The "Champion" brand biomass anti-radiation agent project was launched quickly, and it took only a week from approval to project approval.

Long before the project was officially approved, Yule had already followed the senior named Zhao Feiyu to the research institute in Jinhe City to report.

As Chu Guang expected, the research institute they came to was the "Champion" Biopharmaceutical Research Institute located in Jinhe City.

That is, the coordinates given to him by the academy. At this time, Yule was still a bit of a wooden young man, not very good at socializing, and his mind was completely focused on research.

Although the average working time per person in the era of the People's Union is only one hour, this does not mean that this is the case for all positions, and there are great differences in different industries.

For example, scientific research positions.

It's not uncommon to be in the lab 24 hours a day.

However, Yule does not feel bored, nor does he have any anxiety of "everyone else is on vacation while I am at work", after all, in this era, work is no longer necessary for survival, but the realization of self-worth.

Repetitive and boring work has long been handed over to machines, and even if you don't work all your life, you can live with a solid and prosperous standard of living...... This is something that people in the classical era could hardly imagine, or only dare to think about in film and television works.

It's what doesn't happen often that is called a miracle. It is for this reason that this infinitely beautiful era is given the name of the Age of Prosperity, which is used to distinguish it from the old era.

For Yule, being able to enter a world-renowned company and engage in groundbreaking research right after graduating is an interesting and rewarding thing in itself.

As a result, he lived almost in the lab, spending all of his day except sleeping on his own research.

With such a passion for research, he is just a member of a large research team.

And just the most modest and inconspicuous one.

Of course, although Yule himself enjoyed it, Chu Guang, who was standing aside as a bystander, yawned as a bystander.

Since this guy hadn't been out of the research institute once since he came to Jinhe City, Chu Guang couldn't go around the outside of the research institute when he was working in the laboratory, so he could only stare dryly from the sidelines.

The images he could see were made up of fragments of Yule's memories.

If you have seen something and forgotten it, it may be able to be restored, but if you have not seen it at all, you can only make it up out of thin air.

Later, Chu Guang was really bored to watch, so he simply snatched the remote control from Xiao Qi, and jumped the speed of fast forward to a hundred, a thousand, or even ten thousand times by himself......

Then in a blink of an eye, four years passed, and the year was 2125.

Chu Guang suddenly remembered that this year seemed to be a three-year war, so he immediately canceled the fast forward.

And very coincidentally, at the same time that he adjusted the speed of time back to double the speed, there happened to be a new change in the institute.

Several soldiers wearing military exoskeletons stood at the door of the laboratory, and a stern-looking soldier was talking to the person in charge of the place.

The streets in the distance are visibly depressed, and more than half of the advertisements on the holographic screens have dropped, and the only ones that remain are advertisements for war news and war mobilization on a loop.

Chu Guang couldn't hear their conversation, so he simply returned to Yule's side, and at this moment he was talking to the senior named Zhao Feiyu.

After four years of growth, this young man has grown from a stunned young man to a reliable researcher.

For a moment, Chu Guang saw Yin Fang's shadow on him.

The two are actually very similar.

They all belong to the kind of pure researchers. At least that's how he is now.

"Our laboratory was co-opted and is now under the jurisdiction of the Central Wartime Institute."

“… Incorporated? Yule glanced at Zhao Feiyu and asked puzzledly, "We are not here to study weapons. ”

"That's right, so it's not our job to study weapons...... Rather, it assists the Army in assessing the risk of biological disasters and assists the relief services in developing some low-cost medicines. ”

Looking at the worried Yur, Zhao Feiyu patted him on the shoulder.

"Don't worry, that's it

True...... It's a good thing, at this juncture, our needs are the first to be met, and the college has helped us get a large budget. ”

In the Age of Prosperity, the Academy was a loose academic organization, composed mainly of prominent figures in the academic world, somewhat similar in nature to the merchants' chambers of commerce, the workers' workers. Yes.

Although it feels good for someone to follow it, Zhao Feiyu, who said this, could not see any happy look on his face.

The war broke out suddenly.

There was no warning.

It was heard that the cause was that the space station at the Lagrange point had observed a hostile act from the direction of Proxima Centauri, but no one knew what that hostile act was, and what motives the colonists were starting the war.

