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Time went back 10 minutes, when Zhan Yiye experienced the darkest and most desperate moment in her life.

While still on the road, Ran Yu's communicator received a call from an unfamiliar number. On the other end of the phone was He Rongsheng's hurried voice, mixed with the noise of electric current.He Rongsheng said that a wave of sea ghosts that was dozens of times more violent than the last time broke out here, and nearly a thousand survivors were trapped in various places in the park. The original medical staff, patients and family members of patients.

After the efforts of He Rongsheng, Director Zhan and other doctors, the contacted survivors gathered and hid in the nearest high-rise room with the strongest doors and windows as long as they could confirm their safety.At the same time, they will hang a white coat or hospital gown outside the window of the building, expressing their hope for rescue.

When the car was 300 meters away from the mental hospital, sea ghosts appeared one after another, throwing stones on the car windows, randomly piled up obstacles on the road, or pulled thin wires on both sides of the road, trying to trip the car over.There are already a few cars that have been hit by the roadside, and the wreckage of the body is slanting and blocking the road.

Everyone could only get out of the car, Zhan Yiye was carrying a large hatchet brought from the back kitchen of the city defense station, Ran Yu was holding on to the modified ax he carried with him, and several people borrowed by Brother Ta also brought ready cold weapons with him fight.Fortunately, other detachments that rushed to rescue immediately after receiving the notice also arrived one after another. Two or 30 people temporarily formed an advance team, commanded by Ding Taitai, to enter the mental hospital and rescue the surviving people.

In view of the increasingly serious damage to the road surface by sea ghosts, and the difficulty for subsequent vehicles to enter, the core of the rescue plan is placed on the helicopter.The main problem now is that the survivors need to be gathered and transferred to the roof of the tall building to facilitate helicopter rescue.

After briefly assigning the division of labor and tasks, Ding Taitai's face became more dignified than ever. He seemed to have a lot to say, just like the usual team members would chatter for a long time without wearing a helmet and riding a bicycle.But in the end, he just took a deep breath, his chapped lips trembled slightly, and said, "Be careful, come back alive."

No one on the team has ever experienced such a dangerous rescue operation.In other words, the Security Bureau has never had an equally dangerous mission since its establishment.No one knows which step to take, and no one knows what will happen in the next second, but they must rush in, regardless of the consequences, and there is no way out, because there are still survivors who see them as the only hope of survival.Because they are the guards responsible for protecting the people.

The number of sea ghosts in the mental hospital is terrifying.A body slightly taller than a human, with greasy scales, a mouth full of fangs, harsh rattling sounds, and a strong salty smell, the senses are filled with all these, leaving no room for breathing.Neither Zhan Yiye nor Ran Yu was fighting sea ghosts for the first time, but they both inevitably felt their scalps tingling.

After successfully sending the survivors from the two buildings to the roof, the two found the third place where white coats were hung in front of the window. This was a meeting room on the eighth floor of the administrative building. Director Zhan and He Rongsheng took the rest Dozens of survivors hid in this place.

This administrative building has only ten floors in total, and the concentration of sea ghosts is not as dense as the first two places.Ran Yu was clearing the way to the upstairs rooftop with an ax in his hand, and Zhan Yiye was escorting the crowd behind him with a machete.

The journey was smooth, and Zhan Yiye saw that his father was still safe. Although he was excited, he didn't say a word, and he devoted himself to dealing with the sea ghosts that suddenly came from everywhere from time to time.

After the roof door opened smoothly, Zhan Yiye breathed a sigh of relief.While waiting for the dozens of people in front to climb up to the roof one after another, Zhan Yiye scolded Director Zhan and said, "Why can't the communicator always be connected? I was worried to death along the way. I told you to retire early and you just didn't listen... "

Director Zhan feigned anger and said: "The little girl's words are becoming more and more indifferent..."

In the middle of speaking, Director Zhan's expression changed suddenly, and he dragged Zhan Yiye behind him.Immediately afterwards, severe pain came from his wrist, and a sea ghost hiding somewhere bit off his wrist bone!

Zhan Yiye's face turned pale. She swung the hatchet and severed the sea ghost in two, tremblingly looking at Director Zhan: "Dad..."

The person in front had almost left. Director Zhan watched his arms gradually grow into greasy scales, and his consciousness gradually became blurred. The desire for fresh flesh and blood wanted to push the human being in front of him onto the roof, and then slammed the door hard.

But the human being in front of him was relentless, looking at him with extremely painful eyes, his hands tightly clutching his arm and refusing to let go.Director Zhan knew that his remaining weak will was about to disappear, so he simply pulled the human being up to the roof quickly, and then pushed her away while she was not prepared, and walked to the edge of the roof quickly, and then he was surprised by everyone. leaped in his eyes.The moment he jumped off the roof, he completely lost all human characteristics, hissed in horror, and then fell heavily to the ground, splashing a pool of bright green blood.

