reverse rescue

In the photo, Gu Zhou is wearing a dark blue uniform with his hands in his pockets, and a middle-aged man in his 40s is standing next to him, putting his hands on Gu Zhou's shoulders. He doesn't look like a teacher or a student, but looks like a Year-end brothers.

Obviously the background of the photo is the noisy auditorium, and the strange lights and shadows occupy half of the space, but the two of them seem to be in a different time and space from the voices and shadows around them.

One has the indifference and aloofness unique to young people, while the other shows the casualness and freedom rarely seen by middle-aged people.

Gu Zhou glanced at the photo, as if he had returned to a few years ago. He walked onto the stage of the auditorium, and the audience was covered with black heads. Everyone looked at him silently, and flashes flashed from every corner from time to time.

"We invited Gu Zhou, the graduate representative, to speak on stage—"

In the neat uniform, Gu Zhou saw the teacher sitting under the stage at a glance. He was wearing a pair of rimless glasses, and proudly raised the camera in his hand, facing him who hadn't had time to adapt to the dazzling lights on the stage. After pressing the shutter, he knew without looking at him that he must have a dazed look with half-opened eyes in those photos.

He still remembers that at the end of his speech, the school asked him to thank his school and teachers routinely. He didn't even write the manuscript, and only made nonsense when he arrived at the scene.

Finally, he said:

"Teacher to me, teacher and friend, brother and father, we are travelers who have traveled long distances in the wilderness. When we first saw an oasis, we felt that all the hard journeys before were for meeting each other."

Gu Zhou took down the photo on the bedside, and saw a line of standard regular script written in black pen on the back of the photo——

The road is late.

He handed the photo to Bai Yue, and said with a smile: "I only developed this one photo, and the rest are only system backups."

Bai Yue: "Why?"

Gu Zhou continued to laugh: "Because not everyone can see my flourishing beauty."

Bai Yue rubbed his chin: "...Although the term Shengshi Meiyan is quite appropriate, why do I think it's because the National Security Center doesn't allow it?"

Gu Zhou: "..."

You are truthful again.

He said to the director who was patiently waiting for Bai Yue to play chess beside the bed: "Director, you open my personal database to Bai Yue."

Director: "Okay, it's open."

……

In the dim room, pictures with a sense of age are projected on the snow-white walls, Gu Zhou from junior high school, Gu Zhou from high school, Gu Zhou from university...

Gu Zhou who rides a bicycle, Gu Zhou who practices calligraphy, Gu Zhou who trains in the military, Gu Zhou who graduates...

Gu Zhou who returned home during the Chinese New Year.

Bai Yue lay prone on the bed, with his chin resting on the back of his hand, taking advantage of the pause in the photo to look at the figure lying beside him.

Gu Zhou's whole body was submerged in the darkness, and mottled light and shadows appeared on his head and face near the projection wall. The light and darkness softened his originally cold facial features, and a little yellowish light The halo just hit the tip of his nose, and the wings of his nose fluttered slightly during his breathing, the yellow color on the tip of his nose was like a cloud of dizzy ink.

The photo has been posted of Gu Zhou wearing a military uniform for the first time after graduating into the army. It is obviously a brand new military uniform, but he just wore it in a custom-made fit. The small yellow halo just happened to be on the top of the military uniform. The color of the buttons.

The golden buttons glistened in the sunlight.

Bai Yue pulled the crumpled blanket aside, and gently laid it on Gu Zhou, who had fallen asleep at some point, then stared at the glowing button, and said softly: "It's a pity that I haven't seen your shiny button like that before." look."

"When I saw you, you were bitten by a zombie, covered in blood, and dirty on the bed."

"It's also the clothes that don't fit in the shelter."

"Obviously I'm not used to eating white water potatoes as a meal, but I still force myself to swallow it."

"I finally ate a vegetable meal, but I also put onions and garlic that you don't eat."

"Why did you start to suffer as soon as you saw brother?"

Bai Yue stretched out his hand and poked the tip of Gu Zhou's nose. The latter was fast asleep, lying motionless on his stomach, feeling nothing wrong at all.

"Go to sleep, I know you are tired."

Bai Yue turned his face sideways, and lightly kissed the tip of Gu Zhou's nose. The touch was as gentle as a dragonfly's touch, as if he was afraid of accidentally waking up the sweet dream of the person next to him.

