This Game is Too Real

  The "Champion" brand biomass anti-radiation agent project was launched very quickly, and it took only one week from approval to project approval.

  Before the project was officially approved, Yule had already followed the senior named Zhao Feiyu to the research institute in Jinhe City to report.

  As Chu Guang expected, the research institute they came to was the "Champion" Biopharmaceutical Research Institute located in Jinhe City.

   That is the coordinates given to him by the academy. At this time, Yule was still a somewhat dull young man, not very good at socializing, and he was completely focused on research.

  Although the average working time per person in the Renlian era is only one hour, this does not mean that this is the case for all positions, and there are great differences in different industries.

   For example, scientific research positions.

  It is common to spend 24 hours a day in the laboratory.

   But Juul does not feel bored, nor does he have any anxiety of "everyone else is on vacation while I am at work". After all, working in this era is no longer necessary for survival, but for the realization of self-worth.

  Repetitive and boring work has long been handed over to machines. Even if you don’t work all your life, you can still live with a wealthy and affluent standard of living... This is something that people in the classical era could hardly imagine, or only dare to think about in film and television works.

   Miracles are called things that don't happen very often. It is precisely because of this that this infinitely beautiful era was named the Prosperous Era to distinguish it from the old era in the past.

  For Juul, it is an interesting and meaningful thing to be able to enter a world-renowned company and engage in a pioneering research right after graduation.

  So he almost lived in the laboratory and spent all the time of the day except sleeping on the research he was engaged in.

   With such research enthusiasm, he is just a member of a huge research team.

   And just the most plain and unremarkable one.

  Of course, although Yuer himself enjoyed it, Chu Guang, who was standing by as a bystander, yawned.

Since this guy has never been out of the research institute since he came to Jinhe City, Chu Guang couldn't go outside the research institute when he was working in the lab, so he could only stare blankly at him. .

  The pictures he can see are all composed of Yule's memory fragments.

  If it is something that has been seen and forgotten, it may be possible to restore it, but if it is something that has never been seen at all, it can only be fabricated out of thin air.

  Later, Chu Guang was really bored watching it, so he simply snatched the remote control from Xiao Qi, and jumped the fast forward speed to a hundred times, a thousand times, or even ten thousand times by himself...

   Then in a blink of an eye, four years passed, and the year came to 2125.

  Chu Guang suddenly remembered that this year seemed to be a three-year war, so he immediately canceled the fast forward.

   Coincidentally, at the same time that he adjusted the time flow back to double speed, the research institute happened to have new changes.

  Several soldiers wearing military exoskeletons stood at the door of the laboratory, and a serious-looking soldier was talking to the person in charge here.

  The streets in the distance were slack visible to the naked eye, and more than half of the advertisements on the holographic screen had dropped, and the only thing left was broadcasting war news and war mobilization advertisements in a loop.

  Chu Guang couldn't hear their conversation, so he simply returned to Yuer's side. At the moment, he was talking with the senior named Zhao Feiyu.

  After four years of growth, this young man has grown from a stunned young man to a reliable researcher.

   For a moment, Chu Guang saw the shadow of Yin Fang in him.

  The two are actually very similar.

   They all belong to the kind of relatively pure researcher. At least he is still like this now.

   "Our laboratory has been incorporated and is now under the jurisdiction of the Central Wartime Research Institute."

   "...incorporation?" Yuer glanced at Zhao Feiyu and asked in confusion, "We are not here to study weapons."

   "That's right, so our job is not to study weapons... but to assist the Army in assessing the risk of biological disasters and assist the rescue department in developing some low-cost drugs."

  Looking at worrying Yuer, Zhao Feiyu patted him on the shoulder.

   "Don't worry, it's

  Actually...it’s a good thing. At this juncture, our needs are met first, and the academy helped us secure a large budget. "

  In the Prosperous Era, the college was a loose academic organization, mainly composed of well-known figures in the academic world, and its nature was a bit similar to a chamber of commerce for merchants and a trade union for workers.

  Although it feels good to be photographed by someone, Zhao Feiyu, who said this sentence, couldn't see any happy look on his face.

  The war suddenly broke out.

  No symptoms.

   It is said that the cause is that the space station at the Lagrange point observed hostile behavior from the direction of Proxima Centauri, but no one knows what the hostile behavior was, and what was the motivation for the colonists to start the war.

