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Chapter 17 Chapter 16 Meteor

Everyone sat down on the ground, waiting for the arrival of the police and doctors.At this time, the sun has climbed to the horizon, and the entire Cuishan Mountain is green with the morning glow, and even everyone's faces are covered with a layer of faint green. After waiting for more than half an hour, several cars with sirens sounded in the distance, followed by several white ambulances. Ren Yuansheng and I and others returned to City S in two police cars, but Liu Zheng stayed behind to deal with the aftermath. The journey was very peaceful, and the car drove very smoothly. I sat in a car with Ren Yuansheng and Fatty Li. No one spoke. Worry for the villagers around the barren hills!Fatty Li kept flipping through his notebook, which was full of memories, humming, but he couldn't make out what he was saying.And I stared at the bustling commuters outside the car window for a long time, and finally closed my eyes and rethought what happened in the past few days to see if I missed any important details, hoping to suddenly have a flash of inspiration , Do what you can for the coming disaster.

When the car drove to the Central Hospital, I was sent to the infirmary first. The broken finger had to be dealt with quickly. Although it was not a serious injury, the ten fingers connected to the heart, and a slight tremor of the broken bone was a heart-wrenching pain. The hospital was full of people, the medical staff were overwhelmed, and there were citizens queuing up everywhere.I later learned that the city government had broadcast a notice on television, newspapers and other media this morning that all public hospitals in City S were offering free physical examinations to the public, and citizens could take the examinations at any time 24 hours a day.Of course, it is impossible for the media to disclose the real situation to the public, which would cause great panic among the citizens and possibly lead to an instant paralysis of social order.The reason for the media to the outside world is the inspection of the flu epidemic, and every citizen must register and issue a health certificate.Citizens without health certificates will be prohibited from entering and leaving public places.This reason is very good. It not only avoids the panic of the public, but also avoids the possibility of underreporting!

The broken finger was quickly bandaged, because after the injury, I had already done some treatment myself—people who have practiced martial arts more or less know some basic methods of emergency self-rescue, although they are very simple, they are generally very effective.Under normal circumstances, I should lose the bottle for two days, but the matter is urgent and there is no such time, so I have no choice but to give up! After the bone injury was treated, I just wanted to go to the laboratory to see Professor Li and Cai Feng to see how they were progressing—I really wanted to know whether this infectious disease that can completely change people can be controlled.But when I walked out, I was stopped by a person: "Mr. Yi, Secretary Lin and Mayor Ren, please go over there!"

It was a young man in a neat suit. In fact, I had already met him last night, but it may be because of his position that he did not attend the meeting.So I let him lead the way and followed quickly. We went up the stairs and arrived at a large office that was supposed to be a conference hall. There was a piece of white paper hanging on the door, with a few words written in thick black - Temporary Command, many people in various clothes were coming in and out out! I pushed the door open and walked in, and saw many people gathered in the room, each busy, paying no attention to me coming in.Lin Qing was answering the phone in the corner, talking loudly while walking back and forth, with an anxious expression on his face, without asking, he knew that things were really bad.

Ren Yuansheng was on the other side of the room telling many people, including Professor Li, about our experience yesterday. The people in that circle were all frowning and listening, with frightened and surprised expressions on their faces.In the group closest to me, an old man with all white hair was wearing fancy glasses and having a heated discussion with the five geological engineers. Several notebooks were scattered on the table—the fruit of their labor last night. ! I saw that everyone was busy, so I leaned over to listen to what they were discussing. At this moment, a majestic voice said: "Everyone stop talking, let's have a meeting!" It was Lin Qing who came back after answering the phone who said this.

The room suddenly fell silent, and everyone found a nearby seat to sit down.No one thought that with the presence of municipal leaders, how to sit in order to comply with the rules-at a critical juncture, no one cares about those extra etiquette! Lin Qing's voice was a little hoarse, and he said, "I won't say any more polite words. Mr. Yi and his party had some accidents last night. Judging from what they saw, the infectious disease had already spread out of the urban area. He was also infected, let's first let Mr. Yi talk about the situation at that time, and let's analyze it together!" It seems that after staying up all night, his condition is also getting worse.

All eyes were directed at me.To be honest, I am a relatively casual person, and I have never made a speech on a formal occasion like this. I will not be afraid if I face the danger of life and death, but when I look into the eyes of these people, I suddenly feel nervous. So I just smiled and said, "I've always been a loser when I speak, and I'm afraid I'll miss some important details. We're short on time, so let's ask Mayor Ren to talk about it. His experience is basically the same as mine!" Said He completely glanced at Ren Yuansheng. After a side-by-side battle of life and death, the distance between us has become much closer. Ren Yuansheng and I looked at each other and immediately understood what I meant. He took the conversation and said: "Then let me talk about it. What I missed, I hope Mr. Yi will add it!" Then he told the whole story of last night in detail.

