Blue Star

"Thank you." Elder took the Perlman's patient examination report in her hand, and flipped through it while walking: "Why doesn't this child's body respond to the medicine?"

Lorraine glanced at the name registered on the report, and explained: "The child's mother is unwilling to let the child receive treatment, worrying that our equipment and medicines will have side effects. When we found out, the child's illness has already entered an advanced stage. Even using instruments and large doses of medicine is useless."

Worried that Elder would blame himself, he said: "After all, our treatment philosophy is voluntary. If the family members are unwilling to cooperate, we can't force it."

Elder frowned, "Has the child tried the high-frequency magnetic therapy device?"

"No."

"Take me to see."

"Elder." Lorraine walked up to Elder and persuaded: "As a member of the team, I agree that you want to treat everyone in the base. But as a friend, I hope you don't go.

The child's condition was dire and death was only a matter of hours.You go now and tell the mother of the child that there is something to try and they will expect from you.We all know that the success rate of the cure is less than 5.00%. Once it fails, they will attribute their resentment to you. "

Elder returned the report to Lorraine, shook his head and said with a smile: "The reason we brought these people to the base is to do our best to rescue them. Otherwise, what is the difference from the people in Dawn City."

Lorraine took off the protective mask, and said helplessly: "I knew you would say that. Forget it, who told me to be your friend. Let me put my ugly words first, if the mother of the child hates you in the end, Zach and I will not Say good things for you again."

Elder smiled nicely, "Yeah, what would I do without you and Zack."

Lorraine took back the report in his hand and reminded: "You should think about how to appease Zach later. He has a bad temper and has devoted almost everything to research. I heard that he left his father to him. The island was sold. Now that we know that the project will be abandoned, it is possible that the laboratory may not be dismantled in a fit of anger.”

Elder laughed heartlessly, "He won't."

"That's hard to say." Lorraine said unceremoniously: "Every time the two of you discuss the experiment, you quarrel. We who are on the sidelines dare not persuade you with that attitude."

The sky was getting dark, and the tents in the base were lit with electric lights.Through the light, the figures of people sitting or lying are reflected on the thick tent fabric.

Some gathered people to discuss the future, some hugged their loved ones and cried, depression, pessimism, despair, suffocatingly enveloped every living person.

Elder shuttled between the tents, took a deep breath, and finally stopped in front of a tent far away from the crowd, reached out and rang the bell hanging outside the tent.

The tents were not lit, but people could be felt inside.

He waited for a while, and when he got no response, he reached out and rang the bell again.

At last there was movement in the tent, but very slowly.After a long time, the sound of the zipper came from the door curtain, but the strength was not enough, the zipper only opened a hole for ventilation and stopped.

Elder frowned, and quickly squatted down to help open the curtain.

A child covered in gauze fell limply out of the tent, the gauze was covered with unbearable blood, and the bare feet were covered with horrible blood blisters.

The child's voice was very hoarse, and he had exhausted all his strength just to speak.

"Save... me, it hurts..."

"Lorraine, get a stretcher," Elder said.

"Okay." Lorraine put on her mask again and turned on the ventilator.

Elder laid the child's body flat, glanced sideways at the patient information registered on the tent to confirm.Lying next to the child's moisture-proof mat, an adult woman has died, died of drug suicide, and the time of death was probably within two hours.

The child, who was blinded by complications, appeared unaware that his mother had died.

Lorraine quickly found a stretcher.

Elder picked up the child, put the child on the stretcher as gently as possible, and carried the patient back to the laboratory as quickly as possible.

"Agacia, eight years old. He was admitted to the hospital with his mother when he was five years old. But it was not until the end of last year that the child's mother agreed to let Xia receive treatment. It is a pity that the treatment was too late. At that time, Perlman's disease was already in an advanced stage. The instruments and medicines have no effect on the child, and all the organs in the body have basically failed." Lorraine stood among the researchers and described Agacia's condition.

Elder put on medical gloves, slowly unwrapped the heavy gauze wrapped around Agacia, and exposed his symptoms one by one to the light.

