Faintly, the sound of machinery pierced the night air and reached the tents on the island. A few lights on the machine mingle with the dots of stars in the sky. It was the quick, regular flickering of the lights that led to the belief that it wasn't actually a star. As we get closer, the bright and flashing lights irritate the eyes a little. Soon after the machine landed in the clearing, the sound of the paddle paddling through the air gradually faded away. The whole island was again surrounded by silence.

Wen He said to Ivan, who had his eyes closed, "The people on the collector want to come here to report, okay?" ”

Ivan didn't open his eyes: "No, not only can't we come here, but we can't go anywhere else." He slowly opened his eyes and continued: "The blood samples they brought and the ground navigation equipment were moved into the nearby tent, and the tent they lived in was set up by themselves, and the place should be far away from us, oh! Just near the airport. ”

"That's all?"

"Hmmm! We'll talk about the rest tomorrow. ”

After noon the next day, a signal came from the communicator asking the infirmary to call. After Ivan is connected, the screen shows Lesia's face behind the transparent mask.

Lesiya: "We have developed two schemes, one is to replace the blood, in order to dilute the current blood virus in [***] through the white blood cells contained in fresh blood and new blood, and at the same time eliminate the virus in the human body to achieve the purpose of treatment; The second option is to use the resources here, such as plant and animal resources, to research and implement drug treatments, which are available resources, and if possible, the research and treatment time can be shortened considerably.

We have also considered that the treatment time with the first regimen is longer, but fortunately, it can be carried out quickly, and it has been used before, so we are sure, such as fresh blood, don't we have stored everyone's blood samples and genetic samples for a long time, using these resources, we can produce new blood that meets the blood of each patient's own body through artificial synthesis, so that it can be replaced, although the replacement time is long, but it is also reliable.

As soon as I explain this second plan, you will understand, which is to collect samples of all the plants and animals that can be collected here, and then find and refine the good medicine that can cure the disease. ”

"I fully support you. Behold! You can also do both at the same time! If you still need manpower, I'll arrange it for you. ”

"Thank you! In this case, we hope that scientists who are involved in both of our programs, such as botany, zoology, chemistry, etc., the more the better, and of course, they need to be able to act now. ”

"Excellent! Then I'll help you choose with Wen He, and of course they will listen to your command and coordination when they go to you, right! ”

"Yes!"

"Hmmm! Get busy! ”

A few minutes later, another signal came from the infirmary: "Professor! At the same time, we have been further inspired by the two options you just proposed, and we now have a third solution, which is a treatment plan that combines blood replacement with drugs extracted from native plants and animals. I'm going to tell you about it, and thank you for your inspiration. ”

Ivan smiled: "The layman has only done such a little, thank me, it's worth it." ”

"You're not modest."

"No need, who are we with whom!" There was a coughing laugh over the communicator, and Ivan's eyes were pulled down, and his face immediately sank into deep pain.

Near a tent in front of the airport, stands a metal building, the base of which is a base of triangular shelves, the top of which is a round butterfly, and the two structures together are almost two meters high. Inside the tent there are two beds and a few wooden benches, and near the long tent wall is a two-sided table with a display screen and gauges on both the vertical and horizontal sides of the table. There is also a small surface sticking out under the horizontal tabletop, on which there are keyboards, controllers and other equipment. Ivan and the other two sat separately, wearing thin white spacesuits that were sealed from head to toe.

One of the two controllers pointed at Ivan and talked, while the other looked up at the screen and down at the keyboard, entering data into the monitor in front of him.

The screen in front of the controller who spoke to Ivan showed a topographic map of different shades of color, and the topographic map was divided into a grid of squares by obvious white lines.

The controller pointed to the screen and said to Ivan, "The collector collects all varieties of plants in the box formed from these four longitude and latitude coordinates. Of course, before the collection, it is important to do a three-dimensional scan of each plant, make the collected data and store it in the database, in addition to the subsequent classification of the data and the plant object, it can also be compared and identified with the data collected in other regions or later, so that each plant will not be duplicated in the sub-region, sub-collector and sub-time. When the time comes to stop this work, all plant samples that have been collected and the corresponding data will be unique, unless otherwise necessary. In addition, if it is confirmed later which plant is to be collected and used, the location and number of the plant will be available as long as the data of the desired plant is called. Is that okay? ”

Ivan nodded: "Yes! Not bad! That's it. So, what about animal samples? They move around a lot. ”

Operator: "The infirmary said that they won't take animal samples first, they have to think about it." ”

"Then we can do it now?"

