Chapter 23: A Wonderful Symbiosis
Sun Yi had been standing not far behind the two, but did not come forward to disturb, but leaned against the pillar where the two could not be seen, silently waiting for their conversation to end.
"Alas...... I'm like a wicked man. ”
After secretly listening to Lu Yuansheng's words, she leaned her head back against the pillar, looked at the ceiling and sighed.
After adjusting her emotions, Sun Yi walked out and shouted with a straight face: "Lu Yuansheng, it's time to send her back to the ward, the knife on her body is not good yet." ”
"Guo Guo (brother) tile (I) still want to see it."
The little girl is still a little reluctant.
"Take a rest today, and tomorrow when your body is better, I'll take you to see something better."
Lu Yuansheng remembered that there was a park nearby, and if there was no accident tomorrow, he wouldn't mind playing with this little girl for another day, and then he would have to find a way to persuade her to stay in the countermeasures, after all, he still had someone to study.
"Besides, aren't you hungry? I told you I was going to bring you something good. ”
He didn't forget the promise he made to Xiaobai in the morning.
As soon as he heard the food, Xiaobai quickly cheered up, and the troubles just now seemed to be left behind, and he hurriedly shouted: "Howl (good)!" Tile (I) still want Huo Kuoluo (drink Coke) ......"
"You can't just let her eat indiscriminately, I'll prepare a healthy meal for her."
Sun Yi's words interrupted Xiaobai's food imagination.
"Woo woo, with bad silver (big bad guy)!"
Xiaobai's expression was visibly sad, because of this sentence, Sun Yi's image fell again in her heart, and she was successfully promoted to a villain.
Fortunately, even if it is a light and healthy meal, the little girl who has never eaten anything good can eat it with relish.
The milk for lunch was mixed with a sleep aid, and after she finished happily, she fell asleep not long after.
"Is she still saved?"
Lu Yuansheng sat outside the ward with Sun Yi again, and after whispering, he turned his head and reconfirmed through the window that Xiaobai was still asleep.
Sun Yi leaned against the wall, and she didn't have an answer to this question.
"Remember that time? You killed me when you saved me....... Monster. ”
She closed her eyes, and she didn't want to remember what they had seen if she could.
"The man's body was devoured into an empty shell by parasitic worms, but he was still alive, he still had his own consciousness, and he didn't even know what was going on inside him, except for the large increase in food intake."
"Until...... Ignorant and fearless, I dissected his body......"
Sun Yi no longer dared to think about the scene at that time, but her thoughts still surged into her heart like a torrent of bursting embankments.
"I also wanted to save him, and he was begging me to save him, but I was just a weak new doctor, and he was pinched by the neck and pressed to the ground, unable to do anything, and even almost died there."
Lu Yuansheng remembered that scene, the man who was eaten so badly couldn't shed a drop of blood, so he could only whimper in a leaky voice. And while his body has terrifying power, he doesn't know pain, doesn't know fear, and doesn't care about injury.
Dense flesh-colored insects crawled out of his body, filling the floor, walls, and ceiling of the emergency room.
"Are you alright?"
Lu Yuansheng was a little worried about her situation, and there was already something wrong with the other party when he was doing an examination for Xiaobai today.
"It's okay, don't worry about me, I just want to say that if you don't rush to deal with his situation, he may be able to live longer, which will also give us more time to deal with it, and Xiaobai is the same."
Sun Yi opened her eyes, she was used to this feeling today.
"My dad has come to the final conclusion that her relationship with that fungus is actually a symbiotic one. Her weakness is actually due to the gradual lignification caused by the genetic conflict between plants and humans, and the activation provided by the fungus will allow her human part to remain sufficiently active to inhibit lignification, while increasing the strength of her flesh through mycelium.
The depth of implantation of the hyphae is related to the degree of lignification of her cells, they cannot survive on the cells of pure animals, and as long as the human part of her always has the upper hand, there is no risk of becoming a walking dead.
However, the activation provided by this fungus requires a huge amount of energy, and fortunately, her now mutated body can increase the amount of energy obtained, conversion rate and transformation speed, and even photosynthesis, which makes her body fully able to withstand the consumption of three different types of cells.
It's a perfect cycle of restraint, and she only needs to think about how to alleviate the burden of life caused by overactivation, so that she can live a normal life while maintaining this balance. ”
When Sun Yi said this, she also turned her head to look at the girl in the ward, and then pointed to the back of her head and said:
"It's also important to maintain balance by keeping her human part functioning, and there seems to be a well-established solution for this, which is to add biosuppressants to her brain.
The fungus is more sensitive to inhibitors and can effectively protect her brain from destruction, and while this may also cause damage to the brain and cause developmental delays, the circulatory system will still provide her brain with active ingredients and keep her intelligence and normal body control from problems. ”
Sun Yi had already explained as much detail as possible, which shocked Lu Yuansheng very much, if it weren't for the fact that the example was in front of him, he would really doubt whether there was such a life form in this world.
