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"It is inevitable to be discovered. I just hope that the demon virus can be discovered later."

Lin Zhi no longer worried about these things, got up and went into the kitchen to start cooking.

...

Morning on the fourth day of the virus release.

Lin Zhi woke up from his sleep and checked the system panel as usual.

A day later, the number of infected people increased by thousands, and the infection points exceeded 10,000.

"Great, I can finally continue to strengthen the virus's ability."

Lin Zhi had a hunch that if the virus's ability was strengthened again from the advanced level, there might be changes that he could not imagine.

After thinking about it, he consumed 10,000 infection points to strengthen the virus's infection ability.

As the infection ability was upgraded, new changes indeed appeared in the system interface.

Virus: Demon virus

Evolution level: E

Enhancement level: lv4

Virus effect: Emotional excitement (makes the infected person emotional and unable to control emotions easily. When encountering a situation of drastic emotional fluctuations, there is a high probability that the emotions will be out of control.)

〖Virus ability〗

Extreme·Droplet transmission: The virus host will release the virus into the outside world when talking or sneezing. The virus exposed to the outside world will survive for 30 minutes in a non-toxic environment below 40℃ and can float in the air to infect new hosts.

Primary·Heterogeneous transmission: The virus acquires the ability to infect all mammals.

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Infection enhancement: lv4 (0/100,000)

Resistance enhancement: lv3 (0/10000)

Transmission enhancement: lv3 (0/10000)

Adaptation enhancement: lv3 (0/10000)

"The virus has evolved? Is it a threshold of level 3? And there is this new ability to infect all mammals?"

Lin Zhi was surprised and happy.

What surprised me was that the virus evolved from F to E, and the side effects were even greater.

The more harmful the virus is, the easier it is to be discovered and treated.

If the harm of the virus is not even as good as the cold virus, it will definitely be conducive to transmission.

The good news is that with the emergence of new abilities, the scope of virus infection has been greatly improved.

In addition to humans, there are also a large number of pet dogs, pet cats and rats in the sewers in the city.

These animals are not only numerous and highly mobile, but also have good concealment.

Especially the rats in the sewers are simply a breeding ground for viruses.

Animals are simple in nature, and good and evil are clearly distinguished. For example, the competition for food, territory, and spouses can easily breed evil thoughts.

After strengthening the virus, Lin Zhi's life returned to a life of lying dead and salted fish.

His daily life is to lie dead in the villa, cook and eat, look at the system panel, check the news on his mobile phone, play games, and watch videos.

There is no way. In the ghost country, he is unfamiliar with the place and does not speak the language. Lin Zhi has no gains or meaning in going out.

As for the virus transmission system, except for strengthening the virus, there is no other function at present, and it is impossible to watch it all the time.

After two days of such daily life, the number of infected people (mammals) has exceeded 100,000.

This is due to the increase in mammals in the virus's ability to spread.

At first, pet dogs and cats were infected, and then rats foraging in underground sewers and stray cats and dogs outside.

The infection of mammals once again increased the chances of humans being infected.

As time went on, the emotions of humans or animals infected with the demon virus were subtly amplified and gradually became difficult to control.

Some people or animals with poor self-control showed exaggerated behaviors after being emotionally hit.

For example, attacks on others, passion killings, fighting, robbery and rape, and other crimes have increased dramatically.

Some administrators and management have also been emotional and extreme in formulating legal plans.

During this period, Lin Zhi consumed another 100,000 infection points, and once again strengthened the virus's ability to infect, upgrading it to LV5.

After the upgrade, in addition to the enhanced ability to spread droplets, a new transmission route has been added: infected reptiles.

Animals are divided into vertebrates and invertebrates. Vertebrates include fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals.

Common reptiles in human society include snakes, turtles, geckos, etc.

This undoubtedly adds a lot of spreaders to the spread of the virus.

If it weren't for the fact that the virus needs to multiply in the body for a period of time before it can continue to infect others, the number of infected people would not have exceeded 100,000.

Lin Zhi has a hunch that in a few days, when the virus concentration in the current infected people reaches a certain level, the number of infected people will begin to grow exponentially.

However, there are unexpected events.

When Lin Zhi opened the mobile phone news as usual, he found that the virus was discovered by scientists from the Ghost Country!

"Research Report on Unknown Epidemic Viruses"

The author is the Ghost Country medical scientist "Jiu Lang Jing".

