Chapter 586 Yule’s Life

  Chapter 586 Yuer’s Life

  The “Champion” brand biomass anti-radiation agent project was launched quickly, and it took only a week from approval to project establishment.

  Long before the project was officially approved, Yuer had already followed the senior named Zhao Feiyu to report to the research institute in Jinhe City.

  As Chu Guang expected, the research institute they came to was the “Champion” Biopharmaceutical Research Institute in Jinhe City.

  That was the coordinate given to him by the college.

  At this time, Yuer was still a somewhat dull young man, not very good at socializing, and his mind was completely devoted to research.

  Although the average working time per person in the era of Renlian is only one hour, this does not mean that all positions are like this. There are great differences in different industries.

  For example, scientific research positions.

  It is common to soak in the laboratory for 24 hours a day.

  However, Yuer did not feel bored, nor did he have any anxiety that “others are on vacation while I am at work”. After all, in this era, work is no longer a necessity for survival, but a realization of self-worth.

  Repetitive and boring work has long been handed over to machines. Even if you don’t work for your whole life, you can still live a rich and affluent standard of living… This is something that people in the classical era could hardly imagine, or they could only think about it in movies and TV shows.

  Things that don’t happen often are called miracles.

  It is for this reason that this infinitely beautiful era is named the Prosperous Era to distinguish it from the old era in the past.

  For Yuer, it is interesting and meaningful to be able to enter a world-renowned company and engage in a groundbreaking research right after graduation.

  Therefore, he almost lived in the laboratory and spent all his time except sleeping on his research.

  And with such a passion for research, he is just a member of a large research team.

  And he is just the most simple and inconspicuous one.

  Of course, although Yuer himself is enjoying it, Chu Guang, who is standing aside as a bystander, yawns.

  Since this guy has never left the institute since he came to Jinhe City, Chu Guang can’t go outside the institute when he is working in the laboratory, so he can only stare at him.

  The images he could see were all made up of fragments of Yule’s memory.

  If it was something that was forgotten after being seen, it might be possible to restore it, but if it was something that had never been seen at all, it could only be fabricated out of thin air.

  Later, Chu Guang was really bored, so he simply snatched the remote control from Xiao Qi and fast-forwarded it to a hundred times, a thousand times, or even ten thousand times…

  Then in a blink of an eye, four years passed and the year was 2125.

  Chu Guang suddenly remembered that this year seemed to be the starting point of the three-year war, so he immediately canceled the fast-forward.

  And it was very coincidental that at the same time when he adjusted the time flow back to one speed, the institute also had new changes.

  Several soldiers wearing military exoskeletons stood at the door of the laboratory, and a serious-looking soldier was talking to the person in charge here.

  The streets in the distance were visibly depressed, and more than half of the advertisements on the holographic screen had been killed. The only ones left were looping war news and war mobilization advertisements.

  Chu Guang couldn’t hear their conversation, so he simply returned to Yuer’s side. At this moment, he was talking to the senior named Zhao Feiyu.

  After four years of growth, this young man has grown from the young man to a reliable researcher.

  For a moment, Chu Guang saw the shadow of Yin Fang in him.

  The two are actually very similar. Both

  are relatively pure researchers.

  At least he is still like that now.

  ”Our laboratory has been incorporated and is now under the jurisdiction of the Central Wartime Research Institute.”

  ”…Incorporated?” Yuer glanced at Zhao Feiyu and asked in confusion, “We are not researching weapons here.”

  ”That’s right, so our job is not to research weapons… but to assist the army in assessing the risks of biological disasters and assist the rescue department in developing some low-cost drugs.”

  Looking at the worried Yuer, Zhao Feiyu patted his shoulder.

  ”Don’t worry, this is actually… a good thing. At this juncture, our needs are met first, and the college has helped us get a large budget.”

  In the prosperous era, the college was a loose academic organization, mainly composed of well-known people in the academic community, and its nature was a bit similar to the chamber of commerce of businessmen and the union of workers.

  Although it feels good to have someone to follow, Zhao Feiyu, who said this, did not see any happy expression on his face.

  The war broke out suddenly.

  There was no sign.

