Earth Era

If Wang Hao was not mistaken, it was from that time that the possible "radiation" had quietly begun to affect the astronauts' bodies. And... no one, including the ship's doctor Zhou Lu, noticed the changes that happened to their bodies.

On the third day, after the crew member named Feng Song came to see Zhou Lu, more people suddenly became sick. This is clearly reflected in the statistics: there were two people on the third day, four on the fourth day, and the number directly increased to twenty on the fifth day.

The number of sick people began to increase rapidly. By the sixth day, all the crew members had visited Zhou Lu at least once, and a few people, such as Zheng Yang, Feng Song, etc., had visited Zhou Lu many times.

Obviously, the treatment methods adopted by Zhou Lu did not work. The crew's condition was not relieved, but began to worsen. By the seventh day, even Zhou Lu herself began to feel unwell.

She wrote in the record: "My left arm began to twitch non-stop and uncontrollably, and I couldn't even hold an object steady with my left hand. Well... it may be some neurological reaction, I Take some medicine and you’ll be fine.”

At this time, Zhou Lu did not consider infectious diseases. The reason is simple. Although all astronauts on the spacecraft have been sick at least once, the symptoms of the disease are varied, and no two people have the same symptoms. However, as a medical worker, Zhou Lu still began to pay attention to her vigilance. But after an inspection and found nothing, Zhou Lu could only attribute the events of the past few days to bad luck.

During this period of time, Zhou Lu was the busiest person on the entire spaceship. But her busyness could only temporarily alleviate the crew members' symptoms, and symptoms usually returned after a few days.

The turning point occurred on the twenty-third day. On this day, the astronaut named Zheng Yang who first became ill suddenly began to vomit blood, accompanied by intermittent muscle spasms. Zhou Lu injected him with medicine according to the corresponding judgment, but the symptoms were not relieved.

On the thirtieth day, the first deceased appeared. He died not of illness but of suicide. The surveillance equipment clearly recorded that scene. When the weak astronauts forced him to press him on the operating table, they were preparing to treat him by Zhou Lu, who was also weak. He suddenly became mad and roared like a wild beast while struggling to get off the hospital bed - in the process, seven or eight crew members were unable to hold him down. He rushed over, grabbed a scalpel, and stabbed it into his chest without hesitation amid everyone's screams.

Looking at the crew member in the picture who slowly fell down, with a relaxed expression on his face as if he was relieved, Wang Hao couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

Obviously, he chose to commit suicide because he could not bear the physical pain.

Video recording continues. When he died, the ship's doctor Zhou Lu threw away the scalpel and burst into tears. A pale but still calm astronaut came up and comforted Zhou Lu softly - Wang Hao recognized him as the captain of the Nimbus spacecraft.

Now that things have developed, everyone realizes that something bad has happened to the spacecraft. And if not handled properly, everyone will die.

They do not have light-year communication equipment. Even if they have super-light communication equipment, the communication delay will not allow them to get immediate support from the human base camp - they are still more than twenty light years away from the Phoenix Galaxy.

The only ones who can save them are themselves.

Zhou Lu, the ship's doctor, became the most important person in the ship. Under the comfort of the captain, she finally calmed down and began to look up information, check, analyze, and judge, trying to use her knowledge to change people's fate.

Of course Wang Hao knew that even if Zhou Lu tried her best, she still failed in the end. All the people in the Nimbus spacecraft were still dead, and their deaths were miserable. But while looking at the flight and work logs, as well as videos and written records, when all the astronauts began to unite as one and try their best to assist Zhou Lu, comfort their companions, take care of their companions, etc., Wang Hao could not help but look forward to their arrival. The ending will be changed.

The miracle didn't happen. Crew members were still dying one after another. On the sixty-second day, Zhou Lu wrote down the last work record in her life.

Looking at the picture, a large area of ​​the left arm is ulcerated. The bones can even be seen directly between the upper arm and the forearm. The two bones are only connected by some flesh and skin to prevent them from being separated. The legs are also ulcerated and even unable to stand up. Zhou Lu, Wang Hao's heart was full of pain.

"I suspected that it was radiation sickness, but we searched the entire spacecraft and tested every part of the spacecraft, but we could not find the source of radiation or the place where radiation existed. I treated the crew members according to the treatment methods for radiation sickness, but there was no any Effect.

