The Mechanic [BL]

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Chapter 65 The Antidote to Human Nature (3)

Now that they had sophisticated instruments that could work at the nanometer level, coupled with the knowledge and experience that Adam possessed, making nanobots wasn't difficult. Zhang Xun and Adam spent a week in seclusion in the laboratory and developed the first batch of reagents. After being tested on mice injected with the Honey Plague virus, 90% of the mice gradually recovered and only a few died after the infection entered the final stage of treatment.

Due to the lack of time, they couldn't observe the cured mice for long, so they directly began to conduct human experiments on volunteers.

Zhang Xun looked at the patient lying on the hospital bed. He was a thirty-one-year-old man, his whole body was covered with yellow mucus that kept oozing out no matter how much it was cleaned up, his eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of blood so the whites of his eyes couldn't be seen and veins were densely intertwined everywhere. His breathing was very murmured, as if every breath was excruciatingly painful.

His hands and feet were tied to the operating table as the brains of the patient had been eroded by the virus and they were extremely unstable.

A doctor in a protective suit was measuring the patient's blood pressure.

Zhang Xun held an injection in his hand and the light blue liquid inside contained tens of millions of nanobots. Each robot carried a copy of the antibody reagent and after entering the patient's bloodstream, they would quickly infiltrate the central nervous system, looking for all the cells that had been eroded by the virus.

The surrounding doctors and the members sent from the Round Table stared at the injection in his hand curiously, as if they couldn't believe that such a small amount of blue liquid contained countless robots...

Zhang Xun himself was also a little nervous, this was his first time making such tiny robots. Without Adam's help, it would have been difficult to develop them smoothly, but he still wasn't sure how many of the robots would stay in the patient's body permanently after metabolism and how much it would affect the patient later.

The Honey Plague was spreading fast and panic was already taking its toll on people. The crime rate in every urban area was significantly higher these days and after 9pm the whole of Lost Paradise was like a dead city, no one dared to walk on the streets.

They didn't have time to look ahead, the antidote had to be developed in the shortest possible time.

Adam sat quietly on a chair in the corner, his blue eyes looking curiously at the patient on the operating table. When Zhang Xun handed the reagent to the doctor and the doctor injected it into the patient's body, he sat up straight with excitement.

"The medicine should take effect within three hours." Zhang Xun said.

The doctor nodded, "I will personally observe the changes in his physical data. Everyone can go to rest first."

In the hospital corridor filled with a rancid smell, Zhang Xun monitored the activity signals sent back by the nanobots. A red brain was displayed on the tablet and blue dots in the centre spread like fireflies.

Adam sat on the windowsill, constantly watching every passing doctor, nurse and patient. He raised his head, sniffed the unpleasant smell of disinfectant in the air and wrinkled his face slightly. This was where most humans died and the smell of death permeated everywhere.

The more he saw these rotten bodies, the more pity Adam felt.

A kind of pity that he only felt after he became human.