……

The next day, Gu Zhou disappeared all day as usual, and spent time in the laboratory with Dr. Xiaoye. Every time he came out to rest, he would change into a sweaty clothes.

The wound on Bai Yue's body needed to be changed. He dilly-dally and reluctantly found Zhou Kai who stayed in his room honestly, and watched the whole drama that Zhou Kai directed and acted.

The central idea is to want to stay here.

Bai Yue slowly buttoned his jacket, and after Zhou Kai finished all the performances, he finally hooked his hands as if he was in a good mood: "Come here."

Zhou Kai stepped forward with some doubts.

Bai Yue continued to hook his hands: "Come here, I have something to say, and I don't eat people."

There was a gleam of light in Zhou Kai's eyes, and he quickly lowered his head and moved closer.

Bai Yue pretended to be deep and said: "Do you know why there are only so few people left in the research institute?"

Zhou Kai shook his head.

Bai Yue: "Because antibodies need clinical trials, the research institute has no volunteers, so they used to do it by themselves before, and if they don't succeed, they will be benevolent, understand?"

Zhou Kai nodded with a tense face.

Bai Yue was very satisfied with the results in front of him, and continued: "Isn't it time to restart antibody research? I heard from the director that I hope you can stay and cooperate. As for how to cooperate, we will discuss it at that time. After all, it will benefit the whole world." Everyone has this kind of spirit of sacrificing the ego, right?"

Zhou Kai's face trembled twice, and then he pulled out a stiff smile: "Yes, yes, that's right..."

Bai Yue had achieved his goal, and it was estimated that this person would not try his best to stay from tomorrow on, so he left very satisfied.

Out of the living area, as soon as he entered the activity room, Bai Yue saw on the sofa, Feng Biao was playing flying chess with the director, Zhao Tiantian was fighting the landlord with two directors, Ge Tu was playing mahjong with the three directors, Cheng Zhi Playing Monopoly with the four directors...

At a glance, the whole room is full of all kinds of tall and straight, gentle, educated directors.

Bai Yue's happy mood was instantly crushed, and he said sullenly: "Da Biao, Miao Miao, Tu Tu, Da Cheng, when did this activity room become a chess and card room?"

The four people who were named stood up in horror. As expected, Bai Yue said without any psychological burden: "Let's go, let's run another five kilometers with a load, so that you don't forget how to drive the helicopter on the way back."

Everyone wanted to cry without tears.

Captain, is there any necessary connection between running with a load and flying a helicopter? !

……

Gu Zhou, who was staring at a pile of data in the laboratory and didn't know what time it was, shook his dizzy head, and looked at Xiaoye suspiciously: "Xiaoye, there is a question that I don't quite understand. Since we can destroy the zombie's brain and central nervous system Killing them in a nervous way, or making them no longer have the ability to move, then this means that zombies can die, so why can dead corpses continue to zombify and then come back to life?"

Dr. Xiaoye was looking at several gene map comparison reports in his hand. Hearing this, he raised his head in a daze, pondered for a while, and then said: "Perhaps the virus needs to control the host through the brain and central nervous system. Isn't death irrelevant?"

Gu Zhou pondered: "Then may I think that the virus does not infect the whole human body to achieve the effect of controlling the human body, but only needs to infect the brain, and the cells in other parts cannot withstand high fever and bleeding. They all died before the virus completely invaded the brain, and finally, the virus only needs to pass through the central nervous system in the brain to control the entire human body—”

"—like a human being."

Dr. Xiaoye put down the report tremblingly: "Zhou...Brother Zhou, are you telling a horror story? Why do I feel like you are talking like a virus is a parasitic beast with thoughts."

Gu Zhou: "Well, although it's a bit scary and exaggerated, that's what I want to express."

Doctor Xiaoye approached Gu Zhou silently, and then said: "But we observed that the zombie virus does conform to the structure and characteristics of the virus..."

"What are you afraid of? You have been in close contact with zombies so many times, so you are already familiar with them." Gu Zhou said with a smile, "But you have seen the immune system that can distinguish different species before, and A virus that produces a different way of causing disease?"

"And if you look at the strains we have cultivated, there have been no fewer than twenty different types of mutations in several key antigenic proteins, and the direction of the mutations is uncontrollable. The small amount of antibodies obtained from embryonic cells are not universal, but Antibodies from the original strain can bind to these antigens to a certain extent.

