Chapter 14 Soil-eating Bacteria

"Search plan? Aren't you going to prepare for a big war? Yi San was surprised. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"I didn't believe you were two hundred years ago, but now I do." Kyle patted Yi San on the head.

"It's a cover-up." Wang Xiaoming has always spoken concisely.

"It's a good plan, though." Kevin nodded and said.

It turned out that this was the usual modus operandi of al-Qaeda. Because the infiltration of spies five years ago has made the base afraid of anything. As a result, a submission is released before each major operation, and each squad has its own priority. Subtasks can be completed when the primary task is completed, or if the primary task cannot be completed, the subtask can be expanded.

This avoids the total leakage of information. It's not that subtasks aren't important, but they're not primary. In this way, human resources can be greatly exerted, and some teams that have received arduous tasks can also have a sub-task as a second choice to relieve the pressure of the task.

This time, Kyle, the task they received was very difficult.

Kyle's mission is simple: find the lost Julobah Plate!

"The organization allowed me to bring five people. Wang Xiaoming, you? Kyle looked at Wang Xiaoming hesitantly.

"I must go, no matter which detachment!" There was a light in Wang Xiaoming's eyes.

"Yes, that's good." Kyle nodded and said nothing.

Kyle knew that Wang Xiaoming had put the search plan at the top of his list. He will do this no matter what detachment he is in.

Wang Xiaoming is actually not a member of the Alpine base, he originally belonged to the Golden Triangle base. His grandfather's grandfather's hometown is in beautiful Yunnan, China. He survived the war five years earlier.

His base was largely wiped out, and he fought bloodily to escape 'them' from the miasma of the treacherous forests of the Golden Triangle, when all of his cellular repair fluids had been exhausted. His body was riddled with holes from the rays and the poisonous miasma of the forest, and was found dying.

A month after the battle, it was thought that the bases in the Golden Triangle had been completely destroyed, but the Alpine base unexpectedly received a signal from them. The signal is very short and disorganized. It's the same as the one in Tokyo.

However, the information from the Huaxia base said that the Tokyo base had been completely destroyed, and that information was that after the signal station cut off the power supply, the signal source would form a loop with the signal source in contact with the charged particles in the air under certain circumstances, and become a short-lived signal tower. A pulsed signal that is emitted at a frequency previously set by the source. So the signals are disorganized. And because the current provided by the charged particles in the air is too large, the signal source is burned.

These signals are like a sad song. In the final elegy sung for the heroes of the end.

So, the situation at the Golden Triangle base should be the same.

However, Wang Xiaoming did not give up, because there were people he cared about.

Not only Wang Xiaoming, but Kyle too. Kyle separated from her seven years ago, a young toxicopathologist who was tasked with the Golden Triangle to study the causes of radiation resistance in plants and develop the "Sleepless Warrior" reagent. The Great War five years ago lost contact.

Yi San had mixed feelings after listening to Kevin's general explanation of the reasons to him.

"I want to join too." Yi San said to Kyle.

"It's not a game." Kyle didn't refuse.

"I can't do anything about the past, but I can do something about the future." Yi San was firm in his thoughts.

Kyle nodded gratefully.

After a day of preparation, Kyle chooses a small detachment of four people. Codename: SS04 (searchforsurvivors).

In addition to Wang Xiaoming and Yi San, the entourage also included Eve, a young toxicopathology and medical worker, and James, a blasting expert and cryptography expert.

Kevin did not travel with Kyle, but stayed at the base to continue his in-depth study of space-time theory. To be exact, Kyle and Kevin haven't been on a mission at the same time. Even in the same task they will be in different groups. This is not only the arrangement of the organization, but also their idea. But they are silent about it. When people asked, they told people that they were afraid that their family would become extinct, and kept the incense.

Yi 3: They set off in a quadcopter helicopter in the direction of the Golden Triangle base.

Looking down at the earth from the sky, it was devastating. There were sandstorms and bare hills everywhere, and the dots of green were like moss sticking to the dirt walls. It's heart-wrenching to watch. The parched riverbed was exposed to the surface, and the earth was like a walnut about to crack, as if a stone could smash the earth, revealing hot magma. Yi San was saddened.

"By the way, what is the oxygen content of the earth?" Yi San found that the vegetation coverage of the earth is pitifully low.

"20 percent, but it's still rising. It's a big problem, but we don't have time to pay attention to it. Kyle stared at the radar on the screen and said without looking back.

