National Gardener: I can choose the evolution path of spiritual plants.

Chapter 224 Crazy
Night, Hokkaido.

Since the virus outbreak is limited to the Tokyo area of ​​Radiation Island, control in the surrounding areas is not very severe.

Major cities in Hokkaido are still operating normally.

Although measures such as virus testing for entry and exit from the city are still implemented, they are not strict enough.

Nearly a thousand Vulcan believers sneaked into the city through various paths, quickly spread to several cities, and then maliciously spread the virus.

Some people also gained strength and swelled up, heading towards the bank.

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101Lab.

"Teacher, this is a virus sample extracted from the body of a Vulcan believer who was killed. We have discovered a new mutant virus."

"Well, how did the experiment turn out?"

"This new strain can absorb and store fire and electrical energy, and can strengthen human cells. This is a video of a fight with a follower of the God of Fire."

The assistant clicks on a video to play.

In the video, a fire god believer was seen with flames all over his body rushing into the crowd.

When he touched people, they were instantly ignited.

However, since this Vulcan believer rushed around recklessly and without any order, he was easily shot in the head by a sniper from a distance.

"The strengthened cells cannot withstand the impact of bullets except fire and electricity," said the assistant.

"In addition, the concentration of melatonin in the bodies of Vulcan believers is extremely high. As we speculated, the increase in this substance makes those infected with the virus irritable and easily angry."

"After a careful study of the virus structure, I have a feeling that I will soon get a glimpse into the truth of virus mutation."

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"The breeding environment of the experimental mice has been changed. They have been locked up in a closed space with no light and the oxygen concentration has been adjusted to 10% below normal to create a depressing environment."

"10 lab mice were locked in a cold storage environment. The temperature was gradually lowered, not dropped suddenly, and the food they were fed was halved."

"10 lab mice were placed in a pool, leaving only a few landing spots..."

"They are constantly exposed to all kinds of stimulation and emotional substances are added to their food."

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"As expected, the virus in the experimental mice is undergoing slight changes. When this change reaches a certain level, it will cause the virus to mutate."

"Continue to increase the amount of emotional substances and environmental stimulation."

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"The virus was too active, causing the mice to eat a lot more and their moods to fluctuate greatly. Some mice died due to excessive levels of emotional substances in their bodies."

"Some experimental mice were stimulated by the environment and new organs grew outside their bodies."

"What is this? A mammoth tusk?"

"It's really amazing that some of the lab mice actually grew fangs that were several times longer than their body length."

"The fur of some experimental mice changed color..."

"Laboratory mice kept in a dark environment had changes in their eyes."

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"After dissecting a Vulcan follower, we found that all cells were very different from those of ordinary people, and the gene sequence contained a large number of leukemia virus sequence fragments."

……

On the 45th day after the virus was released, Lin Zhi learned from the news on his mobile phone that the island country's cabinet claimed to have developed a "special relief drug" for the rabies virus.

Taking relief medicine can perfectly suppress the negative emotions caused by the virus.

The Cabinet also announced that the rabies virus was an opportunity for human evolution and put forward the application of the virus in clinical medicine.

When seeing terminally ill patients being cured, people’s fear of the virus instantly decreased and they were full of expectations for the future.

In particular, the Cabinet announced that it had developed a "Flame/Thunder Warrior Inactivation Reagent" based on the rabies virus, which could enable infected people to gain the power to control fire and thunder.

This reagent is actually an inactivated vaccine of the Flame Demon virus. It allows people to gain the ability to ignite fire, but at the same time, the virus loses its activity and cannot be transmitted to others.

If the common rabies virus does not have the ability to withstand high temperatures, then those who are vaccinated will be immune to the infection in disguise.

Although this vaccine is good, at the same time, the person who gains the power will lose the ability to grow automatically. If he wants to practice and become stronger, he can only continue to inject inactivated reagents.

The people in the Cabinet were instantly excited online and signed up for the volunteer selection, hoping to become flame/thunder warriors.

After seeing this news, Lin Zhi silently spent infection points to update the Fire Demon/Thunder Demon abilities to all infected people.

The reason why I didn't update it before was naturally because I hoped that extraordinary powers would appear in the island country later.

After all, he cannot be infected by the virus, and the current system does not have the ability to enhance its own combat effectiveness.

Therefore, the later the supernatural power appears, the better.

But the cabinet's operation forced Lin Zhi to update his virus capabilities.

Because the nature of the Flame Demon ability being bestowed upon the people by the Cabinet and the people "awakening" the Flame Demon ability themselves are different.

