Chapter I: Depository Center

The Microbial Strain (Virus) Collection Center of the Jiangcheng Institute of Virology, Huaguo Academy of Sciences, was built in 69 years until 13 years, and after extensive renovation and reconstruction, it became the largest microbial (virus) collection center in China in one fell swoop!

The entire center is semi-underground, and its excellent safety allows it to carry an extremely important mission.

It is a comprehensive research center integrating the collection and preservation of viral resources, the research and development of viral biotechnology, and the research of systemic virology and bioinformatics. The center has more than 3,500 virus isolates of various types, covering 1/2 of the world's published viridae. The live viruses stored in the library cover human medical viruses, zoonotic viruses, animal viruses, insect viruses, plant viruses, bacteriophages, environmental microorganisms, virus-sensitive cell banks and viral genetic resource banks.

When: 12/23/17, 2 days after the outbreak of prehistoric germs.

Wu Shaohua, then the head of the preservation center and director of the Jiangcheng Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, sat in his office, a little restless waiting for news.

"Bang bang bang!" The knock on the door suddenly sounded, and Wu Shaohua shouted excitedly: "Come in!" ”

Although it was winter, the sweaty people who were still running opened the door, and they entered the door with a happy face and said, "Director! It's done! ”

"Got it!?" Wu Shaohua got up from his seat in surprise, and suddenly brought his favorite Longquan celadon teacup on the table to the ground, and smashed it with a "pop"!

But at this moment, Wu Shaohua was just stunned, then kicked away the wreckage of the quilt, strode forward two steps, and asked a little anxiously: "Warehousing?" ”

"Hmmm! As soon as I came back, I sent it over! The person who came nodded hurriedly, this sentence is purely superfluous - such a terrible virus mother strain, of course, must be stored as soon as it is collected, otherwise in case it is leaked, this is not a joke!

"Okay, let's start the experiment in the afternoon!" Wu Shaohua said a little eagerly.

In the afternoon, the biosafety level 4 laboratory under the Jiangxia Institute of Virology, referred to as the P4 laboratory, was already ready to welcome this heavyweight "tenant" - a super prehistoric germ that can cause serious consequences such as mental deterioration, memory loss, and pain nerve area isolation after human infection!

This is the first batch of infected people in China after returning from the Arctic, and the strains collected from them are very likely to be the mother strain, in other words, the bacteria that spread later are likely to mutate, further strengthen, or weaken, and this "mother strain" is particularly precious!

Through the special ultra-low temperature biological safety box, this extremely dangerous germ is frozen at an ultra-low temperature of -28°C.

There were 23 people involved in the experiment, and each of them focused their full attention on the fear that they could make a mistake and cause the virus to leak out.

In charge of the handling were two specially trained cyborgs, who held on to the edge of the box with their extraordinary tenacity, even if it fell from the 30th floor.

All the participants, including the director Wu Shaohua, strictly followed the operating procedures, first went to the dressing area, took off all the clothes in the outer dressing room, put them in the wardrobe, and then entered the shower room, and rinsed the whole body with disinfectant.

After the rinse was completed, the red-striped experimenters entered the inner locker room and put on the innermost layer of protective clothing.

Twenty-three experimenters in light blue hazmat suits were then placed in the buffer zone.

The door to the buffer zone will only open when the flushed door lock is completely locked.

Once in the buffer zone, you will need to enter the preparation room, put on a helmet with air filtration, goggles, and then enter the buffer room and put on a full set of protective clothing.

At this moment, the 23 people are driving like astronauts in spacesuits, the only difference is that they are not carrying a huge oxygen tube - not that they don't want to, but on Earth, the experimenters really can't carry it, even if these thin researchers use the strength to eat milk and put the oxygen tube on their backs, I'm afraid there is no way to do the experiment - you know, this set of protective clothing weighs a full 12 kilograms!

Do you think that's all right? That would be underestimating the highest level of security in biological laboratories.

Heavily armed, they need to enter the disinfection area at this moment, and then in the chemical shower room, with protective clothing, the entire cleaning and disinfection is carried out, and then the machine is dried before they can enter the real core area!

