In the spring of 2523, a more brutal war started again. After mankind relied on the flames and giant shields to build a new insurmountable "high wall", no more people were infected.
The victims have become blood-stained marks that have disappeared in the long river of history.
The survivors still have to inherit the legacy of the deceased and stumble forward shouldering the responsibility of continuing the race to fight against the disaster.
In short, humans completely stabilized their position and then began to counterattack.
New disinfectants have been developed.
Isolation suits of new materials have been developed.
Nuclear fusion energy modules have become smaller and more portable, and can be loaded on individual motorcycles.
People moved forward little by little, slowly pushing the territory occupied by bacteria to the distant coastline.
The recovered persons who were infected with the virus and then barely recovered equipped themselves with semi-mechanized bodies and joined the construction team.
Humanity's defense line began to advance at a rate of several kilometers, ten kilometers or even dozens of kilometers per day.
Although some people will always fall silently on the way forward, those who come after will inevitably take over the equipment he left behind and inherit his will.
The bright red area representing the quarantine area is getting smaller and smaller on the map inch by inch.
The green safety zone belonging to human beings began to increase little by little.
Three years have passed.
Winter 2525.
The Eurasian continent, the American continent, and the African continent successively declared "liberation".
Australia is the only one left.
At the beginning of the disaster, Australia, which was relatively sparsely populated, was unable to organize effective resistance.
It has become a dead territory for humans and has become a paradise for animals and plants.
After a brief respite, in the spring of 2526, after a short period of recuperation, mankind dispatched the first advance team of 100,000 people to form a huge flying fleet and launch a final fierce attack on the S bacteria.
The decisive battle is about to begin.
Billions of people are standing or sitting, holding hands, standing shoulder to shoulder in front of projectors or TVs, or looking down at their mobile phones together.
The picture shows the scene of the advance team landing slowly.
First, the engineering ship sprayed flames to clear and drive away the rats hiding in the ground below.
Whether they were mice or other animals, they fled in a hurry under the heat of thousands of degrees.
This burning process lasted for more than three hours, and all ground animals fled.
Of course, there is not a single rat left that is famous for its agility.
Immediately afterwards, the engineering ship extended its cantilever and began to construct a high-heat isolation zone and a magnetic field shield through external operations.
One day passed, and the advance team established the first base area that once again belonged to humans on the dead Australian continent.
The medical ship took over the position of the engineering ship and began to spray into the air the highly efficient sterilization and disinfection spray that was successfully developed just half a month ago.
Superbugs are constantly evolving, and many disinfection methods that have been tried and tested in the past have gradually lost their effectiveness.
Its drug resistance is getting better and better, its protein shell is becoming more stable and difficult to destroy, and it becomes more invisible after entering the human body. The size of the bacteria has not changed much, but its DNA structure is becoming more and more
complex.
However, humans are not standing still, they are also moving forward.
The new spray worked very well. Ten minutes later, the ship-borne probe was disembarked from the hospital ship and began to collect air in the external environment.
More than twenty minutes later, no trace of S bacteria was detected in the petri dish, which meant that the concentration of S bacteria in this area dropped to 0.
The clean-up operation was a great success.
Then sprinkle a layer of organic powder on the surface of the soil that will release a "foul smell" that is deeply disgusted by all mammals.
After waiting for another half day, high-resolution geothermal imaging confirmed that there was no more warm-blooded mammal in this area.
Stable.
Since then, a green area representing a safe zone has appeared on the world map at the edge of the Australian continent, covering a total area of nearly one square kilometer.
Humanity has established a bridgehead to sound the clarion call for counterattack in Australia, the last stronghold of the S-bacteria.
The engineering ship took action again, opened the material warehouse and began to pile materials on the ground.
These materials will be gradually used by people driving construction machinery to build a second layer of safety cover on the ground.
Next, people will start to build various functional buildings within the safety cover, turning this place into a base with multiple functions such as research, residence, treatment, production, etc.
Engineering staff without isolation suits walked down to the ground on hanging ladders.
All mammals have been driven away. Under the shield of the magnetic field shield, external animals cannot approach in a short period of time. It is no longer possible for S bacteria to exist in this area.
The flamboyant young man smiled proudly, "If the S-bacteria also had a brain, wouldn't it be so angry that it would be so angry when it saw us standing arrogantly in its base camp?"
"Shut your stinky mouth and talk nonsense about some unlucky things? Get to work!"
The experienced middle-aged man scolded him severely.
The young man stuck out his tongue with an expression that he couldn't afford to offend.
Although the atmosphere is still tense, everything is progressing in an orderly manner.
No one expects to achieve success overnight, and everyone is mentally prepared for a long-term war.
Human beings firmly believe that the final victory must belong to themselves.
