Chapter 365: Necrobacillus necroticum

 In the laboratory

"Dead Spine Lake" was dedicated and soaked in a mild analytical liquid that would not cause any harm to him.

 With Reagan as the leader and Yi Chen as his assistant, they jointly carried out non-stop research on the epidemic.

Even though the lunch boxes delivered outside the laboratory door were piled up on several levels, the two of them did not feel tired at all, and even their hunger was masked by the progressively advancing research results.

Reagan lost weight and became a handsome young man in the process. Any mental or physical exertion will use fat to assist in energy supply.

As for Yi Chen, he has long been accustomed to this feeling of hunger. When he was in the orphanage, it was common to go without food for several days.

 Many friends will go insane due to hunger and suffer from organ disorders.

Perhaps due to genetics, Yi Chen can slowly develop a habit of starving for long periods of time, and his body can adapt to this state of not absorbing external energy since he was a child.

 Two days passed by in a blink of an eye in the busy research.

The two of them still didn't realize the passage of time. They only felt that the research was slowly advancing, the truth about the deadly epidemic was being revealed, and something that could cheer them up was slowly being revealed.

Even the Great Hospital of Hiccopolates only briefly recorded the ‘Death Plague’ and did not carry out detailed research on the disease. The reason is very simple. The real dead people basically did not appear in the past, and it was only recently that they gradually appeared.

If you can write a paper about the epidemic, it will definitely be included in the organization's important library, and you will definitely receive awards.

 However, on the night of the second day,

Sitting at the experimental table, Yi Chen was recording and checking the experimental data with one hand, and simultaneously writing conclusions related to 'infectiousness' with the other hand, when suddenly a strong tinnitus sounded in his ears.

Tick ​​tick~

 A ball of black mucus overflowed from the nasal cavity and landed on the experimental paper he was writing on. It was a kind of blood mixed with brain matter, and it was also stained with Yi Chen's unique "death from previous lives".

 Obviously,

 This is due to fatigue caused by not eating for two days and high-intensity mental work, and even brain damage.

but…

Yi Chen just froze in his position, silently observing the special blood flowing out of his nose.

His thoughts seemed to be drawn to a certain period of time during his lifetime, and some deep memory that was completely blocked was slowly being opened.

 Recalling the real memory fragments before death, pictures flashed back in his mind quickly, and Yi Chen seemed to be bound and fixed in a dark and weird laboratory.

  He did not die because of writing a thesis at all, but was used as someone's "thesis material" and eventually led to death. It was just the modification and concealment of this real memory.

In addition to Yi Chen, there are other living materials in the laboratory, and these 'materials' are not normal humans.

 They all have the same 'death' characteristics as Yi Chen more or less, and would be labeled as 'weird' in society.

 They are all imprisoned here now and used as a special experimental material.

 The skulls have all been uncovered, and each person's brain has been exposed to different lethal environments for a long time, providing relevant experimental data.

 Or breed a parasite between the skulls that can drill holes in the brain, or even lay eggs in the cranial cavities.

 Or the brain can be used as a petri dish, cultivating different types of pathogenic bacteria in the brain sulci.

 Or inject powerful viruses directly into the brain, such as rabies virus, Ebola, etc.

 A certain ‘mentor’ responsible for this project will regularly record the status of each material, and will even provide first aid and replenish nutrient solution to the surviving materials after the experiment.

Just when Yi Chen wanted to see clearly the appearance of the mentor in his memory,

 “William!”

 A strong mental stimulation went straight into his brain, bringing Yi Chen's thoughts back to reality.

　　The divergent pupils gathered again, returning to the laboratory full of lightning and the fog of death plague,

The person standing in front of him was no longer a black shadow, but Reagan, whose cheeks were completely sunken and so thin that he looked like a dead bone. Emotions called anxiety and worry could be seen in his eyes.

At the same time, Yi Chen’s clothes and under the seat were covered with black bodily fluids flowing out of his nose.

