Chapter 8: A Distant Dream
Date: November 27, 2015
Records: The gene transplant was successfully completed, there was no immune system rejection and blood clotting, and all physical indicators were normal. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Date: November 28, 2015
Record: Today is the first day after the operation, Luoyang has not yet woken up, the reason is unknown, and all the indicators of the body are normal.
Date: November 29, 2015
Record: On the second day after surgery, the white blood cells in Luoyang's blood were elevated, accompanied by a low-grade fever, and consciousness was still not awakened.
Date: November 30, 2015
Records: On the third day after surgery, there was hemorrhage in Luoyang's gums, nasal cavity, retina, etc., continuous fever, still in a coma, platelets and red blood cells were lower than normal, and it was suspected that he was diagnosed with leukemia.
Date: December 1, 2015
Log: Missing.
(The above content is excerpted from the "Memorandum of the 18th Test of the Roselle Project", recorded by Lu Zixin, and is now preserved in the Historical Archives of the West China Monastery of the Yundu Defense Base.) )
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In the No. 1 hall of the Roselle project team, Lu Zixin just used a laser confocal microscope to do a blood smear analysis for Luoyang, and the scan results have been transmitted to the supercomputer and are being processed in the later stage.
After about a minute or two, the picture finally came out - Luoyang's blood was scattered with countless golden particles with a diameter of nanometers, it was impossible to judge what it was, it was moving disorderly at an ultra-high speed, the chromosomes in the cells were like fragile fibers, trembling and struggling in the rain of golden particles, the DNA double helix was ruthlessly torn apart, and the bases were scattered everywhere.
DNA is the order of life, like the source code of a program, and if something goes wrong, the whole system will collapse.
Wang Lanqing watched the short film taken with a microscope with a silent face, and his bloodshot eyes showed a little tiredness.
He didn't say a word to the people around him, because he didn't know what to say, so he turned around dejectedly, lit a cigarette, and smoked silently.
The direction he faces is Luoyang's ward, through the tempered glass window, you can see Luoyang lying on the hospital bed, his face is pale, like a lifeless corpse, even more terrifying than a dead corpse, his nostrils are inserted with a hose for oxygen delivery, blood oozing out of the capillaries flows out of the hose, staining the bed sheets and pillowcases with blood, like a murder scene.
Wang Lanqing knew very well that this level of bleeding was only the beginning.
The gene chain in Luoyang's body is almost shattered, which means that his body will begin to collapse from the most microscopic scale, with proteins breaking down and cells dying.
The macroscopic manifestation is that his internal organs will bleed on a large scale, and then necrosis and erosion, until the whole body turns into a mass of pus and blood.
He had to admit that the initial estimate was too optimistic, and the disordered mutation of genes induced the cancerization of cells? The actual results in front of us are more than ten times worse than that.
Although cancer is also a terminal disease, at least there are means to control it, and there is a small probability that it can be cured, but the current situation is completely powerless.
In front of the projector, Lu Zixin looked at the scene of destruction on the screen like a modern war, biting her lip, the pen in her hand couldn't fall for a long time, she didn't know how to record all this, and she couldn't give a diagnosis, what kind of illness is this, she hopes that Luoyang is just leukemia, so that he will at least have a chance to live, but now in this situation, Luoyang has been sentenced to death, and the kind that cannot be suspended for execution.
"The experiment failed." Xu Weimin said the fact that everyone was unwilling to admit.
"It's too early to draw this conclusion, Luoyang still has signs of life, and even breathing and pulse are still normal." Lu Zixin stepped forward to adjust the oxygen delivery rate slightly faster, and said with a slight frown, she was very disgusted with taking Luoyang as a human test at the beginning, and now she hastily decided that the experiment failed, which is simply a great disrespect for life.
"You are studying clinical medicine, and you should know the situation in Luoyang better than those of us who are engaged in theory." Xu Weimin glanced at Lu Zixin indifferently, and then said to Wang Lanqing, "Comrade Lanqing, declare this experiment a failure, there is not much time left for us, we should start the 19th test immediately, the things in front of us should be put aside first, and we can't continue to occupy resources. ”
Wang Lanqing hesitated, took three puffs of cigarette in a row, and then said, "Let's wait and see." ”
"Luoyang's current situation is already lacking in skills......
Before Xu Weimin finished speaking, the monitoring system of the ward suddenly issued a rapid prompt sound.
Everyone was attracted by this voice, and even Xu Weimin stopped arguing with Wang Lanqing and walked quickly towards the ward.
On the hospital bed, Luoyang showed signs of awakening, and his fingertips trembled slightly, although the amplitude was extremely small, but it was still difficult for everyone to suppress the excitement in their hearts.
It's the first time this has happened so many days after surgery!
It's just that everyone still doesn't dare to conclude whether Luoyang will fully wake up, so they are more nervous.
