our family is gone

Chapter 200 Fungal Parasites

Hearing this, Lance was not too surprised. He deliberately drove the family to the wilderness in the north to test and see the hidden threats in the wilderness.

But now it seems that the wilderness does not welcome his arrival at all...

"Notify everyone that a ferocious beast has been found north of Labor Farm, causing casualties, and keep everyone away until the army finishes clearing it.

At the same time, withdraw all the loggers over there, and then arrange them to other places. If you encounter strange things, don't approach them, and notify them as soon as possible. "

After Lance gave an order, he walked towards a building in the town. It was a former sanatorium and a converted prison. Now, after Paracelsus arrived, Lance directly left her as a research institute. .

In some cases, it was a circle, and finally returned to a certain function.

Few prisoners in Hamlet can be imprisoned here, because compared to prison, he prefers labor reform and must create value, otherwise who will give you free rice?

But some people cannot be compensated by labor, so they can only play other roles~
Those who can be imprisoned here must have been sentenced to death, because their current status is not prisoners, but experimental subjects.

Go up to the third floor, such a large and empty building, and there are still prisoners below, if you change someone, let alone a woman, even a man would not dare to stay, let alone live here.

But Paracelsus is a ruthless person, and she has been staying here since she came back. If Lance hadn't arranged for someone to deliver food at regular intervals, she might have even forgotten to eat.

Of course, it was this kind of person who devoted himself to research that Lance was looking for.

A room on the third floor was arranged as a laboratory, and a complete set of alchemy equipment was placed on the table beside it, which was actually equipment for chemistry.

And Paracelsus was writing something at her desk, and on the test tube rack in front of her was a row of blue potions of different shades.

"Have you figured it out?" Lance leaned over and asked.

"The potions you gave me should have been diluted. The potions I recovered had a stronger effect than the samples you gave. Subject No. [-] was very excited after drinking it, but soon became anxious and manic, and continued to It took about three hours, until the effect of the medicine began to wear off after five hours, but it died of exhaustion after seven hours. I dissected the test body and found..."

There is a complete operation process, as well as samples, and there are also sufficient materials. If she can't figure it out, she won't be liked.

It's just that this medicine for tigers and wolves is really not simple, but it is Paracelsus who makes Lance's scalp tingle even more.

Originally, he thought that he was cold-blooded and cruel enough, but he didn't expect that she was the ruthless person.

Seven hours to die is pretty strong.

Noticing Lance's weird reaction, she took one off the shelf in front of her and handed it over.

"You can give it a try."

"Thank you, I don't need this~" Lance shook his head and declined her kindness.

Lance didn't expect her to say another sentence.

"Really don't want it? I have diluted this ratio, and I have used No. [-] test. The effect of the drug is only one hour. Although the experiment will be very tired after the effect of the drug wears off, it has not died until now."

"Continue to decrease, the effect of the medicine will be reduced to half an hour..." Lance suddenly realized the purpose of his coming, and changed his words helplessly: "Put these things aside for now, you go out with me."

"I'm busy." Paracelsus naturally refused, put the potion back on the shelf and picked up the pen again.

"I found a very special corpse, you will be interested."

Hearing this, she paused, turned her head to look at Lance, and got up after a little hesitation.

"where is it?"

"Bring your things, this thing is a little dangerous."

Lance knew what she wanted, and he could handle her with a single sentence...

In the wilderness near the farm, a strange corpse covered with yellow and white mushrooms lay on the ground like this.

Paracelsus, who was wearing a plague doctor suit, was examining the corpse. It must be said that this weird corpse really aroused her desire for research.

Lance covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief and stood not far away to check the marks on the ground. This guy was not Sam, but one of Sam's sons.

But it stands to reason that when their family went in, he escaped alone. Although he didn't escape successfully, Lance wanted to know what happened.

"Can I take this home?"

The dull voice drew his attention back, but he couldn't agree to the doctor's request. What if this thing broke out in the town?
"No, this is a plague. I will set up a tent nearby for you to study."

Hearing this, Paracelsus didn't react too much. She didn't care about the poor conditions, as long as she could continue to study.

"The time of the deceased's death is uncertain, but what is certain is that he bears the scars caused by some kind of beast. The strange thing is that there is no blood or corruption in his body parts, and his muscles are obviously atrophied.

It can be predicted that if there is no external force interference, I am afraid that the corpse will eventually become a mummified corpse covered with mushrooms. I suggest waiting a few days to see other symptoms. "

"Are the eyes black?" Lance asked suddenly.

"That's right, the eyes are completely black. The specific situation is unclear at present, and it needs to be dissected to get it..." Paracelsus was a little surprised, he didn't expect him to notice this.

After getting confirmation, Lance remembered the black-eyed crazy beasts Barristan mentioned earlier.

It was just that suddenly, the body that couldn't die any more suddenly twitched, and the stiff limbs began to tremble.

Paracelsus had originally focused on Lance when he answered, and the mask blocked his vision, so he didn't notice this at all, but saw him pull out a gun and point it at him.

Before she could react, the gunshot rang out, and she only saw a burst of flames in front of her eyes, and her body shrank instinctively.

It's just that the body didn't feel any pain in the next second. Paracelsus was extremely calm, knowing that he couldn't miss it at such a distance, so the target of this shot was not himself, but what did he want?
Just as he was about to ask questions, he heard the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground behind him.

Looking back, the corpse crawled up at some point, and it was still alive after taking a shot, and it wobbled again and wanted to get up again.

"what!"

With a cry of surprise, seeing the corpse get up again, Paracelsus, who had been terribly courageous before, was so frightened by this thing that he fell to the ground directly.

"Go away!" Lance had already changed a gun in his hand, urging her to leave.

You are fucking in my way!