“William, let’s put our research aside for a while. Your thoughts just now seemed to be separated from the body, and you even had a strong tendency to die, which scared me to death.

Furthermore, the flagella of all the disease-killing bacteria in the laboratory just now were pointed at you... What's going on? "

Yi Chen replied with a normal face: "Well, I was a little distracted when I recalled things related to death in the past. By the way, how long have we been in the laboratory?"

 “Two days and three hours.”

 “Looks like I really need a break.”

“I have applied to the director for the highest-level nutrition rest cabin. There will be staff to take you there... I can still hold on for a while and finish writing the last thing.

Perhaps you will be able to see the draft you are working on when you wake up. "

"good…"

Yichen also accepted the arrangement, suspended in a cabin filled with nutrient solution, and wore a respirator.

 Before falling asleep, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised.

　　　‘I didn’t expect to have an unexpected harvest. This memory, which is even more secret than the orphanage, has finally been ‘uncovered’. I hope I can see its original appearance as soon as possible.

 Perhaps then we will be able to figure out the source of the black dead liquid in my body and the real cause of death. 』

 …

　　Wow~

When Yi Chen woke up in the cabin, put on his clothes and went out, the manuscript completed by Reagan was slapped directly on his chest.

“Let’s take a look when you have time, it’s a very interesting bacteria... I really can’t hold it anymore, and I’m going to go back and lie down for two days. Remember to come and inform me before taking the First Gentleman’s assessment, it’s best to take me to the scene.

 As for the finished paper, it will take some time to revise it and submit it later. "

 “Thank you for your hard work, Reagan.”

"As long as this thing can possibly help Faye, it doesn't matter how tired it is. Thank you for your help William!"

Farewell to Reagan,

Yichen returned to the previous laboratory and put away the dead spine.

 Sitting alone at the experimental table, he read the epidemic manuscripts that Reagan had compiled and written by himself.

Chapter 1 discusses the nature of the plague bacterium in detail, and also renames this bacterium based on current bacteriology.

Since the paper involves a large number of professional vocabulary and detailed descriptions that are easy for relevant researchers to fully understand, I will not go into details here. The following is a simplified content:

 The essence of the deadly plague is a severe infectious disease caused by "Aerosol bacterium" and has the highest fatality rate currently known. They often appear as gram-negative short-stemmed bacilli. The ends of the bacteria are blunt and densely stained. They are also easily stained by aniline dyes.

 There are specialized flagella (flagellum) with a length ranging from 100 to 150 μm. The different stages of the dead animals may have large differences in the corresponding flagellum structure, number and efficacy.

This specialized flagellum is tube-shaped and can spit out the metabolites (black) inside the bacteria in the form of smoke.

 The flagella of different bacterial cells will actively entangle together and jointly discharge metabolites to achieve group characteristics such as long-term floating movement, arrangement and combination, and even rapid directional transmission.

Therefore, to outsiders, every breath of the deceased exhales black mist, which is actually the entangled colonies of Necrobacillus necroticum.

 Taking into account all currently known communication channels, and also possessing special “visual communication”,

Any kind of Necrobacterium necroticus will have visual effects proteins covering the surface of its cell membrane, so that it can sense ‘observation’ from different directions.

Once the presence of the observer is sensed, the visual effect protein will stimulate the bacteria, allowing it to convey the "death symbol" through various channels*

The    * symbol is often in the shape of a cross, with a short top and a long bottom, with an oval structure connected to the top.

 When an external individual sees the "death symbol" expressed directly or indirectly by B. necroticum, the visual feedback will guide the brain cells to transform into the structure of B. necroticum, leading to direct infection at the brain level.

This infection will act on the central nervous system of the individual and produce a strong suicidal instinct.

During the infection period, the infected person’s brain is ‘atomized and recreated’. When the suicide behavior is over, the individual will exhale the ‘breath of the dead’ that carries all the brain information, and then resurrect the dead through various dead objects.

Thank you to book friend Zha Tian Gang Wolf King for sacrificing the leader of this book!

　　

 (End of this chapter)