Chapter 64: Physical mutation, parasites
"what!!"

"Captain, I feel so much pain in my body, and it seems like there is something in my spine."

Inside the Antarctic resident hospital.

After Xiaofeng and others were quickly sent here, they began to receive emergency treatment. However, during the treatment, some strange changes occurred in the bodies of the three people.

Libido began to appear on the skin all over the body, and under the monitoring of the instruments, it was found that the heat of the whole body was rapidly gathering towards the spine.

At the same time, after a large amount of energy gathered in the spine, it actually produced life reactions as if it had life.

Seeing the changes in his teammates, Zhou Yan stood outside the isolation room, extremely anxious.

"Captain Feng, what's wrong with Xiaofeng and the others? Hasn't the disease been under control?"

Hearing this, Feng Yongqing did not answer, but quickly retrieved the physical change data of the three people.

Looking at the messy data, Feng Yongqing couldn't help but frown.

He didn't expect that the thing on the three people's bodies was still mutating rapidly, and because they increased the energy supply, they were able to maintain the functions of several people.

In the end, it actually provides these things with the energy for evolution.

Now, these ancient bacteria have taken over the main nerve centers of the three people and used their spines as carriers.

If they continue, these ancient bacteria species will completely kill the three people and devour all the nutrients in their bodies before breaking out.

As thoughts ran wild in his mind, Feng Yongqing immediately activated the backup plan.

"Gu Ling, activate the backup plan, inject cold liquid locally, and start the life support system!!"

"Received. The system is activating the backup plan, turning on the life support system, and preparing to transfer the ice cold liquid for injection."

After receiving the order, the intelligent system Gu Ling immediately activated the life support system and at the same time called for various medicines to be injected into the bodies of the three people.

As the life support system was turned on, the three of them immediately fell into a deep sleep.

Immediately afterwards, the bodies of the three people were taken over by the system.

I saw a large number of silver needles being accurately inserted into the bodies of several people by sophisticated mechanical devices. Through these silver needle-like needles, icy liquid was injected into various parts of the body.

Looking at the huge three-dimensional data chart of the six channels of body energy next to them, with the injection of liquid, the body functions of the three people were declining rapidly.

The body temperature also dropped to a terrifying level in an instant.

If it weren't for the life support system, the three of them would have been dead by now.

Today, the state of the three people is called deep hibernation, and all the functions of the body are reduced to the limit.

It can be said that it is at the critical point between life and death.

As the three people entered a deep hibernation state, they were blocked by instruments and the ancient bacteria located in the spine were contained.

Those ancient bacterial variants that gathered together began to resist.
I saw that under the skin of the three people's backs, it was bulging as if there were worms crawling.

Seeing this, Feng Yongqing's expression remained unchanged. He wore sensor gloves on his hands that could control the robotic arms in the isolation room, and a helmet on his head.

Under the control of his brain waves, a scalpel suddenly popped out from the robotic arm in the isolation room and quickly cut the backs of the three people.

After cutting open the skin on the back, a stream of black, sticky liquid flowed out.

The next moment, the black sticky blood began to wriggle, and pink tentacles emerged from it, looking like living flesh buds.

Seeing this creepy thing, the girls outside the isolation room couldn't help but cover their mouths.

"What is this thing, a parasite?!" After the instrument completely cut open the skin outside the spine and stretched it open, the conditions inside the three people's bodies were immediately exposed to everyone.

In the thick black blood, dense pink hair-like things were firmly rooted in the spines of the three people.

No, it should be said that these things grow out of the spine, and these pink filaments are similar to the blood vessels in the human body, used to control the human nerves.

Seeing this, Feng Yongqing paused for a moment, controlled the instrument to eject a needle, and instantly pierced into the spine.

As the silver needle pierced into his body, his spine suddenly trembled, and the dense pink tentacles outside couldn't help but tremble.

And because these tentacles are connected to the nerves of the three people, they tremble violently as they feel pain.

Although the three people who were originally in deep hibernation did not wake up, their bodies were shaking uncontrollably.

And as Feng Yongqing moved, the parasites living in his body actually forcibly broke through the blockade of the life support system and tried to wake up the three people who were in a deep sleep.

Seeing that the three people's tightly closed eyes were trembling, as if they were about to wake up, Feng Yongqing frowned and immediately stopped what he was doing.

He hadn't imagined that these parasites, which evolved from ancient mutant bacteria, could be connected to the human body to this extent so quickly.

After stopping the movements in his hands, he then pulled out the silver needle, and his body immediately stopped moving. The trembling eyelids of the three people also returned to calm.

The helmet in front of him was removed. Feng Yongqing looked at Zhou Yan and sighed, "I didn't expect these ancient bacterial variants to evolve so quickly. Now the spines of the three people and the surrounding nerve centers have been parasitized by the evolved parasites.

Nowadays, if you want to remove these things, the only way is to remove the entire spine and use instruments to kill some abnormal cells in the body.

Although this method can allow the three people to survive, it will cause great harm to their bodies and their lifespan will most likely be less than half of that of a normal person.

As for the spine problem, an artificial spine can be installed later, but this technology is not yet mature, so most of the three of them will have to rely on human exoskeleton to live in the future. "

Hearing this, Zhou Yan's heart trembled and his brain went blank.

He understood what Feng Yongqing meant, which was that the three of them were basically useless from now on.

Life expectancy is greatly reduced, and people can only rely on exoskeleton technology to move around. After losing the exoskeleton, although the person can still move, a state similar to network delay will occur.

With the current medical technology of the Yanhuang Empire, various exoskeleton technologies and synchronous sensing technologies used in hospitals today are derived from the B1 combat armor and robotics technology.

In essence, these things focus on combat, and are used in conjunction with combat-assistive intelligence. Now that they have been separated and medicalized, some of their effects are simply not fully adaptable to the human body.

To address this problem, some people in the medical community are now preparing to develop an embedded chip similar to an auxiliary intelligent brain to assist the human body in controlling artificial limbs and organs.

"Captain Zhou, you need to make a decision on this matter as soon as possible."

Looking at Zhou Yan who looked somewhat dazed and depressed, Feng Yongqing couldn't help but sigh.

Hearing this, Zhou Yan nodded, and looking at the three people sleeping in the isolation room, guilt surged in his heart.

If it weren't for his caution and insistence on checking those holes, they wouldn't have been parasitized by these ancient mutant bacteria.

Now it is a matter of life and death. Even if you survive, your future will be completely ruined.

When his teammates saw Zhou Yan's expression, they immediately realized that he was stuck in a dead end and blamed himself for everything.

"Captain, these things are not your fault. After all, no one expected to encounter such a thing, and if these things had not been exposed in advance, the consequences would have been disastrous."

Success is due to caution, and failure is also due to caution. Because of Zhou Yan's caution, they re-checked the ice space, which led to infection with ancient bacteria and also caused the hidden danger to break out ahead of time.

Otherwise, wait until they are sure to return to the ground safely, and then let a large number of scientific researchers on the ground enter the underground ice space.

By then, under the heat emitted by a large number of people, those dormant ancient bacteria species will evolve madly and silently, and they will probably be all parasitized.

(End of this chapter)