Lin Zhi curiously opened the news:

Recently, many people in society have had fever and a sudden increase in appetite. Medical scientist Jiu Lang Jing discovered that this is a new type of virus.

Don't panic. Although this new virus has not yet developed a specific medicine and vaccine, it is not very harmful.

At present, scientific research has found that people infected with the new virus mainly show a sudden increase in appetite, emotional instability, and fever.

For fever symptoms, ordinary antipyretics can effectively treat it.

Emotional instability can be treated with some sedatives in the hospital.

As for the sudden increase in food intake, it is not caused by the virus, but the body needs more nutrition to resist the virus.

Therefore, citizens infected with the virus should not go out unless necessary, stay at home in isolation, and prepare more antipyretics and sedatives to effectively treat the harm caused by the virus.

As for when the virus will be cured, there is no need to worry too much. Scientists will soon develop vaccines and special medicines for the virus.

The results of experiments in the laboratory showed that this virus is not resistant to high temperatures and has a short survival time in the outside world...

Based on the characteristics of the virus's nucleus shell being shaped like a bull's horn, this virus is tentatively named "horn madness virus".

Radiation Island, National Research Institute.

101 Laboratory.

Inaka Juro wore protective clothing and wrapped his body tightly.

He took out a dish of culture dishes from the incubator and placed it under a super-precision microscope.

"Reagent No. 41"

The assistant beside him heard the sound and immediately took out the reagent numbered 41 from the laboratory cabinet and handed it to him.

Inaka Juro dripped the reagent into the culture dish and then heated it on the alcohol lamp.

Then cool it and continue to heat it.

This cycle.

After about dozens of cycles, the liquid in the culture dish changed color.

The reason for the color change is that the reagent for detecting the taurus virus has been successfully studied.

As we all know, a virus is a non-cellular life form. It is composed of a long nucleic acid chain and a protein shell. The virus has no metabolic mechanism of its own and no enzyme system.

Its most important substance is the most central long nucleic acid chain, also known as DNA or RNA. It can replicate, transcribe, and translate by hosting a living organism to reproduce new viruses.

Different viruses have different nucleic acids.

Therefore, if you want to detect the existence of a virus, in addition to visual observation and indirect sampling observation, the simplest and most efficient way is to detect nucleic acid.

The method is difficult to say, very complicated, and difficult for non-professionals to understand.

It is simple to say, in fact, it is also very simple. There are related knowledge principles in high school biology class.

First, it is necessary to analyze the sequence composition of DNA or RNA in the viral nucleic acid.

Taking the taurus virus as an example, first analyze the DNA sequence composition of the taurus virus, and then compare its sequence composition with other known DNA sequence compositions.

The unique DNA fragments of the taurus virus are screened out by computer.

Next, an artificial method, the same program cycle and a specific enzyme (DNA polymerase) are used to amplify this unique DNA fragment.

In this way, there was originally only a trace amount of this DNA fragment in the culture dish, but it was artificially copied and amplified countless times instantly.

In this reaction process, adding fluorescent genes can detect whether the virus in the culture dish has changed with the naked eye.

For example, a tube of reagent for detecting taurus virus is made, and then human saliva, blood, etc. are extracted and put into the reagent.

Then put in the "catalyst". If there is no taurus virus, no reaction will occur.

If there is a virus, a reaction will occur.

This reaction is invisible to the naked eye. After adding fluorescent genes, when the virus fragment is amplified to a certain extent, it can be seen.

"Polymerase No. 41 can react with the specific fragment of taurus. Report this result to the dean and start producing detection reagents."

Inaka Juro put down the culture dish and started a new experiment.

On the other hand, in Radiation Island, the Prime Minister Kosha Hosoyuki convened ministers from various ministries and held a meeting on the prevention and control of taurus virus.

"Do a good job in popular science, material supply, appease the public, isolate and treat, and target criminal incidents..."

The fifth day of virus release.

The number of infected people exceeded 200,000.

Lin Zhi strengthened the other three abilities of the virus.

Virus: Demon virus

Evolution level: E

Strengthening level: lv5

Virus effect: Emotional excitement (makes the infected person emotional and unable to control emotions easily. When encountering a situation of drastic emotional fluctuations, there is a great probability that the emotions will be out of control.)

〖Virus ability〗

Extreme·Droplet transmission: The virus host will release the virus into the outside world when talking or sneezing. The virus exposed to the outside world will survive for 1 hour in a non-toxic environment below 50℃ and can float in the air to infect new hosts.

Intermediate·Heterogeneous transmission: The virus acquires the ability to infect all mammals and reptiles.