  It is said that the cause was that the space station at the Lagrange point observed hostile behavior from the direction of Proxima Centauri, but what exactly was that hostile behavior, and what motives the people in the colony had for launching the war, no one knew.

  Perhaps these things will only be made public after the war is over. In short, the scale of this sudden war is beyond everyone’s imagination.

  Especially for most people in this era, war is a completely unfamiliar concept. Not to mention in the news, it is rarely seen even in film and television works.

  Of course, even so, the advantage of the Human Union is still great.

  Relying on huge industrial power, talent reserves and mobilization capabilities, they have pulled up a huge army from scratch in just one month.

  However, the situation is still not optimistic.

  The traitors four light years away used their trump card right away, and sent indescribable fungi to their home planet.

  It was a creature that no one had ever seen.

  There was no similar model in the Earth’s ecosystem.

  Obviously, it was a unique alien species on Nanmen II. After discovering it, the colonial authorities did not report it to the Human Union authorities, but kept it as a trump card.

  This may be the obsession of a small group of people, or it may be a collective decision, but it is meaningless to think about it at this juncture.

  The spores and fruiting bodies of the slime mold spread everywhere in the intricate rail transportation, and Qingquan City, 800 kilometers away, instantly became uninhabitable.

  And the same thing happened not only in Qingquan City, almost all large cities suffered, but Jinhe City, a less famous small city, survived.

  When all means failed to stop it from continuing to expand, the authorities could only choose the last resort –

  to purify it with universal neutron rays before it spread to other urban agglomerations.

  This would have the least impact, both economically and otherwise, and even the buildings could be preserved if pure fusion hydrogen bombs with no residual radiation were used.

  ”…In short, our job is to determine the impact of neutron rays on the slime mold nest and evaluate the damage effect. They plan to design a weapon that can release neutron plumes in a directional and stable manner, so that there is no need for explosions. The college has contacted a physics institute to cooperate with us in this evaluation.”

  ”Does this kind of thing also require experiments?” Yuer looked at him strangely.

  Although he was not an expert in the field of nuclear weapons, he knew very well that no organism could survive neutron rays.

  That thing would poke holes in nucleic acids, proteins, and enzymes, and all life activities based on these macromolecules would be suspended.

  It is absolutely impossible for an organism to survive neutron rays –

  no, not necessarily.

  Such organisms actually exist.

  Yuer suddenly thought of the blue mushrooms in the petri dishes in the laboratory that had that kind of magical power.

  Since inner monologue is also part of memory, Chu Guang, who was standing next to him, could not only see what he said, but also see the thoughts he did not say out loud.

  ”Some people are worried that a nuclear strike may cause the mutant slime mold to mutate, making the situation worse,” Zhao Feiyu looked at the soldiers with a complicated expression, “To be honest, that’s my judgment… The other side must know that we will use this method. Will they be unprepared?”

  Looking at the conversation between the two, Chu Guang’s eyes were filled with doubts.

  If he remembered correctly, the nuclear bomb should have been used at the beginning of the war, and the notebook with the bloody handprint recorded the situation at that time.

  Why is it different in Yuer’s memory?

  With such doubts, Chu Guang pressed fast forward and continued to watch.

  Just one month later, Yuer, who was eating in the cafeteria, saw the mushroom cloud blooming over Qingquan City on the news.

  Although the news host said that the residents in the city had been completely evacuated or entered the shelter, the pale language was not convincing no matter how you listened.

  It was a big city with a population of hundreds of millions.

  How can we evacuate all the people there?

  And where can we evacuate to accommodate so many people?

  At least in Jinhe City, he didn’t see anyone from Qingquan City.

  Yul sat in a chair, his hand trembled, and the spoon fell into the plate with a clang.

  Awakened by the sound, he did not pick it up, but pushed the chair away and stood up, walked quickly to the senior’s office, and pushed the door open without even knocking.

  ”What’s the situation? Nuclear bomb? Am I not still doing technical demonstration? And why is it a nuclear bomb…”

  Looking at the news on the holographic screen, Zhao Feiyu’s expression was full of solemnity.

  ”I don’t know…”

  Yul’s face showed a trace of annoyance.

