Blue Star

"Go to the isolation room and wait. I didn't say that you can't come out." Gu Li pushed and pushed Iris, who had turned back into a human form, back into the isolation room.

Although for Iris, this blocking glass can't play a big role, but if it really mutates due to infection, it can at least buffer it.

In addition to Iris' blood, some samples were also collected when processing the salamander corpses in the port. Unfortunately, the observation equipment in his laboratory was old and not as fast and convenient as Daoporin. A 5-minute inspection often takes more than half an hour.

Sitting tiredly in front of the experimental table, he adjusted the lighting crystal mine on the retractable shelf, and used a test tube to extract Iris' blood and drip it on the glass slide.Through the eyepiece, active cells and infected bodies in the blue blood can be seen.

The old equipment can't see very clearly. If it wasn't because I saw it once at Dauporing's place before, I'm afraid it would take a long time to observe these cells to distinguish them.

As seen before, the cells of Iris still fused with the infected body and separated from time to time, and did not cause a new round of infection because of eating the salamander.

He switched to another slide, this time with a blood sample taken from a carcass salamander.To his amazement, the cells in the salamanders were completely different from the creatures he had seen before.

There is no known infectious body in their blood, but there is another even more terrifying fission virus.Judging from the appearance of the cells, they are generally close relatives to the infected body.

What is certain is that if normal humans were to eat these salamanders, the chances of getting infected would be faster than they are currently encountering!

Generally, it takes about one to three months for an infected person to completely transform from a human into a monster.In the salamander body, it only takes a week or less.

Gu Li leaned tiredly on the back of the wooden chair, closed his eyes and raised his head, full of thoughts.

The older brother took the sample earlier than him, and Dao Porling's observation speed was faster than him, so I'm afraid he already knows it by now.Perhaps by tomorrow morning, someone would call him to hold a meeting of elders to discuss the infection mutation.

A palm was placed on the glass of the observation room, and Iris looked at Gu Li and pointed to his half-open mouth.After returning from the port until now, he must be very hungry.

Gu Li frowned, sat up straight and took three slides again.He dripped his own blood on two of the slides, adding Iris' blood to one and the mutated salamander's to the other.

It's a pity that the result was not good, his cells were quickly swallowed by these two kinds of blood.The infected body in Iris' blood was as observed in the past, and there was no new change in the speed and time of being swallowed.

It can be seen that Iris is really just a conscious infected person.Not only can it not cure other infected people, it can even become a source of infection after biting or scratching humans.

He should really be thankful that he wasn't injured during the Baimuchuan trip, otherwise, even if he survived, he would have to wait for death.

On another slide, it took almost two minutes for his cells to be completely engulfed when exposed to salamander blood.Strangely, after the salamander's cells devoured his blood, they turned into the most common infected body, which is the infected body that humans are now facing.

This is definitely the biggest breakthrough in the past 200 years!Is the salamander the so-called source of infection?In the beginning of human beings, was a large-scale infection started by being bitten by wild salamanders?

He rearranged the slides to add Iris' blood to the salamander's blood.Miraculously, Iris' cells were not affected in any way.The cells of the two sides will take care of each other at the moment of contact, and will not engulf each other or carry out the so-called fusion.

He once conducted an experiment in which the blood of an infected person was injected into the body of another infected person.These cells not only infect each other, but can even cause secondary mutations in infected persons.

He turned his eyes to Iris in the observation room in surprise.In other words, if the mermaid's thinking can be educated to be that of a human being, then Iris can come and go in the wild at will, and find many places that humans can't reach!

Even if it is bitten, it will not be infected, and its combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated.

Gu Li was a little excited, and stepped forward to open the locked door of the observation room, "If you are brought along during the archaeology, it will not be difficult to find clues!"

Iris obviously didn't understand what he was saying, but he was happy to see him smile.

"Gu Li, I'm hungry."

"I'll get you something to eat."

