Just when Song Sanchuan and Si Wuyai were about to be killed by Xie Tianlang and Jin Gui Fugui, special forces from the Yunnan Military Region broke in through the window and prevented the worst possible outcome.
After that, Song Sanchuan and Si Wuyai finally had a chance to catch their breath. When the Chief and other research experts, including Elder Li, arrived the next morning, the entire Water Mist City was flooded with fully armed warrior legions. These elite warriors only took two hours to suppress and quell the rioting and frenzied Water Mist City.
Although almost all the animals, plants, and residents of Water Mist City were controlled by the microbial invasion brought by the meteorite, these "new life forms" that had not yet developed and expanded were suppressed under the absolute power and number of the meteorite.
The horror of this apocalyptic disaster is not in the open. Although the fog will obscure human vision, greatly hinder human travel, and gradually spread to all aspects of human life, such as agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and sideline production, this relatively mild climate change gives humanity time to cope and change. Given enough time, the fog will not bring about the apocalypse.
But the invasive microorganisms that spread silently to the world by relying on the fog are different. At first, humans thought they were just unknown toxins and didn't pay much attention to them, even though they were not very good at defending against them.
However, these invasive microorganisms will spread with the fog, starting by changing and replacing the lowest plants. When most of the plants have been replaced, most animals that feed on plants, and even humans, will be replaced again silently.
If it weren't for Gou Fugui and the others' discovery in Water Mist City, perhaps humanity wouldn't have known where the problem lay, or why people who were once close and trusted had changed, until the whole world was filled with those microorganisms and all living things on Earth had been replaced.
Therefore, Song Sanchuan and Si Wuyai received high praise and gratitude from the Great Chief.
This praise reached its peak when fallen meteorites and large numbers of invaded and replaced life were discovered in the other three places where the fog first appeared.
The most terrifying aspect of invasive microorganisms is their "silent invasion" and "almost complete mimicry." Once their original source is discovered, this silent doomsday can be controlled and stopped to the greatest extent possible.
Of course, this is all predicated on the fact that the world's best scientists can develop an antidote to control invasive microorganisms as soon as possible.
However, the current situation doesn't seem very optimistic.
Even the top researchers who study anti-drug agents have encountered difficulties.
"Why is drug number 13 still not working?" Old Li was practically scratching his head off. "The research data clearly shows that this drug could cause devastating damage to invasive microorganisms!"
"What exactly is wrong?!"
After resting for a night, Si Wuyai also joined the potion research group. He watched as the No. 13 potion, which they had high hopes for, initially destroyed and absorbed the plant cells simulated by the invading microorganisms with overwhelming speed, until they were completely withered. But when they dripped a drop of water onto the seemingly lifeless plant, it revived.
Therefore, the invading microorganisms are not completely dead, but only temporarily dormant.
This is very troublesome.
“We have extracted the original liquid of the invading microorganisms from the soft crystal, but so far nothing can completely destroy its structure.” Old Huang’s tired brows furrowed as he spoke from the side: “Either our destructive agent is missing the most important and fatal element, or we haven’t fully figured out the molecular composition and properties of the original liquid.”
“But we’ve thoroughly analyzed the structure of the original solution,” Professor Huang’s student sighed beside him. “Is there anything we haven’t considered?”
The mood of everyone in the research room was somewhat heavy. Forty-eight hours had passed since they arrived and began their research. In those forty-eight hours, three members of their research group had been silently hacked.
The closer one is to the original microbial solution, the greater the chance of invasion and infection. But they were people who were determined to risk their lives to solve this problem; from the moment they arrived here, they had made up their minds and had no way out.
"Xiao Si, do you have any thoughts?" Old Li looked at Si Wuyai, who was frowning beside him.
Wearing the latest isolation suit, Si Wuyai remained silent for a while before saying, "I want to pray to the koi fish."
Li Lao and the others: "?"
What kind of koi fish?
After a moment, Old Li finally realized what was happening, and then laughed and scolded Si Wuyai: "You, a top researcher, are superstitious! We researchers must be able to concentrate and not think about taking shortcuts."
"And you're actually quite lucky. I have special machines monitoring those invasive plants 24/7, but they couldn't detect that they were camouflaged. But you not only discovered them, you also observed their true forms."
Your two friends actually went to the bottom of the lake and brought up the original crystal. That's incredibly lucky, Xiao Si. You should be content.
Si Wuyai, one of the unlucky ones: "..."
This was the first time someone had praised him for his good luck.
So he wanted to pray to a real koi fish even more.
"I'm going to check on Fugui and Xie Tianlang."
Old Li thought of those two young men who had been normal for half the time and crazy for the other half the time these past two days, and who, when they were crazy, could take on a group of special forces soldiers by themselves.
