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The basement of the old factory, which was already messy, suddenly became quiet.

From the busy and unruffled Baiyinjiu to the howling patients, they all seemed to have been immobilized, only the red light of the medical cabin flickered inexorably in the closed and dark place.

Where did the rainbow virus, a man-made virus that has been theoretically eliminated, come from?Is this an accident or man-made?What is the conspiracy behind it?who is it--

Lin Jingheng had no time to think about these situational questions. Before he realized what he was doing, he grabbed Lu Bixing next to him.Because of the gloves and the isolation suit made of special material, he didn't grasp it at the first time and slipped. The powerlessness of the glove slipping away pierced his temple like a laser gun, freezing the blood all over his body into ice.

What is the transmission method of the variant rainbow virus?

What about morbidity and mortality?

If the old antibody has failed, what about Lu Bixing?

Thousands of thoughts spewed out in his mind, tossed and turned, none of which was a good thing.

Before Lu Bixing came back to his senses, he had already been pushed beside a medical cabin.

"Check..." Lin Jingheng opened his mouth, but his voice fell apart. He said almost incoherently, "Check whether he has been infected."

The medical cabin replied calmly: "Invalid order."

Lin Jingheng's forehead was throbbing with blue veins: "I'll let you check to see if he has been infected with the mutated rainbow virus!"

But the medical cabin didn't understand the joys and sorrows of human beings, so it still replied to him without sorrow or joy: "Invalid command."

There is artificial intelligence in the medical cabin, but its intelligence is very limited. In this case, the correct way to operate is to first ask the medical cabin to collect and record the information of the mutant rainbow virus, and then use a more powerful computer to analyze the virus characteristics. If you encounter Some special viruses even require the manual participation of medical experts. After fully analyzing the various characteristics of the virus outbreak and destruction mechanism, the medical cabin can generate effective virus detection methods based on these information, save them in the database, and execute tasks.

But I don't know how long it will take to go back and forth, and how long will the incubation period of this mutant rainbow virus be?

is there time?

Lin Jingheng had slight tinnitus. Turan's voice sounded directly through the earphones in the isolation suit, but it seemed that there was something far away: "...general, general..."

Lu Bixing pressed his shoulder: "Lin!"

Lin Jingheng raised a hand, and everyone quieted down. Seeing him standing still for a moment like a sculpture, he spoke again, but he couldn't hear the unreasonable chaos in the medical cabin just now: "Elizabeth."

Turan: "Yes."

"First, inform the people guarding the outer circle of the factory that the quarantine area will be treated immediately in accordance with the highest risk epidemic area according to the alliance standard. All people who come close must wear isolation suits, double-layer disinfection when entering and exiting, and kill all animals in the nearby area—birds, Insects, especially those that feed on carrion, would rather be killed by mistake than let them go, and the corpses will be disinfected and then disposed of.”

"Second, there is a river nearby. Send two teams to trace the upstream and downstream water sources, closely monitor the surrounding animals, plants, soil and water quality, and implement mandatory isolation within 72 hours. Isolate and observe. If it enters the groundwater system, I need the entire Galaxy City to be under martial law, cut off the water for three hours, and disinfect it as a whole."

"Third, there is a patient who left the factory twice within 48 hours and entered the densely populated area in the core area of ​​Galaxy City. Although the blockade has been used, the effect of the traditional blockade on the mutant virus cannot be confirmed. You should try your best to Quarantine everyone he came in contact with."

Turan said truthfully: "General, this is difficult."

Lu Bixing interrupted and said, "This man's body is just outside the factory. You bring me the space field he carried with him. There should be his coordinates and location records in the space field. With the time and place, I can hack into the Galaxy City intranet and search for him. Personal terminal information of people who have appeared within one kilometer of the patient at the same time."

Lin Jingheng: "What do you need?"

Lu Bixing: "If the amount of data is large, I need a super computer."

"Okay," Lin Jingheng nodded immediately, "Call Zhanlu over here."

Turan: "General, even so, we may not have enough manpower."

"Go find Saturday," Lu Bixing said, "If you don't have enough manpower, call the base and call the entire self-defense force over."

"Also," Lin Jingheng said, "the medical resources of the entire eighth galaxy are forcibly recruited to prepare for a full-scale outbreak of the plague. Superintendent Yu, are you awake? If you are not awake, let the medical cabin refresh you."

Yu William hadn't recovered from the bad news until now, when he was called on suddenly, he subconsciously straightened his hunched shoulders.

"I need you to tell me the cause and effect of your infection with Rainbow Virus, all the details." After Lin Jingheng finished speaking, he turned to Turan again, "The medical cabin remains, everyone evacuates, keep in touch, guarantee the energy of this old factory, and send things With artificial intelligence, people try not to come in and out... If the one-eyed eagle scolds me, he can scold me, but stop him from coming in."

Turan nodded, and then he seemed to think of something, and asked again: "General, under extreme circumstances, do you consider contacting the 'center'?"

