The atmosphere suddenly became tense.
Sun Shizhang looked at them with a headache.
“What is there to argue about? Both of you are generals with high status and great power. If you harbored ill intentions, I fear the Great Sima Nation would have fallen long ago… Let us leave everything to General Yuwen. General Yuwen shares both the glory and the losses of the Great Sima Nation. This distribution will be more convincing to the masses.”
‘Convincing?’
The main forces currently suppressing the rebellion at the front lines were Demon Race soldiers, yet he wanted to hand over all these precious supplies to the Human Clan for distribution? This was a clear sign of distrust.
How was that convincing?
Even if he did not have such thoughts in his heart, his actions would inevitably make others feel discouraged.
“It seems Divine Physician Sun does not yet fully understand the situation,” Li Lao’er sighed, but he did not give up the struggle for the supplies.
He said, “Let us split them in half. We are risking our lives to help, and we cannot let the soldiers feel mistrusted… Besides, these supplies were sent by Qing Yi’s people, and Qing Yi belongs to our Demon Race.”
“No matter where these supplies came from, now that they have reached human territory, they are ours!” Yu Wenhua Ji said with murderous intent.
“I naturally know how to handle the distribution!”
“What kind of bandit logic is this?” Li Lao’er was so angry he wanted to cut someone down.
“Do you believe that if Qing Yi heard this, she would take the supplies back immediately?”
“The supplies are already in our hands, and you want to take them back? You should ask the people of the world for their opinion! In such a moment of crisis, these supplies do not belong to one person, but are the collective property of all people in the world!” Yu Wenhua Ji spoke with righteous indignation.
The situation froze for a moment.
Sun Shizhang also found it difficult to understand Li Lao’er’s strong persistence.
Every second counted at a time like this.
Logically, there should absolutely be no disagreement over such trivial matters.
He even began to suspect Li Lao’er’s motives.
“General Li, it is a time of crisis, so do not argue. We do not mean to distrust our Demon brothers. It is just that General Yuwen understands the internal situation better, and his distribution will be more practical, reasonable, and faster… Please, do not overthink it, Demon brother,” Sun Shizhang said to Li Lao’er earnestly.
“When you need us, you call us brothers. When you want to eat us, you call us game. When you want to refine us, you call us medicinal primers. For those of us who are neither tasty nor useful for Pill Refining, you call us demonic talents… Can you tell me how many more nicknames you have prepared for us?”
Li Lao’er took several deep breaths, trying his best to suppress the urge to go berserk, withdraw his troops, and let the Human Clan fend for itself.
Humans were unreliable.
A race without external pressure for survival would begin internal fighting.
Having lived in comfort for thousands of years, the humans of Shenzhou had long since become accustomed to constant infighting.
He knew this well.
So, even if he was unwelcome, he had to persist in controlling the overall situation — not to save those double-standard hypocrites, but to save the Demon Race and ensure the development of the Antidote remained unaffected.
Li Lao’er snorted coldly and stopped arguing.
He knew that in this human territory, he could not win the argument.
If he continued, he might be arrested on suspicion of having ulterior motives.
“Take the supplies then. My race lives and dies with Shenzhou!”
“General Li is noble and puts the overall situation first. It is truly admirable.” Yu Wenhua Ji immediately put on a kind smile.
The 200,000 protective suits finally ended up in Yu Wenhua Ji’s hands.
Li Lao’er sighed.
The night was deep — within the three-day period before the epidemic outbreak, the first day had passed in this muddled and chaotic arguing.
Only two days remained.
When a new type of virus appears, it usually takes many scientists a year or even several years of research to create a specific medicine. It is impossible to complete in just a few days.
Therefore, in the several great plagues that occurred in the history of Earth, none were resolved because a specific medicine was developed in time.
The only measure people could take was prevention and control.
Isolate the sick, burn the corpses, and then quietly wait for the virus to disappear on its own when the weather turns hot.
In the war against viruses, living beings were always on the receiving end of the beating.
However, some creatures were much better at fighting viruses than civilized humans.
Jiang Ke’er looked at the little creature trembling on the experimental table while tied down.
Order Chiroptera — a bat.
Because of the legendary relationship between Vampires and bats, many people thought bats were cold-blooded animals, but that was not the case.
The bat’s body possessed a super-high metabolic capacity.
Its body temperature remained around 38 to 40 degrees for long periods.
Its immune system was basically in a state of full capacity 24 hours a day, yet it did not suffer from physical damage caused by over-immunity.
At the same time, the prolonged high body temperature caused errors during the process of virus and somatic cell division — resulting in mutations.
As a result, bats became the species with the highest virus content in the biological world.
Their bodies were constantly in a state of “raising poisons.”
Countless viruses displayed their prowess, trying to break through that impenetrable immune barrier, and occasionally, several “big brothers” would mutate… but they were basically powerless against this terrifying immune system.
For this reason, bats were of vital significance to the study of genetics and immunology. They were a species like a treasure house.
Jiang Ke’er wondered if she could find some inspiration from the bat.
Although this kind of immune research was more suitable for Sun Shizhang’s side… she felt that Sun Shizhang and his people would not be able to figure anything out.
After all, she was standing on the shoulders of giants.
However, there was no harvest.
With the help of the Appraisal Technique, a microscope, and precious magic talismans that could temporarily grant her Microscopic Vision, Jiang Ke’er could clearly see the structure of the virus and what was happening in the microscopic world.
Normally, all viruses are afraid of heat because they are composed of nucleic acids and proteins.
Protein molecules are macromolecules, and heat can destroy the covalent bonds within them.
This is also one of the reasons for a fever when one is sick… but the Epidemic Poison of Shenzhou was not even afraid of heat.
It could even withstand high temperatures of several hundred degrees.
Option one: Combat the Epidemic Poison by raising the body temperature. Failed.
Moreover, no matter how she compared these viruses, she could not find a component that ‘only the virus has but the cell does not.’
Although the viruses were mutating every moment, no matter how they mutated, they could only change slowly within a limited range.
Even if she performed artificial mutation induction, she could not make them mutate into the form she desired… besides, her induction ability was also extremely limited.
The situation reached a stalemate for a time.
For an entire day, Jiang Ke’er felt as though her research had made no progress at all.
Looking at Yiqin, who was barely clinging to life through life-support equipment and growing weaker, Jiang Ke’er’s eyes reddened every time she glanced over.
She knew that as long as she found that key point, everything would be resolved.
Thousands of failures were only for that one success.
One success was all she needed, but… only two days were left.
If more than two days passed, even if she eventually succeeded, it would be meaningless.
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