I couldn't help but feel a bit of toothache and heartache.
Those two are truly outstanding young people; they have really sacrificed a lot for the country and the people.
“Go ahead. And draw two more vials of blood from them while you’re at it. They’re the only two people who still have time to regain consciousness. There must be something special in their bodies that can inhibit invading microorganisms.”
Unfortunately, after two days of research and drawing six vials of blood, they still couldn't figure anything out.
Most people now believe it's simply because these two young men have strong willpower.
But Mr. Li always felt that there were points they had not discovered.
Si Wuyai nodded and went to the protective room that had been specially set aside for Xie Tianlang and Gou Fugui.
Two days later, Xie Tianlang and Gou Fugui's originally very serious injuries were almost invisible.
Si Wuyai knew that, in addition to the two people's special physique and strong self-repair ability, their ability to recover so quickly was also related to the strong self-repair ability of the invading microorganisms.
This made Si Wuyai both happy and worried. He was happy that they no longer had any internal or external injuries, but worried that the invading microorganisms would completely integrate into their bodies and eventually completely take over their bodies and minds.
When Si Wuyai arrived, Xie Tianlang was going crazy.
According to his statistics over the past two days, Xie Tianlang's uncontrollable time is increasing rapidly.
Fortunately, Gou Fugui, the hidden lucky charm, the lucky little koi, and now the auspicious golden tortoise, has only been unable to control himself for a very slow time in the past two days. However, he has been using the golden tortoise bloodline bonus all the time and now he especially likes to lie on the ground like a tortoise and play dead.
Si Wuyai twitched his lips and squatted down in front of the wealthy and powerful man: "How are you feeling now?"
Jin Gui Fugui lazily raised his eyelids and shook his head: "Right now, IQ is in control, but I can probably hold on for another ten minutes."
"Haven't you figured out a cure yet?"
Si Wuyai sighed: "No, we tried almost every method, but the most likely effective drugs that everyone deduced failed at the last moment and could not completely kill those invading microorganisms."
"Everyone is going bald right now."
Jin Guifu clicked his tongue with pity in his eyes: "That's why I can't be a scientist. I simply can't bear the difficult and long process of finding the right path among countless mistakes."
"You've worked hard. Your hair looks thinning."
Si Wuyai: "..."
"My hair is perfectly fine. You should be thinking about how to restore the back of your head that was blown bald by the explosion."
This sentence instantly hit the rich and beautiful woman's sore spot: "Shut your mouth, you unlucky guy! I'm not bald! I just got my hair singed! And my hair is growing back very fast these past two days! It's already up to my shoulders, and in another two days it'll be up to my waist!"
Si Wuyai fell silent again upon hearing this.
He didn't even dare to think too deeply about whether the black hair that Gou Fugui had grown back was real hair or just some disguised microorganisms.
He had always considered himself an exceptionally brave person, but looking at his comrades lying on the ground, he felt inexplicably afraid.
Gou Fugui knew what Si Wuyai was thinking as soon as he saw his expression, and waved his hand dismissively.
"Don't worry, I can feel it myself, 90% of it is my own hair."
"It's not to the extent you think."
"Alright, what are you doing here? Just say what you want and stop getting in my way, interrupting my reading and eating."
Si Wuyai was speechless, but he was genuinely influenced by Gou Fugui's good attitude. He pulled out two syringes from his protective suit and said under Gou Fugui's particularly disdainful gaze, "Old Li asked me to draw two more vials of blood."
"Hehe, why don't you just carry Xie Tianlang and me to the research lab? We can use them whenever we want."
Si Wuyai laughed: "We can't control you two when you're going crazy. Besides, I also want to share a lucky koi fish."
Even if he didn't want to admit it, he had to admit that he was definitely not someone with a lucky advantage. Although he had previously disbelieved in metaphysics like Old Li, metaphysics is actually an unknown science.
It's still necessary to use it when it's crucial.
"Change it to a koi fish symbolizing wealth and prosperity, let me pray to it and spin around. Then draw another vial of blood."
Then Si Wuyai received a sarcastic smile from Jin Guifugui and a sarcastic remark: "Your grandpa turtle is here. Are you looking down on the bloodline of my auspicious and long-lived turtle?"
"As long as your Grandpa Turtle is alive, there's absolutely no way he'll turn into that fish that can only spin around! Those little things that have only recently emerged, do they even deserve to be compared to Grandpa Turtle?"
Si Wuyai: "..." I never expected that there would be such a complex hierarchy of discrimination among the animals that Gou Fugui can transform into.
