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 working". 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 a lifetime, 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 Age of Prosperity 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 huge research team.
And he is just the simplest and most inconspicuous one.
Of course, although Yuer himself is enjoying it, Chu Guang, who is standing aside as a bystander, yawns.
Since this guy had never left the institute since he came to Jinhe City, Chu Guang couldn't go outside the institute when he was working in the laboratory, and could only stare at him.
The images he could see were all made up of fragments of Yuer's memory.
If it was something that was forgotten after watching it, it might be restored, but if it was something that had never been seen at all, it could only be made up out of thin air.
Later, Chu Guang was really bored, so he simply snatched the remote control from Xiao Qi and jumped the fast-forward speed to 100 times, 1,000 times, or even 10,000 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 desolate. Most of the ads on the holographic screen had been removed, and the only ones left were looping war news and war mobilization ads.
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 this 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 critical juncture, our needs are met first, and the college has helped us get a large budget."
In the prosperous era, the college is a loose academic organization, mainly composed of well-known people in the academic community, and its nature is 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 show any joy 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 no one knows what the hostile behavior is and what motivation the people in the colony have for launching the war.
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 built 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 as soon as they came up, and sent indescribable fungi to their home planet.
That was a creature that no one had ever seen.
There is not even a 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 slime molds are everywhere in the intricate rail transportation, and Qingquan City, 800 kilometers away, instantly became uninhabitable.
The same thing happened not only in Qingquan City, but almost all large cities suffered, but Jinhe City, a less famous small city, survived.
When all means failed to stop it from expanding, the authorities could only choose the last resort -
Use the universal neutron beam to purify it before it spreads to other urban agglomerations.
Whether from an economic point of view or from other perspectives, this has the least impact, and as long as the pure fusion hydrogen bomb with no residual radiation is used, even those buildings can be preserved.
"...In short, our job is to determine the impact of neutron beams 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 even explosions are not required. The college has contacted a physics institute to cooperate with us in this evaluation."
"Does this kind of thing also require experiments?" Yule looked at him strangely.
Although he is not an expert in the field of nuclear weapons, he knows very well that no organism can survive neutron beams.
That thing will poke holes in nucleic acids, proteins, and enzymes, and all life activities based on these macromolecules will be suspended.
It is absolutely impossible for an organism to survive under neutron beams -
No, not necessarily.
This kind of creature actually exists.
Yuer suddenly thought that the blue mushrooms in the petri dish in the laboratory had that kind of magical power.
Since the inner monologue is also part of the memory, Chu Guang, who was standing next to him, could not only see what he said, but also see the thoughts he didn't say out loud.
"Some people are worried that the nuclear strike may cause the mutant slime mold to mutate and make the situation worse," Zhao Feiyu looked at the soldiers with a complicated expression, "To be honest, I also judged it this way... The other party must know that we will use this method. Will they be unprepared?"
Watching the conversation between the two, Chu Guang's eyes were full of 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 anchor 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 to it.
That was a big city with a population of over 100 million.
How could all the people there be evacuated?
And where could they be evacuated to accommodate so many people?
At least in Jinhe City, he did not see anyone from Qingquan City.
Yuer sat in a chair in a daze, 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..."
A trace of regret appeared on Yuer's face.
"So what's the point of our experiment? We wasted a month for nothing, and they didn't even plan to refer to our evaluation suggestions! If that's the case, 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 we detonate it 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 Force was broken?"
"I'm just talking nonsense, you'd better not take it seriously."
Looking at Yul's dull expression, Zhao Feiyu smiled with relief, but there was no expression of relief on his face.
After a pause, he continued.
"Back to the previous question, I think changing the way we say it 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 find someone 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 this, he reached out to turn off the news, paused, and continued.
"But if the worst-case scenario 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 like Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, there is also a red dwarf like 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."
Yule nodded.
Alien creatures are not his specialty, but he has heard a little about the alien species in the colony. In short, it is a very complex ecosystem.
If the war had not suddenly broken out, he would have planned to apply for academic exchanges 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 there could be no habitable planets 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 what they are now in an ecological environment with frequent stellar flares."
"Biological weapons alone are not enough to produce immediate results. 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 additional gift."
Yule swallowed his saliva.
"Dirty bomb..."
"It's probably true," Zhao Feiyu nodded, sighed, and said, "It may not be dirty for the alien species in the Nanmen II system, as they grow up in a radiation environment, but it is bad enough for species on Earth."
Why do they do this? !
Yule did not ask this question out loud, but kept it in his heart.
He knew that he was not the only one confused, and his predecessors were also confused by the betrayal of their brothers and sisters.
Why must it come to this?
Can't we sit down and talk?
"In short, 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 no longer in supply, and so are bionic organs. We can only hope that traditional drugs 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 must also 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 the media's cooperation 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, and 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, but it 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 had not seen a real battle in the memory of Yuer, a small figure, it was not difficult to feel the tragic situation on the front line from the suffocating atmosphere and visible depression on the street outside the institute.
Unfortunately, after moving into the underground research facility, Yuer never went out again, and the information from the outside was cut off all of a sudden.
At first, there was news to read, but later there was no news at all, and only people who regularly delivered supplies occasionally brought some news from the outside.
In fact, it was not that someone locked him up here and prevented him from going out. People were always going in and out of the elevator, and the researchers here could come and go 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 keep some good impressions of that era.
And instead of facing the destroyed world, it is better to spend 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. They can even drink a cup of coffee brewed by the beautiful androids while they are busy.
However, work must be done one day.
With the efforts of countless people, the final products of radiation-eliminating agents and anti-radiation agents have finally been developed, and the formula and production process have been simplified-even the shelters with simple conditions can use limited equipment and resources to produce.
It is interesting that this project was originally established by the Champion Group to make a fortune, but no one expected that before they made a fortune, credit points themselves had lost their meaning.
When most people cannot guarantee that they will still be alive tomorrow, credit has become a nonsensical thing.
The formula of radiation-eliminating agents and anti-radiation agents was 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 materials 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 step by step, and the last resistance was already at the end of their strength.
This news is undoubtedly the best news in three years, and the atmosphere in the laboratory is as lively as a festival.
Although Chu Guang wanted to tell them at this moment that 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 all.
At least there are beautiful android ladies to help them serve tea and water, and at least the supplies delivered have never stopped.
But even if I can communicate with these people who are in high spirits, I am afraid they will not believe what I say.
A celebration party was held in the laboratory, and Yule, who was not so sociable, couldn't help but go outside the laboratory.
This big brother, who is no longer young, finally mustered up the courage to step onto the surface again.
When he saw this completely changed world, he was completely 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."