The Goddess Shines on America

In the afternoon in the mountains north of Los Angeles, four girls from the SOS regiment gathered on the first floor of the wooden house and listened to Alice report the results of the experiment. Although the house at this time was still simply decorated, the first floor of the living room was filled with enough furniture, and everyone sat on the sofa in front of the fireplace.

"The experimental results prove that Caesar's gene mutation is inherited from the mother, but the mother's mutation level is only 0.15% compared with that of ordinary chimpanzees, which is still fundamentally different from Caesar's 0.35%."

Alice shook the report in her hand. Although it was a report, she just printed it out for fun: "You know, there is a lot of information stored in the DNA chain of a cell, and even a one percent difference can make a big difference. Species differences. Humans and flies have a genetic matching degree of 80%, 0.18% and 0.35%, from a biological point of view, they can be said to be two different small species!"

"So... what the hell is going on?"

Sissy swears that she never came here with the idea of ​​listening to science fiction, but the report distributed to everyone—on the premise that Alice is not teasing them—is clearly written, 0.15% The two figures of 0.35% and 0.35% are clearly marked in red.

"Have we encountered aliens? Or have we encountered mutant creatures from some sci-fi movie?"

This is not a small problem. Sissy would visit Caesar every few days. If the situation is really as Alice said, wouldn't it mean...

"what is the reason?"

Maiya saw Sissy's panic, and pressed her shoulders hard: "You are a genius whose brain size is countless times larger than ours. Since you will explain the situation to us, you must have settled everything, right?"

"Brain capacity..."

Alice chuckled, still shaking the report on a single piece of paper in her hand: "Actually, it was also accidental. I kept observing Caesar's blood through an electron microscope, and at the same time observed the blood of other chimpanzees. Through comparison, I accidentally discovered a strange thing. Case."

Saying so, Alice slowed down her speech, and said mysteriously: "That is, there are almost no viruses in Caesar's blood."

"Virus!?"

"Does it mean that Caesar's blood is cleaner? No, uh..."

Everyone was wondering about the answer, what's the big deal about not seeing the virus? But just as Sissy finished her sentence and was waiting to organize her words, Ashley suddenly slapped her hands: "Ah, Alice, are you sure you used the right words? Viruses, bacteria, and even fungi, did you include them all?" ?"

"No, Ashley, your observation skills are good."

Alice gave an affirmative answer, then waved her hand and said, "Why don't we all go to the laboratory to have a look, just talking about it here, I'm afraid your experience is not deep enough, how about it?"

If you say action, you will act. This is something that has made everyone curious for a long time. Now everyone took the elevator to the seventh floor directly. The floor of the main hall on the first floor suddenly sank, and the surrounding empty environment was quickly replaced by a dull concrete wall. Fortunately, everyone has experienced it many times. If anyone is allowed to ride for the first time, he must be trapped in this uninterrupted claustrophobia The environment is intimidating!

But even so, Sissy complained: "I've been wondering, you know, Alice, every time I take this damn elevator, I wonder why you have to make a good holiday villa and laboratory Like the lair of the evil boss?

"Of course it's because of my determination to be a villain boss."

"Uh...I'm speechless."

Everything was just an episode, and after a while, everyone arrived at the laboratory.

After a long time, the room that was originally just randomly arranged has become well-organized. Each table stands against the wall, on which are placed complex machines headed by seven centrifuges, electron microscopes and supporting computers occupy most of the attention, and the cold storage is in a separate room, properly keeping all kinds of machines. sample specimen.

"Look, this is a map of the distribution of microorganisms in the blood of an ordinary orangutan."

Turning on the computer, Alice pointed to the photo on it and showed it to everyone.

That is blood per unit volume, and it can be clearly seen that there are countless white spots all over it, like snow-white rice on a red tabletop.

"At the current resolution, I marked bacteria, and this one is Caesar's."

The distinction came out immediately. Only one-third of the number of bacteria can be seen on Caesar's pattern, and the division of the white spots is also extremely scattered. Compared with the former, it is like the bright starry sky and... the night sky polluted by smog.

"Not all bacteria are harmful. In fact, the relationship between most bacteria and parasites... well, is a symbiotic relationship. Although I am not an expert in biology, it is also conceivable that if the number of bacteria on a creature is only the same as that of other species One-third, that is definitely not something that can be explained by a coincidence."