   Perhaps these things will only be made public after the war is over. In short, the scale of this sudden war is beyond everyone's imagination.

   Especially for the vast majority of people in this era, war is a completely unfamiliar concept, not to mention in the news, it is rarely seen even in film and television works.

  Of course, even so, Renlian still has great advantages.

  Relying on their huge industrial strength, talent reserve and mobilization ability, they pulled up a huge army from scratch in just one month.

   However, the situation is still not optimistic.

  The traitors from four light-years away used their trump card as soon as they came up, and sent the indescribable fungus to their parent star.

   That is a creature that no one has ever seen. There is not even a similar model to be found in the biosphere of the earth.

   Obviously, it was a peculiar species unique to South Gate 2. After discovering it, the colonial authorities did not report it to the United Nations authorities, but kept it as a hole card.

   This may be the obsession of a small group of people, or it may be a collective decision, but it is meaningless to think about these at this juncture.

  The spores and fruiting bodies of the slime mold spread everywhere in the intricate rail transit, and Qingquan City, 800 kilometers away, instantly became uninhabitable.

  The same thing happened not only in Qingquan City, but almost all large cities suffered. On the contrary, a lesser-known small city like Jinhe City was spared.

  Unable to prevent it from continuing to expand by all means, the authorities can only choose the last resort—

   Purify it with almighty neutron rays before it spreads to other urban agglomerations.

   Economically or otherwise, this would have minimal impact, and with one of those pure fusion H-bombs with no radiation residue, even those buildings would be preserved.

  …in a nutshell, our job is to determine the effect of neutron radiation on slime mold nests, and to assess the effects of damage. They intend to design a weapon that can release a neutron plume in a directional and stable way, so that it doesn't even need to explode. The college contacted a physics institute to cooperate with us in this evaluation work. "

   "Does this kind of thing need to be tested?" Yule gave him a strange look.

   Although he is not an expert in the field of nuclear weapons, he is well aware that no living thing can survive neutron radiation.

  That thing will poke holes in nucleic acids, proteins, and enzymes, and all life activities based on these macromolecules will be suspended.

   It is absolutely impossible for an organism to survive neutron rays—

   No, not necessarily.

   Such creatures actually exist.

  Yul suddenly thought that the blue mushrooms in the petri dish in the laboratory had that magical power.

  Because the inner monologue is also part of the memory, Chu Guang who is standing next to him can not only see what he said, but also the thoughts he did not say.

"Some people are worried that nuclear strikes may mutate the slime mold and make the situation worse." Zhao Feiyu looked at the soldiers with a complicated expression. "Honestly, that's my judgment too...the other party must know that we will use this method, Are they unprepared?"

  Looking at the conversation between the two, a trace of doubt floated in Chu Guang's eyes.

  If he remembers correctly, the nuclear bomb should have been used in the early days of the war, and the note with **** handprints recorded the situation at that time.

  Why is it different in Yule's memory? with such suspicion

   Confused, Chu Guang pressed fast forward and continued watching.

   Just one month later, Yule, who was eating in the cafeteria, saw a mushroom cloud blooming over Qingquan City from the news.

  Although the host of the news said that the residents in the city had been completely evacuated or had entered shelters, the pale language was not convincing no matter how they heard it.

  It is a big city with a population of over 100 million. How can we get all the people out there.

   And where do we have to withdraw to accommodate so many people?

  If he remembers correctly, the nuclear bomb should have been used in the early days of the war, and the note with **** handprints recorded the situation at that time.

  Why is it different in Yule's memory? With such doubts, Chu Guang pressed fast forward and continued to read.

   Just one month later, Yule, who was eating in the cafeteria, saw a mushroom cloud blooming over Qingquan City from the news.

  Although the host of the news said that the residents in the city had been completely evacuated or had entered shelters, the pale language was not convincing no matter how they heard it.

  It is a big city with a population of over 100 million. How can we get all the people out there.

   And where do we have to withdraw to accommodate so many people?

  At least in Jinhe City, he didn't see one from Qingquan City.

  Yul sat on the chair blankly, shook his hand, and the spoon fell on the dinner plate with a "clang".

   Awakened by the sound, he didn't pick it up, but pushed aside the chair abruptly, got up, walked quickly to the senior's office, pushed the door open and walked in without even knocking.