  ”So what’s the point of our experiment? Just wasted a month for no reason, and they didn’t even plan to refer to our evaluation suggestions! If so, why didn’t they tell me at the beginning!”

  ”Sorry, I really don’t know.” Zhao Feiyu sighed, “Maybe… someone just needs us to do this to appease the vast majority of people who are at a loss.”

  ”For example, the nuclear bomb is to eliminate evil biological weapons, and it is detonated by us ourselves under the advice of professionals… Does this statement sound easier to accept than ‘the defense line of the Aerospace Force was broken by the invasion force of the colony star’?”

  Yul said blankly.

  ”The defense line of the Aerospace Forces has been breached?”

  ”I’m just talking nonsense. You’d better not take it seriously.”

  Looking at Yu’er’s dull expression, Zhao Feiyu smiled relaxedly, but there was no expression of relaxation on his face.

  After a pause, he continued.

  ”Back to the previous question, I think changing the statement may be more conducive to unity. At least now is not the time to quarrel. We are experiencing a catastrophe that has not happened in hundreds of years. Even if we want to investigate who is responsible, we have to wait until everything is over. At least now, unity is more important than the truth.”

  ”I hope my speculation is wrong, because it means that many people have died while we are talking here.”

  As he said, he reached out to turn off the news, paused, and continued.

  ”But if the worst assumption is that my speculation is correct… maybe the attack we suffered is not just biological weapons.”

  ”You should know, right? In the Alpha Centauri system, in addition to yellow dwarfs such as Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, there are also red dwarfs such as Proxima Centauri. The radiation released by its flare activity is hundreds of times that of the sun… That is a fatal dose for creatures on Earth.”

  Yu’er nodded.

  Alien life was not his specialty, but he had heard a little about the alien species in the colony. In short, it was a very complex ecosystem.

  If the war had not suddenly broken out, he would have planned to apply for academic exchange there when the conditions there were better.

  Seeing him nod, Zhao Feiyu continued.

  ”So in the early inferences, the astronomical community speculated based on experience that it was impossible for habitable planets to exist in the Alpha Centauri system… It was not until later that our probe actually flew there and saw the world shrouded in aurora, and then we began to study the ecological environment that we had never seen before.”

  ”You should have noticed that neutron rays are deadly to us, but not to the alien species in the colony. They themselves evolved into their current appearance in an ecological environment with frequent stellar flares.”

  ”Biological weapons alone are not enough to produce an immediate effect. The traitors in the colony may intend to make the mother planet no longer habitable… Then it is difficult to achieve the goal by simply using biological weapons.”

  ”It is reasonable to suspect that the nuclear bomb had been detonated before we received the project. It is hard to say which one of it and the slime mold is the incidental gift.”

  Yule swallowed his saliva.

  ”Dirty bomb…”

  ”It is likely,” Zhao Feiyu nodded, sighed, and said, “It may not be dirty for the alien species in the Alpha Centauri system. They grow in a radiation environment, but it is bad enough for species on Earth.” Why did they do

  this? !

  Yule did not ask the question out loud, but kept it in his heart.

  He knew that he was not the only one confused. His predecessors were also confused by the betrayal of their brothers.

  Why did it have to come to this?

  Can’t we just sit down and talk?

  ”Anyway, the project has changed. We have to continue the original topic, and in addition to anti-radiation agents, we have to increase the research on radiation-eliminating agents. Medical nanorobots are out of supply, and the same goes for bionic organs. We can only hope that traditional medicines can solve our problems.”

  Yule raised his head.

  ”Is this an order from the wartime research institute?”

  Zhao Feiyu shook his head.

  ”No, it was the suggestion of the academy and the opinion of the director of the institute… I think they are right. Instead of wasting time cooperating with the authorities to stabilize the public’s emotions, it is better to do something truly meaningful. Prevention is not enough. We have to eliminate the radioactive damage that has been caused.”

  In fact, just two days after the news was broadcast, they received an order from the Central Wartime Institute to end the research on “the impact of neutron rays on the mother nest of slime mold.”

  Just as Yule’s predecessor guessed, their research results themselves are not important. What is important is that someone has to do this.

