Chapter 136: The Virus Threatens
Wars of all sizes, suppression of rebellions, interrogations, repairs of ships...... For the Antek civilization, it seems that the things of a lifetime have all piled up in just a few days. This is a huge challenge to the management and organizational ability of the entire civilization.
However, on this day, an inconspicuous little thing happened: in the praying mantis group, some ordinary fever individuals appeared.
The number of patients is not large, and the symptoms are not severe. After a brief examination at the hospital, it was found that it was just an ordinary "Allgäu virus" infection.
“…… In the early stages of the virus war, it was necessary to increase the contagiousness and reduce the severity and lethality. In this way, it is much more hidden, and the other party may not be able to find it in time. In the captain's room of the Future, several biologists were laughing and explaining to Yu Yifeng the newly created biological weapons.
Although interstellar civilizations can cure most incurable diseases, it is difficult to completely prevent people from getting sick.
Take the new human civilization as an example, the medical technology of the new human has been very developed, but it still catches a cold when it is time to catch a cold. Even after everyone becomes superhuman, their immunity is greatly enhanced......
But just because people don't get sick doesn't mean that bacteria and viruses don't exist.
In particular, viruses are large in the depths of the human body and are difficult to kill all of them. There are many viruses that can even bind directly to the cell structure and become part of the cell. For example, the nucleus, plasmid nucleic acid, etc., hides a large number of viruses.
In this way, even if the virus in vitro is eliminated with certain chemical agents, many viruses carried by the body's own nucleic acid still exist.
"This is true for the new humans, and it is also true for the individuals of the Antec civilization. The cell structures of the two sides are different, but there are always similarities. What we imitate is their most common Allgäu virus. Similar to our colds, the variants are endless. ”
Sitting in the captain's room and pointing out the country, Yu Yifeng was full of confidence and expectation. A battle between biology has quietly begun.
This war is not smoky, but it is no less thrilling.
"Now that we've made a move, it's up to you how you respond."
Sure enough, the Antek civilization did not pay attention to it for the time being.
In today's war, the pressure is so great that not only soldiers, but also ordinary people are always highly stressed, and their immune function will inevitably decline. So a small number of individuals getting sick and having a fever is not a big deal......
The medical artificial intelligence of the Antec civilization simply analyzed the protein shell of the virus and found that it was just an ordinary Allgäu virus infection, so this information was put in the secondary queue.
And ordinary medical workers don't have the time to pay attention to this secondary information. With so many injuries to be treated, the hospital is busy!
The biological defenses on the metal planet are quite strict, especially in the core inhabited areas, which are almost isolated from the outside world. In the war, there was also no destruction. Therefore, the high-level of the praying mantis does not think that the strike of the new human beings can bring in any biological and chemical weapons.
Physical isolation is always the most reassuring.
But soon, things went beyond their imagination......
On the eighth day, the number of fever fever increased from 114 to 1,345, an increase of ten times!
Finally someone is starting to pay attention.
On the ninth day, the number of fever fever increased rapidly to tens of thousands, an increase of ten times again!
At this moment, all the high-level leaders of the Anteke civilization became very nervous, and such a violent growth rate was definitely beyond the scope of ordinary viruses!
All patients are temporarily isolated, and a team of medical experts is being quickly formed. The smell of disinfectant water permeates the entire living area.
On the tenth day, the number of infected people still increased significantly!
In particular, the soldiers in a large flagship were infected in large numbers and showed symptoms of fever.
The reason is that after the war, the ship needs to go to the metal planet to maintain and replenish material resources. Maybe it was in the process that I was infected.
At the same time, the origin of the pathogen was discovered.
is a ...... Air Circulation System!
I don't know how, this air circulation system is filled with virus cultures. It will carry the air with pathogens in a steady stream to certain residential areas!
A group of medical experts are frantically deciphering this pathogen, and the whole process is not very complicated...... Although the Anteke civilization did not decipher the nature of genes and had no way to create creatures out of thin air, the research on biology was relatively in-depth, and the results of gene sequencing came out quickly.