Extreme·Disguise: After the virus infects the host, it can disguise itself as normal bacteria and further intercept nutrients in the human body, with a 50% chance of being detected by the immune system.

Primary·Stealing: The virus can disguise itself as beneficial bacteria and steal a related ability.

Extreme Immune Deception: After the virus infects the host, each virus monomer has a one in ten billion chance to induce the immune system to kill normal cells and replace them with disguised ones.

Primary Replication: A successfully disguised virus will have a one in a trillion chance to replicate new daughters.

Extreme Adaptation: When the virus infects different hosts, is harmed by general drugs, is affected by the environment, and is attacked by the immune system, it will adapt and grow slightly to make up for its shortcomings.

Primary Mutation: After the virus is harmed by drugs, affected by the environment, and attacked by the immune system, there is a one in a trillion chance of adaptive mutation.

Infection Enhancement: lv5 (0/1 million)

Resistance Enhancement: lv4 (0/100,000)

Transmission Enhancement: lv4 (0/100,000)

Adaptation Enhancement: lv4 (0/100,000)

The virus was further enhanced, and the number of people increased dramatically on the fifth day of the virus release.

However, on the 6th day, the infection rate dropped suddenly.

Lin Zhi learned that the reason for the drop in speed was that the society of Radiation Island gradually began to be orderly from chaos due to the official decrees issued in various aspects.

As a result, the society basically stopped running, and everyone was isolated at home to avoid further transmission.

At the same time, the official Radiation Island launched the killing of stray cats and dogs and the killing of rats in underground sewers.

So for a while, the infection point rate dropped to the freezing point.

But the number of infection points continued to grow.

Lin Zhi knew that this was mainly due to the official killing of stray cats, dogs and rats.

There are three main sources of infection points:

Life is infected for the first time, 1 point/person.

The infected person is killed, 10 points/person.

The survival time of the infected person, 1 point/day.

Therefore, every day, even if there are no new infected people, the old infected people can continue to provide infection points.

The official killing operation provided Lin Zhi with a large number of infection points in a short period of time.

On the 6th day of the virus release, Lin Zhi consumed 300,000 infection points and strengthened the other 3 directions of the virus to level 5.

The accumulated infection points were consumed again.

On the 10th day of the virus release, the remaining number of infected people/animals was 210,000.

The infection points accumulated were enough to reach 1 million. Considering that the current transmission was blocked and that the medical community of Radiation Island was about to be targeted, Lin Zhi spent another 1 million infection points to strengthen the virus's adaptability.

The adaptability was upgraded to level 6, and the effect was very impressive:

Extreme · Adaptive: The virus will adapt and grow moderately to compensate for its shortcomings when it infects different hosts, is damaged by drugs, affected by the environment, and attacked by the immune system.

Advanced · Mutation: After the virus is damaged by drugs, affected by the environment, and attacked by the immune system, there is a one in ten trillion chance of adaptive mutation.

"This mutation ability seems to have a probability of only one in ten trillion, but the number of viruses is extremely large. As long as it is infected, it can proliferate rapidly. There will always be successful mutations under such a large number."

Lin Zhi knew that if a miracle happened, it must be because of the ability of mutation.

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The 11th day of the virus release.

Virus detection reagents have been mass-produced and put into use.

Severely ill patients are sent to designated hospitals for treatment, and clinical trials for the treatment of the virus have also been launched.

As the sun rises and the moon sets, medical staff on Radiation Island conduct various treatments and experiments on virus-infected people.

Stimulated by a wide variety of drugs, the virus begins to slowly adapt and change.

A large number of viruses are killed, and stronger viruses appear and proliferate, and some drugs quickly lose their effectiveness.

Old drugs are ineffective, and new drugs are developed.

At the same time, tankers filled with disinfectant are everywhere in the city for carpet disinfection.

Stray cats and dogs have been killed, and even birds in the sky have been affected.

In addition to daily disinfection and the use of rodenticides in urban underground sewers, the government has even set up a special rodent control team to search in the underground sewers.

99% of the rats died, which triggered fear among the rats.

Uneasy and gloomy emotions are brewing among the surviving rats.

These rats have violent mood swings, and under the influence of the virus, they become extremely crazy one by one.

They even rushed out of the sewers and attacked humans.

For a time, many cases of rats breaking into homes and injuring people at night were reported in Tokyo Daily.

Although the mortality rate of being bitten by rats is very low, viruses can be transmitted.