It was already 45 minutes after the whole process, and this was still based on the fact that all other experiments were stopped to make way for the special test group.

Along the way, everyone has gone through a total of 12 doors from the very beginning of the dressing area to the current core test area, and any isolation door cannot be opened without closing, no matter what the situation!

Entering the core area, they target Lab One.

This laboratory is one of the most well-equipped of the six laboratories in the entire core area, because it mainly deals with the microorganisms of the fourth hazard group!

Laboratories are divided into four categories, and the classification method is based on the hazard level of the specific experimental object.

Level 1 hazard group microorganisms: not associated with human adult health and disease;

Level 2 hazard microorganisms: diseases caused by humans are rarely serious and usually have prevention and treatment;

Tertiary hazard group microorganisms: can cause serious or fatal diseases in humans, and there may be ways to prevent and treat them;

Grade 4 hazard group microorganisms: can cause serious or fatal diseases in humans, but there is usually no prevention and treatment, such as Bacillus anthracis, Vibrio cholerae, Ebola virus, smallpox virus, etc.

The prehistoric bacteria this time belong to this category entirely.

After entering the first laboratory, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and after everyone breathed evenly, Wu Shaohua ordered solemnly: "Cheer up!" This is just the beginning! Open the ultra-low temperature biological cabinet and put the strains into the biological safety cabinet! Start preparing for the experiment! ”

With Wu Shaohua's order, everyone cheered up and started the high-risk operation again!

The so-called biological safety cabinet is an independent sealed cabinet, above it, there is a half-meter diameter pipe, together with the roof, to maintain the negative pressure state of the entire biological safety cabinet, once the experimental subjects (microorganisms, germs, etc.) are put into the safety cabinet, through the physical isolation of gloves to operate the experiment, the safety cabinet accidental leakage, then the huge negative pressure will instantly suck everything in the safety cabinet into the disinfection room, through the chemical and high temperature dual ways, destroy the leaked experimental object!

As a result, it is extremely unlikely that the test subject will escape due to the cracking of the gloves during the experiment.

……

As they experimented, time passed slowly.

Since the entire laboratory was almost isolated from the world, Wu Shaohua and the others, who were silent in the experiment, did not know that in the process of their experiments, the whole world had become a mess!

With the crazy spread of the superbug, countless people were infected, and after the infection, they fell asleep deeply, and then were awakened by intense hunger, and while eating wildly, their memory and wisdom left them, and soon, they became monsters who did not recognize their relatives, pounced on their relatives and medical staff, and gnawed on them......

When Wu Shaohua was awakened by a sudden phone call in the lounge in the laboratory, it was already 26 hours later!

On the phone, the superior clearly told Wu Shaohua that because of the spread of prehistoric superbugs, there has been chaos outside, and now Wu Shaohua and others are required to guard the door of the microbial strain (virus) collection center of Jiangcheng Jiangcheng Virus Institute to prevent the leakage of thousands of pathogenic bacteria and various viruses in the preservation center!

Once this leak is leaked, it will cause a catastrophe!

Fortunately, because of the special nature of the work here, the family home is not far away, and most of the staff's families are here, so that the vast majority of people can settle down and stay here!

At the same time, in order to prevent accidents, 500 soldiers will be dispatched to temporarily set up a camp outside the preservation center to ensure the safety of the place!

Hanging up the phone, Wu Shaohua's brows furrowed tightly!

I didn't expect this germ to be so contagious, and Wu Shaohua sighed when he thought of the infection process recorded in the data.

The previous 26 hours of observation experiments did not achieve much, but only a simple analysis of this pathogen, and even its pathogenic mechanism was not understood!

In order to prevent experimental accidents and worry about the comfort of his family, Wu Shaohua ended the experiment, and after the germs were repeatedly wrapped in a clean bag, they were put into an ultra-low temperature biological safety box and taken out of the laboratory!

It took an hour to put the mother strain of the germ into the warehouse, and the experimenters also got out of this "devil's laboratory".

