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Dr. Liao cleared his throat and shouted into the phone: "Student Xiao Ai."

"I'm here~"

Chapter 379 Don't forget your original intention, tears in your eyes [Please recommend tickets, monthly tickets! 】

These things are not very complicated. After Dr. Liao's guidance, Xia Ren quickly mastered how to use the black phone - if you don't understand, just ask the mastermind.

What surprised Xia Ren was that although it is an intelligent AI, the intelligence of the main brain is far beyond his imagination. It is completely different from the AI ​​outside that can only respond to specific commands, whether it is meaningless small talk , or a vague description, the mastermind can give the correct response just right.

Xia Ren almost wondered if there was a beautiful sister on the other side of the phone.

"Okay, now most of the space in the headquarters is completely open to you. Except for the No.18 floor and some special containment measures that prohibit entry, you can walk around the other seventeen floors."

"You want to leave?" Xia Ren glanced at Dr. Liao.

The latter stretched his waist and said, "Your treatment is over, and the rest can be recovered slowly. I have more important things to do. The time is very tight, and I have to leave soon."

"Can I ask what's the matter?"

"Plague. You should also know, after all, you came from the center of the plague."

"You mean atypical insectophobia?"

"Correct."

Dr. Liao inserted his hands into his white coat and said, "According to the book "Underground Digger" you brought out from the dreamland, the Association of Supermen has already grasped the information about the pathogenic protozoa that caused this plague—the burrower.

But the current situation is not optimistic. The pathogen has been found, and the life history of the parasite is basically clear. Where do they come from, how to spread, how to parasitize, how to lay eggs, and the impact on the human body during the parasitic process, etc., all have information. sufficient research data. "

"The treatment should be relatively simple, right?"

In the dreams of the patients that night, Xia Ren saw the cocoons hatching, and the second-stage larvae took off from the flowers and gathered in the air, forming a withered yellow cloud representing death;

He saw with his own eyes the mountain of flesh piled up by human corpses at the entrance of the hospital. Thousands of people crowded together, and the larvae controlled them to climb up desperately, climb!Even if the limbs are mutilated, even if the body is squeezed into a fleshy paste, they cannot stop walking.

In the end, the larvae that broke out of their cocoons left their hosts, took countless lives with them, and flew far away.

Xia Ren is deeply aware of the power of atypical insectophobia, so in order to find the root cause, he took great risks to enter the unknown door alone and go to another world.

Fortunately, his efforts are rewarding. Niu Changshou said that if he wants to treat atypical insectophobia, he must first understand the parasitic life history of the pathogenic protozoa. ", just recorded all the information of the earth burrower.

Compared to crossing the river with smears at the beginning, at least the road is now clear, so Xia Ren thought that the progress of the plague treatment should be advanced.

But the reality didn't seem to be as smooth as he predicted.

"The life history of parasites is clear, but the problem now is that we have nothing to do with the larvae. Their evolutionary path is different from any native species on the blue star. Their six growth stages can lay eggs. Therefore, even the first instar larvae parasitic in human dreams can complete the task of reproduction.

According to the investigation cases and the descriptions of the investigators who have entered the dream and the plague consultant of the Superman Association, we found that the main route of transmission of atypical insectophobia is through people's dreams.

Existing data show that parasitized patients will unconsciously enter a deep dream state during sleep, but usually cannot get rid of it by themselves. It is currently speculated that this state is controlled by larvae.

When entering a deep dream, the larvae can use the host's dream as a medium to enter other people's dreams. It is currently known that the radiation range of this kind of transmission is centered on the patient, and can cover a surrounding area with a radius of ten kilometers. That is to say, when the infected person falls into a deep sleep, as long as there are people within ten kilometers around him who also fall asleep, there is a risk of being infected. "

After thinking carefully for a while, Xia Ren found that this kind of infection route cannot be prevented by conventional means.

"Is there no way to stop the spread?"

"It's hard."

Dr. Liao shook his head and said: "Unless we kill the patients, we have no way to prevent them from entering deep sleep. Similarly, in urban areas, we can't cut off its transmission. Go to sleep, it's not realistic."

"Then what if the patients are concentrated in remote areas where no one lives?" Xia Ren tried to ask.

Dr. Liao sighed: "But if you have thought about it, if the patients are gathered together, the larvae gathered together will reproduce at a very fast speed and then fly in groups."

"..." Xia Ren.

"It's incomprehensible, right?"

Dr. Liao said with a half-smile, "But don't worry so much. Plagues that are more difficult than this have appeared before. Isn't human beings living well now?"

"There's always a way."

After he finished speaking, he turned and opened the door, disappearing into the metal corridor.

Xia Ren was silent in the room alone for a long time, glanced at his backpack, and suddenly a thought popped into his head.

In the past, he thought that if one day he had the opportunity to go to the Foundation, he must touch every contained object and store it, and then the system would give him achievement points +50, +50, +50...

Now he's at the Foundation, and it's the headquarters, where there are countless containment objects. Most importantly, he is already a legendary investigator, and he has enough authority to access those not-so-dangerous containment objects.

"Don't forget the original intention, you will always be there!"

Although his body has not yet recovered and his body is sore, Xia Ren still cheers up and intends to fulfill his youthful dream.

"Facts have proved that as long as you persist, your dreams will come true one day!"

He left the ward happily.

In the underground structure of the foundation headquarters, there are not those cold metal corridors.

In fact, many relevant personnel responsible for guarding the contents live here, and the area of ​​each floor here is very large, so there is no lack of living quarters.

Xia Ren felt that he should be living in a special ward, because according to the map provided by the black phone, he should have been in the hospital just now, but the strange thing is that until he came out, he did not see other medical facilities, patients, doctors, etc. of.

He estimated that he should have taken an independent passage.

Leaving the hospital and approaching a nearby living area, the metal corridor disappeared, and Xia Ren came to a place similar to an underground parking lot, with many small cars suspended in mid-air parked against the wall.

According to the mastermind's description, this is a scooter that can be used freely in the living area, and it is prohibited in other areas.

Xia Ren felt that it was novel. The shape of the scooter was somewhat similar to that of an electric car, but it was more rounded and comfortable, and it had no wheels. There was a gap of about [-] centimeters between the floor and the ground. I don't know how it floated.

He sat on it, twisted the handle slightly, and the scooter moved forward smoothly.

I can't feel the slightest bump at all, just like sitting on a chair playing a VR racing game, only to see the scenery moving behind.

"Fun."

I don't know if he came at the wrong time. These scooters are obviously used by people, but there is no one in this parking lot.

Xia Ren drove the scooter out of the parking lot. Suddenly, the bright light dazzled his eyes a little.

Rubbing his eyes, Xia Ren raised his head and saw the blue sky above.

"here it is……"

Sunshine, white clouds, roads, yellowed trees, and not-so-high buildings by the roadside.