Everything seems to be going very smoothly.
Another twenty minutes passed, and the peace was suddenly broken.
The alarms in the hospital ship, engineering ship, and personnel transport ship sounded extremely suddenly and at the same time.
All the people who were not wearing isolation suits looked pale and looked at each other speechlessly.
"Why?"
"How is this possible!"
Everyone doesn't understand why.
It's obviously been done perfectly, but why is it still like this?
In just a moment, the vanguard members, whether they were still in the fleet or those who had landed, all fell into the same despair.
Even the few people wearing closed isolation suits are not feeling relaxed.
This feeling of despair and fear can even be completely conveyed to everyone on the planet through live video.
But the panic lasted only ten minutes.
The middle-aged man who had scolded the young man suddenly said loudly.
"Do you still remember the 626 Declaration?"
"Remember!" Everyone agreed in unison.
"So, cheer up! We are the advance team! Are the advance team members afraid of death? I ask you, are you afraid of death?"
"Don't be afraid!"
The middle-aged man nodded again, "Yes, we are not afraid of death. Before setting off, we were already prepared to sacrifice! Death is just dust returning to dust, dust returning to dust! But we will pave the way for those who come after us! Work
!We must find out the reason! Fight to the death and never retreat!"
"Fight to the death and never retreat!"
A day later, the conclusion was drawn.
It was a snake that brought S bacteria out of the ground again and harmed everyone.
Phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrates, class Reptiles, class Dipsera, order Snakes.
Australia's S bacteria have evolved again, jumping from rats to snakes.
People began to have a bad premonition in their hearts.
The infected suicide squads once again expanded their search scope and embarked on an unknown journey.
Another three days passed and the final conclusion was released.
The S bacteria here in Australia have evolved to the next stage.
Its infection range goes beyond mice and can infect all vertebrates!
This is too cruel, really too cruel.
Its evolution speed is simply outrageous.
No one knows where the limit of S bacteria is.
Perhaps one day, it will not be spared, along with other species that are microorganisms?
In such a vast world, is there still room for human beings?
Just thinking about that scene is enough to make the remaining eight billion people's scalps tingle.
Humanity once again took action immediately, using all its strength to try to block the entrances of all rivers to the sea.
Bad news keeps coming.
Not long after, a snail was also found to be an infectious agent. The territory of the bacteria expanded again.
Humanity has almost fallen into complete despair.
The sigh that hung in my heart almost disappeared.
However, things took a turn for the better half a year later. When all animals in Australia were infected for half a year, people found that the evolution of S bacteria had stagnated.
It's stuck at a bottleneck.
It seems that it is not so easy for bacteria to break out of the shackles of animals.
The sea has become a fragile barrier to protect human life.
Although there are still infected animals carrying S bacteria to other continents through the coastline, the defense lines built by humans with all their strength can still barely stop it.
However, nearly two billion people died in the past three years.
Some people suggest that it is time to blow up the Australian continent.
Completely destroying it will eliminate at least most of the S bacteria.
At this time, a scientist named Lai Wenming stood up. He rejected the proposal to sink the Australian continent and put forward another great conjecture. The evolutionary ability of bacteria is so powerful that it completely violates scientific common sense.
But the rules of the universe are fair after all. If you want to obtain super-class abilities, you must pay a corresponding price.
No matter how slow the normal mutation and evolution of microorganisms is, as long as the total amount of organisms reaches a certain level, the evolutionary process should be eternal and stable throughout.
The evolutionary process itself should not have clear-cut bottlenecks.
It should be a relatively smooth line, and if this line represents evolution, under the premise of infinite time, it should be endless and without boundaries.
Evolution should be a never-ending process.
But S bacteria are completely different.
Although it evolves quickly, it seems to be very deliberate every time, breaking through boundaries within a species, order, and family.
Judging from the sampling situation, S bacteria have never crossed two families of the same level at the same time. They always complete one first and then quickly jump to the other, just like jumping up the stairs, crossing one bottleneck after another.
Its evolution is towards leapfrog, one meal after another.
Therefore, the price for S bacteria to acquire super evolutionary capabilities is exactly the bottleneck it must face when evolving.
And its bottleneck has an end point.
When the ability of S bacteria reaches a certain limit, it will completely stop evolving and its DNA will stabilize.
By that time, as long as humans can capture the ultimate form of S bacteria before it spreads around the world, and based on its final stabilized DNA, we can create an effective broad-spectrum vaccine!
Because we captured their emperor!
To capture the thief, capture the king first!
Lai Wenming believes that the limit of S bacteria will appear when its vector crosses the realm of animals and enters the realm of all eukaryotic organisms.
