"The cell is the basic structural and functional unit of living organisms, and this concept is universally applicable to all living organisms, including unicellular and multicellular organisms."

"Cells are the basic building blocks of living organisms, and each cell contains a complete set of genetic material and organelles, which can carry out life activities such as metabolism, energy conversion, and signal transmission."

"Ugh"

Looking at Jiang Xiao and the others with blank faces, the doctor touched his nose.

"Do you understand?"

"You go on, let's listen."

Can you say you don't understand?

Doesn't that mean that none of the four of them are wise?

"Okay."

The doctor nodded and continued.

"Most organisms, such as animals and plants, are made up of multiple cells that work together to make up tissues and organs, resulting in multicellular organisms."

"For example, the human race is made up of about 37 trillion cells, and although each cell has its own characteristics of life, as a whole, the human being embodies all the basic characteristics of life."

Jiang Xiao and the four of them touched their chins, and they all made a contemplative gesture of touching their chins, as if they were thinking seriously.

Now it was the doctor's turn to be speechless.

Isn't it just the most ordinary and basic biological knowledge?

To be precise, it is the knowledge in the junior high school textbooks.

So, can't you pick out a junior high school degree among these four dog-like things?

"A virus is a special life form, it has no cellular structure and is made up of proteins and genetic material, but it still needs to be parasitic in living cells to reproduce, therefore, viruses are also considered part of cells to some extent."

Jiang Xiao's posture did not change, and Wang Dayong, who was mentally retarded, nodded pretending to understand.

What are you nodding for? Didn't you ask anything?

The doctor was completely speechless

"Well, I'm very inspired by the doctor's words, and I'm going to leave if there's nothing to do now."

Doctor: Inspiration? I haven't gotten to the point yet!

"Yes, thank you for the popular science of the doctor's brother, Shi Shi feels as if he is swimming in the ocean of knowledge."

Doctor: At the level of an elementary school student like you, uh. However, at Shi Shi's age, it is normal not to understand.

Wang Dayong and Niu Tie Sturdy too, they felt that it was not as interesting as going to the old man of the history department to see the illustrations of mythological storybooks

"Wait, don't go yet!"

The doctor blackened out to a few people.

"To put it simply, cells are the basic unit, cells make up us humans, and viruses depend on cells to survive, do you understand?"

"Harm!"

Jiang Xiao and the four of them immediately showed disdain for the doctor.

"You just said no?"

"It's just that simple questions are complicated, the books I read are blind, and my ability to express myself is not as good as mine."

"I understand, I understand, an intellectual like him who wears glasses just likes to show off~"

What a man, this is!

"The problem now is, these cells don't need to be attached to cells at all, you know?"

"Yes." x4

"Tell the truth."

"I don't understand." x4

"I ask you, cancer cells"

The doctor wanted to say "deeper", but when he thought of the IQ of the four people, he immediately changed his words.

"Is it understandable that the cancer virus depends on the normal cells of our body to survive, and after a person dies, the cells of the whole body die, and the cancer virus will also die?"

"That's understandable."

"Ouch, Doctor, it's good to say like that, don't mess with all the bells and whistles."

"That's it."

Well, the doctor is completely convinced.

"Now I'm telling you that the cancer virus doesn't need to be attached to human cells to survive, it can go out on its own and become an individual, and it won't end with the end of life, can you understand?"

"Yes." x4

"Okay, then I'll tell you again, now this cancer virus can not only survive on its own, but also turn from a virus into a living organism. Well, for example, you can think of it as a bug, or paramecium, or you can think of it as a dog, and it's completely alive anyway. ”

Jiang Xiao's brows suddenly relaxed, and a sudden light flashed in his eyes.

He looked at the doctor, as if grasping a key point, and spoke slowly.

"So, what the doctor means is that these viruses have evolved to a new stage, and they are no longer viruses in our traditional sense, but a new type of organism, a human parasite capable of living on its own?"

The doctor nodded, a hint of approval in his eyes.

"That's right, Brother Jiang Shen, you finally understand that these 'viruses' no longer rely on host cells for reproduction and survival, they have become a completely different existence."

After a pause, the doctor added.

"Maybe it's been like this since the beginning, it didn't evolve, it's just that no one has studied and explored this aspect in the first place."

Jiang Xiao's face showed a hint of understanding, and he said easily.

"In this way, we are not facing an invisible virus, but a real 'bug'."

"We may be helpless against the virus, but the bugs ......" his voice was full of determination, as if he had found the courage to fight: "If the bugs are spoken, we always have a way to deal with them." ”

Wang Dayong and Niu Jieshi next to him were also excited, although they didn't understand complex biological theories, they were still very interested in fighting and killing.

Shi Shi even waved his fist and said with fighting spirit.

"Houli crab, just a bug, let me come, I'm sure I can kill it!"

The doctor shook his head slightly, he knew that the simple thinking of the four men might have caused them to underestimate the seriousness of the problem, but at least now they were able to understand the nature of the problem.

He sighed and continued to explain.

"But you have to know that these 'bugs' are far more complex than you think, and they may have biological characteristics and adaptability that we can't imagine."

Say a thousand things and ten thousand, it's better to get started!

Including Jiang Xiao, the four of them were all gearing up and wanted to do it immediately.

"Don't worry, I have a patient here, you guys watch."

The doctor pressed a button, and the silver floor of the ground suddenly cracked, and a small transparent room rose from below.

In the room, there was the same medical cabin that Jiang Xiao had seen in the medical university before, and there was also a very seriously infected patient in it.

"Hiss"

The moment they saw this patient, the corners of several people's mouths subconsciously pursed.

This is not herpes.

It's rotting

The rotten parts of the whole person's body were already densely crawling with maggots that were white and the size of rice grains.

The doctor's face looked the most ugly, after all, his psychological endurance was incomparable to Jiang Xiao's, but he still explained.

"Well, I just cleaned it up two hours ago, and I didn't expect these bugs to grow so quickly."

(End of chapter)