Since humans learned to think, they began to worship power, and in ancient times, people would worship natural phenomena such as the sun, moon, wind, fire, mountains, and water as gods.

Whether it is the immortals and Buddhas of China or the gods of the West, they are nothing more than people's fantasies for the pursuit of power.

Whether there are gods or not, we don't know, but it doesn't stop people from thirsting for power, so human beings have all kinds of inventions.

Humans can't go to heaven? Then invent the airplane; Humans can't cross the sea? Then invent the steamship; Humans want to see if there are gods on the moon? Let's invent the spaceship and take a look.

When human beings exert their power to the extreme, they can even destroy Mother Earth, on which they depend.

But these are external forces, and when the external strength cannot continue to improve for the time being, they begin to pursue the inner again.

As a result, human beings fantasize about various cultivation systems, such as cultivation of truth, qi training, various martial arts, and countless cultivation methods in movies and novels, many of which seem to be very reasonable, but no one has really succeeded.

Then mankind turned its attention back to science and technology, the success of cloning technology, the research and development of various new drugs, and the overcoming of various diseases......

Founded in 1849, with a history of more than 170 years and headquartered in New York, Sinohui Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. is currently the world's largest R&D-based biopharmaceutical company.

The underground R&D room of Sinohui's corporate headquarters.

If someone comes in, they will find that the entire underground R&D room is the size of a whole football field, and is divided into different areas, located in an area in the center, a large white room is very busy, the staff wearing white chemical protective suits shuttle back and forth, the rows of sophisticated electronic instruments in the center are flashing, and there are crystal troughs all around, if you walk in, you will find that there is a human lying in each crystal trough.

The crystal tank was filled with human men, women, and children, each with their eyes closed, and an unknown tube in their mouths, soaked in an unknown liquid.

The room was surrounded by cameras, and in the surveillance room, an old man with gray hair and thick glasses and a slightly chubby middle-aged man were talking in whispers.

"Dr. Lawles, I think it's time to start that project." The slightly chubby middle-aged man's face was a little anxious.

"Mr. Bill, this is not in accordance with the rules, although you are the boss of Sinohui, this plan has not been approved by the board of directors, and the government will not allow you to do so." Lawrès lifted his glasses, as the world's top biologist he knew the importance of that project, if it succeeded, humanity would rewrite history, but if it failed, it would also rewrite history.

"Damn, I can't manage that much, I'm giving you billions of dollars, not for you to waste my time!" Bill's tone was a bit heavy, this research project lasted for ten years, wasted countless manpower and material resources, and there has been no progress at all so far, which he can't accept, if there are no more results, the huge debt pressure will directly make him bankrupt.

Now that he has finally discovered a microorganism from the bottom of the volcano that can advance his research, he is not willing to give up just like that, although this microorganism has fatal flaws.

......

Ten months later.

Huaxia, Shuangqing City, a summer night.

As a mountain town, heat is a must for it.

The scorching heat blows through the city, and the heat roams the streets of the city, but for those who are used to it, the nightlife has just begun.

Foreigner's Street is a more prosperous place in the city, it is like a city within a city, the buildings on the street are strange, there are Roman church-style houses, there are European-style buildings, and there are houses that stand like they are about to collapse, the street is bustling with people, and there are people everywhere you look.

This is a must-visit place for out-of-town tourists.

However, the locals usually go to an alley across the road from Foreigner Street.

The alley has no name, and the surrounding houses are very old, as if they have been forgotten in this new city, but the inside is full of people, with long queues of food stalls on the left and right sides of the street, and the sound of pushing cups and changing lamps around one after another.

Shirtless men hold cigarettes, drink beer, and talk and laugh endlessly; Low-cut, backless women ate, drank, and flirted with men.

There are some neon boxes on the second floors of the old houses on both sides of the street, and some women dressed in fancy clothes stand next to them, and groups of tattooed young people gather in some dark corners to whisper.

Zeng Qiang, an ordinary name.

He is 175cm tall, slightly chubby, with a small flat head, and wears black-framed glasses, with an ordinary appearance, and his personality belongs to the kind of person who still can't make any waves in the crowd.

