Doctor: start with the heart

Chapter 169 Genetic Weapon?

After passing through the access control, Zhao Xu and Yun Shan stepped onto the elevator. The elevator seemed to be sinking at an extremely fast speed. Standing in the elevator, Zhao Xu hardly felt much.

"Professor Zhao, we are now 50 meters underground, and the base is built here."

Yun Shan said to Zhao Xu.

"50 meters? Is it necessary to build such a magic?"

Zhao Xu couldn't help asking.

"It's very necessary. After all, our special department deals with special events. Moreover, there are many dangerous things in it. Only by building such a deep base can we ensure absolute safety."

Yun Shan explained.

It is a very huge project to dig 50 meters underground and build a huge underground base.

In terms of engineering, it is obviously more difficult to build a base underground than to dig a large space in the belly of a mountain to build a base.

"Then why not build it in the mountainside?"

Zhao Xu asked with some doubts.

"If it is built on the mountainside, absolute safety cannot be guaranteed. Moreover, there is an underground river here, which solves the most critical problem of water source safety."

Yun Shan replied.

"Is this built according to the model of the doomsday base?"

Zhao Xu couldn't help but ask with an open mind.

"If it's really the end, even if such a base can play a certain role, it's just lingering."

Yun Shan thought for a while and said.

When the end comes, a small number of people find a small base and spend decades. The plot can only appear in movies and novels, and it is not realistic at all in reality.

The life of modern people requires a variety of industrial products, electricity, and the Internet. These things are all based on a huge network, which cannot be achieved by a small number of people alone.

"That's true."

Zhao Xu nodded. The reality is always the reality. For modern people, even those who post videos on the Internet and advertise that they live in seclusion in the mountains still need electricity, the Internet, and go out to buy supplies from time to time.

After a while, the elevator stopped steadily, and Zhao Xu had a feeling of falling to the ground for an instant. This feeling was very subtle, and he could only feel it now that his body had been strengthened in all aspects of the system.

The elevator door opened, and Yun Shan led Zhao Xu out of the elevator.

As soon as he walked out, there was a feeling of enlightenment. What caught his eyes was a huge space. The space that Zhao Xu saw was even bigger than the interior space of the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beishi before he went to it. .

Moreover, not far away, there are different passages leading to different places.

This huge space 50 meters underground is obviously only a part of the base.

However, what he saw so far was enough for Zhao Xu to feel amazed.

"Is this a completely dug space, or was it originally an underground space?"

Zhao Xu asked curiously.

As Yunshan said just now, the most important reason why he chose this place as a base is that there is an underground river here.

Then it is easy to imagine that where there are underground rivers, there will naturally be underground caves and the like.

"Yes, there used to be a huge group of underground karst caves here, and we just expanded on the basis of the group of underground karst caves."

Yun Shan nodded and said.

"Ah."

Only then did Zhao Xu understand.

If it is 50 meters underground, a space equivalent to the size of a football playground is completely dug out of nothing, the amount of work is beyond his imagination.

"Xiao Zhao, you are finally here!"

At this moment, Zhao Xu saw Mr. Fu coming out of a passage, and saw Zhao Xu coming, and walked towards him quickly. After standing still in front of Zhao Xu, he said happily.

"teacher."

When Zhao Xu saw Fu Lao, his uneasiness eased a little.

"Well, it's good to come."

Fu Lao patted Zhao Xu on the shoulder, nodded and said.

"Mr. Fu, I'll go to work then, call me anytime if you need anything."

Seeing that the person had been delivered, Yunshan said to Fu Lao.

"Team Leader Yun, go get busy."

Fu Lao waved his hand indifferently and said.

As the deputy team leader of the special department, Yunshan has always been very busy. Although he is the deputy team leader, the team leader is also held by the upper-level bosses. In fact, he is the deputy team leader.

The reason why the boss will also serve as the team leader of the special department is also to show his importance and facilitate the deployment of resources and forces from all aspects.

