24th

In an exceptionally cold, pitch-black night, Atlanta, Georgia, after a "catastrophic" snowstorm ravaged the landscape, and everything was white.All trees, grasslands, buildings, residential buildings, and cars parked outside were covered with a layer of white ice and snow with a thickness of 9 centimeters.

When more than one-third of the entire Georgia state entered a state of emergency, and residents were told by the state government to stay at home as much as possible, a white figure "walking like flying" strangely appeared in the small town of Clarkdale, Georgia on the road from Atlanta to Georgia. on Route 278.

Typically, "walking like flying" is an idiom that describes humans running very fast.But judging from the pace of this figure and the frequency of its legs, it is indeed walking like flying.The figure was running at a speed of 39.8 miles per hour (64 kilometers per hour) without looking back.

This kind of running speed, which reaches the maximum limit of human muscle fiber contraction speed, is the dream of countless athletes, anthropologists and scientists. It is even faster than the world's fastest runner Usain Usain Bolt is 20 miles (9.95 kilometers) faster.

Yes, this person is Captain Gloria Curtis who escaped from the CDC underground laboratory.It's just that she didn't know that these subtle changes that happened to her were quietly changing the process of human evolution.

"Why are you secretly sending me to Atlanta, CDC's isolation lab?"

"Just... because of that horrible event I had on Mars?"

"In my memory, my right arm was bitten off by that son of a bitch, but now... it's completely recovered!? Why?"

Stepping on the cold snow and ice with bare feet, Gloria, who only wore a vest and boxer briefs, and a white medical overalls, was running fast while thinking clearly about these problems she had never encountered before.

Before waking up, her memory still stayed in the "Orion 3" manned landing spacecraft that landed on Mars, and the last human being she saw was also the captain and commander of the spacecraft.But after waking up, all this changed.

"According to that guy, since I carry an unknown pathogen in my body, I'm going to be biochemically quarantined!?"

"God, how did an unknown pathogen get into my body?"

"Is it because of that Martian bastard who has no eyes but only opens his mouth?"

Gloria gradually slowed down her running speed, stopped to look at the silent road, and then walked towards the woods on the right.Standing behind a few big trees, slowly took off the sleeve of the medical overalls, and looked at the right arm exposed to the air with the faint light.

"God, is it a miracle? Why is there no scar at all?"

"The muscle tissue, nervous system and body functions of the right arm are also intact?"

"Human society has indeed entered the era of artificial intelligence, but the medical methods of artificial intelligence are far from reaching this advanced level. Even if the doctors of CDC can completely heal my right arm, but... I don't have any scars at all See?" Gloria thought, stroking curiously the place where the right upper arm had been bitten off, swinging her right arm back and forth and up and down.

At this moment, she suddenly raised her head sensitively and looked over the forest. She felt as if she heard a very small sound of an airplane engine.After careful observation, it turned out that an artificial intelligence drone had already flown over the forest not far from him.

"Damn it, how did they find this place?" Gloria cursed softly, put on her medical overalls and ran towards the front of the woods.

One thing she didn't know was that the surveillance room worker whom she had coerced had not told her the whole truth.One of the facts is that shortly after she was sent to the CDC isolation laboratory, a fully encrypted GPS chip only 7 mm long was implanted in the back of her neck.

To the US federal government, NASA, the American people and the people of the world, Gloria is one of the heroic astronauts who successfully landed on Mars, and she has also become a representative figure of extraordinary women in the United States.

But for the scientists of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who are committed to developing human genes and biological genetics, it seems that she is more like a perfect living sample for scientific experiments.

After nearly three months of observation, sampling, and a large number of experiments, it has been proved that the unknown alien life form that attacked and severely damaged Gloria's body tissue on Mars has indeed transformed a human body that has never been seen by human beings. Substances that had never existed on Earth were copied into her body.

Ultimately, this alien substance was identified by Dr. Kevin Watkins of the CDC as: Chromosome 24!

Whether the 24th pair of chromosomes that appeared in the human body out of thin air will bring evolution or destruction to human beings, Dr. Watkins has not yet made a clear statement.But he believes that using existing human technology means can make better use of this alien chromosome and make immortal contributions to the human world.

As for the purpose of implanting the tracking chip, it is to use all existing technological means to conduct follow-up observations and experiments on Gloria.He would not give up on Captain Gloria Curtis easily until he finally managed to create an artificial twenty-fourth pair of chromosomes.

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