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Chapter 400 Mutation

If Wang Hao was not wrong, it was from that time that the possible "radiation" had quietly begun to affect the astronauts' bodies. And..., including Zhou Lu, the doctor on board, no one noticed the changes that occurred on his body.

After the crew member named Feng Song found Zhou Lu on the third day, the number of people who were sick suddenly increased. This was clearly reflected in the statistics: there were two people on the third day, four on the fourth day, and twenty on the fifth day.

The number of patients began to increase rapidly. By the sixth day, all crew members had looked for Zhou Lu at least once, and a few people, such as Zheng Yang, Feng Song, etc., had already looked for Zhou Lu many times.

It is obvious that the treatment method Zhou Lu took did not work. The crew members' condition did not relieve it, but began to worsen. By the seventh day, even Zhou Lu began to feel uncomfortable.

She wrote in the record: "My left arm started to twitch continuously, and I couldn't even hold something firmly with my left hand. Well... it might be some nervous reaction, and I'm getting better with some medicine."

At this time, Zhou Lu did not consider infectious diseases. The reason is very simple. Although all the astronauts in the spacecraft had been sick at least once, the disease manifestations were varied, and no two had the same symptoms. However, as a medical worker's vigilance still made Zhou Lu pay attention to it. But after a check-up, Zhou Lu could only attribute these things that have been in the past few days to bad luck.

During this period, Zhou Lu is the busiest one on the entire spacecraft. But her busyness can only temporarily relieve the crew's symptoms, and usually the symptoms will appear again after a few days.

The turning point occurred on the 23rd day. On this day, the astronaut named Zheng Yang who had the first to start ill suddenly began to vomit blood, accompanied by intermittent muscle spasms. Zhou Lu injected him with medication according to the corresponding judgment, but the symptoms did not relieve it.

On the 30th day, the first deceased appeared. He did not die of illness, but of suicide. The surveillance equipment clearly recorded the scene. When the weak astronauts forced him to press him on the operating table and prepared for the same weak Zhou Lu to treat him, he suddenly became crazy, and while roaring like a beast, he struggled to get off the hospital bed. During this process, seven or eight crew members could not hold him down. He rushed over and grabbed a scalpel, and stabbed into his chest without hesitation in everyone's exclamation.

Looking at the crew member who slowly fell down but looked relaxed like a relief appeared on his face, Wang Hao couldn't help feeling a chill in his heart.

Obviously, he chose to commit suicide because he could not bear the pain above his body.

The video recording continues. When he died, Zhou Lu, a doctor with the ship, threw away the scalpel in his hand and burst into tears. A pale but still calm astronaut walked up and comforted Zhou Lu softly - Wang Hao recognized that he was the captain of the Yuyun spacecraft.

As things have developed to this point, no one realizes that some bad things have happened in the spacecraft. If they are not handled properly, everyone will die.

They do not have light-grade communication equipment. Even if they have super-light speed communication equipment, the existence of communication delay cannot immediately obtain support from the human base camp - they are still more than 20 light-years away from the Phoenix Galaxy at this moment.

The only one who can save them is themselves.

The doctor Zhou Lu, along with the ship, became the most important person in the spaceship. Under the comfort of the captain, she finally calmed down and began to check information, check, analyze, judge, and try to change people's destiny with her own knowledge.

Of course, Wang Hao knew that even though Zhou Lu had done her best, she still failed in the end. All the people in the Yuyun spacecraft died, and their deaths were miserable. However, while watching the navigation and work logs, videos and text records, all the astronauts began to unite and fully assist Zhou Lu, comfort and care for the records of her companions, etc., Wang Hao still couldn't help but look forward to their endings being changed.

The miracle did not happen. The crew members were still dying one by one. On the 62nd day, Zhou Lu recorded the last work record in her life.

Looking at the picture, the left arm was ulcerated on a large scale, and even bones could be seen directly between the top arm and the forearm. The two bones were not separated only by some flesh-skin connections, and the legs were also ulcerated and even unable to stand up. Wang Hao's heart was full of pain.