"Old Fu, what level of department is this?"

After Yunshan left, Zhao Xu asked the old man curiously.

"I don't know the specific level. But in terms of the authority of this department, it is amazing."

Fu Lao thought for a while and said.

To be honest, before the incident happened this time, before he was invited here, he never imagined that in China, there was such a special department with astonishing authority to deal with special incidents in the country.

"Mr. Fu, let's talk about it now. What happened? We both need to be called here?"

Zhao Xu couldn't hold back his curiosity for a long time, and couldn't wait to deal with Lao Wenwen.

"What exactly happened, let me keep it a secret, you will find out after following me to see."

Fu Lao said with a mysterious look.

Seeing Fu Lao like this, Zhao Xu became even more curious.

Fu Lao definitely didn't mean to be a secret, this must have happened, beyond common sense, so Zhao Xu needs to be impressed first, so that he can quickly enter the state.

Zhao Xu just nodded when he heard that.

Soon, Mr. Fu led Zhao Xu through a passage and came to another laboratory.

This laboratory seems to be rebuilt from a small cave.

In the laboratory, there were already several staff members in white coats, who were concentrating on their work at the moment. Mr. Fu and Zhao Xu came in and did not attract their attention. They looked very professional.

As soon as Zhao Xu entered the laboratory, he saw a glass chamber. Although it was made of glass, Zhao Xu could tell that the glass was tempered glass. can break through.

And in the glass chamber, there was a middle-aged man wearing a gray striped hospital gown, walking around barefoot. Zhao Xu took a closer look and found that the middle-aged man was pale and his eyes were bloodshot , Eyeballs are almost protruding, and his expression is very ferocious, the veins on his forehead and neck are exposed, and he growls in a low voice from time to time.

"Teacher, is this?"

Zhao Xu couldn't help asking.

This person looks a bit strange. This symptom is somewhat similar to a manic mental illness outbreak, but there are some differences in the physical symptoms.

"What problem do you think this person looks like?"

Fu Lao didn't answer, but asked rhetorically.

"Looks like a manic mental illness outbreak, but physically it doesn't look like it."

Zhao Xu thought for a while and replied.

Could it be because of the person in front of him that the special department invited him here?
When Mr. Fu asked such a question, Zhao Xu couldn't help but think in his heart.

"Well, take a look again."

Fu Lao nodded, and casually picked up a percussion hammer from the experimental operating table next to him, and struck a few times on the tempered glass.

The stainless steel percussion hammer makes a crisp sound when it hits the tempered glass.

Duang ~
Following the sound, the people in the glass secret room, who were pacing with their heads down, suddenly raised their heads, stared fiercely at Fu Lao, and then rushed forward in two or three steps, but hit the transparent tempered glass all at once.

The skin on the man's forehead was broken immediately, and some blood flowed out, but he didn't care, but used his teeth and hands, constantly biting and scratching through the transparent tempered glass.

Looking at the man with a ferocious and crazy face, like a ghost descending into the world, Zhao Xu was a little startled.

"This.."

Zhao Xu subconsciously ran far away. At this moment, he was at a loss for words and didn't know what to say.

Isn't this the zombie that rushes over when it hears the sound in a sci-fi movie?
When did this world become so terrifying that such things appeared?

Zhao Xu suddenly felt that something was wrong.

Mr. Fu gestured to a staff member sitting at the console, and the staff member immediately pressed a button with ease, and as the button was pressed, a powerful anesthetic gas was immediately sprayed from the nozzle preset in the glass chamber Fog, like a crazy man with a ghost, inhaled the powerful anesthetic mist, and his movements immediately became sluggish. After a while, the anesthetic mist took effect, and the man collapsed on the ground, his eyes closed tightly, and he passed out in a coma.

"This...is this a zombie? It's unscientific!"

Seeing this scene, Zhao Xu couldn't help muttering.

"Strictly speaking, this is very different from the zombies in the movies. This is a living human being. Otherwise, the anesthetic would not work."

