Chapter 263 The Secret of Silver Liquid
On the second day after the underground fortress was built, Lu Zhao cleared out an empty room in the corner of the third floor to use as a laboratory.
He moved in the analyzer, radiation source and several microscopes that were scrambled from the hospital. The metal table edge was still stained with rust.
Xiaoling stood at the door, twisting the corner of her clothes with her fingers, and the veins on her wrists were shining with a faint silver light.
"Come in." Lu Zhao pushed up his glasses and took out a glass tube from the drawer. "Just two milliliters. It won't hurt."
Xiao Ling sat on the examination table and rolled up her sleeves. The silver liquid under her skin swam like a live fish and gathered into a small bulge at the elbow.
Lu Zhao held the special syringe close to it. As soon as the needle tip touched the skin, the silver liquid suddenly shrank into a thin stream and ran to the back of his hand.
Xiao Ling pursed her lips and said, "After I drew it out last time, it grew back on its own."
"Normal." Lu Zhao changed his perspective, "The characteristics of nanoscale self-healing materials."
When the needle was inserted, the silver liquid suddenly wrapped around the needle. Lu Zhao stared at the slowly flowing liquid in the glass tube, and his Adam's apple moved.
The silver liquid first condenses into round beads in the tube, then disperses into mist, and finally becomes a fine network structure. Each step seems to be testing something.
"Look at the microscope." He pushed the slide to Xiaoling.
The silver liquid molecules under the camera are reorganizing frantically. The hexagonal structure splits and then pieced together into a spiral, the spiral disperses into star rays, and the star rays gather into a honeycomb.
Xiaoling shrank back: "Is it changing?"
"It reassembles thirty-seven times per minute." Lu Zhao called up the data. "Ordinary matter should have decomposed long ago."
He turned around, turned on the radiation source, put the glass tube in, and said, "Try this."
When the radiation meter jumped to a dangerous value, a thin film suddenly appeared on the surface of the silver liquid.
Lu Zhao took a closer look and found that the patterns on the film were exactly the same as the patterns on the inside of the jade bracelet.
"Protective layer." He wrote on the tablet. "The thickness automatically adjusts according to the radiation intensity."
Next is the strong acid test. When the silver liquid is dropped into concentrated sulfuric acid, it shrinks into a ball, and then transparent mucus oozes out of the surface of the ball, which reacts with the acid to form bubbles.
Five minutes later, the silver liquid emerged from the bubbles in a complete shape.
Xiao Ling stared at the glass dish: "It seems to know how to protect itself."
"The more outrageous thing is yet to come." Lu Zhao took out a piece of mouse skin with scratches from the incubator. "This was scratched yesterday, and I applied some silver liquid this morning."
Xiaoling took a closer look and saw that the skin at the scratch was smooth and even the pores were the same as the surrounding areas.
"Healed?"
"Cell activity increased by 30%." Lu Zhao pulled up the comparison chart, "But there was no excessive proliferation. It seems that there is intelligence controlling the repair progress."
He turned off the device, "Xiao Ling, what's inside you is not ordinary alien technology."
Xiao Ling looked down at her arm, the silver liquid swaying gently under her skin: "I have had strange dreams since I was a child.
I dreamed of a big blue man in a white coat pushing a syringe into my arm.
There are many children, like me, with silver light on their arms. "
Lu Zhao turned the tablet towards her, on which was a timeline he had compiled: "The year you were born, a scientific expedition team disappeared in the southwest. The report mentioned 'unknown metallic liquid', which matches the characteristics of the silver liquid in your body."
He paused, "Maybe you are their experimental subject. This thing is to fuse human and Weaver genes."
Xiao Ling's fingertips turned white: "Will it turn into a monster?"
"No." Lu Zhao pointed at the microscope. "It is balancing the two genes, not devouring them. You are more stable than ordinary people now."
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Su Wanqing and Lin Che pushed the door open and came in. The blue lines on Lin Che's arms climbed up another two inches, and appeared from his sleeves, like a glowing snake.
