deltrittennovels Chapter 159 207~208 Epigastric virus (for subscription~)
Chapter 159 207~208 Epigastric virus (for subscription~)
Chapter 159 207~208 Epigastric virus (for subscription~)
As the detection continued, the on-site investigation team adjusted the parameters of the detection equipment more accurately, so the information on unknown life became richer rapidly.But at this time, a difficult problem was directly placed in front of everyone.
"The core temperature of the target in front of me is too high..." Ni Pengcheng frowned.
"Yeah, a few hundred degrees Celsius is indeed a bit high. With the current exploration robot's mechanical arm, I'm afraid it can't be captured directly. If the mechanical arm goes in, I'm afraid it will melt and deform..."
"Besides, this little thing seems to be running a little fast. If this goes on, our exploration robots can't catch it at all. When it moves to the deep layer of the ground, it will be more and more difficult for us to catch it..."
This is a difficult problem, and it is also a problem that is in front of everyone. Cui Rongsheng at the exploration site is also a little worried. He is a biologist, but he is not a professional hunter, especially when facing such a target. How to catch is also very anxious.
In particular, I am even more worried that if the arrest operation is used in the wrong way for the first time, if it does not succeed, but instead scares the target and makes the target flee faster, then they will be a little blind.
I'm in trouble...
"Why don't you try liquid nitrogen?" Fang Cheng suggested, "It can quickly cool down the temperature, and it can also quickly confine the target. It is difficult to capture a living target, so it will be dead."
"Besides, with the miraculousness of this kind of target, maybe liquid nitrogen can't freeze it to death..."
"Also, life or death, we can always get valuable material."
Fang Cheng's proposal was like opening a window. The meeting room hadn't given much feedback yet, but Cui Rongsheng, who was far away on the scene, reacted directly, wishing to slap himself: "Oh, why didn't I think of that, Mr. Fang, ox……"
"Use liquid nitrogen, use liquid nitrogen, must use liquid nitrogen."
"Moreover, according to some existing biological experiments, if the biological target is quickly frozen with liquid nitrogen, as long as the method is appropriate and the freezing time is short, there is a greater chance of preserving the biological activity of the target for a short time."
"As long as we are fast enough, the target may not necessarily die completely..."
"Quick, we have to move fast!"
"Send liquid nitrogen bottles to the exploration robot..." Cui Rongsheng immediately ordered, "Use the largest bottle, two bottles,... no, three bottles!"
"Be sure to be safe!"
"Take this guy down!"
Soon, the compressed liquid nitrogen cylinder was sent to the mechanical arm of the exploration robot. Under the remote operation of the operator, the exploration robot quickly connected the catheter and the spray gun. While maintaining the erection of the life detection equipment, the nozzle was carefully extended into the hole. Then opened the nozzle directly..."
The liquid nitrogen was sprayed directly into the small cave like a water gun, and the high temperature in the cave caused the liquid nitrogen to vaporize before it even hit the ground.
"The temperature is so high..."
People were amazed.
But then, with the accelerated influx of liquid nitrogen, the temperature of the surrounding environment dropped rapidly, and the black body radiation of the target organism also began to weaken.
The temperature began to drop sharply.
The change of environment obviously brought strong discomfort to the target creature, and this strong discomfort obviously stimulated the target's biological instinct...
"No, the target is moving! The speed is so fast! The excavation speed is very fast!"
"It wants to escape!"
"Quick, increase the output!"
Cui Rongsheng yelled...
At the same time, the nozzles and nozzles of the other two large steel cylinders filled with liquid nitrogen were also installed at the same time. The three were launched together, and the action of the target creature became slower and slower.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief seeing the target creature's escape speed drop rapidly.
"Fortunately, we used liquid nitrogen..."
"Yeah, I didn't expect this thing to have such a fast tunneling and escape speed in the rock formation compacted by such a huge impact, it's unimaginable..."
"If we capture it directly, even if the capture robot arm is temperature-resistant enough, there is a high probability that we will return in vain..."
"Yes, yes... Fortunately, we took the right approach..."
