In the future, in 4045 AD, the Earth has become synonymous with the lower middle class, becoming a vampire who has been drained of resources. One in ten humans has successfully relocated to the Moon and Mars, including government officials, scientists, scribes, doctors, and other members of the upper class. The earth has become a mechanical planet, full of various complex mechanical systems, marking the prosperity of human civilization, but it is also the result of barbaric destruction of the ecological environment.
In 4045 AD, the Earth suffered from seasonal chaos that led to the collapse of ecosystems and the staggering rate of species extinction. The harsh environment has forced humans to establish interstellar orbits between the Earth, the Moon and Mars in order to travel freely.
Against this backdrop, a plague broke out in District 1, causing humans to mutate into larger-than-normal creatures, known as mews or ghouls, who feed on human flesh and blood. In this chaotic era, the protagonist Lu Xiaoqi lives an ordinary life. He had a management opportunity in the WOLF-5 group, but was not interested in money and turned down the opportunity.
Lu Xiaoqi, who lives in District 9, suddenly felt a familiar story awakened in the rain of a day. His diary was full of complaints about life in the past, but now no amount of flowery writing can attract attention. The pace of life has become extraordinarily fast, and money has become the primary pursuit in people's eyes.
Lu Xiaoqi's ex-girlfriend Zhang Ruxue is about to get married, and her fiancé is a high-level member of Baise Rose, a consortium as famous as Wolf-5. Lu Xiaoqi felt bored and didn't want to attend the wedding, but his friend Huck called him and said that he was in a hurry and asked him to hurry over.
Huck was a high school classmate of Lu Xiaoqi and engaged in medical research. He urgently asked Lu Xiaoqi to go to the research institute, claiming that he had something important to tell him. Lu Xiaoqi was in an irritable mood, but it still passed. Huck tells him that there is a strange outbreak of the M virus in Area 9 and that medicine is helpless.
At the same time as receiving the news, the same news was broadcast on TV, which made Lu Xiaoqi's heart tighten. District Nine was his area, and he wanted to keep watching the news, but Huck's emergency call urged him. After eating something, Lu Xiaoqi rushed to Huck's research institute, and the whole city was already in gray night. When he saw Huck, he curiously asked the reason for the urgency, "What's the matter, call me in the middle of the night." "It's not a big night, it's just getting dark, it's a small night at best. I'm really in a hurry to call you. ”
Lu Xiaoqi unceremoniously stretched out his hand to Huck, "If you have a fart, let it go." Reimburse me for the fare and give me 10,000 yuan. ”
Huck said with a shocked expression, "Your sister, are you taking a taxi or robbing, what kind of car do you do for 10,000 yuan!"
"Black car! hurry up!" Lu Xiaoqi stretched out his hand with an indifferent expression, meaning that if you don't give money, I will stretch it out like this in my life, and see who can consume whom!
"Forget it, I can't talk about you, and I can't be thick-skinned about you. Here you go. Huck tossed his wallet to Lu Xiaoqi.
Lu Xiaoqi knew that Huck was not short of money, so he blatantly took out 20,000 yuan and stuffed it into his pocket. Huck looked, "You don't exist for me, don't you! There must be a limit to being thick-skinned, you said okay 10,000, you obviously took 20,000, you think I was taught math by an art teacher?!!"
"You were taught math by your music teacher. Lu Xiaoqi said.
Huck was silent, during college, he had a leg with a music teacher who had just graduated, and made her pregnant, the two were in a teacher-student relationship, but the woman's iron heart followed him, Huck was scared by the woman, afraid of trouble in the future, dropped out of school halfway, and many of the later studies were self-taught. Huck told Lu Xiaoqi about this alone, and even his parents didn't know about it.
Lu Xiaoqi patted Huck on the shoulder and said, "It's 10,000 for a taxi, don't you have 10,000 to take a taxi when you go back?" Huck said helplessly: "Die! I'm not here to talk to you, I have something to tell you!"
"I know, a scientist's time is precious, otherwise who would have nothing to do with me, say, what's the matter?" Lu Xiaoqi said.