Outside the ward, Lu Zixin hurriedly put on a mask, opened the explosion-proof door and entered the ward, quickly walked to the bed, and held Luoyang's trembling fingertips, this tactile stimulation was conducive to the awakening of his consciousness. The power from the palm became more and more obvious, which made Lu Zixin overjoyed, and after about two or three minutes, Luoyang finally opened his eyes with difficulty,
His bloodshot eyes were filled with an aura that bordered on death, making it unbearable to look at him.
It's finally dawn!
This was Luoyang's first feeling after opening his eyes, and when the retina adapted to the intensity of the surrounding light, he found that the glowing object was not the long-lost sun, but a bright energy-saving lamp.
Then he saw Lu Zixin, and he was so excited that he wanted to cry.
"I know you're having a hard time now, but you try not to speak, you're weak right now." Lu Zixin saw Luoyang's lips twitching, and her eyes were filled with tears because of the haggardness, you can imagine what kind of torture the illness is for him, she can't help but feel distressed, which reminds her of a puppy she raised a long time ago, just a very ordinary Shiba Inu, she will never forget, it was tortured by the disease, and finally died in her arms.
Luoyang didn't listen to the advice, if he didn't say some things, I am afraid that he would not have a chance in this life, which is really a pity.
"I had a dream." Luoyang said.
"A long dream."
Luoyang's hoarse voice has an indescribable power, and he seems to be eager to say something, like a dying old man recalling his life's experience, unforgettable, brilliant ......
This kind of power made Lu Zixin silent, and he couldn't bear to interrupt him.
Outside the ward, Wang Lanqing and Xu Weimin also listened to Luoyang's narration through the monitoring system, and seemed to have temporarily forgotten what was at stake in his life.
"I arrived on a strange planet, and I didn't know how to get there, and the mountains on that planet were very high, very steep, like fangs, and there could be no such mountains on earth, and they could be crushed by their own gravity alone, and some of them were suspended in a dense fog in mid-air; None of the ground was whole, it was all torn apart, and the fissures were filled with magma, which was like hell, and when the moon grew larger, the magma rushed into the night sky like waves; The nights are long, mostly always night, and the days are only a few tenths as long as the nights, and when the day comes, the tall mountains will collapse and the huge rocks will fall from the sky like the end of the world......"
Luoyang uses scattered language to describe a whimsical scene, which is simply a picture that only appears in science fiction movies.
Wang Lanqing was a little disappointed, he thought that Luoyang would provide some very important information, but he didn't expect that it was really just a dream.
If he just described a meaningless dream, there was really no need to overdraw his remaining vitality, Wang Lanqing raised his hand and knocked on the glass window, wanting Lu Zixin to interrupt him.
"He's talking like a giant planet in the Sirius binary system." At this moment, someone in the crowd suddenly spoke.
Wang Lanqing was attracted by these words, turned his head and asked, "How do you judge?" ”
Xue Tao said the basis for his judgment.
"The Sirius binary star system is made up of a star and a white dwarf, and in this system there is a giant planet whose position happens to be above the gravitational equilibrium of the binary, so it does not orbit around any star, and coincidentally has the same rotation period, so that one side of the giant planet is always facing the star, and the other side is always facing the white dwarf, and only at certain points in time will there be a brief flip, which is about the same as the probability of seeing a lunar eclipse."
On the other hand, the gravitational pull of the white dwarf is huge enough to counteract the gravitational pull of the giant planet, so there will be very high mountains, even floating mountains, and the binary star systems orbit each other, so that the distance between the giant planet and the binary star is not constant, and the change in distance will cause gravitational tides, and this variable of force can easily tear apart the earth's crust and throw magma into the sky, if the face is flipped, When daylight comes, the gravitational pull of the star is not as good as that of the white dwarf, and the mountain will naturally be crushed by gravity......"
Xue Tao is not only a doctor of biology, but also has deep attainments in celestial mechanics, and this analysis is the Tao, which immediately aroused everyone's thinking.
"According to the historical observations of the National Astronomical Center, Roselle flew from the direction of the constellation Sirius." Xue Tao mentioned it again at this time.
"You mean......" Wang Lanqing came back to his senses.
Xue Tao nodded: "It is very likely that Luoyang is not dreaming, but he has absorbed Luoshen's memory." ”
"The experiment was a success." Wang Lanqing was silent for about two or three seconds, and excitedly broke the cigarette still burning in his hand into two.
"But with Luoyang's current physical condition, the chances of survival are slim." Xu Weimin said in a deep voice.
Wang Lanqing threw the broken cigarette on the ground, waved his hand, and said nonchalantly: "If you can get the memory of Luoshen, its significance has gone beyond the experiment itself." ”
Speaking of which, he couldn't wait to talk to Luoyang face to face, ask all the details about the dream, even ignore the safety and epidemic prevention regulations of the project, and prepare to enter the ward in person.
As soon as the blast door was opened, a shrill alarm bell sounded without warning, accompanied by the flashing of red alarm lights, and the whole hall suddenly fell into an extremely tense atmosphere.