Pan Galactic Age

Chapter 158 Nerve Worm

Yun Congming nodded, then shook his head again, his eyes were concentrated and scattered at times, it seemed that the nerd had not completely controlled his thoughts, Xiao Cheng helped him up, leaned against the wall, and asked Nuwa Said: "Can you check to see which stage the nerve bug control has entered?"

"It is still in the middle of the third stage." Nuwa said solemnly, "According to the current progress, there should be about three days of treatment."

Based on the great improvement of modern people's physical fitness, after the nerve worms enter the human body, they can be divided into five stages to control the brain. The first stage is the incubation period. As it integrates into the brain tissue, the patient will have periodic mild headache symptoms. This stage takes about 1 to 3 days depending on the constitution of each person. Patients in this stage are very easy to treat, but because the symptoms are mild, most people do not. I will not pay special attention, so I will miss the best time for treatment - of course, after being implanted with nerve worms, personal freedom is restricted, so there is still a chance to go out for treatment!
The second stage is the splitting stage of the nerve worms. In this stage, the nerve worms initially gain a foothold in the brain and fuse themselves with the human brain tissue. They can obtain nutrition with the metabolism of humans, and start to split the body. The new nerve worms It also begins to integrate itself into the brain. At this time, the patient begins to have moderate headaches, mild insomnia symptoms, and retching symptoms. This stage usually lasts for 1 week. The treatment is still relatively easy, and the cranial nerves can be specially treated by injection. The gene fluid can separate it from the brain and excrete it from the body with metabolism, and about three courses of treatment can completely remove all the nerve worms.

In the third stage, the division of the neuroworm reaches the limit that the patient's brain can accommodate, stops the division, basically integrates with the brain tissue, and begins to try to control the neural activities of the human brain. In particular, the neuroworm is a kind of parent organism, No matter how many new individuals the mother body splits out, the connection between them is still controlled by the mother body. At this time, the patient's own immune system will find out the malicious intentions of these invaders and start to try to attack the neuroworms.

Patients generally have symptoms such as anorexia, nervous disorders, severe insomnia, mental laxity, and general convulsions. Sometimes the body will have uncoordinated movements, such as raising the legs involuntarily when they want to raise their hands. The duration of the stage is relatively long, generally about a week and a half, but there are also very few people who have completed the evolution of the third stage in just a few days after the second stage.

The treatment at this stage is very tricky. The effect of the gene liquid against the nervous worms is very small, and it is necessary to perform extremely delicate brain automation surgery, and use a nano-intelligent robot that specializes in devouring the nerf worms to swallow all the nerf worms bit by bit. In order to ensure that the neuroworms are completely separated without causing permanent brain damage to the patient, this kind of automated surgery usually takes about 3 days to complete, which shows its complexity.

In the fourth stage, the nervous worm basically controls the patient's brain and nervous system, and can control the patient's basic actions, but the coordination of the body is still unstable, and the patient basically loses the ability of independent thinking, and can only perform the most basic instinctive actions, such as eating and drinking , urinating and defecating, etc., by controlling the patient's brain at this time, the neuroworm's own intelligence level will also evolve by leaps and bounds.

Begin to try to understand the rich emotional system of human beings and integrate human memory cells. Patients at this stage basically have no bad state, but based on instinct, sometimes they can still recover the ability to act autonomously in a short moment. Take control of your brain's performance.

The duration of this cycle varies, and the treatment is extremely difficult. I am afraid that only the medical level of the four major powers can do it-brain replacement surgery. At this time, there is no way for the nerve worms to separate it. The result, that is, the patient's brain death.

Brain replacement surgery, as the name suggests, is to cultivate a new brain and transplant it to the patient. The specific process is to completely copy all the cells and bioelectricity of the patient's brain through precise scanning, so that all the previous memories of the patient can be inherited. It is already equivalent to cloning - although the patient has the previous memory after the brain is replaced, there may be new changes in the emotional aspect.

