Fatal Strike: Paladins Mercenary Road

Chapter 623

Shanying was a little depressed by the sudden surrender of the middle-aged man in front of him...

In fact, he didn't want to get involved in what was happening in the north. Once he was infected with something as abnormal as the Ebola virus, it would cause a lot of trouble.

Especially the guy named Glassman, who mentioned his interest in the Mackenzie wolves in the Brown Bear Camp when we met...

This shows that Glassman has some understanding of Dimension Card's laboratory results.

Shanying cut off all the achievements of Dimension Card Company without thinking twice, and even killed all the men of the Thorin family behind the scenes, but he still couldn't stop others from coveting the achievements of Dimension Card Company.

These certainly did not touch the core interests of Mountain Eagle. Even as long as those people offered a reasonable price, it would not be impossible to sell a few horses and wolves.

However, once the Brown Bear Camp is involved in the Ebola virus issue, even if only indirectly, it will affect Mountain Eagle's own plan to keep a low profile for a while.

Looking at the pleading expression on the middle-aged man in front of him, Shanying rubbed his face, nodded and said: "Tell me what you know?
You can use the medicine we brought, but let me make it clear that your condition has nothing to do with me...

Those drugs need professionals to decide how to use them. If you use the wrong drugs and your condition gets worse..."

The middle-aged man heard this and waved his hands vigorously, saying, "I am a doctor. We have six doctors in our team. We know how to use the medicine."

Shanying looked at the green vests that were still tied behind their backs, then nodded slightly and said, "I'll have them untied, but while they are rescuing the patients, you have to tell me everything you know.

I'll be recording this in advance, so you need to think it over before you speak!"

As he spoke, Shanying waved at the sled, signaling him to untie the green vests, and then asked the middle-aged man to find a place to sit near the campfire, and set up his phone and turned on the camera mode...

"Now you have to tell me your name, what you do, and prove your identity to me..."

The middle-aged man obviously knew what kind of situation he was in...

He saw the sleds unbuttoning the green vests one by one, and several of his companions rushed to the supplies and medicines brought by Shanying. He closed his eyes and struggled for a while, then took out a passport from his underwear pocket and said, "My name is Philip Blackburn, and I am a professor at the Medical Center of the University of Edinburgh in England...

My main research area is stem cell culture and transplantation. If you have access to the internet, you can find my information on the website of the University of Edinburgh.

This time I came here under the identity of an environmental protection organization. I was invited by the Taran Genetic Research Institute to conduct excavations.

Our target is the corpse of an ancient human...

Dr. Wendy, chief researcher at Dimension Card, has published many papers on genetic modification and perfect stem cell culture, in which she repeatedly mentioned ancient human corpses and fungi.

Arnon Taran, the owner of the Taran Genetic Research Institute, is a client of Dr. Wendy. He successfully lived to be 100 years old and has remained healthy through the transfusion of hematopoietic stem cells and organ transplantation.

Now that the Dimension Card Company has been suddenly destroyed, Old Taran has entrusted us to find the body of the ancient human, hoping to reproduce Dr. Wendy's achievements through research."

“I don’t think there is anything worth replicating here…

Unless you think it's right to kidnap women, customize, breed, and modify generations of so-called perfect babies, and then provide stem cell transplants for those perverts who want immortality."

Shanying began to shake his head as he spoke, then he looked at Philip Blackburn who was hesitant to speak and said, "Except for animal experiments, all other research conducted by Dimension Card Company is damnable in my opinion.

I saw in Dr. Wendy that there is knowledge without personality, science without humanity, and business without morality...

Can something good really come out of all these negative things coming together?"

Philip Blackburn was silent for a moment, then said: “Any research involving the human body is always accompanied by controversy before it succeeds.

Science itself has no distinction between good and evil!
You mentioned Dr. Wendy. Did you know that Dr. Wendy's project has saved many people suffering from genetic diseases?

Huntington's disease, myotonic dystrophy, Marfan syndrome, osteogenesis imperfecta, neurofibromatosis...

In Dr. Wendy's thesis, he used genetic technology to successfully stop the progression of the disease in those poor genetic patients and relieve their pain.

This is a great achievement..."

Shanying immediately thought of a group of soldiers with strange appearances that he had seen on the mountain above his head...

Their appearance was strange, and Shanying recognized one of them as a patient with Marfan syndrome.

The movements of those people were not much different from those of ordinary people. They were even more agile than ordinary people when climbing mountains and crossing rivers.

If you say that Dr. Wendy used genetic technology to stop the development of several genetic diseases in patients, Shanying would believe it.

But if you say that she cured the genetic disease, Shanying doesn't believe it!
Because the conditions he saw in those people were definitely not as simple as a simple cure. The treatment process must have involved other things, and there must be a price to pay...