Lin Jingheng paused for two seconds, and said decisively: "No, go out and let Zhanlu hurry up."

Under the mask, Turan's delicate eyebrows raised slightly, showing a little puzzled expression, but the doubts turned into doubts. At this time, she didn't talk too much, and withdrew as soon as she asked, and saluted Lin Jingheng quickly. , the captain of the Ninth Guard waved his hand, and the soldiers of the Silver Nine in the basement followed her out in a file.

Lu Bixing was stunned when he saw it: "She... walked so simply, if you don't cry, you should at least say a few words of heartfelt comfort. Why do the ten guards of silver have the same style as you?"

Lin Jingheng let out a long breath of cool air under the heavy isolation suit and mask. For a moment, he thought of Lu Bixing's hands that had been in contact with him several times, probably for the convenience of tinkering with the mech. Lu Bixing's nails It is trimmed very short, the fingers are beautiful, the palm is dry and warm, the temperature is high, there is a feeling of a young man with strong firepower, and he is afraid of being scalded.

But at this moment, Lin Jingheng really wanted to shake that hand again.

Confirm the temperature in the palm of your hand again.

Lin Jingheng's thoughts, which had always been focused, were like a surging river, which suddenly spread over the river bank and stretched to nowhere.

He thought, if he hadn't promised to let Lu Bixing come out, if he hadn't chosen to settle in Venus, if he hadn't called Lu Bixing from the base of the underground channel, if he hadn't come to the eighth galaxy...if he could be decisive One point, don't start at both ends, the rebellion should be more open and aboveboard, and directly hold the Silver Fortress and break into Woto.

If... If all the causes and effects can be traced back, and none of this happens, even if his body is smashed to pieces and he will be left with a bad reputation for thousands of years, then it doesn't matter.

But right now, this is all his wishful thinking.

"Are you afraid?" Lin Jingheng asked in a soft voice. He probably had never spoken in such a gentle tone in his life, so that he almost lost his voice.

"What kind of question are you talking about?" Lu Bixing glanced at him, and suddenly smiled. From the beginning, the atmosphere between the two of them was vaguely tense, but at this moment, his smile wiped it away, and he used that very inconspicuous expression He said in a tone, "If I say I'm not afraid, then I may be either mentally retarded or emotionally retarded. But if I say I'm afraid... wouldn't that be a shame? A man's face should not be swept away in front of his sweetheart. General, you did it on purpose. Right? I haven't asked you yet, are you afraid?"

Lin Jingheng thought: "The liver and gallbladder are torn."

However, he didn't say anything, and resumed his normal business-like tone, asking, "How are you doing in terms of biochemistry?"

"No, I'm sorry." Lu Bixing was full of "face" just now, admitting his shortcomings but not shy away, "If it's a biochip, I can help analyze it, but the virus is really just common sense and does not have independent scientific research. capabilities, let alone such a complex project as Rainbow Virus.”

Lin Jingheng nodded, and didn't expect too much from him. Lu Bixing was obviously more interested in artificial intelligence than in human beings. Computer viruses could find him, and he probably wasn't much better than himself in human viruses.

"Then you make a record for me." Lin Jingheng didn't look at Lu Bixing, gave orders, and went straight to Superintendent Yu.

The chief was hopeless, he looked out of breath, lying in the medical cabin in a semi-conscious state, wondering if he had heard the worst news.

Yu Weilian seemed to have exhausted all his strength, staggered and fell to sit on the edge of a dirty folding bed, looked at Lin Jingheng in a daze for a moment, and covered his face vigorously.

"Mutants," he said incoherently, "how...if...if blocking is really useless, what's the point of Webster dying like this...he's still doing it for us..."

"Which one is Webster?" Lu Bixing asked softly, "Is it the one who died in the space field?"

Yu William let out a sob.

"He didn't die in vain." Lu Bi walked over and sat down next to him, "If it wasn't for him, we wouldn't have chased after you, and we wouldn't have found you. The mutant virus spread without anyone knowing, that's the last thing you want to do. Terrible."

The isolation suit for viruses of the "Rainbow" level is too grand, which greatly affects the movement. Lu Bixing folded it several times, and couldn't even bend his knees. He just sat with his legs stretched out like a zombie. I was afraid that if I was not infected, I would take off the isolation clothing, but I would get infected instead, which would be ridiculous.

"In case" is not infected...

Lu Bixing smacked his words in his heart, felt that his legs were a little weak, so he simply found a comfortable position, and leaned against the wall regardless of his appearance.He looked at Lin Jingheng, but Lin Jingheng was wrapped in another isolation suit, and he couldn't even see the outline. He was full of greedy desire, but he could only glimpse a little eyebrow from under the mask, and couldn't see sadness or joy.

Lin Jingheng walked up to William Yu and said impersonally, "Are you going to remember the dead by creating more dead?"

