IJWTRQ Chapter 029

The Black Death was a bubonic plague and a virulent infectious disease transmitted by the bacterium Yersinia pestis through rat fleas, it comprised of capsular FI antigen, virulence V/W antigen, murine toxin, endotoxin, and bacteriocin. After invading the skin, the bacterium is engulfed by phagocytes of the podocyte and V/M antigen and reproduces. Both are essentially proteins that can be broken down to their most basic units of amino acids. Once they are broken down into harmless amino acids, the bacterium Yersinia pestis loses its phagocytic ability and thus becomes inactive.

As long as they don’t continue to reproduce, with Tan Yan and Qin Li’s physique, they will definitely be able to recover.

However, it should be noted that there are different types of proteins in the human body, and they should not be destroyed together with the bacterium Yersinia pestis, otherwise, it will harm the body. Moreover, countless Yersinia pestis have been bred in the bodies of Tan Yan and others. This number is quite huge. Can it really be distinguished and eliminated with just one thought?

Liang Xian’s heart was drumming, he doubted whether his power could completely decompose the Yersinia pestis.

But there is no time. Looking at Tan Yan’s nosebleed dripping on the raft, Liang Xian knew that he must succeed this time.

He calmed down, recalling the appearance of Yersinia pestis and its structure under the microscope in his mind, and gently placed his hand on Tan Yan.

In fact, according to Liang Xian’s theory, as long as it can be observed, it doesn’t matter whether there is physical contact or not. But Liang Xian thinks that this kind of contact can promote the observation of consciousness, for example, Ah San also needs to put his hand into the water when he uses the power.

Liang Xian closed his eyes and imagined the structure of the human body, imagining which part of Tan Yan’s body Yersinia pestis was constantly multiplying and destroying at this time, he wanted to find these bacteria, decompose them all, and leave nothing behind!

For a moment, he felt as if he had become very small, as if he had entered Tan Yan’s body, and ‘saw’ the immune cells in Tan Yan’s body fighting against the Yersinia pestis tenaciously. But Yersinia pestis is too prolific, and Tan Yan doesn’t have effective memory T cells and antibodies in his body.

Break it down, break it down, break it all down! Liang Xian kept recalling the steps of proteolysis. Driven by a strong consciousness, Liang Xian really ‘saw’ that Yersinia pestis was gradually and wholly hydrolyzed into amino acids under his own power.

One, two… Ten thousand, twenty thousand… not enough, it’s still not enough, must all be broken down, none of them can stay.

Liang Xian realized that when he was thinking this way, his consciousness magnified infinitely, and he began to search for Yersinia pestis in Tan Yan’s body purposefully, never letting go of even a single tiny part. As long as the Yersinia pestis is ‘observed’ by him, it can be decomposed immediately.

The speed of consciousness transmission is close to the speed of light. At the rate of 300,000 m/s, Liang Xian’s consciousness searched countless circles in Tan Yan’s body almost instantly.

All Yersinia pestis are immediately broken down and become amino acids, which are automatically absorbed and utilized by the body system.

His consciousness was not at ease, and he turned around in Tan Yan’s body a few times, even observing the subcutaneous tissue, and only after confirming that there were no more Yersinia pestis did he withdraw his consciousness.

As soon as his consciousness was withdrawn, Liang Xian felt a splitting headache. Fortunately, he had experienced this once before. He suppressed the pain, tried his best to smooth out his chaotic consciousness, and collapsed onto the raft with a pale face.

On the other hand, Tan Yan felt relieved for a while, his head was no longer dizzy, his body was no longer burning, and the skin and mucous membrane bleeding symptoms caused by septicemia plague also disappeared. Although he was still a little weak, he had basically recovered.

Liang Xian’s consciousness experienced a life-and-death struggle with countless plague bacteria in Tan Yan’s body, but it was only for an instant for Tan Yan. He only felt that Liang Xian touched him, and his body recovered.

Tan Yan has possessed supernatural abilities for so many years and always thought that it could only make people more powerful, faster, and have more ways to protect themselves, still, he never thought that supernatural abilities could show so many possibilities when they come to other people.

Consciousness is really a thing that varies from person to person, as each person’s experience, knowledge, and interests are different, and the form of power manifested also differs.

Liang Xian always said that they were dragging him down, but if he were alone, he probably wouldn’t know how long he would be floating at sea at this time. If he’s lucky, he can hold on and survive the Black Death. If he’s unlucky, he’ll probably fall into the belly of an unknown fish.