"I suspect this is radiation disease, but we searched the entire spacecraft and tested every part of the spacecraft, but no radiation source or the place where the radiation existed. I treated the crew according to the treatment method of radiation disease, but there was no effect.

I judged that the reason for the disease was genetic mutation, but there was no equipment for gene editing therapy in the spacecraft.

I let the crew hibernate, but even hibernation cannot stop the disease from developing.

I tried everything and tried every means, but I was unable to change our destiny.

I...I can no longer bear the pain that comes to my body. My whole body is in pain, just like ten thousand ants crawling and biting in my flesh and blood. Instead of waiting for a few days to die of organ failure in the whole body, it is better to end my life early now.

If there are medical experts who can see these records, I ask you to find out the cause of our death and not let us die inexplicably."

After leaving this last record, Zhou Lu, a young woman who once had bright eyes and white teeth, was full of youthful vitality, but now she was as terrifying as a ghost, pointed a small pistol at her temple and then pulled the trigger.

Wang Hao closed his eyes and opened it again for a long time.

Wang Hao obtained a lot of useful information from Zhou Lu's records. During the development of this disease, changes in various physical data, as well as the manifestations of various stages of the disease, all played a very important role in Wang Hao's subsequent research. However, the records in the spacecraft were not over yet, and Wang Hao still flipped through them bit by bit.

Zhou Lu's death means that the defense line composed of the crew members completely collapsed. Zhou Lu, who has mastered the most medical knowledge, died, and the remaining people could not have any other way.

So people made a decision.

"Save our bodies as well as possible and facilitate research by medical experts as much as possible."

The undead crew supported each other and moved the dead crew's bodies to a cabin that was most conducive to preserving the bodies - that is, the cabin where Wang Hao led the team members into the Yuyun spacecraft when he saw the bodies. After the bodies were transported, the people who were still alive did not leave, but stayed here.

Wang Hao knew very well why they did this. Because they knew that after they died, no one would come to carry their bodies, so they had to come here first when they were still alive.

In the end, they did not resist the painful torture and chose to end their lives early. The captain of the Yuyun spacecraft struggled to come to the spacecraft control room, set various parameters for automatic navigation for the spacecraft, and then died in the control room.

The entire process lasted for seventy days. From then on, there was no manual addition in the navigation log, but it was all automatically generated by the system.

There is no need to read the subsequent logs. Wang Hao closed the record and sighed deeply.

"I will definitely investigate the cause of your death and will not let you die be unknown. This is my responsibility."

The cleaning of the Yuyun spacecraft is still going on. The members of the operation team kept traveling back and forth between the Yuyun spacecraft and the spacecraft Wang Hao was riding, and transported all the crew's bodies to Wang Hao. Wang Hao carefully examined each body, recorded and analyzed every lesion on their bodies in detail.

The number of specimens obtained from different parts of the bodies of different crew members has reached thousands. Wang Hao first tried to isolate possible pathogenic pathogens from them. However, this work did not go smoothly. After seven days of work, no unknown pathogens were isolated. Some were only some known that could coexist with the human body, or some could cause diseases, but it was obvious that they were traces of microorganisms that invaded later.

This has basically ruled out the possibility of a strong infectious disease. But Wang Hao still dared not take it lightly. While sending all the data to the expert team for review and analysis, Wang Hao also asked the soldiers who blocked the place to transport a group of guinea pigs from the galaxy to carry out infection experiments on the spot.

Gene sequencing is also proceeding in an orderly manner. Just like the dead Zhou Lu, Wang Hao also made the judgment of genetic mutation based on existing data. Zhou Lu did not have relevant equipment to verify it, but the spacecraft Wang Hao was riding has sufficient complete and advanced equipment.

Twelve days later, Wang Hao finally got the data. Looking at the characters one by one, Wang Hao's heart began to sink continuously.

These data confirm the judgment of the dead Zhou Lu and Wang Hao, who is currently studying him. The diseases that appear on the astronauts' bodies are indeed caused by genetic mutations. A large number of uncontrolled gene mutations have caused healthy cells to be unable to divide into the normal next generation, and thus caused all the organs and tissues of the astronauts' bodies to fail to work normally, which eventually brought severe pain and claimed everyone's lives.
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