Chapter 149. Gene-targeted Virus
Arc 5 : Wasteland World Movie Nightmare.
Dr. Jin pressed the button to turn off the laboratory’s communication equipment, then turned and walked towards Shen Heng.
Shen Heng’s frown finally relaxed when he saw that Dr. Jin had indeed brought Du Yan here as promised.
Du Yan glanced at Shen Heng. Before he could figure out Dr. Jin’s intention, he chose to sit back in the middle of the small room.
Dr. Jin walked over and asked: “Where is my father?”
Shen Heng raised his chin and gestured outside the door. He asked: “What do you mean by this?”
Dr. Jin said: “There is no means to restrain you, Shen Heng, in this research institute. For my personal safety and the smooth completion of the transaction, I locked Du Yan and the detonator in the laboratory over there. After I get my father’s body on board the aircraft, you can take Du Yan away.”
Dr. Jin’s statement sounded reasonable, and there was nothing wrong with it. Shen Heng turned around and walked out the door, moving the glass cylinder containing the original Adam in.
Du Yan was in the glass room and couldn’t hear the conversation outside, and his voice couldn’t be heard outside.
Then he could guess from the lip movements and the atmosphere between the two people what the conversation was about. Judging from Shen Heng’s expression, he did not notice what Dr. Jin had done in the glass room.
Although Dr. Jin only revealed the two words “Targeted virus” just now, Du Yan only needed to think about it for a moment before he pieced together the whole picture of Dr. Jin’s conspiracy.
Du Yan stood up and searched carefully in the room of only one square meter. As expected, he saw a vent in the corner near the ground. He stood on tiptoe and found the same vent in the room next door where the detonator was.
Considering what Dr. Jin just said, this vent hole doesn’t seem to be that simple.
A few days ago, Dr. Jin told Du Yan that the gene-targeted virus had been successfully developed.
Gene-targeted virus is a virus developed by Dr. Jin that specifically targets Infected. The virus is passed in an extremely simple way through respiratory infection.
Gene-targeted virus is ineffective against Pure Ones, but extremely lethal to those Infected.
After being contaminated with the virus, Infected will become a radiation absorber, and the radiation level in the body will increase instantly in a short period of time. If the radiation level exceeds the critical value, Infected will undergo secondary mutation and eventually die.
To Dr. Jin, the genes of Infected are dirty and need to be purified.
Of course, under the current circumstances, Pure Ones’ force is not strong enough, and they still need help of Infected to clear the mutated creatures in the city and complete some more difficult tasks.
However, once the Fifth Research Institute has a new breakthrough in mecha technology, Dr. Jin will definitely eliminate all Infected in the world. Gene-targeted viruses were developed for this purpose.
The experiments have just been successful, so the number of targeted viruses is definitely small, and there are still some defects.
Otherwise, Dr. Jin would have used the targeted virus to deal with Shen Heng long ago instead of falling into such a passive situation.
The virus developed was just enough for Dr. Jin to set up this mechanism in order to alienate the relationship between Du Yan and Shen Heng.
There are two connected rooms. If people open one of them first, the other room will be instantly filled with gas containing gene-targeted viruses.
If Shen Heng rescued Du Yan first, he would be infected with the virus in order to take the detonator. When he passed through the light curtain, the radiation level in Shen Heng’s body had accumulated to a limit. If he was infected by the virus again, he would probably undergo a secondary mutation due to the radiation within a few minutes.
If Shen Heng went to get the detonator first, he would either save Du Yan at the cost of his life or give up on Du Yan and leave with the detonator.
No matter which result it is, it will be a win-win for Dr. Jin.
After listening to Du Yan’s speculation, Xiao Ba said: “Fortunately, you had the foresight to hide the real detonator, otherwise Dr. Jin would have succeeded. But you have to find a way to let Shen Heng know about this.”
Du Yan said: “I didn’t plan to tell Shen Heng that the detonator was fake.”
