Super Dimension Technology Era

Blue Star, Qinghai Lake Base.

This place was previously used as a research and development base for biological computers. After the advent of the new era, it became the headquarters of the Life Sciences Research Institute.

The chief academician is Fang Ge, and Li Jiahang is the dean. There are also top biologists such as Lin Sha and Simbeck.

In the dean's office, Li Jiahang has gained a little weight since he switched to management work, mainly because he no longer needs to use his brain to do scientific research.

It's just that the administrative work in the new era is completely different from that in the AD era. The current dean is equivalent to the logistics minister, dedicated to serving scientists.

The person who really decides on scientific research projects is the scientific decision-making office of the institute. This office generally consists of 3 permanent decision-makers and 12 rotating decision-makers.

As soon as he received the urgent report from the Mars outpost, Li Jiahang felt the seriousness of the matter.

It raises the biochemical threat level, and it is a super highly mutated virus. Moreover, this virus can also disguise itself as cell chromosomes, thereby achieving symbiosis with cells.

He immediately forwarded the report with priority 9.2 to the decision-making office.

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Fang Ge, who was working with Simbeck to study human chromosome telomeres, suddenly saw an urgent report pop up in front of him.

Priority 9.2? Fang Ge suddenly became serious. If the priority can reach this level, it is already a very urgent matter.

"Sim, you guys are busy first, I'll handle the urgent documents."

Simbek made an OK gesture.

Fang Ge turned around, quickly opened the specific content of the report, and browsed it carefully.

After spending more than ten minutes reading it, Fang Ge suddenly felt that the No. 4 virus was very strange. It was the first time she had seen a virus that could disguise itself as a chromosome.

While thinking, she walked into the disinfection channel and soon came to the decision-making office. Another decision-making rotation had already arrived in the office.

The two entered the virtual conference room together.

Inside the virtual meeting room.

Lin Sha and others were already among them. After Fang Ge arrived, the meeting officially began.

Generally, if something with a priority level exceeding 9 occurs, the decision-making office of the institute needs to hold an emergency meeting.

"Please share your opinions on the highly mutated virus No. 4 discovered at the Mars outpost." Fang Ge said straightforwardly.

Everyone had a heated discussion. Regarding this unknown virus, the scientists present all understood the high risks involved. The threat of alien viruses to Blue Star was no less than that of alien invasion.

"I propose that the mutant strain and that meat ball be destroyed immediately."

"That's not right. If there is one, there are two. Destroying the mutated virus strains and meat balls will not help."

"We cannot abandon food because of choking. This is not a scientific approach. We should conduct in-depth research on these viruses while strengthening the isolation and management of Mars viruses."

"Know yourself and your enemy and you will always be victorious. Only by having a deep understanding of the virus can we defeat the virus."

Intense discussions on the decision-making mainly revolved around the balance between safety issues and research value.

When Fang Ge saw that everyone had expressed their opinions, she said, "Let's vote! Should we destroy the mutant strain?"

[2 votes agreed, 13 votes disagreed. ]

More than 75% of the votes did not agree to destroy the mutant strain, and the mutant strain was temporarily retained.

Fang Ge said solemnly: "Since the vast majority of people agree to keep it, let me express my opinions. First, name the virus. Second, safety issues should be strengthened. Third, the direction of in-depth research. Fourth, testing on humans is temporarily prohibited. .”

The next decision was to name the virus "Yinghuo Virus" and then discuss how to study the virus.

"Judging from the report, after the mutant strain and the meat ball complete the symbiosis, there is no obvious destructive impact on the meat ball's vital signs, but hidden risks cannot be ruled out." Lin Sha pointed to the virtual report cautiously.

"This allows Huang Fan and Jiang Zhiren to continue research."

"There are only two of them, do we need to send more researchers there?"

Fang Ge thought for a while: "I propose to send 15 more researchers there, but they can sleep in the Phobos satellite city and use stand-in robots to work at the Mars outpost."

"agree."

"Here's a solution."

…

When Blue Star was discussing the Yinghuo virus.

In the biochemical experimental cabin of the Mars outpost.

Huang Fan and Jiang Zhiren discovered that two more meat balls had mutated, but the mutation of the two meat balls failed.

One of the meat balls became very "greedy". Stimulated by the mutated virus strain, its demand for nutrient solution increased by more than three times.

The meat ball was turned into a breeding factory by the mutated virus strain, and the meat ball continuously sprayed viruses outward.

The other meat ball was directly killed by the virus and used as nourishment for the virus to reproduce.

Summarizing the data analysis of the two meat balls, Huang Fan found that the original strain of the Fluorescent Virus mutated too quickly. Once the environment changed significantly, the original strain would complete its mutation and adaptation within a few hours.

However, this mutation is like Brownian motion, and it may mutate into a symbiotic strain, a parasitic strain, or a highly virulent strain.

"Naoto, what do you think we should do next?"

Jiang Zhiren, who was calm and collected, thought for a few minutes: "Study the highly mutable characteristics of the Yinghuo virus."

"High variability characteristics?"

"Fundamentally speaking, the danger of the Yinghuo virus lies in the uncertainty brought about by its highly mutable characteristics."

Huang Fan thought about it and it was true.

"We have to study how this highly variable trait arises, how to control it, how to turn it off or even knock it out."

"Your thoughts awakened the dreamer." Huang Fan knew that he had fallen into the wrong path before and had put the cart before the horse regarding the direction of his research.

The root of the Yinghuo virus is its high mutation characteristic. If this characteristic is lost, new humans will always have a way to deal with it.

The two people immediately extracted the original strain of the Fluorescent Virus and conducted full-gene sequence analysis. They continued testing and experimenting.

Soon, a strange gene fragment came into Huang Fan's eyes. This gene fragment was named "Yinghuo-basal nucleus fragment".

Under the atomic imaging scanner, they could clearly observe the conditions of 50 groups of petri dishes.

Among them, 10 groups had the basal nucleus segment knocked out, the other 30 groups had other gene segments knocked out, and the last 10 groups had no gene segments knocked out.

Under the stimulation of trace amounts of radiation, except for the 10 groups of fluorescent viruses whose basal core segments were knocked out, the other 40 groups all mutated to varying degrees.

Huang Fan took the statistical data and said: "It can be initially determined that the basal core fragment is the gene sequence that dominates the highly mutable characteristics of the fluorescent virus."

"This is a good development." Jiang Zhiren also rarely smiled.

After sorting out the data, the two wrote a paper and uploaded it to the internal database. This "base core fragment" will definitely play a key role in the study of fluorescent viruses.

If this "base core fragment" can be controlled to achieve controllable directional mutation, it will have a huge impact on the development of biotechnology.

High mutation characteristics mean high adaptability, which can improve the viability of the virus itself.

And this characteristic is indeed a catastrophic problem for other creatures.

No one knows whether the virus will suddenly turn into an extremely lethal form, and vaccines will be useless because the virus is constantly mutating.

Blue Star, 15 specially assigned researchers have boarded the forward launch vehicle and entered the Xinwenchang Satellite City, preparing to use the mass projector on the moon to go to Mars.

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