"Dad—!" Zhan Yiye's vocal cords roared to the point of being torn apart, and she lay on the edge of the roof. The extreme pain made her retch, and her limbs began to limp and twitch.However, in just a moment, her expression turned from pain to madness. Regardless of He Rongsheng and Ran Yu's obstruction, she turned around and rushed down to the rooftop, fighting with the sea ghosts that were rushing up from the corridor.

Zhan Yiye's eyes were scarlet, and her hands were covered with sticky green blood, which made her almost unable to hold the hatchet.Her arms had lost all feeling, but she was still waving them weakly, murmuring in her sleep, "I want to kill all of you... kill all of you... kill monsters..."

Ran Yu knew that she couldn't be persuaded to come back in this state, so he simply slashed the back of her neck with a hand knife, carried the remaining sea ghosts that she had simply cut off on his back, closed the big iron gate on the roof, and entrusted her to He Rongsheng, and then from A long rope was taken from the rooftop utility room.He quickly tied a rope around his waist, jumped down from the roof, and rushed to the sea ghost group alone to find the next place that needed rescue.

In a spacious and bright laboratory of the scientific research institute, the electronic beeping sound of the instrument and the researcher's discussion sound one after another, the monitor is constantly switching images and data model pages, Yan Ai and her team are stepping up research on a new task.

Although the vast majority of the residents of the main city do not know that the sea ghost tide broke out suddenly and on a large scale within the third ring road, the news spread rapidly in various military and police scientific research departments, and the leaders of each department issued an emergency response notice and ordered their subordinates Don't leak the news for now.The checkpoints between the third ring and the second ring, and between the second ring and the first ring are prohibited from passing. The soldiers at the checkpoints have been used with a small number of talisman reagents to ensure that no suspicious persons can flow to the first and second rings.

The Department of Medicine and Biology of the Academy of Sciences where Yan Ai works has stopped other non-emergency projects at hand, and all staff are devoted to research related to sea ghosts.Among the complicated research subjects about sea ghosts, the highly corrosive substances secreted from the mouthparts of parasitic sea ghosts and the ever-evolving sea ghost viruses are the most important.

The information reported by the military, police and other security departments will be shared with the scientific research department in a timely manner, so Yan Ai and the others immediately knew the frightening fact that the parasitic sea ghost can return to its original ecology.What's even more frightening is that the current parasitic sea ghosts can imitate the original host's speech and behavior in every possible way, and their smooth communication and thinking abilities can even fool the people around them, just like a real person— ——The head of the lieutenant colonel in the temporary isolation zone has fooled humans around in this way.

"Their development is about to exceed my knowledge reserve." Yan Ai stared at the constantly changing images on the analyzer, and smiled wryly, "I don't dare to say that I understand science anymore."

The assistant Shan Qun next to her handed her a thermos cup, which contained hot milk tea with a lump of sugar. "The test results of the sea ghost's mouthpart secretions came out. As you expected, it contains a mutant strain of the sea ghost virus, and its activity is amazing."

Yan Ai took a sip of the hot milk tea, and his anxious, throbbing stomach got a little relief.A fierce battle is going on on the front line, and the researchers in the rear can't delay for a second, and must go all out to provide support.Some of her colleagues are promoting the mass production of talisman reagents, and several colleagues are researching neutralizing reagents for mouthpart secretions. The most difficult and most hopeless part of the team is the sea ghost virus. The inactivation research, this research is dedicated to killing sea ghosts fundamentally and curbing the spread of the virus. So far, there is only an extremely small possibility in theory, but it must be done.

Her gaze returned to the image analyzer.This analyzer uses the most advanced real-time imaging technology in the main city, and it is currently showing the infection of the sea ghost virus in the sample tissue.Although the image looks like some fluorescent dots moving randomly, everyone in this laboratory can see that this is an extremely fierce silent fight.

Sea ghost virus is an RNA virus, which is unstable and prone to mutation due to its single-stranded structure.It is filamentous as a whole, with tumor-like protrusions on the surface. These protrusions are receptors produced by binding to the recognition protein, which can easily fool the detection of the recognition protein and mix into the cell.In addition, there is a lipid-based capsule on the protein shell of the sea ghost virus. Because the main component of the cell membrane is phospholipids and lipids are easy to fuse, the virus is more likely to invade cells and use cells to replicate itself on a large scale. At the same time, it inhibits the original gene information in the nucleus.Of course, the invaded cell will not be caught without a fight, it will release a distress message to attract white blood cells to destroy these foreign invaders.

The machine Yan Ai used for the experiment was running data. Taking advantage of this short gap, she remembered that she was busy with research work recently, and she hadn't had time to give more lectures to the young assistants who had just joined the job.It is said that this little assistant stood out with full marks in the selection examination after graduation, and the chief examiner was full of praise, so he had the opportunity to be directly assigned to work under Yan Ai—usually only after working in the research institute for three to five years Only those who are more than [-] years old and have made outstanding achievements can follow Yan Ai.But this good seedling has never shown her sharpness since she joined the job, she just followed her silently, and what she did most was serving tea and pouring water.

