Pollution throughout the territory

These things are not very complicated. After Dr. Liao's guidance, Xia Ren quickly mastered how to use the black mobile phone - just ask the mastermind if you don't understand.

What makes Xia Ren curious is that although it is an intelligent AI, the intelligence of the main brain is far beyond his imagination. It is completely different from the AI ​​outside that must receive specific commands before it can respond, whether it is meaningless chatting or not. , or a vague description, the mastermind can give the right response just right.

Xia Ren simply doubted whether there was a beautiful sister on the other side of the phone.

"Okay, now most of the space in the headquarters is completely open to you. Except for the eighteenth floor and some special containment measures that prohibit entry, you can move around the other seventeen floors at will."

"You want to leave?" Xia Ren glanced at Dr. Liao.

The latter stretched and said: "Your treatment is over. Just recover slowly. I have more important things to do. Time is very tight. I will leave soon."

"Can I ask what it is?"

"Plague. You should also know, after all, you are from the center of the plague."

"You mean atypical entomophobia?"

"right."

Dr. Liao put his hands into his white coat and said: "According to the book "The Digger" you brought out from the dreamland, the Superman Association has information about the pathogenic protozoa that caused this plague - the Earth-Burrowing Demon Worm.

But the current situation is not optimistic. The pathogen has been found, and the life history of the parasites is basically clear. Where they come from, how they spread, how they parasitize, how they lay eggs, and the impact they have on the human body during the parasitism process, etc., are all available. sufficient research data. "

"The treatment should be relatively simple, right?"

In the dreams of the patients that night, Xia Ren saw with his own eyes those cocoons hatching, and the second-stage larvae took off from the flowers and gathered into the sky, forming a withered yellow cloud that represented death;

He saw with his own eyes the mountain of human corpses stacked at the entrance of the hospital. Thousands of people were crowded together, and the larvae controlled them to climb up and climb desperately! Even if his limbs are missing and his body is crushed into a pulp, he still can't stop.

Eventually, the larvae that emerged from their cocoons left their hosts, taking countless lives with them, and flew into the distance.

Xia Ren is deeply aware of the power of atypical insect phobia, so in order to find the root cause, he did not hesitate to take great risks, enter the unknown door alone, and go to another world.

Fortunately, his efforts paid off. Niu Changshou said that if you want to treat atypical entomophobia, you must first understand the parasitic life history of the pathogenic protozoa, and Xia Ren brought back from the dreamland "The Underground Digger" ", it happens to record all the information about the earth-burrowing demonic insects.

Compared with the initial smear campaign, at least the path was clear now, so Xia Ren thought that the treatment progress of the plague should be improved.

But the reality didn't seem to be as smooth as he predicted.

"The life history of parasites has been understood, but the problem now is that we are completely helpless with the larvae. Their evolutionary path is different from that of any native species on Blue Star. They do not have to wait until they are fully mature. The second instar larvae They can lay eggs.

Based on the investigation of cases and the descriptions of investigators who have entered dreams and the Plague Advisor of the Superman Association, we have found that the main transmission route of atypical entomophobia is through people's dreams.

Existing data shows that parasitized patients will unconsciously enter deep dreams during sleep, but are usually unable to escape on their own. It is currently speculated that this state is controlled by larvae.

When entering deep dreams, the larvae can use the host's dream as a medium to enter the dreams of other people. It is currently known that the radiation range of this transmission is centered on the patient and can cover an area with a radius of ten kilometers. That is to say, when an infected person enters deep sleep, there is a risk of infection as long as someone else within ten kilometers also enters sleep. "

Xia Ren thought carefully for a while and found that this route of infection could not be prevented by conventional means.

“Isn’t there a way to stop the spread?”

"It's hard."

Dr. Liao shook his head and said: "Unless we kill the patients, we have no way to prevent them from entering deep sleep. Similarly, in urban areas, we cannot cut off its transmission routes. We cannot prevent everyone from sleeping. Go to sleep, this is not realistic."

"What if the patients are concentrated in remote areas where no one lives?" Xia Ren tried to ask.

Dr. Liao sighed: "But if you have ever thought about it, if the patients are gathered together, the larvae gathered together will reproduce at a very fast speed and then fly in groups."

"..." Xia Ren.

"It's quite confusing, isn't it?"

Dr. Liao smiled half-heartedly and said, "But don't worry so much. Plagues that are more difficult than this have appeared before. Aren't humans living well now?"

"There's always a way."

After he finished speaking, he turned around, opened the door, and disappeared into the metal corridor.

Xia Ren was silent in the room alone for a while. He glanced at his backpack and an idea suddenly came to his mind.

He had thought before that if one day he had the opportunity to go to the foundation, he would touch every contained object and contain it, and then the system would give him achievement points of +50, +50, +50...

Now he is at the foundation, and it is the headquarters, which houses countless contained objects. The most important thing is that he is already a legendary investigator and has enough authority to access those contained objects that are not so dangerous.

“If you don’t forget your original intention, you will always succeed!”

Although his body has not yet recovered and his whole body is sore, Xia Ren still cheers up and plans to fulfill his dream when he was young.

"Facts prove that as long as you persist, your dreams will come true one day!"

He left the ward in high spirits.

The underground structure of the Foundation headquarters is not all filled with cold metal corridors.

In fact, many relevant personnel responsible for guarding the contained objects live here, and the area of ​​each floor here is extremely large, so there is no shortage of living areas.

Xia Ren felt that he should be living in a special ward, because according to the map provided by the black mobile phone, he should have been in the hospital just now, but the strange thing was that until he walked out, he did not see any other medical facilities, patients or doctors. of.

He estimated that he should have taken the independent passage.

After leaving the hospital and approaching a nearby living area, the metal corridor disappeared and Xia Ren came to a place similar to an underground parking lot. There were many small cars suspended in mid-air parked against the wall.

According to the description of the mastermind, this is a scooter that can be used freely in the living area and is prohibited in other areas.

Xia Ren found it novel. The appearance of the scooter was somewhat similar to that of an electric scooter, but its appearance was more rounded and comfortable. It had no wheels. There was a gap of about thirty centimeters between the floor and the ground. I didn't know what it relied on to float.

He sat on it, gently twisted the handle, and the scooter started to move forward smoothly.

You can't feel any bumps at all, it's like sitting on a chair playing a VR racing game, and you can only see the scenery moving behind you.

"Fun."

I don’t know if he came at the wrong time. These scooters obviously showed signs of being used, but there was no one in the parking lot.

Xia Ren drove his scooter out of the parking lot. Suddenly, the bright light made his eyes uncomfortable.

Rubbing his eyes, Xia Ren raised his head and saw the blue sky above.

"here it is……"

Sunshine, white clouds, highways, yellowing trees, and not-so-high buildings on the roadside.

Xia Ren looked at the scene in front of him, then looked back at the scene behind him. Yes, it was the exit of the dark parking lot.

If you're passing by, give the poor white cat a ticket!

Although I am slow to update, I am thick-skinned.