Star Rank Hunter

Black Viper's robots don't have their own private activities like humans, so generally as long as they come out, they have missions, and those who can let Black Viper send robots out, the things involved will not be small, just like the previous discussion about The "Aquamarine Gold" matter, in order to spur those academicians of the Royal Academy of Sciences who were busy all day to expand their reputation, the people behind directed that incident. However, since then, the research on Aquamarine has advanced by leaps and bounds, and the effect has been remarkable. So leaders are born strategists.

Having said that, when Xilin arrived here, he did not receive any news about major events in the Black Viper. Although Guan Feng has not completely let go, Xilin is only in a period of adaptation, but if it is really a major event, is it true? Xilin should not be notified.

Although he didn't tell Xilin about the incident before, since Xilin asked, the robot would not hide it.

"We're here to monitor suspected virus carriers," the robot said.

"Suspected virus carrier?" Xilin wondered, he came to this planet and didn't hear anything about the virus carrier.

"Yes." The robot told Xilin about the cause of the incident and related information.

A virus appeared in the Empire, and the people at the Institute of Virology of the Royal Academy of Sciences called it the Zebra virus. This is not to say that this virus is related to zebras, but that the symptoms caused by this virus are like the stripes on zebras.

At first, it will be reflected in the change of body surface color, and the appearance of two alternate colors will appear, and it will change from light to dark as the disease progresses. Nerves and muscles will be seriously affected, and the muscles will become softened and hardened according to the appearance of the two colors, alternating soft and hard. Same as the color distribution on the surface.

Whether it's overly softened muscles or overly hardened muscles, it will cause inconvenience to the human body, and eventually lose all mobility, the body's conditioned reflexes become dull, and the nerve conduction of the body is blocked, but the nerves of the brain are relatively weak. Normally, patients are conscious and aware that they are dead.

I have to say it was torture. Can't move, can't speak, and even facial expressions begin to fade, and can only express emotions through eyes. After the condition worsens, the pupils will start to change color, which is the same color as the stripes on the body.

At first, a group of patrolling soldiers from the Eleventh Star Region detected an energy signal on an uninhabitable uninhabited planet to collect energy mines, but they saw five people who had died for many days there, and beside the five people were still There are energy mines dug out.

The energy mines on this planet are not located on the surface, and it is not easy for the patrol team to detect the energy mines deep underground. If these five people hadn't dug out some energy mines, the patrol team would not have found the energy signal at all.

Since it is an energy mine located deep underground, how did these five people know about it? The five of them were obviously not the only ones who came, because the patrol soldiers saw traces of the aircraft landing there. But when they arrived at the planet, they didn't see any aircraft, which meant that they actually had companions. It's just that their companions left them and left.

The five dead men did not have any wounds, and the patrolmen pulled off their protective clothing. Seeing the miserable conditions of these five people, all five of them were covered with double-color stripes, some were blue-red, some were black-purple, and some were blue-yellow. These were symptoms caused by different virus variants.

At that time, the soldiers who pulled off the protective clothing of the five people also realized that something was wrong when they saw this situation, and immediately reported it to others, and then took a little blood from the deceased for scanning and analysis, and found that the death was caused by a virus.

Several soldiers were wearing protective clothing. After collecting some information, they returned to the fleet. When they returned to the fleet, they underwent six levels of disinfection in the sterilization room, but unexpectedly, not long after, the nails of those soldiers Two color stripes began to appear, and they didn't feel uncomfortable at first, but because they had seen the five dead, the soldiers were quickly sent for examination. None returned to the team.

Because of the existence of this unknown substance, general virus scanners cannot scan its existence at all, and the analyzer can only judge whether it is caused by a virus or other reasons based on the patient's physical condition. And many sterilization equipment cannot completely kill this single-stranded virus.

The six-fold disinfection of the soldiers in the sterilization room did not kill the virus, but only temporarily inactivated it, and they will reactivate when the conditions are right.

The samples collected from the five dead people they sent were later sent to the Royal Academy of Sciences, which was listed as a first-class dangerous substance by the Institute of Virology of the Royal Academy of Sciences. At the same time, the Royal Academy of Sciences also named the new virus Zebra virus.

Soon the entire patrol team was quarantined. Three days later, under the inspection of the virus-specific scanner made by the Royal Academy of Sciences, more than 60% of the patrol team was confirmed to be infected with the zebra virus.

However, there are not a few people who have been in contact with the patrol team, and the spread of the virus has become wider and wider, from one planet to another, from one star field to another.

Because the incubation period can be long or short, even if the Royal Academy of Sciences rushes to make a detector to detect latent viruses, this also increases the difficulty of the work. With so many planets and countless people, how could it be possible to capture each of them and use detectors to detect them?

Now the higher-ups intend to suppress this matter, and the people of Black Viper have also started to work. Because it is not convenient for human beings to move around, apart from the special operations department of the military, this time, the robots of the Black Viper mainly secretly tracked and searched for the primary mutants and originals of the virus.

