If Wang Hao is not mistaken, it was from that time that the possible "radiation" began to affect the astronauts' bodies silently. Whereas...... No one was aware of the changes that had occurred in their bodies, including Zhou Lu, the ship's doctor.

On the third day, after the crew member named Feng Song looked for Zhou Lu, the number of sick people suddenly increased. This is evident from the statistics: on the third day there were two people, on the fourth day there were four, and on the fifth day there were twenty.

The number of cases began to increase rapidly, and by the sixth day, all the crew members had looked for Zhou Lu at least once, and a few people, such as Zheng Yang and Feng Song, had already looked for Zhou Lu many times.

Clearly, the treatment taken by Zhou Lu did not work. The condition of the crew was not relieved, but began to worsen. By the seventh day, even Zhou Lu herself began to feel unwell.

She wrote in the record: "My left arm began to twitch uncontrollably and uncontrollably, and I couldn't even hold on to something with my left hand. Well...... It may be some neurological reaction, I took some medicine and got better. ”

At this time, Zhou Lu did not think about infectious diseases. The reason is simple, although all the astronauts in the spacecraft have been sick at least once, the manifestations of the disease are varied, and no two people have the same symptoms. However, the vigilance of being a medical worker still made Zhou Lu pay attention to it. But after some inspections found nothing, Zhou Lu could only attribute these things in the past few days to bad luck.

During this time, Zhou Lu was the busiest one on the entire spaceship. But her busyness was at best a temporary relief for the crew's illness, which usually reappeared after a few days.

The turning point came on the twenty-third day. On this day, the astronaut named Zheng Yang, who first became ill, suddenly began to vomit blood, accompanied by intermittent muscle spasms. Zhou Lu injected him with drugs according to the corresponding judgment, but the symptoms did not improve.

On the thirtieth day, the first deceased appeared. He did not die of disease, but of suicide. The surveillance equipment clearly recorded the scene. When the frail astronauts forcibly pressed him to the operating table, ready to be treated by the equally weak Zhou Lu. Suddenly, he went berserk, roaring like a beast, and struggling to get out of the hospital bed—seven or eight crew members couldn't hold him down in the process. He rushed over and grabbed a scalpel, and stabbed himself in the chest without hesitation amid the exclamations of everyone.

Looking at the crew member who slowly fell down, but a relaxed expression appeared on his face, Wang Hao couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

Obviously, he couldn't bear the physical pain and chose to commit suicide.

The video recording continues. He died, and Zhou Lu, the doctor who accompanied the ship, threw away the scalpel in his hand and began to cry. A pale-faced, but still calm astronaut walked up and comforted Zhou Lu softly—Wang Hao recognized him as the captain of the Nimbus spacecraft.

At this point, everyone realizes that something bad has happened to the ship. And if it's not handled properly, everyone will die.

They don't have light-grade communication equipment, and even if they do, the existence of a communication delay can't give them immediate support from the human base camp - they are still more than twenty light-years away from the Phoenix Galaxy at the moment.

They are the only ones who can save them.

Zhou Lu, the ship's doctor, became the most important person in the spaceship. Comforted by the captain, she finally calmed down and began to consult the information, examine, analyze, judge, try to change the fate of people with her knowledge.

Of course, Wang Hao knew that even if Zhou Lu had done her best, she still failed in the end. The people in the Nimbus are still all dead, and they are dying in a horrible state. But when looking at the voyage and work logs, as well as videos and written records, all the astronauts began to unite as one, fully assisting Zhou Lu, comforting his companions, taking care of his companions, etc., Wang Hao still couldn't help but hope that their ending would be changed.

The miracle did not happen. One by one, the crew is still dying. On the sixty-second day, Zhou Lu recorded the last work record of her life.

Looking at the picture, the left arm is ulcerated in a large area, and even the bones can be directly seen between the big arm and the lower arm, and the two bones are not separated only by some flesh and skin connections, and Zhou Lu, whose legs are also ulcerated and even unable to stand up, Wang Hao's heart is full of pain.

"I suspected it was radiation sickness, but we searched the entire ship, tested every part of the ship, and found no source of radiation or where it was present. I treated the crew members according to the treatment of radiation sickness, but to no avail.