Gu Li took off his coat and rolled up his sleeves and walked into the kitchen. There should be some unfinished bread and corn in the cabinet a few days ago.It's a pity that the storage place is not good, and it has been raining for the past two days, so most of them are moldy.

"It's a pity." I knew that I should have taken it with me when I left.

He took out all the things piled up in the cabinet, and usually fired less, and many things were stuffed indiscriminately by him. "I don't know if half of the noodles from last week are still there."

Iris stood aside and watched curiously as various utensils were turned out. He picked up a bottle of vinegar and didn't know what it was. He turned his right eye to the mouth of the bottle and looked upside down.Who would have thought that the bottle of vinegar was not covered properly, and most of it was poured on the face.

"Gu Li..."

Gu Li leaned half of his body into the cabinet, and hurried out with half a bag of noodles, and immediately smelled a strong smell of vinegar.

He thought it was funny, he had heard that sea fish sashimi was dipped in soy sauce, and it was the first time that mermaid meat was dipped in vinegar.

"It's not to tell you not to move around." After reprimanding, he got up and pulled Iris's skirt, and pressed the fish head into the pool to help rinse his eyes.

The thirsty Iris drank two sips of fresh water by the way, and his face was full of disgust after tasting the sour taste.

"Okay, go to the bathroom to dry yourself, and come in after I finish cooking the noodles." Afraid that Iris would not understand, he also pointed to the direction of the towel hanging in the bathroom.

After being "raided" by the kitchen, Iris looked much more well-behaved. After cleaning his face, he sat quietly at the dining table in the living room, keeping his eyes on Gu Li who was busy in the kitchen.

There are no extra ingredients at home, so adding tomatoes and potatoes to the noodles is complete.Fearing that Iris would not be used to human food, Gu Li deliberately added a few spoonfuls of sea salt to the noodle soup. Iris's bowl was especially salty.

He put the hot noodle bowl on the dining table, and handed the chopsticks and spoon to Iris.He thought, to teach Iris the way of life of humans, it is better to start with eating.

"You can't use your hands directly, you have to be like me."

He first showed how to hold the chopsticks, then picked up a part of the noodles with the chopsticks, blew them in mid-air for a while, and then put them into his mouth.After chewing the noodles in his mouth, he picked up a spoon and filled some, and then drank it slowly after blowing for a while.

Iris learned everything, but the standard gesture of holding chopsticks could not easily pick up the noodles.After a few failed attempts, he simply placed it on the side of the bowl like a lever, lifting most of the noodles in the bowl.

"That's not the case." Gu Li picked up a chopstick from Iris's bowl with his own chopsticks, and demonstrated at a close distance: "Don't squeeze it too tightly, or the chopsticks will break."

Iris looked up at him, not sure if he understood. Seeing him helping to hold it, he moved his head and opened his mouth to bite the noodles on the chopsticks.However, the mermaid's teeth were too sharp, and even the noodles and chopsticks went into the mouth with this bite.

Looking at the chopped chopsticks in his hand, Gu Li hurriedly pinched Iris' cheek, frowned and said, "Spit it out! Who told you to eat the chopsticks too!"

He is obviously a fish that can learn everything quickly, and he can get a general idea of ​​even a human language he doesn't understand in a day. How can it be so difficult to learn how to eat?

Iris spat out the noodles and chopsticks in his mouth, but it didn't look like it was because of his order, but that the food in his mouth was unpalatable.

It is indeed a bit far-fetched to let carnivorous mermaids eat vegetarian food, but Iris must learn to accept human food.In the process of helping them expand their periphery, no one can see his strangeness.

Gu Li withdrew his hand, and said as if teaching a picky eater: "Food is a very precious thing in our town, and many people living at the bottom cannot eat it."

He served some with the spoon in the Iris noodle bowl, "You can start with the soup first, I added a lot of sea salt, which is the saltiness you can accept."

Iris stepped back with the stool, looking at the noodle soup in front of him like looking at squid ink.

