Cheng Ye raised his head slightly, his expression unchanged and his voice natural: "Not sure."
Professor Guo looked at Cheng Ye's poker face and felt helpless.
Ask him why he is so deaf to what is going on outside the window, what can he know?
"You were at the third stage of your research, but you didn't find anything?"
Cheng Ye showed a thoughtful expression, and after a moment: "No."
Professor Guo looked at him suspiciously.
After a while, he sighed: "Do you know how they died?"
Cheng Ye remained expressionless as ever and shook his head.
Professor Guo looked at him and his expression gradually became ferocious.
How could there be such a playing card? Was he born without human emotions?
Cheng Ye was enjoying his leisure time. While maintaining his character, he secretly glanced at the documents on the table.
Seeing his curiosity, Professor Guo directly handed the documents on the table to Cheng Ye.
Cheng Ye took the document and read it eagerly.
Is infection caused by radiation real?
(This report is a reasonable guess based on experimental data that has been developed. There is currently no data to support it, and it is only a guess.)
As we know, radiation refers to the transmission of energy in the form of waves or the movement of subatomic particles.
Radiant energy radiates in straight lines outward from the radiation source in all directions.
Object A can radiate to object B, and object B can also radiate to object A.
Radiation influences each other.
Is it possible that a certain type of radiation can be transmitted to another type of energy that does not have that radiation?
Resulting in the same radiation?
...
Cheng Ye did not read further.
It’s not that I don’t understand it, but I think it has little to do with their project.
This is purely a research subject.
His current goal is to figure out what the infection is as soon as possible.
Professor Guo has been observing Cheng Ye's expression.
I found that he had no special mood changes.
Just like before, he seemed to be indifferent to anything except research.
Cheng Ye held up the document and asked, "What is this?"
Professor Guo's face was solemn: "Do you still remember why our project was launched?"
Cheng Ye looked at Professor Guo expressionlessly.
Professor Guo felt that he was asking too much.
No matter what you say to him, he is not interested in the playing card in front of him. He is only interested in the research at hand.
Why this project was established and the previous causes and effects, he probably didn’t know what was going on.
Professor Guo sighed and said simply: "We found a stone. This stone is transparent and looks like crystal, but its texture is unexpectedly heavy. Out of curiosity, Xiao Liu took it back for testing."
"It turned out that this stone has strange energy fluctuations. After our monitoring, we found that it has been radiating violently."
"Radiation is harmful. Mild hazards can cause ionization and excitation reactions of human biological macromolecules and water molecules, and severe hazards can lead to death."
"The radioactivity of this stone is extremely strong, so we attach great importance to this stone. Through simple research, we found that the material of this stone has never been discovered in human history. It is likely to be a new radioactive element. We quickly established a project team.”
Professor Guo said it simply, but how smart is Cheng Ye?
In just a few words, I already know almost everything.
Their research project was that rock.
The thing mentioned in Xiao Wang's message to him was also this stone.
This stone is not an element currently known to mankind. It is an unknown element and is highly radioactive.
Their initial purpose should be to determine what element it was and what its atomic weight was, until an incomprehensible phenomenon occurred later...
People who were exposed to it were more or less damaged.
And now...
Cheng Ye stared at Professor Guo.
There was a vague guess in my mind.
But this speculation is too shocking and illogical.
For a moment, Cheng Ye couldn't be sure.
Professor Guo continued:
"This report is another direction extended from our project. Radiation is the movement of electrons outside the nucleus, and radiation is the movement change inside the nucleus. Since emission can cause infection, why can't radiation?"
"This report." Professor Guo raised the document in his hand and stared at Cheng Ye, as if he wanted to read something from his face: "It is just to put forward this speculation."
Until now, Professor Guo is still testing.
Cheng Ye didn't understand what he was testing.
We are all members of the same project team. Is there anything that can’t be said...
"But radiation is everywhere." Cheng Ye pondered for a while and said softly: "TVs, refrigerators, washing machines, mobile phones that are never left behind, laminate floors that are stepped on at all times, surrounding wall paper, and the ubiquitous high-voltage lines, signal transmission towers and sunspot......"
"...If this is contagious..." Cheng Ye paused, with a hint of disbelief in his eyes: "It's too appalling..."
Professor Guo nodded solemnly.
His weather-beaten face was very cautious. He changed the topic and suddenly said something without any beginning or end: "It's shocking that radiation can be contagious."
This sentence was full of profound meaning, and a light flashed in Cheng Ye's eyes.
He remained calm and maintained the same expression as before.
The actual heart beat was out of rhythm.
Professor Guo smiled bitterly and lowered his head.
Yes, the rock they picked up was radioactive and contagious.
This is something that is impossible in human history.
But it just happened.
The ambiguity in their project starting from the third phase was also due to this.
It was the first thing that was discovered to be radioactive and contagious.
And the things it infects are very strange.
Like a kind of-
destiny.
...
Professor Guo stared at Cheng Ye, and Cheng Ye also looked at Professor Guo.
He knew that what Professor Guo was going to say next was very important, and it should be the secret of this stone.
Professor Guo looked at the young child in front of him.
He has been fighting on the front line.
In order to find out the atomic number as soon as possible, he studied all night without rest.
He knew what he said next might shock the kid, but he couldn't keep it secret any longer.
Others had their suspicions as early as a week ago.
Only Zhang Lin, a fool, was so focused on research that he didn't notice anything strange.
Thinking of this, Professor Guo's eyes softened when he looked at Cheng Ye, and his voice also slowed down a bit.
"This stone is not only highly radioactive, it is also contagious."
"There is only one such thing in the history known to mankind."