   "What's the situation? A nuclear bomb? Am I still doing a technical demonstration? And why is it a nuclear bomb..."

  Looking at the news on the holographic screen, Zhao Feiyu's expression was full of solemnity.

"I have no idea…"

   A hint of annoyance floated on Yule's face.

   "So what's the point of our experiment? It was such a waste of a month for no reason, and they didn't intend to refer to our evaluation suggestions at all! If that's the case, why didn't you tell me from the beginning!"

   "Sorry, I really don't know." Zhao Feiyu sighed, "Maybe... just someone needs us to do this, so as to appease the vast majority of people who are at a loss."

"For example, the nuclear bomb is to eliminate evil biological weapons, and we detonated it ourselves under the opinion of professionals... Does this statement sound easier to accept than the defense line of the Aerospace Forces being breached by the invasion force of the colonial planet'? ?”

   Yule said in a daze.

   "The defense line of the Aerospace Forces has been breached?" "I'm just talking nonsense, it's better if you don't take it seriously."

  Seeing Yuer's dull expression, Zhao Feiyu smiled relaxedly, but there was no relaxed expression on his face.

   After a pause, he continued.

"Returning to the previous question, I think another way of saying it may be more conducive to unity. At least now is not the time to quarrel. We are going through a catastrophe that has never happened in a hundred years. Even if anyone is to be held accountable, we have to wait. After it's all over. At least for now, solidarity is more important than the truth."

   "I hope my speculation is wrong, because it means that as we speak here, many people have died."

   As he spoke, he reached out and turned off the news. After a pause, he continued.

   "But if the worst assumptions, my guesses are correct...maybe we're under attack from more than just biological weapons."

"You should know, right? In the Nanmen 2 system, in addition to the yellow dwarfs such as Nanmen 2 A and Nanmen ***, there are also red dwarfs such as Proxima Centauri, and the amount of radiation released by its flare activities is equal to that of the sun. Hundreds of times that, that would be a lethal dose for life on Earth."

   Yule nodded.

  Alien creatures are not his specialty, but he has heard a little about the alien species in the colony. In short, it is a rather complicated ecosystem.

  If the war did not break out suddenly, he still planned to apply for an academic exchange there after the conditions there were better.

  Looking at him nodding, Zhao Feiyu continued.

  So in the early inferences, the astronomy community speculated based on experience that it is impossible for habitable planets to exist in the Southern Gate II system until our probes actually flew there

   We saw the world shrouded in aurora, and then we started to study the ecological environment that we had never seen before.

You should have noticed that neutron rays are deadly to us, but not to the alien species on the colony, they themselves evolved into what they are now in an ecological environment with frequent stellar flares .

  Biological weapons alone are not enough to produce immediate results. The traitors in the colonies may intend to make the home planet uninhabitable, so the simple use of biological weapons is difficult to achieve their goals.

  It is reasonable to suspect that the nuclear bomb has been detonated before we received the subject, so it is hard to say which one is the accompanying gift, it or the slime mold.

   Yule swallowed.

   Dirty Bomb…

"Probably yes," Zhao Feiyu nodded, and said with a sigh, "It may not be considered dirty for the alien species in the second system of the South Gate. They grew up in a radiation environment, but for the species on the earth Bad enough.

  Why would they do this? !

  Yul didn't ask this question, but kept it in his heart.

  He knew that he was not the only one who was confused, his seniors were also the same at this moment, they were puzzled by the rebellion of those siblings.

  Why do you have to go this far? Can't we just sit down and talk?

"In short, the project has changed. We have to continue the original project, and in addition to the anti-radiation agent, we also need to increase the research on the anti-radiation agent. The supply of medical nano-robots is no longer available, and so are the bionic organs. We can only hope Because traditional medicine can solve our problems."

   Yule raised his head.

   "Is this an order from the War Research Institute?" Zhao Feiyu shook his head.

"No, it's the college's suggestion, and it's also the opinion of the director of the institute...I think they are right. Instead of cooperating with the authorities to waste time on stabilizing the public's mood, it is better to do something truly meaningful. Prevention is not enough, we have The radiation damage that has been done has to be undone."

  In fact, just two days after the news was broadcast, they received an order from the Central War Research Institute to end the research on "the effect of neutron rays on the slime mold brood".

