Mysterious creature sightings

Watching a person die in front of him with unexplainable symptoms was a huge shock. The three people in the laboratory were silent and didn't speak for a while.

Ling Jiangyue looked down at Qi Zhiyu's body, which was gradually shrouded in instruments, and mourned for the loss of a friend who had been unilaterally certified.

Lin Zheng was the first to return to normal: "The degree of her infection is obviously similar to Zheng Linlin's, but now there is a sudden change, there must be something wrong. Lin Jia, pull up the previous information and see what surgeries Qi Zhiyu has had before, and whether she survived What disease, and what experiences are different from others.”

Lin Jia: "Okay."

"No need to investigate, I know," Ling Jiangyue raised her head and made up a reason, "She has a bad gastrointestinal condition. Apart from a little facial maintenance, she has no experience in other surgeries. She showed off herself."

Of course it was fake, but she could tell.

Qi Zhiyu's body was filled with dust-like matter. Two minutes after the antifungal drug was injected, hormones suddenly became disordered, neurotransmitters flew around, and the entire body collapsed. Immediately afterwards, the brain became easily infected.

Everything happened so fast, there must be something lurking in her body, stimulated by the drug.

Lin Jia: "But she has a mutation, which means there must be something different from other people."

"It may be resistance," Lin Zheng guessed. "She is abnormally thin. She may have been dieting for a long time and her immunity is low, making her more susceptible to infection than others."

Lin Jia: "This normal reason cannot explain why her face festered and dissolved."

Lin Zheng shook his head and just said: "Bring over the scraping results and the fungus petri dish. Also, the inspection report on the dying burying insect from before is about to come out."

Lin Jia was confused: "Do you suspect that the fungus also carries bacteria?"

"Invasive group A streptococcus, if her facial muscle dissolution symptoms are similar to skin necrosis caused by strep."

"..." Lin Jia closed her eyes, "The cruel fungus and the cruel bacteria, even the Lord of Hell may not be able to handle it."

In the large family of invasive group A streptococci, each one is famous for being responsible for scarlet fever, puerperal fever, sepsis, and toxic shock syndrome.

She didn't think too much, did as she was told, and turned around to get her things.

Lin Zheng stayed quiet for a while, then walked to Ling Jiangyue and asked in a gentle voice, "Did you see anything?"

Ling Jiangyue was still standing between Qi Zhiyu and Zheng Linlin's experimental bed. He looked away and waited for the discomfort in his eyes to subside before turning his head to answer.

"I saw it...can you not tell others? I will only tell you." She said hesitantly, her eyes a little uneasy.

Lin Zheng did not agree immediately, but after looking at her, he lowered his head and approached her, indicating that the agreement was reached.

She leaned close to Lin Zheng's ear and whispered, "There is a grayish color on her face."

Lin Zheng: "She is dead, Jiang Yue, and the corpse's face is gray."

"No, it's different." She was eager to explain the difference and pulled him to look at Qi Juyu's face. "Where the muscles dissolve, the very light gray color disappears."

Lin Zheng didn't say whether he believed it or not, but he didn't take what Lin Jia handed over. Instead, he first scanned Qi Zhiyu's ulcerated face with a detector.

The scan results were consistent with the symptoms of the corpse and found nothing out of the ordinary.

But he noticed something——

"Has she had hyaluronic acid fillings done?"

"Ah... maybe." How did she know? Qi Zhiyu would not have told her such a thing before he was alive, and the face of the corpse could not see the soft and supple effect after hyaluronic acid filling.

Lin Zheng pondered for a while.

Lin Jia asked: "What did you think of?" "Hyaluronic acid. There is a large amount of hyaluronic acid between human cells to form an immune surveillance system. If foreign germs enter, just like a mouse stepping on the trap line, neutrophils will quickly Rush to the scene to remove the pathogen.

However, there are some types of germs that can mimic the hyaluronic acid in the human body and avoid being cleared by neutrophils. They even rely on this friendly epidermis to wander around in the human body and quickly infect large cells. "

"Streptococci happen to be masters in this area, and they also have the miraculous ability to copy the DNA fragments of other viruses, bacteria, and even infected people at any time, and sew or replace them into their own bodies, so they are very difficult to treat."

"If Streptococcus has a mutation in its ability to infect because it has patched up a certain piece of genetic material from the mutated fungus, or if there is some agreement between the two, it may lead to symptoms that cannot be explained by a single explanation."

Agree? Getting to the point.

Ling Jiangyue asked at the right time: "What does reaching an agreement mean? Do they also communicate? Just like animals use pheromones to communicate?"

Lin Zheng nodded: "Communications between microorganisms also rely on pheromones, chemicals, small molecule compounds or direct contact between cells. They rely on the transmission of these signal molecules to determine whether intra- and inter-species relationships are competition or cooperation. ……cooperate."

His voice paused slightly, and he emphasized the word cooperation again. His eyes fell on Ling Jiangyue. After looking at it for a while, he asked Lin Jia for the experimental data.

"Your vigilance is useful," Lin Jia showed him the colony culture results. "Three other colonies besides fungi appeared in the petri dish, and one of them can definitely be streptococci."

"The results of the examination for the golden-necked burying beetle have also come out. It also has streptococci in its body, but you might not expect it - it also has symptoms of Toxoplasma gondii parasitism."

Another scary thing.

Ling Jiangyue wrinkled his nose and gathered several extremely vicious creatures together. Did those people want to raise Gu?

"Jiang Yue," Lin Zheng called her in a low voice, "take another look at Qi Zhiyu, what else can you see?"

She was a little confused, wondering how it was romantic for him to listen to Toxoplasma gondii but think about her situation.

But she still complied with his request and stared at Qi Zhiyu's body solemnly, with sadness on her face and indifference in her heart.

Then he told him in a low voice: "I can't see anything now, but after comparison, I can confirm that there is something very excited in the place where the drug was injected before, swimming back and forth."

Lin Zheng nodded: "There are drug-resistant bacteria."

Ling Jiangyue: "Huh??"

Is it that simple?

"When the concentration of antibiotics is insufficient, it will become a chemical signal for communication between bacteria, allowing drug-resistant bacteria to wait for opportunities. The fact that the bacteria have a uniform response to the drug from the beginning shows that they have such experience in their genes."

"After certain bacteria develop drug resistance, they can pass this ability to other bacteria through information exchange, and it can also be conferred across species."

After Lin Zheng finished speaking briefly, he calmly judged: "It seems that it is not a human-induced mutation, but a human-modified creature."

"They threw the corpse in Daheishan. They arranged the program. The infection time was calculated and the mutated fungi are naturally occurring. Probably only the burial bug was not part of their plan."

Ling Jiangyue: "What's the plan?"

"They must have encountered a problem in the fusion experiment of this mutated fungus and streptococcus. They want to use this experiment to treat infected people to determine your ability to sense microbial pheromones and ask you to help."

help? The corners of Ling Jiangyue's mouth curled up strangely.

She was made to help, and she's the best at helping.

Those people had better catch her early to "help".

Oh my god, I have been writing this content in the past two days. I have spent more time reading reference articles than typing. I have written notes on several A4 papers. When I was awake late at night, I even felt that I could change industries... Fortunately, it was controlled by the end of today. Turning to the main plot, I will definitely write about the tenderness before the main plot turns tomorrow!