Mysterious creature sightings

At this stage of research, the solution has actually come out - just drive the fungus to the immune system monitoring area and let it be eliminated by immune cells.

But the question is, how to catch up? Streptococcus and its brothers are good friends. They help to forge documents and let them pass by the immune system openly without fear. Moreover, they are not coquettish and arrogant. After evading surveillance, they only go to two places to reproduce the next generation——

The eyeball because it is not seen by the immune system.

The back of the head, because the brainstem and cerebellum here are related to life and death, and can make people throw the mouse away. Among them, the medulla oblongata directly controls breathing, heart rate, and digestion. A little carelessness during research can cause death of infected people.

What can be done? In addition to trying drug injection, Ling Jiangyue also needs to play.

She carefully sensed the activity of fungi and streptococci in the original flora after drug injection. Next to her was an observation instrument with the same function, but her inspection speed and level of detail were faster and higher than the instrument.

"This concentration of penicillin shrank only a small portion of the hyphae, and their activity did not appear to be affected."

Lin Zheng: "The abuse of antibiotics is already a well-known thing in the microbiology community. This streptococcus should be a new species produced after the widespread use of antibiotics. It has a history of less than [-] years. There must be more than just these victims. You can find similar ones at home and abroad. Let’s look at the cases and see what new discoveries are made, focusing on several large streptococcal antibiotic manufacturing sites. Xu Jiayan, try using fungal metabolites.”

Lin Jia was checking the case nearby, and Xu Jiayan put a certain substance produced by the purified fungus into the original flora.

Ling Jiangyue lay outside the isolation glass and watched: "They don't like this."

Jiang Yuxing: "It has to be microorganisms that deal with microorganisms. Many antibiotics against bacteria come from the metabolites of fungi, such as the famous penicillin and penicillin. But they don't seem to be very effective."

Xu Jiayan: "After all, we are partners. If we can be poisoned by the other party, we can't cooperate for so long."

Lin Zheng thoughtfully said: "The metabolites of fungi can harm Streptococcus, which means that they definitely did not cooperate voluntarily at the beginning. It may be that Streptococcus copied the foreign DNA and disguised itself as fungal friends, and then began to use each other."

Jiang Yuxing: "People from illegal organizations lock them in a small dark room and force them to make friends?"

Lin Jia was clicking on the computer next to her and said: "You are so stupid that you are not suitable for worshiping Guan Gong. It will lower the standards of other believers."

"You know, you know, when they were conducting fungal infection experiments on living subjects, they couldn't guarantee which step failed. When they left it aside and ignored it, the fungus encountered Streptococcus that can camouflage the friendly forces of human cells, so they hit it off, and the infection was successful, right? Ninety-nine out of a hundred scientists discover new things this way." Jiang Yuxing quickly explained that he was not really stupid.

Ling Jiangyue quietly glanced at Lin Zheng while they were talking, gesturing for him to come closer.

"I have an idea. Zheng Linlin was injured and bleeding, but it was not as deep as Qi Juyu's infection. Could it be that the immune cells in the blood outside the wound cleared some of the streptococci that wanted to enter the body from the wound in advance? So the fungus is not so Rampant. I don’t see much gray where her forehead hurts.”

Instead of wounds becoming the focus of life-saving?

Lin Zheng thought carefully about what she said. Looking at her bright eyes, he also cooperated with the conversation in a low voice, and even explained his thinking process to her as popular science.

“About three years ago, scientists discovered that Group A Streptococcus produces an S protein that fuses with red blood cell membranes and evades detection by the immune system while carrying red blood cell fragments.

Here, it can also use hyaluronic acid to invade cells, opening the door for fungi. If immune cells in the wound's blood detect the S protein before it produces it, it might be possible to eliminate strep and fungi at the same time. "

After confirming the possibility of this guess, he suddenly took off his gloves, used a blood needle to take a drop of blood, spread it on the slide, and observed it together with the initial bacterial flora.

The footage was broadcast, and everyone could see white blood cells hunting germs in the blood.

The streptococci that swam aggressively in the infected person's body were unable to deceive white blood cells, and the fungi that drank blood and ate flesh were unable to fish in troubled waters. After a chaotic escape, half of them were eliminated by immune cells.

Others couldn't believe it: "Is your blood useful?"

"I was parasitized by that group of floating creatures, and I have been using pheromone suppression drugs since then. I just took them an hour ago." Lin Zheng said while disinfecting the wound where he took blood. Jiang Yuxing chuckled: "Then you can no longer be a walking detoxification bag? It's you who those people want to arrest, right?"

Ling Jiangyue opened his eyes wide.

If Lin Zheng's blood is really useful... wouldn't it be thanks to her?
  It seems that the illegal organization really lacks her as a helper. If she were there, they would be parasitized by floating creatures ten or eight times. They would have solved this research problem long ago.

It's so important to her.

No one could see her innocent death curse. When Lin Zheng saw her staring at him with her eyes wide open, he thought she was worried. He touched her face with his finger, and it was gone so quickly that no one else could notice it. Notice.

Then he explained: "My blood can only destroy the pathogens at the forefront before they can react. Suppressive drugs can only disrupt their pheromone communication for a period of time. It is not a perfect solution."

"But the idea is already there. Take out the C-55, infect streptococci to weaken their ability to produce S protein, and then fuse it with the fungi and inject it into the infected person."

"By the way, give them chitinose before the injection."

Ling Jiangyue asked curiously: "What is chitosan?"

Jiang Yuxing: "A derivative of chitin. Chitin is chitin. Eating the shells of some crustaceans and the exoskeletons of invertebrates can help enhance the body's immunity."

Got it, on top of strengthening the immune system, we can then use modified streptococci to mix into the bacterial flora and act as assassins, so that the immune system can prime itself to kill indiscriminately.

"What's the C-55?"

Lin Zheng: "A virus discovered five years ago."

He didn't say much about the specifics, but you can guess that it was probably not a good experience.

We found a way and everyone got busy. Ling Jiangyue had nothing to do for the time being, so he glanced around the laboratory and left Lin Zheng quietly.

There is a group of people in the laboratory. The researchers work as assistants and share the tasks. There are people who are responsible for checking the status of infected people and recording various data.

Just after checking, I turned around and almost bumped into someone.

Ling Jiangyue, who was almost hit, "shushed" at him and smiled shyly.

"Sorry for scaring you. How is my friend doing?"

"Not good. The first batch of people injured by unknown creatures basically contributed to research, and they can rarely be successfully rescued in one go."

"Oh. Can I ask about the organizational structure of your underground base? Are there only a dozen of you and dozens of unknown creatures here?"

"Well... there is also a Level II containment area, archives, and joint research room of the Department of Human Sciences."

Ling Jiangyue nodded slowly, looked directly into his eyes, and said with a sad expression: "Thank you, I hope my friend will get better."

The researcher was stunned and nodded hesitantly: "It's okay, Team Lin will do his best."