"What are you standing there for? Hurry up and spin around in front of your grandpa turtle and then kneel down devoutly! Grandpa can guarantee you a long and healthy life, you know that!"
Si Wuyai began to regret mentioning the koi fish. Indeed, scientific matters cannot be solved with metaphysics.
He hesitated whether or not to pray to the Golden Turtle for wealth and honor, but in the end, he lowered his head under the Golden Turtle for wealth and honor's relentless gaze.
Fine, goodbye it is. A rational person like him won't argue with a half-madman.
Then the thirty special forces soldiers responsible for guarding and protecting Gou Fugui saw the young researcher, who had been praised by Elder Li as having a promising future, circle around the hero who had been praised by the chief commander. While circling, he clasped his hands together and muttered incantations. A scientific researcher was actually engaging in superstition in front of them.
This is...it makes me feel complicated.
After Si Wuyai paid homage to the golden tortoise, he planned to have his blood drawn, though he didn't hold out much hope for the tortoise's auspiciousness.
However, while he was having his blood drawn, the golden tortoise, Fugui, suddenly spoke up: "Did you use Fugui the sloth's blood?"
Si Wuyai paused for a moment and nodded: "I used it, but when I used the sloth Fugui's blood to react with different killer plants, there was nothing particularly special about it. Except that the cells of the camouflaged plants that had been infused with the sloth Fugui's blood divided much more slowly…!"
He suddenly stopped talking at this point.
A look of disbelief and regret slowly crept into his eyes.
He made a fatal mistake of preconceived notions!
Because he had seen how slow Gou Fugui was when he activated the sloth bloodline bonus, he subconsciously assumed that sloth Fugui's blood also had such a "slow" effect.
But the sloth Fugui's blood is fundamentally blood with "extremely strong life energy".
Invasive microorganisms have high energy requirements for life. The more energy a liquid contains, the more active it is, allowing them to enter a period of high activity and accelerate their growth, division, and invasion.
Therefore, the "slow reaction" caused by the sloth's blood coming into contact with the invading microorganism is the most unique among all the experimental drug samples—because any other high-energy liquid, including water, would only give the invading microorganism the power to become active.
Considering that the sloth Fugui was able to remain conscious in the fog from the very beginning, even though the density of invasive microorganisms spreading into the fog was not high at that time, his ability to remain absolutely conscious already explains everything.
"Hurry! Quickly become Sloth Fugui! Hurry! There must be that crucial point in Sloth Fugui's blood that we can't grasp!"
Thinking of this, Si Wuyai became excited and energized. He reached out and patted Gou Fugui wildly, and before Gou Fugui could even speak, he interrupted to flatter him: "Indeed, it is the oldest and most enduring mascot in China! What is a koi fish! Grandpa Turtle is the most powerful!"
Jin Guifugui: "..." Some people are really willing to give up everything for research results.
However, Jin Gui Fugui did not make things difficult for Si Wuya, after all, the research had entered a critical stage.
Moreover, he himself hoped that the people at the research institute could quickly develop a targeted drug; if it dragged on for too long, he couldn't guarantee that he would be able to leave still conscious.
However, is the blood of the sloth Fugui really effective? He had only just thought of it and suddenly asked the question; he had never considered that the blood of the sloth Fugui might have a specific effect.
But now he could try it out. Gou Fugui raised his hand and glanced at his wristwatch, sensing his physical condition. In about two or three minutes, he would enter another uncontrollable time point.
The reason he has not removed the Golden Turtle Wealth bloodline bonus is precisely because of this. He feels that the Golden Turtle Wealth bloodline is enhancing his own life force and strengthening the cells in his body to resist invading microorganisms.
So he didn't activate the Sloth Rich's bonus, but perhaps now he can test whether the Sloth Rich's blood really has that special power.
Gou Fugui checked his watch and timed it precisely. At one minute and fifty-nine seconds, he switched to the Sloth Fugui bloodline boost.
His left wrist was slightly glowing, and his entire demeanor and temperament had become completely different from those of Jin Guifugui.
Si Wuyai knew what Gou Fugui was going to do when he looked at his watch, and he was also hoping for a miracle.
However, even after Gou Fugui activated the Sloth Rich Bloodline buff for three minutes, he still slowly and uncontrollably showed signs of losing control.
only……
Well, even if it loses control, a humanoid sloth really can't cause much harm to a person.
Si Wuyai watched as the crazed humanoid sloth, Fugui, slowly extended its claws toward him, its expression growing increasingly ferocious and mad.
It's like watching a GIF that's been slowed down four times.
Si Wuyai: "..."
Ah, he should have turned Fugui into sloth Fugui sooner, which would have made things much easier for the thirty special forces soldiers guarding him.
