You went on a blind date and presented an A-level wanted criminal as a meeting gift?

The national-level forensic center has now become a heavily guarded fortress.

Those infected near Qinglong Reservoir were urgently transferred to a temporary isolation ward set up here.

The piercing alarm and the ticking of emergency medical equipment intertwined, creating an extremely oppressive atmosphere throughout the building.

Lin Chen strode towards the cordon, and two soldiers wearing full-body heavy protective suits immediately raised their assault rifles and pointed them at him.

"Halt! This is a heavily contaminated area under lockdown. No one is allowed to enter!"

The soldier's voice came through the gas mask, sounding somewhat muffled.

Lin Chen didn't stop. He took out his specially appointed criminal investigation consultant ID from his pocket and waved it in front of the soldier.

"I am Lin Chen. Forensic doctor Jiang Tingxue sent me here."

After the soldier checked the identification, he still did not put down his gun, but pointed to a temporary disinfection tent next to him.

"Consultant Lin, please go over there and put on your Level A protective suit for full-body disinfection."

"The virus inside is extremely contagious; going in without protective clothing is suicide."

"unnecessary."

Lin Chen spoke calmly, bypassing the soldiers and striding into the building.

Are you kidding me?

He's a man with a god-level anti-toxin physique.

This passive ability grants him permanent immunity to all chemical and biological toxins in the world.

Let alone a mere artificially synthesized gene virus, even if you threw him into a pool filled with potassium cyanide and Ebola virus, he wouldn't even sneeze.

The two soldiers stared wide-eyed as they watched Lin Chen walk into the heavily contaminated area wearing only a thin casual jacket and without any protection.

They tried to stop him, but Lin Chen was too fast; he disappeared at the end of the corridor in just a few steps.

The core P4 laboratory is located underground in the forensic center.

This is the highest-level biosafety laboratory in China.

Jiang Tingxue, wearing a bulky positive pressure protective suit, stood in front of a high-powered electron microscope, her brows furrowed.

Her eyes were sunken, clearly indicating that she had been up all night. Her once cool and beautiful face was now filled with exhaustion and a deep sense of powerlessness.

Several elderly men with white hair, also wearing protective suits, surrounded her.

These are all leading figures in the domestic biological and virological communities.

"No, this virus is mutating at an abnormally high rate."

An elderly expert looked at the data on the screen and shook his head repeatedly.

"We tried 37 known broad-spectrum antibiotics and antiviral drugs, but not only did they fail to kill it, they actually stimulated its replication rate. It's simply a perfect killing machine."

Jiang Tingxue bit her lip, staring intently at the sample under the microscope.

"Its protein shell is hard, and the nucleic acid sequence inside is constantly undergoing random recombination."

"Without finding its core target, we simply cannot develop a cure."

"If this continues, those dozens of infected people in the isolation ward won't make it through the night."

Just as the atmosphere in the laboratory was sinking into despair, the airtight door suddenly made a soft "hissing" sound.

Without any buffering or disinfection procedures, a young man in a black casual jacket swaggered in.

The entire P4 laboratory fell into a deathly silence.

All the experts, dressed in heavy protective suits, looked at Lin Chen as if he were a monster.

This is a P4 laboratory!

The air could be filled with deadly viral aerosols, and this guy came in without even wearing a mask?!

"Who are you?! Who let you in! Get out!"

The old expert, realizing what had happened, pointed at Lin Chen and roared angrily.

Jiang Tingxue turned her head and saw Lin Chen through the transparent mask of her protective suit. A glimmer of light instantly lit up her previously despairing eyes.

But then she called out urgently.

"Lin Chen! Are you crazy! This is a heavily contaminated area, why aren't you wearing protective clothing!"

Lin Chen ignored the old expert's roar and walked straight to Jiang Tingxue's side. He reached out and patted her shoulder, which was covered by her heavy protective suit, and gave her a reassuring look.

"These tattered clothes are in the way and are hindering my performance."

Lin Chen casually made up a story, then reached out and pulled Jiang Tingxue away from the microscope.

"Let me see what this thing is."

The old experts were so angry at Lin Chen's arrogance that they trembled with rage.