Huck said, "Did you read the news? Yesterday a meteorite landed in Six or Seven Square. ”
Lu Xiaoqi nodded and said: "I just watched it, fortunately, it rained yesterday and there was no one in the square, otherwise it would not be a joke for such a big stone to fall on people." ”
Huck frowned, "That's not the crux of the matter, yesterday the relevant personnel brought the meteorite back to the city research institute to study it." There is a person who moves meteorites is a friend of mine, he said that after moving the meteorite, he was full of energy, and there was an inexplicable excitement all over his body, he didn't sleep all night last night, and he did it with his wife for half the night, and her wife couldn't stand it. He had never been like this before, and he was happy at first, but this morning he had been having diarrhea, and came to me to get some medicine, and I asked him about his condition and checked him, and his nerves and blood were abnormal. I think it may have something to do with meteorites, I went to the crater in Liuqi Square and brought back some meteorite fragments, I studied it for an afternoon, and found ......" Lu Xiaoqi's face also became solemn, and asked: "What did you find?!"
"Meteorites carry a virus! This virus starts to excite people, gives people infinite power, but later it erodes people's nerves and blood, and eventually people become unconscious, and the blood will be viscous. I extracted the virus and injected it into the rats, look at the current state of the mice!" Huck put on Lu Xiaoqi's protective suit and walked into his research room, there was an iron cage covered with a black cloth on the table, Huck suddenly ripped off the black cloth, and there were five mice inside, two of the mouse's eyes were green, and the remaining three were blood-red! The five mice were running wildly with a terrible scream inside, and their heads kept hitting the iron cage, and some parts of the iron cage were knocked out of shape. It is said that the rats have already fainted when they hit the iron cage like this, but now the rats are still very energetic and energetic and continue to run around and hit the iron cage. Rats like crazy!
Lu Xiaoqi said: "Did you take protective measures when you went to Liuqi Square to pick up meteorite fragments?"
Huck nodded, "As a researcher, it's basic to take precautions. Rest assured. ”
Lu Xiaoqi said: "That's good, you called me here just for this matter? But what does this have to do with me? I don't understand the virus, so I can't help you." By the way, I just read the news and said that there was a virus epidemic in our nine districts, right...... Is it a virus? Could it be because of the virus carried on the meteorite?"
"No! It's completely different from the symptoms of the M virus, it's not the same type at all!" Beads of sweat broke out on Huck's forehead, and his nervous panting was uneven, "I just asked, and all the people who moved meteorites are infected. The government has quarantined them. But...... Because meteorites can make people extremely excited in the early stage, and their strength and speed are dozens of times that of normal people, the government decided to use meteorites to make some medicines and military research to enhance the ability and quality of soldiers. ”
Lu Xiaoqi asked, "What's wrong?"
Huck said excitedly: "But the virus has a strong ability to infect! And it is very weird, the top priority now is not to study the virus, but to control the virus, and temporarily seal the source of the virus, which is the meteorite." I proposed to the director of the research institute, but the director did not listen, saying that this virus can bring huge economic benefits, which is simply nonsense and irresponsible! The composition of this virus is very complicated, and it will take at least seven years to develop harmless drugs, but the director said that as long as it is not harmful in the short term, the drugs that have been studied can be marketed, and even if they are harmful in the long term, patients cannot determine that it is the effect that this drug has brought to them, as long as there is money to be made. I went to expose him, but the deputy mayor was in cahoots with him! The mayor didn't know what he was sick with, and now he was unconscious in the hospital, and I think it must have something to do with the director! Now that the virus is spreading, he not only does not study the drugs to control the virus, but he goes to ...... But he went...... This director, this director is simply a conscience for the dog to eat. ”
The more he listened to Lu Xiaoqi's face, the more gloomy he became, and he said coldly: "Huck, I seem to know what you asked me to do." ”
Huck looked at Lu Xiaoqi suddenly, and said with a resolute expression: "That's right, I came to you, you want to destroy the source of the virus with you, so that all the insidious goals of the director cannot be achieved." I know you're shooting accurately, and you're more than normal in your physique, so I want you to help me. ”
"Anyway, I'm a single person, with no parents, no children, and no wife in between. Huck frowned and asked, "Have you really not seen your parents?" Lu Xiaoqi said: "Let me tell you, as soon as I was born, my parents mysteriously disappeared, even my grandparents don't know where they went, I was raised by my grandparents, and later, the two old people died, and in this world, I have no relatives." ”
"You said that your parents had mysteriously disappeared, and maybe there would be a chance to meet again. ”
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