Chapter 7 The intoxication of ether and the unpleasantness of n-isobutane(1/2)
Looking at the long insects in the rosin, Xiao Chen couldn't help but squint his eyes slightly:
"It does seem to be Man's schizolide... This is strange. This parasite should not have the ability to create zombies... and this insect is generally transmitted through food... It is basically impossible to create a large-scale zombie army... Even if the eggs in other pineapple stones are added, there are only a few thousand zombies that can be created in the end..."
Without waiting for Xiao Chen to say something to himself, I took the red pineapple stone in Xiao Chen's hand and said:
"Okay, Xiao Chen, as agreed, now you can't touch these stones with insect eggs sealed."
"Ha, are you afraid I will take one secretly?" Xiao Chen smiled disdainfully, letting me take away the red pine resin block in his hand, and an indifferent smile appeared on his face.
I looked at Xiao Chen carefully, and then carefully counted the number of pebbles in the stone bowl. In addition, the largest piece of pebbles I got from Xiao Chen, was 374 in total. I carefully put the stones in the stone bowl into the bag I prepared in advance, and then carefully checked the ground of the cave, which was to prevent Xiao Chen from stealing a stone from the stone bowl and throwing it on the ground and then returning to take it away.
After confirming that there were no pebbles falling on the grotto ground, I looked at Xiao Chen again. Xiao Chen obediently raised his hands. I fumbled Xiao Chen once and touched Xiao Chen's flashlight, clothes, pants, shoes and socks. After confirming that Xiao Chen did not hide the stones on his body, he nodded to Xiao Chen, looked at him with caution, and said:
"Okay, it seems that you don't have pebbles hidden on you, let's go back."
Xiao Chen waved his hand, shrugged his shoulders, showing a natural expression.
After that, Xiao Chen and I left the empty grotto. Before leaving the well, I checked Xiao Chen's body and the dry land at the bottom of the well again, and confirmed that he did not secretly hide the pineapple stones and did not throw the pineapple stones at the bottom of the well before finally reassured. After leaving the well, Cao Hongli was still worried. She checked Xiao Chen's body again, and then we took the car back to Xiao Chen's laboratory.
The reason I returned to Xiao Chen's laboratory is that there is a biological microscope in Xiao Chen's laboratory to facilitate observation of insect bodies in rosinite.
Everyone was really interested in finding the relics left by grandpa, including Tong Xinyi, who was anxious to see them, but for safety reasons, I asked Xiao Chen to take a fully sealed glass cover to cover the pine stone.
Cao Hongli thought very thoughtfully. In order to prevent Xiao Chen from secretly removing cell debris from the insect body, all the processes of observing the insect body and performing chemical analysis on the insect body were personally responsible for, while Brother Tong and Han Shaofeng were staring at Xiao Chen. Xiao Chen could only explain the use of the equipment next to him. In addition, he could do nothing except observe the insect body with a biological microscope.
In order to prevent Xiao Chen from stealing the insect body that may bring disaster to all mankind, the six of us surveillance of Xiao Chen is in all directions. We see Xiao Chen's every move. From obtaining pineapple to using heating to soaking pineapple softly and taking out the worm eggs, Xiao Chen has no chance to steal the insect body and worm eggs, even a single cell has no chance.
When dissecting rosinite, I wore plastic gloves and masks, and I operated on the insect body by inserting a slice knife into the gap in the glass cover.
The glass cover with the insect body is double-layered, with a distilled water layer between the outer layer and the inner layer and about five centimeters away. My cutter must pass through the water layer to cut and observe the insect body in the glass cover, which completely avoids the possibility that the cells with the insect body will be attached to the blade and be brought out.
"I'm really careful. Even the sterile isolation of AIDS patients has not achieved this. Haha. You are really suspicious." Xiao Chen looked at Jiang Xueqing and me in a sarcastic manner, sneering.
Jiang Xueqing was silent and carefully wiped the surface of the glass box with wet wipes to avoid any dirt on the glass box.
"Shut up, who told you that you are so pretentious with dark circles? You are not happy, right? I will fight you again?" Brother Tong winked at Xiao Chen fiercely.
After heating in the glass box, the rosinite gradually softened and turned into a viscous liquid. I tried hard to cut a small film of the rosinite eggs sealed with a cutter, put it on a biological microscope in the glass box, and then observed the cells of the rosinite eggs through the glass box.