Zeng Qiang dragged his tired body and walked in the alley, everything lively around him had nothing to do with him, they were like silent scenes.

"Bride price! Bride price! ”

Zeng Qiang's head is full of these two words, he is 28 years old, his girlfriend Li Cui is also 28 years old, and the children in his peers have already started playing soy sauce.

When I was a child, my family was very poor, my father died digging coal, and my mother remarried with a pitiful compensation, and she depended on her grandfather since she was a child, and barely completed a junior college by relying on work-study.

Just a year ago, my grandfather also passed away.

Li Cui and him are college classmates, relatively fat, not tall, level with Zeng Qiang's mouth, also wearing blue glasses, the upper lip is slightly turned over, and there is a black mole the size of a grain of rice at the left corner of the mouth.

Because he is not outstanding, and he is in a literary college, Li Cui basically had no chance with the opposite sex when he was in college.

There were few boys in the school, and Zeng Qiang, who was also average-looking, was quite popular, but no one wanted to associate with him, because his living expenses were less than six hundred a month.

So by chance, the two of them were together.

Three years after graduation.

Zeng Qiang changed a lot of jobs, and finally became a delivery boy with honor.

Is the delivery man hard? Of course, it was hard, and I worked 14 hours a day in the strong wind and sun.

Do delivery workers earn high? Zeng Qiang remembered that he earned 6000+ last month, which is considered a high salary in third- and fourth-tier cities.

However, in Shuangqing, compared with the average price of 20,000 square meters, his salary is really not high.

Both of them are not young, Li Cui's family is urgent, opening a bride price of 300,000 yuan and a two-bedroom house, and generously saying that the car can be left for the time being, probably thinking that Li Cui's body can't get into the ordinary car.

Zeng Qiang knew in his heart that in fact, Li Cui and her family didn't like him too much, mainly because he was worried that Li Cui's appearance would not be wanted, and he was just a son-in-law.

After a tiring day, Zeng Qiang's clothes had already been soaked with sweat, and although there was a scorching breath around him, his back was cold.

As she was walking, a woman who was full of alcohol, scantily dressed, and stumbled slid into Zeng Qiang's side.

"Vomit" opened his mouth, and a stream of filth sprayed on Zeng Qiang's body.

"Beauty, you're drunk." Zeng Qiang frowned and held the woman in front of him, smelling the sour smell on his body and secretly annoyed.

"Gash ~ poof." The woman didn't have time to answer, and squirted out again with a bigger mouthful.

Zeng Qiang was prepared, turned sideways, and avoided it.

At this time, two men with tattooed arms and slabs came from the side and hurriedly supported the woman.

"Haha, I'm sorry, my friend is drunk, so I'll take her away." One of the men grinned, pulled the woman and left.

And the other, with a fierce light in his eyes, stared at Zeng Qiang with an unkind face, as if to warn him not to meddle in his affairs.

Zeng Qiang watched the woman being pulled away, he didn't stand up like in the movie, the hero saved the beauty, he just shook his head and sighed that the world was declining.

Picking up corpses doesn't happen often in this place, but it's just a coincidence that he encountered it.

He is just an ordinary person who is worried about making a living, and he wants to take care of some things, but he can't do it.

Zeng Qiang looked at the vomit on his body by the light, and found that in addition to the food residues in a semi-digested state on the clothes, there was also a lot of transparent mucus, and he gently pinched it with two fingers, and found that it was very sticky, like glue, did she drink 502?

If you don't understand, you have to think about it, Zeng Qiang has more important to think about - how to earn enough bride price money, and walked towards home while thinking.

At the food stall, three or five men were eating barbecue and bragging.

One of them said, "Did you hear that?" It seems that something big happened in the United States, and it is said that there was an explosion in one place, and many people were injured. But that's not the point, the point is that some people were obviously seriously injured and died, but in the end they came back to life. ”

Another choked: "You were on the news two months ago, but then the news was deleted again, and I don't know what's going on." ”

"Hey, I have a new news here, I have a buddy who doesn't work in the central hospital, he told me that many patients have come recently and said that they are very hungry, and they don't eat less than before, but they can't eat enough......"