As Lorraine described, the child's life was nearing its end, and it was too late to do anything now.Except that the whole body can still be seen as a person, the skin and organs on the body are not intact.

"I'm sorry..." Elder blamed himself.

He thought he had overestimated himself. The child's condition, the possibility of being treated might not even reach [-]%.

Agathia weakly reached out and grabbed Elder's research clothes, his fingers trembling slightly.

The pain of the disease was about to make him lose the will to live.He moved his lips with difficulty, and said to Elder: "Dad...come to take Sia away...but Mom, it will be sad, Sia...can't, go with Dad..."

Elder held the severely festered hand, lowered his head, unable to speak for a long time.

The door of the laboratory was opened, and Zach, who heard the news, hurriedly put on his clothes and gloves, put on a mask, and squeezed into the observation room where Elder was from between the researchers.

He handed another mask to Elder and advised, "Put it on, it will be infected."

Elder shook his head, put the child's hand into the reclining chair of the instrument, held the mechanical cover with one hand and said: "This child is not infected by mutated creatures, and Perlman will not be infected."

"I know, but just in case." Seeing that the person didn't answer, Zach had no choice but to put the mask on the experimental table aside.

Elder covered the magnetic therapy device amidst the child's pleas, then closed the door of the observation room, and started the device with a heavy heart.

He stood by the experimental table and carefully adjusted the dissolving agent, and then poured the dissolving agent into four machines equipped with crystal ore.

Zach felt that Elder was wasting time by doing this, so he stretched out his hand to stop him: "Don't do these useless efforts, this kid won't survive. Give him to me, and I can infect him with the purified salamander infected body. You know , my reagent has self-healing ability, even if he becomes a mermaid, he still has a chance to change back to human form."

Elder disagreed, "Your infected body will completely turn this child into a monster, and we have never tested it on any living people."

"He is dying! Death is doomed for him. Do you think your magnetic therapy device can save him? If it can be cured, we will not stay in this ghost place and be abandoned by the people of Dawn City! "

Zach turned around angrily, kicked his foot against the wall as if venting his anger and said, "I listen to you, I haven't done infection tests on any living people or patients. But now this child is dying, why are you still worried about it?" What? If you want to make breakthroughs in research, sacrifices are inevitable."

"Zack!" Elder sternly stopped, "We agreed not to experiment with living people. Even if this child is dying, he is still a living human being."

"How can you succeed without doing experiments? I've had enough of facing those damn rats every day!" Zach was so emotional that he wanted to open the mechanical valve of the magnetic therapy device.

Elder didn't have time to stop it. The moment the magnetic therapy device was turned on, Agathia who was being irradiated suddenly suffocated.Because of the decline of the body, the child did not have the so-called golden rescue time, but lost all vital signs in just a few seconds.

Zach tugged on the edge of the instrument and said in disappointment: "I bet everything on this research, including my life. Elder, I really don't know what else is left after we are 'buried alive' Reasons to keep living. We can give everything for these patients, why can't they give us even a little bit?"

Elder looked at the dead child sadly, and punched Zach uncharacteristically.Even if he knew, even if Zach didn't stop him, the chance of the child surviving was almost zero.

"You know what you're talking about? What you want in return is to treat humans as your rats! Zach, in your eyes, are humans human or animals?"

The radiation from the instrument stopped, and Lorraine hurriedly entered the observation room and stood between the two of them. She stretched her arms and said unhappily, "Is there anything I can't say properly? Why do we have to choose the time when the experiment is in progress every time we quarrel? We don't have much time left, and you still have to waste your precious time arguing! Zach, you go out first, when will you calm down and when will you discuss the matter of the infected body."

Zach licked the inner wall of his mouth, and the left side of his cheek that was hit by Elder was hot and painful.He took off his research coat and wrapped the dead child, hugged him horizontally and said to Elder, "I won't listen to you anymore Elder, you will only lead us to perdition."

The mechanical door of the laboratory opened and closed, and Zach left disappointed with the child in his arms.

Elder put down the crystal ore dissolver he was holding tightly, and asked wearily: "How much time do we have left?"

