In the spring of 2523, a more tragic war broke out again. After relying on the new insurmountable "high wall" built by flame and giant shield, no more people were infected at last.
The victims have become bloodstained marks that have disappeared in the long river of history.
Survivors still have to inherit the will of the dead and stagger forward with the responsibility of continuing race against disaster.
In short, mankind completely stabilized its footing and began to counterattack.
New disinfectants have been developed.
Isolation suits made of new materials have been developed.
Nuclear fusion energy modules become smaller and more portable and can be loaded on individual motorcycles.
People pushed forward a little bit, slowly pushing the isolation area occupied by bacteria to the distant coastline.
Those who were infected with the virus and then barely cured fitted themselves with semi mechanized bodies and joined the construction team.
The human defense line began to advance at the speed of several kilometers, ten kilometers or even dozens of kilometers a day.
Although there are still some people who will fall on the way forward silently, the latecomers are bound to take over the equipment left by him and inherit his will at the same time.
The bright red area representing the isolation area decreases inch by inch on the map.
The green safety zone belonging to mankind began to increase bit by bit.
Three years later.
Winter 2525.
The Eurasian continent, the American continent and the African continent have successively declared "liberation".
Only Australia is left.
At the beginning of the disaster, Australia, which was relatively sparsely populated, could not organize effective resistance at all.
It has become a dead territory for human beings and a paradise for animals and plants.
After a short respite, in the spring of 2526, after a short rest, mankind sent the first advance team of 100000 people to form a huge flight fleet to launch a final attack on s bacteria.
A showdown is imminent.
Billions of people either stand or sit, or hold hands, or stand shoulder to shoulder in front of projectors and televisions, or look down at mobile phones together.
The picture shows the scene of the advance team landing slowly.
First, the engineering ship carried out flame spraying to remove and drive away the rats hidden under the ground.
Whether mice or other animals, they fled in a hurry under the high heat of thousands of degrees.
The roasting lasted more than three hours, and all ground animals fled.
Of course, there is no mouse left, which is famous for its alertness.
Then, the engineering ship extended its cantilever and began to build a high thermal isolation zone and magnetodynamic field shield through external operation.
One day later, the advance team established the first human base on a dead Australian continent.
The medical ship took over the position of the engineering ship and began spraying it into the air only half a month ago.
Superbacteria have been evolving, and many disinfection methods that have been tried repeatedly in the past have gradually lost their effect.
Its drug resistance is getting better and better, the protein watch case is more stable and more difficult to be destroyed, and becomes more hidden after entering the human body.
The volume of s bacteria has not changed much, but its DNA structure is becoming more and more complex.
However, human beings are also moving forward.
The new spray is very effective. After ten minutes, the ship borne probe is used to dispose of the medical ship, and the air in the external environment begins to collect.
More than 20 minutes later, no s-bacteria residue was detected in the Petri dish, indicating that the s-bacteria concentration in this area decreased to 0.
The clean-up was a great success.
Then sprinkle a layer of organic powder on the surface of the land that will release the "stench" hated by all mammals.
After waiting for half a day, through high-resolution geothermal imaging, it was determined that there was no constant temperature mammal in this area.
Steady.
Since then, a green area representing the safety zone has appeared on the edge of the Australian continent on the world map, covering a total area of nearly one square kilometer.
Humans have established a bridgehead to sound the horn of counter attack in Australia, the last stronghold of s bacteria.
The engineering ship moved again, opened the material warehouse and began to pile materials on the ground.
These materials will be gradually used by people driving construction machinery, which can build a second layer of safety cover on the ground.
Next, people will begin to build various functional buildings in the safety cover, turning it into a base with multiple functions such as research, residence, treatment, production and so on.
The engineers without isolation clothes stepped down the hanging ladder.
All mammals have been driven away. Under the shelter of the magnetic field shield, external animals cannot approach in a short time. It is impossible to have s bacteria in this area.
The flamboyant young man smiled proudly, "if s bacteria also have brains, it will blow up its lungs when it sees us standing in its base camp like this?"
"Shut your mouth and talk nonsense. What's unlucky? Work!"
The experienced middle-aged man scolded him severely.
The young man stuck out his tongue with an expression that he could not provoke.
Although the atmosphere is still tense, everything is advancing in an orderly manner.
No one expects to achieve it overnight. Everyone is mentally prepared for a long-term war of resistance.
Mankind firmly believes that the final victory must belong to itself.
Everything seems to be going very well.
More than 20 minutes later, the peace was suddenly broken.
