Chapter 73

The originally messy basement of the old factory suddenly became quiet.

　From the busy and unhurried Bai Yinjiu to the mournful and howling patients, they all seemed to have been restrained. Only the red light of the medical cabin flashed relentlessly in the closed darkness.

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

　Lin Jingheng had no time to think about these situational questions. Before he could realize what he was doing, he grabbed Lu Bixing next to him. Because he was separated by gloves and an isolation gown made of special material, he couldn't hold on to the first one and it slipped. The helplessness of the gloves sliding away penetrated his temples like a laser gun and froze the blood all over his body into ice.

　What is the method of spreading the mutant rainbow virus?

　What about pathogenicity and lethality?

　If the old antibodies have expired, what about Lu Bixing?

　Thousands of thoughts spewed out in his mind, turning over and over, and none of them were good.

　Before Lu Bixing could recover, he had already pinned him down next to a medical cabin.

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

　The medical cabin calmly replied: "Invalid command."

　Lin Jingheng's forehead veins popped: "I let You check whether he has been infected with the mutant rainbow virus!"

　But the medical cabin does not understand the joys and sorrows of human beings, and still responded to him without sadness: "Invalid order."

　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 information about the mutant rainbow virus, and then use a more powerful computer to analyze the virus characteristics. If you encounter some special viruses, you may even need the manual participation of medical experts. After fully analyzing the various characteristics of virus onset and destruction mechanisms, the medical cabin can generate effective virus detection methods based on this information, save them in the database, and perform tasks.

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

　Is it still too late?

　Lin Jingheng had a slight tinnitus. Turan's voice clearly sounded directly from the earphones in the isolation suit, but it seemed like there was something far away: "...General, General..."

　Lu Bixing held his shoulder and said: " Lin!"

　Lin Jingheng raised a hand, and everyone fell silent. He stood still for a moment like a sculpture. When he spoke again, the unreasonable chaos in the medical cabin could not be heard: "Elizabeth."

　Turan: "Yes."

　"First, notify the people guarding the outer perimeter of the factory that the isolation area will be immediately treated as the highest risk-level epidemic area according to the alliance's standards. All people approaching will wear isolation suits, enter and exit with double-layer disinfection, and kill all animals-birds in the nearby area. Insects, especially those that feed on carrion, would rather kill them by mistake than let them go. The corpses should be disinfected and disposed of in a concentrated manner. "

　Secondly, there is a river nearby. Send two teams to track the upstream and downstream water sources and closely monitor all surrounding activities. Regarding the quality of plants and soil, mandatory quarantine will be implemented within 72 hours, and all people who have been in contact with the water and soil will be quarantined and observed. If it enters the underground water system, I will require the entire Galaxy City to be under martial law, cut off water for three hours, and conduct overall disinfection. "

　Third, a patient once left the factory twice within 48 hours and entered a densely populated area in the core of Galaxy City. Although blockade has been implemented, we are not sure about the effect of traditional blockade on the mutant virus. You should try to prevent it." Isolate everyone he has come into contact with as much as possible."

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

　Lu Bixing interrupted: "This man's body is outside the factory. You bring me the space field he carried with him. There should be a record of his coordinate positioning in the space field, with time and location. I can hack into the Galaxy City internal network and search for personal terminal information of people who appeared within one kilometer of the patient during the same period."

　Lin Jingheng: "What do you need? "

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

　"Okay," Lin Jingheng nodded immediately, "Call Zhan Lu over."

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

　"Go . Look for Saturday," Lu Bixing said. "If you still don't have enough manpower, call the base and call the entire Self-Defense Force."

　"Also," Lin Jingheng said, "Forcibly recruit the medical resources of the entire eighth galaxy to prepare for a full-blown plague outbreak. Get ready. Inspector Yu, are you awake? If not, let the medical cabin cheer you up."

　William Yu had not yet recovered from the bad news, and when he was suddenly called, he subconsciously straightened his shoulders. back.

　"I need you to tell me the causes and consequences of your infection with the rainbow virus, all the details." After Lin Jingheng finished speaking, she turned to Turan, "Stay in the medical cabin, everyone evacuate, keep in touch, ensure the energy of this old factory, and send things With artificial intelligence, people should try not to come in or out... If the one-eyed eagle scolds me, he can scold me, but don't let him in."

　Turan nodded, then seemed to think of something, and asked again: "General, would you consider extreme cases? Contact the "Center."

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

　Under the mask, Tu Lan's delicate eyebrows raised slightly, showing a little doubt, but he was confused. Gui was puzzled. At this time, she didn't say much. She retreated as soon as possible and saluted Lin Jingheng neatly. The ninth guard captain waved his hand, and the Silver Nine soldiers in the basement followed her out of the basement very quickly.