Before it spreads, catch the ultimate form of the S-Bacteria King, dissect it, and make a vaccine!
The most likely place where the Poison King was born is the Australian continent!
If the Australian continent is blown up and the most active group of S bacteria is allowed to return to the sea, then everything will become a dream.
Moreover, it is impossible to predict whether ultra-large doses of nuclear radiation will lead to new violent mutations.
Completing Lai Wenming's plan is humanity's only chance to make a comeback, and it must be grasped tightly.
Of course, no one knows how much time is left for humanity.
Perhaps one day, the ultimate poison king will be born silently and multiply, becoming unstoppable.
"Gentlemen, charge."
"We must finish all the work before the Poison King is born!"
"Counterattack!"
"Put our detectors all over the Australian continent!"
"There's no time to wait. Anyway, even if I'm wearing an isolation suit, I'll be accidentally infected sooner or later, and it will also delay the efficiency of my work!"
"I won't wear an isolation suit! It's too slow, too slow!"
"Yes, there are not enough materials for isolation suits. Leave it to scientists and medical staff."
"When I die, my family will be proud of me."
"Report! All crew members of the C19915 engineering ship refused to wear isolation suits!"
"Approval. Wait for me."
The general mobilization order resounded throughout the starry sky of the solar system.
One fleet after another, full of suicide squads, took off and headed straight for the Australian continent.
Yes, it is clear that we can return, but no one has made the journey back.
Because no one can guarantee whether the returning spacecraft will be full of bacteria.
When going out for war, the warriors chose the path of no return and became martyrs.
Human beings began to sprinkle seeds of hope on Australian roads at a density of one probe per square kilometer.
Every seed represents the gradual extinguishing of the light of life for a bunch of volunteers.
Five years have passed.
In the past five years, hundreds of millions of volunteers have died on the Australian continent, and the populations on other continents have also dropped by nearly 100 million.
Those who went to Australia were death squads.
Those remaining on the coastlines of other continents are also death squads.
Humanity has built a total of 7.61 million integrated large-scale detection probes in Australia. It is a large-scale research institute used to analyze and decipher the DNA structure of S. bacteria, which can provide accurate data support for vaccine production.
In order to ensure accuracy and sensitivity, each probe is approximately equivalent to a thirty-story building, filled with various precision instruments.
On average, more than 80 people are sacrificed for every probe built.
Millions of volunteers have sacrificed their lives to build large-scale research institutes.
Most people here only have two months left to live.
There is no way.
Isolation suits are really not enough.
Even if you wear an isolation suit, your life span will only be a few months longer than if you don't wear one.
Fortunately, during these five years, the ultimate poison king S bacteria predicted by Lai Wenming did not emerge.
People began to wait in pain and anxiety.
Lai Wenming once again raised another matter.
One research institute is not enough.
Because no one knows how far the ultimate poison king’s diffusion ability will reach.
He hopes to build at least twenty research institutes, and each institute will have scientific researchers stationed there.
As soon as you discover it, you must start deciphering it as soon as possible!
Because if humans can grab one more second, it’s just one second.
Humanity began to fall into painful debates, and eventually the words supporting Lai Wenming prevailed.
The second great migration of no return begins.
More volunteers are heading to Australia one after another.
These people went to build more research institutes, or began intensive analysis and deciphering within the strictly guarded research institutes, constantly accumulating experience and valuable data.
The institute has isolation measures, which is slightly safer than in the wild, but S-bacteria are so difficult to prevent, accidents often occur, and the group is wiped out.
But after the group was destroyed, people did not panic. They remained calm, repaired the loopholes, and spent just two months of their lives, despite their sick bodies, to accumulate knowledge and try to decipher the characteristics of the Poison King.
After everyone in this batch was sacrificed, the institute fell into a deep sleep, waiting for the arrival of its successor, and then restarted work after a comprehensive clean-up of viruses.
In the past two years, a total of twenty research institutes have been completed evenly distributed across the Australian continent.
At this time, the total human population has dropped to four billion.
On the Australian mainland.
Abandoned warships filled the valley.
The bones of the dead stain the mountain peaks white.
Only the detection probe and the indicator light of the institute seem to shine forever and never go out. The bacteria still have not evolved into the ultimate poison king, but with every new sampling test, new changes in its DNA sequence can be found, but there are no
People know when quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes.
Humanity stopped building.
More and more experienced scientific researchers, medical workers, as well as young, old, male or female scientific research recruits and medical recruits who have grown up over the years are embarking on the journey again.
They live in a tomb called the Institute.
They call themselves the Tomb People.
The types of work of the people in the tomb are simply and roughly divided into several types.
Researchers are responsible for analyzing samples, hunters are responsible for putting on isolation suits and going out to collect samples, as well as medical staff are responsible for maintaining the life and mobility of patients as much as possible, and workers are responsible for logistics.