But Shanying is not a scientist, he will not argue about these things with Philip Blackburn...

Seeing this guy's serious expression, Shanying sneered and said, "Your so-called great achievement is based on the corpse of an ancient human...

You found the body, and then what? "Philip Blackburn listened and said with a wry smile: "Then we found a fungal virus carrying multiple gene fragments. Within a week of direct contact, everyone developed fever symptoms.

Yesterday, a black bear and its cubs came here in search of food and a place to hibernate. Then the condition of several people who were scratched and bitten by the black bear quickly deteriorated.

I suspect that contact with black bears triggered the virus in their bodies, which then skipped the incubation period and prodromal period and went straight into the virus's excitement period.

Highly excited, hallucinations, mania, fear of water, fear of wind...

When they hear a sound similar to running water, it will induce throat spasm and cause suffocation..."

After Shanying heard this, he subconsciously touched the wound on his wrist and said, "Why does it sound so much like rabies to me?"

Philip Blackburn shook his head and said: "I don't have the equipment to test for fungal viruses...

But judging from the symptoms, this is a mutated and virulent rabies virus.

However, Dr. Wendy once mentioned in her paper that this fungal virus carries multiple gene fragments, which is inconsistent with the characteristics of the rabies virus.

Because the genome of rabies virus is single-stranded RNA, after it infects the human body, it mainly replicates and proliferates in host cells such as nerve cells.

The rabies virus does not integrate its genetic material into the human genome like some retroviruses do..."

As Philip Blackburn was speaking, a young man in a green vest came up to him with a syringe and injected him...

Philip reluctantly smiled and motioned the young man in the green vest to look after the others, then smiled bitterly at Shanying and said, "He is my student. He just gave me a rabies vaccine...

We will need large doses of sedatives and antibiotics later to keep us alive.

Sir, we need rescue, otherwise we will all die, many of them are innocent..."

Shanying didn't quite understand what Philip said, but he knew that Philip Blackburn had imagined their situation a little too optimistically...

However, he did not sympathize with this group of people. Since he had already learned of their identities and purposes, and it was foreseeable that this group of people would soon face a life-and-death test with a pitifully low survival rate, he was in no mood to make things difficult for them.

Looking at the gloomy state of those people, Mountain Eagle shook his head and said, "Tell me what happened in the north. What does it have to do with me and the Brown Bear Camp?
Then I thought about urging the Black Hawk helicopter pilots when the snowstorm stopped...

Do you know how long it takes to de-ice a Black Hawk at these temperatures while also checking the aircraft's sensors?

According to my experience, if the process is fast, it will take about 4 hours, but if it is slow, it may take several days or months. "

Philip Blackburn knew the situation they were facing better than anyone else. He glanced at the phone that was recording the video and after struggling for a while, he said, "There are two security and monitoring teams with me. They set out to the north three days ago...

Four days ago, some of us who were the first to enter the second-level space to search had already shown some abnormal symptoms, so I wanted to evacuate as soon as possible, so I used the satellite phone to discuss with my employer and wanted to evacuate here.

But the other party required me to bring back the NDA samples of ancient humans, so I chose to take the risk and speed up.

When I collected DNA and fungal virus samples and was about to go to the security chief to request evacuation, I overheard his conversation with someone.

They were asked to go to a crash site in the north to pick up the Ebola virus and vaccine materials left in a hidden location, and they were asked to evacuate us through the brown bear camp..."

Philip Blackburn glanced at the frowning Mountain Eagle and whispered, "They also asked to release the Ebola virus into the brown bear camp so that the CDC can intervene and control the brown bear camp..."

The mountain eagle's pupils shrank violently, and he said in a deep voice: "Why?"

Philip Blackburn didn't dare to look directly into the eagle's eyes that seemed to be spitting fire. He lowered his head and whispered, "I don't know, I really don't know..."

Shanying took a deep breath and said slowly: "Are you sure it was Taran who issued this order?"

Philip Blackburn nodded slightly and said, “I’m not sure who it is, those security guards are just mercenaries hired by the Taran family.

But at this time, we can contact them and issue orders..."

After Shanying heard this, he closed his eyes and thought for a long time, then suddenly said, "Do you know a man named Terry Glassman?"

Philip Blackburn was stunned for a moment and said, "I met him at a forum. He is a professor of biomedical science at Harvard University and also a technical consultant for several research institutes."

Shanying stared into Philip's eyes and said expressionlessly: "Is the Talan Genetic Research Institute also among them?"

Seeing Phillip nod a little fearfully, Shanying took a deep breath, forced a smile on his face, and said, "Well, you have earned yourself a little chance...

Tell me, how many people are there in the two teams you mentioned, what are their names and what do they look like?

The weather is so bad now, I think you should contact them and ask them to come and join you as soon as possible..."

(End of this chapter)