After counting the days, Xilin asked: "During the Black Viper handover meeting, Xi Kai had something to leave, and it was because of this incident?"

"Yes, but Emperor Lansa urgently contacted Mr. Xi."

"However, since I know this virus is so dangerous, why haven't I received any news for so long, and if the situation is bad, the three kings will let Yuan Xingming and the other three run around?"

"Feng Shou said not to let you know. And now the virus is still controlled in the eleventh star field, so many things have not been made public. I think the three kings should also think that this place is far away from the eleventh star field. So there is no restriction Your Highness the three princes, if there are infected people in this star field, the people guarding the three highnesses will definitely tie the three highnesses back forcibly."

Xilin glanced at him, Guan Feng has not fully handed over power yet. Talking is still more effective than Xilin. However, Guan Feng didn't let Xilin get involved in this, not because he was reluctant to bear the rights in his hands, but because he didn't want Xilin to participate in this matter.

Guan Feng was not involved in virus research before, so even though he was an academic in Black Viper, he had not participated in any research projects related to viruses and molecules, but Xilin was different. Guan Feng was afraid of Xilin getting involved. The initial research risk of a new type of virus is the greatest, which is also a means of protection for Xilin by Guan Feng.

No wonder Gu Changan and Christie Lang have already handed over power, but Guan Feng has not handed over power yet. This is because I knew about it early in the morning, so I didn't let it go. Because verbal handovers don't count. After the power is actually handed over, the robot of the Black Viper will set up new program commands again. One of the people responsible for changing this main program order is the decision maker, the royal family member, and the other is Xi Kai, the executor. These two people were obviously greeted in advance by Guan Feng.

"How high is the death rate now?"

"Ten percent of people infected with the virus have died, 30 percent are in the critical stage, and the rest are in the early stages of infection. This virus mutates quickly, and there are many derivatives. Therefore, antibodies have not been developed until now. It didn’t produce a satisfactory one either. The medicine produced only prolongs the patient’s life as long as possible.” said the robot.

"The route of transmission hasn't been determined yet?" Xilin asked again.

"The respiratory tract and body fluids have spread, and the secretions on the body surface may also be contained. So far, all people who have been in contact with the patient have been infected."

"What about aliens?"

"Aliens are also unavoidable. The virus mutates faster in their bodies."

Xilin was silent.

The robot went on to say: "Later, the military and Black Viper conducted a two-pronged investigation and found that the planet discovered by the patrol was not the initial point where the virus appeared. Now there are two opinions above, one is a conspiracy theory. They think it is a conspiracy theory. Conspiracy, someone deliberately arranged such an event to release the virus in order to avenge the empire. As for another point of view, most of them are from the Royal Academy of Sciences. They have come up with some experimental results as a basis, thinking that such a The virus molecule is not man-made, but a new type of molecule that is naturally formed, and there is a great chance."

"Have you got the molecular map? Show me." Xilin said.

There was a flash in the robot's eyes, and two beams of light shot out from the robot's eyes, converging into a three-dimensional image in front of it. Affecting the virus structure of an advanced variant, the molecular diagram of all the atoms that make up the virus is clearly displayed. Conformation diagram of a single-stranded virus molecule.

Human DNA is a double-stranded helix, which is relatively stable, but the stability of this single-stranded form is much worse, let alone this single-stranded virus.

Xilin pointed to a black circle in the molecular diagram and asked, "What does this represent?"

"Unknown substance."

"No idea at all?"

"No, this is a substance that has never been seen before. The people of the Royal Academy of Sciences and the research team in the Black Viper have not provided effective information so far, but they have pointed out that to clarify this substance, you must Start with the original virus, but the primary variants in the virus samples obtained until now only account for a very small part, and the original body has never been seen."

It is precisely because of this that people from the Institute of Virology of the Royal Academy of Sciences will deny the conspiracy theory and favor the natural formation of opinions. However, at such a time, is it useful to argue about these? Either way, neither side has made any progress.

"Send me all the information about this zebra virus." Xilin turned on the communicator in his hand. This communicator has a confidential receiving function and can store the measured information.

The robot did not refuse, and directly passed all the things and information it knew to Xilin.

"You came to this planet because you found a virus carrier?"

"Not sure, just tracking, because of this wedding, nobles from the eleventh star region came out. Although the eleventh star region is closed now, there is still a leniency for the upper nobles. At that time, they came out to scan and detect and found no infection. Virus, but the higher authorities let us follow up and observe, and take immediate measures if we find someone infected.”

Xilin nodded, "Then who are you following? Where is it now?"

The robot speaks of the individual. This man was one of those who entered the room later.

"You continue to observe, and let me know if there are any changes."

"OK."

Xilin waved his hand, and the figure of the robot faded away again.

