dawn effect

Chapter 176 is not the time

The vehicle passed through Zizhou, Jianzhou, and Shudu for three skynet switches, and after passing through Longquan Town, it drove into the old settlement.

On the east and west sides of Longquan Mountain, Zhang Jiyang saw completely different scenery.

There are farmlands on both sides of the road. Now it is May, except for the criss-cross road, there are lush rice seedlings all around.

The scope of control of the Joint Council has been greatly expanded this year. For example, Longquan, Pidu and other deserted towns close to the capital of Shu have been directly managed by officials sent by the Ministry of the Interior, and all the strange beasts in the Longquan Mountains have been cleaned up. , has now become an orchard.

Seedlings are growing wantonly in the sun, not only here, but even around the entire Shu capital.

The vehicle continued to drive for a while, and a city wall could be seen from a distance.

The gray concrete walls formed a huge circle, protecting the ruling center of the human settlement - the tower floor.

And next to the huge circle is the old city of the capital of Shu, which has begun to gradually regain its vitality.

The east and north sides of the old city are still dilapidated, and even more dilapidated, but that is because people took a lot of architectural materials from those buildings and used them to restore the southwestern city area that is close to the tower level.

There are more and more vehicles on the road, and many of them come from Renshou. They are automatic vehicles that transport special alloys.

Zhang Jiyang lay on the car window, just like Tangning, amazed at the huge engineering of human beings.

"Uncle, what are those?" Zhang Jiyang asked, pointing to a large circle of reflective panels outside the concrete city wall.

"Those are chlorophyll photosynthetic plates, which are used to synthesize the starch we need every day." Tangning patiently explained, "Those are maintenance vehicles, there are the bases of giant light mines, those are electromagnetic guns and magnetic storm heavy machine guns, and those are infrasonic waves Tone Generator..."

The convoy passed through the thick steel gate passage and drove into the large tempered glass pyramid.

The vehicles began to disperse here, and Suyou's vehicles directly arrived at the headquarters of the Academy of Sciences on the [-]th floor underground.

Wearing a silk shirt and linen trousers, Wang Li, who still had exquisite makeup, stood under the huge sculpture of the Academy of Sciences with an olive branch wrapped around a magnifying glass, smiling as she watched Tangning, Zhang Qiuyi and Zhang Jiyang get off the car.

"Hello, Headmaster." Tangning and Zhang Qiuyi stepped forward and greeted Wang Li, "This is the child rescued in the Zhubishan mining area, Zhang Jiyang."

"Hello, Auntie Zhang." Zhang Jiyang already knew how great the beautiful woman in front of him was, so he said hello honestly and presented a gift box: "This is a small gift for Auntie."

"Yo? And a gift from Auntie? Ji Yang is so good!" Wang Li smiled and took it, opened it and saw that it was a piece of ore with a pattern of silver and white crystals.

"This is Zhubishan's vanadium-titanium magnetite. Right Ji Yang?" Wang Li asked.

"Yes, Uncle Tang and Sister Qiuyi said that Auntie would like it."

"Well, I really like it very much, thank you Ji Yang." After thanking Zhang Jiyang, Wang Li looked at Tangning and Zhang Qiuyi again: "Uncle Tang, sister Qiuyi, how do you talk about your seniority?"

Zhang Qiuyi couldn't help but blushed: "Dean, let's go to your office and talk."

Wang Li smiled and said: "I used to be worried that you were like me, but now, I can be relieved, but this is a big personal matter for you. From your father..."

"I'll tell him."

"That's good." Wang Li took Zhang Jiyang's hand: "Ji Yang, let's go and play in Auntie's office."

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In the joint council headquarters building, Pu Xiuquan was working.

Wang Lianchun walked into the office: "Secretary General, Tangning and Zhang Qiuyi are back."

"Oh, where are they now?"

"At the Academy of Sciences, Dean Wang just picked them up, as well as Zhang Jiyang, who was rescued from the Zhubishan Mine."

"Well, how is the preparation progress for Deputy Minister Xia?"

"Vice Minister Xia said that it is ready."

"Okay, Guangyu, is your brother back?"

Cao Guangyu, who was busy on the side, hurriedly said: "He has already set off from Zizhou. He was still inspecting the spring plowing and power lines last night. He set off at 08:30 this morning, and it is estimated that he will arrive soon."

"Where are the people in charge of the Renshou, Weiyuan, and vanadium-titanium steel plants?"

"They arrived last night, Vice Minister Xia arranged them all in the hotel."

"Tell Vice Minister Xia that you can't be sloppy with security this time."

"Yes! Let me emphasize to Vice Minister Xia again."

"Also tell him, don't be afraid, the reason why we chose to hold this meeting at the Shudu Hotel is more symbolic than anything else."

"We are the joint council, and our purpose is to serve the residents of the settlement. We cannot stay in the tower forever because we are afraid of this and that."

"If we don't even dare to go out, and don't even dare to hold a meeting outside, how can we lead all the residents to forge ahead?"

"Yes, I understand. I will pass on the Secretary-General's intentions to Vice Minister Xia."

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In the office of the dean of the Academy of Sciences, Wang Li made coffee for everyone as usual, but prepared a small cup for Zhang Jiyang, plus a glass of juice.

