The fruit was successfully planted in the garden. With GEcK's full efforts, just three days later, a green tree grew from the place where the fruit was planted, and the tree looked to be growing amazingly, and some unripe fruit had already appeared on some of the branches.

The fruit grows into a tree, the tree bears fruit, and then the fruit is planted to become a tree, and the cycle goes on indefinitely. Andy and a few others stood in the isolation room, watching the posture of the fruit tree remotely through a display screen, and it seemed that the nursery would be able to produce this precious fruit in batches in less than a month.

"You guys eat these." The Tank Brain carried an iron bucket and handed it to Andy, which contained a few green fruits that grew relatively round.

Andy, String, and Akisha all ate the hard-won fruit.

"I'll take your blood in 24 hours, and if it's confirmed that the new plague virus is dead from you, then you'll be able to come out... String needs to be observed a little longer, and the strain in her body is even more dangerous. "Strings have no problem with that.

"Of course, I'm glad to continue to study chemistry and biology with you, and you have a very deep understanding of philosophy and theology... Especially if you're still like this.... I'm sorry, I don't mean anything else, I just think you're the most beautiful and perfect being I've ever seen, with the powerful thinking ability of ZAx without losing the brilliance of humanity. Diana understood what she was talking about, and in the past conversations, the strings also explained why she had different feelings about artificial intelligence and artificial intelligence-like feelings.

"When I knew that I was dying, I indulged in the study of philosophy and theology, which had only one function, which was to reshape the foundation of your mind and to change some of the shackles that were ingrained in your heart but were not aware of... In my time, there was a saying that the end of science is theology, and I used to think that it was true.... Later, I found out that this sentence is still too early for human beings, and from the perspective of human thought, it is naïve and ridiculous to use this sentence as a basis to skip the scientific barrier and delusionally go directly to the realm of God. ”

"I've read a lot of information that when the driving force of human society is replaced by anything other than science, human society begins to stagnate, and then begins to slowly decay and collapse. But the irony is that for a variety of reasons, there are always people who use the pretext of pretension as God to take extreme self-interested shortcuts. ”

"What's even more ironic is that to this day, even where we stand, that hasn't changed in the slightest." .......................... After 24 hours, Andy and Akisha have been confirmed to be completely cured, and the new plague virus in their bodies has been completely eliminated by the fruit components, and they have also gained complete immunity to any strain of the new plague virus to avoid reinfection in the future, which is a practical confirmation of the efficacy of the antidote.

For Andy, he was lucky. Because he was infected with the least virulent strain of the new plague in phase III, and because of his strong immunity and the timely administration or injection of a variety of compounds that suppressed the activity of the new plague virus in the later stage, his body was unscathed during this long illness, and the disease had almost no obvious symptoms for him, except for a few small blue blisters on the back of his neck.

Now, of course, even those few blisters have ruptured and shriveled away. Some of Akisha's organs were slightly damaged due to the long-term virus invasion, but fortunately, the nursery's medical equipment was enough to restore her after a period of delicate treatment, as one of the heroes who helped Diana get back online, Akisha was specially designed by Diana to have a set of rehabilitation treatments, which also included the injection of certain compound reinforcements and the implantation of some artificial implants.

But the strings are different.

"It's a bit of a problem." Diana projected some of the inspection reports.

"The original strain of the new plague that String was infected with was so virulent that she was once in an advanced state if I guessed correctly, after all, theoretically, without any outside forces intervening, the original strain could kill a person infected by it within a week or two. Although she was later properly disposed of and eventually took the tonic cream that suppressed the activity of the virus, many organs in her body had suffered extremely serious damage. ”

"These hidden dangers will gradually erupt into more life-threatening diseases one to two years after the symptoms of the new plague have been cured, and in addition to the lifelong infertility caused by severe ovarian and uterine damage caused by viral infection, there is still a high possibility that she will develop lung failure and liver failure in the future." Andy was suddenly anxious.

"What can I do? Can you save her? Diana nodded as she should.

"If I can't save her, I'm afraid there won't be a second person in this world. Her body can be treated, and while I still can't restore her to normal fertility, I can take everything else one by one, the only problem being that it will take a longer period of time and the course of treatment will be longer. Andy breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, Xian was reluctant to leave here because he was obsessed with learning pre-war knowledge, and it would be better for her to continue treatment here until she fully recovered.

"Speaking of which, it's time for you to think about your next steps." Diana looked at Andy and gave a reminder.

"The antidote is there, and I call it the fruit of hope. So, how do you get it to all the wasteland dwellers outside? Andy had thought about it for a long time and said some countermeasures.

"The scope of the new plague virus is still relatively limited, the east is a vast uninhabited area ravaged by hurricanes, the west is said to be blocked by war and difficult to travel long-distance, and the north and south are mountains.... As long as we do whatever it takes to spread these fruits of hope in this area, the new plague will naturally subside. ”

"In the area to the west near the Hoover Dam, there are regular trade routes and caravans going out, and they will regularly bring goods into the vicinity of the tribes' settlements to trade, although they will not go too deep, but even then they can use their trade channels to quickly spread the fruit of hope."

"Perhaps.... I can visit the Dodge Mayor at Hoover Dam later, and if I can use him and his powers, hopefully the fruit will spread faster, and every time someone eats such a one, the new plague will be one step closer to being completely defeated. Diana was noncommittal about Andy's claims and asked questions a moment later.

"You're right, but if you can only do this, based on the observation of the outside world by the robots I have sent over the years, the places that can be reached by those traveling merchants from the west are probably less than a third of the entire epidemic area. The vast majority of the area is still controlled by Buraku people, and some of them do have established regular trade relationships with caravans from civilized areas, but many more are isolated from the world for life or completely refuse to trade with non-Natives. If you ignore the majority, even if you have endless and effective medical resources to back it up, you won't be able to get the new plague out of the land quickly. ”

"I believe that even at this moment, there are countless people who are suffering because of the new plague, and the battle against the plague is a race against time." Andy thought for a moment and had to admit that what Diana said was likely to be both correct and accurate.

"That's... Do you have any good ideas, Diana? Diana was silent for a while, and said a name that Andy didn't expect.

"When you were out walking the wasteland, did you hear of a man named Hecate?" Andy had certainly heard the name, and even not long before entering the nursery, the natives were often fierce, but the hounds of Hekat were even more crazy.

They are horrific in encirclement, raiding, and purging any tribe that disobeys their goddess, and those who succumb to the power of Hekat will be subject to the long-term control and many shady actions of the Daughters of Hekat sent by them.

"I've heard her name, and frankly she has a very bad reputation." Diana fell silent again.

Andy didn't know why she had suddenly shut up again and again, but he could guess why Diana was mentioning this person.

"So, that guy controls many tribes, and with her power and channels, she can quickly distribute the Fruit of Hope to those remote and isolated tribesmen, right? But I don't even know where she is. Diana finally broke the silence.

"Actually.... I know. ”