"Hmmm! OK. ”

"Then you're busy, you need to notify me of anything, or Wen He can do it. I'm going to stay here and delay your work. ”

The white light softly sprinkled into the tent, and it could reach everywhere it was pointed. Although no one was moving, the air in the tent was not lonely, and it used its own vibrations to hear the sound of people talking and the snoring of those who slept.

Cha De was sleeping, and Zhao Li and his wife were still chirping crookedly on the communicator, many times - of course, he and his wife were also chirping each other on their respective communicators. Sometimes a person's violent coughing can be heard in the tent, sometimes several coughs echo each other, or they are scrambling to sing for him.

Crying was heard from the communicator several times, and Zhao Li stopped talking, pricking up his ears to hear what was going on.

Communicator: "Hmm! I told you at the time that you don't want your son to follow you, you have to let him go to the island, saying that if your son is a man, he should go to a hard place to exercise and exercise a ghost! Now you are infected with an infectious disease, you are in a hurry! Well! What can I do? ”

He whispered many times: "Don't worry! All the personnel and medicines have been mobilized here, these people are medical scientists, and with them, my son will be fine. ”

The communicator choked up and asked loudly: "It's going to be fine!" You said well, how long has it been? It's been seven or eight days, why haven't you gotten better, and besides, it's getting serious, and I've heard that all of you have been infected."

He asked repeatedly, "Who said that?" Who said this? ”

"What do you want to do? Do you want to ask for sin? All of them say, who are you looking for? ”

Repeatedly ruthlessly: "Who is talking nonsense there and scolding, don't let me catch it, catch him who looks good." ”

The choked voice in the communicator was quiet: "It's really not what they say?" ”

After hesitating for a moment, he replied categorically: "It's really not as bad as the rumors, I promise you." ”

"Don't lie to me! Trick me into having you look good. ”

Repeatedly: "Ahem! Ahem! Really, really didn't lie to you, I swear to God. ”

The communicator said in a soothing tone: "You're coughing too, and your face is blue. ”

"It's okay, it's just that I was in a hurry just now, and I choked." His mind spun quickly, trying to find all kinds of excuses: "My face is not good, isn't that the display of the monitor has a color difference!" "It's really an imperceptible excuse, Lili doesn't understand what color difference is, and the color displayed has color difference. Zhaoli admired the quick reaction many times, and he couldn't refute the excuses he made, but he wouldn't break it.

"Whew! I'm hanging! ”

"Hmmm! Then hang it! ”

Zhao Li said to his communicator: "This is something, I'm hanging!" Leaning sideways to say to many times: "Xibo's condition has deteriorated again?" ”

"Hmm!"

"Your face is getting bluer."

"Yours isn't very pretty, let's two, it's the same as the three."

"How long do you estimate it will take to find a cure?"

"Hard to say! Ay! According to the normal time of new drug research, there are not a few months, which I am talking about in earth time, and it is impossible to do it without a few months or even years. Even if a new drug is developed, clinical trials will still be conducted! It's also a time-consuming process. ”

Zhao Li interjected: "Isn't this a special situation! Can't skip this step? ”

"That's impossible, you think! What if there are toxic side effects! Your new drug can't kill the virus, but it kills people!

At best, even if the toxic side effects are mild, it will not work if it cripples people, right? Doesn't this violate the ultimate goal of the development and use of new drugs?

Does the new drug have toxic side effects, and what is the degree of toxic side effects, if you want to reduce this procedure, even the doctor will not agree, otherwise, the doctor is a quack, and the medicine used is poison. Do you eat the poison, cough cough! Ahem!? After saying this long list, he coughed violently for a while.

Zhao Li smiled: "Speak slowly!" Hey! I'm not crazy or stupid enough to take poison. ”

sighed many times, and then spoke, but the voice was not loud: "Hey! I want to give it a try. ”

Zhaoli pricked up his ears: "What did you say?" ”

Many times he shouted impatiently: "I said, I want to try, try a new drug." ”

Zhao Li's eyes widened, looking at Duo Fan's face, Duo Fan only rolled his eyes to look at him, Zhao Li: "Are you crazy!" I want to try that. ”

"No way, someone has to try it first!"

"Then you're also for your son, aren't you?"

Nodding his head many times: "Yes! Even if it's it! ”

Zhao Li muttered a few times and was speechless—he didn't know whether to persuade him to try or to give up, so he could only fall into deep thought.