Perhaps these things will only be made public after the end of the war, in short, this sudden war is on a scale beyond everyone's imagination.

Especially for the vast majority of people in this era, war is a completely unfamiliar concept, let alone in the news, and even in film and television works.

Of course, even so, the advantages of the People's Union are still great.

Relying on their huge industrial strength, talent reserves, and mobilization capabilities, they were able to raise a huge army from scratch in just one month.

However, the situation is still not optimistic.

The traitors from four light-years away made a killer move, dropping unspeakable fungi on their home planet.

It was a creature that no one had ever seen. There is not even a similar model to be found in the Earth's biosphere.

Apparently, it was a xenomorph endemic to the South Gate II, and the colonial authorities did not report it to the UPA authorities after discovering it, but kept it as a hole card.

It may be a small group of people's tricks, or it may be a collective decision, but there is no point in thinking about it at this juncture.

The spores and fruiting bodies of slime molds spread everywhere in the intricate traffic transit, and the city of Qingquan, 800 kilometers away, instantly became uninhabitable.

The same thing happened not only in Cheongsen, but also in almost all large cities, but in smaller cities like Geumha, which was not so well-known, was spared.

In the absence of any means to stop it from continuing to expand, the authorities can only choose the last resort -

Before it spreads to other urban agglomerations, it is purified with almighty neutron rays.

This is minimal from an economic point of view or otherwise, and even the buildings can be preserved with the use of the kind of pure fusion hydrogen bomb that has no radiation residue.

…… In short, our job is to determine the effect of neutron rays on the mother nest of slime bacteria, as well as to evaluate the effect of destruction. They were going to design a weapon that would release neutron plumes in a directional and steady manner, so that they wouldn't even need to explode, and the institute contacted a physics institute to work with us on this assessment. ”

"Does this kind of thing need to be experimented with?" Yule gave him a strange look.

Although he is not an expert in the field of nuclear weapons, he is well aware that no living thing can survive neutron rays.

That thing will poke nucleic acids, proteins, and enzymes into a thousand holes, and all life activities based on these macromolecules will be suspended.

It is absolutely impossible for an organism to survive under neutron rays -

No, not necessarily.

This creature actually exists.

Yule suddenly thought that in the petri dishes in the laboratory, the dark blue mushrooms had that magical power.

Since the inner monologue is also part of the memory, Chu Guang, who was standing next to him, could not only see what he said, but also those thoughts that he did not say.

"There are concerns that a nuclear strike may mutate the mutant slime mold and make the situation worse," Zhao Feiyu looked at the soldiers with a complicated expression, "To be honest, I judge it the same way...... The other side must know that we will use this method, will they be unprepared? ”

Looking at the conversation between the two, a trace of doubt appeared in Chu Guang's eyes.

If he remembered correctly, the nuclear bomb must have been used in the early days of the war, and the notebook with the bloody handprint recorded the situation at that time.

Why is it different in Yule's memory? With such suspicions

Confused, Chu Guang pressed fast forward and continued to watch.

Just a month later, Yule, who was sitting in the cafeteria eating, saw a mushroom cloud blooming over the city of Kiyosen on the news.

Although the host of the news said that the residents of the city had been completely evacuated or had entered shelters, the pale language was not convincing no matter how it sounded.

It's a big city with hundreds of millions of people. How the hell do you have to get all the people out there?

And where do you have to withdraw to accommodate so many people?

If he remembered correctly, the nuclear bomb must have been used in the early days of the war, and the notebook with the bloody handprint recorded the situation at that time.

Why is it different in Yule's memory? With such doubts, Chu Guang continued to read according to the fast forward.

Just a month later, Yule, who was sitting in the cafeteria eating, saw a mushroom cloud blooming over the city of Kiyosen on the news.

Although the host of the news said that the residents of the city had been completely evacuated or had entered shelters, the pale language was not convincing no matter how it sounded.

It's a big city with hundreds of millions of people. How the hell do you have to get all the people out there?

And where do you have to withdraw to accommodate so many people?

At least in Geumha, he didn't see a single one from Cheongcheon City.

Yule sat in his chair, his hand shaking, and the spoon fell on the plate with a "bell".

