Such A Long Way We Came Chapter 7

In the past, there was no sound at all around his isolation room, so quiet that only his own weak breathing could be heard.

Only when he passed by the breeding area on the way from the isolation room to the experimental platform could he hear the sounds of other animals.

Their dying sounds are filled with pain.

 kind of likes this big cage now. He likes the flowering winter bell tree that exudes the sweet smell of nectar, and also likes other noisy experimental subjects.

Here, the only thing he hates is humans.

Among the annoying humans, the weirdest one came to deliver food to the experimental subjects again.

The low-level experimental subjects don't like him very much, and they will always attack him when he gets close, so he will be in a mess every day.

But he seems to enjoy it and sometimes deliberately provokes them.

 pushed aside the big leaves in front of him and looked at the man squatting by the hot sand pool in the distance.

He was feeding fresh meat to the snapping turtle. The sleeping snapping turtle had a bad temper. He deliberately put his hand inside the snapping turtle's shell and touched its head, and he was bitten again.

When the ill-tempered snapping turtle began to eat meat, he sprayed the injured carapace of the snapping turtle with a healing solution mixed with disinfectant, and carefully pried off some parasites on it with a knife.

The snapping turtle felt very uncomfortable and would turn around and try to bite him after two bites.

The man smiled and used his gloves to turn away its head and said, "It's going to be ready soon. Eat your food quickly."

Why do you say this? The dragon snapping turtle didn't understand what he was talking about.

 just watched him, watching him walk all the way to the side and start feeding the birds.

The firebird, which had been looking for its companion for a long time, saw him coming and was the first to rush up to eat the food he had scattered.

After eating, the firebird gently flapped his calf with its wings and pecked his arm with its red beak.

These gestures are a sign of intimacy among firebirds and are usually only seen between companions.

The not-so-intelligent firebird took the man as its companion.

"Hey, I feed you so much delicious food every day, and you still peck me." The man said.

Apparently, he didn't understand what the firebird meant and took its action as a provocation.

Men like the colorful tails of colorful feathered birds and will always touch them while feeding them. Today's colorful bird was not used to his touch and fluttered its colorful wings.

So the man praised it: "The tail is so beautiful. You are so good. You didn't peck me, and you even opened your tail to show me."

No, the colorful feathered bird shaking its colorful tail at him was a demonstration and a precursor to the attack.

 concluded that this man was no smarter than the firebird who mistook his companion.

"Hey, is there another one?"

There was also an anole missing.

Miles carried the food bucket and walked around the breeding area twice, but could not see the anole.

This anole is the only intermediate experimental subject in this batch of experimental subjects.

Because the anole lizard is small in size, adapts well to various living environments, and has no hunting relationship with several birds, Miles did not arrange a separate residence for it, but directly put it into the bird dormitory. .

But its presence is too weak, it never barks, it can change color, and is perfectly invisible. Miles often cannot find which corner it is hiding in.

Unable to find it, Miles had to open the food bucket and put it in the corner, waiting for the anole to find it when it got hungry.

 is the last one as usual, because he is more troublesome and requires Miles to put on special protective clothing to contact him.

 was now able to take the initiative to take the plasma bag in his hand, but Miles suddenly raised his hand and did not let him get the food.

His movements seemed to be teasing other animals.  ignored him and did not get angry and attack like other animals. He only stared at him nervously.

Miles laughed twice and started to unscrew the plasma bag and showed it to him: "I want to tell you that you can unscrew the cap and drink."

His hands wouldn't bleed with plasma every time he drank, and he would have to lick it off.

"Look, there's a straw here. It's all about sucking anyway, so you know how to use a straw, right?"

The mouth of a straw was held to his mouth by a gloved hand.

 stared at Miles, opened his mouth slightly, and bit down.

The straw was bitten through and lodged in one of his side fangs.

Miles: "Hahahahahaha."

Miles was so unscrupulous. After laughing, he realized that the disgust value on 's head had increased by 10 and was now 30.