A few minutes later, Zhao Li asked again, "Will the doctor agree?" ”

"I don't know!"

Zhao Li shook his head: "I don't think so." He wanted to say, "However, some people try and think it's not right."

Outside the tents of the three newly built laboratories next to the medical room, there are patches of collected plant samples, and there are many in each tent, making it difficult for more people to get in.

The strange shape of these plants is simply unimaginable. If you like leaves, you can distinguish them from this: long-leafed, long-flattened, elongated, long-needled, short-coniferous, round-leafed, and so on.

If you like stalks, you can distinguish them from this: smooth, rough, regular grain, irregular grain, etc. Regardless of their shape, they all have one thing in common: they are not very large, and they are all gray, dark gray or black. The leaves are generally darker in color than the stems. The stalk samples of large plants that need to be collected, because it is impossible to collect the whole plant, the robotic arm of the collector is used to drill the stalk debris of the large plant to make the sample.

More than a dozen people hid in their spacesuits, and it was difficult to tell the difference between them and not through the transparent hood (and the strong reflections had to be avoided). In fact, bystanders can distinguish and call by the "Doctor: Name So-and-So" and "Nurse: Name So-and-So" signs on their clothes.

In the tent with the most equipment, five or six doctors are concentrating on the work in their hands, and it can be seen from others that the content of their work seems to be similar: take some tissues from the plant samples (including roots, stems and leaves) sent in, then immerse the tissues in clean water, take them out, put them in a centrifuge to shake the water dry, take out the spun dry tissues, and then put them into a grinding and pulverizer to grind them into finer particles, take out the particles and put them in a test tube, add distilled water, Then put the test tube into a machine that can hold many test tubes and let the test tube swing, so that the plant tissue in the test tube has been fully shaken with distilled water, and then, use a straw to drop the shaken liquid into several Petri dishes with black substance at the bottom. Observe the changes above with your eyes and then under a microscope. Some petri dishes are only observed with the naked eye at room temperature and then with a microscope; Some of them are heated and viewed with the naked eye and then with a microscope.

All of the above, each step of the work performed on each sample is recorded on a table with many compartments.

Every action they do is so careful and careful, and it is carried out step by step.

A monitor sounded an alarm, and a doctor rushed over to search for the patient's message: "It's Eleven, her name is Desla," and as soon as the words fell, a nurse burst in in a clumsy manner: "Eleven is not in good shape." The other doctor raised his hand to the nurse and said, "Take me to see it." As he walked, he said, "Has her new blood changed?" ”

Nurse: "Not today, isn't it because we have too few people to keep busy!" ”

Doctor: "Hmm! I'll be back later, and Ivan's men will be added. ”

Two bulky spacesuits went out, and several of the spacesuits in the tent were stunned and fell silent.

Half an hour later, the doctor returned to the laboratory, most of the people stopped what they were doing and looked at her, and the doctor said in a sad tone: "Her internal organs have failed, I'm afraid there is not much time left." The voice was lowered: "I am her friend, and I know that she is here alone, without relatives." After thinking for a while, he said to a nurse: "You go and inform the investigation that the person he brought into the spaceship was the first to be brought in, and he should know her current situation." ”

The nurse moved out the door, and the doctor instructed, "He's in tent three." ”

The doctor pressed the button next to the helmet, and the transparent cover opened, revealing Lesia's tired, blue face. Her two eye sockets were already sunken and a little dark around her, and her eyelashes, which used to look very long, were now receding into their sockets with their eyelids, and they didn't look so long. What's even more worrying is that her cheeks began to sink into the originally round flesh. After a few days of hard work and illness, it was almost impossible to recognize her as Le Siya.

A doctor saw it and urged her: "Why did you open the hood?" ”

Le Siya's face lifted slightly, and she blinked the eyes in her sockets: "I feel a little out of breath." ”

The Doctor: "Hurry up and close it." Several others also asked with concern: "Shut it up!" "Shut it down, it's not a joke."

Lesia didn't do what they said. An unidentified spacesuit approached her: "What? Under the weather? You go and rest! If you only sleep two or three hours a day, you won't be able to stand it. Well! ”

Le Siya: "I can't sleep because of something in my heart." ”

Spacesuit: "Then close the cover." As he spoke, he approached Le Siya and forcibly pressed the switch on her helmet, and there was a slight closing sound of "呀".

