There are not a few people who are infected with the "virus" in the abnormal state of affairs, and eventually cause their bodies to collapse, but the thick crimson liquid formed by their bodies quickly penetrates, leaving only a few remnants on the surface of the passages and secret rooms. Dr. Ruan Li knew that there were many doubts behind this change, but because of the lack of clues and abilities, he could not continue to pursue it, and if the disappeared blood-colored liquid would become a new source of infection, there was no way to do it, and on this island, every breath of air he breathed was probably full of "virus". People who have not changed cannot say that they have not been infected, but can only say that they have not yet developed lesions. The "virus" is not observable, and can only be inferred from the patient's illness, and conversely, if there is no disease, then whether the "virus" exists is a conjecture only.

At worst, all the people on this island may have been infected, but some people have developed lesions and some have not, however, even if biological samples from people who have nothing to do are studied, it will not be possible to find evidence, let alone why they are not affected. On this worst-case hypothesis, looking at the blood-colored fluid that has seeped away – it looks like blood, but experts like Dr. Nguyen Le prefer to think of it as another form of LCL – would not be worse than it is now, even if it becomes a new source of infection.

The researchers have collected enough samples for research, and there is nothing they can do about the parts that have disappeared, and what they can do in the end is to focus on the present. "Dorothy" may be the key to this aberration, as long as it can be confirmed that "Dorothy" did not turn into a thick pool of blood-colored liquid like these unlucky people, it is something to celebrate.

"Dorothy", which should have been located in the secret room, is nowhere to be seen, leaving only a wide space and blood vessels and nerves. Densely intertwined pipelines. It's not the first time Dr. Nguyen has been here, but she still can't help but feel the visual interplay of light and shadow in the dark environment, as well as the associations created by the interweaving of pipelines. It was as if the entire secret room was Dorothy's body, and he and the others were in his body.

"Where's Dorothy?" Dr. Nguyen Le asked.

The experts who accompanied them were silent, their faces had not been very good, they had experienced a sensational scene before, and now they had to face a situation that could be worse, and it was difficult to be optimistic in any case.

"Contained." "She's not doing well, and we're treating it at the highest level and dipping it in a survival box," the security expert said. With that, he flipped another switch. It was obvious where the base was, cracking out round and round of glossy threads. Immediately, something rose from below.

It was a coffin-like container, made entirely of transparent glass plates, and filled with yellowish LCL, in which Dorothy had been soaked throughout. Dr. Nguyen Li knew that the simple coffin container was not the body of the life-sustaining device, but in fact, the entire underground of the chamber had been modified. The location of the container after sinking. It is the center of the entire life-support device, and its purpose is simply to "provide RCL for Torres as much as possible".

LCL is extremely stable. It is a very strange organic substance, and its usefulness cannot be exhausted for three days, but one of the most important uses for the study of the Lurker Tissue is to provide sufficient nutrients and energy for Dorothy. This means: LCL is consumed, and, in exceptional cases, at a terrible rate. Dr. Nguyen Le had seen the center, which was in charge of the hospital, during an unusual event. In total, more than 300,000 copies of LCL were consumed, that is, more than 300,000 patients with doomsday syndrome died completely from personality to body. Not to mention, where did the hospital come from, and what kind of means were used to get the LCL formed after the collapse of more than 300,000 patients, this number alone is far more than the number of people consumed by ordinary wars. Dr. Nguyen Le could not imagine what the world beyond the island was like, and although there were more than 6 billion human beings in the world, it was still very shocking that more than 300,000 people died all at once.

The consumed LCL is just like what everyone sees at this time, the color gradually becomes lighter, and finally it becomes clean water - at this time, the organic structure and specificity of the LCL itself will disappear completely, and no matter how it is tested, it can only be concluded that "this is pure water without impurities", and it will be fine for ordinary people to drink. Dr. Nguyen Le once withstood the tremendous psychological pressure and tasted the taste of this "pure water" - there was no taste, and from the senses, it was just a puddle of water. It's just that when I think that this is the product of "digestion" after the collapse of "people", I can't help but have a huge psychological resistance.