The alarms in medical ships, engineering ships and personnel transport ships sounded at the same time.
All the people who didn't wear isolation clothes were pale and speechless.
"Why?"
"How is this possible!"
Everyone doesn't understand why.
Obviously, they have been perfect, but why is it still like this.
For a moment, whether they were still in the fleet or the advance team that had landed, they all fell into the same despair.
Even a few people wearing closed isolation clothes are not relaxed.
This feeling of despair and fear can even be fully conveyed to everyone on earth through live video.
But the panic lasted only ten minutes.
The middle-aged man who scolded the young man suddenly shouted.
"Do you remember the 626 declaration?"
"Remember!" everyone agreed in unison.
"So, cheer up! We are the advance team! Are the advance team afraid of death? I asked you, are you afraid of death?"
"Not afraid!"
The middle-aged man nodded again, "yes, we are not afraid of death. Before we set out, we were ready to sacrifice! Death is just dust to dust, earth to earth! But we will pave the way for the latecomers! Work! We must find out the reason! We will never retreat!"
"Fight to death!"
A day later, come to a conclusion.
It was a snake that brought s bacteria out of the ground again and harmed everyone.
Chordate vertebrate subphylum Reptilia dipyridae snakes.
S bacteria in Australia have evolved again, jumping from rats to snakes.
People began to have a bad feeling in their hearts.
The infected death squads once again expanded their search scope and embarked on an unknown journey.
Three more days later, the final conclusion came out.
S bacteria in Australia have evolved to the next stage.
Its infection range is beyond the limit of mice and can infect all vertebrates!
This is too cruel, really too cruel.
It has evolved at an appalling rate.
No one knows where the limit of s bacteria is.
Perhaps one day, it will not be spared along with other species of microorganisms?
Is there a place for human beings?
Just thinking about such a scene is enough to numb the scalp of the remaining 8 billion people.
Once again, human beings immediately took action and tried their best to block the inlets of all rivers.
Bad news came one after another.
Before long, a snail was also found to be infected.
The territory of s bacteria has expanded again.
Human beings are almost in complete despair.
The breath of a hanging in the heart almost dissipated.
However, things turned around half a year later. When all animals in Australia were infected for half a year, it was found that the evolution of s bacteria stagnated.
It's stuck in a bottleneck.
It seems that jumping out of the shackles of animals is not so easy for s bacteria.
The sea has become a fragile barrier to protect human life.
Although infected animals still bring s bacteria to other continents through the coastline, the defense line built by human beings can still be barely stopped.
However, nearly two billion people have died in the past three years.
It was suggested that it was time to blow up the Australian mainland.
Completely destroy it, at least eliminate most s bacteria.
At this time, a scientist named Lai Wenming stood up. He denied the proposal to sink the Australian mainland and put forward another great conjecture.
The evolutionary ability of s bacteria is so strong that it completely violates scientific common sense.
But the rules of the universe are fair after all. If you want to obtain the ability of superclass, you must pay the corresponding price.
Normal microbial variation and evolution, no matter how slow, but as long as the total amount of organisms is large to a certain extent, the process of evolution should be eternal and stable throughout.
The evolutionary process itself should not have clear bottlenecks.
That should be a relatively smooth line, and this line representing evolution, if under the premise of infinite time, should be endless and have no boundary.
Evolution should be a never-ending process.
But s bacteria are very different.
Although its evolution is fast, it seems to be very deliberate every time, breaking across boundaries at the level of a species compendium.
According to the sampling situation, s bacteria never crossed two compendium families of the same level at the same time. They all completed one at first and then quickly jumped to the other, just like jumping platform steps, crossing bottleneck by bottleneck.
Its evolution is like frog leaping, one meal, one meal, stable and violent.
Therefore, the cost of s bacteria obtaining super evolutionary ability is the bottleneck it must face in evolution.
In addition, everyone knows that the normal evolutionary direction of all microorganisms that can attack humans and mutate rapidly should not be to kill humans blindly.
Human beings, viruses and bacteria should interact and coexist with each other.
The evolution of bacteria must follow the law, which is to develop in a direction more conducive to its own existence.
Biological instinct should be self survival.
Its normal evolutionary direction is to continuously improve its viability and transmission ability, but its lethality to human host carrier is bound to continue to decline.
It should eventually become the same community of destiny as the probiotics in our intestines.
But s bacteria have no such sign at all.
This is completely contrary to common sense. It is extremely widespread and lethal.
It's against the rules of the universe!
Therefore, I think it should and must have defects. This defect is that it must have an insurmountable bottleneck, that is, the end of evolution!
