Transdimensional Marketing

Chapter 397 The Most Miraculous Virus

half an hour later.

The virus infects and spreads very rapidly.

All major cities have been wiped out, and there are not one out of ten people who have not yet shown symptoms of infection. The streets are full of screaming and staggering zombies, and when they see a living person, they flock to them and devour them alive.

At this time, the floating castle is still stable.

Under the dual control of Hermione and Rhythm Virus, there have been no major casualties yet.

It's just that the growth rate of infected people is faster. Speaking of the "snake-eating" team, there were originally 26 human beings, but under the constant spitting bubbles in the back row, only 17 remained and hadn't been completely reduced to zombies.

Inside the medical school laboratory.

Professor Sun, who was fully armed, carefully picked up the reagent, poured it into the retort bottle, observed the information changes on the screen for a while, turned around, and looked at Chen Yu.

"Principal, can you give me some more muscle tissue from infected people?"

"No problem." Chen Yu nodded and snapped his fingers: "The one in front, take twenty steps forward."

The thin and tall boy immediately took a step forward and walked more than ten meters. The team moved forward, and outside the window of the laboratory, the infected people in the back row were exposed.

Professor Sun held a scalpel in his left hand and a glass plate in his right. He stepped forward, first glanced at the giant panda on the left, and then at the infected person on the right, and asked, "How can the meat of that panda be given to people?" Shall I cut some?"

"Cut it whatever you want, and it'll be fine if it's all decomposed."

"Then I won't be polite." Professor Sun licked his lips, raised the scalpel and stabbed the infected giant panda's abdomen.

Onlookers: "..."

"Whoosh!"

"Roar!"

Accompanied by the clear sound of muscle cutting, the giant panda's abdomen was cut open in pain, and puddles of black mud flowed out from the inside.

"Infected fat?" Professor Sun's eyes lit up, and he quickly handed out the plate, collected the fat, and stored it in the refrigerator as a treasure.

Then, he used the same "butcher" method to collect two infected human muscle tissues.

"Come back, principal."

"Okay, the one in front, go back around."

"Understood!" The thin and tall student nodded and turned around, dragging the long team like a greedy snake, circling around the narrow corridor, sticking to the "tail" of the team, and brought Chen Yu to the laboratory window forward.

"I feel that the sand sculpture virus among you is more powerful than the mutant virus." Professor Sun said.

"It's a rhythm virus! It's not a sand sculpture!"

"Okay, Rhythm Virus." Professor Sun took a step back, checked the protective clothing on his body for half a minute, and made sure there was no leak, then sat on the chair and said: "Some research results have been obtained on this mutated virus that has swept the world. Although it is still very simple, there is no problem in explaining its transmission mechanism."

"That's enough." Chen Yu immediately adjusted the camera angle, leaving the C position to the opponent.

"Start now?"

"Wait a minute. Before you explain, I have a little personal question."

"Excuse me."

"All human beings will be extinct soon, and the disaster experience will end in one day at most. Why do you still collect so many experimental materials from infected people? You can't run out of them at all?"

"I've been prepared for a long time." Professor Sun smiled, pointed to the fully enclosed protective clothing on his body, and turned around to show the portable oxygen tank: "I know that viruses are also coming from the asteroid disaster when you live broadcast the principal." I will come, so I changed my equipment in advance. So I should still be healthy now, without any possibility of infection."

"Oh!" Chen Yu suddenly said, "Do you want to linger in the apocalypse for a while, specializing in this virus?"

"Yes." Professor Sun nodded, "I'm a virus researcher. I will gain a lot from studying this virus, which has never appeared before in human history. But you use the word lingering to describe it, isn't it a little bit off-putting?" civilization?"

"Don't pay attention to the details." Chen Yu laughed and pointed at the camera: "Back to the topic. Tell the audience in front of the screen about this virus."

"Where do we start?"

"Just start from the very beginning."

"Oh." Professor Sun nodded again and cleared his throat: "In the early universe, gravity captured atomic clouds and shaped them into stars and galaxies. The formation of stars is bound to..."

Chen Yu: "...Wait...Wait a minute, Professor Sun. Is it a bit 'too' started? How about we move the time back?"

"Then move it to my childhood. In 1962, I was born in a small county town in Sichuan Province. My father was a local doctor in the city..."

"Move to half an hour ago." Chen Yu interrupted: "Just talk about the virus, and I will read the rest when you write your autobiography."

"Half an hour ago." Professor Sun spread his hands regretfully: "Yes. Simply put, this virus is a variant of a common virus, but the infection mechanism is ingenious, far beyond the imagination of normal people. It can cause such a biochemical The crisis situation really opened my eyes."

"Common virus? Which one?" asked the old professor who stood aside with all the blood vessels on his face.

"Bacteriophage." Professor Sun had an inexplicable look in his eyes.

"Bacteriophage?"

"That's right. It is the most indispensable virus in nature, especially for living things, bacteriophage."

[What is a phage? 】

【The same question. 】

[One of the most common viruses that specifically kills bacteria. 】

[I've seen pictures, it looks like an alien spaceship. 】

[+1, every time I see a phage, I feel like it's from an alien. 】

[Aren't phages killing bacteria? How could he attack people? 】

Blinking his eyes, Chen Yu said, "Professor Sun, although I know a lot about phages, most of the audience in the live broadcast room don't. Please explain in detail what phages are."