I am not good at operating microscopes. Teacher Cao Hongli is also a political teacher. I am not very familiar with it. Among us, Jiang Xueqing has the best grades. Of course, it was her turn to observe first. Although Jiang Xueqing was disgusted with the parasites, she still barely stepped up. Jiang Xueqing narrowed her beautiful eyes. After staring at the eyepiece of the biological microscope for a while, she couldn't help but frown and said:
"It's so disgusting. The cells of this worm... seem to be dead."
"Is that right?" I also looked forward curiously and stared at the eyepiece. I saw that in my field of vision, there were some small white dots like corn kernels. Obviously, these were parasite cells, but these cells were dry and motionless, and they seemed either dehydrated or dead.
The others could not bear the curiosity and observed it one after another, but the result of everyone was the same, that is, the eggs in the pineal stone were already dead.
"It's dead, and it seems that it's been dead for many years. The cells have no choice of permeability and are completely dead." Xiao Chen made the final summary, which disappointed all of us.
After that, I untied five stones, including the one that sealed the largest parasite mother, but the results were the same, that is, the cells of the parasite inside had completely died and there was absolutely no possibility of resurrection.
Such a result inevitably disappoints us. We have spent nearly a day of energy, but we have lost all our money. This result is even more helpless than being parasitic by parasites.
But as a result, there is nothing to do.
"Forget it, just die if you die... It seems that my grandfather's book has nothing to do with Miyako. Maybe it's just a coincidence, we've all made it wrong." I guessed.
"Well, it seems like this. But I think it's better to be careful. Isn't there a plot of the resurrection of dead cells in the movie? Even if these insects die, they may be resurrected at some point, so we'll keep the cells well." Han Shaofeng suggested, "Are these disgusting insect eggs? Chen Dongqing, please keep them first, please keep them first, please keep them sealed and preserve them. It's better to keep them in a vacuum. This is your grandfather's treasure, haha." As he said that, Han Shaofeng made a gesture and look at me.
I felt a little unhappy, but still did not refuse. Instead, I operated all the stones containing the eggs and parasites in the glass box and put them one by one in another smaller black box. After confirming that there was no section or cells of the parasite in the glass box, I tightly sealed and preserved the black box with all the pine stones and placed them on my body under everyone's gaze.
During the whole process, Xiao Chen had no chance to encounter a black box, a glass box and a microscope.
Xiao Chen squinted his eyes and looked at my actions. He couldn't help but snorted from the tip of his nose, but there was no other move.
Before we knew it, it was dark. After Cao Hongli saw that no one else had received the goods, "Then let it be like this today. No result can be found. Chen Dongqing, Jiang Xueqing, and Han Shaofeng, you all go home."
Xiao Chen looked at me and said:
"You and I have promised that we can't leave for twenty-four hours, right? Otherwise, you can't monitor my actions, right?"
I was stunned, and then I found that Xiao Chen's gaze was staring at the black box in my hand, and immediately said vigilantly:
"That guarantee is forgot. You are following me. Could it be that you want to steal the black box in my hand?"
"That won't be, it's just that I don't want to be suspected by you. Since you don't worry, I don't care." Xiao Chen waved his hand and said casually.
I stared at Xiao Chen's eyes again, hoping to see a trace of lies from this guy's eyes, but unfortunately, I didn't see anything. This guy still looked depressed, like a depressed patient.
"Tsk." I spat, and finally followed Teacher Cao Hongli's arrangement and chose to go home.
After everyone agreed to contact each other when something happened, they scattered their own way. Jiang Xueqing took Han Shaofeng's car, while Tong Xinyi and I were riding in Teacher Cao Hongli's car and kept the black box and went home.
The day's treasure hunt trip did not come true. I was still a little disappointed and couldn't help but have some doubts about my grandfather's treasure. Is this treasure really just an ordinary parasite? Or is this treasure still have other mystery?
Although I was full of questions, I really had no interest. The panic in my heart was much stronger than the hyperactivity. It was like a ghost staring at me, and there was always a cloud of darkness in my heart.
Say goodbye to Cao Hongli, after returning home, I immediately hid the black box in my private cabinet and locked it with a key to avoid being stolen. This way I was a little relieved. In fact, I already had the urge to burn the black box with a torch, but I was afraid that the bugs inside would crawl out after the black box burned, so I hesitated and dared not take action.
Because of the fatigue of the day, I fell asleep very early that night. At night, I had a nightmare. I dreamed that the men, women, old people and children in the whole city turned into gray-faced and dull eyes, and only giggled in my throat. I staggered around the city streets and killed people whenever I saw them.