Si Wuyai calmly dodged the slowly reaching claws, and after drawing two tubes of blood from the sloth Fugui, he left with anticipation.
Although the sloth Fugui still couldn't directly suppress the invading microorganisms in his body, his intuition told him that this must be the missing key point!
Only after Si Wuyai ran away did the sloth Fugui's paws reach the spot where Si Wuyai had just been squatting, and only then did he slowly finish uttering three words.
"You...are...looking for...death..."
Unfortunately, the person who was courting death had already escaped.
The thirty special forces soldiers on high alert nearby: "...?!"
What happened? How did the researcher come over, say a few words to this world's hero, and draw two vials of blood, and the hero turned into this?
This leisurely pace makes it really hard for them to be on guard.
"He's getting ready to get up!... But how long do you think it will take him?"
"Hmm, at this speed, it should take about three minutes, right?"
"How do we control him then?"
"...Just push him down after he gets up. Repeatedly getting up and standing up like this should keep him going until he regains his senses?"
Dozens of special forces soldiers looked at their captain, who had made the suggestion, and subtle expressions appeared in their eyes at the same time.
As expected, their captain is the most cunning and knows how to strike with precision!
Fugui the Sloth Going Crazy: "..." I'm so lazy I could die of anger!
At this moment, Si Wuyai had already run to the research lab with the two vials of blood.
Seeing his anxious look, Old Li wanted to remind him, but then they heard Si Wuyai say:
"Try these two types of blood and the original solutions and the microorganisms themselves! Observe carefully and you will find something!"
The expressions on Li Lao's face immediately changed. No one said another word. They quickly divided into six research groups and began conducting experiments with six samples of blood.
Based on his intuition, Si Wuyai dripped his blood into the undiluted solution and then began to observe and analyze the changes in the solution and decipher its molecular structure.
His heart was pounding wildly, just like when he was searching for the invasive microorganisms that were hiding in disguise.
Time passed second by second, but his aura and eyes remained unchanged. Then, when that slow but clear change appeared, joy finally appeared in Si Wuyai's eyes.
How wonderful.
All pretense and falsehood will be clearly revealed when the screen is played at a much slower speed.
It's like a magic trick on stage that seems flawless.
This cunning enemy is not invincible; it's just that its final changes are too rapid to detect.
Si Wuyai finally took a deep breath and spoke in a hoarse voice that even he himself didn't realize: "I've found the key point."
"The protocells that nurture these microorganisms undergo a second structural change when they are dying, which is why we have been unable to completely kill them."
The entire research team fell silent for a moment, then finally broke into relieved smiles.
Such a wondrous species has never existed on Earth before, and their minds cannot fathom this place in such a short time.
But, by divine intervention, they eventually found the right path amidst countless wrong turns.
"I told you so! You're really lucky, kid!!"
Perhaps they will discover this after countless failed attempts, but by then it may be too late.
Just like this silent, misty apocalypse.
* * *
On the 99th day of the global fog, Washington State pioneered the development of a "sunshine agent" that can effectively resist and kill invasive microorganisms.
Patients in Washington who were "poisoned" and "went crazy" due to the fog received effective treatment.
On the 106th day of the global fog, Washington State provided support to the three origin sites most severely affected by the fog and successfully located three more extraterrestrial meteorites. These three "microbial raw material soft stones" formed from extraterrestrial meteorites were quickly transported to Washington State and used to create "sunshine spray" using a poison-to-fight-poison approach.
On the 124th day of the global fog, "Sunshine Spray" was sprayed by drones over the three origin sites. Twenty days later, scientists developed "Sunshine Spray No. 2," which did not require a microbial pretreatment solution. "Operation Sunshine," lasting a full month, sprayed this agent, which could kill and inhibit invasive microorganisms, all over the world.
When the last uninhabited area was also "sprayed with sunlight," the brilliant sunlight, which had been obscured from the world for so long, finally broke through the layers of mist and reappeared in the sky.
"Mom!! Mom, look! The fog has lifted, and the sun is out! The sun is out!"
The child who was peering out the window cried out in surprise. The young parents rushed to the window with their child's shouts, and then everyone who looked up at the sky saw the beautiful sight of the fog being dispelled by the sunlight, reflecting a huge rainbow.
"Mom! The sunshine is so beautiful!"
The young mother rubbed her child's head, looking at the increasingly glaring sunlight outside the window, her eyes reddening from the glare.
"Um."
People have never felt that the sun is so beautiful.
While they haven't lost it.
* * *
"Chief, we still haven't been able to find any trace of those four people."
The chief looked at the bright sunshine outside the window, then slowly smiled and waved his hand: "No need to investigate."
That brilliant sunshine is their greatest medal.
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