Chapter 70 Chapter 70 Reagents

Su Qing watched as Fugui'er dodged to the left and made a fake move as if to pounce on Qingshan, then quickly turned around and pounced on Chen Kuo on the other side. Seeing that Fugui'er, who was about to pounce on Qingshan, suddenly came towards him, Chen Kuo took two steps back. However, Gouzi was already close to him at this time. He felt a darkness in front of his eyes and quickly raised his hand to block Fugui'er who was heading straight for his throat.

Fuguier bit Shen Kuo's arm guard and hung in the air on Shen Kuo. No matter how Shen Kuo shook him, he held on tightly and refused to let go, making a low and fierce humming sound.

Su Qing was stunned by this action, and so was Li Yi beside him. "Oh, am I seeing this right? When did Fuguier become so cruel?"

Lu Chen looked at Fugui'er's agility and raised his eyebrows, saying, "This dog is now quite capable."

"Fuguier, let go."

Qin Yu gave the order, and Fuguier reluctantly opened his mouth. Chen Kuo took off the bitten arm guard with one hand. Seeing the military coat underneath the arm guard was slightly damaged, he couldn't help but sigh repeatedly. "It's useless. Now even Fuguier thinks I'm weak and wants me to be the only one to bully him."

Fortunately, he was wearing thick clothes, otherwise the bite would have penetrated into his flesh.

"Old Shen, what's wrong with you? You've almost been killed by Fugui'er twice. It's a disgrace to our special forces team if anyone tells them." Qingshan looked at Shen Kuo with disdain. "It seems like you're the one who needs the most training right now."

Fugui'er was still a little unsatisfied and stood aside, ready to make something.

Seeing this, Su Qing walked over and patted Fuguier on the head, "Fuguier, I have something to ask them. You take a break first, I'll give you another chicken drumstick later!"

A group of people entered the research institute, and Gu Yan looked around as soon as he entered the room.

Qin Yu knew what he was looking for, and pointed to the corridor on the side and said, "Professor Gu has been busy all night, and he's probably sleeping now. He's in Room 302."

"Thank you." Gu Yan thanked him and walked quickly inside.

The remaining few people found a room and sat down. Su Qing asked Qin Yu, "Captain Qin, we have something to ask you. Do you know Chief Liang from T City?"

Qin Yu nodded slowly, "I've come across this a few times before when I was doing missions."

Su Qing's face lit up after hearing this. "That's great. We're planning to go to T City to check out the situation. Could you tell us about this Chief Liang?"

"Ms. Su... do you want the T City base to join the Dawn Base?"

"Yes... Everyone has seen the situation outside. I want to try other bases..."

Qin Yu nodded slightly. "Commander Liang is a very principled person... He loves his people and his soldiers and is a good leader. I think there should be no problem."

"Commander Liang is truly a well-known and good general in the army. His troops are stationed in a place bordering three countries. Before he went there, there were always problems there. We don't know how many losses they suffered, both openly and secretly, and how many people were sacrificed."

"Later, he took the initiative to apply for transfer. With his swift and decisive actions and iron-fisted tactics, he brought those countries under control. The treatment of border guards was also improved by several levels. Although there were many dangers there, new recruits every year were eager to be assigned to the military region under his jurisdiction." Shen Kuo recounted the story with admiration on his face.

Qingshan then said, "Miss Su, since you want to go to T City, then we can go with you. At least we can have a talk with Chief Liang."

After hearing this, Lu Chen couldn't help but say, "That's good too. It's more convenient with Captain Qin and the others here."

Since this was the case, Su Qing re-decided the people who would go, and finally decided that Su Qing, Lu Chen, Qin Yu, and Qingshan would go to City T. The others would stay to help Fang Qing handle the affairs of the base. After all, the base had suddenly increased its population by tens of thousands, and various situations had arisen frequently. Fang Qing was in urgent need of help.

They had almost finished their conversation when Gu Yan came out with Professor Gu, and the father and son walked into the room.

“Uncle Gu!”

“Uncle Gu!”

Seeing Professor Gu come in, Lu Chen and others stood up and walked forward to greet him.

"Hey, good, it's really hard for you kids." Professor Gu reached out and patted Lu Chen's shoulder, "You are all great!"

Professor Gu then looked at Su Qing with a smile on his face, "Little Su, thanks to those zombies you brought back earlier, our experiment has achieved remarkable results. Come with me."

The people in the room followed Professor Gu to a laboratory.

Through the glass window, Zhao Jiajun and another person were inside. The two were doing the disinfection procedure, and then put on biochemical protective suits. Then one of them walked to a hatch, opened the hatch, and pushed out a shelf from inside. On the shelf was a zombie tied tightly with thick hemp rope, and its body was struggling constantly.

Zhao Jiajun took out a transparent test tube from a glass cabinet on the side and placed it on the test tube stand on the table. Then he picked up a tool and sucked the light pink liquid in the test tube into it.