I have to admit that his narration is not only complete, but also appropriate and well-organized. This should be due to the fact that he often speaks in public. He kept talking like this for more than half an hour. When he talked about our contest with Lu Hua and the special ability Lu Hua showed, everyone's faces became inexplicably surprised, as if Ren Yuansheng said It's just a story, it can't be true.Of course, there is only one person whose face has not changed from the beginning to the end, and that is Professor Li. He completely believes in this, because if he tells about his own experience, I am afraid that everyone will not believe it even more.

When they heard the news of Lu Hua's death, everyone's faces were covered with gloom.The people here are either officials, medical experts or geologists—except for me, of course, it can be said that they are all the elites of S City.The captain of the criminal police can be regarded as a prominent figure in S City, or many of them have dealt with them before, and they are familiar with each other. No matter who they are, the sudden death of an acquaintance will shock people, let alone in this weird place. under the circumstances. Ren Yuansheng finished the whole story, and finally said: "I feel very sad for anyone's innocent death. I hope we can end this disaster as soon as possible and get everything back on track!"

Lin Qing waited for Ren Yuansheng to finish speaking, and asked me, "Mr. Yi, are your injuries okay?" I smiled lightly and said, "Skin wounds, don't get in the way!" Lin Qing turned to the silver-haired old man and asked, "Mr. Gong, you are the geological authority in our city. According to your analysis, what exactly is this rock?" Mr. Gong took off his glasses and said, "After listening to Xiao Zhang and the others talk about the local situation, I also feel very strange, but with their information, I can't make a judgment rashly!" "According to your estimation, what should that be?" Lin Qing asked further.