Yu William shivered, looked up helplessly, and met the cold gray eyes behind the isolation mask. This man who was flammable, explosive and manic under the influence of the virus actually forced himself to calm down.

He was silent for a while, his voice trembling: "We all know that we have been infected, so be very careful. There are not many 'blocking' belts. Except for Webster, he should not have been in contact with others."

"When Prince Gloria's guards invaded, I was performing an escort mission for the chief." William Yu paused, and then said from the beginning, "It happened to be the time when the Alliance Council called representatives from various galaxies to Votto for a meeting. We didn't go, because The notification of the meeting arrangement was too late, and we did not have time to prepare travel expenses. Secondly, everyone knows that the topic of this debate is probably the military autonomy of the galaxy, and it has nothing to do with us. The chief does not want to watch the live broadcast of the meeting on Gloria , so we temporarily organized a galaxy inspection, because the constant temperature systems of many planets had problems, and if it dragged on, people would die. We wanted to solve this problem... As a result, we ran into Gloria not long after we left Gloria. The prince's guard. We used a starship for official patrols. There were only four or five escort mechas. They were chased by Prince Gloria's mad dogs all the way. Of the five mechas, I was the only one left. The starship's protective cover was shattered , Chief, they abandoned the starship, gathered everyone on the mecha, made an emergency jump, and made an emergency landing on Qiwei Sanemma."

"Before the war, the three Venus satellites were all working satellites, and there were only a small number of staff on them," Lu Bixing said. "The Venus III Emma should be the starship supply and maintenance site, right?"

Yu William smiled wryly: "Before landing, we also felt that we were lucky, but the starship was blocked by people before it stopped. The people who caught us should be people from the Anti-Uganda Society. I don't think they are targeting the commander-in-chief. ... We all know that in the eighth galaxy, the energy of the commander-in-chief may not be as good as the arms dealers on Gloria's star - at that time, because of the rampage of Prince Gloria's guards, many starships, merchant ships and passenger ships stopped at Emma to temporarily avoid the limelight. They waited and caught them."

"We were together at the time, and there were more than 100 colleagues left. They were taken away by them and put into a closed laboratory. A laboratory has a large space, and there are about 220 people in it. I guess it is based on age and gender. We were divided, because our female colleagues and a veteran who was about to retire were taken to other places. Our place was only adult men under the age of [-], and food and drinking water were sent out from one wall at regular intervals. At first, some people imagined that they could escape from there, but our engineering dean said that this is called a 'vacuum pipe', and no one can escape."

Lu Bixing explained softly: "The 'Vacuum Tube' is the masterpiece of Reinburg—it is the notorious human laboratory of Prince Gloria back then."

Lin Jingheng asked: "You mean that the Anti-Ukraine Society rebuilt a 'Rein Castle' in Emma, ​​are you sure it was the Anti-Ukraine Society, not Ares Feng who did it privately?"

A cult that is anti-technology, respects nature, and wishes to return to primitive society, actually conducts human virus experiments?

Why?what is the benefit?

"The outer layer of the laboratory building is the sign of the Anti-Uganda Society. There is no pirate flag of Prince Cayley's guard. Those who arrested us will say hello to each other when they say hello to each other. It's about 'for nature' and the like." Yu William paused, "Yes, there is a small pattern next to the Anti-Ukraine Society logo, which should be a woman with a human head and a snake body."

Lin Jingheng raised her head suddenly - a human head and a snake body, Nuwa!

"On the first day, someone was taken away, and he was sent back three hours later. He remained in a coma. The chief executive brought a health doctor along with him, checked his body, and said that there was no abnormality. At that time, the doctor judged that he might have just been injected. Sedatives, the man woke up an hour later and acted as usual. He said that he was anesthetized as soon as he went out. He didn't know what happened and there was nothing wrong with his body. But just to be on the safe side, the doctor suggested that we make a small space , isolated him alone, and the health doctor organized us to save the alcoholic beverages in the dinner every day, use it as a disinfectant after simple purification, and sprinkle it around him." William Yu took a breath, "But about...about a day later, He developed a fever, muscle weakness, and ... symptoms of rainbow virus."

Lin Jingheng and Lu Bixing glanced at each other—the incubation period of the mutant virus is still 24 hours, but the health doctor next to the chief of the eighth galaxy failed to detect it, which shows that the symptoms of the mutant virus are highly consistent with the original version, at least it can hide it from professionals.

Lin Jingheng: "What is the channel of transmission?"

"It should be the air." Yu William said, "There are health care doctors. We have been very careful from the beginning, and we have not touched the patient's things."

Lin Jingheng's heart sank.

"Since the next day, the virus has spread among all people. Those who took refuge on Emma are all interstellar passengers. Only a small number of people are qualified to ride on comfortable starships. Most of them are merchant ships and even mechs. For the strong and strong young and middle-aged people, at the beginning, everyone despaired and held luck at the same time, thinking that with their own immunity, perhaps as long as they were careful enough, they could carry it through."

But death never misses a prey.