Other life has no end, it has!
When the ability of s bacteria reaches a certain limit, it will completely stop evolution and its DNA will stabilize.
At that time, as long as human beings can capture the ultimate form of s bacteria before it spreads all over the world, and make an effective broad-spectrum vaccine according to its finally stable DNA!
Because we caught their emperor!
Catch the thief and the king first!
Lai Wenming believes that the limit of s bacteria will appear at the moment when its carrier crosses the field of animals and enters the field of all eukaryotes.
Before it spreads, seize the ultimate form of s bacteria and poison king, dissect it and make a vaccine!
The most likely place where the drug king was born is mainland Australia!
If we blow up the Australian mainland and let the most active group of s bacteria return to the sea, everything will become a dream.
Moreover, it is impossible to predict whether a large dose of nuclear radiation will lead to new drastic variations.
The completion of Lai Wenming's plan is the only chance for mankind to turn the tables, which must be firmly grasped.
Of course, no one knows how much time is left for mankind.
Perhaps one day, the ultimate poison king will be born silently and multiply, which can no longer be stopped.
"Gentlemen, charge."
"We must finish all the work before the poison king is born!"
"Counterattack!"
"Spread our detectors all over the Australian continent!"
"There's no time to wait. Anyway, it's the same with wearing isolation clothes. Sooner or later, I'll get caught accidentally and delay my work efficiency!"
"I don't wear isolation clothes! It's too slow, too slow!"
"Yes, the material of isolation clothes is not enough. Leave it to scientists and medical personnel."
"When I die, my family will be proud of me."
"Report! C19915 engineering ship, all personnel refuse isolation clothes!"
"Approve. Wait for me."
The mobilization order resounded through the stars of the solar system.
One after another fleet full of death squads took off and went straight to the Australian mainland.
Yes, you can return, but no one is on the way home.
Because no one can guarantee whether the returning ship will be covered with bacteria.
When they set out, the warriors chose not to return and became martyrs.
Mankind began to spread the seeds of hope on the Australian road with the density of one probe per square kilometer.
Each seed represents the gradual extinction of the light of life of a group of volunteers.
Five years have passed.
In these five years, hundreds of millions of volunteers have been sacrificed on the Australian mainland, and the population of other continents has also decreased by nearly 100 million.
The one who went to Australia was the death squads.
Those left on the coastline of other continents are also death squads.
A total of 7610000 integrated large-scale detection probes have been established in Australia, a large Research Institute for analyzing and deciphering 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 about equivalent to a 30 story building filled with various precision instruments.
On average, more than 80 people will be sacrificed for each probe.
Millions of volunteers sacrificed in the construction of large research institutes.
Most people here have only two months left.
No way out.
The isolation suit is really not enough.
Even if you wear isolation clothes, you can only live a few months longer than those you don't wear.
Fortunately, during these five years, the ultimate king s bacterium predicted by Lai Wenming was not born.
People began to fall into pain and anxious waiting.
Lai Wenming once again raised another matter.
A 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 20 research institutes, and each of them will have permanent researchers.
As long as you find it, you must start deciphering it at the first time!
Because human beings can grab one more second, that is one second.
Mankind began to fall into a painful debate, and finally supported Lai Wenming's remarks to prevail.
The second large-scale migration without return began.
More volunteers went to Australia one after another.
These people go to build more research institutes, or start intensive analysis and interpretation within the research institutes that are strictly guarded, and constantly accumulate experience and valuable data.
The Institute has isolation measures, which is slightly safer than that in the field, but s bacteria are really hard to prevent, and accidents often occur, resulting in mass extinction.
However, after the mass destruction, people were not in a panic. They remained calm, repaired loopholes, and accumulated knowledge with just two months of life against the sick body, trying to crack the characteristics of the poison king.
When all these people died, the research institute fell into a deep sleep, waiting for the arrival of the successor and started again after comprehensive anti-virus.
In the past two years, it has been evenly distributed throughout the Australian mainland, and a total of 20 research institutes have been completed.
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 whitened the mountain.
Only the detection probe and the indicator light of the research institute seem to shine forever and never go out.
S bacteria still haven't evolved into the ultimate poison king, but every new sampling test can find that its DNA sequence has changed, but no one knows when quantitative change will lead to qualitative change.
Mankind stopped building.
More and more experienced scientific researchers, medical workers, and new scientific research recruits and medical recruits, old or young, male or female, who have grown up in recent years, embark on the journey again.
They lived in a tomb called the Institute.
They call themselves the people in the tomb.
