It's reasonable for me to have a two-way foil for a second-level civilization, right?

On the far left is the exterior of the two Xuannv II ships.

A robot is spraying a large amount of disinfectant on the shell of Xuannv No. [-].

In the middle and on the right side of the screen are the interior scenes of Xuannv No. [-].

Seeing the six drivers lying unconscious on the ground, Mao Zhengzhi took a light breath.

When he saw the vital sign data displayed on the side, his eyes were filled with anxiety!

"40.5 degrees Celsius?!"

Mao Zhengzhi in the protective suit changed his tone anxiously: "Professor! Let the robot bring them out!"

"This body temperature, if it takes longer, I think the person will be gone!"

The moment the voice fell, all the robots stopped spraying disinfectant in unison!

The hatch opened, and robots rushed into the starship under Zero's control.

The six starship pilots were quickly carried out.

"Academician Mao?" Lu Yongchang also lacked experience in this situation.

To be precise, all scientific researchers present, including medical staff, lack experience in dealing with this situation.

After all, this is the first alien microbial invasion event in human history!

"In short, let's lower the temperature physically first!" A slightly unfamiliar voice came from the side, "We don't know the specific situation at the moment, so we can't rush to use medicine."

Lu Yongchang quickly looked in the direction of the voice, and saw an old man with gray hair.

"This is Academician Ding Xueming of Epidemiology."

A difficult smile appeared on the corner of Lu Yongchang's mouth, he nodded towards the old man and said, "Academician Ding, I'll leave it to you to deal with the six drivers!"

Ding Xueming nodded with a serious expression: "Professor Lu, don't worry."

"I will do my best to keep them alive!"

Lu Yongchang pondered for a moment, then said again: "Zero, let the robot take out the samples from Gale Crater."

"Also, test the blood samples of the six drivers!"

"I'd like to see what kind of microorganisms can have such a great lethality!"

……

After ten minutes.

An isolation door connecting Port No. [-] to the laboratory slowly opened.

A robot walked steadily in front of Lu Yongchang holding a large box.

"Brother Mao, be careful."

Lu Yongchang in the protective suit said to Mao Zhengzhi beside him with an extremely serious expression: "According to Bai Yixuan, it has withstood the disinfection measures when entering the starship!"

"Even if we take a variety of disinfecting measures, the air around us may still be polluted!"

Mao Zhengzhi's expression froze when he heard this.

The starship can survive the first disinfection measure... The ability of this microorganism is extraordinary!

As the most important barrier, ultraviolet rays combined with high-concentration disinfectants can basically eliminate all microorganisms on the earth.

Mao Zhengzhi took a deep breath.

After making mental preparations, he reached out to open the box and took out a sample from it.

The hologram lights up.

The thumbnail of Gale Crater appeared in front of everyone.

Afterwards, Zero marked the source of this sample on the map.

"Huh?" Lu Yongchang looked at the data on the map and raised his eyebrows slightly, "Is this a sample from the foot of Mount Sharp?"

"Yes, Professor." Zero responded in a steady tone, "There are a total of 12 samples near Mount Sharp, and I have listed them all for you."

Chapter 200 Stubborn Bacteria

Mars City, outside Port Ten, temporary laboratory.

Academician Ding Xueming looked at the indicators in front of him worriedly and sighed deeply.

"Difficult...difficult!"

Even though various physical cooling measures were taken, the body temperature of the six starship pilots remained above 38 degrees.

The damage to the human body is undoubtedly great!

When Ding Xueming was worried, a researcher walked quickly to Ding Xueming with a document.

"Old Ding, the blood sample test results are back."

Hearing this, Ding Xueming quickly turned around and took the document handed over by the researcher.

The moment he saw the data, Ding Xueming frowned instantly.

"Increased white blood cell and neutrophil percentages, elevated C-reactive protein, increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate..."

He whispered softly: "This is inflammation caused by a typical bacterial infection!"

At this moment, he was relieved instead.

Bacteria are fine, as long as they are not viruses!

Bacterial infections, according to past experience, are relatively easy to resolve.

"Have you found the pathogen?" Ding Xueming turned to the researcher at the side and asked, "Where is the focus?"

There was some hesitation in the researcher's eyes.

"Old Ding..."

"Huh?" Seeing the appearance of the researcher, Ding Xueming couldn't help but thumped in his heart, "Say! What's going on?!"

