Zheng Zhilan thought wildly in her bed, the aircraft carrier has power generation facilities, there are lights in her room, and there are ventilation facilities, she can lie quietly in the light.

She locked the door behind her, and moved down a movable mattress in the corner to block the doorway—she knew it was pointless, but she couldn't help it, a habit she had left over from her days in the North.

She always seemed to be worried that a zombie would break in from outside, and at the same time that someone would break in.

She didn't have a gun on her, which made her feel less secure.

"Before the zombie outbreak, SJS was conducting related biochemical research, which is a multinational giant in pharmaceutical and genetic research, and it actually serves this company, but there is no evidence to emphasize that their research is related to zombies." Zheng Zhilan carefully sorted out the clues he knew, "Stanley, as the leader of SJS, has an unusual relationship with the Eagle Country government, but he sent himself to Zhongzhou in advance to carry out activities, that is to say, as the head of the secret dispatch agency, in fact, there are a lot of things I don't know. ”

"It was only a few days before the outbreak of the zombie crisis that I was alerted to Stanley that there was a possibility of an attack on Zhongzhou from an unknown source, and even knew that it was a biochemical attack. But what is abnormal is that there are no clues in the local SJS of the Eagle Country, and Zhongzhou has only one secret agency in the Northern Province, and there is no related research activity, correspondingly, PW8893, which is closely related to SJS, has always been the leader of Zhongzhou in biochemical research, and there is no clear development news, so the zombie crisis occurred in the case of everyone's vague knowledge, and who will be the source of this vague information? ”

"If there is a secret in this, should I hide some of the discoveries?"

While she was thinking, there were suddenly three even knocks at the door.

"Ms. Lane, did you disturb your rest?"

It was the voice of a blonde man.

Zheng Zhilan sorted out her clothes, got out of bed, removed the things that were blocking the door, and looked out through the door—only the blonde man himself in the front, and he couldn't see who was next to him. That's when she opened the door.

"Rested?"

"It's okay, is there something to arrange for tomorrow?"

"I'm going to fight for you to meet with the president, and he seems very interested in your message." The blonde man smiled.

"Really? So when will I see him? Before Zheng Zhilan's words fell, behind the blonde man, a man of medium stature stood up.

"It's a pleasure to see you again, Ms. Lane." A man with a lot of energy stretched out his right hand to Zheng Zhilan.

This is none other than the current president of the Eagle Nation, Richard Millions, a man who has been in the sky since his name.

From the very beginning of his campaign, he made no secret of his "economic philosophy" -- vigorously revitalizing the economy of the Eagle Country and increasing employment to ensure that under the threat of the substantial rise of Zhongzhou and the rapid development of other countries, he could regain the dominance of the Eagle Country that had been lost.

As a result, he was not only favored by big capital, but also supported by nationalists and populists, and was finally elected president with a rare high vote.

At the beginning of his tenure, he focused on economic and industrial restructuring, using neo-institutionalist economics as an economic prescription to foster a number of extremely technology-intensive enterprises, including SJS, which was newly ranked among the top 500.

Zheng Zhilan stretched out his hand, and Richard shook it very politely.

"After President Richard heard my report, he came to visit you because he was afraid that it would affect your rest. You need to use your time wisely and report back to the president what you know. The blonde man said with a smile, then motioned to the president, "I'll just wait outside." ”

Richard was not humble, he directly stretched his left hand forward and invited Zheng Zhilan to the house, and he sat on the bed on the left side, as if he was the owner of this room.

There is a small table between the two sets of beds, which is similar to the sleeper train in Zhongzhou.

Zheng Zhilan closed the door but did not lock it, she took out her briefcase and presented the documents to the president. She didn't sit down.

"These are reports on the local research of Zhongzhou, and I mainly focus on the capital of Zhongzhou, the northern metropolis, and the current urban situation ......."

"To the point, has there been any new content to investigate? How are our fellows doing? Has a vaccine been developed against the Eagle Nation? The president interrupted Zheng's speech.

"We investigated that this should be a prion that carries specific genetic information, but the virus can only carry genes that can match a specific population, so at present this virus can only infect people in Zhongzhou, and I guess that the zombie disease transmitted in Gandhi and Pakistan is similar to the mechanism in Zhongzhou, but it may be that the prion carries different specific genetic information." Zheng Zhilan said.