Awakened by the voice, he didn't pick it up, but slammed away the chair and got up, walked quickly to the senior's office, and pushed it open and walked in without even knocking on the door.

"What's the situation? Nuclear bomb? Am I still doing technical demonstrations? And why a nuclear bomb ......"

Looking at the news on the holographic screen, Zhao Feiyu's expression was full of solemnity.

"I don't know ......"

A hint of chagrin crossed Yule's face.

"So what's the point of our experiment? They wasted a month for no reason, and they didn't even intend to refer to our assessment recommendations! In that case, why not tell me in the first place! ”

"Sorry, I really don't know." Zhao Feiyu sighed, "Maybe...... It's just that someone needs us to do this, to appease the vast majority of people who are at a loss. ”

"For example, a nuclear bomb was detonated by ourselves with the advice of professionals to rid it of evil biological weapons...... Wouldn't that sound a little more acceptable than the Aerospace Forces' line of defense being breached by the invading forces of the Colony Star? ”

Yule said stunned.

"The line of defense of the Aerospace Forces was breached?" "I'm just talking nonsense, it's better if you don't take it seriously."

Looking at Yule's sluggish expression, Zhao Feiyu smiled relaxedly, but there was no relaxed expression on his face.

After a pause, he continued.

"Going back to the previous question, I think it might be better to put it another way, at least now is not the time for quarrels, we are experiencing a catastrophe that has not happened in a hundred years, and even if anyone is to be held accountable, it will have to wait until everything is over. At least for now, solidarity is more important than the truth. ”

"I hope my speculation is wrong, because it means that a lot of people have died by the time we're talking here."

As he spoke, he reached out and turned off the news, and after a pause, continued.

"But if the worst assumption is true, my speculation is correct...... Perhaps we are not only being attacked with biological weapons. ”

"You should know, right? In the South Gate 2 system, in addition to yellow dwarfs such as South Gate 2A and South Gate ***, there are also red dwarfs such as Proxima Centauri, whose flare activity releases hundreds of times more radiation than the sun, which is a lethal dose to life on Earth. ”

Yule nodded.

Alien creatures weren't his specialty, but he had heard a little about the aliens in the colony, and it was a rather complex ecosystem.

If it weren't for the sudden outbreak of war, he would have planned to apply to go there for academic exchanges when the conditions over there were better.

Seeing him nod, Zhao Feiyu continued.

So in the early inferences, the astronomical community empirically speculated that there could not have been habitable planets in the South Gate II system, until later our probes did fly there

Seeing the world shrouded in auroras, we began to study the ecology that we had never seen before.

As you may have noticed, neutron rays are lethal to us, but not to the colony xenomorphs, which themselves evolved to what they are now in a stellar flare-prone environment.

Biological weapons alone are not enough to produce immediate results, and the traitors in the colony may be intent on making the home planet unlivable, so the use of biological weapons alone will not achieve the goal.

There is a reasonable suspicion that the nuclear bomb was detonated before we received the task, and it is difficult to say which is the collateral giveaway, it is not clear which is the collateral gift.

Yule swallowed.

Dirty bomb ......

"Most likely, yes," Zhao Feiyu nodded, sighed and said, "It may not be dirty for the xenos in the South Gate II system, they originally grew up in a radiation environment, but they are bad enough for the species on Earth."

Why should they do this?!

Yule didn't ask the question, but kept it in his heart.

He knew that it was not only himself who was confused, but also his predecessors at the moment, who were puzzled by the backlash of those siblings.

Why did it have to come this far? Can't you just sit down and talk?

"Anyway, the project was changed, and we had to continue with the original topic, and we had to add research on radiation cancelers in addition to radiation anti-agents. Medical nanobots are not available, and so are biomimetic organs, and we can only hope that traditional medicines can solve our problems. ”

Yule looked up.

"This is an order from the Wartime Institute?" Zhao Feiyu shook his head.

"No, it's the suggestion of the academy and the opinion of the director of the institute...... I think they're right, and instead of working with the authorities to waste time trying to stabilize people's mood, they should do something really meaningful. Prevention is not enough, we need to eliminate the radiation damage that has already been done. ”

In fact, just two days after the news aired, they received an order from the Central Wartime Research Institute to conclude their study of the "effects of neutron rays on slime mother nests."