……
Everyone sighed, and couldn't help looking at Fang Cheng who was sitting in the center. Some people can always use the simplest way to solve complicated troubles. This is a genius.
Soon, the target gradually fell into an inert state, and the temperature dropped to a suitable range. After a burst of rapid digging and advancing, the mechanical arm immediately grabbed the huddled target from the dark cave.
……
When the mechanical arm was retracted and the target was actually brought out, the first time everyone saw it, they couldn't help but let out a low cry.
"Come out, come out!"
"It looks like a scorpion!"
"However, it's not exactly like that. Although the scorpion also has a hard carapace, it is not as shiny and textured as it looks."
"Similar yet different..."
The one in front of you looks like an ordinary scorpion at first glance, but when you look closely, you can find obvious differences. Under the sunlight, this scorpion is obviously a little different. The carapace is obviously more textured and full of luster. , shining brightly in the sun.
Everyone was still watching the video discussion. At this time, the first step of the weighing procedure had started immediately.
"This stuff only weighs [-] grams at most."
"This head is estimated to be about the same. This is a fixed procedure."
However, no one expected that the weight of this mere scorpion, which had almost no palm, was placed on the weighing platform, and its weight was as high as 300 grams.
This surprised everyone.
"how is this possible!"
"How can it be so heavy!"
"Unbelievable!"
"This scale must be broken." Someone exclaimed.
Cui Rongsheng at the weighing site also felt a little unbelievable, quickly removed the target, and then took an object of standard weight to check the accuracy of the scale, and found that there was no problem.
And then put the target on it, the index on the scale is still more than 300 grams.
This is a bit of a big deal.
"According to the normal mass, the mass of a scorpion-like creature of that size can at best be one to two hundred grams."
"My dear, five thousand three hundred and twenty three grams..."
"Unbelievable...unimaginable..."
"For this small body to become so heavy, how high must this density be..."
After weighing, the target was quickly brought out of the impact crater.
Everyone in the conference room was amazed, and the on-site inspection team was even more amazed. The video transmitted through the camera was very different from what the human eye dared to see at close range.
In the scene, you can feel the delicacy of this scorpion even more.
The whole body is like glass, and the beauty is not like a living thing, but like an exquisite handicraft...
After observing for tens of seconds, Cui Rongsheng and others came back to their senses. Time waits for no one. Something has appeared. The first time, it is not to protect this unknown life, but to explore what is inside this thing. what will bring...
Biological protection, at least until such biohazards are ascertained, does not exist...
Those who are a threat to human beings and the earth, it is best to die...
soon.
The captured samples were quickly pushed into the camp to set up a temporary laboratory.
Although it is a temporary laboratory, the equipment in this temporary laboratory is more advanced and complete than most of the biological experiment equipment in the whole country, and even the whole world.
Although this is almost a brand new creature, to Cui Rongsheng, as long as it is a creature, there is no difference.
After comprehensive consideration, Cui Rongsheng resisted the idea of direct dissection, patiently selected three not very important places from the target, and took some samples, which had little impact on the target's life.
This sampling also took a lot of effort. The target's skin was so tough that the sampler couldn't do anything with it. It was only after racking its brains that this task was completed.
Immediately after the sampling was completed, the lab members were arranged to lock the target into a special high-temperature-resistant alloy box, and for safety reasons, a layer of high-low temperature resistant glass cover was specially installed on the outside of the box, and, at the same time, deployed There is a vital sign detection device, but if there is any movement of the creatures inside, then the outer glass cover is a safe line of defense, and the liquid nitrogen spray guns have been prepared around it to control the life state of the target at any time.
When something is wrong, it will actively spray a burst of liquid nitrogen.
It would be best if the target could not die, but if they really died, there was nothing they could do, it was better than causing them losses.
……
At this time, Cui Rongsheng's team was nervously preprocessing the objects obtained from the slices, and it took a long time to complete the sample cutting, smearing, and loading...
After a few hours...
under the microscope.
Cui Rongsheng first calmed down the excitement in his heart. The protective clothing was connected to the air conditioner and air purifier. Even though it had become cool at this time, Cui Rongsheng's forehead and back were still sweating uncontrollably.