"Sounds targeted?" President Richard tilted his head and squinted his eyes and asked, "As if some kind of man-made act?" ”

"It could also be natural evolution. We note that this prion is not only able to directly infect the nervous system, but also directly interferes with the process of cell division. Zheng Zhilan continued to explain the findings of his researchers.

"Oh?" Richard flipped through the file quickly to the page on the mechanism of prion transmission.

Zheng Zhilan waited for him to look at the relevant noun introduction and example pictures before continuing to explain, "The infection of the nervous system is very easy to explain, and it is reflected in the zombies this time, that people will lose all their memories, lose their original living habits as human beings, and even lose most or even all of their sense of pain." But we found that zombies do not lose their basic sense of smell, sight, and touch, but their sense of hearing to perceive the world has been subtly enhanced. ”

"Well, this kind of research is a statistical study, and the biochemists on the research ship have also been counted, you are specially sent to Zhongzhou, you are all the elite of the elite, there should be updated news! Getting to the point! Getting to the point! Richard was an impatient, and this was evident when he was engaged in economic change, and he even promised voters that he would make a technological leap forward during his tenure, and that the Eagle Nation would lead the world to complete the sixth technological revolution.

Now he was visibly impatient with whatever information he already knew.

"The focus is on the interference of this prion on cells." Zheng Zhilan said, "This prion can affect the process of cell division, causing zombies to have certain 'specific' changes, but this process is much smaller than the impact on the nervous system, so there are many fewer zombies with 'specific' changes." ”

"What is a 'specific' change?" Richard became interested, he put the file down, he couldn't read the contents anyway, he leaned forward slightly, his eyes like an eagle at Lane standing in front of him.

"At present, we have found that there are zombies with 'enhanced leg muscles', zombies with 'abnormal muscle shrinkage', and zombies with 'abnormal movement explosiveness and abnormal changes in the larynx', but this kind of specific zombies seem to have a very low chance of survival, and it is impossible to form a zombie mainstream." Zheng Zhilan said.

"Why? Aren't they evolutionary? ”

"No, they are actually a kind of degradation, to say that in the completeness of the development of the zombies themselves, these zombies are actually 'weak', we found in our research that if the prions refined in ordinary zombies are injected into these 'specific' zombies again, they will die directly without exception." Zheng Zhilan smiled.

"What do you mean?" Richard tried to listen, but he really didn't understand why this meant that these zombies were more "low-level".

"When ordinary zombies lack energy in their bodies, they can eat other zombies, eat humans, eat other meats, and even enter a state similar to hibernation, and they all have a complete cellular interference mechanism, mitochondria are fully developed, and they are not so easy to die naturally." Zheng Zhilan said, "But these 'specific' zombies, due to the abnormal changes in the cell interference mechanism, and the fact that they can't ingest the corpses of ordinary zombies as I just said, their food sources are greatly reduced, and they are more likely to die naturally." ”

Richard waved his hand at Zheng Zhilan, lowered his head, and pressed his left hand against his head, as if trying to absorb Zheng Zhilan's words.

"You're talking so fast, I can't react a little, you let me think about it." Richard said with a serious frown.

It was a good three minutes before he looked up.

"So, if you want to develop a vaccine, you have to destroy the mechanism by which prions interfere with cells?" There was a look of anticipation in his eyes, as if he needed Lane to confirm his suspicions.

"Not necessarily, we didn't find a viable vaccine, we really didn't know much about prions, but unexpectedly, we were able to breed variants of prions in the lab, and I thought that might help with further vaccine research." Zheng Zhilan said her most crucial message.

"What do you mean by a 'variant'?" Richard's old information hadn't been digested yet, and Lane threw out new information.

"We found a prion that is not very damaging to the nervous system, but can greatly interfere with the process of cell division, and after the experiment, we noticed that it can spread over a wider range, and even not only in the middle of the race, and its range of action is not a specific gene fragment, but the universal cells of all humans." What Zheng Zhilan said was the prion that derived the zombie "chimpanzee", "but fortunately, this kind of zombie is heavily interfered with due to cell division, and it does not have a long lifespan." ”

"How long?" Richard stood up as if he had discovered a new world.

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