Chapter 14: The M Virus—The Terror of a Miracle
The M virus is stored behind a high-strength tempered glass, and through a robotic arm, the ultra-low temperature safety cabinet that sprays cold air to store the virus is opened, and the sampling tube that exudes a dark blue color is taken out, which is called miracle, and the virus is taken out from the Antarctic ice.
"It looks like a normal thing."
Having said that, Ke Luoxu would never dare to underestimate it, judging from the information he kept reading at this time, although this RNA virus is a mild virus, once the human body is contaminated, the probability of "final" death is as high as more than 99%, which is enough to make people smell and change. The most important thing is that the research on the M virus has only taken more than a year, although it is roughly clear which proteins have antigenic surnames, but whether it is an inactivated vaccine or an attenuated vaccine, it has not yet been produced, and the most terrible thing is that there is no disease and can be treated.
The data show that M virus (75~350nm×60~125nm) is elliptical at one end, flat at one end, has an envelope, contains a capsid and is helical symmetrical, and the nucleic acid is a single-strand unsegmented negative-strand RNA. The genome is about 25 kb long, and each gene contains non-coding spacer sequences, and the proteins encoded as N, M1, M2, G, and L from the 4th to 6th end all have antigenic surnames, which can theoretically stimulate the body to induce the production of corresponding antibodies and cellular immunity.
Flipping through the following information, Luo Xu muttered in his mouth: "The Americans' hands and feet are very fast, and they have obtained so many materials in more than a year, well, this is ......"
Luo Xu's doubts gradually rose, flipped through the holographic pictures, and couldn't help but be stunned: "The Yankees are really powerful, they really dare to use living people for experiments, there is a kind!" ”
The reason why the M virus has received the attention of the United States is that this virus is intertwined with the American life science research and the Future Warrior Program. Judging from the disclosed information, as early as the beginning of the 21st century, the Americans planned an extremely grand plan, that is, a project named "American Future Soldier Program", the first of which was to invest four billion dollars to jointly develop an "autonomous system" with the British defense company Qiq to manufacture war robots.
The core part of the second development project is genetic recombination, which changes the human chromosomes themselves, so that soldiers can run faster than Olympic flyers, can keep fighting for several days without food and sleep, and can not only carry overweight loads beyond the limits of the human body, but can even be reborn with severed limbs.
Life sciences research and the Future Warrior Genetic Recombination Program complement each other, but despite decades of success since the 2012 investment in the Future Warrior program, with collateral worth more than a trillion dollars, there is still little hope of realizing the previously planned Future Soldier program. With the continuous changes in the world political situation, the extension and development of science and technology, and the continuous reduction of the importance of special soldiers in the future, the reason why the United States still supports the genetic recombination plan of future soldiers is just a valuable subsidiary result produced in the research process.
But from the beginning of getting the M virus, the genetic recombination plan has seen a glimmer of light, whether it is for war or for the future of mankind, the benefits contained in it are enough to make anyone blush, anyway, the United States [***] has never had any restraints, and the secret implementation of human experiments is just for the "future of mankind", if anyone or any organization dares to stop it, it is to ignore the overall situation, it is a terrorist, and it is a crime against humanity.
I feel that the United States [***] party has found a legal basis to start the clinical trial, but according to the analysis of the situation shown on the information that Luo Xu is looking at now, the experimental process is not smooth, and it can be described as twists and turns. From the first animal experiments, to the real determination to carry out human experiments, not long after the virus was inoculated on three "volunteers", before the data was collected, I don't know what a huge thing happened, so that all research was interrupted, all the personnel of the base disappeared, leaving an empty city until the arrival of Luo Xu 22 years later.
This new RNA virus strengthens the special surname of recombining biological genetic factors, but because of the special surname of this virus, most organisms cannot adapt to their mutant surnames, and finally die in the process of mutation.
"Is this still a rat?"
Luo Xu saw the picture behind him, the comparison of the experimental subject before and after, he was still a gentle guinea pig, and a few hours after being implanted with a virus, he became a terrifying monster that no one knew, and his body that grew to more than thirty centimeters long was full of blooming hematomas, and the faint yellow liquid was all over the hematomas, which looked extremely disgusting. Clearly, the genotype of the host cell is altered by the virus chromosomes, and the cell's surname is also lysogenized, resulting in a mutation into another organism.
In addition to the mice, there were other test subjects who had mutated, and although the results were disastrous, it was heartening to see that the genetic status of the mutation was relatively stable, and the mutants had the same physical strength and recovery ability compared to the prototype. However, it becomes very irritable and aggressive, and will bite at all living organisms around it that it can touch.