Fu Lao explained.

"Not a zombie? What is that?"

Zhao Xu asked again.

"For now, we haven't figured out why this happens. However, pathophysiological tests show that the adrenaline in the patient's body is soaring, and the nervous system has been in an overactive state. Behavioral observations , The patient showed a very strong tendency to violent aggression. Moreover, he is very sensitive to sound, and any sound similar to knocking can immediately induce the patient's aggressive and violent behavior."

Mr. Fu briefly stated the information he had obtained so far.

"Teacher, has the rabies virus been detected, or is it a similar virion?"

Zhao Xu couldn't help asking.

Why is the patient's performance in front of him so similar to the outbreak period of rabies virus?

After the rabies virus enters the human brain, it can infect multiple nerve nuclei, increasing the excitability of the nerves, which in turn leads to some symptoms dominated by the nervous system, such as rapid pulse, sweating, salivation, tears, dilated pupils, respiratory muscles, swallowing, etc. Muscle spasms.

The most important thing is that once a patient infected with rabies virus has severe hydrophobia, after seeing water, it will cause extreme panic, and then violent attacks, such as biting and scratching.

"This is the strange thing. In this patient, no viruses, bacteria or known microorganisms in the biological database were detected."

Fu Lao shook his head slightly and said.

This is the really tricky part, it cannot be detected at all, what is the cause of this, and from now on, there is no treatment.

You can only watch the patient continue to consume the nutrients in the body. Before long, the patient will suffer from severe multi-organ failure, and then go to the end of death.

"Teacher, where was this discovered? So far, how many patients have this symptom?"

Zhao Xu asked after thinking about it.

If there is only a single patient, it means that this is probably an unknown neurological disease.

But if there are more than one in one place at the same time, then this must be a mass outbreak that is contagious and caused by some special reason.

"Patients who developed the disease were not fixed in one place, but were discovered in multiple places at the same time. So far, at least hundreds of such patients have been found. Other patients have been injected with strong sedatives, so that It went into a dormant state for a short time. And this patient, even though he was injected with a strong sedative, still couldn’t go into a dormant state.”

Fu Lao told what he knew.

"Then, this must be a mass explosive biological event triggered by some unknown reason."

Zhao Xu said solemnly.

"Yes, I think so. This patient has undergone strict biological disinfection and was transported directly from the scene."

Old Fu nodded.

Although he is good at biology, he also feels a little tricky when it comes to diseases caused by unknown causes and large-scale outbreaks.

"Teacher, at present, the most important thing is to find out what caused the large-scale outbreak of this disease among patients."

Zhao Xu said slowly.

"Well, that's why Team Leader Yun invited you here. The teacher knows that you are also good at genetic modification. Maybe you can use the genetic angle to discover abnormalities in patients."

Fu Lao still placed great hopes in Zhao Xu, and now the testing of patients has reached a deadlock.

It can be said that the current tests for viruses, bacteria, parasites, mycoplasma, chlamydia and even prions in the world have not found any abnormalities in patients.

Since it was not a disease caused by microorganisms, and no trace of radiation was found at the scene of the incident, this is very strange.

"Teacher, you said it might be a genetic weapon?"

Zhao Xu understood what Fu Lao said in an instant, but it was precisely because of his understanding that his heart became heavier.

"From the existing biological point of view, all the tests that can be done have been tested, but there is still no discovery. Then exclude these conventional methods that have been recognized and discovered, the rest, I can think of , is a genetic weapon.”

Fu Lao also didn't want to believe that he was attacked by a genetic weapon, but the reality was that, after eliminating all impossible reasons, the rest, no matter how outrageous it sounded, must be the truth.

"I'll try it out."

Zhao Xu nodded and said solemnly.

Although he has the most advanced genetic modification technology in the world, he used this method to treat patients before, and now he is turning to weapons, and it will definitely take some time to get used to it.

(End of this chapter)