"Although the combination is not tight, do you think this is like the drone produced by the queen bee? They are all developed from the unfertilized egg cells of the same queen bee, similar but not identical, but this metaphor Not very accurate, I mean, the original strain has a dominant effect on the subsequent divergent strains in genetic nature, but it is not a covering effect."

Doctor Xiaoye digested silently, and then said: "If you say that, the original virus is not actually a virus, but a creature that obtains life and reproduces through parasitism. After it invades the human body, it kills all but the brain. The human body cells outside the core and central system, and then control the dead human body through the core area of ​​the brain—"

Doctor Xiaoye flattened his mouth, and said with some horror: "—Brother Zhou, why do I feel that the good virus crisis has turned into a foreign species invasion?"

Gu Zhou knocked Doctor Xiaoye on the head from the air, and said: "If human medicine cannot explain all the anomalies from the perspective of viruses, then we have to consider two situations. One is that our understanding of viruses is not deep enough, The second is that this is not a virus in the traditional sense at all.

"I've been thinking about this question since I knew that other labs failed antibody tests using human embryonic cells. Now, I suddenly feel that this absurd idea may be right."

"Then...then what should we do now?" Doctor Xiaoye asked tremblingly.

Gu Zhou looked at the data on the screen, and said: "[-] base pairs, this does not include the suspicious non-coding region, we can't find the mutation pattern—"

"—We may need some samples to verify this conjecture."

……

"Lieutenant Colonel Gu."

The figure of the director suddenly appeared beside Gu Zhou, and behind him was the thick biochemical glass in the isolation area of ​​the laboratory. The glimmer of holographic projection reflected on the glass, as if coating him with a hazy and gorgeous background.

Gu Zhou looked at the pleasing scene in front of him, and asked, "What's the matter?"

The director pointed to his gold-rimmed glasses, and said: "Lieutenant Colonel Bai said that artificial intelligence does not need such fancy decorations as glasses, and hopes to remove them. I don't have permission, so he asked me to ask you."

Gu Zhou: "..."

Did he ask you to come and ask? !

Forced to jump from the alien invasion, which is a major issue of human survival, to the channel of whether artificial intelligence needs to be dressed, Gu Zhou said that there is no one in the entire research institute.

He thought about it for a while, and he didn't know what he thought of, then he suddenly showed a faint smile and asked, "What else did he say?"

The director pointed to his black tunic suit and leather shoes, and said, "He said that I don't suit this suit, because it tends to make people have some unsuitable associations."

Gu Zhou: "..."

The director's limited program couldn't understand Captain Bai's sense of crisis, and he continued to ask gently: "Do I need to change my image?"

Gu Zhou chuckled lightly and said, "No, you tell him that I just like a refined intellectual like you. It's pleasing to the eye, you have a flash of inspiration, you feel happy, and your efficiency is extremely high."

"Okay." The voice fell, and the translucent figure began to disappear.

"and many more."

Gu Zhou suddenly called the director of the residence, and then said: "I remember you once wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses with a thin gold chain next to it, put it on for another one, and then ask him, do you like it?"

The director quickly found the glasses from the database, put them on, and then disappeared into the air.

Gu Zhou couldn't help laughing out loud, then looked at Doctor Xiaoye with a horrified expression beside him, and said in a good mood: "Xiaoye, you, Brother Bai, are so cute."

Xiaoye: "!"

I don't know if Brother Bai is cute or not, but I always feel that you, Brother Zhou, have stabbed the fire.

On the other side, Bai Yue, who was still full of fighting spirit to watch the four of his subordinates run with heavy loads, looked at the director who reappeared, listened patiently to Gu Zhou's words, and then carefully observed the thin slit on the director's glasses. The golden chain said slowly:

"Tell Gu Zhou that brother will take good care of him tonight."

"Guaranteed to make him pleasing to the eye, with a flash of inspiration, a happy mood, and extremely efficient."

The author has something to say:

Bai Yue: Why is it that every time my boat sees me, I look ashamed and smelly, but when I see the director, he looks gentle and charming? !

Director: Lieutenant Colonel Bai, according to the latest version of the Xinhua Dictionary, you have misused the idiom Fengqing Wanzhong. I suggest that you correct the wording after consulting the relevant information.

Gu Zhou: Whose old vinegar jar has been overturned?Why is there a rotten smell?