As Yule's predecessors had guessed, the results of their research themselves were not important, but someone had to do it.

Thanks to their busyness and the media's efforts to stabilize the confidence of residents outside the war zone, the People's Federation was not defeated by their opponents in the first place.

Although the raid on the colony caused huge losses to the home planet, this war has just begun, and the human alliance still has a big chance of winning.

Still, Yule felt a little discouraged. He worked in vain for a month.

If you know that the results of the study are not important in the first place, then why put so much effort into it? And no one knows whether it makes sense to do so.

As time passed, more and more materials were sent to the institute due to major breakthroughs in the research of anti-radiation agents and radiation dissipators.

And the most recent time, the People's Union Army sent a batch of helium triple nuclear fuel, which is enough to weigh thousands of cubic meters, and everyone felt a little uneasy.

This is not something that a research institute can consume. This may mean that the war will become a protracted war.

Looking at the cans of nuclear fuel, Chu Guang, who was standing on the side and peeping at the screen, was greedy, but this was just a memory, and even if he wanted to, he had to wait until the mutants there were eliminated.

In short, he wrote down where the nuclear fuel was kept.

When the time comes, the players will go and recover the treasure for him.

I don't know how long it has been.

As the war continued to expand, the living environment on the surface of the earth continued to deteriorate, and the research position had to be moved from the ground to the underground.

Although Chu Guang did not see a real battle in the memory of Yule, it was not difficult to feel the tragedy of the battle on the front line from the suffocating atmosphere on the street outside the research institute and the depression visible to the naked eye.

Unfortunately, after being transferred to an underground research facility, Yule never went out again, and the information outside was cut off all at once.

At first, there was news to watch, but then there was no news at all, only the occasional one brought in by the people who regularly delivered supplies

Outside the news.

Actually, it's not that someone locked him up here and won't let him out, the elevator is always in and out, and the researchers here can come and go freely at any time.

It's just that when I see those heavy faces, and then think of the cold wind and radioactive dust howling outside, the whole scene of the end of the world......

No one wants to go out.

Most people still want to keep some good impressions of that era.

And instead of facing the world that has been destroyed, it is better to spend the energy on the work at hand, at least the working environment under their feet is still relatively good, the supply of materials is also satisfied first, and they can even drink a cup of coffee brewed by a bionic beauty in their busyness.

However, there is always a day when the work is done.

Thanks to the efforts of countless people, the final product of the radiator and anti-radiation agent was finally developed, and the formulation and production process were simplified – even in poor shelters with limited equipment and resources.

What is intriguing is that this project was originally set up by the champion group to make a fortune, but no one expected that before they made a fortune, the credit itself would lose its meaning.

In a situation where most people can't guarantee that they'll be alive tomorrow, credit becomes a nonsensical thing.

The formulations of the radiation-canceling agent and the anti-radiating agent were made available to the various settlements for free use, and the researchers at the institute finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, the person who delivered the supplies brought a piece of good news, and this great war, which lasted for almost three years, was finally coming to an end.

It is said that under the hard work of the front-line troops, the defenders of the colony were defeated one after another, and the last resistance was already the end of the strong crossbow.

This news is undoubtedly the best news in three years, and the atmosphere in the laboratory is like a holiday.

Although Chu Guang wanted to tell them at this moment, it was too early for you to rejoice, after the three-year war was the Wasteland Era, which lasted for two centuries and still has no end in sight.

Civilization will decline into an era of chaos at an unprecedented rate, and three years of torment are nothing compared to the darkness of those two centuries.

At least there are beautiful android ladies to help them serve tea and water, and at least the supplies sent have never been broken.

But even if I could communicate with these people who were on the rise, I am afraid that they would not believe what they said.

There was a celebratory party in the lab, and the less gregarious Yule couldn't help but go outside the lab.

This big brother, who is no longer young, finally mustered up the courage to step on the surface again.

And when he saw this unrecognizable world, he was stupid, and he couldn't say a word with his mouth open.

At this moment, a sigh came from behind him.

"As you can see, our world is finished."