Everyone was shocked by her words. After all, the students in class 1 had just experienced the accident at the zombie training base, and they never wanted to encounter any scene of being bitten by zombies again.
"You don't really think that these dead things can bite people, do you?" Mao Yun joked with a smile, "You are really unexperienced flowers and bones."
Su Yu saw Hao Tian frown and seemed not to be satisfied with Mao Yun's joke.
But most of the students breathed a sigh of relief.
Mao Yun stopped smiling and waved her hand to greet everyone to get on the elevator.
As the elevator door dinged open, the specimen dissecting room on the basement floor arrived.
Su Yu stood behind Hao Tian and looked over her shoulder to see a long passage with a large iron door on both sides of the passage.
"Come on, Huagu Duo'er, follow me." Mao Yun opened the large iron gate on the left with her screen, and Su Yu and Hao Tian followed her.
Su Yu couldn't help but be a little confused when he saw that the iron door opened automatically and was actually one meter thick. It made a "dong" sound, giving people a heavy feeling of metal.
"This door is almost reaching the bank vault door. These specimens are so precious? What are they for?" Hao Tian touched Su Yu's arm and whispered.
This is exactly Su Yu's question. Since they are all dead and cannot run away on their own, what are they guarding against? She looked back at the other large iron door opposite. It seemed to be thicker and stronger than the iron door here, but it seemed to have more than one layer of encryption locks. She moved closer to Hao Tian: "Why is everything so mysterious? Look at the door on the right."
Hao Tian looked back: "Yes, is it also a specimen room?"
Mao Yun, who was walking in front, suddenly turned around. Judging from her expression, she must have heard the conversation between Su Yu and Hao Tian. She raised her screen with a smile and said to the two of them, "I don't know what's in there. I don't even have permission to go in."
"Okay, let's get back to today's lesson."
Mao Yun turned around and turned on the lighting in the specimen room with her screen. All of a sudden, all the spotlights in the entire specimen room were turned on. Each specimen displayed inside had different spotlights that illuminated the main parts from an angle suitable for observation, allowing people to instantly distinguish where the focus of viewing was.
The specimens are all covered by thick transparent glass, most of which are waist-high, allowing people to lower their heads and see clearly what is displayed inside.
"Look here, this is the zombie's brain specimen, which is what I want to show you today." Mao Yun motioned for everyone to come closer to the glass cover.
Hao Tian and Su Yu were the closest, and they clearly saw what looked like a huge walnut placed quietly in the glass cover. Under the illumination of the spotlight, this "walnut kernel" with crisscrossed grooves showed a slight glow. It is yellow and waxy white, but on the surface of this "walnut kernel", a layer of green spots as big as the tip of a needle densely covers every groove. What is even more shocking is that a green filament has grown out of the center of the entire brain. It is like the tentacles of a jellyfish and is dispersed into countless filaments, intricately woven into a huge fluorescent cage, as if the entire The brain is shrouded and imprisoned forever.
Su Yu suddenly shivered all over. She remembered the feeling of being confused and unable to control herself. She quietly looked at the brain that had lost its freedom in front of her, as if she was looking at her own brain.
"So this is what a zombie's brain looks like."
The students were shocked by what they saw, and Mao Yun’s explanation came at the right time:
"This is the brain of a zombie. The green ones are the culprit that turns humans into zombies - the mutated ergot bacteria."
She paused deliberately to draw the students' attention to her next words.
"Students, look at this green Ergot mutant. It is the mother fungus of the entire brain, and the place where it lives is the corpus callosum of the human brain. The corpus callosum is a fiber bundle composed of fibers connecting the left and right cerebral hemispheres. However, You little bastards don’t seem to understand it.”
Mao Yun pointed to the green ergot fungus: "Let's put it this way, it is parasitic on the nerve intersection connecting the left and right hemispheres of the brain, thus controlling the entire brain, and therefore the entire human nervous system."
"Then why is it called ergot?" a classmate asked.
"Good question!" Mao Yun pointed her finger and praised: "Because this fungus did not appear out of thin air, it has existed for a long time. But before, it only parasitized rye, wheat, barley, oats, goosegrass and other grasses. In the ovaries of plants, the ovaries of these plants are then turned into their sclerotia, which are shaped like wheat grains, so they are called ergot bacteria.”
"There are many cases in history where people suffered from mental disorders after eating wheat parasitized by ergot fungus, unable to control their own behavior, and even attacked other people. The famous St. Anthony's Fire should have been taught in your zombie history class. Bar?"
Mao Yun got a negative answer from the confused faces of her classmates. She sighed in annoyance: "Old Yu, I haven't even talked about this chapter yet."
"As for the history of St. Anthony's Fire, I'll let the professor tell you. We still focus on the field of zombie biology. The green ergot you see now is a mutated ergot that no longer parasitizes herbaceous plants. , it chose the strongest overlord on the earth - human beings as its parasite. The most important thing is that it very cleverly parasitizes on the corpus callosum of the human brain. We still don't know why it mutates like this. How did it mutate?"
"However," Mao Yun's eyes flickered: "On this point, a research team seemed to have achieved some preliminary results. However, because the leader of the research team disappeared, the entire research was forced to stop."
"The person in charge is missing again?" Hao Tian said quickly: "I heard that the inhibitor research team is also like this."
Mao Yun glanced at her and was silent for a moment before replying: "Yes, it is their group. I heard that the leader of their group accidentally discovered the truth about the mutation of ergot bacteria while conducting inhibitor research experiments, but the results were not published before they were published. She disappeared, and the experimental data and papers also disappeared with her. Both studies have stalled, and even the inhibitor has not entered the final stage of clinical trials."
After Mao Yun finished speaking, she lowered her eyes a little sadly: "The person in charge is called Xin Ai. She used to be my student...a very outstanding girl..."
"What a shame." She let out a long sigh.
The classmates were temporarily infected by this sadness, and they all lowered their heads and looked at the green mutated ergot in silence.
Su Yu and Hao Tian regretted the suspension of this research because they saw with their own eyes the benefits that infection inhibitors bring to people.
Moreover, if the truth about the mutation of ergot is discovered, will it be one step closer to eliminating zombies?
However, why would a good person disappear with her research results at such a critical moment of research and development?
Su Yu suddenly had a chaotic thought in his mind - doesn't someone want the zombies to disappear? Even at the expense of killing scientific researchers who have made great research achievements?
Once this idea arises, it cannot be dispelled. Su Yu suddenly remembered the long-standing school motto:
Block the gates of hell with my flesh and blood.
That girl, Xin Ai, is doing it.
