Chapter 47 Billions of casualties, Pseudo-civilization

Yan Xia did not leave the institute to avoid being infected by the epidemic.

With his achievements in biology, it is easy to guess that this epidemic is likely to be an epidemic "disease".

No matter whether it is a virus targeting the gene level or the cell level, it is impossible to infect three completely different races at the same time.

Unless this epidemic is not caused by a cosmic virus, but something else.

No matter how much you guess, it is just a guess. Ella has begun to mobilize all the resources it can mobilize to explore the source of this epidemic.

The initial case came from the newly named "Changshe Star Field".

The star field is not vast, there are only two stars, but there are a large number of asteroids floating between the two stars.

These asteroids are inferred to be the remnants of the early formation of the two stars. They are bound in the center by gravity like a tug-of-war rope by the two stars, forming a long strip, 4 light years long, extending to the place close to Alpha Centauri, forming a snake-like fork.

This is where the incident happened.

Because the asteroids there have a large number of metal mineral resources, they have become a popular exploration point for interstellar explorers.

Although it is not possible to get rich overnight, metal deposits can also provide some basic income, which is a place that calm explorers would choose.

The first infected person was the Kate tribe. When the infection was discovered on the first day, there was only a slight fever.

It thought it would recover after a rest.

But it did not expect that it would not only have a fever, but also many pustules on the surface of its body. These pustules grew on the body at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then burst, spraying foul-smelling gray pus.

When it realized that something was wrong, it immediately left the room to find a doctor, and in the process came into contact with many other explorers.

After arriving at the clinic, due to the lack of perfect medical equipment in the universe, its symptoms could not be diagnosed and isolated in the first place.

It came into contact with doctors and nurses without any protective measures in the clinic, and in the following time, it could only watch the pustules turn into meat pits, oozing blood, and it could not stop at all.

It was in great pain all over, as if it had experienced a slow slicing. The last time period of his record was spent in painful groans and shouts.

In the photo of its corpse, it inserted its hand into its body and pulled out its internal organs.

Because it said there were worms in its stomach!

Obviously, the intense pain and some characteristics of the disease itself made it fall into a state of mental confusion in the end, and produced some hallucinations.

After that, explorers in the entire explorer base showed the same symptoms one after another.

They were frightened, desperate, and in pain...

Some explorers put themselves into hibernation and then took the spacecraft back to Proxima Centauri in the hope of receiving treatment.

When the first returning spacecraft arrived at the Starport, there was a dead silence. The inspectors forcibly broke the spacecraft and entered it for inspection, and found explorers who were still dead in ultra-low temperature hibernation.

They were shocked by the scene in front of them. The explorer's skin was completely decomposed, leaving only some broken tendons and bones. There was a box of "broth" in the hibernation cabin.

Although they wore protective clothing and disinfected their whole bodies when they left, several inspectors showed the same symptoms one after another on the second day.

The same was true for their contacts.

This is the context of the whole incident.

After Yan Xia got the information, he first asked Ella to complete the isolation as soon as possible. Any direct contact, indirect contact, and even contact with the contactor who was investigated will be strictly isolated.

The second thing to do is to determine the cause of the disease, and the pathogen must be found.

The third is to immediately send a spacecraft to the Longshe Star Region to determine the situation and determine the real source.

Three-pronged approach.

The first thing to be completed was the isolation inside Proxima Centauri, which took a total of two and a half years. With the death of 1.6 billion Kates, the spread of the epidemic was finally initially stopped.

At the same time, the human population in the civilization zone also dropped sharply from 420,000 to 180,000, with heavy casualties. Yan Xia's friends in Yanhuang College were not spared.

This is the ruthless starry sky!

It is impossible to protect everyone after becoming powerful, because there are still many unknowns in the world.

In the first year and seven months, Ella received news from the Hundred Eyes Star.

The epidemic also spread on the Hundred Eyes Star, and it was even more rampant because there was no Ella to coordinate the overall situation. The population of the Hundred Eyes Star, which had developed to 1.6 billion, fell to less than 400 million in less than a year, with a mortality rate of three quarters.

If it is not stopped, the light-chasing civilization may become extinct.

Fortunately, Ella immediately copied a copy of herself and transmitted it to the Baiyan Star host through photon information, and it took three years to stabilize the overall situation.

In the sixth year, Ella observed the culprit of the epidemic through an ultra-micro tunnel microscope.

It is a ghost particle!

Or it can be said that it is an ultra-micro life form that is only the size of a ghost particle.

Ghost particles are neutrinos, one of the basic particles in the universe. Its own mass and size are only one millionth of that of electrons. At this microscopic level, it should be impossible to form a life form.

Now Ella controls the data of natural life forms, and the smallest life structure is at the molecular level. Compared with neutrinos, it is simply an ant and a blue whale.

But Ella is very sure that what she observed is a life form.

This kind of life form is obviously not able to exist under natural conditions. Life at this scale may have a string in its cell structure.

Strings again!

Yan Xia felt a headache when he heard this word. He had encountered too many string-related problems.

He said to the screen in front of him: "It seems that what we are facing is not a cosmic super virus, but an advanced civilization?"

Although there were already guesses, when the conclusion became the only one, Yan Xia became more solemn.

Ella's virtual image nodded on the screen.

"That's right, Yan Xia!"

"The warships I sent to the Longshe Star Region have lost contact. This is definitely not normal."

"There is an 82.61% probability that we have been attacked by a strange civilization."

"The attack method is these phantom-level life forms."

"Fortunately, I have been exploring the microscopic field for the past few hundred years. Otherwise, these phantom life forms alone can make Kate civilization, Zhuiguang civilization and Yan Xia, the human beings you have finally restored, all extinct."

The war started silently.

This civilization has a strong advantage at the microscopic level.

Yan Xia thought about it.

"Since the other civilization is still in the Long Snake Star Region, they may be natives."

"Ella, fire high-energy photon weapons directly at the Long Snake Star Region, don't hold back."

"If the other party is not a native, then they are still in the Long Snake Star Region, and they may want to let the ghost life form exhaust us and finally harvest us."

"Then send a fleet to the Long Snake Star Region and launch a suicide attack at all costs, so that the other civilization knows that we still have spare power and are already in the dying stage, which can delay some time."

"Be careful not to expose our highest combat power and leave no warship fragments to the other side."

"At the same time, the warships should also collect as much information about the enemy as possible. Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you win every battle."

"In the time you fight for, Ella, you must step up your exploration of the microscopic field. After the second phase of the Dyson Cloud Plan is completed, use all your energy to explore the microscopic field, achieve grand unification or close to grand unification as soon as possible, and observe the string."

Yan Xia didn't know how much combat power the other civilization had.

Now he gave the best plan without mastering the other party's information.

Information and technological weapons are indispensable in wars between advanced civilizations.

Any tiny breakthrough may change the situation.

He can wait for a thousand years in the process of fighting against the light-chasing civilization and invading the Kate civilization.

It is just unknown how long the civilization they are facing this time can endure. From now on, they must focus more on the development of microscopic fields and energy.

Yan Xia hopes to slow down the opponent's pace.

The first battle of the Civilization Federation has begun.