After Zhao Jiajun finished all this, he took the syringe-like tool to the zombie and slowly injected the liquid into the zombie's body.

Everyone outside the lab stared intently at Zhao Jiajun's movements. After about a minute or two, the struggling zombies began to calm down. After a few more minutes, the zombies were completely still...

"Uncle Gu, this is..." Li Yi just opened his mouth, and Professor Gu raised his hand to interrupt Su Qing, "Xiao Yi, don't be so anxious and continue reading."

Li Yi had no choice but to shut up and continue looking at the laboratory.

The person next to Zhao Jiajun took a scalpel and cut the zombie's body, then put the cut tissue into a culture dish and turned to operate the instrument at the table behind. At this time, Zhao Jiajun took out a cage from the hatch. There was a little white mouse in the cage that kept jumping around. The mouse's eyes were bloodshot and it looked irritable and restless.

He placed the cage in an instrument cover, pressed the switch and a gas spurted out. After a moment, the mouse stiffened and fell down. Zhao Jiajun took out the cage, opened the cage door, picked up the mouse, cut off a piece of tissue, put it in a culture dish and handed it to another person, then took out a syringe and injected the pink liquid into the mouse. After doing all this, Zhao Jiajun closed and locked the cage.

The two people in the laboratory were doing something with their backs to them. After a few minutes, Zhao Jiajun walked to the window and pushed out a display screen hanging on a bracket from one side. The display screen showed the microscope image.

"The pink liquid they used just now is our latest developed reagent. Look, this picture shows a zombie tissue specimen. The zombies that have been injected with the reagent quickly lose their virus activity and die." Professor Gu pointed to the display screen and explained.

After saying that, he knocked on the glass. After a while, the picture on the screen changed. The virus in the picture continued to erode and fission. Then a drop of liquid dripped on it, and after a while, the virus stopped all activities.

"This is the zombie virus carried by the mouse. After coming into contact with the reagent, the virus's replication and invasion were quickly blocked." Professor Gu pointed to the mouse again and said, "Look at this mouse."

Everyone's eyes fell on the little white mouse in the cage again. They saw that it had woken up at this time. Its eyes were still blood red, but it was much quieter than before. Its movements had returned to normal, and it was sniffing around in the cage.

"This reagent can block mild forms of the zombie virus in current experiments. This means that if a person is injected with the reagent immediately after being bitten by a zombie and the virus hasn't spread, there's a high probability that they won't be infected or mutated. Of course, we're only testing this on animals at this stage, so the specific data will need to be refined through subsequent human trials."

"This... is already a very remarkable achievement." Su Qing looked at Professor Gu with some excitement. Having this reagent means that humans no longer have to despair when facing the zombie virus, even if this reagent only has a probability of being effective.

"Now there is a problem, which is about human experiments... At present, I can't be sure what side effects this drug will have on the human body. They all need to be checked one by one in clinical trials... But who is willing to risk their life and be bitten by zombies to test the drug..." Professor Gu suddenly looked embarrassed.

Listening to Professor Gu's words, Su Qing and the others were also in a dilemma. Yes, it was difficult to see zombies outside because of the severe cold. In a world without the threat of zombies for a short time, who would be willing to stand up and take the initiative to be bitten by a zombie just to experiment with various unknown experimental drugs.

Su Qing frowned and said to Professor Gu, "Professor Gu, let me think of a solution after we get back. The base has just had so many new people join it, so we need to wait a few days for it to stabilize."

"Well, that's true... We're also conducting experiments on other animals to improve the data. If we had monkeys, that would be even better. Monkeys could be used as a substitute for humans first."

monkey……

After chatting with Professor Gu for a while, Su Qing and the others said goodbye and left. Outside the base, Su Qing took out a helicopter. Qin Yu and Qingshan sat in the pilot and co-pilot seats, while Su Qing and Lu Chen got into the cabin.

The helicopter flew quickly towards City T according to the navigation.

"What are you thinking about?" Lu Chen's low voice came from the headset.

"Wondering... where to find monkeys."

"Our Chinese monkeys are mainly distributed in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions and the Yunnan and Guizhou regions. There are also some in Sichuan Province, but these places are not very close to us. Apart from these areas, we can first look for them in zoos in various cities..."

"Zoo? Yes, there are monkeys in zoos." Su Qing's face lit up but then turned down. "But it's been almost two years since the apocalypse. Even if the animals in the zoo didn't escape and weren't eaten by zombies, they would have died long ago without anyone feeding them..."

"How can you know if you don't go and see? You should always think positively."

Su Qing turned sideways and looked at Lu Chen who was sitting beside him, and said softly: "You are right."

Lu Chen smiled at her and said, "Don't worry. Now that the reagent has been developed, there will always be a way to solve the remaining problems. The current situation is much better than before when there was no cure for the zombie virus."