Every day, every hour, someone will be infected by the all-pervasive S bacteria that finds its way into the isolation suit.
Then the predator will take off his isolation suit and travel lightly.
These people are called walkers.
People in other types of work will put on isolation suits, walk out of the research institute, then take off their shirts and become walkers.
Walkers either walk or drive across the Australian continent to monitor every possible new infection vector.
During the last two months of their journey, they would often leave the base far and wide. Before they died, they would sing songs and pull the airtight chains of the body bags around themselves.
What they sang was "Self-Burning" by Zhong Lei with rewritten lyrics.
An unknown composer changed the rhythm of Xi Murong's "Out of the Sea" and inserted it into the rhythm of "Self-Burning".
Please sing me a breakout song
with forgotten ancient words
Please call gently with a beautiful vibrato
The great rivers and mountains in my heart
That's a scene that can only be seen outside the Great Wall
Who said the tune of the song is too sad?
If you don't like to hear it
That's because
There is no desire for you in the song
And we always have to sing again and again
Like the grassland shining with golden light for thousands of miles
Like the wind and sand whistling across the desert
Like the Yellow River Bank
Beside Yinshan Mountain
The hero rides a strong horse
Return home on horseback
…
Six years later.
A kind of humic yeast that has a mature body that is flocculent and has a diameter of only 0.8 microns. It can sway in the wind and even fly across the ocean and across continents. It was discovered near the Melbourne ruins.
A nearby traveler collected the samples and drove back.
A total of twenty research institutes have come into play.
This traveler is only half a day away from the nearest research institute in Melbourne.
After he left, space-based laser transmitters frantically swept the area.
At the same time, more and more travelers came from a distance with their motors roaring.
They are not here to collect samples.
Their mission is to use the flamethrowers on their bodies and the super-power filter exhaust fan on the car to kill as many of the ultimate poison kings as possible.
When the energy of their equipment is exhausted, they will even take a deep breath and then ignite themselves with flames.
Lai Wenming, who had been criticized by countless people for only telling others to die while hiding in the rear, boarded a spacecraft from the Siberian Research Base in northern Asia and headed straight for the Melbourne Research Institute.
As the only remaining Nobel Prize-level biologist in the world, and as a master of quantum biology and genetics, only Lai Wenming personally goes to the front line to decipher the secret of the ultimate poison king S bacteria as quickly as possible.
Twenty days later, Lai Wenming sent the complete analysis data and broad-spectrum vaccine gene design plan back to other continents.
Before sending back the data, Lai Wenming had already been the first to personally test a broad-spectrum vaccine made in a laboratory. Five minutes later, he cut off most of his liver and passed a genetic test, which showed a negative reaction.
He became the first human being to have immunity to S bacteria.
He laughed wildly, even though the huge hole in his waist was bleeding out.
Then he pressed the detonation button himself.
Start countdown.
Thirty seconds later, the 7.61 million probes spread across the continent and the nuclear fusion bombs hidden under twenty research institutes will detonate at the same time, emitting a heat comparable to the sun.
These nuclear fusion bombs are called the final line of defense.
Before his death, Lai Wenming sent back a generous and passionate voice message.
"The fungi carrying the ultimate poison king fungi have spread all over the Australian continent, and the nearby oceans have also been polluted. The final line of defense can eliminate 95.12% of the poison king fungi. It will take at least three years for the remaining poison king fungi to spread all over the world.
months.”
"I have completed the research and development of the vaccine. It only takes two months for you to go from cultivation to mass production and meet the requirements of more than one billion people."
"Everyone else is hiding! In half a year, all humans will have immunity to S bacteria!"
"I, Lai Wenming, have not insulted the name of my ancestors! You remember my name, Lai Wenming, and remember the name of my great-great...grandfather Ryan! He is the greatest scientist since the 21st century! And!
Me, ranked second! Everyone else is bullshit!"
"Humanity has won!"
boom……
The bright daytime fireworks light up the earth's sky.
The sun was eclipsed by it.
The earth trembled.
The thick dark clouds that have covered mankind for decades are torn apart by the brilliance of nuclear fusion.
The long-lost warm sunshine, after the scorching white light and the sweeping wind dissipated, once again filled the earth.
Three and a half billion voices sang "Self-Burn" at the same time.
People laughed with tears and were speechless and choked.
The intense sadness, yet hopeful emotion seems to have turned into reality, lingering in the upper atmosphere.
Humanity has ushered in a new dawn.
Eight years later, a tower with the names of the fallen was built from the top of Mount Everest, towering straight into the sky.
There are tens of billions of names, each one is a piece of history.