Xilin stood outside for a while, digesting the information sent to him by the robot. Then I went back to that room, and it was still noisy inside. Naimi and a few people were talking about "vegetable cakes", and Yuan Xingming and the others were also talking about the fact that they made a lot of pocket money by betting on the racing competition. Honorable deeds.

Because of Biller's care, Libeiluo and Lunani were not embarrassed by other people when Xilin left. Instead, they met a few friends who could talk to each other and started a new chat.

As for gray cats. This guy can have fun, and sometimes he would boo with Yuan Xingming a few times, but the flicking ears at that time told Xilin that this guy had been paying attention to the movements around him, including Xilin's meeting with the robot and the conversation between them .

See Xilin come in. The gray cat stopped eating the snacks on the plate, jumped on Xilin's shoulder and asked, "What are you going to do?"

"Look first, and study that thing after the wedding."

The gray cat seemed absent-minded, with balled paws, scratching the clothes on Xilin's shoulders. He hesitated for a long time before holding back: "I think it's better for you not to get involved."

"Why?" Xilin went to the sofa and lay down, and kicked Yuan Xingming, who was flushed from drinking, and was about to come over to grab someone to drink with, to the side.

"I think this virus is dangerous."

"Even you think it's dangerous?"

"No, I can definitely resist. Robots are not afraid of me, why should I be afraid? But you can't. You are a complete organic life, and this virus is different from the ones you have come into contact with before. Especially the unknown substance, I can't analyze it clearly. What the hell is that?" said the gray cat with its ears drooping.

Xilin was silent. Gray Cat has the same idea as Guan Feng, but Xilin doesn't want to just avoid it.

"Hey, Xilin, don't worry about that, okay? At worst, we don't want to be the leader of the Black Viper, and just be a free hunter." The gray cat misses his previous life in the Star Alliance.

Xilin took the gray cat off his shoulders and scratched its chin, "Want to go back?"

"Well, I miss them a little bit." The gray cat tilted its head and exposed its chin for Cillin to scratch.

Xilin naturally understood who the "they" the gray cat was talking about, so why didn't he want to? But, I can't go back.

While scratching the gray cat's chin, Xilin's thoughts returned to the zebra virus. Xilin learned from the information sent to him by the robot that now Black Viper has collected samples of highly active viruses from 10,000 patients, but more than half of the 10,000 highly active viruses obtained are from zebra virus High-level mutants, and most of the rest are intermediate-level mutants. As the robot said, there are very few primary mutants, let alone looking for answers from the original virus.

Whether it is artificially synthesized or naturally formed, the more advanced the mutation of the virus, the more it will cover up the original formation method. The robot does not have the analysis configuration diagram and analysis diagram of the primary variant. If you want to know, Xilin has to come forward in person Go to ask for it, but once he comes forward to ask for the information of the primary mutant virus, Xilin will be considered to be really involved in this work.

Xilin is not afraid, nor does he reject this kind of research work, but Guan Feng is probably not the only one who opposes Xilin's participation.

I think so, if it is really a high-risk virus, if something happens to Xilin, there will be no one who can replace Xilin. At least at this stage, no suitable person has been found, even if it is someone from Black Viper who is not familiar with Xilin. Nor would they agree. Their opposition would not shake Xilin much. After all, Xilin was considered one of the three giants of the Black Viper, but it might be more troublesome at that time, and there would definitely be delays in policies.

"Hey, Xilin, why are you so preoccupied with thinking?!" Biller pushed Yuan Xingming away with his buttocks, leaned forward with his shoulders crossed, and told Xilin about the beautiful girls he saw just now.

Xilin listened with a smile. When Bi Le said that he wanted to introduce some to Xilin, Xilin refused. He was not used to the way of the nobles, and he felt like prostitution. Xilin always thought of wolves in the forest and always felt awkward. If it weren't for Yuan Xingming and the three of them showing erratic temperament outside, those few would probably come to a bully and forcefully execute them.

Xilin has been paying attention to the movements of the robots. Although the gray cat is very reluctant to get Xilin involved, it must always pay attention to the movements of those robots. The gray cat is thinking that if it finds an infected person, it will forcefully kick Xilin. Should he be dragged back when he is unconscious and let the second grandpa lock him up, or is it a soft policy of pretending to be sick?

In any case, these two days have been relatively peaceful, racing with Naimi, and talking about feelings and experiences with a few speeding enthusiasts, and nothing major happened.

In this way, the wedding finally began. Xilin was with Yuan Xingming and the others when he gave the gift. They didn't dare to attack people with the idea of ​​Xilin, but they still dared with Xilin's idea. After all, there is still a difference in the treatment of people with royal blood and those without royal blood.

Seeing those people's meaningful smiles and overly friendly faces, Xilin felt hairy all over, and found a reason to go out to catch his breath. But before Xilin could catch his breath, the communicator rang.

After looking at the character code on the communicator, Xilin connected: "Director Guan, what's the matter?"