Xiao Ba was shocked: “You don’t want Shen Heng to make a choice, do you? With Shen Heng’s personality, he will definitely choose to sacrifice himself in the end. Don’t kill him, or his dream will collapse, and it will be over.”
Du Yan said: “This matter has nothing to do with choice. Dr. Jin, this good son, is really good at guessing my feelings. I was just worrying about how to spend more time with Shen Heng, and he solved this problem for me directly.”
In fact, after Shen Heng made his choice, Du Yan’s mind was no longer on the current things. He had already replaced the detonator with a fake one when he was at Homeland No. 19.
Now that Shen Heng has made his choice, Du Yan has naturally decided to accompany him all the way.
However, the life span of Infected is too different from that of Pure Ones. According to the plot in the movie, Shen Heng still has at least 100 years to live, but considering Du Yan’s physical condition, it is unknown how long he can accompany him.
The root of this nightmare is loneliness. If Du Yan leaves this world before Shen Heng, Shen Heng will have to bear the longing for his lover, but he will have to continue living because his belief has not been fulfilled.
If the dream ends in this state, then this nightmare will certainly not be completely dispelled.
Although if Shen Heng and Du Yan had intimate contact, it would indeed affect Du Yan’s genes and cause radiation in his body.
However, the effect of this radiation was not permanent. The radiation level that could not be dissipated in Du Yan’s body during this period is the result of Du Yan’s intentional control, which was to stimulate Dr. Jin and make his psychological defense line have loopholes.
After Du Yan stimulated his special abilities, his psychic ability became extremely strong, and his will could even affect the rate at which the radiation in his blood diminished.
However, due to the influence of genes, it was extremely difficult to become completely Infected, and Shen Heng would definitely not agree with Du Yan’s plan.
Now, Dr. Jin has brought this opportunity directly to Du Yan.
Thinking of this, Du Yan quietly stayed in the glass room, pretending to know nothing, waiting for Shen Heng to rescue him.
The deal between Dr. Jin and Shen Heng had come to an end. Dr. Jin took original Adam through the elevator in the room and directly went up to the aircraft parked on the rooftop.
Seeing this, Shen Heng walked towards Du Yan.
The moment he entered the room, the communication equipment in the laboratory rang. Shen Heng was not ready to answer it. Now that Du Yan was within his sight, nothing could hurt him.
However, the device automatically switched on, and Dr. Jin in the aircraft appeared on the screen.
Du Yan was inside the glass room and couldn’t hear any sound outside, but he saw Shen Heng’s expression suddenly become extremely angry, his muscles tensed up, and veins popped out on his arms.
Du Yan looked at the communication screen and guessed what Shen Heng heard from Dr. Jin’s lip movements.
Sure enough, everything Dr. Jin said was exactly the same as what Du Yan had just speculated.
Shen Heng once again faced a choice, but this time, he used his own life as a bargaining chip.
“In fact, your best option is to give up Du Yan for now, take the detonator, and stop the activation device of the nuclear warhead. Anyway, Du Yan is absolutely safe with me, you don’t have to worry about his life, after all, he can be regarded as my dearest father, right?”
After saying this extremely tempting statement, Dr. Jin hung up the phone.
Du Yan looked at Shen Heng and turned his head. Without any hesitation, he directly pressed the button and opened the glass room where Du Yan was locked up.
Before Du Yan could say anything, Shen Heng picked him up and kissed him fiercely. Shen Heng’s kiss was full of emotions and without any skills, invading like a storm.
Du Yan could only feel a sweet and fishy taste between his lips and teeth, and the tip of his tongue ached, it seemed to be bitten by the other party and was bleeding. He frowned slightly and was about to push Shen Heng away, but the other person broke away abruptly, and it was as abrupt as the initiative.
Shen Heng said: “Don’t be afraid, I will take you out later. You have the ability to protect yourself, you can go around and have a look. Don’t forget what I said, there are still many nice people and beautiful things in this world…”
Shen Heng paused and added: “Besides me, there are many beautiful things. Don’t be disappointed in this world full of yellow sand.”
