129 Parasitoid

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Wang Qi, Li Xiang, Walia, Kai, and Bai Xiaojiao were in front of the Polar Laboratory, accompanied by several ghosts.

Using insect meat to pay the ghosts and send them away, the three men got into a headache.

"How do you get in here?"

Looking at the rusty and heavy steel door in front of him, Wang Qi felt numb.

The sign at the entrance indeed proved that this was the Institute of Polar Biology. A few people walked around and found that all entrances to the main building were sealed, including the windows on the second and third floors, which were blocked by metal plates.

First, it can be completely sealed, indicating that the safety level of this biological laboratory is very high. It was probably originally a laboratory for research on viruses and microorganisms.

Second, there is no way to know the reason why the laboratory was closed. It is not known whether it was a biological leak or a voluntary closure during evacuation.

The standards of the laboratory were so high that the entire building was not damaged at all, and the few small cracks were far from enough to cause the wall to be knocked down.

"Should we start from other buildings?" Varya suggested.

Wang Qi nodded: "You two go take a look together, be careful, I'll try to see if I can enter from above."

Divided into two groups, Wang Qi jumped up and grabbed onto the roof to go upstairs.

The metal plate closing the window may be thinner, which may make it easier to break through, but Wang Qi has never practiced climbing, so he feels that there is no place to borrow strength.

The roof area is very large, divided into two parts: the third floor roof and the fourth floor roof. The fourth floor roof occupies a slightly smaller proportion.

There is a water tower and some outdoor units on the roof of the third floor. The pipes are completely sealed with concrete, leaving no holes for people to get in.

There are several wind turbines on the roof of the fourth floor with a maximum height of about eight meters. Two of them are still rotating slowly. I don't know if there is electricity inside. If these generators can be used, obtaining data may not require ghost power.

After looking at the distribution box, I realized that I was overthinking it. The entire outdoor distribution box was muddy. It seemed that some animal had crawled in and short-circuited the casing after it had rusted through. There was also a dark mess left behind. I don’t know if it was a rat or a squirrel. Years left behind.

Anyway, regardless of whether there is electricity or not, let's try to get the door open first.

Back on the roof of the third floor, there is a door connecting to the fourth floor.

He kicked the snow away from the door, checked the gloves, and tried two punches first.

There were two loud bangs, and the door was only slightly dented.

The thickness of the door panel may be more than two centimeters, but as long as it can be deformed, it is not a big problem.

Wang Qi slammed the door, but the concrete couldn't bear it first, and the entire metal door frame flew into the room with the door and concrete fragments.

There was no rush to go in. In a laboratory that had been closed for decades, the oxygen inside was probably almost consumed by microorganisms, so we had to give it some time.

Standing at the door and taking a look, it is really annoying to see an actively closed high-level laboratory. All the doors are sealed, and there is another steel door at the end of the corridor leading to the third floor.

Wang Qi looked at the severely deformed gloves, and his head was tending to swell.

In desperation, he had to retreat temporarily, reunited with Varya and returned to the base to find tools.

Varya and Kai found some personal items in the annex building, but they were of no use. In a laboratory of this level, it is difficult to take project-related items out of the building.

More than ten hours later, I returned to the laboratory again.

The tools I brought were very practical, a barbell discus.

Holding the round hole in the center of the discus with both hands and smashing it, the door can withstand the concrete but cannot. After all, it is an old building that has been out of operation for decades. No matter how strong it was when it was first completed, its strength will be reduced.

From the fourth floor to the basement, five discus were smashed, but the harvest was very limited.

Perhaps for the purpose of protecting project data, there is no hole for plugging in USB in the entire building, and all computers are terminals.

Opening the computer room, a rough calculation revealed that the hard drive costs more than 2,000 yuan!

The data model of the server is mostly distributed and with backup, and a hard disk is not useful at all.

