Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 538 Experimental Accidents
"Slow down, keep a constant speed, and observe the state of the puncture point at all times..."

Those who can be selected into the research institute are all a combination of genius and elite. This kind of person is a person who is an academic master if he is picked out casually, and he is at least a full professor in an outside academy... Even so However, the "professor" still guided the operation of the young researcher as if he was treating a student who had just started.

In the old era, this scene is as funny as an academician of the Academy of Sciences instructing a mathematics professor from a top-notch school how to solve a quadratic equation in one variable.

But at this moment, the young researcher's fingers were trembling constantly.

He has done neither a thousand nor eight hundred similar "vaccination" experiments.Among the fellow researchers at the same time, he was even more famous for his three virtues of "boldness, carefulness, and prudence". Otherwise, he would not have been asked by the "professor" to be an assistant in this experiment.

But I don't know why, the involuntary shaking of those hands that are usually as stable as precision machinery can't stop at all.

He didn't dare to tell the professor behind him...Fortunately, the mechanical arm of the experiment box is controlled by a numerical control system, not the kind of high-sensitivity sensor handle. Otherwise, the mechanical arm in the box may be shaking now into a sieve.

The young researcher dared not even vent his breath, staring at the experimental box and the control panel of the numerical control system at the same time, typing with his ten fingers on the keyboard quickly, modifying the parameters of the robotic arm according to the feedback results of the sensors.

Less than half of the serum-like substance in the syringe had been injected into the lump of meat, and the frequency of wriggling of the flesh gradually slowed down.

"What's going on, did you inject a muscle relaxant into the 'specimen'?" Seeing the reaction of the meat piece, the professor was taken aback and asked immediately.

"No, no!" The young researcher quickly replied, "According to what you said, except for the LCL fluid and the living cells of the Erosion Seed, I didn't inject any auxiliary drugs into it."

"Then what's going on here? The activity of the 'specimen' seems to be rapidly weakening..." The professor glanced at the timing note that had just been torn off on the table, and then looked up at the timer hanging on the wall, "Isn't this Possibly, the time to cut off the supply of nutrients is less than 10 minutes, according to the data obtained before, at least 15 minutes later, the physiological function of the 'specimen' will start to fail!"

"I don't know either..." The young researcher shook his head, "Could it be that the 'specimen' reacted to the cells of the Seed of Corrosion?"

"Impossible! The incubation period of the cells of the Seed of Corrosion is several hours at the shortest. How could it be possible during the inoculation process..."

Before he finished speaking, a low-pitched but extremely ear-piercing scream came from the experiment box—not only the two of them were taken aback, but even the "security personnel" standing behind were shocked. Subconsciously trembled a bit.

"Don't move!" The professor stretched out a palm, signaling the two "security personnel" to put down the guns in their hands, and then focused all their attention on the pieces of meat in the experiment box.

The contents of the syringe had all been pushed into the meat block, the needle was pulled out, and a drop of dark red blood was squeezed out from the eye of the needle.

"The sound just now... was made by 'it'?" The professor pushed the lower frame of the goggles with the heel of his palm and asked in a deep voice.

"Should...it should be?" The young researcher said tremblingly, "but, but...professor...this 'specimen'...this...it...it should not have differentiated vocal organs...how could it be sharp? What's your name?"

"Maybe it's the muscular cavities inside the 'specimen', the sound made by sucking air into it due to muscle contraction..." The professor murmured, but even he himself found this explanation unacceptable.

This "specimen" has undergone a comprehensive inspection before being sent into the experiment box, including tomography and B-ultrasound. If there is really a muscle cavity inside, it should have been discovered long ago, not now. Everyone in the laboratory was shocked.

