242, The Sea of Doom 11
Yu Heng thought for a moment, then transferred only 100,000 yuan to Zeng Pingnian, and then called to explain: "This is the family's living expenses. Brother, please don't be polite to me."
Zeng Pingnian was very happy: "Xiaoyu has also paid back. You have worked hard, so you should keep some extra money to spend on yourself. The family has enough."
"I have enough here." After chatting for a while, Yu Heng was about to hang up, but Zeng Pingnian said hesitantly: "Xiao Zhi came back to visit Auntie a few days ago and left without staying." Without asking his friend a word, he felt cold after seeing it.
"It doesn't matter." Yu Heng didn't care: "I'm going to work. See you soon, Brother Zeng."
He really didn't care and got back to work again. But he didn't care, and some people did. About a week later, when Yu Heng called home, he heard Zeng Pingnian say angrily: "Xiao Zhi is really outrageous! He made my aunt sick. !”
"What's going on?" Yu Heng frowned.
"Sigh... It's about Xiaoyu. He didn't ask for news about you last time when he came back. Yesterday, for some reason, he suddenly called and asked if you were at the Academy of Sciences. Auntie said yes, so he hung up the phone. Auntie was still confused, and then the man came back today and said some unpleasant things when he came, saying that he wanted you to change Xiaoyu back, and he wanted to go. "
Zeng Pingnian did not dare to say a word to Yu Heng, such as "You don't treat me as your own son!" "Selfish!"
"How about... just call Xiao Yu back? He is clumsy and can't take care of you." He really thought so. Zhang Zhi not only scolded his biological father, but also scolded him in a roundabout way. He was so old , I really feel that my face is agitated. Conscience, he really has no intention of taking advantage! Now seeing the conflict between father and son because of this matter, he felt very uncomfortable.
After hearing this, Yu Heng was furious and rejected Zeng Pingnian's proposal: "Brother, you know why Xiaoyu came here. He is not really a logistics worker. I watched him grow up, and I hope he can achieve something." Achievement, he has made great progress recently, so don’t ask him to go back. As for Zhang Zhi, if you have anything to do, ask him to talk to me. I have my cell phone with me recently. Don’t let him enter the house for the time being, and don’t let my mother see him. "
After hanging up the phone, he was not disappointed because he had never expected Zhang Zhi.
"My dad called me several times." Zeng Yu's voice rang in his ears. He was taking out his cell phone from the cabinet and saw a bunch of missed calls as soon as he turned it on. "It's strange. The beating started yesterday. Could it be that something happened at home?"
Yu Heng sighed and said, "There's nothing wrong at home. Your dad just misses you. Just give him a call."
"Oh." Zeng Yu quickly agreed and called his father. When he came back from the fight, he smiled and said, "My dad asked me to take good care of my uncle."
"You will take the greatest care of me if you study hard."
Zeng Yu rubbed his head and laughed.
In order to wait for Zhang Zhi's call, Yu Heng took his mobile phone with him this time and did not turn it off. As a result, he never received his call. Later, when he contacted Zeng Pingnian, he said that Zhang Zhi did not go home again and there was no phone call.
"Xiaowen inquired about it and said that he went back to Zhongjing again." The typhoon has passed and Zhongjing has recovered after the flood receded. It is normal for Zhang Zhi to go back.
"Then ignore him."
Yu Heng was very busy and no longer paid attention to Zhang Zhi's news. As more and more manpower is assigned to him, the team becomes more and more complex. Not only are the tasks complex, but the division of labor among personnel is also an issue that cannot be ignored. He made a detailed plan to ensure that everyone performed their duties, the laboratory was well organized, and the experiment progressed smoothly.
Time flies, and soon it’s half a year. During this six months, eleven more countries have been flooded around the world. They are all countries that are close to the sea, have low terrain, or are island countries. Except for completely landlocked countries, nationals from other countries migrate to a certain extent.
There are endless typhoons and tsunamis. Before this year is over, there are 14 typhoons in the country! This frequency is simply crazy!
In addition to natural disasters, there is another thing that touches people's hearts, and that is the abnormality of newborn babies. The child who was born with the love and hope of the whole family turned out to be different, which broke the hearts of many parents.
If it just looks weird, it is actually acceptable, as long as the child is healthy, but those strange diseases can also hinder life. How can it not be worrying for a small child to undergo constant surgery and medication right after birth?
At the beginning, people just regarded the news as anecdotes. As more and more examples began to appear around them, people became afraid.
In the past six months, the special department established by the Academy of Sciences finally produced research results, and the problem indeed appeared in the water.
At the beginning, water and fish were the most suspicious objects, especially water, because some pregnant women really don’t like fish and have never had a bite of fish soup. However, the inspection process is too difficult. Various indicators are checked in turn, and water is collected from various water bodies. The workload is extremely huge. It was not until several months later that an abnormality was found in one specimen.
The specimen was taken from a well on a certain mountain, and an unknown substance was detected in it. After day and night research, the substance was confirmed to be genetic material, which has super-active properties that stimulate genetic changes. The substance is referred to as r-substance for short.