The huge chunks of flesh of the mosasaur are still falling, and the waves are still roaring, but these are no longer a problem for Tan Yan, he easily controlled the protective cover, trying to keep the raft as stable as possible, so the three people could lie comfortably.

Liang Xian’s resilience was better than Tan Yan expected, he only lay down for a while and then sat up again, putting his hands on Qin Li’s body.

After a while, Qin Li’s breathing also became calmer, and his body temperature returned to normal. Qin Li’s recovery ability is impressive, Tan Yan still feels weak now, but after Liang Xian touched Qin Li for a few seconds, he opened his eyes with great vigor. Obviously, Tan Yan’s consciousness recovers faster, but physically… is it really not as good as young people?

Qin Li was in good spirits, but Liang Xian was completely paralyzed, he fell down precisely in the direction of Tan Yan, betting that the kind-hearted Tan Yan would not ignore him.

Sure enough, Tan Yan gently supported Liang Xian’s head with his hand, knelt down, and let him rest on his lap.

While suffering a headache, Liang Xian knew that he was enjoying the treatment of Tan Yan’s lap pillow, and even in dazed consciousness, he was aware of the beauty that was so beautiful, which made his nose bubbling, and he rubbed his face on Tan Yan’s thigh in satisfaction.

Tan Yan couldn’t help but laugh, this action was still like a child.

Ah San also feels better now, climbing up from the raft. Originally Liang Xian was a healthy person with three disabled people, currently, the position is reversed, three people were recovering blood, but Liang Xian is already in a half-disabled state.

Although he couldn’t move, Ah San had ‘observed’ everything that happened just now. Looking at the corpse of the Mosasaur floating on the sea, he couldn’t help saying in surprise: “Hey, what the hell is going on in this world, even the extinct Mosasaur came back to life?”

The extinct Black Death and the extinct creatures that disappeared more than a hundred million years ago all appeared before their eyes. This world may not be as simple as the melting of glaciers due to global warming.

“Who knows.” Liang Xian closed his eyes and replied, he can’t think now, it’s even more exhausting than that time in the real world.

However, the symptoms were much lighter than before, mainly because of the increased tolerance after experiencing a feeling of laxity. In fact, the degree of discomfort is the same.

It is obviously difficult to meet survivors in this world. Even if there are still living people, it is only possible to survive in the highlands, too far away from here.

They took a lot of photos and videos, Ah San even ventured into the water and took a piece of Mosasaur meat back to test it. They do not carry much equipment and can only do a few simple tests.

“This is a Mosasaur, not in a movie, but actually met a Mosasaur at sea and survived, it’s a pity these flesh and blood can’t be bought back.” Ah San said with regret.

“It would be nice if we could drive armored vehicles in.” Qin Li also said, with only backpacks, they carry too little stuff.

Regarding the equipment issue, before the ‘void’ appeared, the research team also had a heated discussion about whether to let them take transportation and bring as many supplies as possible or just bring a backpack full of essentials. Generally speaking, of course, the more complete the equipment, the safer.

But when Minister Yu entered the end of the world, if he was not riding a small electric vehicle and could jump at any time, but was driving an armored vehicle, he would have fallen into the lava along with the car long ago. The world is different, sometimes materials are protection, and sometimes they are a burden.

For example, this time, fortunately, they didn’t drive in, otherwise, they might all sink to the bottom with the armored vehicles.

“Too far away to find local survivors realistically. We have collected water source and atmospheric information, taken many photos and videos, and got some information about the Mosasaur. The exit is just around the corner, and we are sick and weak,” Ah San analyzed, “It seems that there is no need to stay here now.”

Qin Li opened his mouth and closed it again. Everyone has gained something on this trip, but he has not even touched the edge of his supernatural power. But his current condition is really not suitable to stay here, although Liang Xian initially helped him to decompose the plague bacteria in his body, but no one can guarantee whether this is completely eliminated. Even Tan Yan was infected, and Liang Xian was exhausted, it was impossible to help everyone clear once again. They look relaxed, but in reality, they are at the end of their rope and need to get back to the real world as soon as possible to reorganize.

“Is the exit in water or under the sea?” Ah San asked.

“It should be at the bottom of the sea,” Tan Yan pointed underwater, “I feel that the exit is about two kilometers away from us.”