Is it an acute mutation?Such a thought flashed through the professor's mind, and he couldn't help breathing quickly—if it is really an acute mutation, it means that there is a chimeric point between the gene of this "specimen" and the gene of the seed of erosion, so it will directly Skip the "latency period" after the Seed of Corrosion cells infect other organisms!
Regardless of whether this mutation is good or bad, this is an unprecedented major breakthrough!
The professor clenched his fists excitedly—but what he didn't expect was that more drastic changes were yet to come.

Fifteen seconds after injecting the erosion seed cells into the meat, the peristalsis of the meat basically stopped completely. Just when the young researcher thought that the physiological functions of the meat had been completely exhausted, he planned to apply to the professor to stimulate the "specimen" with electric current. Suddenly, a lot of blood bubbles popped out of the instant noodles of the meat!
These blood bubbles swelled rapidly, and then burst, but what flowed out of them was not bright red blood, but gray-white thick liquid, which also contained a lot of rotting cotton-like tissues.

"Miss, failed?" The young researcher felt a "thump" in his heart—but for some reason, he didn't feel too frustrated, but a sense of relief like a heavy burden.

"No, there is no failure!" The professor's excited voice came from behind, "It's still alive! It's not dead! These corrupt tissues are just impurities that it's excreted! It's purifying itself...it's evolving! "

"...teach, professor?"

The young researcher couldn't help turning his head to look at the professor behind him, but was almost taken aback by the professor's crazy expression.

"Look what I'm doing? Quick, quickly clean the surface of the 'specimen' and remove those dirty things!"

"okay."

The researcher nodded mechanically, manipulated the mechanical arm to pick up an alcohol cotton ball, and gently wiped the surface of the meat.

The blood bubbles were still being formed, and the overflowing thick liquid and flocculent tissue had covered the bottom of the petri dish, and it was about to overflow from the edge.

The young researcher quickly used another mechanical arm to pick up the gauze and suck it, but at this moment, the meat that had stopped moving suddenly twitched!

"Stop! Don't touch it yet!" the professor yelled, "Is it recording?"

"Recording all the time!" The young researcher nodded.

I saw a large number of spherical protrusions suddenly appearing on the surface of the meat - not the blood bubbles just now, but as if there was something hard underneath that pushed up the fascia on the surface of the meat.

"Could it... be the 'core' of the Seed of Corrosion?" The professor quickly glanced at the timer screen from the corner of his eye, "76 seconds...the 'core' of the Seed of Corrosion has never Formed in a short period of time, this is a brand new record..."

"Professor?" The young researcher's voice was a bit difficult.

"There has never been any species of erosion...even mutants...that have so many 'nuclei'...never." It is constantly increasing, and in some places, the protrusions even gather together, forming a bunch of excess like squeezed grapes.

"Professor... are you sure that these bumps... are the 'core' of the Seed of Corrosion?" The young researcher couldn't help asking.

"Not sure, but there is a high probability." The professor said, "Look, through the fascia of the transparent membrane on the surface, you can see that there is a transparent hard shell on the surface of the things inside, except for the 'core' of the Seed of Erosion. Besides, what else has such a structure?"

As if to answer his question, just as the professor finished speaking, the surface of the largest spherical protrusion suddenly cracked a crack.

It was as if a reptile suddenly opened its eyes, and what appeared in front of the eyes of professors and researchers...

It was a bloodshot eyeball!

The young researcher's hands shook involuntarily, and the mobile phone placed by the table was suddenly touched to the ground, making a light slap.

The sound was very abrupt, and the eyeball seemed to be startled by the sound. It turned around in a circle, focused its sight on the professor's face, and met him.

At this time, the other spherical protrusions on the surface of the meat were also cracked, and thirty or forty eyeballs looked at the professor in unison.

The professor took a step back subconsciously. With so many eyeballs staring at him, even he couldn't help feeling a little hairy.

But more excited—although the things under these bulbous protrusions are not the "nuclei" of the Seed of Erosion, at least this lump of tumor-like flesh has successfully differentiated into complete eyeballs, and, by observing the behavior of these eyeballs , Inside the piece of meat, there should still be this visual signal processing center, which is connected to these eyeballs through an organ similar to the "optic nerve".