"At first, we all thought it was just contagious, like making this table as radioactive as stone."
"So our research project has always been, what element is it, what is its atomic number, have we discovered a new element..."
"Later we found out that no, its radioactivity can be blocked just like the radioactivity of other known elements."
"What's really scary about it is that it's contagious."
Cheng Ye looked at Professor Guo and added what he had not finished: "Since this period of time, you have quietly raised the project to countless levels, bringing it to the highest level."
"You have privately changed your research direction. What you are really studying is... the contagiousness of this stone..."
Professor Guo nodded, he smiled sadly, and the grief in his eyes was undisguised: "Do you know how Li Yujun died?"
Cheng Ye frowned.
Professor Guo smiled bitterly.
With his poker face, he paid attention to nothing but researching projects all day long.
The fate of their group began to change on the day Li Yujun died.
At that time, their project had just entered its second phase.
"Li Yuyun died in the sewer. She died extremely miserably."
"The cause of her death was drowning. No one paid attention to this at first. We thought she was just unlucky and fell into the sewer pipe and was not found, so she died."
"But it's like a curse. Starting from her, people in the project team died one after another."
"Everyone died in a strange way until the third person died and someone came up with the idea of contagiousness."
"It's normal for you to focus on the project and ignore these speculations without data support. You just want to quickly find out the atomic number of that stone and where it ranks on the periodic table of elements..."
"So, you didn't notice the private undercurrents of everyone in the project team at all..."
Professor Guo looked at Cheng Ye and smiled.
Sometimes I feel that a single-minded person like Cheng Ye is quite happy to be alive. Even though the world is about to end, he still has the energy to continue studying what stones are.
Professor Guo calmed down and continued: "The concept of infection can be called an explosive concept. It can subvert everything in modern science and completely overthrow the science known to mankind."
"We didn't believe it at first, but I may be getting older. Once people get older, they have awe of the world. I started researching in the direction of contagion... and I finally discovered it. Something’s wrong…”
Professor Guo lowered his head, his pale face full of sorrow: "Infection does exist."
"Some kind of invisible and intangible fate has entangled us. Members of the project team have died in various accidents. Such perfect accidents seem like just accidents."
"This is an unprecedented infection. The source of the infection is this stone, and the thing that infected it..."
"...It's bad luck."
Professor Guo's expression was a little deformed, ferocious and slightly terrifying.
No one knows what he has been through for so many days.
An old man who believed in science all his life suddenly discovered one day that the world might be fantasy, that fate might really exist, and that it was contagious...
It might even catch itself...
Professor Guo lowered his head.
The atmosphere is somewhat sad.
He stretched out his hand to push up his glasses, and his voice became deeper: "Zuo Junming died when he stepped on the ground when he got on the bus, Zhou Yuhua died when he flushed the toilet and accidentally leaked water and was electrocuted. Ji Panqiao died. He was hit by a car or two while walking..."
"Everyone's death is different, but everyone dies in an accident."
"Everyone goes through something extraordinary before they die."
Professor Guo's eyes were like eagles, staring sharply at Cheng Ye, and said solemnly:
"There are eight people in our group, except you, me, Xiao Wang, all of them are dead."
"And all this comes from radiation."
"If it was just radiation, I wouldn't be so worried." Professor Guo suddenly straightened his back and said to Cheng Ye as seriously as he wanted: "But, it could be radiation."
In a flash of light, Cheng Ye understood immediately.
It was as if something hit his heart, and his eyes widened instantly.
He glanced sharply at the document placed randomly on the table.
Therefore, this document was actually written by Professor Guo.
Everything above is speculation on his part.
Because there was no data to support it, it was just a guess, so he added that line of fine print under the title.
Just a guess.
So at first, Professor Guo tried his best to see if he had thought of all this...
Professor Guo's voice sounded slowly.
His voice was so small, yet so harsh.
"What if the spread of this misfortune is not caused by radiation, but by radiation?"
Cheng Ye's heart beat loudly.
He looked at Professor Guo in disbelief.
Professor Guo's mouth was still opening and closing.
"Like you said, radiation is everywhere."
"Then our misfortune follows us like a shadow?"
...
For a moment, neither of them spoke.
It was as if something unknown suddenly entangled the two of them.
In this small room, I was suddenly so depressed that I couldn't breathe.
Those invisible things seem to be slowly changing your destiny.
Maybe he suddenly choked to death while drinking water, or maybe he tripped and fell to death because he lifted his left leg while walking.
Even, maybe you are just standing, and a car will speed up from a distance and run over your body with precision.
All this is due to some invisible radiation.
Ah, no.
It could be radiation.
It's radiation everywhere.
Starting from this stone, it changes the properties of all other materials around it. It changes your table, chairs, dishes, and even the sheets you sleep on next to you every night.
Overnight, they transformed from ordinary, everyday items into highly radioactive items.
Affects your destiny.
Let you die 'accidentally' without knowing it.
The light suddenly dimmed.
Cheng Ye gasped.
He made many guesses, but he had never thought of it as something similar to metaphysics.
It is everywhere, following you everywhere, finding every opportunity to hide, and there is nowhere to hide...
.......
He suddenly thought of Einstein and Newton, both of whom believed in theology in their later years.
The end of science is theology.
Cheng Ye narrowed his eyes.
Suddenly I felt a little cold.
He winced.
This is a fear that comes from the unknown.
Suddenly I understood why we should use this method to control the people in this area.
I also suddenly understood that the end of mankind might really be coming.
The first words Professor Guo said when he entered this room rang in his ears.
"The other members of the institute are dead, did you know that?"
Now, is it his turn?