"She didn't have a name, just a number, called Eighty-Seven, which made me think of a possibility." Lu Yuansheng's face was a little moved, "Could this be ..... Artificial test subjects? ”
"No, on the contrary, my dad's bad old man is pretty sure that humans don't have this perfect biotechnology, and it's probably a natural mutation of life, oh no, special humans under various coincidences."
Sun Yi became conscious this time and did not use the word "creature" to refer to Xiaobai.
"I'm more inclined to this plan to maintain her body's balance through trial and error......"
She only said half of what she said, but Lu Yuansheng already knew what the other party meant, eighty-seven years ago, maybe eighty-six poor children were reduced to trial and error experiments.
"Do you want to call her Xiaobai in the future? Don't give her a real name? Sun Yi was obviously still dissatisfied with the title.
"She's very white indeed."
Spiritually.
Lu Yuansheng added in his heart.
"What's more, I feel that deciding on her own name should be her basic right, and I don't need to interfere too much."
"By the way, can she take off her collar?"
He remembered something else important.
"The epidermis of this circle is a material that is insulated from searchlight, and I don't recommend acting rashly without knowing the internal structure, because it will really explode." Sun Yi shook his head
"You can't stay there forever as a ticking time bomb, can you?"
Lu Yuansheng stood up, it was time to find someone who had a way to solve it.
"Help me take care of Xiaobai, I'll be back in a while."
——
Lu Yuansheng knocked on Li Si's door, but this time he waited for the other party to speak inside before he pushed the door in.
"Uncle Li, look at this."
He handed over the letterhead that Artiste had given him, along with the memory.
"I've also watched the memory fragments, and Madoka has said the same thing."
However, Li Si still took it and looked at it carefully for several minutes.
Folding the letterhead neatly again, he opened his mouth to Lu Yuansheng: "If I haven't called you in the past two days, then don't go anywhere, I don't know what 'gift' Artiste wants to give you, but it will definitely not be a good thing." ”
"I know."
Lu Yuansheng sat down across from him and nodded.
"We'll solve these troubles tomorrow night, and we won't delay your first lesson."
"Is there anything I can know?"
"You're really curious." Li Si shook his head helplessly, but he didn't shy away from anything, and then said: "The cave under this is not ordinary, it may be a hidden danger left after the confrontation between the three kingdoms, but I can't say more, it's the same as Lao Sun's reason, you also know it." ”
This is not the first time Li Si has said this, he can secretly leak some of the secrets of the countermeasures bureau to Lu Yuansheng through Xiaoyuan, but every time it is his turn to do things for more than ten years, he will always remain silent.
"Remember, don't try to get involved, it's troublesome enough for your identity to be exposed, and this matter is very involved, who knows what Artiste's plans are."
He was afraid that Lu Yuan would be worried, so he reminded again.
"I'm sure I understand this, I don't know what you're going to do?"
"The plan hasn't been decided yet, what, you want to know?"
Li Si smiled again and whetted his appetite.
"I'm just a little worried about Xiaobai's collar, it's too dangerous."
Lu Yuansheng didn't have any other ideas.
"That's for animal testing."
Li Si waved his hand, and called up a virtual display screen between the two, and the information that had been prepared was displayed.
"As soon as I came back, I asked Madoka to find some relevant information, there was a mutant canine research project that was stopped, and I used something similar, which can not only track and locate the subject, but also artificially - bang -" when the subject is out of control."
Li Si deliberately lengthened the foley of the explosion.
"After the project was halted due to its danger, the military put the finishing touches on it."
"Shouldn't this be the responsibility of our countermeasures bureau?" Lu Yuansheng realized that something was wrong.
Li Si spread his hands and said: "It should be, but this project is a project set up by the military, and the funds given by the military are also shouted by the military to stop, so it makes sense for them to end it." ”
Speaking of which, Li Si approached the table and said softly, "Guess which big man I was invited by yesterday?" ”
"Military involvement?"
Li Si smiled with satisfaction and nodded slightly.
"But it's not just him, the three of them took turns to give me nothing to do, and they also specifically named me to be there, I don't believe that this special mother is not hiding anything."
"Anyway, after tomorrow night, everything will be clear, including how to deal with that collar."
He leaned back in his chair and crossed his legs, smiling with a confident sense of confidence.
"What about the other test subjects in the cave?"
"The system of the countermeasures bureau is clearly written, everything will be done in accordance with the rules and regulations, and it is impossible to dispose of them like animal experiments."
"As long as they are rational and malevolent human beings."
After listening to Li Si's words, Lu Yuansheng also relieved his mind and nodded approvingly.
"You can come to me if you need it."
"There's no need, as I said, you can go to your school with peace of mind, Uncle Li doesn't need you to worry about it."
"Also, tomorrow is Bailu, remember to add an extra piece of clothing to that little girl."