The types of work of the people in the tomb are simply and roughly divided into several types.
Researchers responsible for analyzing samples, hunters who wear isolation clothes and go out to collect samples, medical personnel responsible for maintaining life and mobility for patients as much as possible, and workers responsible for logistics.
Every day, every hour, someone will be infected by the pervasive s bacteria trying to get into the isolation clothes.
Then the hunter will take off his isolation clothes and wear light clothes.
These people are called walkers.
People of other types of work will put on isolation clothes, go out of the Research Institute, take off their robes and incarnate as walkers.
Walkers either walk or drive on the Australian continent to monitor every possible new infection vector.
In the final journey of the rest of their two months, they often leave the base far away. Before they die, they sing songs and pull the sealed chain of the shroud bag for themselves.
They sang Zhong Lei's "self combustion" after re filling in the words.
An unknown composer changed the rhythm of Xi Murong's "exit music" into the rhythm of "self combustion".
Please sing a song for me
With the forgotten old words
Please call gently with a beautiful trill
The great rivers and mountains in my heart
It's only outside the Great Wall
Who says that the tune of saiqu is too sad
If you don't like listening
That's because
There is no desire for you in the song
And we always have to sing again and again
Like the grassland glittering with gold
Like the wind and sand roaring across the desert
Like the Yellow River Bank
By the Yinshan Mountain
Heroes ride strong horses
Ride home
……
Six years later.
A humus yeast with a flocculent mature body and a diameter of only 0.8 microns, which can shake with the wind and even fly across the ocean has been found near the Melbourne site.
A nearby Walker collected samples and drove back.
A total of twenty Research Institute arrays have worked.
The walker is only half a day away from the nearest Melbourne Institute.
After he left, the space-based laser transmitter swept wildly in place.
At the same time, more and more walkers roared their motors and came from a distance.
They're not here to collect samples.
Their task is to kill as many ultimate poison kings as possible with their flame throwers and super power filter exhaust fans.
When their equipment runs out of energy, they even take a deep breath and ignite themselves again.
Lai Wenming, who had been criticized by countless people and only knew to ask others to die, but hid in the rear, boarded the spacecraft from the Siberian research base in the northern border of Asia and went straight to the Melbourne Research Institute.
As the only Nobel Prize biologist in the world today and the master of the two disciplines of quantum biology and genetics, only Lai Wenming goes to the front personally can he decipher the mystery of the ultimate poison king s bacteria at the fastest speed.
Twenty days later, Lai Wenming sent the complete analysis data and broad-spectrum vaccine gene design scheme back to other continents.
Before sending back the data, Lai Wenming had been the first to personally test the laboratory to make a broad-spectrum vaccine, and cut off most of his liver five minutes later. Through genetic testing, it was negative.
He became the first human with s-bacteria immunity.
He laughed wildly, even though the huge hole in his waist was bleeding out.
Then he pressed the detonating button himself.
Start the countdown.
Thirty seconds later, 7.61 million probes all over the mainland and nuclear fusion bombs hidden under 20 research institutes will detonate at the same time, emitting a high temperature comparable to the sun.
These fusion bombs are called the final line of defense.
Before his death, Lai Wenming sent back an impassioned voice message.
"The fungi carrying the ultimate king s fungus have spread all over the Australian mainland, and the nearby oceans have been polluted. The final defense line can eliminate 95.12% of the king s fungi, and the remaining king s fungi will spread all over the world in at least three months."
"I have completed vaccine research and development. It only takes you two months from cultivation to mass production and meet the requirements of more than one billion people."
"Everyone else is hiding! Half a year later, all mankind will have s-bacteria immunity!"
"I Lai Wenming, did not insult the name of my ancestors! Remember my Lai Wenming's name, remember my great great great great... Grandfather Ryan's name! He is the greatest scientist since the 21st century! And I, second! Others are bullshit!"
"Mankind has won!"
Boom
Bright day fireworks lit up the earth's sky.
The sun is pale.
The earth trembled.
The dense dark clouds that have covered the human head for decades are torn by the brilliance of nuclear fusion.
The warm sunshine, which has not been seen for a long time, spreads all over the earth again after the burning white light and the sweeping wind dissipate.
3.5 billion voices, singing "self combustion" at the same time.
People laugh with tears and choke without words.
The mood of sadness and hope seemed to turn into substance and linger over the atmosphere.
Mankind has ushered in a new dawn.
Eight years later, a tower full of the names of the dead was built from the top of Mount Everest and towered straight into the sky.
Tens of billions of names, each of which is a history.