  Thanks to their busyness and cooperation with the media to stabilize the confidence of residents outside the war zone, the Human Union was not defeated by their opponents at the first time.

  Although the colony’s raid caused huge losses to the mother planet, the war has just begun, and the Human Union still has a great chance of winning.

  But Yule still felt a little discouraged.

  He worked for a month in vain.

  If you knew that the results of the research were not important from the beginning, why would you spend so much effort on it? And no one knows whether it makes sense to do so.

  As time went by, due to the major breakthroughs in the research of anti-radiation agents and radiation-eliminating agents, more and more materials were sent to the institute.

  The most recent time, the People’s Alliance Army sent a batch of helium-3 nuclear fuel, which was as much as a thousand cubic meters. Everyone felt a little uneasy.

  This is not a material that a research institute can consume.

  This may mean that this war will become a protracted war.

  Looking at the cans of nuclear fuel, Chu Guang, who was standing aside and peeking at the screen, was envious. However, this was just a memory. Even if he wanted it, he had to wait until the mutants there were solved.

  In short, he wrote down the location where the nuclear fuel was stored.

  When the time comes, the players will go to recycle these treasures for him.

  I don’t know how much time has passed.

  As the war continues to expand, the living environment on the surface is also constantly deteriorating, and the research position has to be moved from the ground to the underground.

  Although Chu Guang did not see a real battle in the memory of Yuer, a small figure, it is not difficult to feel the tragic situation on the front line from the suffocating atmosphere on the street outside the institute and the depression visible to the naked eye.

  Unfortunately, after moving into the underground research facility, Yule never went out again, and the information from the outside world was cut off all of a sudden.

  At first, there was still news to read, but later there was no news at all. Only people who regularly delivered supplies would occasionally bring some news from the outside world.

  In fact, it was not that someone locked him up here and prevented him from going out. There were always people going in and out of the elevator, and the researchers here could go in and out freely at any time.

  It was just that seeing those heavy faces, and thinking of the howling cold wind and radioactive dust outside, the whole scene of the end of the world…

  no one wanted to go out.

  Most people still wanted to retain some good impressions of that era.

  Moreover, instead of facing the destroyed world, it is better to consume energy on the work at hand. At least the working environment under their feet is relatively good, and the supply of materials is also given priority. In the busy work, they can even drink a cup of coffee brewed by the beautiful bionic man.

  However, the work is always done one day.

  With the efforts of countless people, the final products of the radiation-removing agent and the anti-radiation agent were finally developed, and the formula and production process were simplified-even the shelters with simple conditions can be produced with limited equipment and resources.

  What is interesting is that the Champion Group originally established this project to make a fortune, but no one expected that before they made a fortune, credit points would lose their meaning.

  When most people cannot guarantee that they will still be alive tomorrow, credit becomes a meaningless thing.

  The formula of the radiation-eliminating agent and the anti-radiation agent were made public for free use in various settlements, and the researchers in the institute finally breathed a sigh of relief.

  At this time, the person who delivered the supplies brought good news. The war that lasted for almost three years was finally coming to an end.

  It is said that under the fighting of the front-line troops, the defenders of the colony were defeated and the last resistance was already a spent force.

  This news was undoubtedly the best news in three years, and the atmosphere in the laboratory was as lively as a festival.

  Although Chu Guang wanted to tell them at this moment, it was too early for them to be happy. After the three-year war, there would be a wasteland era that lasted for two centuries and there was still no sign of ending.

  Civilization will decline into a chaotic era at an unprecedented speed. Compared with the darkness of those two centuries, these three short years of suffering are nothing.

  At least there were beautiful bionic ladies serving them tea and water, and at least the supplies never stopped coming.

  But even if he could communicate with these people who were in high spirits, they probably wouldn’t believe what he said.

  A celebratory party was held in the laboratory, and Yul, who was not so sociable, couldn’t help but go outside the laboratory.

  This big brother, who was no longer young, finally mustered up the courage to step onto the surface again.

  When he saw this unrecognizable world, he was stunned, and he opened his mouth but couldn’t say a word.

  At this time, a sigh came from behind him.

  ”As you can see, our world is over.”

  (End of this chapter)