Le Siya stared at the spacesuit: "Wen He, some plants have been screened out, I think we can do human experiments, how to do it, you see?" ”

Wen He: "I don't understand either, it's better for you to preside over it!" ”

Lesia: "Ah! Just have a meeting to discuss. ”

In a short time, more than a dozen people gathered in the laboratory, and the indoor space was limited, only stools were set up where there were equipment, and most of the participants could only stand.

Lesiya leaned against a table, watched the staff stand one after another, and said to Wen He: "Everyone is here!" ”

Wen He nodded: "It's all here." ”

"Can you hear me? Ask them all to tune to the public band. ”

"This is the public frequency band, and all the people who come into the medical team come in and are set in the public frequency band."

"Alright! Then I'll get started. Uh-huh! Uh-huh! She cleared her throat: "I'll briefly state the purpose of this meeting. At present, we have screened 27 kinds of plants for pharmacological genera that can kill pathogenic viruses on the virus medium in the laboratory.

As we all know, because of the tight schedule, there is a patient who has already shown symptoms of body failure at this time, and she may not survive today. So time is tight. In this way, we have a more important task below, which is to hurry up and carry out drug experiments on humans.

According to the previous method, human experiments with new drugs could only be carried out with the consent of the patient or his family. However, one is that the number of new drugs is a bit large, and it takes a certain amount of time to obtain experimenters for each new drug. Second, there must be a certain risk when the drug name of the new drug is applied to the human body, so there will not be many people who are willing to experiment, which everyone can guess. Third, the experimental time is tight, and observing the efficacy of new drugs is a very time-consuming process, and we cannot afford to wait in terms of gaining time. So! I thought about it for a long time, and I decided to start experimenting with me. That's it. The tone is very calm, but her attitude is very resolute in distinguishing words and phrases.

After Le Siya finished speaking, everyone else in the tent stood in place, and there were some impatient people in front of them who always changed their feet left and right, and they forgot to change their feet at this time.

Wen He woke up from his stunned: "This can't be done, you are the leader among us, you"

"It is precisely because I am the leader that I have to carry this burden during the experiment. Besides, I'm also infected with the virus, so I can't be ruled out. ”

"Who! That! That! Does Lao Lu agree? ”

"Why do I need him to agree to my business, I'm awake now, not asleep. Otherwise, I'll sign a life and death certificate for you, and you won't be held responsible in case something goes wrong. As she spoke, she turned around: "I've actually prepared the agreement, just type it out now." She worked on the computer for a while, typed out a document in a moment, and found a pen to sign on it. She held up the document and handed it to Wen He: "How is it?" Here you go! ”

"Me! I! I'll have to listen to Professor Ivan. Feed! Feed! Professor Ivan, did you hear that? ”

Ivan: "I've been listening, yes! I think, Wen He, you can contact Lao Lu and get his opinion. ”

Le Siya: "Old Lu, he will also agree with my approach." ”

Wen He found Lu Yuan's frequency band on a piece of paper pasted on the wall of the tent, raised the display screen on his left hand, and entered the data with his right hand: "Old Lu?" ”

"Hmmm! I am. Wen He gave a brief explanation of Le Siya's matter to Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan only thought for a moment: "I agree with her decision, I think, you will agree according to her wishes!" ”

"It's a big risk that you're his husband doing this! What if, you're not afraid of this just in case? ”

Lu Yuan smiled: "What if it doesn't happen!" I know her well, you! Just agree with it! ”

"I said in case it's not right, in fact, the probability of danger may be one percent, one in ten!"

Lu Yuan smiled again: "No matter how much, what she believes must be done." ”

Le Siya was impatient: "You guys are so long-winded, time is of the essence, I started." With that, she walked over to a large table, carefully discerned the rows of test tubes that had been selected for a while, picked out one, used a syringe to extract the light gray liquid inside, and said to herself: "This medicine is relatively mild during the experiment, so that's it" and took off her gloves again, and rolled the sleeve of her right arm above the elbow. A doctor took the initiative to come up and help her stroke the sleeve of her right hand to prevent it from falling, and pointed to a plate in the distance: "Whoever helps, get a cotton wool." ”

Lesia: "I'll do it myself!" ”

The doctor didn't say a word, took off his gloves, picked up a piece of cotton wool, wiped it on the tendons of Lesia's elbow socket for a while, and threw it into a nearby garbage basket. The crowd watched with bated breath as they did this.

Lesia picked up the syringe, pointed the needle at the vein, and slowly injected the liquid. During this period, she moved slowly and calmly like she usually did as a doctor. Afterwards, she said lightly: "It's over." (To be continued.) )