They found that it was a malignant virus that had never been seen before, with a carefully modified protein coat that closely resembled a natural "Allgäu" virus. But the strange thing is that the genetic material is very different, and its contagiousness and aggressiveness are also incomparable to the "Allgäu" virus.
The mantis's own immune system, which has no resistance to the invasion of this virus, has no resistance at all...... Any!
"It was definitely the other party's careful premeditation!" During a certain meeting, the top brass of the praying mantis roared viciously. There was a hint of panic in this roar.
They began to find a way to treat this strange disease, although its current symptoms were just fever......
The medical technology of interstellar civilizations is not comparable to that of low-level civilizations. Cell regeneration, cell anti-aging, or organ replacement are not difficult tasks.
But there is one organ that cannot be replaced, and that is ...... Cerebrum! The treatment of the nerve center is also very troublesome. For example, rabies virus and prion in human beings attacked the nerve center, and there was almost no way to treat it at that time, and the mortality rate was close to 100%.
This virus, although it is relatively mild at present, still targets the nerve cells in the brain of the praying mantis.
The L4-level genetic attack technology has made the Antek civilization nervous. This is already a different contest that is out of the level of war.
Some of the higher-ups suspected that the lizards did it, or that the dead lizard rebels did it...... Otherwise, how could a good air circulation system suddenly appear in the virus culture medium?
But it doesn't matter who is the mastermind, the Antek civilization has always done so to arrest all the suspected lizards!
Under the guidance of this thinking, a large number of lizard engineers and scientists, including O'Sullivan, the mastermind behind them, were imprisoned and subjected to strict interrogation.
The new humans have also temporarily lost contact with the lizards, and they don't know what the situation is really going on.
However, catching this batch of lizards did not help much in the whole incident. The number of people with fever is increasing rapidly.
On the eleventh day, the number of infections continued to rise sharply, and there were isolated cases of coma. This kind of coma makes all the praying mantis nervous.
When lives are truly threatened, there is no doubt that there is an irrepressible panic.
At the sound of the order, whether it is a soldier, a scientist, or an engineer, they all put on power armor, fully armed, isolated themselves from the outside world, and then took blood tests to check whether they were carrying the virus.
The blood test report showed that in just 11 days, there was a ...... 65.6% of the population has contracted the virus!
Including more than half of the upper echelons of civilization, as well as almost all the soldiers of a flagship!
"It's over......" the leader said dumbfoundedly before he fell unconscious.
They defeated the enemy on the frontal battlefield, but on another battlefield, they were crushed. All known drugs, all ineffective!
On the twelfth day, a large number of people with fever began to fall into coma...... Because of the severe shortage of medical beds, many comatose people have to resort to cryonics.
Urgent research is underway on specific nanotherapeutic robots, which are equivalent to antibodies secreted by the human immune system and are common treatments in interstellar civilizations.
Nanobots can forcibly kill viruses through physical means.
But this time, time wasn't on their side.
It is true that the investment of large human resources can speed up the speed of research, but there is a limit to this speed-up.
A hundred workers can build a building in a year. If the number of workers is increased by 365 times, more than 30,000 workers, will the house be built in one day?
Of course not.
The nanotechnology of the Antek civilization is still not as good as that of the new humans. How can it be so easy to research a special nanobot that can kill viruses?
Its own volume should be about the same size as the virus, otherwise there is no way to enter the cell to kill the virus. Moreover, this kind of robot needs to have the ability to recognize viruses and self-degrade, which are the basis of medical nanorobots.
The time of research for such a medical robot is at least measured in "years", or even decades! New Human ...... Will they be given that kind of time?
Then there was a fatality.
A large number of people fell into a coma one after another, including the management in a state of confusion, and all the surviving praying mantises finally panicked......
A huge commotion is coming like a wave!
Within civilization, there are already voices of escape. In the short term, it will be difficult for them to defeat these genetic viruses, and staying here will only lead to their own destruction.
……
But at this time, the starry sky has lit up, and the new human race is coming again!