Dorothy's situation is not good, because when the experts inspect the meter, it is found that it has consumed a total of 100,000 LCLs, which accounts for two-thirds of the total LCL stored by the Infiltrator Organization's various means, which means that if the anomaly were to come again, Dorothy may not be so lucky. Now her situation is not very good, the humanoid body in the container of zài is only the upper body, and it shows symptoms of ulceration in many places, and even her facial features have become mutilated, and she looks particularly hideous. If Dorothy were just an ordinary person, it would probably be difficult to survive, because ordinary people would not be able to consume LCL to maintain their own existence.

Because the reserves of LCL are quite sufficient, although "Dorothy" is described as miserable, in terms of the number of vital tests, she is still alive, and she is still in a state of being able to communicate, although the recovery of the injury is slow, but it is indeed developing in a good direction. After confirming this, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Although 100,000 LCLs are a huge pressure both in terms of quantity and ethics, the realism is not so strong when I read the number of 100,000 people without seeing the deaths of 100,000 people with my own eyes.

Dorothy's physical injuries are not to be worried, but her personality and mental state are worrying. Although "Dorothy" is no longer in the category of "human" in terms of strict definition, it is only from the loose emotional concept that people have been with for a while. I don't feel that there is much essential difference between her and humans, even at this time, she has consumed 100,000 copies of LCL, and if she doesn't see the process with her own eyes, it won't make researchers feel too much estrangement.

After all, from the looks of it. Dorothy was just a little girl who wasn't even a teenager. Such a little girl is crucial to the success or failure of "virus" research, and it is really difficult for people not to care.

Soon, all eyes were on Dr. Nguyen Li, who was the best psychology expert here.

"There is no problem with the communication device." The expert in charge of handling the life-sustaining device system said, "She's still awake, so I'll let you talk now." ”

When the green light on the instrument came on, Dorothy, who was in the container, slowly opened her eyes, and at this time she only had one right eye left, and. Different from the deep and clean color she usually sees, the emerald right eye seems to be a little discolored—Dr. Ruan Li thinks that it is a red bias, which makes her relate to the thick red liquid.

"Dorothy." Dr. Nguyen Li said in a voice as calm as possible, "How do you feel? ”

"Dorothy" didn't speak, but just looked at Dr. Ruan Li with a calm gaze, and Dr. Ruan Li felt that she was calm. is the real, the peace of mind. Apparently. Although the abnormal impact of this time hit "Dorothy" hard, it did not have too much psychological blow to her, and this judgment made Dr. Ruan Li breathe a sigh of relief from the bottom of his heart. As long as the love of "Dorothy" is stable, it can be called a great luck in misfortune.

"Dorothy" seemed to be unable to speak in this state, only to see an LCD plate rise in front of Dr. Ruan Li. A line was typed on it: "Oops, I'm in contact with the 'virus'." ”

This answer made the experts' eyes light up and their hearts jumped, but they still decided to let Dr. Nguyen Li negotiate. Because, she's good at this kind of thing.

"Did you see the virus?" Dr. Nguyen Lê was as nervous and excited as everyone thought,

"I can't say I saw it." Dorothy said: "I just probed deeply in the way of information composition, and it ended up causing trouble just now. However, it is enough to prove that the thing that made me what I am is a virus is right. ”

"Can you still lock it?" Dr. Ruan Li asked.

"Unfortunately, it's more capable than I can handle, and I don't get much." Dorothy said, displaying a portion of the information on the screen, "How's it going over there?" ”

"It's bad." "We don't have any equipment, and if we get infected, we will immediately develop lesions, and we will have phenomena that we haven't seen before," said the security expert. He talked about the organic phenomenon of those inorganic materials, and Dr. Ruan Li immediately discovered that Dorothy was no stranger to this situation. Obviously, this is the first time this phenomenon has occurred in the base, but Dorothy seems to have known about this phenomenon for a long time.

"I can't judge more on my side." Dorothy said: "That's a lesion that I can't analyze in a short period of time, but I think since only some people have lesions and others are fine, then the breakthrough should be obvious." ”

"You're saying that we can find the positive body of the 'virus' from the difference between lesions?" Dr. Nguyen Le asked.