At the middle of the night, I was awakened by a nightmare. After waking up, I slept until noon the next day, and was awakened by the sound of my phone.
I picked up my phone in a daze, but found that it was Jiang Xueqing's phone number. My mind suddenly became clear and pressed the answer button as soon as possible.
"Hey, Jiang Xueqing?"
"Well, Chen Dongqing... have you watched the news on local TV stations? I regret it... Chen Dongqing... We... are afraid that we will cause a big disaster..." Jiang Xueqing's voice over there was very nervous, even a little trembling.
"What's wrong? Wait a minute, I'll watch TV!" Jiang Xueqing's trembling voice aggravated my anxiety. I turned on the TV as soon as possible and pressed it to the local TV station, but the afternoon news above made me feel like I fell into hell.
"...The two hundred passers-by surrounding the municipal government have not left... They disheveled their hair, their faces are gray, and they bite them when they see them, just like zombies in the movie. Now the city military sub-district has urgently sent 300 special police officers to the scene to evacuate the crazy crowd..."
On TV, the broadcaster reported in horror, while on TV screen, there was a scene that was almost exactly the same as in my nightmare last night:
The dense crowd surrounded the city hall. They were disheveled, their clothes were torn, their limbs looked sickly gray, and their eyes were full of blood. Everyone stared at the eyes, their eyes almost protruded from the sockets, their limbs were slender, their hands were dancing wildly. They opened their mouths one by one, their throats squirmed, their faces twisted, their blood-stained teeth, and their mouths made strange sounds that were not human.
Zombies.
Like a zombie in the movie.
When I saw this scene on TV, I felt completely disappointed. I got up and opened my private cabinet at the first time, but found that the black box was still there. I shook the black box and made sure that the pineal stone inside was still there.
Obviously, my black box was not stolen... But what happened to the scene on TV? I took out the book "Zombie World" given to me by Miyako at the first time, but found that a line of numbers appeared in the writing:
0.00002%.
When I saw the numbers on the bookcase, I suddenly understood. At this moment, the only person I could think of was the result that the current result was only one person. I immediately interrupted the call with Jiang Xueqing and then dialed Xiao Chen's mobile phone number.
What surprised me was that it was like I had been waiting for my number for a long time, and the phone was connected as soon as I made a call.
"Did you do it, Xiao Chen, right?" I asked angrily.
"Yes, I did it." Xiao Chen said lightly on the other end of the phone.
I thought I would be so angry that I broke my phone after hearing Xiao Chen's answer, but what surprised me was that I actually calmed down.
"How did you... do it? Impossible. I checked the glass box, microscope and blade, I checked the pineapple. I didn't leave any of the worm eggs, insect bodies and cell slices? I even searched your body... How did you do it... Impossible... Impossible..."
Xiao Chen's calm voice came:
"Because your grandpa, and all of you, have made one mistake."
"What's up?"
"The zombies are not the parasite itself or the cells of the parasite, but the viral body attached to the parasite." Xiao Chen said slowly, "The Man's Schizolis is a parasite infected through the digestive tract through food. It is too large and conspicuous, and it is easy to be discovered and eliminated and eliminated. The transmission route is slow and limited, and the egg laying time is very long. In theory, it is impossible to parasitize the human body and then create zombies on a large scale. This is far from the requirement of Miyako to conquer the world within a month. So I speculate that there may be other infected bodies besides the Man's Schizolis. The infected bodies are very fast and can be instantly transmitted through contact between people. This infected body can only be a virus."
"So I speculated that there was a virus attached to the eggs of the worm schizolis. And the possibility of this is very high." Xiao Chen said slowly.
I said anxiously: "But, I obviously checked it with a microscope yesterday. There were no cells left on the pinealite, and no viruses were found..."
"It's very simple. The diameter of the virus is only one tenth to one percent of the cell, which is several orders of magnitude different. The eyepiece degree of the biological microscope I gave you yesterday has been limited to the cell level by me. Of course, you can't see viruses that are several orders of magnitude smaller than the cell. Yesterday, after you melted the pinealite, there was a pool of pineal liquid in my glass box. After checking, you thought there was not a single cell there, but that was just that you couldn't see it. There was actually a lot of sleeping viruses left there." Xiao Chen's voice was almost a bit proud.
"After that, I used white rats and pet dogs to do experiments, both of which were successful, and I also mastered the methods to manipulate their nerves. Today, it was the turn of living people." Xiao Chen's voice almost brought a hint of madness, reminding me of the crazy scientist in the movie, "Chen Dongqing, I have created a zombie virus, and you can no longer stop me."