Gong Laodao: "Secretary Lin, this is a very rigorous scientific analysis. My subjective assumptions can only mislead the normal progress of the analysis work. Therefore, before there is no reliable supporting evidence, I don't want to draw conclusions prematurely!" After listening to Mr. Gong's words, I became anxious, eager to express my point of view, so I took up the conversation and said: "Scientific research is of course rigorous. Mr. Gong is a scientist, of course it depends on evidence. But I am not a scientist. , I have an opinion I want to talk about!" Mr. Gong took a look at me, flattened his mouth, and said, "All ears!" Seeing his polite appearance, I shook my head secretly, and then said: "Maybe you don't know the location of this stone. It is located more than ten meters inside the mountain. Of course, this is the vertical height. If you climb through the narrow hole Go in, it is about 50 meters, the strange rock is in a closed stone room, only a narrow hole is connected to the outside world, the stone room is about 20 meters long, and it is in the shape of an arc, that is to say, the whole stone room is a circle A spherical space. And the narrow hole leads to the stone chamber in a smooth parabola!" I knew I was not good at talking about scientific things, so I made gestures as I spoke. "And according to Professor Zhang's detection, the stone wall has been roasted at high temperature, melted at high temperature, and then condensed again!" I said here and looked at old man Zhang. The old man Zhang cleared his throat, and said: "Judging from the hardness and smooth surface of the stone wall, the stone wall there was indeed scorched by high temperature. The data I measured can prove this!" A notebook full of data. I slowly walked over to pick up a photo taken by a bearded man on the table, pointed to the stone egg on it and continued: "According to Professor Huang's test, the thick layer of transparent stone outside the stone egg is a stone crystal. Very tough!" Huang Bai's face blushed, and said: "I'm not... you can call me Xiao Huang, that... this stone egg is really hard, we scrapped four drill bits to drill a small hole, that..." As he spoke, he glanced at Mr. Gong, and continued, "According to my preliminary speculation, it is very likely that this is Shi Jing, but we have to wait for the test results before we can be sure!" I pointed the finger at Liu's eyes again, and continued, "Professor Liu, that stone egg seems to have a lot of radiation, right?" Liu's eyes were not as cautious as Huang Bailian's, and he said loudly: "This is for sure!" I smiled: "Actually, I had a strange feeling when I first climbed into this narrow hole. I don't know what words to use to describe this feeling. I didn't realize it until the second time I went into the hole and looked up. !" Ren Yuansheng asked me curiously: "What did you see?" The reason why he asked this was because we were not separated at that time, so if I saw something special, he should know, but he obviously didn't have any. Find. "Actually, Professor Hu also saw it at the time, and he tied a knot at the corner of his clothes!" Seeing everyone's suddenly enlightened expressions, I continued, "Yes, it was a shooting star, dragging its long tail in the night sky. Draw an arc!" Slender Hu slapped his thigh and said, "Yes, yes, you are right. From the evidence you listed, it can be deduced that it is a meteorite. Why didn't my grandma think of it!" Everyone didn't expect that this cultural person would suddenly burst out with a swear word, and burst into laughter immediately, and the dull and depressing atmosphere in the meeting room was slightly relieved. Gong Laodao: "I also thought about this possibility just now, but there is one thing that doesn't make sense. The diameter of the narrow hole is less than half a meter, but the stone egg is seven or eight meters in size. How did it get in? "
He is right. If it is inferred from common sense, it is impossible for a large ball to pass through an extremely narrow hole.Unless the ball itself can shrink, like the "shrinking technique" in martial arts novels, but the ball is made of stone, and it is a stone crystal that is many times harder than ordinary stones!But he forgot one possibility, and I continued: "It wasn't that big when it entered the mountain, but it got bigger later!" Mr. Gong didn't finish listening to me, so he shouted loudly: "It's not alive, it will grow by itself, how could it become bigger later?" I pointed to the green stone egg inside the stone crystal and said with a smile: "I guess the situation should be like this. A huge green meteorite from nowhere broke away from its orbit and rushed into the atmosphere. It burned up in the friction of the particles, which made its volume rapidly consumed and reduced, and its temperature increased sharply. But because the texture of this meteorite is very hard and its volume is large, although most of it was burned by the atmosphere, But there is still a small piece that fell to the ground, and the place where it fell is what we call Cuishan now. Maybe it was not called Cuishan at that time, but it got its name from the changes in the soil after the meteorite fell. Xiao The meteorite smashed into it with a high temperature and its texture was much harder than a stone. The potential energy it carried, its own hardness, and the high temperature enough to melt iron and stone immediately pierced a hole in the barren mountain. , straight into the interior of the mountain. After gliding for more than fifty meters, its potential energy was also exhausted, and the accumulated heat immediately melted the surrounding stones. Perhaps an explosion may have formed, but because it was already deep It was inside the mountain, so the explosion just created a space—the chamber it was in. After a while, the molten stone condensed again, forming this thick stone cladding—what we call The layer of stone crystals mentioned. After a long time, the radiation emitted by the green meteorite changed the soil quality of the barren mountain, turning the color of the soil into green! But this radiation wave is very powerful. It has seriously affected the people around, causing them to have a strange disease, and this strange disease is the source of this pustule!" When I said this, I stopped talking and scanned everyone around. Everyone was lost in thought. I think what they were thinking was that although my inference was a bit whimsical, it was also reasonable.isn't it?If this strange disease had nothing to do with this green stone egg, then why did Lu Hua bring Bai Feng there inexplicably?Why is Bai Feng so attached to the stone egg under control?Why did the group of villagers gather under the barren mountain in the middle of the night for no reason?If this is not the case, how can these unimaginable strange things be explained? "Then, Mr. Yi, why did those villagers just gather at the foot of the mountain instead of climbing into the narrow hole where the stone was like Captain Lu?" One person asked his own question. I thought for a while and replied: "I can't give a definite answer to this point, but according to my speculation, the illness of these villagers may be milder than that of Captain Lu, and they have not formed a stronger ability to receive that kind of radiation. It’s like two people who have a cold at the same time, one may be in good health and pass away, but the other needs to be hospitalized!” "Then you're saying that Lu Hua's physique is not good?" It was Director Wang of the Health Bureau who asked this question. I smiled and said: "This is just a metaphor, maybe the development of this disease is not measured by our common sense physical fitness!" "That is to say!" Lin Qing said solemnly, "Everyone of us here may have already suffered from this