A distance of two thousand meters can be reached on land on foot, it is not far at all, but once this distance becomes the depth of water, it is pretty terrifying.

“Mosasaur can appear here, I think it will not be shallow.” Liang Xian forced a bitter smile, “But at a depth of two thousand meters, the pressure is quite high, with thousands of tons of pressure on us, can we dive in?”

“I’ve no problem with it,” Ah San said, “The altitude here is similar to that of B City, the depth should be similar.”

“You’ve dived so deep before?” Qin Li asked incredulously.

“I haven’t calculated it myself, but I can feel it very deeply, after all, I have been swimming for a long time.” Ah San said, “However, I don’t seem to feel the pressure in the water, and I feel as comfortable as I am on land, which should be related to the fish-like changes in my body.”

Now the problem is, Ah San can dive to the bottom of the sea, Tan Yan should also have no problem, but what should Qin Li and Liang Xian do?

Tan Yan has always been alone. When he is alone, he can go anywhere, but he is not sure if he can still bring two people to dive into such a deep seabed.

“We have a diving suit in our backpack,” Ling Xiao said, “Oxygen shouldn’t be a big problem. I can turn the water around my mouth and nose into hydrogen and oxygen while diving, but this special diving suit can only dive to a few hundred meters, it will not work any deeper.”

It’s also impossible for him to turn all the water molecules into gas, the exhausted to death Liang Xian can’t do it.

“I’ll try it, two people should be okay.” Tan Yan said, “Is it possible to make the protective cover flatter to reduce the pressure? As you just said a few days ago, the pressure formula¹壓強公式 yā qiáng gōng shì: Pressure formula. Since pressure is defined as the force per unit area, its formula is expressed as P = F/A, where P is pressure, F is force, and A is the area by which the force is applied perpendicularly. P=F/S, the larger the surface area, the smaller the pressure.”

Ah San Qin Li: “…”

The formula is correct, but just a few days ago, what is going on? The pressure formula is learned in junior high school, right? And it was wrong, the water pressure is not calculated in this way.

“No,” Liang Xian explained with difficulty, “The internal pressure of the liquid has nothing to do with the force-receiving area, but your shape can reduce water resistance. Generally, deep-sea creatures rely on internal pressure to resist water pressure, we can try it from this aspect.”

He was thinking about how to design this protective cover when Qin Li suddenly said: “I feel as if I…”

“Like what?” Liang Xian asked.

Qin Li said uncertainly: “I feel like I can hold on. Although I can’t breathe freely in the water like Assistant Teacher Chai, as long as we don’t get hurt by the huge water pressure, we can sink automatically, right?”

“You can try.” After thinking about it, Liang Xian said, “You dive down first according to your own ideas, I would like to ask Assistant Teacher Chai to watch by the side. If something happens, bring him up at any time.”

Qin Li put on the diving suit and jumped into the water with some apprehension. Generally, people would not sink immediately when they jumped into the water under the buoyancy force, but Qin Li fell into the water with a ‘thump’ like a stone and sank as soon as he entered the water.

Ah San followed closely, leaving Liang Xian and Tan Yan waiting on the raft.

About ten minutes later, Ah San came up with a lump of stuff, and he poked his head out of the water with difficulty and said: “What kind of ability do you have, like a tortoise shell.”

Just saw that Qin Li was surrounded by a dark shell made of unknown material, just like Ah San said, like a turtle. Liang Xian stretched out his hand and touched it, the surface felt very solid.

“This thing started to appear on him about a hundred meters underwater,” Ah San said, “Moreover, as the depth increases, this layer of shell becomes thicker and thicker, and the sinking speed becomes faster and faster.”

Tan Yan stretched out his hand and opened the shell, revealing Qin Li’s face.

Qin Li smiled honestly at everyone, apparently, there was no significant hindrance.

“I think I can bring one person.” Qin Li thought about it and said, “Feels like this armor could get bigger, but it’ll be a little tighter, I have to hold the person.”

Liang Xian: “…”

He is the only one who needs to be taken here, why is he always such a character who is embraced by others, and why does he have to be hugged by Qin Li?

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  壓強公式 yā qiáng gōng shì: Pressure formula. Since pressure is defined as the force per unit area, its formula is expressed as P = F/A, where P is pressure, F is force, and A is the area by which the force is applied perpendicularly.