"Xiao Chen, you beast!" I roared, "Are you not afraid of retribution when you do such a bad thing? Believe it or not, I will call the police now? Don't think you can escape!"
"Call the police?" Xiao Chen sneered, "If the police really come to you, it's also about you. There are evidences of pineapple and insect bodies around you, right? You love your deceased grandfather so much, how can you be willing to throw them away? As long as the police find the worm body from your pineapple and find the zombie virus, then, you are the one who is unlucky, Chen Dongqing. If you want to call the police, you might as well try it. I can guarantee you that the person the police will come to you will definitely not be me."
Xiao Chen's words seemed to have poured cold water on my head. I didn't expect that Xiao Chen had already calculated this step. If I call the police and make the zombie virus public, I will be the one who will be unlucky at that time. Even if I destroy the pineapple stones around me, the well in my grandfather's house is still there. If there are still zombie viruses in that well, then I will still be unable to escape the blame!
At this point, I found that I had no choice but to deal with Xiao Chen! Because I disclosed the secret of the zombie virus, it was equivalent to admitting that I was the zombie virus maker. I... have been tied to death by Xiao Chen!
I really want to pick up all the pineapple stones in my private cabinet and pour them all into the toilet to flush them out. But if I throw these stones around, what if the zombie virus inside is leaked? Wouldn't that cause more people to be infected? If I burn the pineapple, I can't guarantee that the virus inside will not emerge when the pineapple petrochemical is melted... At this moment, I suddenly found that the pineapple stone in my hand is simply a hot potato to me. It can't be thrown away, and it can't be destroyed. What should I do?
"Xiao Chen, what do you want? Are you crazy?" I said to my phone angrily. "I want you to find a way to stop doing this immediately. I... I am the captain, you have to listen to me, do you know? Otherwise... I will fight you for the best!"
"Try your life? Do you kill yourself?" Xiao Chen laughed, "If you die, it means our team loses. If our team loses, it means the end of the world. Now even if the zombie virus is out of control, it will take up thousands or tens of thousands of lives at most. You are willing to destroy the whole world for tens of thousands of people? Investment returns are really unequal."
I gritted my teeth and said, "I don't care. You can stop it immediately anyway, otherwise don't think I can't think of a way to deal with you... At least, I also have a zombie virus in my hand, and I can kill you too!"
"Is that right?" Unexpectedly, facing my threat, Xiao Chen was still dull. "Sorry, the rest of the team are under the surveillance of the people I sent, including Jiang Xueqing you secretly love, your good teacher Cao Hongli, and your lame father, who have all become hostages to me. If you touch a hair of my hair, I can kill them in minutes or turn them into zombies. Do you think your girlfriend and dad are important, or the lives of the two hundred strangers I control now are important? Now, it's time for you to make a choice. I asked you such multiple-choice questions at the beginning. Otherwise, just like you told me at the time, try to throw a coin?" At the end of the statement, Xiao Chen's tone was almost a hint of irony.
Polling a coin? Determine my dad's life? What a joke?
I held my phone in my hand, but my hands were trembling constantly. This was not because of fear, but because of resentment. Xiao Chen actually dared to use my father and Jiang Xueqing's life as bargaining chips to threaten me, and even used coins to make decisions like a game...
However, there seemed to be a voice in my heart asking myself, if I really want to make a choice, would I really use the lives of my father, Jiang Xueqing and Teacher Cao as the price to save the lives of others?
At this moment, I suddenly realized that I was smart and easily answered Xiao Chen's answer to the coin throwing answer. When it was my turn, it was so difficult... At this moment, I suddenly realized that I was so naive in the past.
"Xiao Chen, don't do this... We are from the same team. I beg you, don't cause trouble anymore. What do you want? Let's discuss it first?" I calmed my heart hard and made my tone appear calm.
"I don't have that much time. Miyako only gives us one month. Since the zombie virus is true, then Miyako's words that would not complete the strategy world mission will be destroyed is naturally not a joke. We don't have so much time to wait." Xiao Chen said bluntly, "I'll give you a piece of advice. Chen Dongqing, if you want to keep the safety of others, don't interfere with any of my actions. After my plan is over, I will naturally guarantee the safety of your family and friends. Otherwise, what I will do is not something I can decide. I once said that I am a pragmatist, and sacrificing billions of people for the sake of people all over the world is no problem for me. Even if I destroy the world and kill all human beings to make a human survive, I will choose the latter without hesitation. This is my creed."
To be continued...