　Seeing this, Lu Bixing was dumbfounded: "She... left so simply. Instead of hugging her and crying, she should at least say a few touching words of comfort. How come the ten Silver Guards all have the same style as you?"

　Lin Jingheng said in the heavy isolation Under the clothes and mask, he let out a long breath of cool air. For a moment, he thought of Lu Bixing's hands that had come into contact with him several times, probably for the convenience of tinkering with the mecha. Lu Bixing's nails were trimmed very short, and his fingers were It's very beautiful, the palm of the hand is dry and warm, the temperature is on the high side, and it has the feeling of a young man with strong firepower, which makes him avoid it as much as possible.

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

　Check the temperature in the palm of your hand again.

　Lin Jingheng's always focused thoughts were like a surging river, suddenly spreading over the river embankment and stretching to nowhere.

　He thought, if he had not agreed to let Lu Bixing come out, if he had not chosen to settle in Venus, if he had not called Lu Bixing from the base of the underground channel, if he had not come to the eighth galaxy at all...if he could be decisive One point, don't be on both sides of the fence, the rebellion should be more open and aboveboard, directly hijack the Silver Fortress and break into Voto.

　If... if all the cause and effect could be traced back, none of this would have happened, even if he was shattered to pieces and left in infamy for eternity, it wouldn't matter.

　But right now, this is all his wishful thinking.

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

　"What kind of problem are you having?" Lu Bixing glanced at him and suddenly smiled. From just now, the atmosphere between the two of them had been vaguely tense. At this time, it was cleared away by his smile, and he used that very inconsistent expression. He said in a tone of voice, "If I say I'm not afraid, then I may be mentally retarded or emotionally disturbed. But if I say I'm afraid... wouldn't that be very shameful? A man's face cannot be so dishonored in front of his sweetheart. General, you have bad intentions. Right? I haven't asked you yet, are you afraid?"

　Lin Jingheng thought: "My liver and gallbladder are broken."

　However, he didn't say anything and returned to his normal business tone and asked, "How are you doing biochemically?"

　"No. , Sorry," Lu Bixing was full of "face" just now, admitting his shortcomings but not shying away, "If it is a biochip, I can help analyze it, but viruses are really just common sense and do not have independent scientific research capabilities. Not to mention such a complex project as Rainbow Virus."

　Lin Jingheng nodded and didn't have high expectations for him. Lu Bixing was obviously more interested in artificial intelligence than humans. Computer viruses can find him, and he is probably more interested in human viruses. You can't get any stronger on your own.

　"Then you take notes for me." Lin Jingheng ordered without looking at Lu Bixing and walked straight towards Inspector Yu.

　There was no hope for the commander. He looked like he was out of breath. He was lying in the medical cabin in a semi-conscious state. He didn't know if he heard the worst news.

　William Yu seemed to have lost all his strength, staggering and sitting on the edge of a dirty folding bed, looking at Lin Jingheng in a daze for a moment, covering his face with all his strength.

　"Variant," he said confusedly, "how could it be... if... if blocking is really useless, what's the point of Webster dying like this... He still did it for us..."

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

　Yu William let out a sob.

　"His death was not in vain." Lu Bi Xing walked over and sat down next to him. "If it weren't for him, we wouldn't have chased you and wouldn't have discovered you. The mutant virus spreads without anyone knowing. This is the most important thing. It's scary."

　The isolation suit for a virus of the "Rainbow" level was too heavy and affected his movements. Lu Bixing folded it several times and couldn't bend his knees, so he had to sit with his legs straight like a zombie. Simply take off the heavy isolation gown, because you are afraid that if you are not infected, because it will take off the isolation gown, but you are infected, it will be funny.

　"In case" there is no infection...

　Lu Bixing mentally clicked his wording and felt that his legs were a little weak, so he simply found a comfortable position and leaned against the wall regardless of the image. He looked at Lin Jingheng, but Lin Jingheng was wrapped in another isolation suit, and even his outline could not be seen. He was full of greedy longing, and he could only see a few features under the mask, but no sadness or joy.

　Lin Jingheng walked up to Yu William and said very impersonally: "Are you going to commemorate the dead by creating more dead people?"