Tangning sat on the sofa, took the coffee, and said with a smile, "It's still more comfortable in the dean's office."

Wang Li said: "Actually, I really want to go to Han'an to see the vibrant new city you created."

"That's great." Zhang Qiuyi seemed in a good mood: "When will the dean come? Now Han'an North City has basically recovered, the agricultural area and industrial area have been built, there are pastures on the periphery, and infrared cameras have been set up in the forest , there are drone observations in the periphery."

"Now we are much more relaxed than before, and we have collected a lot of research data."

"So it is right for the Academy of Sciences to set up a research institution in Han'an." Wang Li said: "Scientists must dare to go to the front line, where we have the most urgently needed research objects and research materials."

"By the way, with regard to the research on supernatural powers, Qiu Yi, how far have you guys reached?"

"Observation of supernatural abilities has always been a difficult point." Zhang Qiuyi said: "So far, we can only see the phenomenon it brings, not the essence."

"However, we have discovered that abilities play a decisive role in improving the physical fitness and intelligence of mutant beasts, and inducing special evolution."

"There is also a very important point, that is, the supernatural powers do not gather in large quantities in the bodies of mutant beasts on weekdays. The special supernatural organs in their bodies are more like a valve. When they are used, this valve will be opened, and the supernatural power will A large number of them poured into the body of the mutated beast, and passed through a special channel to the organ that uses the supernatural power."

"Uncle Hai speculates that the reason why the current equipment of this ability cannot detect its energy waves is that it itself comes from the anti-universe."

"And supernatural weapons, such as bone knives, can release supernatural powers at their edges, and form a 'destruction' effect with the positive universe matter that comes into contact."

"That's why the supernatural weapon can ignore all physical obstacles and form a terrible cutting effect, because its principle is not the principle of mechanics, but the matter that comes into contact with it disappears."

"Now we have discovered a small amount of substances, such as cold stiff wood and mutated army ant nests, which can be processed into some supernatural shielding and detection devices, but these are only phenomenon observations using special mutated biological products, and cannot be quantified in depth. Research."

Wang Li said: "Since many mutant beasts can be produced in nature, and human beings are also living things, why do they only become undead first, and then evolve into mutants?"

"Dean, I have a bold idea about this."

"You said."

"I suspect that the E virus is a targeted genetic virus. It will recognize human genes and have a special mutation effect on humans."

Wang Li said: "Nature will not evolve such a special virus unless..."

"Unless the E virus is artificially developed," Tangning said.

"But we have scanned the gene sequence of the E virus." Wang Li said: "Its structure is very primitive, no artificial traces can be seen, and the induction mechanism of human dehydration and brain atrophy during the infection process cannot be seen."

"So I suspect that its induction mechanism has something to do with the ability." Zhang Qiuyi said: "In this way, our existing methods cannot detect it."

"According to Qiu Yi's guess..." Wang Li gracefully picked up the coffee cup: "E virus is a targeted gene virus, which is specially designed for human genes, and induces human diseases through supernatural powers..."

After speaking, she raised her little finger towards Tangning, "Then how do you explain your husband?"

"Dean! I'm telling you something serious!"

"I'm also telling you something serious." Wang Li smiled and said, "How do you explain Tangning's native immunity?"

"Life will always find a way out for itself." Zhang Qiuyi said: "Even if it is a human body facing supernatural attacks, there will always be some individuals who use the evolutionary rules of millions of years to spontaneously acquire the ability to fight against it."

"The original immune body is a special individual produced in human beings during this evolutionary catastrophe."

"Actually, someone thought about Qiuyi's idea 20 years ago." Wang Li put down her glass, turned to Tangning and said, "That's a great genius, she is your mother, Ms. Lin Yu."

"For this reason, she also started from the opposite direction and developed the inhibitory medicine, which is a special injection from No. [-] to No. [-]."

"The No. [-] injection is the closest thing to a successful product, and it has even been tested on humans."

"Everyone knew what happened later. D71, which is still locked in Han'an Nancheng Park, is the product of the No. [-] injection." Wang Li said: "The No. [-] injection is actually a reverse drug of the E virus. Later we learned that the E The special effect of the virus on the human brain nerves has also been reflected in the injection."

"The result is that the No. [-] injection and the E virus can also induce special mutations in the human body, and cause people to become seriously dependent on it. If they fall into the hands of criminals, they will become the catalyst that will eventually catalyze the infected person into a mutant. and drugs."

"Combined with what happened later, this project was eventually stopped, and the No. [-] injection production process was retained in the Academy of Sciences, and now there are only a small amount of scientific research."

"Dean." Zhang Qiuyi said: "I think Academician Lin's research is very valuable. We should increase our strength and continue to study in depth."

"Qiu Yi, your thinking is too simple." Wang Li said: "The incident of the self-management meeting on the fourth tower floor last year was caused by the No. [-] injection. The Ministry of the Interior has not yet found the power to master the production process formula."

"Although the subsequent investigation cleared the Academy of Sciences of the suspicion, and the production process was not leaked from the Academy of Sciences, but now is definitely not the time to restart the research on the No. [-] injection."

"But the dean..."

"I know what you mean." Wang Li comforted: "I just said, now is not the time."

(End of this chapter)