After the floods last year, China had already strengthened the safety testing of drinking water. However, after the discovery of r-substance, China once again strengthened the testing of drinking water, added seven new testing standards, and urgently processed and manufactured r-substance analyzers and filters to be distributed to water plants in various places.
Before that, the authorities warned the whole country: Pay attention to water hygiene! For a while, it caused a hot sale of bottled water produced more than two years ago, before the floods began. Various bottled waters that claimed to be produced before the flood date entered the market, which once caused people to scramble for them. Later, they were suppressed and banned by relevant government departments in various places, and then the unhealthy trend was eliminated.
Yu Heng also learned the latest news from his colleagues. It can be said that the hottest news at present is r-substance.
The tricky thing about this substance is that it is in the water, and it is well known that there are floods everywhere now, and the water is flowing and cannot be caught at all. Where the r-substance came from has not yet been determined, but many people believe that it may have been brought out from the depths of the sea. The current research direction is to explore from rainwater.
The follow-up research is still going on, and the water use problem is also being brought up to date. Currently, water purification and filtration activities are being carried out in Kyoto as the radiation area.
"Does it only affect pregnant women? Are there any examples other than infants and young children?" Yu Heng asked.
"I haven't seen it yet." His colleague, whose surname is Li, responded with a smile: "Maybe after a while, when the water purification work is stable, a nationwide physical examination and screening work will be carried out." These are not confidential, and Professor Li is willing to say: "The current focus is still on the care of pregnant women."
Yu Heng nodded: "You all worked hard."
"Hey, you worked hard too." The two chatted with mutual sympathy and then went their separate ways.
After dinner, Yu Heng and Zeng Yu strolled back to the dormitory. Zeng Yu imitated his steps and walked slowly like a serious old man.
"Did you send the things?"
Hearing Yu Heng's question, he quickly answered: "I sent them, using xx Express." xx Express is a state-owned express and the most reliable. The item sent home was a household type r-matter filter, which was a welfare provided by the Academy to employees. Zeng Yu was not eligible for one due to his level, but Yu Heng was given two, so he asked Zeng Yu to send one to Xiyue.
"Okay, I'll call your dad later and tell him to remember to pay attention to the local express delivery point."
"Hey!"
After returning to the dormitory, Yu Heng told Zeng Yu to go to bed after hearing the call. He closed the door and began to practice [General Principles of Physical Fitness], and did another set of physical fitness techniques. It was his requirement not to work overtime at night. He got off work at 7pm, had dinner at 7:30pm, and clocked in at 7am the next morning. If he really worked overtime, he would collapse soon.
After practicing for a while, it was already 11:30pm, and Yu Heng took a bath and prepared to go to bed. I don't know why tonight, I always felt uneasy sleeping, and I tossed and turned unconsciously.
Ruiting floated in the air and looked at him, a little worried, so he whispered: "Host? Host, wake up?"
Yu Heng began to feel something was wrong and struggled to wake up. "Host, where are you feeling uncomfortable?"
He shook his head: "I feel uncomfortable all over."
"Call Zeng Yu and ask him to take you to the infirmary." Ruiting rubbed Yu Heng's forehead, but it was an energy body and couldn't touch him at all.
"Yeah." He nodded and reached for the landline on the bedside table. Under the light of the bedside lamp, he vaguely saw something strange on the back of his hand, and couldn't help rubbing it. So he put down the phone, took out his glasses and put them on, and then lowered his head to look at the light. Sure enough, he saw something on the back of his hand. It seemed to be allergic?
On the back of his right hand, there was a small darker mark, which was a little itchy. But when he looked more carefully, Yu Heng suddenly broke out in a cold sweat and couldn't help sitting up a little.
He touched it with his hand, and it was bumpy, especially like fleshy fish scales. The one on the back of his hand was about the size of two thumb nails, with clear texture and complete shape. Counting, there are five complete pieces and seven not so complete pieces.
"It looks like fish scales."
Yu Heng nodded: "It does." He recalled the conversation with his colleagues in the evening. Does the r substance only work on the baby in the belly of a pregnant woman? Now it seems that it also works on adults.
He began to think about one thing. Does the r substance really only make the child grow deformed? He had to think so. He had taken the gene-improving liquid. The trend of his body's development and change must be in a good direction. If he encountered negative external influences, he would try his best to adjust to a relatively good state.
The most impressive memory was that in the zombie world, after he was bitten by a zombie earthworm, the subsequent effect of the gene-improving liquid turned him into a half-corpse man, retaining all human thinking and memory, and gaining the power of zombies.
Under such a scenario, his body still showed the most common fish-scale mutation, which means that the direction of gene improvement did not completely isolate this change.
"Could it be that the changes of those children are in line with the law of evolution..." After Yu Heng came to this conclusion, his heart suddenly jumped. Human evolution always changes with the environment. Considering the flood that lasted for two and a half years, the rising water and the coastline that pushed inland, will the living environment of humans really change from land to water in the future?
He thought about it for a while and decided to report to his superiors first and let more professional instruments and equipment to check his body - he knew his current value and he would be safe for the time being.
"Go to sleep first, and go to the hospital tomorrow." Yu Heng said to Ruiting: "Good night."
"Good night host."