star hunter

Black Viper's robots don't have their own private activities like people do, so generally whenever they come out they have a mission, and if Black Viper can send robots out, the things involved are not small, just like the previous discussion about The person behind the "Aquamarine Gold" incident directed the incident in order to spur the academicians of the Royal Academy of Sciences who were busy all day long to expand their reputation. However, since then, research on Aquamarine Gold has progressed by leaps and bounds. The effect is remarkable. Therefore, leaders are born strategists.

Having said that, Xilin did not receive news about the major events in Black Viper when he arrived here. Although Guan Feng has not completely let go yet, Xilin is just in an adaptation period, but if it is a really major event, it is not Xilin should not have been notified.

Although Xilin had not been told about the relevant incident before, now that Xilin asked, the robot would not hide it.

"We are here to monitor suspected virus carriers," the robot said.

"Suspected virus carrier?" Xilin wondered. He came to this planet and didn't hear anything about virus carriers.

"Yes." The robot told Xilin the cause of the incident and relevant information.

A virus appeared in the empire. People from the Institute of Virology of the Royal Academy of Sciences called it zebra virus. This does not mean that this virus is related to zebras, but that the symptoms caused by this virus are striped and alternate like the patterns on zebras. status.

Initially, it will be reflected in the change of the color of the body surface, with the appearance of two alternating colors. As the disease progresses, it will progress from shallow to deep. Nerves and muscles will be seriously affected, and the muscles will become softened according to the alternating appearance of the two colors. , a hardened piece, alternating between soft and hard. The color distribution is the same as the surface.

Whether it is excessively softened muscles or excessively hardened muscles, it will cause inconvenience to the human body, and eventually completely lose mobility. The body's conditioned reflexes will become dull, and the nerve conduction of the body will be blocked, but the nerves in the brain will be relatively normal. , the patient is conscious and aware that they are dead.

I have to say that this is a kind of torture. I can't move or speak, and even my facial expressions have begun to fade, and I can only express my emotions through my eyes. As the condition worsens, my pupils will begin to change color, becoming the same color as the stripes on my body.

It was first a group of patrol soldiers in the Eleventh Star Region who detected energy signals on an uninhabitable uninhabited planet to collect energy mines. However, they saw five people who had been dead for many days there, and there were still people beside them. There are energy mines dug out.

The energy mines on this planet are not located on the surface. It is not easy for the patrol to detect the energy mines deep underground. If these five people had not dug out some of the energy mines, the patrol would not have discovered the energy signal at all.

Since it was an energy mine located deep underground, how did these five people know about it? Obviously there were more than five of them, because the patrol saw traces of the aircraft landing there. But they did not see it when they arrived on the planet. To any aircraft, it means that they actually have companions. It's just that their companions left them behind.

There were no wounds on the five dead people. The patrolmen opened their protective clothing. They saw the miserable condition of these five people. They were all covered with two-color stripes, some were green and red, some were black and purple, and some were blue and yellow. , these are all symptoms caused by different virus variants.

At that time, the soldiers who pulled off the protective clothing of the five people also noticed something was wrong when they saw this situation, and immediately reported it to others. Then they took some blood from the deceased for scan and analysis, and found that the death was caused by a virus.

Several soldiers were wearing protective clothing. After collecting some information, they returned to the fleet. When they returned to the team, they performed six-layer disinfection in the sterilization room. However, they did not expect that not long after, the nails of those soldiers

Two color stripes began to appear, and they did not feel any discomfort at first. However, because they had seen the five dead people, the soldiers were quickly sent for examination. None of them returned to the team.

Because of the existence of this unknown substance, ordinary virus scanners cannot scan its existence at all, and the analyzer can only judge whether it is caused by a virus or other reasons based on the patient's physical condition. And many sterilization equipment cannot completely detect it.

This single-stranded virus kills.

Those soldiers who went through six layers of sterilization in the sterilization room did not kill the virus, but only temporarily inactivated it. When conditions are suitable, they will become active again.

The samples they collected from the five deceased people they sent were later sent to the Royal Academy of Sciences, and were classified as a first-level dangerous substance by the Institute of Virology of the Royal Academy of Sciences. At the same time, the Royal Academy of Sciences also named this new virus zebra virus.

Soon the entire patrol was quarantined. Three days later, more than 60% of the patrol team was diagnosed with the zebra virus through a scanner manufactured by the Royal Academy of Sciences specifically for this virus.

However, there were not a few people who came into contact with the patrol team. Later, the spread of the virus became wider and wider, from one planet to another, and from one star field to another star field.

Because the incubation period can be long or short, even if the Royal Academy of Sciences rushes to build a detector to detect latent viruses, it also increases the difficulty of the work. With so many planets and countless people, how can it be possible to capture every one of them and use a detector to detect them?

Now the higher-ups intend to suppress this matter, and Black Viper's people are also starting to get busy. Because it is inconvenient for humans to move, in addition to the military's special operations department, this time it is mainly Black Viper's robots that secretly track people looking for the virus.