"Oh?" Professor Sun was surprised: "Principal, you also know a lot about viruses?"

"Know a thing or two." Chen Yu said modestly.

"Then tell me, what is a phage?"

"...Who is that, how much is Professor Sun's annual bonus?"

"No, no, I won't ask." Professor Sun quickly waved his hand: "Let me tell the story."

"Say it."

"Bacteriophages are viruses that attack bacteria. They mainly parasitize within living bacteria and have strict host specificity. In layman's terms, they are the nemesis of bacteria. They play an indispensable and important role in the earth's biological world. If there is no such virus, with The reproduction speed of bacteria, there is simply no living space for other organisms in the world. Therefore, bacteriophages are also one of the few viruses that are beneficial to humans."

"Is the source of this virus disaster the bacteriophage?"

"right."

Chen Yu was thoughtful: "Since it is a beneficial virus, why would it attack humans?"

"It didn't attack humans." Professor Sun stood up a little excitedly, dancing with his hands and feet: "This is the subtlety! From the beginning to the end, the target of the phage attack is not humans! It is still attacking bacteria!"

"It's just attacking bacteria, why did this happen?" Chen Yu looked around at the infected person at the end of the team.

"Its aggressiveness has become stronger. The original one tail has been mutated into four. In each tail, a piece of RNA genetic information is stored separately. This makes them more aggressive against bacteria countless times. And in After the genetic information is injected into the bacteria, in order to continue their own survival, they will subtly help the bacteria to speed up their reproduction in a short period of time."

As he said that, Professor Sun picked up the tablet computer on the table and showed the pictures taken by the electron microscope: "Look here, there were originally a hundred bacteria. After being invaded by a mutated phage, the number of bacteria will soon expand to Tens of millions of levels. Regardless of whether humans or animals, where are the most bacteria in the body?"

"Gut."

"That's right, it's the intestinal tract! When the bacteria in it are unbalanced and wantonly divided, they will soon burst through the capillaries of the intestinal tract, flow into the blood circulation, and invade the liver, lungs, brain, and muscle tissue. At this time, the bacteria in the phage Under the control of RNA, a special enzyme will be released, causing errors in the electron transfer chain of the human body, greatly enhancing the probability of handing over electrons to oxygen, and reducing oxygen to hydrogen peroxide."

"hydrogen peroxide?"

"It's the main substance of hydrogen peroxide. Everyone knows hydrogen peroxide, right? It's a disinfectant that bubbles when applied to wounds."

"It kills bacteria!"

"Yes, the bactericidal ability is very strong." Professor Sun nodded: "This leads to the death of a large area of ​​the bacterial population. The phages produced in batches will escape from the dissolved cell wall of the bacteria, infect and multiply more Bacteria. Ultimately cause the human body to collapse."

"Something's wrong here?" The old professor frowned: "The phage infects the bacteria, reproduces the bacteria, makes the bacteria secrete enzymes, stimulates the human body to produce hydrogen peroxide to kill bacteria, and then comes out by itself... It's too troublesome. It bursts through the cell wall like other viruses Isn't it more reasonable?"

"This is the most wonderful thing about it!" Professor Sun pointed at an infected person: "Didn't you notice that these zombies are spitting bubbles?"

"You mean..." The old professor was shocked.

"Yes. When hydrogen peroxide or hydrogen peroxide encounters blood, it will decompose and combine O atoms into oxygen, producing a large number of bubbles. Since these blood is full of dead bacteria, the bacteriophage content in the bubbles produced One can imagine."

[Fuck, it's amazing...]

【I see. The bursting of the bubbles will spray the virus far away, and as long as one virus is absorbed by the organism, more and more bubbles will be created. Ma De, the scalp is numb. 】

[The earth's ecological circle cannot lack phages, so this virus has no solution. 】

[The calculations are meticulous and interlocking. It is impossible for this virus to be born naturally. 】

[In the future, if human beings want to self-destruct, it may be enough to send a biologist...]

[The more advanced the technology, the more we can feel the fragility of human civilization. 】

"Okay, that's the end of the explanation. Let me make a summary." Professor Sun looked at the camera and said seriously: "Bacteriophage injects RNA into the bacteria to manipulate the bacteria to produce viruses and accelerate division."

"Because the bacteria are mostly in the stomach and intestines, and they need energy to divide, they will stimulate the hunger of creatures with damaged brains. This is the origin of the so-called zombies. At the same time, the bubbles spit out increase the infectivity."

"When an infected person is injured and bleeds out, the blood will come into contact with the oxygen in the air, and a large amount of hydrogen peroxide will be produced. These hydrogen peroxides kill the bacteria, release the virus, and then generate hundreds of millions of bubbles... "

"This is how the mutated virus works."

"Just artificially modifying a little gene of the bacteriophage turns an irreplaceable beneficial virus into a devil that destroys the entire ecology."

"So in my opinion, the artificial intelligence crisis, the asteroid impact... are far less ferocious than the viruses blessed by human nature, and there is no way out when they come."

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