Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 49 130 Eight Hours
"You're gambling." The Hound stared at Ke Lan's eyes with a serious expression, "You're gambling your life."

"Yeah, Ivan's life, and our lives." Ke Lan said.

"How many percent?"

"To be honest... [-]%." Ke Lan originally wanted to say less than [-]%... In fact, he didn't even have the bottom line in his heart.

No one knows if the underwater city has what they want... All clues come from a glimpse of the blurry video.

"It's too low. If my winning rate is less than [-]% when I play poker, I won't follow." The Hound pursed his lips and turned his head to look at Ivan. "Besides, we are not gamblers now. Not playing cards."

This is life-threatening, Hound added in his heart.

"But the bet is not absolute. Even if the bet is wrong, it will not lead to a loss of all games." Ke Lan walked around the operating chair. Although Ivan's condition has stabilized now, no one can I don't know how long his own immune system can last - when the immune system completely collapses, I'm afraid he will become the second "seed of erosion"...

Of course, in order to eliminate this risk, they can completely kill Ivan now, and use high temperature to burn the body and the alienated cells together. This is the most conservative approach and the most correct choice from a rational point of view.

The few people present fell into a delicate state of stalemate, and a bone-chilling chill gradually rose in the operating room.

Ke Lan also knew that the Hound did not oppose his plan because he was afraid of death. On the contrary, if he could enter the underwater city alone, he would definitely board the Pioneer without hesitation... But in fact, even if the The four of them together, the success rate of this operation is still slim.

Even Natasha stopped sobbing. She lowered her head and held a dark green surgical towel tightly in her hands, trying not to keep her eyes on Ivan as much as possible.

Ke Lan's eyes swept across the red and swollen eyes of the girl, his lips moved, but he finally swallowed the words.

He couldn't comfort Natasha, any words were too pale in this situation.

Is it a gamble, or just give up?

"Or... let's vote..." Leighton looked at the Hound and then at Ke Lan, and said cautiously.

But just after he made this suggestion, he was rewarded with a chestnut by the hound.

"Vote? Vote for a hammer!" The deadlock had been broken, and the hound was no longer silent, and said cursingly: "Since you want to save people, hurry up and arrange a trip! If it goes on, he won't be able to hold on when I see a doctor. It's gone!"

"Have you decided?" Ke Lan looked at the hound.

"Before I go back, tell me what you plan to do." The Hound said impatiently.

"Okay, Layton, you immediately log on to the Hunter Network, apply for an exploration mission, and contact the vehicle that can send us to the Pioneer as soon as possible. Don't care about the price, the search scope is expanded to all aircraft parked in the airport, even if It's a battleship, as long as we can afford the airfare, book it for me too!"

"Okay!" Layton nodded.

"Old dog, you have to find a way to get a few sets of diving equipment, which must be of the military protection level. In addition, we also need underwater boosters and weapons that can be used in water - battle is definitely unavoidable, this You have to be mentally prepared.”

"This is no problem, I can also get a depth charge through the relationship, if you need it."

"Natasha, you should immediately rush to the nearest medical supplies exchange point and buy as much fluorocarbon emulsion and artificial cell infiltrate as possible... Remember, you must buy a low-temperature model with a freezing point below minus 120 degrees Celsius."

"Oh... oh!" Natasha nodded quickly and ran out in a hurry.

"Fluorocarbon? Are you planning to..." A hint of surprise appeared on the Hound's face.

"Yes, I plan to freeze Ivan to buy enough time for our actions." Ke Lan said.

Fluorocarbon is a human blood substitute with a high safety factor. When the injured suffers a large amount of blood loss and cannot be transfused in time, this emulsion can be used as emergency supplies to maintain the blood pressure of the human body, and also has a certain amount of oxygen. Transportability - In the medical world, this thing is also called "artificial blood".

Cell permeate is a new type of biological agent, which can replace the water in biological cells by controlling the osmotic pressure, and is generally used in the fields of organ preservation and wound treatment.

What Ke Lan has to do is to replace the blood in Ivan's body with fluorocarbon emulsion, replace the cell fluid with osmotic fluid, and then use a liquid nitrogen tank to freeze Ivan.

Low temperature cannot inhibit the erosion of alienated cells, but when the temperature is low to a certain level, the cells of Ivan's whole body will enter a state of "hibernation", which is no different from suspended animation, and life activities are almost completely stopped. The alienation method of the Seed of Erosion is accomplished by modifying the gene sequence of the host cell. In this state, the alienation process will naturally become extremely slow.

With these two alternatives, Ke Lan does not have to worry that Ivan's body cells will be damaged by the ice crystallization of the liquid when freezing, which is also the routine that most biomedical companies choose when they provide body freezing services. operate.

"How much time can we buy if Ivan is frozen?"

"I've never seen this kind of alienated cell before... I don't have a clue... If I have to give a number, it will be seven days at most, and be conservative, five days." Ke Lan stretched out five fingers.

"So short?" The Hound frowned.

"If we want to completely alienate, it will take more time than that, but in fact, as long as the alienated cells invade the brain, even if we can find flesh-eating worms, it will be meaningless."

At the current level of biotechnology, all organs in the body, including the heart, can be replaced by artificial objects, except for the brain... Perhaps the top medical research institutes have made breakthroughs in this regard, but Ke Lan is It is impossible to ask those in white coats for help. If Ivan's situation is known to them, they will only think about how to get him to the dissection table, not to save people.

In their eyes, perhaps a completely alienated Ivan has more research value...

"From the ark to Zhonghai, the fastest transport plane takes ten hours. If the round-trip time is one day, then we have a total of six days to use. If we have not found the flesh-eating worm beyond this time, the operation must be suspended." The Hound glanced at his watch and said, "You have no opinion?"

"No." Ke Lan shook his head.

"I found it!" At this time, Leighton shouted, "I found a high-speed transport ship, and the destination happened to be the pioneer icebreaker in Zhonghai. In addition to transporting materials, it also brought a team of The hunters of the 'Aurora Consortium', they are also going to explore this underwater city! I asked the leader on the opposite side, and he said that he could take us with him, but we must pay half of the cost."

"How many of them are there?" Hound frowned. The rental price of high-speed transport ships is much more expensive than that of transport aircraft.

"I didn't say anything about it... But such an advance team, counting the logistics, at least there must be 30 people, right?" Layton scratched his head.

"There are only four of us, let us bear half of the cost, it's black enough." Hound was a little resentful.

"Forget it, it's good to have four seats for us. Let's be slaughtered... By the way, what time does the transport ship leave?"

"It's exactly eleven o'clock tonight, and there are still six hours."

After deducting these six hours, there are still 130 eight hours before the deadline!
(End of this chapter)