After saying that, he took out a handful of anti-radiation medicine from his trouser pocket, poured it all into his mouth, and then directly opened the next room to take out the detonator.
It took Shen Heng only a moment to realize that the radiation level in his body was indeed increasing rapidly.
Fortunately, this is Homeland, with only very slight radiation, and taking a large amount of high-purity anti-radiation medicines should be enough to send Du Yan out of the Homeland.
Shen Heng picked up Du Yan with one hand and held the detonator with the other. Just as he was about to leave, he felt Du Yan hugging his neck and his warm and soft lips pressed against his.
Shen Heng was stunned, and then he heard Du Yan’s voice.
“Don’t resist, you can rest now.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Heng suddenly felt an extreme sense of fatigue surge up, and then his consciousness fell into endless darkness.
When Shen Heng woke up, he heard a regular “beep-beep” sound next to his ears. The moment he regained consciousness, he felt something was wrong.
It was not because of the abnormality of secondary mutation caused by the influence of radiation, but Shen Heng felt that the radiation in his body became extremely low, and even the radiation accumulated in his body due to forcibly passing through the light curtain disappeared.
Shen Heng turned his head and saw Du Yan lying on the bed next to him. There was a table between the two beds, and both of them had IV tubes connected to the instrument on their arms.
Dark red blood was flowing in the infusion tube. Shen Heng frowned and was about to stand up when he saw this.
“Don’t move.”
When Shen Heng heard Du Yan’s voice, he lay back down subconsciously. He turned around and saw Du Yan had opened his eyes and looked over at him.
Du Yan glanced at the instrument and said: “The progress is 95 percent. If you make any changes now, all efforts will be wasted.”
Shen Heng asked: “What’s going on?”
Du Yan’s face was pale, and he did not look very well. He smiled and said: “Blood transfusion apparatus, you are infected with the targeted virus. The only way is for me to give you half of my blood. Fortunately, I am also an evolved human, so there will be no rejection between our blood.”
Shen Heng was startled and tried to stand up again, but he lay back down under Du Yan’s glare.
“The extremely high radiation blood in your body makes me feel very uncomfortable. If I had to endure such discomfort for so long and it was finally finished, and then it was all wasted because of your disturbance, I would not forgive you.”
Shen Heng didn’t dare to move for a moment, and could only ask: “Don’t be silly, the radiation level of my blood is so high, will it have any adverse effects on you?”
Du Yan said nonchalantly: “There will definitely be an impact, but it can’t be said to be a bad impact. At most, I will become Infected.”
Shen Heng frowned and wanted to say something but was blocked by Du Yan’s words.
“Becoming an Infected means I can live longer, which makes me happy.”
At this moment, the instrument emitted a long sound, and the progress bar on it reached the end.
Du Yan said: “It’s done.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Heng jumped up, roughly pulled out the needle from his hand, walked over, and picked up Du Yan.
“You don’t have to pay such a high price to save me.” Shen Heng’s expression was very complicated, with emotion and anxiety, but more of it was heartache.
Du Yan raised his hand and rubbed his brows, saying: “You are already dark, and wrinkling your brows makes you even uglier.”
Seeing Shen Heng’s frown relax, Du Yan continued: “I have half of your blood in my body, which makes me feel more closely connected to this world, and even weakens the strong disgust for this radiation-filled world brought by my genes.”
Shen Heng held Du Yan’s hand tightly, then said: “Do you really think so?”
Du Yan blinked his eyes: “After becoming an Infected, I can pester you to take me to every place I want to go. It’s such a sure win. Why are you so unhappy? Are you afraid that I will pester you for too long?”
Shen Heng finally smiled. He lowered his head and kissed Du Yan on the forehead and said softly: “I just feel that the time is not long enough. Wherever you want to go, I will accompany you…”
Du Yan said: “Before we go and travel the world together, there are still some things to deal with. I still have to pay back all the blame that Dr. Jin asked me to take.”