The Cabinet's "vaccine" will naturally cultivate warriors who are loyal to the Cabinet. The stronger the Cabinet is, the greater its ability to control the island country will be, which is not conducive to the spread of the virus.

After all, what the Cabinet needs is a virus vaccine that renders it incapable of infecting humans.

What Lin Zhi needs is an active virus that can be active and continuously provide infection points for himself.

Therefore, the only option is to update the virus capabilities and allow the people to acquire Flame Demon abilities on their own.

People’s hearts are unpredictable. After they gain power, the number of restless people will increase. The chaos in the island country will allow them to fish in troubled waters and create a favorable environment for the spread of the virus.

"In this way, the environment of the island nation will become unsafe."

Although supernatural powers appear too early and are uncontrollable, it is more conducive to the spread of the virus, but it is also more likely that those who are "powerless" will be affected by the supernatural powers.

"It would be great if there was a way to control these infected people..."

Lin Zhi thought that perhaps he could use emotional substances to control the infected, but his financial resources were limited and he was afraid that he could not buy much emotional substances.

What's more, emotional substances are not easy to synthesize, and they are extremely important to those infected with the demon virus. The Cabinet will definitely include them in the control list.

It’s like the salt and iron monopoly in ancient times.

When the virus update is completed, a prompt pops up on the system panel.

[The Flame Demon mutation ability has been updated. All infected people who meet the conditions will have their Flame Demon genes activated and gain Flame Demon abilities. For infected people who do not meet the conditions, the Flame Demon virus gene will be hidden.]

Ok?
Lin Zhi was stunned. He didn't expect that the Flame Demon Virus would not give everyone the ability of Flame Demon, but was selective!
Then, he thought it made sense. People have different physiques and personalities. Some are irritable, some are calm, some are heartless, and some are sad and sentimental...

The demon virus is stimulated by different emotions, and the changes produced are different. Logically speaking, people with bad tempers, impulsiveness and irritability are suitable for the ability of the Flame Demon.

From the perspective of the evolution and growth of the demon virus, if all people become fire demons, how will the other abilities mutate and appear?

With the extraordinary power of the Fire Demon, the virus no longer has a suitable breeding ground for mutation!
Could it be possible that one person could acquire multiple abilities? Flame Demon + Thunder Demon + Succubus...?
This does not involve whether a person's body cells can be compatible with various transformations. The main thing is that the virus is only D-level. D-level is so strong that it is too outrageous and does not conform to the previous laws of virus evolution.

Therefore, this system prompt solved Lin Zhi’s doubts.

In this way, the proportion of extraordinary people born will be much smaller, but this fits Lin Zhi's contradictory idea of ​​not wanting the cabinet to monopolize the creation of extraordinary powers, but also not wanting extraordinary powers to spread.

"We have done everything we can. What's left is to accumulate infection points and continue to strengthen the virus."

At this point, combined with daily news reports, Lin Zhi has realized that there is no doubt that the virus will survive.

After his guidance and strengthening and the virus's own adaptation and mutation, the value it showed was far greater than its harm.

Therefore, for any scientist, especially one from an island nation, the attraction is fatal.

Not to mention the active spread of the virus for experimental research, protecting the virus, retaining samples, and conducting animal experiments are definitely necessary.

As long as the virus survives, your main mission will not fail.

In fact, things turned out exactly as Lin Zhi had expected.

101Lab.

"Teacher, in the latest experiment, the viruses in the Kunlun slaves have already reached the brink of evolution. Just as we speculated before, the mutation of the virus can be guided and regulated by environmental stimulation."

"Well, this time, more than a million people from across the island have signed up to be volunteers. There are too many people, and we are not well prepared. So you have to instruct your subordinates to screen according to the personality classification table I listed, and only include 13 volunteers who are compatible with the 13 types of emotions and substances."

Jingzhong Juro said.

"Okay, instructor. Some of the other experimental mice have mutated and developed the ability of fire demons. Isn't the growth rate of this virus too terrifying?"

The assistant said with some concern.

The more he understood the leukemia virus, the more he felt that its abilities were too strange. The virus seemed to have thoughts and will of its own, as if there was an invisible hand controlling it from behind.

Otherwise, a normal virus would not be able to grow and mutate so rapidly if the number of infected people is insufficient.

Moreover, the mutation patterns of the virus are puzzling.

Generally, viruses are designed to spread quickly, survive, and reproduce, so they are very aggressive at the beginning.

Then it is attacked by the immune system and treated with drugs. The host dies quickly and loses its breeding ground. It will slowly become "obedient", reducing its pathogenicity and lethality and enhancing its ability to spread and survive.

