Upon hearing this, Lu Yuan was completely stunned.
He didn't realize that disaster had already struck, but no one was aware of the problem.
Then, Chen Yan looked at Lu Yuan and asked, "What should we do next?"
Lu Yuan frowned, pondered for a moment, and then asked, "How many wells have been discovered underground?"
Hei Zi blurted out, "There are five wells on this private property, but they've all been discovered. The military is checking very strictly now! There's basically no one escaping!"
Chen Yan sensed that Lu Yuan's question had nothing to do with the spores. So she asked softly, "What should we do? What's the point of asking about the well? Should we tell everyone about this?"
Lu Yuan shook his head: "No need! The military must have already discovered the situation of those super giant trees underground, otherwise they wouldn't be so concerned about everyone digging wells for water!"
"Huh? You mean the military has discovered these giant trees? No way! Why haven't they said anything?"
Lu Yuan sighed and shook his head: "I don't know, but what's certain is that the reason they sealed off all the water was to prevent any unforeseen accidents!"
Chen Yan frowned immediately, then exchanged a glance with Hei Zi.
"Lu Yuan, please explain yourself! I'm really worried!"
Lu Yuan sighed again, put down what he was holding, and said, "If I'm not mistaken, the military is worried that the ancient spores in the water might carry viruses. If a virus outbreak occurs, our fragile human immune system will suffer irreversible damage!"
Then, Lu Yuan lifted the curtain and pointed to the army outside: "As you can see, we're trapped here now! Anyone who has collected water will be quarantined! No one can escape! They're worried that an outbreak of the virus will infect the entire city, and then we'll be truly doomed!"
Chen Yan's heart skipped a beat, and she said nervously, "But...but we haven't detected any viruses in our monitoring! Those spore cells are just some things carried by living organisms, very common!"
"Sigh! Can you guarantee that the pathology of viruses from ancient times can be detected using modern medical monitoring?"
"You mean, this virus is likely undetectable by our instruments?"
"Hmm! Very likely! The military might be working on developing something like this right now! By the way, not a single drop of the water we collected last time can be put into our water supply! We'll discuss it again after the test results are in!"
After saying that, Lu Yuan looked at Hei Zi and Chen Yan: "I'll have to trouble you two. You'll probably be busy for a while. Wait for my notification!"
Next, Lu Yuan went to the place where the water had been placed and took it into the dimensional space.
When Lu Yuan saw Qiao Ya again, she was still dealing with endless tasks. He felt that she was always busy every time he came in.
"What's wrong? Have you run into trouble again?"
Qiao Ya heard Lu Yuan's footsteps and asked softly,
"Yes! We've run into a new problem! We can't detect the virus in this stuff with our current capabilities. Could you take a look?"
After saying "Oh," Qiao Ya said, "Let's put it aside! I still have some data that I haven't finished analyzing! I'll help you with that in a bit!"
"Okay! I'll wait here for the results!"
After saying that, Chen Luo found a place to sit down and waited quietly.
Qiao Ya, who was standing to the side, was taken aback when she saw Chen Luo's appearance: "Is it that serious?"
"Yes, it's quite serious. We urgently need these things. Are they contaminated with a virus?"
"Alright! Let me get it checked for you first. Judging from your expression, it seems like you can't wait even fifteen minutes!"
Qiao Ya shook her head helplessly, then got up and went to look at a transparent plastic water bag on the shelf.
"Is there a virus in the water?"
"It's a spore from an ancient organism. We don't know if it contains any viruses, so we'd like you to test it for me!"
"Hmm! That's quite rare. Could it be that this groundwater was extracted from ultra-deep layers, or perhaps it was taken from ancient glaciers?"
"No, to be precise, this water was drawn from a depth of about 100 meters underground!"
"More than a hundred meters?" Qiao Ya looked at Lu Yuan in disbelief. "That's impossible! You know, the Earth's crust has been moving for millions of years. Those ancient waters have long since disappeared! Are you sure you're not mistaken?"
"If that's the case, then that's great! We definitely saw it! Could you please take a look?"
"That sounds serious! Let me take a look!"
Qiao Ya took some water from the water bag and placed it in the observation dish, then pushed the equipment over for testing.
About half an hour later, Qiao Ya came out with the report, looking shocked.
"The results are in! There really is something wrong with the spores in this water!"
Lu Yuan quickly went over: "What's wrong? Did you find anything?"
Qiao Ya pointed to the contents of the report and said, "These spores have been verified to be cells that appeared hundreds of millions of years ago. These spores already existed when new life was just emerging on Earth! The Earth's ecology was extremely harsh back then, and the survival conditions for these spores were very poor. However, after hundreds of generations of evolution, they have become a super organism!"
"These spores are parasitic organisms with a strong ability to survive; they can live almost anywhere. Even underground magma is no problem for them!"
Lu Yuan's heart tightened: "You're kidding, right?! Magma? How could that be! That's tens of thousands of degrees hot, enough to burn anything!"
"What about metal?"
Qiao Ya glanced casually at Lu Yuan: "What if these spores were parasitizing within atoms?"
Lu Yuan felt as if his entire worldview was being turned upside down.
"What?! Spores can parasitize atoms? No way! Atoms are the smallest basic units! How is that possible!?"
Qiao Ya shook her head helplessly: "In this world, anything is possible! Just because you don't know something doesn't mean it doesn't exist!"
"Okay! What does holding it represent?"
Qiao Ya said softly, "I tested the other things in the water and found something new! This thing should be some aerial roots of the super giant tree!"
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