Gu Li admits that his cooking skills are indeed not very good, but it is not enough to be despised as he is now.It was already two o'clock in the middle of the night, and Ke Erqi's big canteen was still closed, so I wouldn't go back to the port and let Iris hunt by himself.

Iris turned his head and looked at the living creatures in the laboratory fish tank.Then he turned his head to look at Gu Li, as if asking for advice.

Gu Li sighed helplessly, put down the spoon and said, "Go."

After getting the consent, Iris hurried into the laboratory to get the shellfish, grabbed the meat in the shell with sharp fingertips, picked it up easily, and stuffed it into his mouth to chew. His behavior was like a beast with two more nimble hands.

In the early morning of the second day, as expected by Gu Li, a meeting of elders was held.In order to prevent Iris from being discovered at home, he took the mermaid to the port early in the morning for stocking.

With the experience of the previous two times, Iris didn't stand around waiting for him this time.When they reached the beach, they jumped, and obediently dived into the bottom of the sea to hide.

He gave the nautical pocket watch to Iris, and pointed out that the hour hand would come to look for it when it reached a fixed point, but he didn't know if the fish could see it clearly.

"Cub salamander? How is that possible!" Before the door was opened, the elders were heard talking.

Gu Li went in with the observation notes from last night, and saw Dao Porling sitting near the end, blowing his beard and saying, "How is that impossible! I have seen so many biological cells, can it be a cub or not? not come out?"

Gu Li handed the notes to Gu An, the leader, and said, "I also think those salamanders are young. The skin is immature and the bones are deformed. If I guess correctly, it is likely to be a physique that has grown rapidly in a short period of time."

Seeing that someone agreed with the point of view, Dao Porling hurriedly answered: "Look, someone finally said something human."

The elder who spoke first was immediately annoyed, "You mean we are not human?"

Dao Porling crossed his arms, "I didn't say that."

Gu Yu flipped through his notes and looked up at his younger brother at the end of the long table, "It seems that you already know that salamanders may be the source of infection."

Gu Li continued: "I suspect that these salamanders are suddenly mutated due to the stimulation of magnetic field fluctuations. Not only salamanders, but also many wild species that we have not found. When the crystal mine stopped working last night, I saw it with my own eyes. A mutated bat about 50 meters in length flew over the town."

"A 50-meter bat?" The elders' faces turned ugly. "This size is even more incredible than a human-mutated monster. How can it grow so big!"

Dao Porling was also stunned when he heard that, "You mean, the magnetic field crystal ore we use to resist monsters is probably the essence of causing monsters to mutate and form the source of infection?"

He hurriedly waved his hand in denial: "No, no. If this is the case, then humans should be the first to be affected. But humans must be infected by organisms to mutate, and it has nothing to do with the magnetic field."

"I do have such a guess." Gu Li said: "When I was doing an experiment last night, I ran a magnetic field on the cells of the salamander. I found that these fission viruses, which look like infected bodies, fission within 1 minute of the fluctuation of the magnetic field. The speed is at least two hundred times faster.

Also, I found burns from the explosion on the bat.Perhaps it wasn't lightning that caused the crystal ore's magnetic field to lose control, but something else. "

It's a pity that the sky was too dark at that time, and the sound came from all directions, so he couldn't determine the direction of the explosion.

"I want to take this opportunity of archaeology to go to the jungle." Gu Li said.

"No, no!" Dao Porling hurriedly got up and stopped him: "What nonsense are you talking about, kid, let alone going to the jungle, even leaving the deserted Seventh City, no one has been able to do so far!"

Gu Li looked at the elder brother who was the leader, "Patriarch, if no one goes out to explore, it will never be possible to change the status quo. For so many years, the archaeological army has brought back clues that are not helpful. Do we have to live in these fairy tales all the time? "

Gu Yu was silent, and it took a long time before he said: "The matter in the jungle is suspended, this rain is not stopping, and no one can leave the town."