Chapter 002: Genetic mutations

Panic is spreading.

New York, Paris, Tokyo...... and other major cities in the world have broken out one after another.

The United Nations Health Organization (WHO) named the epidemic an animalized disease and issued an emergency notice to add the disease to the list of diseases that can be isolated against the will of the person concerned.

Countries have taken urgent measures to carry out administrative compulsory management to reduce regional population mobility......

However, all this did not work out too well.

Bestiality is still spreading at an extremely exaggerated rate.

Just one month later, the global outbreak reached more than 1 billion cases, accounting for one in five of the world's population.

From the initial isolation of patients, to the overcrowding of hospitals, to detention centers, detention centers, and finally prisons, they are all crammed with patients......

The situation is almost completely out of control.

Even some small countries have completely lost the initiative, mass marches, countless incidents of conflict.

The whole world was plunged into a riot.

Of course, there is good news.

On July 13, 2018, the Huaxia Jingcheng Center for Disease Control and Prevention released a new message.

Clinical characteristics of zoomorphic diseases: hard scales grow on the skin, and the human body will have a high fever at the beginning of the disease, which will naturally subside after 15 days, without any other symptoms and adverse reactions.

In other words, after the onset of the disease, in addition to the many strange scales growing on the body, the human body will not produce other abnormalities, and even many people's bodies will become stronger because of this.

Of course, there are some things that are not announced to the general public.

Researchers have found that all people who suffer from bestiality, without exception, develop genetic mutations.

......

Two months later, in a research institute.

Professor Han Yi looked at the colleagues in the conference room, the people were still those people, but the difference was that almost every researcher had scales on their bodies, including himself.

He lifted the frame of his glasses, and inadvertently saw his right hand covered with scales again, and couldn't help but sigh: "I don't know if I can hold a scalpel with this hand in the future." ”

The back of the hand was covered with scales, like armor, the skin of the palm of the hand became dry and hard, and the fingers were not as flexible as before, and they were much stiffer.

For ordinary people, this is nothing, but for a healer with a knife, it is simply devastating.

Professor Han Yi looked at Zhou Yirong and said, "Assistant Zhou, let's make a report to you on the research results of this time." ”

Zhou Yirong stood up from his seat, he was one of the two people in the entire research team who were not infected.

Zhou Yirong looked around, and his voice was a little hoarse: "Everyone, the results of this study show that the virus of bestiality is transmitted from our side......"

"How is that possible?"

"That's!"

"Yes, we do sterilization before and after each test, why?"

......

Angry voices came and went, and everyone thought it was incredible.

This group of people has been under house arrest since they joined the research team, no one has ever left the institute, and there is armed protection outside the institute, so outsiders cannot enter at all.

Han Yi coughed and said, "Do you remember where we found these hearts?"

"Could it be that there is a problem at Zhoukoudian?"

Zhou Yirong nodded and said, "The first patient who was diagnosed with bestiality lived in a community not far from Zhoukoudian. ”

"I see! When the liquid nitrogen tank was opened, the liquid would definitely volatilize and form a source of infection!"

"How so?"

Everyone was silent, and if all this was true, then they could well become sinners for all mankind.

Professor Han Yi stood up from his seat with a slightly stiff smile on his face.

"To be honest, I sometimes feel that bestiality is not a disease, but a kind of genetic enhancement, and everyone here except Assistant Zhou probably feels it. ”

Professor Han Yi squeezed his right fist and said, "I feel that my fist is very strong, and my whole body is stronger than before......

As soon as he finished speaking, he slammed his fist into the table in front of him.

With a pop, a piece of the desktop sank down, but Professor Han Yi's hand was not affected in the slightest.

Zhou Yirong's eyes widened, looking at the scene in front of him incredulously, but no one at the scene felt abnormal except him.

Professor Han Yi glanced at him thoughtfully, and then continued:

"We may have accidentally uncovered the mystery of prehistoric civilization through this bestiality incident, but it is also a serious reminder of how dangerous the project we are currently working on is. ”

"This is a genetic mutation for almost all of humanity, so what will it bring next time?"

"None of us know. ”

A researcher raised his hand at the scene, Professor Han Yi nodded, and the man stood up from his seat and said, "Professor, I think maybe we should stop this project, there are some consequences that I am afraid that this society cannot afford." ”

It was a woman, a pretty lady to be exact, but now half of her face was covered with scales and looked rather frightening.

Professor Han Yi bowed slightly.

"The higher authorities asked us to carry out this test to the end, and no matter what difficulties and obstacles we encountered, we must rise to the challenge......

"Because we don't know what kind of disaster this human genetic mutation will bring, and what difficulties we will face in the future...... So we have to do a good job of research, because only in this way can we have enough strength to face all emergencies in the near future. ”

The lady who had spoken was silent and sat down expressionlessly.

And Zhou Yirong saw all this.

The funny thing is that Zhou Yirong suddenly found that he was not lucky to be beastized, and suddenly seemed to be unlucky, because he was shocked to find that he had become an outlier for no reason.

Professor Han Yi saw that no one was talking, so he glanced at Zhou Yirong.

Zhou Yirong nodded in greeting, and continued to read according to the script: "Of the four astronauts who conducted the last carrier test, only one survived, and everyone knows that only this surviving astronaut and I have not been infected with bestiality in our entire research institute, so what Professor Han Yi means is that the next step is to start work from this point to see if there is any connection between the two." ”

After saying this, his heart suddenly jumped, and he slightly noticed something wrong.

He is a member of the special research team and an assistant to Professor Han Yi, the leader of the research project, so he has access to a lot of materials. According to what he has learned so far, it is estimated that only a dozen people in the entire capital have not been infected.

In other words, humanity in the true sense of the word may be on the verge of extinction!

Almost all of them have been bestialized!

And these very few people who are not beasts are likely to have become outliers.

Zhou Yirong is fine in the research group and has not been hostile, but what about those people who live in society? Will the beastly people attack him?

Moreover, time changes a lot of things.

At present, he can be sure that he is safe, but after a long time, what about the normal people in the outside world who have not become beasts and gradually disappear?

No one can guarantee that he will not become a test subject on the test bench!

As a researcher, Zhou Yirong has a spirit of self-dedication, but he is more worried about whether the real human race will be permanently extinct.

......

Night.

In the dead of night, Zhou Yirong opened his eyes from the darkness, put on his work clothes and walked into the "carrier" laboratory.

Tear open a new blood bag, then sit in the donor chair and insert the needle into your arm.

In about ten minutes, the 400cc blood bag was filled.

Zhou Yirong picked up the pen and marked it on it.

Blood donor: Zhou Yirong.

Blood type: O blood type.

Date: September 13, 2018.

After doing all this, Zhou Yirong took out another blood bag and walked towards the "carrier" special care ward.

There were two armed men with loaded guns standing at the door of the ward, but after seeing Zhou Yirong, their eyes looked a little hesitant.

One of the fighters spoke, "Assistant Zhou, do you have to do this?"

Zhou Yirong looked resolute: "I'm not afraid of death, but there are not many people like me left, you are all genetically mutated, I must find a way to leave a bloodline for pure human beings." ”

The other fighter didn't speak, he just opened the door to the special ward.

Zhou Yirong walked to the door, but stopped again.

"I'm not afraid of death, and the research team is not inferior to me, I'm just worried that if something uncertain happens, the whole world will be ruined. ”

"Assistant Zhou, just do it, you don't need to reason with us bosses, we ask ourselves if we are worthy of the motherland...... and all of humanity......"