliens on the ship, before going to visit the two alien siblings, he wanted to find out about the seriously injured aliens.
After putting on protective clothing and passing through two narrow airtight doors, Zhou Xin came to the inside of the isolation cabin. At the first glance of entering the door, he saw a person in a protective suit standing in front of the hospital bed, and in addition to that person, there were several medical robots busy next to the bed. Just when the door was opened, everyone in protective clothing didn't seem to notice Zhou Xin's arrival.
Walking to the side of the man in the protective suit, Zhou Xin saw that the person was Dr. Wren, and even if he walked to his side, he didn't notice Zhou Xin's arrival. Zhou Xin saw him staring at the hospital bed in front of him in the protective suit, his brows were furrowed, as if he was thinking about something. After a while, seeing that Wren was still in a motionless position, Zhou Xin reached out and patted him on the shoulder, and then he finally reacted.
"Why are you here?" Wren asked, confused.
"I just happened to have nothing to do today, so I came over to see the situation." Zhou Xin replied, and then he turned his gaze to the hospital bed. After a closer look, he found that the alien's face was no longer as pale as he had seen in the camera before, but a lot more ruddy, and he looked a little more vibrant.
"It looks like something is really improving." Zhou Xin's tone seemed a little relieved, "How is his situation now?" β
Unexpectedly, Rayne's answer surprised Zhou Xin, "This is just on the surface, in fact, the situation of this alien is still very bad, and even a little bad." Then he explained in detail, "Although the wounds on his body are healing at a rapid rate, the infection on his body is now more serious. After saying this, he lifted the corner of the quilt on the hospital bed, and Zhou Xin saw that a very long wound appeared on the alien's arm, although it was simply stitched, it still looked a little shocking.
Wren first pinched the muscles near the wound, then nodded, pointed to the obvious scars at both ends of the wound and said, "This part is formed by the healing of the original wound, and there is no problem at all." Then he pointed to the middle of the wound and said, "Here's the problem. β
Following Wren's point, Zhou Xin carefully looked at the wound on the alien's arm, and then he noticed something unusual. On the periphery of the wound, the intact skin was as rosy as Zhou Xin had seen on his face, but there was a circle around the wound that looked completely different from the surrounding skin, and it looked unusually pale.
"What's going on?" After carefully examining the wound, Zhou Xin asked curiously, "Is this - infection?" He remembered what Wren had said earlier.
"It's an infection." Wren nodded, and then he said worriedly, "Compared to the previous two days, the infection of his wound looks more serious today, and the scope is also expanding. β
"What about anti-infective drugs? Have you tried it? How many have you tried? Zhou Xin asked.
Wren's brow furrowed even tighter, "I can't try it, yesterday I took a slightly more effective anti-infective drug and wanted to try it, but it caused a very serious rejection reaction - this alien is swollen all over his body." Fortunately, the dose I used when I tried it was relatively small, and his metabolism was also very fast, so the rejection reaction came and went quickly, and it disappeared in less than half an hour. But this made me afraid to try again, for fear that something would go wrong. He then added, "And I don't think the anti-infective drugs we're using may have had any effect on the alien's wounds, and culture analysis of his infected tissue has shown that the microbes that are causing the infection are exactly the same types we haven't seen." At the same time, I also tried various drugs with cultivated microorganisms, but found that none of them were very effective in destroying these microorganisms. β
"Isn't there anything that can be done about it?" Zhou Xin's brows also furrowed.
"There is a temporary solution." Fortunately, Wren's answer did not disappoint Zhou Xin, "Physical debridement." Four words popped out of his mouth, "Get rid of the infected part first, so as to stop the infection from spreading." However, this method can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause, and without the support of appropriate drugs, as long as it is not cleaned, the residual microorganisms in the wound will lead to re-infection of the wound, thus creating a vicious circle. β
"Let's do it first." Zhou Xin sighed, "It's a while if you can delay it for a while, and then think of other ways." β
"That's what I thought too." Dart agreed, "So now I'm already preparing for debridement." As he spoke, the medical robot, which had been busy on the side, had now stopped and stood quietly waiting, as if it was ready for surgery.
Seeing that Ren was going to have surgery next, Zhou Xin didn't have any nonsense, and after asking two more questions, he left the isolation cabin......