"...The pathogen has been found, but we found this bacterium all over the patient's body." The researcher said bitterly, "Now the six patients have different degrees of inflammation all over their bodies, which is also the reason for the persistent high fever. "

Ding Xueming's face turned ugly for a moment.

"Has the drug resistance screening test been done?"

"Are our antibiotics working?"

The researcher shook his head slowly: "Old Ding, so far, this bacterium has shown extremely strong drug resistance."

"An antibiotic that works the best is only marginally effective."

Although he had expected this result, Ding Xueming only felt a chill rising from behind when he heard the researcher's answer.

He swallowed slightly, and dryly asked the last question: "What about the speed of transmission and reproduction?"

The researcher's face became increasingly ugly.

"We've established that it's airborne, faster... than any bacteria we've found so far."

"The speed of reproduction is the same."

The moment he heard the result, Ding Xueming only felt his eyes go dark.

The speed of transmission is fast, the ability to reproduce is strong, and there is no cure...

With a background in infectious diseases, he has never seen this kind of bacteria before!

Human, is it over?

……

Inside the biology lab.

Lu Yongchang and Mao Zhengzhi carefully observed the samples from Gale Crater through the microscope.

"Huh?" Lu Yongchang's eyes lit up, "This structure is quite similar to the Martian fungus we discovered before."

Mao Zhengzhi quickly nodded in agreement.

"That's right, the cell walls and cell membranes are extraordinarily thick...this should be the reason why they survived the starship's disinfection measures."

Lu Yongchang shook his head: "It should be more than that."

As he spoke, he reached out and dropped a drop of disinfectant on it.

The stimulation of the disinfectant made the action of these bacteria a bit more intense in an instant.

The next moment, an incredible scene appeared in front of everyone.

Bacteria start to clump spontaneously.

Just like ants encountering a flood, countless ants will immediately form an air chamber to protect the important queen and some ants.

Even though the surrounding ants will be washed away by the flood, there will still be a steady stream of ants going to fill the gap without hesitation.

the reason is simple.

As long as the queen and middle ants are kept alive, their population will not perish.

The behavior of these bacteria is similar to the behavior of ants!

"No wonder..." Looking at the picture in front of him, Lu Yongchang muttered to himself, "No wonder they can survive the disinfection measures of Xuannv No. [-]."

"Yes."

There was emotion in Mao Zhengzhi's eyes.

"They just want to survive."

"It's just that they survived, which is not good for us."

Lu Yongchang nodded lightly: "Continue to test and count the number of bacteria in each sample."

……

"Zero, sort out the data."

Lu Yongchang raised his hand and gently rubbed his shoulder through the protective clothing.

The huge holographic image quietly unfolded, wrapping everyone present in it.

That's a complete 3D model of Gale Crater.

In the next second, red dots of different colors appeared in the 3D image.

The depth of the color means the number of unknown bacteria in the sample.

The darker the color, the more bacteria.

Because of the different sampling depths, the position of the red dot also changes in depth.

Through this holographic projection, the researchers clearly discovered the law.

The palest red spot is located on the outermost surface of Gale Crater.

And at the foot of Mount Sharp, located in the center of Gale Crater, is a series of dense red to black dots!

Lu Yongchang took a deep breath, and muttered to himself: "Maybe Fang Xu really hit the spot..."

"What?" Mao Zhengzhi on the side was stunned, "What did Academician Fang say?"

"...He said that there might be magma activity under the Gale crater, which just explains the phenomenon of moist water vapor in the ground." Lu Yongchang reached out and clicked on the red dot in the holographic image while talking.

"You see, in the same area, as the depth increases, the color depth of the red dot also increases."

"The closer you get to the center, the deeper you go underground, the higher the number of bacteria."

"This also shows that the environment over there is more suitable for bacteria to survive." Lu Yongchang turned his attention to Mount Sharp in the center, "Perhaps, there is really residual magma activity under this mountain."

Mao Zhengzhi shrugged: "Regardless of whether there is magma or not, our first task now is to understand this bacterium."

"Ding Lao has sent over the inspection information just now."

Lu Yongchang's eyes moved, and he quickly asked, "How is it? How are Bai Yixuan and the others doing?"

Mao Zhengzhi reached out and "dragged" a holographic projection screen in front of Lu Yongchang: "You can see for yourself, the situation is not optimistic."

"With the help of a large number of antibiotics, the six drivers were out of danger, but at present, we cannot eradicate these stubborn bacteria."

"As long as there is a little relaxation, even if there are only a few residual bacteria left, they will quickly multiply to the original scale!"