Not only that, but this processing center can also control the muscles around the eyeball, allowing the eyeball to rotate, search and lock on the target...

This is a fully functional vision system!

The idea of ​​the experiment is right!The active cells of Seed of Erosion can completely serve as catalysts for "specimens", allowing these cloned cells that would only continue to divide and proliferate like malignant tumors to differentiate and form functional organs!

According to this idea, maybe the source of the "specimen"...the object that is not allowed to be studied...can be completely cloned!
They will change history!Humanity's technological level will climb to a peak that has never been reached... and his name will also be engraved on the monument of that peak!

In the old days, this was originally an ability that only "gods" had...but now, they can do it too!
The joy and excitement in the professor's heart was beyond words, but what he didn't notice was that the researcher sitting at the table saw such a scene, and sat on the chair so calmly without saying a word.

"Hmm... this young man's psychological quality is good, and he calmed down so quickly... Maybe he is a seedling that can be cultivated." The professor thought to himself, "his name should be given to the department after this research report." Go up...or simply transfer his file to your side and let him be your exclusive assistant."

"Now, try to induce the 'specimen' with a light source, observe its reaction and record it." The professor calmed down and said to the assistant researcher in as calm a voice as possible.

But the former turned a deaf ear to his instructions and sat motionless in his chair.

"Hello? What's wrong with you—"

The professor stretched out his hand and patted the young researcher's shoulder, and the latter turned his head slowly, causing the remaining half of the professor's words to be stuck in his throat, making him unable to say anything.

The young researcher's face was covered with numerous cracks... Under each crack was a bloodshot eyeball.

These dozens of eyeballs all turned to stare at the professor, but the eyes that originally belonged to the researcher were lifeless and dazed.

"This this……"

The professor pushed the researcher to the ground, and stumbled back a few steps.

The researcher's body was already frozen, he didn't get up from the ground, but turned his head with some difficulty, and continued to stare at the professor with those dozens of eyeballs.

"You, you two, block this laboratory immediately! Don't get close to him and the specimens!" The professor said to the two security guards who were at a loss, "I'll call someone to deal with the scene. Before I come back, don't let the Anyone entering this lab! Got it?"

"I understand..." The two security personnel replied, their bodies were also trembling because of fear—although the two of them didn't know what happened to the experiment, the researcher who fell to the ground had a look on his face. They can still see the densely packed eyes—that terrifying face, just by looking at it, it can never be erased from memory...

But even if they turned their heads and stopped looking at the researchers on the ground and the specimens on the table, they could still feel that those eyes, which seemed to be entities, were staying on their bodies.

The professor quickly walked through the disinfection room, took off the goggles and protective clothing, and stuffed them into the trash can with a biohazard sign. Then he took the disinfectant from the shelf and poured it into the trash can Poured half a bottle into it.

"It shouldn't be like this...it's impossible...there was no contact at all, why would it be contaminated...it's impossible! There must be a mistake in the experimental procedure! Damn it!"

The professor walked out while talking to himself, but at this moment, he suddenly felt an unbearable itching from the inside of his arm.

He stopped, and the expression on his face suddenly changed. After hesitating for a few seconds, he slowly stroked a section of his cuff.

On the inside of his arm, from the wrist to the elbow, there were inexplicably more than a dozen round, spherical bumps... the largest of them, the surface seemed to be about to crack...

[PS Conventional Disclaimer: All the content in this book involving scientific knowledge is fabricated for the needs of the plot. Any similarities are purely coincidental.

The author himself is a scumbag with a very low level of education. He doesn't know anything about this kind of high-end knowledge.This is a novel, not an academic paper, just read it for fun, don't take it seriously. 】

[PPS Thanks to book friend 20180704021759362 for the 1500 starting coins. 】

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