***
Dr. Jin got off the aircraft and walked towards the laboratory with a triumphant expression. He was on the aircraft, monitoring the First Research Institute for two full days, but he did not see any trace of Shen Heng.
This means that his plan was successful. Shen Heng, the dirty Infected, must have been infected with the virus and died in the research institute.
As soon as he entered the laboratory, Dr. Jin saw Du Yan’s back in the room. Shen Heng was lying on the ground, his chest only rising and falling slightly, and he seemed to have completely lost consciousness.
This was a sign that Infected will undergo a secondary mutation. They will lose consciousness and then undergo a secondary mutation, becoming a deformed creature whose shape can not be seen. They will suddenly attack and injure people and then rapidly decay and die.
Dr. Jin stopped behind Du Yan and said: “Du Yan, I advise you to leave as soon as possible.”
Du Yan didn’t turn around or say anything.
Dr. Jin smiled and said: “I have seen many cases of Infected undergoing secondary mutations. You have a close relationship with this Infected, and I am worried that you can not bear that situation.”
At this moment, Shen Heng opened his eyes.
Dr. Jin was stunned and terrified. Before he could react, he felt a sharp pain in his head. He was still trying to resist when he heard Du Yan speak.
“Now, you have to obey me in everything.”
***
A few days later, human civilization once again fell into a catastrophe crisis.
On that day, Dr. Jin’s image appeared on all the communication devices in all the Homelands.
This crazy scientist was devastated by the failure of the experiment, and like a desperate lunatic, he announced to the world all the inhumane research conducted by the First Research Institute in recent years.
The experimental video hidden deep in the First Research Institute was also exposed. The cloning plan called “Adam Project” and the deformed failed experimental subjects caused panic among the people of all Homelands.
In the end, Dr. Jin declared that because of the failure of the “Adam Project”, he would launch the “Purification Program”.
Fortunately, at the last moment, Shen Heng, the strongest Infected, broke into this mysterious facility and stopped Dr. Jin’s crazy behavior.
Finally, when Dr. Jin was subdued, he destroyed the huge glass cylinder with “Original Adam” soaked in it. This nipped the idea of the scientists who were ready to move after learning about the “Adam Project” in the bud.
Dr. Jin was handed over to the United Court of Pure Ones’ Homelands for trial. For his crazy act of trying to destroy human civilization, he will be sentenced to life imprisonment or even the death penalty.
Du Yan saw Dr. Jin’s verdict in the 《Infected Weekly》. He smiled sarcastically and read the verdict to Shen Heng.
“Considering the great contribution that Jin Yiming had made to human civilization, he was given a lighter sentence of life imprisonment…” Du Yan said: “It seems that some people still want to know more about the Adam Project from Dr. Jin, but unfortunately, he knows nothing now.”
Du Yan raised a malicious smile on his face and decided to control Dr. Jin to play a trick on those people with bad intentions.
Shen Heng glanced at him sideways, with an indulgent smile on his face: “Don’t be too noisy, it will affect the normal progress of the research.”
Du Yan waved his hand and said: “I know. Actually, someone in the First Research Institute has already discovered a method to extract anti-radiation drugs from plants. It was just rejected by Dr. Jin because the process was complicated and costly. After all, the failed experimental products were used to extract anti-radiation drugs, which was just a waste in his eyes…”
After what happened at the First Research Institute, Shen Heng realized that the inside of the Pure Ones’ Homeland was far from as beautiful as he had imagined. However, since he already had the best thing in the world, he could still walk firmly on the path he had chosen with full enthusiasm.
Even though the person next to him is a little brat with a lot of bad intentions and a restless nature, as long as he is watching over him, Du Yan won’t get into too much trouble.
Shen Heng reached out and rubbed Du Yan’s hair, then turned the steering wheel and drove the vehicle towards the destination they had already set.
The ‘behemoth’ carried the two people all the way to the wasteland world full of yellow sand. It was still the same desolate scene, but Shen Heng saw a different future in his heart.
A future where he is no longer lonely, no longer dull, so he has to only move forward mechanically.
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