With a sigh and a hint of excitement flashing from his eyes, Luo Xu coughed and sent the M virus culture solution to the ultra-low temperature freezer, where the ultra-pure virus stock solution will be re-frozen at a freezing rate of 1 °C per minute until -150 °C, and then these sampling tubes are stored in liquid nitrogen at -150 °C ~ -196 °C. There is the most complete reading air circulation system and the most intelligent AI here, and there has been no human operation and no virus leakage accident for more than 20 years, so Luo Xu is not worried, and walks outside the biological laboratory with clumsy steps.
When he came to the isolation room and took off his protective clothing, he had to enter the disinfection room to disinfect it again, and he could only retrieve his clothes after drying his body, but by this time his excitement had fallen silent, and the feeling of exhaustion poured into his heart like a tidal wave, so after stepping into the elevator, Luo Xu directly asked Bob to send him to the studio, lying on the sofa and falling asleep.
When he swept away his exhaustion and woke up, he saw that the time was already more than two o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, since he got the mysterious cube, his own business can be said to be really three days of fishing and four days of drying nets, if it weren't for the large amount of cat food and water in the food bowl at home, it is estimated that Derpy would have starved to death because of his irresponsible behavior recently.
Hey, don't think so much, think that you are also a hero, how can you sigh because of this trivial matter, how will you do great things in the future? How to contribute to society? How to ensure the safety of the country? Luo Xu comforted himself a few times, his expression reinvigorated, but he suddenly thought of a question, if he stayed here all the year round, then it was not a way to always eat dry food and biscuits, it seemed that he had to buy and store a large number of various foods, anyway, there was no shortage of freezers, and no matter how much food he had, he could save it.
But speaking of which, I've been in this base for a while, and I've understood everything I should know, and I've seen what I should see, and the next thing I'm going to do is probably figure out what's going on in the world outside the base.
"Bob, where's the access to the outside of Base 17?"
"SIR, Bunker 17 has a total of 4 lifts and exits, as well as 2 escape routes......"
The three-dimensional holographic image of the entire base unfolded in front of Luo Xu, and the red lines specially marked where the passage was located so that Luo Xu could see it at a glance.
"Okay, open the lifting channel in Area B, and send the MQ-4 Predator drone to reconnoiter the situation."
With Luo Xu's order, the distant B-1 warehouse was originally as dark as ink, and suddenly the lights were bright, like day, and one of the Predator drones docked to the side, with the order activated, the small wheel made of wear-resistant and high-temperature special material glued steel wire turned on its own and began to gradually drive towards the B-1 gate.
There were no fighters stopping on the middle road, which was originally reserved for the use of the runway, so when the Predator picked up its speed, it quickly drove out of the wide open gate and came to a lifting tunnel with a diameter of 100 meters, and stopped on a wide lifting platform.
......The red alarm flashed continuously, illuminating the entire tunnel shrouded in a red light, and the lifting platform had not been used for decades, but now it was suddenly used, but there was no abnormality, and it was extremely smooth to hold the Predator drone towards the tunnel sky.
Above the tunnel, the closed gate clicks open, revealing an isolation chamber, where the lifting platform stops for a moment, and when the gate below closes, the gate above can be opened.
On the core of the predator, a quantum information receiving device is installed, through which, there is no need for delayed radio wave communication, and directly with quantum communication as a means, you can truly achieve the "three nos" state of no cracking, no delay and no interference, so through the data link of real-time contact with the predator, Luo Xu can not only see everything observed by the predator in front of him, but also make a plan to manually take over the predator at a critical moment.
"Okay, open the floodgates!"
Luo Xu was a little nervous, because he didn't know the situation outside, so anything could happen, but judging from the information he had so far, the situation in the outside world was likely to be extremely bad. After all, Bob was unable to connect to satellites outside the atmosphere, the cables with the outside world were destroyed, and even the most secure quantum relay station could no longer connect to the call, so Luo Xu was prepared for the worst.
But because of this, there is a hint of happiness in his nervous mood, if everything is okay in the outside world, he will be miserable. The so-called dead Daoist friends are not dead and poor, even if Daoyou are all human beings, Luo Xu will be silent for a few moments, and he will ...... Well, at most, some sad tears can be left, and it can't be excessive, this is not the world he is familiar with.
Finally, when the floodgates above slowly opened, a ray of light shot in through the gap, and the sky outside gradually revealed in front of Luo Xu.
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