"Yes, in the middle of the twenty-second century, the desertification of the planet has become quite serious. Coupled with the expansion of the earth's population and the overexploitation of resources, the oxygen content of the atmosphere has dropped sharply, and the air quality is worrying. At that time, a Chinese scientific research team found an everlasting lamp in an ancient tomb, which had been burning for more than 500 years and was a sensation. It has been found that there is an ancient anaerobic bacterium in the ancient tomb, which can decompose calcium carbonate in rock formations to produce carbon dioxide. Surprisingly, this bacterium has chloroplasts and is capable of photosynthesis. Yes, like paramecium. Just like that, it relies on the faint light of the tomb lamp to break down rock formations to produce carbon dioxide, which in turn produces oxygen through photosynthesis. It's a miracle. Eve, a toxicological and pathology expert who accompanied her, told the story.

"Not a single bacterium works harder than us, so why don't we work hard." James is typing code on a microcomputer.

"You're saying that the surface of the earth is full of these bacteria, decomposing the surface rock layers?" Yi San said incredulously.

"yes, or where do you think these sandstorms came from?" Kyle asks Yi San to hand him a drink.

"So the bacterium has spread all over the world." Yi San looked at the vast land and said worriedly.

"Yes, the presence of this bacterium has also been found in the North and South Poles." Eve also had a sad face.

"Why did it spread?" Yi San is more concerned about this.

"In order to save humanity, reforestation could no longer keep up with desertification, and the reduction in oxygen levels was already killing millions of people around the world, affecting half of the planet. As a result, the United Nations Congress, ignoring the objections of the Society for Toxicological and Pathological Research, has targeted large quantities of these bacteria without an environmental assessment. Temporarily alleviated the human crisis. Eve patiently explained.

"For the time being? And then? Yi San asked.

Later, the bacteria multiplied and produced a lot of oxygen, alleviating the crisis. But then the problem arises, this bacterium has few natural enemies in nature. After the decomposition of the earth's surface, more severe desertification was born, which did not affect oxygen levels, but exacerbated species extinctions. These multiplying bacteria are also accompanied by a large number of deaths, and their corpses carry live bacteria with the wind to spread, and the blood-red sandstorms that are commonly seen today are these bacterial colonies. There is an old saying in England that whoever swims in sin will sink in sorrow. Eve said sadly.

"Red bacteria, was this the day I came?" Yi San remembered the red sandstorm he had seen on the day he first arrived, and immediately asked Kyle what was going on.

"yes, that's it." Kyle doesn't look back.

"Wait a minute, if there's live bacteria in that clump, what happens if we inhale it?" Yi San thought of a serious problem.

"They are anaerobes that survive in our bloodstream. Along the circulatory system, and finally attached to the calcium-containing bones, what do you think of the result? Eve asked rhetorically.

"Wouldn't I be then?" Yi San was worried.

"You've already injected the cell repair solution. So you know why cell repair solutions are used on the surface, not just to protect against radiation. Either you've lost your teeth and had a brittle bone attack. Kyle explained to Yi San.

"What's the deal with cell repair solution?" Yi San is also interested in cell repair fluids.

"Cell repair solution can also be called cell production solution, not to repair damaged cells, but to generate new cells and accelerate aging and the death of damaged cells. For example, if an earthworm with a rotten tail wants to be restored to its original state, it must simply cut off the tail and generate a new one. Eve tried to keep it as simple as possible.

"What about the bacteria?" Yi San was still puzzled.

"Oh, haven't you studied biology? When a cell dies, lysosomes are lysed and enzymes are released that dissolve everything in the cell and are finally engulfed by macrophages. "Eve heard that Yi San didn't believe it two hundred years ago, but now he does.

"Can it be understood that our cells have died with those bacteria?" Yi San suddenly felt that man was really a miracle and should not disappear into time and space and become history.

"Yes, yes. The same is true of all extinct creatures. "James is fighting for the extinct creatures.

"How do you control that?" Yi San asked Eve.

"One of the goals of my job is to find antimicrobial resistance and natural antibodies against soil-eating bacteria. The scientific name of this bacterium is Earth-eating bacteria. Also called soil-loving bacteria. Eve said.

"It's hard for us to protect ourselves, where is there time to take care of this, it's important to survive first." James said.

Wang Xiaoming didn't say a word, his eyes stared affectionately at the land he was familiar with. His eyes were filled with tears.

"We're here." Kyle said as he looked at the latitude and longitude coordinates on the monitor.

"Where?" Yi San asked.

"Mekong River, Canglan River." Kyle replied succinctly.

The quadcopter descended slowly and landed on a flat riverbed. Blowing up a burst of red sand. Yi San could no longer look directly at the sand. Thinking that all this sand was all dead bacteria and still alive bacteria, Yi San was reluctant to take an extra breath, if he wasn't forced to survive.

Five people, carrying heavy backpacks and sunglasses, stepped out of the helicopter. Looking at this desolate land, they all stayed for a while.

Everyone has their own ideas in their hearts, but they all know it. Being alive is the most important thing. Of course, Yi San also feels that it is equally important for him to go back to 2017.