Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

“… Yesterday, the United Nations held an ad hoc meeting in New York to determine a contingency plan for the global crisis of Martian strain invasion. A research team composed of multinational researchers will be stationed in the Moon Palace Space Station within one week, The strain is being developed.”

“At the same time, according to the International Health Organization research decision, the bacteria was officially named x-0172 bacteria.”

“Huaguo News, report for you.”

The report on Martian bacteria is over, and the news on TV continues to be shown.

Sitting at the table and enjoying breakfast quietly, Lu Zhou glanced at the calendar on his mobile phone and said to himself.

“There are eighty-seven days left.”

Time is tight…

Picking up the remote control and turning off the TV, Lu Zhou took a paper towel and wiped his mouth, then pushed the chair up and stood up from the table.

“Xiao AI, it’s troublesome to clean up the tableware.”

A quadrotor drone with a small TV swayed and flew from the kitchen.

[Good Master, give it to me! 】

After throwing the work of washing the dishes and packing the table to Xiao AI, Lu Zhou took a jacket from the door and put it on the body, then called the phone to Wang Peng.

Soon a black red flag was parked outside the villa and he was taken from the door of the Nanjing Institute of Advanced Studies.

In fact, in the strict sense, research in the field of biology is not the strength of the Nanjing Institute of Advanced Studies.

In particular, the branch of the celestial body, such as the unpopular branch, not to mention that the Nanjing Institute of Advanced Studies can not find a person to study this direction, even if it is placed in the top five national comprehensive universities in the country, how many can not find.

However, sometimes research involving cutting-edge fields does not necessarily have to be done by a professional counterpart. After all, the more cutting-edge things, even if it is a professional counterpart, at most, the experience is richer, and everyone’s starting line is actually similar.

At present, the Institute of Advanced Studies is well-known in the field of microbiology, and only Liu Zuobing, who is in charge of the “freeze dormancy” project.

Although his main research direction is frozen biology, he often has a better say in x-0172 bacteria because he often studies the sample of cells collected in extreme environments.

After all, x-0172 bacteria are also collected from extreme environments…

After getting out of the car, Lu Zhou went straight to the building of the biology Institute.

When he arrived at the laboratory, Liu Zuobing Professor and his several students were busy observing and recording what was in front of the electron microscope.

After not disturbing their research, quietly waiting for them to finish their work, Lu Zhou just went up and looked at Professor Liu and asked.

“Is the sample sent?”

“Already sent,” refers to the specimen on the microscope, Liu Zuobing Professor said with a smile and said, “I bet, this is probably the most expensive of the whole world.”

Lu Zhou also said a joke.

“… Estimated to be the most dangerous of all World.”

Liu Zuobing Professor smiled and put his hand on it: “There is no need to worry about it. The specimens sent to Earth have been inactivated at the highest level. As long as they are strictly in accordance with the safety manual, there will be basically no problem.”

Although somewhat sensitive to the word “basic”, Lu Zhou still believes in the level of Professor Liu and should not make such a low-level mistake.

After a pause, Lu Zhou asked him what he was most concerned about.

“Is there any research progress?”

“The progress is a little bit,” Liu Zuobing Professor pushed his glasses and continued. “According to the latest research published by Leslie Professor and Zhao Shuxuan Professor, we can confirm that the symptoms of sleepiness appear in the colonizers of Ares. It should be caused by the amino acid derivative of x-0172 bacteria secreted during the formation of spores.”

“Amino acid derivative biology?” Lu Zhou wrinkled his eyebrows and continued, “Is the problem serious?”

“Serious to not very serious, this kind of amino acid derivative biology is very interesting, it will not hurt the host, and even … is beneficial to the host.”

Lu Zhou: “…be useful? Can you elaborate with me?”

“Active sleep,” suddenly throwing out a word that was unexpected to Lu Zhou, Professor Liu explained in an inferred tone, “assuming that there have been atmospheres, magnetic fields, and even a rich variety of ecological systems on Mars, when encountering severe geology Changes or other external factors that cause Mars to become less livable, the pheromones released by the bacteria in the spores will likely help the host to survive the period of material scarcity, just like hibernation.”

Helping the host to weather the extreme weather, on the surface is helping the host through the difficulties, in fact, the self-rescue of the bacteria. Therefore, compared with the parasitic relationship, the bacteria and the host are more like a mutually beneficial relationship.

Having said that, Liu Zuobing Professor paused for a few seconds and looked at the thoughtful Lu Zhou and continued.

“At present, we have not found that in addition to the symptoms of lethargy, this bacterium has other effects on the health of the host. We have reason to believe that secreted pheromones are an active defense mechanism of the bacteria, by reducing metabolism, active dormancy. The form helps the host to actively sleep. In this dormant state, the host’s tolerance to extreme environments will be greatly improved, and at the same time, only a small amount of energy is consumed, and the minimum vital characteristics can be guaranteed.”

Lu Zhou thought for a moment and then asked: “But the mechanism of releasing pheromones?”

“The problem is here, we haven’t fully figured out its generation mechanism yet,” said Liu Zuobing, sighed. “There are two kinds of speculations. One is when the host itself is immune to the foreign bacteria, attacking the autoantibodies. The bacteria are forced to produce spores due to self-protection, while the active dormant pheromone is forced to release.”

“As for one possibility, under the stimulation of certain external physics conditions, the bacteria will judge that the host is in an extremely harsh environment, actively releasing spores and dormant pheromones to protect the host.”

Although lethargy is not a fatal symptom, it is a headache for a normal person if you are dozing off all day long.

At present, one of the three colonists has found a similar situation, that is, the probability is at least one third.

If one third person on Earth is 1st year times per day, it is hard to say how it will impact modern society.

Lu Zhou pondered for a moment and asked: “Which kind of possibility do you prefer?”

Liu Zuobing Professor: “I prefer the first one.”

Lu Zhou immediately responded: “That is, the colonizer with clinical symptoms of drowsiness within the body, may have antibodies to x-0172 bacteria?”

Liu Zuobing Professor said cautiously nodded.

“Not good said, but I think it should be like this!”