Tsk, he must be angry because he found himself being laughed at.

"Ahem, don't bite it with your teeth, roll it with your tongue and suck it, okay?"

...

"Okay, drink it yourself, I won't laugh."

Miles was still smiling, his smile looking blurry behind the mask.

He quickly left 's breeding area and entered the office again.

 held the plasma bag, ignored the straw, bit the bag directly as usual, and finally slowly licked the plasma that flowed to his hand.

He only drank this bagged plasma after he came here.

In the past, the food given to him in the laboratory was experimentally bred blood rabbits. He had to directly pierce the fur and blood vessels of the blood rabbits with his teeth to ingest food.

Researchers would point at him outside the thick isolation layer and say: "Look at him eating, he is indeed an animal. He looks so cruel."

But their words are often repeated, and there are many moments when they will say: "They are so human-like, and they can understand what we say, and they are no different from humans."

"It would be better if it didn't have those wings, it would be more human-like."

After finishing the food,  suddenly raised his eyes and looked towards the corner.

There is an anole slowly revealing its gray-brown color.

It was the anole that was supposed to live on the other side, the one that Miles had been looking for for a long time but couldn't find.

Perhaps because it was so able to assimilate into the environment, it followed Miles quietly and infiltrated into 's territory.

I don’t know when I came in or how long I stayed here.

It moved slowly, raised its short forelimbs, and moved towards . It's a little funny to take a step and pause.

Seeing this living creature with ever-changing colors approaching, he whispered: "Don't come close."

He will be infected with the virus.

But the anole didn't understand, and it kept walking this way firmly.

 stood up and took the initiative to stay away from the unfortunate anole.

In the past, researchers put living blood rabbits into his isolation room. Even if he did not eat those blood rabbits, they would soon be infected with the virus and die.

This anole will soon die here too.

 gave up his position, and the anole climbed under the winter bell tree where he usually stayed, stretched out his long tongue and wrapped around the flowers to eat.

 looked at Miles's office.

He usually stays there, but not today.

Miles went to learn from the protagonist Su He.

He was going to learn how Su He could defraud funds without harming the experimental subjects.

Su He still didn't welcome him very much, but compared to the mutated silver wolf that jumped out to chase him when he smelled him, Su He's attitude was already very good.

After learning from the experience, it caused a lot of excitement in the Suhe Experimental Area. After the main pet battle, Yu dusted off his white uniform coat in disgust, and Shi Shiran returned to his own experimental area.

Just after I came back, there was a sound of knocking on the glass from the breeding area.

Miles looked over and saw that it was  who had always ignored him and liked to sit under the tree and be autistic.

He left the tree where he usually stayed and stayed far away.

Miles walked over and showed a questioning expression.

Why is there "anxiety" in the emotion column above the head? There was no trace of anxiety on his expressionless face.

 After attracting the "keeper", he raised his hand and pointed at the anole on the winter bell tree.

Miles looked at his movements in confusion: "What? Tree? What's wrong with the tree? You don't like that tree?"

He clearly saw the ear feathers on both sides of 's head move.

"It's there."  said.

"Who's there?" Miles didn't understand.

The anole's camouflage ability was so good that Miles didn't notice it.

 didn't know the name chameleon, so he had to say to Yan: "Come in."

Chapter 8 Yunuan 08

Wearing protective clothing, Miles walked into 's breeding area, and  took the initiative to approach him for the first time.

"It's there."  repeated again, pointing to the winter bell tree.

I'm tired of the naked eye's 1.5 vision, and I can't see clearly the perfectly camouflaged and motionless anole.

Seeing that he was still taking his time, without any sign of stepping forward to check,  suddenly reached out and grabbed Miles's wrist.

But as soon as he grabbed it, he immediately let go. The unaccustomed body temperature was still transmitted through the thin gloves. He grabbed his clothes instead and pulled him towards the winter bell tree.

Miles felt as if his wrist had been frozen by an ice cube, and there was a strong pulling sensation. He was forced to speed up and follow  to the winter bell tree. He grabbed his arm and pressed his palm against the rough trunk.