Counting ten watts per hard disk, it would take more than 20 kilowatts to drive more than 2,000 hard disks at the same time. In the environment in front of us, we can find a way to achieve a few hundred watts or even one or two kilowatts. The stable input of tens of kilowatts cannot be achieved unless we can restart the hydropower station.

It may be possible to calculate on a per-box basis, but the server host is also a large power consumer.

In desperation, we can only start with paper documents.

Find the archives room and collect the experimental files from the last year by date. The hundreds of file folders must be moved away first.

According to the information provided by Elena, after the number of nodes in the different world increased to 28, humans only lasted for three years. The files for the last year should be the third year or even a few months later. This period is very important for disasters. Perception should be clearer.

In the basement, the situation here is really useful.

Starting from the negative first floor, close to the first floor, there are luminous substances distributed on the walls and floors of the entire underground area, indicating that the guess is correct, and this laboratory is indeed involved in biological research related to nodes in other worlds.

At first, there were scattered light spots and a strong odor.

Bai Xiaojiao was so smelly that he didn't dare to move. He left it and Li Xiang on the first floor, while Wang Qi covered his mouth and nose and explored down alone.

On the negative second floor, in the stairway leading to the negative third floor, there are obvious luminous lines on the wall, like a vine-like distribution on the wall.

The third floor below is a smelly puddle. The laboratory is completely enclosed and is more than ten meters underground. The water will not freeze at this location. I don’t know how many chemicals and underground water seepage are aged. The luminous veins come from the puddle. Climbing out of it, you can even observe the pulsation of light close to the water.

I threw some bits and pieces into the puddle, but no monster emerged.

Scrape some samples from the wall, put them in a ziplock bag that came along the way, and retreat.

The entire laboratory is not scattered, and it is basically certain that it was evacuated in an orderly manner and actively sealed. The puddle on the third floor below is one meter deep, probably caused by a broken pipe or water seepage from the underground wall.

No traces of large creatures were found, and the research object here is mostly the luminous substance itself.

As a result, I went back to the base and looked at the sample with an old-fashioned microscope, and I was wrong again.

The luminous sample is a kind of slime mold, which is the real prototype of slime in anime and game works. The name of slime is a transliteration of slime mold.

Slime molds themselves also belong to the phylum Amoeba, but have some characteristics of fungi.

This thing grows in a dark and humid place, and is obviously distantly related to the amoebas in the lake. Both of the two unrelated amoebas carry luminescent substances. Can this explain something?

It would be a big headache without biologists to help.

Let’s take a look at the experiment records.

The professional-level experimental records made Wang Qi, a layman, confused. Some professional words could not be understood even with a dictionary.

But it's not a big problem. He has learned the new language without a teacher, and it is not more difficult to understand the experimental report.

Wang Qi got into trouble with the experimental report, and went to the university to try to find relevant books. At the same time, he posted a notice in the store asking ghost customers to help.

It took some time, but I finally had some clues.

The luminophore has a name, called "parasite", which means a eukaryotic parasite. It lives in the chromatin of the cell nucleus, and the chromatin is the raw material area for RNA transcription... None of the above is useful!

According to experimental records, although humans were aware of the existence of parasites before the disaster, they were unable to isolate them individually. All experiments were actually studying life infected by parasites.

They conducted a high-risk experiment, directly extracting the nuclei of slime mold cells, breaking them into pieces, and injecting them into mice in the form of physiological saline. After the injection, ultraviolet light could be detected in the mice within a short period of time. As time went by, the condition gradually weakened and the mice returned to normal after about four weeks. The mice remained active throughout the entire process and no disease was detected.

This led to a conclusion that now seems obviously wrong: the survival rate of nucleoli in more complex organisms is lower.

According to the report, this judgment had become common knowledge in laboratories across the country before the disaster.

Obviously, those with glowing eyes among the deserters are counter-evidence. According to early research, they should be classified as infected. The situation for ghosts is more complicated. The disappearance in late winter may be a reflection of the reduced survival rate of the parasite, or it may just change its form slightly, such as turning into an amoeba or slime mold.

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