I determined that the cause of the illness was a genetic mutation, but there was no equipment for gene editing therapy on board.

I put the crew into hibernation, but even hibernation didn't stop the disease from progressing.

I tried everything I could, tried all means, but I couldn't change our fate.

I...... I can't bear the pain that has befallen me physically. My whole body ached, like 10,000 ants crawling and biting in my flesh. Rather than wait a few days to die of organ failure, it would be better to end my life early.

If there are medical experts who can see these records, I ask you to find out the cause of our death and not let our death go unexplained. ”

After leaving this last record, Zhou Lu, a young woman who had bright eyes and bright teeth and was full of youthful energy, but now was as terrifying as a ghost, aimed a small pistol at her temple and pulled the trigger.

Wang Hao closed his eyes and opened them again for a long time.

Wang Hao obtained a lot of useful information from Zhou Lu's records. In the process of the development of this disease, the changes in various data of the body and the manifestations of each stage of the disease play a very important role in Wang Hao's follow-up research. But the records in the spaceship are not over yet, and Wang Hao still flips through them little by little.

Zhou Lu's death meant that the defense line formed by the crew completely collapsed. Zhou Lu, who had the most medical knowledge, died, and the rest of the people could no longer have any way.

So people made a decision.

"To preserve our bodies as well as possible and to facilitate the research of medical experts as much as possible."

The surviving crew members supported each other and carried the bodies of the dead crew members to a compartment that was most conducive to preserving the corpses—the same cabin where Wang Hao led the team into the Nimbus spacecraft to see the corpses. After the bodies were moved, the people who were still alive did not leave, but stayed here.

Wang Hao was very clear about the reason why they did this. Because they knew that no one would come to carry their bodies after they died, so they had to come here while they were still alive.

In the end, they did not resist the painful torture and chose to end their lives early. The captain of the Nimbus spacecraft struggled to the spacecraft control room, set the parameters for the spacecraft to sail automatically, and then died in the control room.

The whole process lasted seventy days. Since then, there has been no manual addition to the logbook, but it is all automatically generated by the system.

There is no need to read the subsequent logs. Wang Hao closed the record and sighed deeply.

"I will definitely investigate the cause of your death, and I will not let your death be unknown. This is my responsibility. ”

The cleanup of the Nimbus spacecraft continued, and the members of the action team continued to go back and forth between the Nimbus spacecraft and the spacecraft that Wang Hao was riding, and transported all the remains of the crew to Wang Hao. Wang Hao carefully examined each body, recording and analyzing every lesion on their bodies in detail.

Thousands of specimens were obtained from different parts of the bodies of different crew members, and Wang Hao first tried to isolate the possible pathogens from them. However, this work did not go smoothly, and in the seven days of work, no unknown pathogens were isolated, and some were only some known microorganisms that could coexist with the human body, or some microorganisms that could cause disease, but were obviously invaded at a later stage.

This has largely ruled out the possibility of a virulent infectious disease. But Wang Hao still didn't dare to take it lightly. While sending all the data to the expert team for review and analysis, Wang Hao also asked the soldiers who blocked the place to bring a batch of mice from the galaxy to carry out infection experiments on the spot.

Gene sequencing is also being carried out in an orderly manner. Just like the dead Zhou Lu, Wang Hao also made the judgment of genetic mutation on the basis of the existing information. Zhou Lu did not have the relevant equipment to verify it, but the spaceship that Wang Hao was riding on had enough complete and advanced equipment.

After twelve days, Wang Hao finally got the data. Looking at the characters one by one, Wang Hao's heart began to sink continuously.

These data confirm the judgment of the dead Zhou Lu and Wang Hao, who is studying it at the moment. The diseases that occur in the astronauts' bodies are indeed caused by genetic mutations. A large number of uncontrolled genetic mutations caused healthy cells to be unable to divide into normal offspring, and as a result, astronauts were unable to work properly in various organs and tissues throughout their bodies, eventually causing severe pain and taking all lives.

This is a typical symptom of radiation sickness, but the crew of the Nimbus spacecraft has something special in addition to these characteristics.