Chapter 197: mal Henry
Translator: 549690339
“Why?”
“How is this possible!”
No one understood why this was happening.
Everything seemed seamless, but why did it turn out to be like this?
Just in an instant, everyone, whether still in the fleet or already on the ground as part of the advance team, was plunged into the same despair.
Even those who were wearing airtight isolation suits didn’t feel at ease.
The sense of despair and panic could even be transmitted through the live video, reaching everyone on Earth.
But the chaos only lasted for ten minutes.
The middle-aged man who had yelled at the young man earlier suddenly spoke loudly.
“Do you all remember the 626 Declaration?”
“We do!” everyone shouted in unison.
“So, get your spirits up! We are the advance team! Are the pioneers afraid of death? I ask, are you afraid of death?”
“No!”
The middle-aged man nodded again, “That’s right, we are not afraid of death. Before setting off, we were prepared for sacrifice! Death is nothing but dust to dust, earth to earth! But we will pave the way for the future generations! Work! We must find out the cause! Fight to the death, never retreat!”
“Fight to the death, never retreat!”
One day later, a conclusion was reached.
The one that brought the S Bacteria back to the surface and hurt everyone was a snake.
Chordata subphylum Vertebrata class Reptilia subclass Diapsida order Serpentes.
The S Bacteria in Australia had evolved again, jumping from rodents to snakes.
A sense of foreboding began to rise in people’s hearts.
The infected suiciders expanded their search range again and embarked on an unknown journey.
Three days later, the final conclusion was reached.
The S Bacteria in Australia had evolved to the next stage.
Its infection range had gone beyond the limitation of rodents, and it could now infect all vertebrates!
This was too vicious, too cruel.
Its evolution was infuriatingly fast.
No one knew where the limit of the S Bacteria was.
Perhaps one day, it would not even spare other species of microorganisms?
Would there be any place for mankind in such a vast world?
Just thinking about such a scenario was enough to make the hair on the heads of the remaining eight billion people stand on end.
Once again, mankind took immediate action, doing their utmost to try to block all river mouths leading to the sea.
Bad news came one after another.
It wasn’t long before a snail was also found to be an infected carrier.
The territory of the S Bacteria expanded once again.
Mankind was almost completely plunged into despair.
The breath that was hanging in their chest nearly dispersed.
But there was a turning point half a year later, when, after all the animals in Australia had been infected for half a year, people discovered that the evolution of the S Bacteria had stalled.
It had hit a bottleneck.
Apparently, breaking free from the shackles of animals was not so easy for the S Bacteria.
The ocean had become a fragile barrier protecting human life.
Although infected animals still brought the S Bacteria to other continents through the coastlines, the defense lines constructed by humans with all their might could barely hold them back.
However, nearly two billion people died in these three years.
Some suggested that it was time to destroy the Australian Continent.
Complete destruction of it could at least eliminate most of the S Bacteria.
It was at this time that a scientist named Willian stood up and refuted the idea of sinking the Australian Continent and put forward another great hypothesis.
The evolution of the S Bacteria was so strong that it completely defied scientific norms.
But the rules of the universe are ultimately fair; in order to acquire extraordinary abilities, you must pay the corresponding price.
A normal microbial mutation and evolution, no matter how slow, should be an eternal and stable process as long as the total number of organisms reaches a certain level.
There should not be a clear bottleneck in the evolutionary process itself.
There should be a relatively smooth line representing evolution, and if time is infinite, this line should be endless, without boundaries.
Evolution should be an ongoing process.
But the S Bacteria was completely different.
Although its evolution was fast, every single breakthrough seemed to be very deliberate, encompassing different categories and levels of species.
Based on the samples collected, the S Bacteria had never simultaneously crossed two categories or levels of the same rank at the same time. It always completed one first and then quickly moved on to another, like hopping up steps, bypassing one bottleneck after another.
Its evolution was like a frog’s jump, stable and violent, one leap after another.
Therefore, the price that the S Bacteria had to pay for its extraordinary evolutionary capacity was the bottleneck it had to face during evolution.
Furthermore, everyone knew that any microorganisms capable of attacking humans and mutating quickly would not evolve solely to kill humans in the normal course of evolution.
Humans and viruses and bacteria were originally supposed to be interdependent and coexist.
The evolution of bacteria must follow the rule of developing in a direction that benefits their own existence.
The instinct of living beings should be self-preservation.
The normal direction of its evolution should be to continuously improve its survival and transmission capabilities, but its lethality to human hosts should inevitably continue to decrease.
Ultimately, it should become a Fate Community similar to the probiotics in our intestines.
However, the S Bacteria showed no signs of this.
This was a complete violation of common sense, an extremely wide-ranging enhancement of both transmission and lethality.
This blatantly defied the rules of the universe!
Therefore, I believe that it should, and must, have a flaw.. This flaw would be an insurmountable bottleneck, which is the end of its evolution!
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