Trickster Hunter

Chapter 341 Raising Gu

Yuri suddenly felt that Sun Hang was right.

The concentration of the toxin did not seem to affect the final result of the test.

"How about we observe for a while?" Yuri said, "If your body still does not show any reaction after an hour of intradermal injection, we will start preparing to swallow the crimson spores."

"Okay, my mouth is a little dry, can you bring me a bottle of water... or a bottle of Fanta?"

"As for carbonated drinks... the vending machines inside the Tianshu Tower should be available, but in order not to pollute the test environment, we need to disinfect and filter the containers and drinks many times... This may affect the taste and mouthfeel of the drinks..." Yuri said.

"Okay, okay, then there is no such trouble with purified water, right?"

"This can be provided to you immediately." Yuri said.

Purified water is a very common experimental material. Although according to the laboratory regulations, experimental materials are strictly prohibited from drinking... But these researchers all know that these purified waters are 100% in line with drinking standards except for the trace elements needed by the human body. They are even cleaner than those bottled drinking water sold outside, which claim to be deep natural water from a certain water source but are actually bottled with tap water.

Even when Yuri was young, he had drunk glucose solution as an experimental material. The high-intensity experiment for nine hours in a row directly caused Yuri, who had not eaten for half a day, to have symptoms of hypoglycemia. If he hadn't found a bag of glucose solution in the experimental cabinet and torn it open and drank it, he might have fainted in the laboratory where he was the only one in the middle of the night.

Two bottles of purified water without any labels quickly slid into the containment room from another passage. The mechanical arm of the medical robot directly helped Sun Hang unscrew the bottle cap and handed the bottle mouth to his lips.

"What kind of life is this, where even a robot feeds you water?" Sun Hang joked. He just opened his lips, and the medical robot that detected the changes in his facial muscles brought the bottle up, accurately placed the bottle mouth on Sun Hang's lips, and tilted the bottle slightly, allowing the liquid inside to flow into Sun Hang's throat.

Sun Hang didn't even have to look up, it felt like he was drinking water from the bottle with his own hands.

"This robot is good." The moment he spoke, the robotic arm immediately corrected the angle of the bottle and moved the bottle away, "It must be a big market if it is developed into a household robot."

"This... the cost of this robot... together with the supporting electronic sensing equipment and software... a total of 1.1 billion." A researcher muttered in a low voice.

"1.1 billion? That's fine." Sun Hang said.

Although the researcher's voice was very low, it was still captured by the microphone hanging on Yuri's ear and transmitted to Sun Hang's ears.

"He... he can hear my voice?" The researcher was slightly startled, and then closed his mouth when Yuri turned his head and glanced at him.

"Fifty-seven minutes." Yuri said, "Three minutes left."

Three minutes is not long, but not short. In these last three minutes, Sun Hang's body did not show any dramatic changes. The scarlet spore toxins injected into his skin disappeared completely.

"Let's go."

Sun Hang got off the recliner, walked out of the containment room, stretched out the arm that had been injected with the scarlet spore toxin, and patted Yuri's shoulder.

Yuri subconsciously shrank his shoulders, as if he wanted to avoid Sun Hang's contact.

"What are you afraid of?" Sun Hang asked, "Isn't it said that the scarlet spore toxin will be inactivated in an hour?"

"That's under the condition of no host... At present, the possibility that the toxin is latent cannot be ruled out. After all, it will change according to the characteristics of the host..." Yuri said.

"You mean, this toxin doesn't think it can kill me, so it hides in my body and wants to turn me into a so-called 'asymptomatic infected person', and then use me as a springboard to infect more people?" Sun Hang asked.

Before Yuri said anything, the group of researchers next to him suddenly showed fear in their eyes, and some of them took two steps back without leaving a trace, widening the distance between them and Sun Hang.

"Since the scarlet spores are so toxic, you shouldn't be able to hold on for a few seconds... After all, you don't have a physique like me." After saying that, Sun Hang directly held Yuri's hand, and the skin of their palms stuck together without any obstruction.

Sun Hang could notice that Yuri's face was obviously beating twice, and his heartbeat speed suddenly became much faster.

Five seconds, ten seconds... thirty seconds passed.

Yuri did not show any signs of poisoning.

"Now you should be completely convinced that this toxin has no effect on me." Sun Hang let go of Yuri's hand.

"Huh... Yes, yes." Yuri sighed and relaxed.

He was just an ordinary person, but he didn't have the abnormal "toxin resistance" of Sun Hang. If the toxins of the crimson spores were really transmitted to him through Sun Hang, they would instantly change their characteristics, remove the useless "latency", and turn back into the strong toxin that could kill people in a few seconds.

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Yuri took Sun Hang to a cold storage - compared to the place where B423 was housed, this cold storage was relatively "warm". It always maintained a constant temperature of minus 75 degrees Celsius, and there was no need to spray any insulating liquid when entering. Just wear thick enough cold weather clothing.

Embedded on the wall of the cold storage are a dozen metal cylinders one meter in diameter and three meters high. After Yuri entered a series of instructions on the console at the door, all the metal cylinders turned around, turning the transparent side to the front.

Sun Hang could see that most of these metal cylinders contained human corpses. Due to the low temperature, the skin of these corpses showed a blue-purple color, and the surface of the bodies was also covered with a thin layer of white frost.

"Zombies?"

"No, it's not a corpse... these people are still alive." Yuri said.

"Isn't this the storage room for crimson spores? What's going on with these frozen... people who were frozen into popsicles?" Sun Hang asked.

"The crimson spores, like their toxins, are difficult to preserve and must be preserved using living hosts... These people are actually 'seedbeds,'" Yuri said.