The next moment, the tree trunk, which looked like nothing out of the ordinary, suddenly came to life!

The held down anole turned over, revealing the unchanged color of its abdomen.

Miles's brows jumped and he understood the abnormality of .

It turned out that there was an intruder at home and his place was taken over. No wonder he stood pitifully by the glass waiting to complain to him.

"You guy, why did you sneak here? No wonder I didn't see you when I put the food."

Miles grabbed the anole by its tail, held down its head, and controlled it to prevent it from running away again.

"Okay, I caught it and returned your territory to you." Miles said to .

 had already let go of his arm and took two steps back. Hearing this, he looked disgusted and opened his bright red lips.

"It will die and catch the virus."

Miles instantly understood what he meant and felt surprised.

 is he worried that this anole will die if infected with his virus? It turned out that this was the reason why he was "anxious".

It is hard to imagine that  would be worried about an anole, infecting countless humans and mutants in the world, and almost causing the extinction of life.

After feeding so many times with his own hands, Miles had a bit of a breeder's mentality, and raised his hand to quickly touch 's head.

"What a good boy."

Before the disgust value on 's head jumped, Miles carried the chameleon out with one hand.

"Don't worry, I'll go check it out."

Anoles are still different from humans, and the  virus is more susceptible to infection by humans.

The anole that was placed in the isolation box for testing was lying there, with only its eyes still moving. In the few seconds that Miles looked at the data, most of the anole in the box had assimilated into the silver-white box.

"Hey, stop for now, don't change." Miles knocked on the box.

The color change of the intermediate mutant anole will not only change the visual effect, but even affect machine detection.

Miles reached in and turned the anole over, turning its belly upward to slow down its color change and test it again.

Judging from the slow movement of this guy, Miles knew that the situation might not be good.

After the test report came out, sure enough, it was infected with the virus on .

The good news is that  was only infected with two of the twenty-some viruses he carried.

Moreover, the ability of intermediate mutants to resist viruses is stronger than that of humans, so there is still hope.

Miles's brain inherited knowledge from his original body, and there was relatively little about viruses. He leaned against the box and pondered, and he needed to find a foreign aid.

Of course there is only one foreign aid candidate, Su He.

She is the protagonist destined to save the world. In the original plot, she was the genius who developed genetic medicine and saved mankind from extinction.

She has been able to develop a medicine to resist the  mutated virus, so this should be no problem now.

This also helps her accumulate experience in advance.

Miles carried the anole isolation box and walked into Suhe's experimental area with ease.

"Senior sister, I'm here to help you."

Su He, who was busy with his own experiments, looked up blankly, unaware that an overtime hell was waiting for her ahead.

When Miles explained his purpose, Su He stared at him and repeated the question as if he didn't hear clearly: "You mean, you want to start a new project with me to do research on virus agents?"

Miles, who was still supplementing his knowledge about viruses and could only serve as a helper, said boldly: "Yes."

"Actually, it's because of this anole." Miles put the isolation box in front of Su He, "It sneaked into the isolation area of  and was infected with two viruses. I want to study antibodies and save it."

Su He is a soft-hearted person and loves animals very much.

Although she didn't believe that "Senior Kang" had such good intentions and would launch a project specifically to save an intermediate experimental subject, she still agreed.

"So what two viruses is it infected with?" Su He asked.

Miles knew that she had agreed, so he assumed that Su He was moved by his sincerity.

"It's the α-series z87 virus and B04 virus."

In the end, their virus antibody research team was placed in the experimental area of Miles, because there were too many experimental subjects in Suhe, and it was already saturated, and there was no space to open up as a research laboratory for new projects.

Miles looked at the large breeding area occupied by the mutated silver wolf, wisely did not express any objection, and nodded in agreement to divide his office area.

Because the new research team was completed, Xiao Gao and the three of them could come over to help. Miles's experimental area was finally no longer in a state of "closure for rectification", with people coming and going all day long.