After walking out of the changing area and changing into casual clothes, everyone breathed a long sigh of relief. Only then did he take out his mobile phone and prepare to contact his family - during the experiment, the mobile phone was forbidden to enter the laboratory, and could only be stored in the locker along with the clothes he carried.

Wu Shaohua interrupted everyone's movements: "Don't look at your phone first, go to the meeting, have a meeting!" ”

"Isn't it......"

"Director......"

"No, we have to have a meeting......"

Hearing this, the researchers involved in the experiment wailed, saying that the baby was not convinced, and the baby wanted to sleep!

But the situation has endangered the extent that it is necessary to send troops to protect this place, and Wu Shaohua, who was very willing to joke with the researchers below in the past, had a cold face: "Shut up!" Hurry up! ”

……

The large conference room, which can accommodate 450 seats for all staff, is now only about half of the seats.

Some lived outside and never came to work, some were rushed to the hospital after being infected, and several were killed on the spot by the soldiers after they were infected.

204 people, the only remaining staff of the microbial collection center of the entire Jiangcheng Institute of Virology, as well as the P4 biological laboratory.

Among them, except for the director Wu Shaohua, the 22 people who participated in the experiment were full of inexplicability, and the others were all dissatisfied and uneasy, and they didn't know what to do!

No one knows better than them the horror of a completely incurable germ, especially since this germ can turn humans into monsters and spread from one another through them......

At the meeting, as the director, Wu Shaohua, who had just learned about the latest situation from the internal phone, made arrangements.

Use the reserve food, activate the highest defense mechanism, activate the biochemical quarantine area, and all surviving staff can enter it to take refuge, but cannot leave the research compound!

"Director, what about our family!?" A female researcher in her 40s asked Wu Shaohua in tears.

"...... the design of the isolation area, it can only accommodate up to 500 people for a short stay of 7 days, and use these 7 days to wait for rescue, and the current situation, we are not sure about the situation after 7 days, so in order to ensure the safety of the lives of the staff, the family is not allowed to enter!"

"Coax!"

The entire conference room almost exploded!

Among the more than 200 people, about 150 or more, their families live nearby, and many of them are even in the family home across the road!

"Director! My lover is in the family home, can you bring her over? A researcher in his 30s who had just arrived for the meeting looked at Wu Shaohua with an earnest face.

Wu Shaohua recognized him.

Sun Xiaohui, an outstanding graduate student, has just been recruited for two years to participate in several difficult research projects. The dirty work was done in a hurry, and each time the last one left, he was responsible for restoring the used labs to their original state—which should have been done in turns, just because he was the youngest and most senior in the group, so he was always rushing to do it.

In my impression, I just attended Sun Xiaohui's wedding half a year ago, and his wife is gentle and lovely, in the eyes of the older generation, she is a home-based material! I respect myself very much, I have the skill of making wine, I have sent two pots to my home, and my wife likes this ingenious girl very much.

However, at this moment, Wu Shaohua could only harden his heart: "No! ”

"Ah, she, she's on the other side! Me, I'll call and she'll come! Woo, please, Director Wu! Woo woo...... "Sun Xiaohui's tears couldn't stop flowing down, begging Wu Shaohua.

Wu Shaohua held back his tears, didn't let himself look at Sun Xiaohui, hardened his heart, and said into the microphone: "Everyone." No family members are allowed! If you insist, then please go home, take precautions at home, and wait for rescue......"

After speaking, Wu Shaohua wiped a handful of tears with his hand and turned his head to get off the rostrum.

His old wife is also waiting for him to go home in the family home at the moment, and there are more than 50 text messages on her mobile phone, and there are children who are far away in the capital, but most of them are old wives at home!

However...... Thinking of this, Wu Shaohua burst into tears, others can choose to leave this isolation area built with a biological laboratory for the sake of their families, but as the director, they can't leave! There is no way to bring the old wife!

At this moment, the interval of just one road is like an insurmountable moat for Wu Shaohua......

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