The rise of nanometers

The undercurrent of Blue Star is surging, and there are not many abnormalities in Guanghan Palace City far away on the moon, or in the Outpost 2 base.

After more than two months, Yao Guoxian's team finally recovered all the fragments that fell on the moon's surface in that meteor shower.

During this period.

Xizhou Space Agency and Lucia Space Agency have put aside some differences and plan to join hands to enter the moon.

In these two months, Xizhou Space Administration launched three lunar landing missions, one of which failed and two of which were successful.

The Lucia Space Agency also launched a lunar mission and also successfully landed on the moon.

The three lunar landing missions all revolved around the Alpine base. At this time, the Alpine base had changed from the previous three space capsules to 15 space capsules, and there were also two astronauts.

These two astronauts came over on Lucia's lunar spaceship, one astronaut each from Xizhou and Lucia.

NASA is also not idle.

In just over two months, five lunar missions were successfully launched, four of which were to expand the Outpost 2 base.

At present, the scale of the Outpost 2 base has been expanded to 32 space capsules, and two astronauts have been added. At this time, there are a total of four astronauts in the Outpost 2 base.

The two newcomers are both biochemical scientists prepared by NASA.

The two people before, Phillips and Ballou, felt that their lives were in jeopardy after being frightened for more than half a month.

Inside the Outpost 2 base at this time.

The newly constructed affiliated biochemical research area is composed of six independent space capsules, about 375 meters away from the main base.

Obviously NASA has learned its lesson and made new adjustments just in case. If this arrangement were not made, Phillips and Ballou would probably give up their responsibilities immediately.

After David was infected and died, both of them were frightened and almost fell ill, and suffered a nervous breakdown for a long time.

The two new scientific research astronauts: Jack and Neptune, were quite calm, but they also specifically requested NASA to rearrange a research area to facilitate isolation.

Within the affiliated research area.

The previously frozen body of David, the meteorite fragments, and the fungal aggregates in the petri dish were all moved here.

Jack put on protective clothing and conducted preliminary experiments on fluorescent fungi in the space capsule where the indoor temperature was only 4 degrees Celsius.

The reason for choosing such a low room temperature is mainly to suppress the activity of fluorescent fungi.

After Jack's preliminary research, once the temperature drops below minus 24.6 degrees Celsius, the fluorescent fungus will enter a dormant state.

When the temperature is lower than 6 degrees Celsius and higher than minus 24.6 degrees Celsius, the activity of fluorescent fungi will drop by about 80%, and it will basically not reproduce rapidly on a large scale.

In addition, in order to prevent fluorescent fungi from devouring the plastic materials of the protective suits, NASA specially customized five sets of special biochemical protective suits from the ground, which were specially coated with several layers of inorganic films to resist corrosion by fluorescent fungi.

Otherwise, ordinary protective clothing may not be able to fully protect researchers if they are exposed to fluorescent fungi for a long time.

After all, the fact that fluorescent fungi can corrode plastic products is really disturbing.

Researchers are also human beings. It is impossible for them to know the danger and not take relevant measures.

Under the microscope, Jack observed for a few minutes and found that the cultured bacteria in the glass petri dish were slowly moving.

This situation made Jack frown. Although the low temperature environment could inhibit the activity and reproduction speed of the glowing fungus, the ability of this strange creature really frightened him.

At this time, Neptune came from another scientific research cabin, holding a tablet computer and saying through the helmet's communicator:

"Jack, I measured the mutation of 30 samples. This damn thing mutates too fast. The average gene mutation rate is about 7.13%."

"Really?" Jack continued to observe: "If possible, I don't recommend transporting this fungus back to Blue Star. It's too dangerous."

Neptune nodded, but said helplessly: "Indeed, we are just small people, and those gentlemen probably won't listen to us."

The more the two of them studied, the more worried they became.

After all, the infectivity, mutation speed, environmental adaptability, and lethality of the fluorescent fungus are too powerful. As a researcher, although they may not mind the death of mice and chimpanzees, it does not mean that they are cold-blooded.

If this fungus were allowed to spread on a large scale in Blue Star, their family members would probably die as well.

Jack even had the idea of ​​destroying all the samples in his mind, because he didn't believe those capitalist gentlemen.

At least NASA has not yet issued an order for them to prepare to transport the glowing fungus samples back to Blue Star. This is why Jack did not act impulsively.

He and Neptune didn't know that Noah would have been chained by the Federation, otherwise they wouldn't be so worried.

The two of them have been communicating secretly these days. If NASA wants to transport the glowing fungus back to Blue Star, the two of them will act immediately to destroy all the samples.

In front of the entire human life, Jack already had the idea of ​​dying together.

The two of them carefully studied the glowing fungus with complicated emotions, especially in the research on inhibitors and killing drugs. They both invested a lot of energy.

As for Noah asking them to research biological weapons and genetically modified fluorescent fungi that can promote evolution, both of them adopted an attitude of obedience.

The bottom line of many scientists is that at least they are not as shameless and ignorant as capitalists.

Just like Jack and Neptune, they are very in awe of biotechnology because they understand the horror of biotechnology.

Capitalists think they can control living things, but they don’t know that living things can evolve. Even animals in zoos cannot be completely domesticated by humans, let alone brainless microorganisms.

The final result of a civilization that plays with biological weapons is very likely to be destroyed by the biological weapons it develops.

Jack, a soft-spoken man, knew that he could not persuade Noah to join the senior management, so he was ready for a backup plan.

It's been a busy day.

After Jack and Neptune destroyed the experimental samples, they conducted deep disinfection of their entire bodies before returning to the main base.

For safety reasons, the living areas of the two, Phillips and Ballou are in separate capsules.

The two parties can only communicate through video calls and communicators.

If they really need to meet, they will wear protective clothing and meet in a special space capsule, or they will be quarantined for half a month and pass a comprehensive physical examination before being allowed to meet with low protection.

Neither party had much opinion on this arrangement. After seeing the terrifying infectivity of the Yinghuo fungus, they really didn't dare to be too reckless.

Because David was too dissolute, not only did he not get any honors, but he also lost his life.

Back in the living area, Jack went to clean himself first, while Neptune heated food and prepared today's dinner.

At the small dining table, the two of them ate without saying a word.

On the computer monitor next to it, some relayed TV news was playing. As for receiving the signal from Toad Palace TV, there was no need to think about it.

After the last incident at Outpost 1, NASA re-examined the situation at the Outpost 1 base and discovered that the two astronauts were secretly listening to Toad Palace TV programs. NASA will definitely not allow this kind of thing to continue to happen.

Therefore, inside Outpost 2, there is basically no way to receive the program signals from Toad Palace TV.

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