"Look at this." Lu Zhao called up a video. The silver liquid sample was placed in the time acceleration zone. All other substances were oxidizing rapidly, but the silver liquid flow rate was the same as in a normal environment. "Anti-time anomaly."
Su Wanqing moved closer to the screen: "Can it be copied?"
"We need more samples." Lu Zhao shook his head, "But at least it shows that Xiaoling's ability is not a burden."
He switched the data. "Compared with Lin Che's blue veins, your substances have similar vibration frequencies, but Xiao Ling's is more like an adapter, while Lin Che's is more like a transformer."
Lin Che touched his arm and asked, "The weavers are divided into two groups?"
“That’s possible.” Just as Lu Zhao finished speaking, Lin Che suddenly held onto the table.
Blue lines flickered violently on his neck, and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.
"What's wrong?" Su Wanqing grabbed his wrist.
Lin Che closed his eyes and said in a hoarse voice: "I heard the water shouting."
He staggered two steps. "I saw a blue building, soaked in silver liquid. The pipes were connected into a piece, and the liquid was flowing in the pipes. It was just like Xiaoling's dream."
Xiao Ling grabbed his other hand and said, "I dreamt about that too! The blue house and the silver pipe!"
Lu Zhao quickly scanned Lin Che's arm, and the monitor kept beeping: "The degree of mutation is 28%, 5% higher than yesterday."
He pointed at Lin Che’s neck, “The blue scales are moving towards her face.”
Lin Che took two deep breaths, and the blue lines slowly subsided. "Just now I felt that the water plant was polluted. Something is pouring into the underground water veins in the northwest." He opened his eyes, and his pupils were light gold. "I can see the water system of the entire city, like a glowing net."
Su Wanqing took out her phone and pulled up the city map: "What's the exact location?"
“Underground of the abandoned chemical plant.” Lin Che tapped the map with his knuckles. “The water hurts. It hurts a lot.”
The laboratory suddenly fell silent. Xiao Ling stared into Lin Che's eyes, the silver liquid vibrating gently on her wrist.
Lu Zhao lowered his head to write down the data, and the tip of his pen left a dot of ink on the paper.
Su Wanqing's phone rang. It was a surveillance alert from the command center. She clicked on the screen and saw a doctor taking a man's temperature in the emergency room of the Central Hospital.
There were black lines on the man's arms, like a ball of ink that could not be dissolved.
"System analysis," she said to her watch.
"Unknown biologically active substances have been detected, and it is recommended to be marked as S-level risk."
Su Wanqing pulled up the patient's information: "35 years old, maintenance worker at the water plant, had a fever three days ago."
The screen suddenly went black. Someone in black rushed into the emergency room, grabbed the man and left.
Just as the security guard was about to stop him, the man in black took out a silver cube and shook it, and the security guard immediately froze in place.
The whole process took 27 seconds, and the surveillance camera only captured the corner of the man in black.
Lu Zhao came over to take a look: "Time-stopping device?"
"The Weaver's people." Su Wanqing turned off the surveillance. "The infection has begun, two weeks earlier than expected."
Lin Che clenched her fists, blue veins dancing between her fingers: “We have to stop the pollution at the water plant.”
"Notify Xiao Ran first." Su Wanqing took out the intercom, "ask him to lead the engineering team to prepare the filtration equipment."
She turned to look at Lu Zhao, "Can your research be accelerated?"
Lu Zhao pushed his glasses and said, "Xiao Ling needs to come and draw two milliliters of samples every day."
Xiao Ling rolled up her sleeves and said, "Let's smoke now."
When the silver liquid entered the syringe again, Lin Che suddenly pressed Su Wanqing's hand.
His palm felt hot, and blue lines crawled half an inch along her wrist before suddenly retreating.
"What's wrong?" Su Wanqing asked.
“Shui said.” Lin Che stared out the window, “The pollution is spreading faster than I thought.”
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