　Yu William shuddered, looked up helplessly, and met the cold gray eyes behind the isolation mask. This The 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, and his voice was still trembling: "We all know that we have been infected, so we are very careful. We don't have many 'blockers'. Except for Webster, we should not have come into contact with anyone else." "

　When Prince Gloria's guards invaded , I was performing an escort mission for the Commander-in-Chief." William Yu paused and said from the beginning, "It happened to be the time when the Alliance Council convened representatives from various systems to go to Voto for a meeting. We didn't go because the meeting schedule was notified too late. It was late, and there was no time left for us to prepare for travel expenses. Secondly, everyone knew that the theme of this debate was probably the military autonomy of the galaxy. It had nothing to do with us. The director did not want to watch the live broadcast of the meeting on Gloria Star, so he organized a temporary galactic meeting. Inspection, because there are problems with the constant temperature systems of many planets, and if it continues, people will die. We want to solve this problem... but not long after leaving Planet Gloria, we ran into the Prince Gloria Guards. The starship on official patrol only had four or five escort mechas. They were chased all the way by Prince Gloria's mad dogs. I was the only one left among the five mechas. The starship's protective shield shattered, and the commander and others abandoned the starship. Gather everyone on the mecha, make an emergency jump, and make an emergency landing on Qiwei Sanaima."

　"Before the war, the three Venus satellites were working satellites with only a small number of staff on them," Lu Bixing said. "Qiwei Sanaima. Ma should happen to be a starship supply and repair station, right?"

　William Yu smiled bitterly: "Before landing, we thought we were pretty lucky, but the starship didn't stop and was blocked by someone. The one who caught us was probably People who are against the Uzbekistan Association, I don't think they are targeting the Chief... Everyone knows that in the eighth galaxy, the Chief's energy may not be as powerful as the arms dealers on the Gloria Star - at that time, because of the rampage of the Prince Gloria Guards, many starships and merchant ships We and the passenger ship all docked at Emma to take shelter from the limelight, but they were all waiting to be caught. "

　"We were together, and there were still about twenty colleagues who were taken away by them, and put into a closed laboratory, an experiment room. The room was very large, and there were probably more than a hundred people in it. I guess they were divided by age and gender, because the female colleagues who were with us and a senior employee who was about to retire were taken to other places. There are only two hundred and twenty adult men under the age of 20 in this place. Food and drinking water are delivered from a wall at regular intervals. At first, some people imagined that they could escape from there, but the engineering dean with us said that this is called a "vacuum pipe" , no one can escape."

　Lu Bixing explained softly: "The 'vacuum pipe' is Reinborg's masterpiece - it is the infamous human laboratory of Prince Gloria."

　Lin Jingheng asked: "You mean the opposite? The Black Society has rebuilt a "Rhineburg" in Emma. Are you sure it is an anti-Black Society and not something done by Ares Feng privately? "

　A cult that is anti-technology, advocates nature, and wishes to return to primitive society actually engages in human viruses? experiment?

　Why? What are the benefits?

　"On the outside of the laboratory building is the symbol of the Anti-Ukrainian Society. There is no pirate flag of Prince Gloria's Guards. Those who captured us would say anti-Ukrainian words when greeting each other, like 'for nature' or something like that." William Yu paused, "Yes, there is a small pattern next to the anti-Ukrainian Association logo. It should be a woman with the head of a human and the body of a snake."

　Lin Jingheng suddenly looked up - Nuwa with the head of a human and the body of a snake!

　"Someone was taken away on the first day and sent back three hours later. He was unconscious all the time. The director brought a health doctor with him to check his body and said he saw no abnormality. At that time, the doctor judged that he might have just been injected. After taking the sedative, the man woke up an hour later and acted as usual. He said he was anesthetized as soon as he went out. He didn't know what happened and there was nothing wrong with his body. However, to be on the safe side, the doctor still suggested that we create a small space. , he was isolated in isolation, and the health doctor organized us to save the alcoholic beverages in our dinner every day, briefly purify it and use it as disinfectant, and sprinkle it around him." William Yu took a breath, "But about...about a day later, He started to have a fever, his muscles were weak, and he had...symptoms of the Rainbow Virus."

　Lin Jingheng and Lu Bixing looked at each other - the incubation period of the mutant virus was still twenty-four hours, and the health doctor around the director of the Eighth Galaxy was not aware of it. , indicating that the symptoms displayed by the mutant virus are highly consistent with the original version, and can at least be concealed from professionals.

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

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

　Lin Jingheng's heart sank.

　"From the next day, the virus spread among everyone. Those who took refuge on Emma were all interstellar travelers. Only a small number of people were qualified to ride on comfortable starships. Most of them were merchant ships and even mechas. Strong young adults, at the beginning, everyone was desperate and holding on to luck, thinking that with their own immunity, they might be able to survive it as long as they were careful enough. "

　But the God of Death never misses a prey.