The rabies virus is different. It seems to have known from the beginning that it was highly lethal and had no way out, so it has been evolving in a direction that is beneficial to the host.

Immediately, the assistant abandoned the idea.

How is it possible that someone in this world can control a virus? Could he be a top virologist?
But the situation displayed by the rabies virus is impossible even for the top virologists.

If he can, then he is too amazing!
"Don't worry too much. Everything exists for a reason. You are afraid because of the unknown. As long as we study the rabies virus thoroughly, we can control it and use it for our own benefit. In the long process of human evolution, we have conquered nature step by step."

Inaka Juro smiled and said, "In the past, people invented steam engines, generators, computers, etc. Humanity's industrial revolutions have made progress again and again. Nowadays, scientific progress has been much slower. Once the rabies virus is controlled, mankind will usher in a new industrial revolution... No, it may be an era where science fiction and magic coexist."

As he spoke, Jingzhong Juro's eyes seemed to be filled with light.

But the assistant felt that his mentor seemed crazy.

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night.

Fukushima, the ruins of an abandoned nuclear power plant.

Watanabe Shinno avoided the lax guards, sneaked into the restricted area, and after walking for about half an hour, he arrived at the ruins.

Barrels of nuclear waste water used for cooling were piled up in an open area. It was quiet under the moonlight, so quiet that not even the sound of insects could be heard.

Watanabe Shinno knew that this was because of the severe nuclear pollution, and there was no grass growing around, let alone insects.

It is said that workers who are responsible for collecting nuclear waste water at the Fukushima nuclear power plant site will develop various terrible diseases even if they work for a short time.

This place is a restricted area. Most people are terrified when talking about it, let alone sneaking in.

As for why Watanabe Shinno came, it is because there is never a shortage of ambitious people in the world, especially when they know that the rabies virus can give people extraordinary powers.

After Watanabe Shinno learned a lot of research information on the rabies virus through family channels, his ambitions began to grow involuntarily.

When he spent a lot of money to get a live virus and actively infected himself, his ambitions grew even more.

Finally, when the power of the Flame Demon appeared before the world, Watanabe Shinno could no longer hold back.

"Just being burned by fire can stimulate the Fire Demon's ability. What if it's nuclear radiation?"

A bold idea came to Watanabe's mind.

The damage caused by nuclear radiation is not instantaneous; it lasts just long enough for the rabies virus to adapt and mutate.

He had learned through special channels that the institute had conducted relevant research and had achieved significant results.

However, there is still a long way to go before it can be officially put into use.

"I don't have the patience to wait, not to mention that what I am waiting for will certainly be subject to many restrictions and constraints. Only by gaining power early and seizing the opportunity can I realize my dream!"

Watanabe Shinno walked up to a metal tank storing nuclear waste water, took out special tools and pried it open!
After a while, the can was opened. He reached into the can, scooped up a handful of nuclear waste water and stuffed it into his mouth.

After swallowing a few mouthfuls of nuclear waste water, he felt his stomach was "burning".

"I endure it. This is a necessary process for becoming stronger, the pain that a pheasant goes through in the process of growing strong wings."

Watanabe encouraged himself in his heart and simply put his head into the metal tank, gulping down the nuclear waste water.

After taking in the aroma of tritium and carbon-14 and the nuclear waste water containing various rare chemical elements, Watanabe Shinno burped comfortably.

Soon, he felt a heat in his body.

First, the skin becomes unbearably itchy, and then a severe painful reaction occurs from the inside out.

If Watanabe had read certain novels, he might have thought, "Is this what body tempering is?"

Once the radioactive substances contained in the nuclear waste water enter Watanabe's body, they will begin to destroy Watanabe's body cells. If there are no other factors, it will damage his genes and cause cell collapse. In the end, his body will either mutate, become deformed, or rot. In any case, he will die in pain that is worse than death.

However, he was infected with the rabies virus early.

The extreme pain caused Watanabe's body to secrete a large amount of emotional substances, making the virus highly active.

Active viruses are damaged by radiation, some die, and some begin to adapt and start "fighting back."

In the process of adaptation, the virus changes.

The old generation of viruses died, and a new generation of viruses adapted to a trace of radioactive substances split and were born.

Watanabe felt hungry.

He looked at the humus-filled soil beside him and suddenly found it delicious, so he lay on the ground and started to eat it.

The moonlight sparkled, and the light shone on Watanabe, activating photosynthesis. As the diet range increased, a large amount of nutrients were absorbed by Watanabe's body under photosynthesis, and then stolen by the virus to reproduce new strains.

At the same time, old strains continue to die.

Gradually, it gets bright.

(End of this chapter)