It's not hot, it's exciting.
"I'm starting!"
"Pay attention to the records!"
There are 12 people in the experimental team, it can be seen that everyone attaches great importance to this experiment.
Cui Rongsheng just poked his head down and looked into the eyepiece. The recorders around him were also waiting to record, but Cui Rongsheng was stunned.
What's happening here?
After a full two minutes passed, Cui Rongsheng didn't move at all, which made people even more puzzled.
"Professor?" Someone tried to remind.
However, Cui Rongsheng didn't move yet, but, through the mask, one could see that Cui Rongsheng's expression was shocked, and seemed to be terrified, which made the people around him afraid to urge him, for fear of disturbing Cui Rongsheng.
what happened!
It actually made Cui Rongsheng have such an expression.
The teleconference room was getting more and more serious at this time, and they were all guessing what Cui Rongsheng saw...
However, I saw Cui Rongsheng's more and more strange and dignified expression.
Everyone also had a bad feeling in their hearts.
"What exactly did Lao Cui see?"
"Anyway, I feel a little bad..."
"I hope there will be no major problems..."
Everyone was uneasy.
And at this moment, Cui Rongsheng's pupils opened wide: "This is impossible!"
"This is impossible!"
"How could this happen!" Cui Rongsheng exclaimed in shock!
"Old Cui, what happened, what did you see?" Everyone was very anxious, wishing they could fly directly to the scene with their wings.
When Cui Rongsheng heard the sound of the remote video, he calmed down slowly, and looked at everyone solemnly: "I think we are in big trouble!"
big trouble?
Everyone's heart skipped a beat.
Soon, Cui Rongsheng didn't just explain with his mouth. Under Cui Rongsheng's operation, he positioned the microscope to a fixed target, and then connected to the camera relay equipment. Immediately, what the microscope observed spread out.
On the screen, many grid-like things are displayed.
"What you see now is cell tissue..."
"We're going down!"
"You can see that the interstitial fluid between the cells is still moving, and these cells are alive..."
"Everyone can see it from time to time, it's not normal!"
"Usually, our tissue fluid should be transparent."
"And these tissue fluids are actually slightly turbid."
"Everyone, don't rush to ask why, you will know after reading it..."
"Let's zoom in again!"
……
When the magnification was increased again, everyone in the teleconference live broadcast hall suddenly gasped.
Without it, the video screen played by the microscope is too scary.
The picture shows dozens of complete cells, but the cells at this time appear a little strange. Outside the cells, there are many strange flagella growing. These flagella are filamentous, constantly flowing from the outside to the Drill into the cell.And this cell seems to have lost its former vitality.
Such a picture is a bit scary.
"Everyone pay attention!"
"It's coming out!"
At this moment, a cell split open directly, and just after the cell split, densely packed, hundreds of such filamentous flagella emerged from the cell...
The people who watched felt the horror.
"Is this filamentous thing a virus?" Someone asked directly.
Cui Rongsheng nodded his head: "That's right, it's a virus, and it's a very special virus. I didn't find any trace of DNA or RNA genetic material in this virus."
"What!" Everyone was shocked when they heard this.
"Looking at the way this virus replicates, it is similar to a protein virus, that is, a virus."
"The more important thing is not this, but, from the preliminary observation just now, I can confirm that this scorpion itself is not an alien creature, but a proper earth creature."
"The prototype of this target creature is an ordinary scorpion."
"What makes it so special."
"It's because of these special viruses, and these things can change an ordinary scorpion to such a degree in such a short period of time, and the changes are still continuing."
"It is conceivable how intense the infectious power of this unknown filovirus is. It is completely different from the protein viruses we have learned in the past. Although the protein viruses in the past were basically incurable, but, The deadly way is to continuously degrade the central nervous system of people or animals, and eventually die..."
"But this one is completely different right now. The final result is unknown. The destructive power is immeasurable..."
Cui Rongsheng shook his head again and again: "Right now, asteroid fragments are almost all over the world, some of which are dense forests, where the creatures are more abundant, if there is such a terrible contagion..."
"We're going to be in big trouble..."
(End of this chapter)