Primary variants and primitives.

Counting the days, Xilin asked: "During the Black Viper handover meeting, Xi Kai left due to something else. Is it because of this?"

"Yes, but Emperor Lansa urgently contacted Mr. Xi at that time."

"However, since we know that this virus is so dangerous, why haven't I received any news for so long? And if the situation is bad, will the three kings let the three Yuan Xingming run around?"

"Fengshou said not to let you know first. And the virus is still controlled in the Eleventh Star Region, so many things have not been made public. I think the Three Kings also think that this place is relatively far from the Eleventh Star Region, so there are no restrictions.

The three princes, if an infected person appears in this star field, the people guarding the three princes will definitely kidnap the three princes back by force."

Xilin glanced at him, Guan Feng has not yet completely handed over power. Talking is still more effective than Xilin. However, Guan Feng does not let Xilin get involved in this, not because he is reluctant to give up the power in his hand, but because he does not want Xilin to be involved in this matter.

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In the past, Guan Feng was not involved in virus research, so even though he was in charge of academics in Black Viper, he had not participated in any research projects related to viruses and molecules. But Xilin was different. Guan Feng was afraid that Xilin would get involved. New

The risk of initial research on the virus is the greatest, which is also one of Guan Feng's means of protecting Xilin.

No wonder Gu Changan and Christie Lang have already handed over power, but Guan Feng has not yet handed over power. He knew about this early on, so he didn't let go. Because the verbal handover of power does not count. After the actual handover of power,

Black Viper's robot will re-set the new program command. The person responsible for changing this main program command is one of the decision-makers, the royal family, and the other is the executor, Xi Kai. Both of these people have obviously been greeted by Guan Feng in advance.

“How high is the death rate now?”

"Ten percent of people infected with the virus have died, 30% are in critical condition, and the rest are in the early stages of infection. This virus mutates quickly, and there are many derivatives. So the antibodies are

There is no satisfactory result. The medicine produced only prolongs the patient's life as long as possible," the robot said.

"The transmission route has not been determined yet?" Xilin asked again.

"It is transmitted through respiratory tract and body fluids, and it may also be contained in secretions on the body surface. So far, all people who have been in contact with the patient have been infected."

"How's the situation with the aliens?"

"Alien people are not immune. The virus mutates faster in their bodies."

Xilin was silent.

The robot continued: "Later, the military and Black Viper conducted a two-pronged investigation and found that the planet discovered by the patrol was not the initial point where the virus appeared. Now there are two opinions, one is conspiracy theory. They think this is a conspiracy,

Someone deliberately arranged such an event to release the virus in order to take revenge on the empire. As for the other view, most people from the Royal Academy of Sciences have come up with some experimental results as a basis, believing that such virus molecules

It is not something that can be manufactured artificially, but a new type of naturally occurring molecule, which is subject to great chance."

"Have you got the molecular diagram? Show it to me." Xilin said.

The robot's eyes flashed, and two beams of light shot out from the machine's eyes, converging into a three-dimensional image in front of it. The impact was the structure of an advanced mutant virus, and the molecular diagram of all the atoms that make up the virus was clearly displayed. A single-chain

Virus molecular conformation diagram.

Human DNA is a double-stranded helix, which is relatively stable, but the stability of a single-stranded DNA like this is much less, let alone a single-stranded virus like this.

Xilin pointed to a black circle in the molecular diagram and asked: "What does this represent?"

"Unknown substance."

"Don't have a clue?"

"No, this is a substance that has never been seen before. The people from the Royal Academy of Sciences and the research group within Black Viper have not come up with effective information so far, but they have pointed out one thing. To understand this substance, we must

We started with the original body of the virus, but until now the primary variants in the virus samples obtained only account for a very small part, and the original body has never been seen at all.”

It is precisely because of this that people from the Institute of Virology of the Royal Academy of Sciences deny conspiracy theories and support the view of natural formation. However, at this time, is it useful to argue about these? No matter which way it is, neither side has made any progress.

"Send me all the information about this zebra virus." Xilin opened the communicator in his hand. This communicator has a confidential receiving function and can store the measured information.

The robot did not refuse and directly passed all the things and information it knew to Xilin.

"You came to this planet because virus carriers were found?"

"It's not confirmed, just tracking. Because of this wedding, nobles from the Eleventh Star Region came out. Although the Eleventh Star Region is now closed, there is still leniency for the upper-class nobles. When they came out and were scanned, no infection was found.

Virus, but we are asked to follow up and observe, and take immediate measures once we find someone infected."

Xilin nodded, "Then who is the person you are following? Where is he now?"

The robot talked about a person. This person was one of the people who entered the room later.

"You continue to observe and notify me if there are any changes."

"OK."

Xilin waved his hand, and the robot's figure faded and disappeared again.

Xilin stood outside for a while, digesting the information sent to him by the robot. Then he returned to the room, which was still noisy. Naimi and a few people were talking about "vegetable cakes", and Yuan Xing Mingji

Let me not talk about the glorious deeds of making a lot of pocket money by betting on the speed car race.