In the fifth stage, the neuroworm completely controls the patient's brain, and completely inherits all the patient's memories, and behaves exactly like ordinary people. At this stage, the mastermind behind the scenes can transmit instructions through the ultra-microchip in the neuroworm. Control all the actions of the patient. At this stage, there is no cure for the patient, and any means are useless. Even the brain replacement surgery cannot guarantee that the "original" patient can be restored. Only by killing him can the fate of being controlled be ended.

"Three days?" Xiao Cheng breathed a sigh of relief. In the base of Tianxin Group, it is not technically difficult to perform an operation to remove nerve bugs. As long as he returns in time, Yun Congming can still be saved.

Then his eyes became gloomy, the faction that this counterfeit belongs to dares to use a biological weapon that is extremely contrary to humanitarianism, such as neurons, it is really a crime!

Xiao Cheng suppressed his anger temporarily, and glanced at Yun Congming. His eyes were now loose, and he was muttering to himself, but he couldn't hear what he was saying. Xiao Cheng asked again: "Nuwa, is there a medical room nearby?" ? If I'm carrying smart and moving too slowly, I need a levitation stretcher!"

"Okay." Nuwa responded, and said in the next second: "Yes! The medical robots can be controlled, and I have sent them here with a stretcher!"

Xiao Cheng was about to say something, but he heard Nv Wa suddenly say: "Wait... a frigate appeared above the ground, and the visible distance is 37 kilometers at present... It came from the jump and is heading towards the lake of the base."

Xiao Cheng knew that this was seen by using the camouflaged observation telescope on the ground, and frowned slightly: "Can you identify the model? Is it the return of Uncle An and Uncle Shi that Smart said?"

"No, the hull doesn't have any markings, and it doesn't fit the characteristics of the two of them. It should be a starship invasion from another force!" Nuwa observed carefully before saying, "I hope they just pass by."

Xiao Cheng shook his head solemnly: "I don't believe in any coincidence, and ordered the base to prepare for defense... How could there be a frigate entering the interior of the planet? Could it be the five star fields or the person from Lei Qiu? Or... a counterfeit the recipient?"

"Probably not. If they are the responders, they should jump directly to the surface of the lake, and seeing their hesitation in their actions, it should be the first time they have come here, and they are trying to find out the direction." Nuwa said with a certainty.

Xiao Cheng felt a little relieved when he heard that, as long as he wasn't part of a gang, he still had a chance to fish in troubled waters.

"They didn't drive at full speed, and they have already entered the 30-kilometer excellent attack range. Do you want to open fire?" Nuwa asked again.

"The target should be discovered by them." Xiao Cheng stroked his chin and asked.

"That's right. The base's defensive weapons are enough to deal a fatal blow to it. Do you want to do it now?" Nuwa asked.

"Prepare for defense first." Xiao Cheng said calmly, "Wait until they enter the sky above the lake, and then open fire if they have clear hostility. How thick is the ice layer on the lake now?"

"It has been frozen to 28.6 meters, and it can be frozen to a limit of 53.74 meters." Nuwa reported quickly.

Xiao Cheng was a little relieved: "The ice layer with a thickness of nearly 30 meters is not something their frigates can break through if they want to. Prepare for defense and wait and see."

The defense of Yun Congming's base is impenetrable, but they can't just come in if they want to!
"Understood! It is expected to arrive in 23 seconds." Nuwa replied again, started the countdown, and unfolded the light screen at the same time, so that Xiao Cheng could intuitively understand the situation on the ground.

Xiao Cheng looked at it for a while. An obviously refitted frigate was slowly approaching. Sure enough, there was no sign other than the white painting. From the monitoring, it can be seen that it released a lot of scouting robots , is collecting geographical information here, but he is not worried that the other party can detect the base at a depth of 70 meters at the bottom of the lake. The electromagnetic interference here is not vegetarian.

(End of this chapter)