Homo sapiens.

Chapter 574 Spread
Southern Rocky Mountains.

Part of the valley did not snow due to terrain barriers, but the temperature remained at 4-8 degrees Celsius.

Especially that part of the mountains near the Aztec region.

Like Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.

Except for some small towns distributed along the road, other places here are the original landforms of mountains, forests and valleys.

11 month 26 day.

In Grand Canyon City near Grand Canyon National Park, a large number of monkeypox patients have appeared. Obviously, super monkeypox is rapidly spreading to the entire southern part of America.

The reason for paying attention to this place is that Homo Sapien's Field Service Division has set up the North American Regional Business Intelligence Center in the Grand Canyon National Park, where 172 core business intelligence investigators are stationed.

The person in charge of the business intelligence center is Columbus and Catherine, who have been working in North America for a long time.

Unlike the intelligence agencies of other forces, the Field Service Department does not like to set up intelligence stations in cities and towns, and there are even no intelligence stations in the countryside.

This is caused by the difference in intelligence means and intelligence concepts.

After all, the advantage of setting intelligence stations in human settlements such as towns is that they can reach many targets, but the disadvantages are also very obvious, and it is easy to detect abnormalities.

Therefore, the Ministry of Field Service went in the opposite direction and set up all the intelligence stations in the mountains and forests that were inaccessible.

As a national park, the Grand Canyon area not only has dense vegetation, but also has relatively complex terrain. There are not a few natural caves in the mountains that can be used.

Although locals come to travel or hunt, there are also rangers on patrol.

However, in such a vast area and such a complex terrain, in addition to the new human beings equipped with bio-based armor and various special equipment, it is impossible for natural people to find traces.

The Grand Canyon Information Center is located in a cave in a mountain. Through biological means, the cave has been widened and repaired, and the outside is also camouflaged in all directions.

Inside this small base.

Hundreds of investigators are busy with their work.

Columbus, who is eating synthetic steak in the base restaurant, is still thinking about some recent arrangements.

Suddenly his subordinate Li Xian trotted over: "Boss, we are in trouble..."

After taking a sip of the synthetic coffee, Columbus asked calmly, "What's the matter?"

"Look at this, it was just discovered by the seventh team in the river valley." Li Xian projected an investigation report.

Columbus looked at it carefully, and frowned involuntarily: "Monkeypox appears in mammals?"

Li Xian swallowed his throat: "The corpses of the 12 squirrels have been brought back, and they are in the isolation room."

Now Columbus wasn't calm anymore, he casually threw the steak into the digestive aid pouch on his waist, and drank the coffee in one gulp.

"Let's go and have a look."

Outside the isolation room.

Catherine, who was in charge of the biochemical analysis, had just finished genetic testing and squirrel autopsy. She walked out of the disinfection room after disinfection.

Columbus hurriedly asked, "Honey, how is the situation?"

"The situation is very bad. The squirrel was indeed infected by super monkeypox, and I found that the reproductive system of the squirrel was also seriously damaged, basically losing the ability to reproduce!" Catherine's face was full of worry.

"Damn it!" Columbus gasped.

While scratching his hair, he ordered: "Report this information to the headquarters immediately, and let other teams collect the animals in the surrounding area to see how many animals will be infected."

"OK."

"I'll go."

The entire Grand Canyon Intelligence Center jumped up.

In less than three days, they discovered that the seriousness of the matter was even more terrifying than imagined.

Squirrels, mice, bats, foxes, brown bears, bison, domestic animals, but any mammal, many have cases of infection.

Among them, domestic animals and pet dogs and cats are the most serious, especially those purebred pet dogs and pet cats with serious genetic diseases, which are almost completely wiped out.

Similarly, black-and-white cows, Angus cows, and white-striped pigs that have been cultivated by humans for a long time have also experienced large-scale infections.

This is simply a disaster for the animal husbandry industry.

They have received relevant information that a large number of farms in Texas have large-scale infections of dairy cows, beef cattle, and pork pigs.

Even if it is possible to use veterinary antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs to ensure that the livestock will not die, this will not help.

Because after being infected with super monkeypox, many livestock will directly lose their ability to reproduce. Although many individuals can rely on immunity and become a lucky few, the problem is that the livestock population has basically not recovered.

Especially many breeds of cattle and pigs, as well as dairy cows.

A cow loses her fertility, which means she no longer produces milk.

A large number of mammals were wiped out by monkeypox, and a small number of those who survived also possessed antibodies. However, it may take decades for the population size to return to the current order of magnitude.

Especially large behemoths, some groups of large behemoths are directly on the verge of extinction.

On the contrary, rats and wild boars, with their huge size and thick skin, will restore their group size within a few years.

However, America has never cared about the casualties of these wild animals. What they care about now is the breeding industry. Except for chicken, duck and insect farms, other mammal farms go into shock on the spot.

Even Homo sapiens' mammal farms in Central America have suffered massive production losses.

As a last resort, Homo sapiens quickly launched a synthetic meat factory, using genetically recombined insects to produce protein and fat, and then using nano-modeling technology to weave the protein and fat into artificial meat.

Insects are indeed the core of future food. The feed conversion rate is very high, the feeding cycle is relatively short, and they are very adaptable to the environment. They will basically not be infected with large-scale diseases.

After all, the population of insects is huge, and it is difficult for any microorganisms targeting them to completely exterminate them. As long as they cannot be exterminated instantly, insects will quickly evolve resistance.

This is also the reason why many insecticides must be replaced frequently in modern agricultural production.

Insects are being replaced too quickly to resist microbial threats.

Mammals headed by humans tend to reproduce very slowly, which makes humans unable to adapt to sudden environmental drastic changes and super microbes.

Now super monkeypox is teaching humans how to behave.

Columbus was at the Grand Canyon intelligence center and received daily reports of confusion and conflict across America.

After being infected, many people became inhuman and ghostless, destroying everything around them like crazy.

In just one week, the scale of shootings in America has soared hundreds of times compared to usual.

Not only ordinary people are going crazy, but ordinary soldiers of the US military are also going crazy.

The Council of the City on a Hill, who had always thought that they could control the entire America and the Freedom Federation, also felt that the situation was completely out of control at this time. They were horrified to find that their orders were no longer obeyed.

In fact, this is also very normal. The purpose of the group formed by the robbers is naturally to rob. Now there is no way to rob, and the internal free market is gradually collapsing.

Many people began to expose their nature. They frantically destroyed communication equipment, trying to block the connection between places, and then fished in troubled waters, or simply took revenge on the world.

No one expected that America would explode in such a way.

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