Season 1: The Islands Are Dead Chapter 77: The Gaze of Death
Lu Yan left the BSL-3 laboratory and did not continue to work. Seeing that there was no one in the rest area, she went over and poured a glass of water and sat down. The experience just now really required her to sort it out, and her body was also
I'm a little tired and need to take a rest.
After drinking a glass of water, there was no new clue. Just as Lu Yan was deep in thought, Hao Li walked over from a distance.
Seeing Hao Li, Lu Yan immediately put on a mask, and when she stood up to leave, she took the water glass she had used with her.
Hao Li came over with a cheerful face and said with a smile: "Sister Yan, um..."
"We'll talk about it later." Looking at Hao Li walking towards her, Lu Yan interrupted her decisively and passed by her in a hurry.
"This is too much work! Sure enough, my brother and I are a perfect match!" Hao Li, who was left alone and messy in the wind, said to herself.
Lu Yan returned to her laboratory first, used a blood collection needle to take a few drops of fingertip blood, and placed them in several vacuum petri dishes, and then took these petri dishes into the BSL-3 laboratory.
She first observed a petri dish containing her own blood under a microscope. After comparison, she found that a small number of red blood cells in her blood had a tail, and the red blood cells with tails were larger than normal red blood cells.
Lu Yan made sure again that she was not dazzled and recorded it. Then she took out a new petri dish, took a small piece from the part cut off from the mysterious fungus, and put it into the blood in the petri dish.
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Under the microscope, the fungal fragments that entered the blood showed no obvious changes at first, except that the area surrounded by blood showed a very regular zigzag shape. But after ten minutes, the fungal structure inside the fungal fragments began to change drastically, and they were mutually exclusive.
They begin to eat each other, and then the surviving fungi will mutate into another form, and eventually all the fungi in the fragment will turn into one large fungus.
Looking at the changes in the microscope, Lu Yan's eyes almost popped out of her head, and she didn't even notice the sweat on her forehead. Because this made her feel scared in her heart, but her desire for knowledge made her unable to stop.
Step into exploration.
Based on her current knowledge, what she just saw was equivalent to a group of different mushrooms placed in a box. They were eating each other. In the end, only one mushroom ate all the others. The most important thing is that
The only mushroom that survived had some kind of corresponding mutation due to the mushrooms it swallowed. To be precise, it was no longer the original mushroom, but a combination of this basket of mushrooms.
Although Lu Yan couldn't believe all this, it really happened in front of her eyes.
"Cough...cough...cough..." Despite the increasingly violent cough, Lu Yan carefully stared at the changes in the microscope.
After about 10 minutes, the serrations around the fragment began to slowly lengthen, like needles piercing the blood. When the length of the serrations reached about the radius of the fungus fragment, they stopped growing.
About 5 minutes later, those needle-like serrations suddenly shrank rapidly and penetrated into the fragments of the giant fungus in reverse, instantly dividing the giant fungus into several equal parts.
The evenly divided giant fungi squirmed quickly along the cut edges, and then gradually distanced themselves from each other. Each divided part was constantly enlarging, shrinking, enlarging again, shrinking again... over and over again.
After I don't know how many times, it began to gradually stabilize into a long and thin strip.
After seeing the divided parts of the fungus taking shape for the first time, Lu Yan was shocked and felt that it looked familiar, but she did not recognize it at the first time.
Just when she was about to take a closer look, the divided parts began to move quickly in all directions. When they met the red blood cells, they would insert half of the body into the red blood cells, and the inserted parts would gradually fuse inside the red blood cells, making
As the red blood cells become larger in size, the remaining half of the body will slowly become smaller, just like the red blood cells with small tails that Lu Yan saw in her blood before.
"Parasite!!!" For some reason, this thought suddenly came to Lu Yan's mind.
In fact, all the previous phenomena were like parasites looking for a host. Lu Yan shook her head again, denying her own thoughts.
Lu Yan didn't have time to waste too much time on these matters.
Then, she quickly recorded all the experimental information and started the next experiment. There was still something she didn't quite understand waiting for her to explore.
This time she took a small drop of blood from a new petri dish and dropped it into the remaining fungus fragments. Compared to the size of the fragments, the drop of blood was much smaller.
The beginning was similar to the last experiment, except this time a reverse zigzag structure was formed around the blood droplet, surrounding the entire small blood droplet in the middle.
As time went by, the jagged structure inside the small blood droplet began to grow longer, as if it wanted to divide the small blood droplet equally.
However, when these serrations met in the center, they began to retreat quickly, and did not divide the small blood droplets equally like last time. Then the small blood droplets were sucked into the interior of the fragment, and all the fungi inside the fragment began to surround
The small blood droplets are constantly squirming, and the shape of the small blood droplets also changes with their squirming.
Finally, the fungi returned to calm. At this time, the small blood droplets were arranged into two almost parallel filaments, which looked very similar to the two enlarged DNA chains. From time to time, they would change directions among the fragments, just like
Like it's being studied.
Lu Yan stopped the experiment in her hands and stood there in a daze, not knowing what she was thinking. At this time, her close-fitting clothes were soaked with her sweat. She didn't know whether it was because she was too weak or because today's discovery was too shocking.
.If she were still a student, she would definitely be excited by today's discovery, but now she feels deep fear from today's discovery, which stems from the instinctive fear of unknown things.
She even regretted doing these experiments today. Without today's discovery, it would be a blessing to die in ignorance.
"Cough...cough...cough..." Another violent cough brought Lu Yan back to reality. She let out a long sigh. She closed the notebook and wrote "
The word "monster".
Chapter completed!