Because of Biele's care, Libeiro and Lunani were not troubled by others when Xilin left. Instead, they made a few friends with whom they could talk and were chatting in a new place.

As for the gray cat, this guy is having fun, and sometimes he even follows Yuan Xingming to make noises, but the ears that flick from time to time tell Xilin that this guy has actually been paying attention to what's going on around him, including Xilin's meeting with the robot and their

dialogue between.

Seeing Xilin come in, the gray cat stopped eating the snacks on the plate, jumped on Xilin's shoulder and asked: "What are you going to do?"

"Let's take a look first and study it after the wedding."

The gray cat seemed absent-minded, his claws balled up, and he scratched the clothes on Xilin's shoulders. He hesitated for a long time before he finally said: "I think it's better for you not to get involved."

"Why?" Xilin walked to the sofa and lay down, kicking aside Yuan Xingming, who was red in the face after drinking and was about to come over to invite others to drink together.

"I think this virus is dangerous."

"Do you even think it's dangerous?"

"No, I can definitely resist. If robots are not afraid of me, what should I be afraid of? But you can't. You are a completely organic life, and this virus is different from the ones I have come into contact with before. Especially the unknown substance, I can't analyze it clearly.

What on earth is that?" the gray cat said with drooped ears.

Xilin was silent. Gray Cat had the same idea as Guan Feng, but Xilin didn't want to just avoid it.

"Hey, Xilin, don't worry about that, okay? At worst, we don't want the leader position of Black Viper. It would be great to be a free hunter." Gray Cat was a little nostalgic for his previous life in the Star Alliance.

Xilin took the gray cat off his shoulders and scratched its chin, "Want to go back?"

"Well, I miss them a little bit." The gray cat tilted its head and exposed its chin for Xilin to scratch.

Xilin naturally understood who "they" the gray cat was talking about, so why didn't he want to? But, he couldn't go back.

While scratching the gray cat's chin, Xilin's thoughts returned to the zebra virus. From the information sent to him by the robot, Xilin learned that Black Viper has now collected highly active virus samples collected from 10,000 patients, but

More than half of these 10,000 highly active viruses are high-level mutants of zebra virus, and most of the rest are intermediate mutants. As the robot said, there are very few primary mutants, let alone those obtained from the virus source.

Come to find the answer.

Whether it is artificially synthesized or naturally formed, the more advanced the virus mutates, the more it conceals the original formation method. This robot does not have the analytical configuration diagram and analysis diagram of the primary variant. If you want to know, Xilin must come forward in person.

However, once he comes forward to ask for information on the primary variant virus, Xilin will really participate in this work.

Xilin is not afraid, nor does he reject this kind of research work, but Guan Feng is probably not the only one who opposes Xilin's participation.

I think so, if it is really a high-risk virus, if something happens to Xilin, there will be no one who can replace Xilin. At least at this stage, no suitable person has been found, even if it is other people from Black Viper who are not familiar with Xilin, I'm afraid

They would not agree, and their opposition would not sway Xilin much. After all, Xilin is one of the three giants of the Black Viper, but it may be a little more troublesome by then, and there will definitely be no shortage of policy delays.

"Hey, Xilin, why are you so obsessed with your thoughts?!" Biler pushed Yuan Xingming away, put their arms around each other and came over to tell Xilin about the beautiful girls with good figures that he had just seen.

Xilin listened with a smile. When Bill asked to introduce a few to Xilin, Xilin refused. He was not used to the aristocratic ways. He felt as if he was selling himself. The way those aristocratic women looked at Yuan Xingming and the three

Xilin thought of the wolves in the forest and always felt awkward. If the three Yuan Xingming hadn't shown such unstable temperaments outside, a bully would probably come and take them down by force.

Xilin has been paying attention to the movements of the robots. Although the gray cat is very reluctant to Xilin to get involved, it must always pay attention to the movements of those robots. The gray cat thinks in its heart that if it finds an infected person, it will kick Xilin hard.

Should he drag him back when he is unconscious and let Master Er Grandpa lock him up, or should he just follow the soft policy of pretending to be sick?

In any case, the past two days have been relatively peaceful. I raced with Naimi and talked about my thoughts and experiences with several speed racing enthusiasts. Nothing major happened.

Just like that, the wedding finally started. When Xilin delivered the gifts, he was with Yuan Xingming and the others. Several core members of the Lore family and the Gleason family who received the reception had chrysanthemums on their faces. Yuan Xingming and the three

They didn't dare to fight against Xilin's idea, but they still dared to take Xilin's idea. After all, there was still a difference in how people with royal blood and those without royal blood would be treated.

As soon as he saw the meaningful and overly friendly smiles on those people's faces, Xilin's whole body became hairy and he found a reason to go out to catch his breath. But before Xilin could catch his breath enough, the communicator rang.

After looking at the character code on the communicator, Xilin answered: "Director Guan, what's the matter?"!~!

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