"Perhaps, it's not up to me to decide." Dorothy replied on the screen: "I'm just a contact end, in terms of theoretical knowledge and research ability, you are the experts." The information I have received has been archived, and I hope it will be useful to you. ”

"But why would you suddenly be exposed to the virus?" Dr. Nguyen Li asked, "Is this an accident or a ......?"

"It's no accident that I tried to set a trap for the virus, and although I didn't think I could catch it, the current situation has proven that it does exist. Since you can touch it this time, you can naturally do it next time. It's not unobservable to us. ”

Dr. Nguyen Li was stunned, but he had to admit that Dorothy's statement was not wrong. In the past, patients only passively became ill, but now the abnormal situation caused by Dorothy may be called actively induced. This distinction is naturally very meaningful. The "virus" that cannot be observed and can only be proved from the side of the disease will no longer be so obscure from now on.

"In any case, the situation that has arisen this time is so special that we need time to sort it out." Dr. Nguyen Le said, "During this time, I want you to stop the qiē action. You're in terrible shape right now. ”

"I know, but there's no time to wait." Dorothy replied, "I suddenly had the feeling that it wasn't that I had found the virus, but that it had become more active. I have an ominous feeling that we may be running out of time. ”

"What do you mean—" Dr. Nguyen Li and the others looked at each other. But they all saw a chill in each other's eyes.

"The virus is always on the rise, and Dr. Ander thinks so. Now, it is possible that its activity has reached a tipping point. When the virus is not active, it is already a headache, and if it is active, nothing good will happen anyway. ”

"What the hell is going to happen? All patients will collapse in a short period of time? Or is it more contagious? Dr. Ruan Li asked.

"It's not clear, and it can only be judged after the fact. However, I still hope that everyone can read the information of guò this time. We are not yet able to completely eliminate the virus by developing drugs that can reduce the activity of the virus, but it is of great significance if it can suppress malignant reactions, just like the treatment of cancer. Dorothy said this, her remaining right eye slowly closing. Everyone knows that this conversation ends here, if in normal times. Dorothy's time and range of activities are quite sufficient, but. What she needs now is recuperation.

The others looked at Dr. Nguyen Li, who knew what they wanted to know.

"Yes, no problem, Dorothy's mental state is not much worse than usual." She replied.

The rest of the matter is back on track, and researchers and security experts must deal with the closing of this anomalous event, which is estimated to take about three days. to sort things out. For Dr. Ruan Li and others, although "Dorothy" delivered a lot of information, it was not easy to analyze this information. It is precisely because some of the information is so "fresh" that there is no reference at all, so it is impossible to draw conclusions in a short period of time. It's like having to decipher a language you've never seen before without any reference and understand what it's made of. They need enough contrasts, logic, and associations, to guess and put together, and what they end up with doesn't necessarily contribute much to the current research - no one can be sure whether it's valid or invalid until it's interpreted.

Even so, what needs to be done still has to be done, and the difficulties that need to be faced are not just now, and everyone is mentally prepared. In addition, there is also the situation in the hospital that needs to be worried, this time so many people have died and so many LCLs have been consumed, it is also difficult to deal with the tail of the hand and not let the other party follow the vine. The experts in charge of the research don't need to bother with this kind of thing, but it's enough of a headache for the person in charge of organizational security for a long time.

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Just as Dorothy was defeated, the prosthetic Takakawa also witnessed her fate, and it was not the first time he had seen the infection festering and turning into a puddle of thick red liquid. The characteristics of "Jiang" are so obvious that across the distance of time and space, he also vaguely feels that he once again feels the existence of "Jiang" from the depths of his soul. Dorothy's spying action, he also knows something, her thoughts and decisions are also necessary in the judgment of the brain and hardware, and the deterioration of Dorothy's state at this time is completely expected. Prosthetic Takakawa never thought that Dorothy's actions would succeed, but since she decided to do so, he had no reason to stop him, even though he wanted to go with her, but she stopped him.

As for Dorothy's arrangement, the prosthetic Takakawa didn't know very well, but he knew that this time, he would not only meet "Jiang", but another self - the powerful Takakawa who impressed him. With the revival of another Gao Chuan, it is difficult to judge the complicated situation behind the scenes, but from the perspective of the prosthetic Gao Chuan, the current actions of the other self are not too aggressive, but they have to treat it as an enemy. Prosthetic Takakawa is carrying out the plan of Tie Se and Dorothy, while the other self is executing a plan that only he can execute, and Prosthetic Takakawa can't judge which plan is correct, the best, and the real hope of realization, but there is no doubt that from the theory and reason, it is more biased towards his own side.