I don't know why Paracelsus, who was stunned, only reacted after hearing the sound, and scrambled away from here.

And the second shot was also fired, the bullet whizzed past and hit the head, and finally the corpse stopped thumping and stopped completely.

It's useless to hit the body, you have to hit the head, what is the principle?
And Lance also seemed to find something. There were a lot of mushrooms on the corpse on the upper body, especially on the head. Does it matter?

But now is not the time to think about these things, he set his sights on Paracelsus, even through the mask, he could feel her still panic.

He didn't think that the guy who could go to steal the corpse at night would be frightened by the dead. The real reason might be that the resurrection of the corpse had shaken her scientific concept.

Because in her "scientific" cognition, the dead will not be resurrected, but in this world...

Lance can only say that her scientific ideas are not scientific enough.

"You know, there's a kind of ants in nature, they're sluggish, they have a fungus growing on their heads, which is a kind of mushroom, but it's actually the fungus that actually controls the ants.

As for the principle, it is very simple, that is, the fungus parasitizes on the head of the ants, and affects the ants by releasing certain substances, just like you feed the experimental body medicine, how simple it is.

You say you are scientific, but you don’t study the principle or the cause of the disease in the face of a situation that violates common sense. What are you afraid of here? "

Paracelsus didn't understand the meaning of these words, so he reacted.

Yes!What are you afraid of?On the contrary, it is excellent research material.

Fear is dispelled, and the heart is filled with curiosity instead.

It's just that when she got up and looked back at the corpse, she found that the head was beaten into a paste, and she couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, because she was afraid that she would lose precious materials.

"I want to apply for inoculation with experimental subjects for infection research."

Lance couldn't help frowning when he heard her words. This guy really doesn't take human life seriously, and he wants to do live experiments directly.

There are only a dozen pirates locked up now, one of them was killed in a few days, and now they come again, how much will it be enough for her to play like this?
But Lance also thought of something. He had heard of the name of the little white mouse. How could such a good experimental material not be produced? Isn't it domesticated from ordinary musculus?

There are not many others, but the granary does not know how much it can catch in a day.

It's a pity that it's not realistic to want to get it out right now...

But the problem is that based on the existing information, I am afraid that this plague has spread in the wilderness. He really needs to know more information, especially the transmission route of this plague, and the treatment method.

Originally, I wanted to prepare some more forces before preparing to do it, but now it seems that if it cannot be resolved as soon as possible, the plague will spread to Hamlet by then.

damn it!The mess left by the old stuff...

"Yes, I want to determine the transmission method of this plague as soon as possible, and then the prevention and treatment methods." Lance made a decision and agreed to her application.

It is better to use the lives of these heinous people to explore the way than to use the lives of our own people.

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"Experiment No. [-] did not show obvious infection after three days of contact with the exposed environment, and bacterial plaque appeared on the wound only one day after the wound appeared, and then spread to the whole body through an indeterminate way.

The infected person will not enter the state of death immediately, but will become a culture medium. Anatomy shows that the fungus grows from the inside out, and the muscles and internal organs will begin to fibrosis, just like fungi.

After three days, the skin will also become fibrous and turn brown-black, and its texture will become tough. Knowing that there is no blood, and the internal organs are also fibrosis, even the heart stops beating! "

Speaking of this, Paracelsus was a little excited, and brought Lance to a tent, in which was a dissected late-stage infection experiment subject.

It can be seen that the skin of the corpse is like shriveled tree bark, with irregular brown and black spots, while some are large bright yellow bumps, and some of the bumps that have been dissected can be seen that the inside has not yet emerged. mushrooms.

These things are densely covered in the whole body, especially on the head. Blossoms of yellow umbrella and white stem mushrooms grow from the eye sockets, mouth, nose, and ears. The weird appearance makes people suffer from intensive phobia and scalp numbness just by looking at it. , Feeling an instinctive disgust, wanting to stay away.

But it didn't stop there, the experimental subject's head was sawed open, revealing the brain inside, and a more terrifying scene appeared in front of his eyes, the roots of those mushrooms were tiny white threads, all rooted in the brain.

What he saw was that the whole brain was entangled in dense white threads, but it still twitched slightly after getting out of the exposure, like jelly.

"Is that why you called me here?"

"When the germs took control of the body after three days, except for the brain, everything else had lost signs of life. The only explanation was that the germs were keeping the brain alive.

I have tested that this is a flesh-loving bacteria that only reacts to flesh and blood. Under the control of the bacteria, the matrix will tend to lean toward flesh and blood, and if no flesh and flesh can be found, it will fall into a dormant state.

And when the flesh and blood life body approaches, it will be reactivated, which is the resurrection phenomenon we discovered at that time.

After the resurrection, the specific performance is stiff, but it will attack all flesh and blood life forms. It is estimated that the purpose is to spread. "

After hearing this, Lance also had a general understanding of the germ, as long as it wasn't spread through the air through spores.

His worst fear is that the spores are inhaled into the lungs, the fungus infects the lungs with fibrosis, and then the mushrooms come out.

These reminded him of bad memories, because he couldn't control it at all, even if he burned all the infected people, he couldn't do anything unless he abandoned this place.

Is this the old trick?
Use biological weapons to create isolation zones that make it difficult for people to enter.

The fact that biological weapons are out of control makes him feel an infinite sense of crisis. No one knows whether wilderness creatures will mutate after being infected. If there is some kind of plague, Hamlet will become a dead place. Efforts are in vain.

"I can't wait any longer! Get ready, I'm going to organize people to go into the wilderness to investigate how the situation has progressed."

Lance looked more serious than ever.

"But my research is not yet complete."

"There are more experimental subjects and more samples in the wilderness. There is no better laboratory than this."

Lance threw out a sentence and directly suppressed her opinion.

(End of this chapter)