Taking advantage of this short few minutes, Yan Ai suddenly wanted to briefly test the basic skills of this little assistant.Of course, because the questions involved are so basic, these questions are more like a very casual chat: "If it is other common viruses, after invading cells, what happens to the immune system?"

Shan Qun froze for a moment when he heard this question.Not to mention the staff of the scientific research institute in the main city, even for teenagers who are still receiving compulsory education, this problem is as simple as adults playing with children-children, tell auntie, the temperature rises What will happen to the ice cube when the temperature is above zero?

Shan Qun also gave a brief answer in a more common language: "The invaded cells will send out signaling proteins to notify the immune system, and the white blood cells will arrive in time. Among them, the mitochondrial cells that patrol the body on a daily basis are usually the first to arrive. , as an advance force, they will engulf or destroy pathogens. Other phagocytes such as macrophages will also rush to help on a large scale. If the virus cannot be eliminated at this time, dendritic cells will disintegrate the debris and deliver the virus protein to T cells, Based on this, T cells will produce killer T cells to attack the virus precisely, find out the cells invaded by the virus and kill them."

After Shan Qun finished speaking, he found that Yan Ai was staring at the vacuum flask in his hand.This is quite rare. In her impression, Yan Ai rarely had such impolite moments.But Yan Ai does look too tired now. Although the long curly hair full of luster is stuffed into the experiment hat, there are still signs of dryness at the edges.So Shan Qun thought about it, and asked one more question: "Why did you suddenly remember to ask this?"

Yan Ai seemed to come back to his senses suddenly, smiled apologetically, and said, "I just suddenly felt that the battle with the immune system after the virus invaded the cells is a bit like the battle with us after the sea ghost invaded the main city. This kind of The similarities between macro and micro are too strong, so I was a little dazed for a while. I remember that the biology textbook I used when I was in school was the version of Professor Yuan Qiong, I don’t know if you have changed it.”

"It hasn't been changed, we are using the same version." Shan Qun understood what Yan Ai wanted to say, "The title page of the textbook is printed with "Innocent Prophecy", 'Seeing the World in a Grain of Sand'."

"People always like to think about the problems of the whole world, with an attitude of being the master who knows everything. In fact, we may not even count as a grain of sand in this world," Yan Ai put away the cup, stood up and was ready to return Go to the work station, "Come on, as a small part of lymphocytes, we have to provide support for killer T cells."

In the low sky outside the mental hospital, when Lou Yue sat on a small helicopter and looked down with a high-powered telescope, he just saw the whole process before and after Ran Yu jumped off the roof from that angle.His eyes moved with that vigorous figure, and Albert's serious words came from his ear.

"Captain Lou, even if you force us to bring these here, it's useless. To blow up here must be approved by the city lord. No one knows whether rash actions will affect the safety of the entire main city." Commander Albert's face was majestic. , with a firm attitude, "Of course I don't want to see unnecessary casualties, but anyone who has received high-level security and confidential education in the main city should know that the importance of the Leida system is above everything else." Commander Albert, may I ask If you don't blow up here, what method do you plan to use to kill these sea ghosts? Do you rely on our soldiers to fight hand-to-hand?" Lou Yue's eyes moved away from the lens barrel for a moment, and then re-observed the scene below The situation, "Or let them leave here alive and rush into the downtown area of ​​the third ring, break through the checkpoints, and rush directly into the office of the city lord of the first ring to have a not-so-rich lunch?"

"I have already reported to the city lord before departure, and I am still waiting for approval."

Lou Yue felt a little tight in his chest, but he couldn't attack it: "We can wait for a while to clean this place, but these people must be rescued."

Ran Yu moved so fast that Lou Yue's lens barrel could barely keep up with him.Among the dense crowd of sea ghosts, Ran Yu let go of his hands and feet, darting from building to building, rarely landing on the ground, as light as a goose falling on flat sand.And once he landed, there was a splash of green blood where the ax passed.He made the ax look light, and when cutting off the hard body of the sea ghost, it was like a god of death waving a sickle to easily harvest the fragile life.

Lou Yue knew that he couldn't just stare at Ran Yu, so he just took one more look before forcing himself to look away, and instead followed up the arrival time of reinforcements from various units.His communicator has been beeping non-stop, and the report communication in the helicopter has never stopped.

The narrow gravel road leading to the mental hospital has been completely blocked. The helicopters used to meet the people on the rooftop have been approaching the destination one after another under the emergency arrangements of various departments. Will fall, arriving on the battlefield one after another to join the battle.

As the advance force, the mitochondrial cells, exhausted in the battle, finally waited for a large number of macrophage reinforcements.

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Make up for yesterday's leave.There should be another update tonight, it’s quite late, don’t wait for QAQ

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"Naive Prophecy" comes from William Blake's "Auguries of Innocence". The first sentence Toseeaworldingrainofsand is often translated as "One sand, one world". Here is my literal translation.

-----------感谢在2021-08-2419：08：21～2021-08-2619：03：01期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦～

Thanks to the little angel of the irrigation nutrient solution: a big and cute 3 bottle;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!