I am in the last days, I can connect to reality

Then, everyone learned the whole story from Hu Meng's narration, and also understood why the streets of other cities were full of zombies, but there were rarely any zombies on the streets of the closed city.

In March 2034, before the disaster day, the local CDC in the closed city reported a case to the Shanghai CDC. This was a special case.

It turned out that in March, when foundation construction was being carried out at a construction site in the closed city, workers accidentally discovered an underground space. Looking through the large hole they had smashed, they found that there was actually a large space underground.

At that time, some workers analyzed that there might be a tomb underneath. Five brave workers went down inside together using ropes. After entering, they found that it was not a tomb at all, but rather looked more like a laboratory.

There are many strange devices in the laboratory, as well as many bottles and jars filled with a blue liquid. When everyone was looking for other objects, someone accidentally broke a small bottle containing blue liquid.

After the blue liquid dripped onto the ground, it turned into gas and evaporated into the air. Everyone was a little frightened, worried about being infected with some unknown virus, so they all climbed to the ground and sealed off the place.

Not long after, the five workers were admitted to the hospital one after another. Their symptoms were surprisingly similar: high fever all over the body, often reaching 42 degrees Celsius. After using various anti-infection and antiviral drugs, they had little effect.

After two days of high fever, the patient developed symptoms such as confusion, mania, extraordinary strength, and drowsiness. After unsuccessful treatment at the local hospital, the patient reported the symptoms to the local CDC, suspecting an unknown viral infection.

The CDC in Fengcheng reported the situation to Shanghai, and Shanghai CDC sent four researchers, including Hu Meng, to Fengcheng to establish this experimental center using the laboratory of the CDC in Fengcheng.

When Hu Meng and others arrived at the Fengcheng Hospital, they found that the five workers had died of illness. Their expressions were hideous after death, and they looked as if they were severely dehydrated and had haggard faces.

Hu Meng and others extracted blood from the dead workers, and in the experimental center established in an emergency, she observed the isolated virus samples under a microscope.

But what puzzled Hu Meng was that she, a medical graduate, was not familiar with this virus.

You have to know that no existing organism is more primitive than another. They are all at the end of the evolutionary tree and belong to the same level. However, the discovered virus exhibits the simple properties of primitive ecology, but its internal structure is much more complex than any existing virus.

In other words, this is a virus that is both ancient and particularly "advanced", and its antiquity seems to be even greater than the origin of life!

Originally, Hu Meng and others wanted to check out the place where the virus was discovered, but the place was under military control and they could not enter, so they had to give up.

Later, relevant national departments even came to the institute and took away all the blood samples. However, Hu Meng and others had anticipated this and made backups in advance so that they could continue with the later research.

After several researchers conducted in-depth research, they expressed their opinions, but it was difficult to reach a consensus as everyone had their own views.

Hu Meng even suspected that this virus did not belong to any type of virus on the blue planet. She named it X virus, which means virus of unknown origin.

As everyone's research deepened, Hu Meng and others discovered how the X virus infects!

This method is as simple and crude as that of a thief, that is, through blood or other infectious means, they break into other people's homes, kill and eat them, and then prolong their own lives.

It can be said that this X virus is an invader in nature!

After discovering this characteristic, Hu Meng and others began to work day and night to develop a vaccine against this X virus.

She "crushed" human cells infected with virus X, filtered out the juice and bacteria, and found that the sterile filtrate was still infectious. There seemed to be an invisible, ultra-microscopic infectious organism in the filtrate.

In simple terms, not only is the X virus difficult to kill using existing methods, but it also seems to be intelligent, knowing how to deform itself, change its appearance, and evade "hunt"!

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During the several months of research, Hu Meng's research team tried many methods to kill the X virus, but all failed.

People even tried to turn the virus into crystals like chemical molecules in an ultra-low temperature environment. However, they were disappointed to find that the crystals were still contagious after they were redissolved.

Just like, virus X, it can survive in ultra-low temperature environment.

After research, although people have gained a certain understanding of this X virus, they have not been able to find a way to kill it. They have only summarized its three key points.

Three key points: First, Virus X is probably not a virus native to the Blue Planet; second, it is not afraid of high temperatures or extreme cold, and currently, it cannot be killed; third, it is both primitive and advanced.

But at the same time, Hu Meng and others also discovered that after the X virus was refined and injected into the experimental animals, the experimental subjects became extremely violent and bloodthirsty, but at the same time became extremely powerful and fearless of death!

Therefore, some researchers suggested that if a drug could be extracted to eliminate the infectivity, then this would be an opportunity for humans to become supermen!

After making this discovery and reporting the research results to the Shanghai Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the center attached great importance to it and required that the experimental data be kept strictly confidential and await further instructions from superiors.

During this process, the time came to July 4, 2034. With the arrival of this day, the virus swept the world, and the lockdown turned into a hell on earth overnight.

In the experimental group that Hu Meng was in, two of the four researchers turned into zombies. Hu Meng and another male researcher Liu Tian, ​​who were still alive, finally escaped from the hotel and took advantage of the chaos on the street to return to the laboratory.

Here, they met some colleagues from the CDC and spent the most difficult month together.

Thanks to the fact that the laboratories often conduct experiments day and night, they store a lot of food and drinks, and even have places to bathe and sleep, which provides these survivors with a basis for survival.

Moreover, because many instruments in the laboratory cannot be powered off, the building where the CDC is located has its own generator, and the stored diesel is enough for them to use for a period of time.

After overcoming the initial panic, some survivors decided to leave the closed city, one to seek help, and the other to survive.

In order to continue their research on the virus, Hu Meng and Liu Tian stayed in the sealed laboratory. Later, in order to study whether those who had turned into zombies were also infected with the X virus, they walked out of the laboratory.

The reason they thought so was that the appearance and symptoms of the corpses after they transformed were very similar to those of the construction workers infected with the X virus.

Hu Meng and Liu Tian used the tools in the laboratory to successfully kill two zombies, obtained the blood from the zombies, and brought it back to the laboratory.

But unfortunately, during this process, Liu Tian was scratched by a zombie. Although he didn't react at the time, he soon turned into a zombie after returning to the laboratory. Hu Meng finally escaped.

After escaping from Liu Tian's pursuit after the zombie transformation, Hu Meng returned to the laboratory again. After experiments, she was surprised to find that the virus that infected humans when they turned into zombies was the X virus they had discovered before.

In other words, it was the sudden outbreak of the X virus that caused the transformation of humans around the world into corpses and the mutation of all animals and plants.