The chameleon who was the culprit of all this was lying in a transparent isolation box with several medicine bottles stuck on his body.

The alpha series of viruses will reduce its body functions and make it lose its ability to move. The originally slow guy can no longer move.

After changing the medicine bottle for the chameleon, Miles saw  standing in front of the glass and staring at this side.

He's been like this a lot these past two days.

Miles walked over and saw that his mood above his head was calm, not worried or anxious, but he also showed that he cared about the anole.

"Dong dong." Miles knocked on the glass and asked him curiously, "Are you worried about that anole?"

, who had been looking at the anole's isolation box, replied, "Don't worry. It will die."

The tone was too cold, but Miles felt that this weird guy seemed a little sad, so he knocked on the glass with his knuckles, letting his eyes move to her, and repeated: "I won't die."

After being serious for two seconds, Miles pinched the back of his neck and raised his head and sighed: "Even if you really die, it's not your problem, you know?"

"I did not notice that it ran into other breeding areas, causing it to contract the virus. It is my responsibility."

"So don't stand here, go back and sit under the tree."

Standing here all the time, Xiao Gao and the others had to stop and watch for a while as they came and went. Su He was also very concerned about this, which affected the progress of the experiment.

If you want to develop antibodies, you have to extract the virus from . Miles wears protective clothing and walks into the breeding area. The first time he doesn't deliver food, he takes blood from .

 sat under the tree again. Miles walked over and squatted in front of him, stretching out his hands.

"Guess what I have in my hand?"

 thought he was really strange. He had just watched him come in with a blood needle outside. They all knew that he would not forget it in such a short period of time.

 was unwilling to cooperate, so he stretched out his left hand and spread it out. It was a piece of sweet dried fruit.

"Here, eat a piece of dried fruit soaked in honey. We need to get some blood."

Miles stayed up late last night to read the information and discovered that  also has rare northern bird genes. This bird loves all kinds of fruits and nectar.

Miles grabbed some of the snacks provided by Xiao Gaoshang to see if  would like a change of taste.

"I won't resist, draw blood." So no need to trap with food.

While  was talking, Miles took the opportunity to stuff the dried fruit into his mouth. Then she took his hand and started taking blood.

Miles was very skilled at doing this, a skill he had practiced giving injections to children when he was still in the hospital.

, who had never tasted honey, was shocked by the sweetness spreading in his mouth. He bit the dried fruit and sucked it, then slowly turned his head to the side.

Miles took out the needle and felt that  was surprisingly quiet and cooperative. When he looked up, he was tasting the piece of dried fruit seriously, so seriously that he didn't care about anything around him.

"So good." Miles rubbed his head with his hands and left quickly with the blood sample.

With 's blood sample, Su He's day-and-night research, and Miles's gradual help, the chameleon fortunately began to recover.

Once it started moving, the isolation box was too small for it. After Miles measured its infection value again, he placed it in the breeding area, right next to .

"Okay, it's slowly recovering now, and it's up to you to keep an eye on it."

Miles joked with .

 took this joke seriously and really watched it every day.

When Miles passes by here, as long as he sees  staring at a certain place, he will know where the chameleon is hiding.

The anole's camouflage ability is so strong that after it is placed in a narrow isolation box, it is difficult to catch it without moving, let alone a larger space.

Miles had to give it injections and feeds every day but couldn't find it. Every time at this time, Miles would knock on 's glass and ask him: ", where is the anole?"

's eyesight is more than ten times that of ordinary humans. With a glance, he can point out the hiding place of the anole.

On the day when the anole completely regained its vitality, Miles specifically mentioned this little guy with a long tail and showed it to .

"Look, it's healed. I told you it won't die."

 stared at the anole for a while, and the disgust value above his head, which had not changed for a long time, changed from 30 to 29.

Miles carried the heavy anole, which entertained him for a while.

You kid, if you add 10 points for disgust, 10 points go up, and if you subtract 1 point for disgust, 1 point subtracts, right?