Maiya nodded: "Continue."

Alice was operating the computer: "Then here is the distribution map of the virus, take a look."

The screen switched again, and this time the resolution was instantly reduced to the cell level. Among the countless red blood cells, a large number of light spots were also dotted around.

"This is a picture of a common orangutan after I observed their positions in more detail. This is a picture of a common orangutan, and this one is Caesar's..."

The contrast reappeared, the picture of Caesar was almost clean, and the number of viruses was reduced by as much as five times in an instant!

"There must be some reason, so I currently have two guesses."

Alice said: "One is that Caesar's immunity is extremely strong, countless times stronger than any known mammal, and the other is..."

"What is it!?"

Sissy couldn't wait for this kind of slow speech: "Hurry up and say it!"

"There is a super-strong virus in Caesar's body. This virus did not cause harm to Caesar, and used his body as a host, automatically devouring other viruses and bacteria on his body."

Looking at the photo in confusion, Alice smacked her lips and said, "I just don't know if a creature will get sick if it lacks the parasitic bacteria it should have. My dears, one is especially immune. , one is caused by a super virus, which one do you think is more likely?"

There seemed to be no suspense in this answer, and Sissy said without hesitation: "It must be immunity. Don't you keep emphasizing its genetic differences?"

It makes sense, but Ashley immediately retorted: "If it's just a strong immune system, there won't be such a big contrast difference. The difference between gorillas and humans is only 1.5%. If the 0.35% is all just Changes in immunity..."

"Then there should be nothing."

Alice said: "The difference of every one-thousandth of a gene is a huge difference at the micro level. If it is really a change in immunity, even if it only accounts for one-third of the 0.35%, it is enough to eliminate it. All the virus, but it's clearly not perfect now..."

In fact, at this point, Alice herself is also dumb.

After all, she has limited knowledge of biochemistry, and the current talent tree is all in the computer field.

What's more, what she is currently researching is almost the same as studying artificial intelligence in the computer field, and it belongs to a situation where everything is basically guesswork.

Ashley stared at these pictures and said: "Let's start from the perspective of heterogeneous viruses, since there are so many fewer bacteria and viruses in your sample, it should be easy to find special species that have not been discovered before, right? Although the screen is still densely packed, it is much faster than staring at the DNA chain to find the difference gene by gene.”

This statement made sense, and Alice immediately made a decision to continue following this line of thought.

"However, if you really follow this line of thinking, you can't continue the experiment now."

However, a new problem immediately appeared in front of her. Alice looked at the various sets of equipment in the entire laboratory: "Although our equipment is no different from that of a university laboratory, and even more comprehensive than that of many bumpkin professors, our equipment is, after all, No database!"

Everyone reacted as soon as they heard it, Maiya nodded calmly and said: "Indeed, if you don't have the virus database samples provided by the WHO in your computer, you can't do a comparison at all."

Ashley thought ghostly: "How about Alice, don't you have some contact with the people in the Pentagon, let them come forward and help you get a copy from the WHO or something?"

Sissy rolled her eyes: "Why is her face so big?"

Alice chuckled, and quickly operated the computer, which constantly displayed many unclear pictures and documents: "This is easy to handle, and we can do it when we go to Eton College. Although it is only a middle school, it is a personalized school. Education has been developed to the extreme, if I ask the school to ask some teachers from the chemistry department to open a biochemical research institute with me, there must be no reason to refuse, right?"

This sentence was meant for Ashley, and her head moved quickly: "No problem, no problem! Didn't I tell you earlier, the then headmaster had pursued my grandma back then, such a small matter, he Dare not to do it!"

Sissy laughed out loud immediately, and said slyly, "Haha, Ashley, Mr. Principal won't be waiting for your grandma to favor you!?"

"Why not? Alice also met my grandma, what a charming old lady. Sissy, don't think of Twilight Love so dirty, I can tell by your expression~"

"Am I dirty? Are you dirty? Golden Retriever, don't think your legs are longer than mine..."

"Wait!"

Alice suddenly raised her hand to stop everyone's laughter.

It turned out that the pager rang.

Alice picked up the thing, looked at it, and sighed softly.

"The notification from the encrypted channel, the Pentagon asked me to go to them immediately, and I don't know what the hell it is."