"Are these people parasitic with crimson spores?" Sun Hang walked closer and observed the "seedbeds" inside through the thick layer of glass.

The states of these seedbeds are different - some look like a normal frozen human corpse, while some have skin covered with a deep red carpet-like substance. There are also cases where most parts of the body are normal, but clusters of long bacilli pop up in the mouth and nasal cavity...

Yuri is right, these people are the seedbed of crimson spores.

Rather than saying that they were human beings, Sun Hang felt that they were more like rotten tree trunks that had fallen in a moist place in the forest. The fungus had completely eroded them from the inside out, leaving only an empty human-shaped body.

"The growth rate of crimson spores will become very slow when the temperature is below minus 65 degrees Celsius. But even so, it is difficult for the seedbed to be stored for more than ten years." Yuri came over and said.

Sun Hang noticed that many metal cylinders were empty. These empty containers were either prepared for the "new seedbeds", or they were vacancies created after the "old seedbeds" originally contained in them were scrapped and disposed of. .

"Although these 'seedbeds' are infected with crimson spores, we have divided them into more than a dozen different strains based on the different mutations that have occurred in the crimson spores." Yuri pointed to the label attached to the metal cylinder. , “The numbers, time, origin and general characteristics of these strains are all written on it.”

"Are there big differences between different strains?"

"It's very big... because their hosts are also very different." Yuri said, "The 21-year-old young man and the 39-year-old middle-aged woman infected by strains No. 17 and No. 29, these two People are ordinary people; the strain No. 26 infected a forty-five-year-old middle-aged man, who was an infected person and was also a monster hunter; strains No. 35 and 36 The corpse infected by strain No. 40 is a completely transformed creature."

Sun Hang walked to the metal cylinder marked "Forty". As Yuri said, the "seedbed" in this metal cylinder was a humanoid monster-it had a human head, torso and The limbs, but on its back, are densely packed The hemp field is covered with arms. Judging from the size of the arms, these arms seem to be the arms of babies... But now the surface of these arms are covered with mottled crimson moss. At first glance, they look like some kind of living things. Tube worms in the deep sea.

It's just that Sun Hang can hardly feel the memetic fluctuations of this strange thing... Now, to put it bluntly, it is just an empty shell of a monster with a weird appearance.

"Bing858 Baby-eating Monster first appeared in Suzhou in the 4703rd year of the lunar calendar." Yuri introduced, "It broke into a maternal and child health hospital late at night, killed two nurses on duty, and It devoured four newborns who were being cared for in the hospital... Over the next three months, it committed many more crimes, and the death toll rose to eighty."

After a pause, Yuri continued, "Later, it disappeared for a while. It was not until 4711 in the lunar calendar that it appeared again in a small town in the countryside of Suzhou, broke into the house of an expectant mother, and brutally cut open the house. The pregnant woman's belly was opened and the baby was taken away... The next day, the monster was captured. After preliminary research, it was escorted to the Tianshu Tower headquarters in Chunming City.

"In the year 4715 of the Yellow Calendar, after approval, Bing858 was removed from the containment list and was instead sent to the crimson spore research project team as an 'experimental material'. In the year 4716 of the Yellow Calendar, Bing858 was used as a seedbed for crimson spores. Contained to this day.”

"So, is there anything special about this strain?" Sun Hang asked, "Is it related to this Bing858 as a seedbed?"

"This is still unclear." Yuri shook his head, "We have not yet understood many characteristics of the crimson spores... Our existing equipment cannot even observe the complete mutation process. The currently known strain mutation process , Eighty percent is based on data derived by computers..."

Yuri walked to the metal cylinder marked "No. 17" and said to Sun Hang: "If you want to devour it, I recommend strain No. 17, because it is the most 'primitive' strain among the current strains, and has hardly undergone any obvious mutations."

"Didn't you say that the nursery of crimson spores cannot be preserved for more than ten years?" Sun Hang asked in confusion, "Where did this 'primitive strain' come from? Or is it 'relatively primitive' compared to other strains?"

"The nursery can be 'updated'... No. 17 is not a natural person, but a clone." Yuri said, "We cloned many 'No. 17'. When the previous nursery fails, we will transfer the strain to the 'new nursery'. Since the new and old nursery are almost identical, the No. 17 strain will hardly change. What kind of mutation has occurred. "

"So that's how it is. I thought these seedbeds were death row prisoners you picked from the prison." Sun Hang nodded, "Then the original body of this 'No. 17' is the unlucky guy who was first found to be infected with the crimson spores? "

"No... When we found the first infected person, he was already a pool of blood, and we couldn't collect his genetic data at all. The genes of seedbed No. 17 came from a temporary investigator who was unfortunately infected after rushing to the scene. Because he had entered his genetic information when he joined the job, we were able to clone him. "

"How about making a platter." Sun Hang said thoughtfully, "You have to taste the original and the new ones, so that it can be considered healthy. "

"Platter? "Yuri was stunned, obviously not understanding what Sun Hang meant.

"That is to say, extract a part of each strain and make a platter." Sun Hang glanced at him and said, "Have you ever ordered takeout? Have you ever eaten the double and triple rice?"

"Ah? But if you do this, it is likely to cause conflicts between different strains..."

Yuri hadn't finished speaking when Sun Hang interrupted him again: "Speaking of platter, I suddenly have a better idea."

"Better idea?" Yuri suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

"Raise the Gu!" Sun Hang raised a finger, "Put all these different strains on a new seedling bed, let them fight each other, and the winner who can survive and occupy the new seedling bed must be the strongest strain... This is the principle of survival of the fittest."