"Nonsense! Utter nonsense! Forensic Doctor Jiang, is this the outside help you brought in? A greenhorn who doesn't even know basic biosafety knowledge?!"

The old expert was so angry that he slammed his fist on the table.

"He's courting death, and he'll contaminate our samples!"

Lin Chen completely ignored him.

He lowered his head and brought his eyes close to the eyepiece of the high-powered electron microscope.

[God-level Biology Mastery] Instantly unlocked!

[Amazing Chemistry Knowledge] Working in sync!

In that instant, Lin Chen's brain seemed to transform into a quantum computer of an ultra-high dimension.

The blurry, wriggling virus sample under the microscope began to be magnified and dissected infinitely in his eyes.

Cell wall, protein coat, RNA chain, base pairs... every microscopic structure of the virus was clearly presented in his mind.

Those chaotic gene sequences were instantly arranged into a complex yet well-organized gene map under the analysis of [God-level Biology Mastery].

Just ten seconds.

Lin Chen raised his head, a cold smile curving his lips.

"Looking for death? That's just your incompetence."

Lin Chen glanced at the old expert, his tone filled with undisguised contempt.

"you!"

The old expert was furious and about to explode, but Lin Chen's next words immediately silenced him.

"This is not a naturally evolved virus at all, no wonder your broad-spectrum antibiotics are ineffective."

Lin Chen pointed to the display screen next to him, his finger quickly swiping across it, accurately pointing out several extremely hidden gene fragments.

"This is a chimera that was forcibly sewn together using the 'CRISPR-Cas9 gene scissors' technology."

Lin Chen's voice wasn't loud, but it struck like a heavy hammer, hitting all the experts in the heart.

"Its main structure is highly mutated rabies virus RNA, which ensures its extremely strong neurotoxicity and lethality."

"But its outer shell protein..."

Lin Chen paused, his eyes sharpening.

"A gene fragment of an extremely rare parasitic fungus, the genus Cordyceps, was implanted into it."

The entire room fell silent.

The senior experts looked at each other, their eyes filled with shock and disbelief.

Can traces of gene editing be detected by simply looking at a microscope with the naked eye for ten seconds?

They even explained the specific genetic origins in great detail!

How is that possible!

This requires comparing a huge gene library and weeks of sequencing work to draw a conclusion!

Although Jiang Tingxue knew that Lin Chen often created miracles, she was still too shocked to speak at this moment.

"This fungal gene gives the virus the ability to survive as stubborn spores."

"What's even more ruthless is that its target is not human respiratory tract or blood cells at all."

Lin Chen's fingers tapped heavily on the screen.

"Its target is the trace elements in water—magnesium ions and calcium ions."

"Once it enters the human body, it will frantically plunder these trace elements in the blood and organs to replicate itself, causing the human organs to rapidly fail due to ion imbalance in a short period of time."

"This is why patients develop erythema all over their bodies; it's because subcutaneous capillaries rupture over a large area due to calcium deficiency."

Lin Chen's words were like the sun breaking through the clouds, instantly solving the mystery that had puzzled these top experts for an entire night!

The old expert who had just been roaring at Lin Chen suddenly felt his legs go weak and almost collapsed to the ground.

He stared at the gene fragments Lin Chen pointed out on the screen, becoming increasingly alarmed and convinced that Lin Chen's explanation was flawless.

Dimensional reduction attack!

This is a complete and utter professional dimensional reduction attack!

"Then... what should we do?"

The old expert's tone had changed from anger to deep awe.

Knowing the principle is useless.

Lin Chen turned and walked towards the laboratory door.

"The structure of this chimeric virus is very unstable; it is constantly mutating."

"The samples we are seeing now are already third or even fourth generation products after mutation."

"To formulate a highly effective antidote, we must obtain the original strain of the virus."

Jiang Tingxue immediately followed.

"But Qinglong Reservoir is so big. The chemical defense troops have been conducting a thorough search for twelve hours, but they still can't find the source of the leak."

Lin Chen stopped and looked back at Jiang Tingxue, a confident smile playing on his lips.

"They can't find it because they don't understand physics."