I judge that the cause of the disease is genetic mutation, but there is no equipment for gene editing therapy in the spacecraft.

I put the crew into hibernation, but even hibernation could not stop the progression of the disease.

I tried every means and tried every means, but nothing could change our fate.

I...I can no longer bear the pain that has befallen my body. My whole body ached, as if there were ten thousand ants crawling and biting in my flesh. Instead of waiting a few days for my body to fail and die, it would be better to end my life now.

If there are medical experts who can see these records, I ask you to find out the cause of our death and don't let our death be unclear. "

After leaving this last record, Zhou Lu, a young woman who once had bright eyes and white teeth and was full of youthful vitality, but now as scary as a ghost, pointed a small pistol at her temple, and then buttoned the the trigger.

Wang Hao closed his eyes and opened them again after a long time.

Wang Hao obtained a lot of useful information from Zhou Lu's records. During the development of this disease, the changes in various body data and the manifestations of the disease at various stages play a very important role in Wang Hao's follow-up research. But the records in the spacecraft were not over yet, Wang Hao continued to read them bit by bit.

Zhou Lu's death meant that the defense line formed by the crew completely collapsed. Zhou Lu, who had the most medical knowledge, died, and it was impossible for the remaining people to do anything.

So people made a decision.

"Preserve our corpses as well as possible to facilitate research by medical experts as much as possible."

The surviving crew members supported each other and moved the bodies of the dead crew members to a cabin that was most conducive to preserving the bodies - the same cabin where Wang Hao led the team members to see the bodies when they entered the Nimbus spacecraft. After the corpses were moved, the people who were still alive did not leave, but stayed here.

Wang Hao knew exactly why they did this. Because they know that no one will come to carry their bodies after they die, so they have to come here first while they are still alive.

In the end, they failed to resist the painful torture and chose to end their lives early. The captain of the Nimbus spacecraft struggled to the spacecraft control room, set various parameters for the spacecraft's automatic navigation, and then died in the control room.

The entire process lasted seventy days. From then on, there were no manually added contents in the voyage log, but all were automatically generated by the system.

There is no need to read the subsequent logs. Wang Hao closed the record and sighed deeply.

"I will definitely investigate the cause of your death and will not let you die in confusion. This is my responsibility."

The cleaning work of the Nimbus spacecraft is still going on. Members of the action team are constantly going back and forth between the Nimbus spacecraft and the spacecraft on which Wang Hao is riding, transporting all the remains of the crew members to Wang Hao. Wang Hao carefully inspected each corpse, recording and analyzing every lesion on their bodies in detail.

The number of specimens obtained from different parts of the remains of different crew members has reached thousands. Wang Hao first tried to isolate possible disease-causing pathogens from them. But this work did not go smoothly. After seven days of work, no unknown pathogens were isolated. There were only some known pathogens that could coexist with the human body, or some that could cause disease, but were very unlikely to be isolated. There are obviously traces of microorganisms that invaded at a later stage.

This has basically ruled out the possibility of severe infectious diseases. But Wang Hao still dared not take it lightly. While sending all the data to the expert team for review and analysis, Wang Hao also asked the soldiers who blocked the place to transport a batch of white mice from the galaxy to conduct infection experiments on the spot.

Gene sequencing work is also proceeding in an orderly manner. Just like the deceased Zhou Lu, Wang Hao also made a judgment on genetic mutation based on the existing data. Zhou Lu did not have the relevant equipment for verification, but the spacecraft Wang Hao was traveling on had sufficiently complete and advanced equipment.

Twelve days later, Wang Hao finally got the data. Looking at the characters one by one, Wang Hao's heart began to sink.

These data confirmed the judgments of Zhou Lu, who died, and Wang Hao, who was currently studying it. The diseases that appear in the bodies of astronauts are indeed caused by genetic mutations. A large number of uncontrolled genetic mutations caused healthy cells to be unable to divide into normal next generations. As a result, all organs and tissues in the astronauts' bodies were unable to work normally, which ultimately caused severe pain and took away everyone's life. life.

These are classic symptoms of radiation sickness, but there's something special about the crew of the Nimbus spaceship in addition to these traits.