So, although it can be seen from the point of view of "Takakawa". Understand what the other self has done, but cannot fully agree with what he has done, and even in the attitude towards "Jiang", the difference is even greater. Even, the prosthetic body Takagawa thinks. The reason why it has evolved into a situation where two Takagawa exist at the same time is rooted in this difference.

No matter when, when you meet the other party, you must distinguish the winner and loser, which is not hypocrisy, but a throbbing from instinct. Whether rationally or emotionally, the prosthetic Gao Chuan does not feel that it is a good thing for two "Gao Chuan" to exist at the same time, and he also believes it. The other side thinks so too. However, before he was sure that his side could deal with "Jiang", Prosthetic Takakawa didn't feel that his side had any chance of winning.

The best time to attack, in fact, has been missed a long time ago, and when the other self is just recovering, the trap laid in the base of the net ball is the most likely - because Omi is here.

Omi itself is a trap. Moreover, there is only Omi. It is the trap that is really effective against the "river". This is not only from Dorothy's original words, but also an intuition, if there is any evidence, Takakawa feels that Omi embodies the mystery is the best evidence. Until now. Omi's connection with "E" and the mystery similar to "E" make her almost like an identity map of "E", and even Yoshitagawa is still quite skeptical of the conclusion that "Omi is a trap to deal with E". Is "Omi" really made by Dorothy and the color system?

He's always felt. Omi is the embodiment of "river", or else, it is the embodiment of "virus". Moreover, in a certain way, he does not agree with Dorothy's assertion that "Jiang" is completely equivalent to "virus" and that "Jiang's identity is just a conspiracy of the virus". It's just that, as far as the plan of Tie Se and Dorothy is concerned, such an assertion can make the reason for action more sufficient and thorough, so Yoshita Takakawa does not object to such a assertion.

Yes, just no objections.

It is this kind of **, but also resolute enough attitude, so that the prosthetic Gao Chuan is not very firm, and now he will face another idea of his own. He doesn't like to procrastinate, but in the midst of all kinds of information entanglement, the judgment he makes is actually more direct -- no matter what the intention of the other self and "Jiang" is, no matter whether he can stop them or not, in fact, it is not the key. The key is still the Spiritual Integration Device and the Personality Preservation Device, as long as you grasp these two things in your hands, no matter how things change, your side can take the initiative.

Dorothy's practice of testing the "river" and the "virus" and wanting to reserve experience for the final decisive battle is not very necessary in the eyes of the prosthetic Takakawa, and it can even be said that it is very redundant. Therefore, after Dorothy sternly refused, the prosthetic Takakawa did not follow him to the war. Now Dorothy's situation is bleak, but it is also expected, and Omi has also been prepared, and the heart of the prosthetic Takakawa is as calm as he seems.

Whether it is denying Codorace's actions, her attitude and persistence must be cherished. With this in mind, Prosthetic Takakawa left the workshop where Dorothy was housed. Even if the goals are the same, there is no deviation in the overall outline of the plan, but everyone has their own choice when it comes to the details. The same is true of Takakawa who has his own ideas and practices. What will happen to Las Vegas, far away on the other side of the ocean, is not the main point at the moment, but the most important thing is the fact that "under the guidance of the cyberball, NOG and London Repeater have focused their efforts on the Las Vegas side, and even in the face of the Nazi invasion of the homeland, they have only adopted a passive defensive attitude". To seize the Spiritual Integration Device, this is a fairly ripe opportunity.

However, in order to prevent the NOG from losing its repeater and falling into the Nazi attack, it was necessary to clear the Nazi forces before seizing the Psychic Unit. And, even if all the reasons are left aside, the mere fact that the Nazis would carry out indiscriminate massacres and sacrifices after breaching every stronghold was enough to get the prostitute Takakawa into action. This time, it doesn't matter if the NOG doesn't accept it, even if it's just himself, he wants to destroy the Nazis who are raging in one fell swoop. Because, he is the one who wants to be a hero. (To be continued......)