  As Juul's predecessors guessed, their research results are not important in themselves, what matters is that someone has to do it.

   Thanks to their busyness and cooperation with the media to stabilize the confidence of residents outside the war zone, the People's Federation was not defeated by their opponents in the first place.

  Although the raid on the colony caused huge losses to the mother planet, the war has just begun, and the People's Federation still has a great chance of winning.

   But Yule still felt a little discouraged. He has been busy for a month.

  If you knew that the results of the research were not important from the beginning, why did you spend so much effort on it? And whether it makes sense to do so, no one knows.

   Time passed day by day. Due to the major breakthroughs in the research of anti-radiation agents and radio-extinction agents, more and more materials were sent to the research institute.

   And the most recent time, the People's Federation Army sent a batch of helium tri-nuclear fuel, with a total of thousands of cubic meters, and everyone felt a little uneasy.

   This is not a material that can be consumed by a research institute. This may mean that this war will become a protracted war.

  Looking at the cans of nuclear fuel, Chu Guang, who was standing aside and peering at the screen, was very greedy, but this was just a memory, and even if he wanted to, he had to wait until the mutants there were dealt with.

   Anyway, he made a note of where the nuclear fuel was kept.

   At that time, the players will reclaim these treasures for him.

   I don't know how long it has passed.

  With the continuous expansion of the war, the living environment on the surface is also constantly deteriorating, and the research position has to be moved from the ground to the underground.

Although Chu Guang didn't see a real battle in Yuer's memory, from the suffocating atmosphere on the street outside the institute and the depression visible to the naked eye, it's not hard to feel the front line The fighting situation was dire.

  Unfortunately, after being transferred to the underground research facility, Yule never went out again, and the information outside was cut off at once.

   At the beginning, there was still news to watch, but then there was no news, only people who regularly sent supplies occasionally brought some

  Outside news.

  Actually, it’s not that someone locks him here and doesn’t let him go out. There are people coming in and out of the elevator all the time, and the researchers here can come in and out freely at any time.

   Just seeing the heavy faces, and thinking of the howling cold wind and fallout outside, the whole scene of the end of the world...

   No one wants to go out.

  Most people still want to keep some good impressions about that era.

And instead of facing the ruined world, it is better to spend energy on the work at hand, at least the working environment under their feet is relatively good, the supply of materials is also given priority, and they can even drink a glass of bionics when they are busy. Beautiful woman brewing coffee.

   However, the work will always be done one day.

  With the efforts of countless people, the final product of radiation suppressant and anti-radiation agent has finally been developed, and the formula and production process have been simplified—even the shelters with poor conditions can use limited equipment and resources to produce.

   What is intriguing is that this project was established by the champion group to make a fortune, but no one thought that before they made a lot of money, the credit itself would lose its meaning.

  Under the circumstances that most people cannot guarantee that they will be alive tomorrow, credit becomes a nonsensical thing.

  The formulas of the radiation suppressant and anti-radiation agent were released to various settlements for free use, and the researchers in the research institute finally breathed a sigh of relief.

   At this time, the person who delivered the supplies brought a piece of good news. This war that lasted for almost three years was finally coming to an end.

   It is said that under the hard work of the frontline troops, the defenders of the colony were retreating steadily, and the last resistance was at the end of their strength.

   This news is undoubtedly the best news in three years, and the atmosphere in the laboratory is as lively as a festival.

  Although Chu Guang wants to tell them at this moment, it is too early for you to be happy. After the three-year war, there is a wasteland era that lasted for two centuries and has not yet seen signs of ending.

  Civilization will decline into an era of chaos at an unprecedented speed. Compared with the darkness of those two centuries, these three short years of suffering are nothing at all.

  At least there are beautiful bionic lady sisters to help them serve tea and water, and at least the supplies they send have never stopped.

  But presumably even if I can communicate with these people who are in high spirits, I am afraid they will not believe what I say.

   There was a celebration party in the laboratory, and Yule, who was not so gregarious, couldn't help but went outside the laboratory.

  This big brother who is no longer young finally mustered up the courage to set foot on the surface again.

   And when he saw this unrecognizable world, he was completely dumbfounded, he opened his mouth but couldn't say a word.

  At this moment, a sigh came from behind him.

   "As you can see, our world is over."