Chapter 132: Zerg Invasion 26
Everyone had been tested with the sonar, leaving only her and Lu Qingyuan.
After confirming that everyone else was normal, the two of them went in together.
Chu Yian also brought the medical box inside.
Although Lu Qingyuan’s wound was long, it was shallow. After applying medicine and bandaging it, there were no major problems. The two came out after the sonar test and saw the researchers gathered around Professor Liu, studying and recording his condition.
“I’ll do it.”
Lu Qingyuan then took the research records and said.
He had been a handyman too many times in the past two days, and everyone had almost forgotten Teacher Lu’s identity as a professor of biological research. He was an amateur when it came to modifying the sonar, but no one was more professional than him in biological research.
Thanks to Professor Liu’s selfless dedication during his lifetime, Lu Qingyuan obtained a lot of relevant data about the insects.
These insects feed on the brain after entering the human body. After entering the human body, they secrete a special substance that allows the brain to be consumed and die without any pain for the host. It is similar to how leeches absorb human blood while releasing neurotoxic polypeptides, but it is even more advanced than that.
“But it ate a person’s brain, and in this situation, the person is still alive…”
Chu Yian looked at Lu Qingyuan’s research conclusions, feeling incredulous.
“Is it because of a vegetative state?”
A student leaned over, “Although there is no consciousness, the body is still alive. The parasite uses this to control the person’s body?”
“No.”
Lu Qingyuan shook his head, “A vegetative state is mainly a disorder of consciousness, and the person is still alive; brain death, in medicine, is considered complete death. And Professor Liu’s situation belongs to the latter.”
In other words, from a biological perspective, Professor Liu was completely dead.
But at this moment, Professor Liu was still alive.
His heartbeat, blood pressure, and breathing were basically normal, and all his physical indicators showed almost no change. If it weren’t for his brain shrinking by a quarter at this moment, and the brain constantly ‘wriggling’ under monitoring, he would be no different from before.
A species beyond the current scope of biology.
Lu Qingyuan frowned, defining the creature.
“In addition, it should still be evolving.”
Lu Qingyuan brought them bad news, “Haven’t you noticed, at the very beginning, when the Zerg parasitic, the human body had a repulsive reaction to them.”
Vomiting.
Diarrhea.
Low-grade fever.
These reactions indicated that the human body had a certain ability to recognize them and hoped to expel or kill the parasites through its own immune system, but now the human body’s repulsive reaction was gone.
This indicates that these insects are evolving and becoming more adapted to the human body.
To what extent will they adapt to the human body? What will they develop into later? Lu Qingyuan frowned as he looked at these insects. He took out a bottle filled with nutrient solution, then opened Professor Liu’s brain and took out a parasite, putting it inside.
The process was bloody and disgusting.
The key was that after Professor Liu had his head opened and two insects removed, he still didn’t “die,” but stared straight at Lu Qingyuan.
The scene was chilling.
“Let him rest in peace.”
Everyone couldn’t bear to see Professor Liu, who had been their companion, turn into this state, so they found Lu Qingyuan and said. Finally, under the effect of the sonar, everyone let Professor Liu pass away.
But one problem still hadn’t been solved, and that was how these people became Parasitized.
“We truly never left the laboratory after entering it.”
“Before the research, Wang Gang and Teacher Zhao didn’t show any problems. Everyone was fully focused on the sonar, and no one noticed their abnormalities.”
It wasn’t until the sonar was being transported that problems arose in the elevator.
So, they didn’t know how they became Parasitized, and the clues were broken. Of course, if the two escaped Parasitized were found, there was a very small chance of getting information from them.
“To be safe, all of us must self-examine every day from now on.”
Lu Qingyuan proposed.
Actually, even if he didn’t mention it, everyone had thought of it.
Only through self-examination could they ensure that their team had no problems.
“Oh, right, how much longer until the sonar is ready?”
Given the current situation, if they didn’t hurry, the entire campus would be overrun by the Parasitized.
“One day!”
The remaining four core professors rubbed their eyes and said, “As long as we work a little harder, we can definitely finish all these things within a day!”
They directly divided into two teams, each responsible for a part.
In 48 hours, they only rested for 4 hours. Everyone was exhausted, with red eyes and sallow faces.
Game Day 7, 4 PM
The sonar was still undergoing its final modifications. According to the professors, they expected to complete the sonar by midnight on Day 8. During this period, Lu Qingyuan was studying the captured parasites, while Chu Yian began to draw from her treasure box.
In the last game, Bai Sinian revealed that NPCs wouldn’t react too strongly to items used by players.
Chu Yian had also tried it.
She had previously used her treasure box to smash a Parasitized in the elevator in front of two other unparasitized researchers, and they subconsciously normalized it, showing no shock or curiosity about her treasure box, and they didn’t even mention it in front of others.
So, using the treasure box in front of this group of people was also fine.
She directly placed the treasure box on the ground, opened it, fumbled inside for a long time, and finally pulled out a blind box item in a flash of white light.
[Invincible Megaphone]
[Note: Retrieved after this round of the game ends]
[Goodie’s Inner Voice: A megaphone that can make players within a ten-mile radius hear your voice. Use it to declare war, provoke, and the effect is super good. That’s right, it’s given to you because it’s useless.]
Chu Yian stared at the last sentence for a long time.
The treasure box was like a grandfather, and occasionally a crazy traitor.
She held the megaphone and looked at it. Its appearance was just an ordinary megaphone, an old antique rarely used in the countryside for hawking. Whether it was useful or not, she would put it away first.
As soon as Chu Yian put the megaphone into the treasure box and stood up, a voice suddenly came from behind, “Chu Yian, go to the observation room.”
“Huh?”
Chu Yian turned her head to look; it was Lu Qingyuan speaking.
He didn’t wait for her to react, directly pushed her into the observation room, and then turned on the sonar. The high-frequency buzzing made her dizzy, and only after a minute passed was she released.
“What are you doing?”
Chu Yian had thought for a moment that Lu Qingyuan had noticed her treasure box, after all, in the high-temperature game, he had also seen her treasure box and was somewhat curious about it.
As an NPC working multiple jobs, she inexplicably felt he was a bit special.
Lu Qingyuan then pointed to the living parasite in the nutrient solution, “When you passed by, it didn’t react to you.”