Lorraine sighed, "According to the agreement, we have exceeded the grace time given by Dawn City too much. If tonight's cell magnetization is unsuccessful, we..."

"How much time is left?" Elder asked again.

"Six hours." Lorraine said.

The other researchers standing behind Rosalinne were in an uproar, and there were only six hours left before their extinction.Six hours later, all of them will be in vain, and none of them will even remember their efforts.

Elder glanced at the frequency test report of the magnetic therapy device in his hand, and said after a while of silence: "Lorraine, help me write a report that the cell magnetization test has been successful, and send it to Dawn City. Just say, someone has succeeded Yes, but a three-month observation period is required."

On the laboratory table, he opened the injection boxes marked with danger symbols, took out one of them and pulled off the needle cover.Without anyone noticing, the medicine was injected into the blood vessel of the arm.

Lorraine exclaimed, opened the empty needle in Elder's hand and cursed loudly: "You said that you can't use living people for experiments, what are you doing now!?"

She pulled Elder's injected wrist, trembling as she watched the blood vessels swell and bulge and then change color.

"Do you know the consequences of doing this? You test yourself... Do you know that you are our last hope except Dawn City, but you actually use yourself as a test! You are crazier than Zack, you There is no right to talk about him!"

Lorraine tied Elder's elbow with a leather tube, trying to prevent the diseased cells from flowing to other organs of the body.It's a pity that it's still slow. It only takes 20 to 30 seconds for the blood to circulate in the human body once, and the swollen blood vessels quickly spread from the arms to Elder's neck.

Lorraine couldn't control her emotions in the end, her eyes were red, she took the needle tube from the injection box in a collapse, and stuck it into her arm forcefully.

Elder pulled out Lorraine's injection in a hurry, and said sharply: "What are you crazy about! If you want to do a live experiment, I can do it by myself. What are you doing?!"

Lorraine leaned hard on the glass of the observation room while leaning on her arms. She smiled and asked, "You can, why can't I? I have the same research rights as you. Elder, look at what's going on in this laboratory. who didn't give up everything for the research results?"

The researchers outside the observation room were silent. Facing the last hope in despair, they opened the injection that they had never dared to try after a long time.

Another female researcher in the lead took a deep breath and injected a needle into her own arm, and said firmly, "I can do it too."

Elder looked flustered, "No, the injection is not stable yet, you can't do this! At least until..."

"Wait until six hours? Wait until the people in Dawn City give us the death penalty?" Another researcher who injected himself with the drug said.

In the laboratory, there are a total of 32 researchers including Elder.They were on the verge of collapse in failure and despair again and again, and the injection was the last trump card of the research results.

Lorraine closed her eyes and raised her head and said, "Elder, you don't have to blame yourself. I voluntarily contribute to the future of mankind, even at the cost of my life."

With tears falling, she numbly spoke of the oath she made when she entered the group.dawn.cherry

"I volunteer...to contribute to the future of humanity, even at the cost of my life."

The leading female researcher approached Elder, and she put her hand with human warmth on Elder's shoulder.It is trust and the delivery of life.

With their palms folded, the researchers said in unison a heavy oath, dedicating the last of their lives to future human beings.

"Revere life."

"Fear humanity."

Elder: "Guard the future."

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Yu Ling:

There is a paragraph that is not suitable to be placed in the main text, and it feels cumbersome, so I will briefly describe it and put it in the words.

Agacia, the child that Zach took away, did not die, but went into a state of shock.Zac injected the purified infected body into him at the end of his life, but the infected body was not mature enough, and several lesions occurred in the middle, which made the appearance of Agacia look more like a monster.Of course, it is undeniable that Agacia is the original ancestor of the mermaid family.However, the original mermaid form is not the same as the current Iris, there is no blue light spot, and the fish tail is also dull silver gray, although the blood is dark blue.Later, with the evolution of the reproduction gene, it slowly became the appearance of Iris' generation.

However, more than one fish went to the sea in the end. After Agathia was infected, he went crazy and infected other people, and most of them became mermaids.So Zach regretted giving the mermaid to Elder for release.