disease!" I smiled wryly and said, "Theoretically, it should look like this, and it can only be determined after inspection!" "So what do we do now?" asked another. Lin Qing looked at me, everyone looked at me, waiting for me to give an answer, but I didn't have an answer, so I could only shake my head with a wry smile: "I can only place my hope on the medical experts here, because what I can think of It can only be drug control!" I didn't mention Professor Li's name directly, because he is not only an expert here, but also I don't want to put more pressure on him, after all, this is a very difficult subject, not only the responsibility is heavy, but also Time is running out, this awe-inspiring old man has not rested for several days after the self-harm, I can see his haggard and tired face, and his body seems to have lost a lot of weight, the white coat on his body It looks a little baggy! But Professor Li is the leader of this newly established medical team, and I am afraid he is also the leader of these medical experts, because when I said this, they all looked at him together. Professor Li has been sitting there like a wood carving, quietly, quietly, with deep frown and serious face.He was stunned for a while before he said: "Yesterday, we conducted an injection test on five mice in a constant temperature clean room. The results were not ideal, because their immune systems have been completely destroyed, although they have not yet death, but the immune system in the body shows no sign of recovery. Even if the medicine does work, I don’t think it’s worth the price of destroying the human immune system!” He spoke very slowly, with many pauses in between, It seems that the brain is already overtired and may suddenly stop thinking at any time. Lin Qing listened quietly to Professor Li, then turned her head and said with concern: "Professor Li, although the situation is extremely urgent, you still need to take a good rest!" Yes, everyone can see Professor Li's performance, it is indeed excessive Due to fatigue, he really should have a good night's sleep, otherwise, he may have an accident due to excessive physical exhaustion. "Rest? I don't dare to rest!" Professor Li smiled wryly, "I'm afraid that if I close my eyes, I will never wake up again like Captain Lu!" What he said was not alarmist. If Lu Hua hadn't been hypnotized that night, he might have woken up the next morning.Sleep after fatigue and hypnosis may seem different, but they have the same effect, both will lead to deep sleep in the brain, and once the brain falls asleep, it is the best time for the pustule to take advantage of it! The venue immediately fell into a dull, silent, dull silence. After a while, Professor Li went on to say: "I personally think that it is no longer possible to use only mice for experiments. First of all, the body structure of mice is very different from that of humans. Even if success is achieved on mice, it cannot be guaranteed. The human body can also be successful. Moreover, even if the white mouse test is successful, we still need to increase the dose to act on the human body. This dose is not simply converted according to body weight or volume. , we still have to conduct experiments on humans!" "Then you mean to conduct experiments directly on humans? Are you kidding me? This is a matter of life and death. Is there any living person willing to make such a sacrifice?" Director Wang yelled loudly. "Just because you're afraid of death doesn't mean everyone is afraid of death!" Professor Li said coldly, "I'll be the first!" Director Wang blushed from being pushed, but he had nothing to refute. He just sat on the chair fiercely and rolled his eyes. Lin Qingdao: "Professor Li, you are now our backbone and the backbone of all S citizens. You can't take this risk. If this is really necessary, I will be the first one!" This sentence immediately caused confusion in the meeting place. The secretary of the municipal party committee is going to be an experimenter, which is hard to ignore in silence anyway!As soon as he finished speaking, many people shouted: "No, you are the secretary of the municipal party committee, how can you take such a risk?" "It's a joke, the dignified secretary of the municipal party committee is the experimental product. Have all the people in City S died?" "If it is really necessary, then I am willing to be the first!" ... When everyone was arguing, Ren Yuansheng yelled loudly: "Don't quarrel, don't quarrel!" He yelled several times in a row before everyone's yelling subsided, and he continued, "This is only Professor Li's. It’s just an idea, I didn’t decide to do it, let’s think of other ways!” "Is there any other way?" asked a person who didn't know the name, and this question was naturally asked to Professor Li. "No matter what method there is, there will always be the first one! Of course, we will conduct experiments on corpses first to determine how much dosage can achieve the effect of completely destroying pustules, but there must always be a living person to be the first person to try!" Yes, Professor Li is right, no matter what the method is, someone must do it first. "Okay! Now I will arrange the next step! Don't worry about this issue." Lin Qing said solemnly, "Professor Li, you should quickly conduct experiments on the corpses of those comrades who died in the morning. As a result, tell me right away, you can’t decide without authorization! Mr. Gong and the experts from the Institute of Geology continue to study the composition of the stone eggs, and get a definite result as soon as possible! As for the other comrades, they should continue to strengthen the census work according to their respective division of labor. Everyone Please go to the examination room of the hospital for an examination after twelve o'clock tonight, everyone has to do it. Well, here we go!" The secretary's order has been issued, and everyone can't say anything else, they all stood up and walked out. I also stood up and went out, Lin Qing stopped me and said, "Mr. Yi, do you want to go out?" I turned around in surprise and said, "No, I want to go and see Officer Bai! What's the matter?" Lin Qing nodded and asked, "How sure are you about your speculation just now?" I spread my hands and said, "Other than that, I can't think of a more reasonable explanation. Maybe after the results of the census come out and look at the number of patients, maybe it's not as bad as I thought!" Lin Qing smiled wryly.He asked again: "What do you think, if we destroy that stone egg, will it have any effect?" I spread my hands again, and said, "I'm not sure, but I think it's safer to confirm Shidan's 'identity' before making a decision. We can no longer face a worse situation than this!" Lin Qing nodded.He made a gesture of invitation to me, saying that there was nothing else to do. As soon as I walked out the door, I bumped into a man in a white coat head-on. We both staggered and took a step back. I looked up and saw that the man was Cai Feng.I saw that his face was full of surprise and excitement. As soon as he saw it was me, he asked, "Brother Yi! Is Professor Li there?" "In the room, what..." Before I could ask "what's the matter", Cai Feng had already rushed into the room and shouted loudly: "Dean, I have made a major discovery!" I heard footsteps in the room, and I quickly stepped aside, the door was pushed open, and Professor Li ran out first, striding towards the laboratory, followed by Cai Feng, Lin Qing and others. I thought to myself, I'm not in a hurry to see Bai Feng at this moment, so why don't I go and see what Cai Feng found?After all, I know that he has always been prudent in his work. If it wasn't for a major discovery, he wouldn't be so excited!So he also ran to follow.
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