BC Chapter 69

Chapter 68

Clearwater City can be considered one of those surrounding cities that lacks a strong presence. Its economic strength can’t compare to nearby Puyang City and Wuning City, and its permanent resident population and urban area are not as large as Linfeng City and Shengan City, not to mention the so-called “fighting power” of a city, such as per capita GDP. Clearwater City is inferior in almost every aspect.

However, even a city like Clearwater has its standout feature, which is the nationally renowned medical university in the province and country—Clearwater Medical University.

As a national key university with a long history and glorious traditions, as well as a key construction institution for medical sciences, Clearwater Medical University has established 13 undergraduate programs, including clinical medicine, preventive medicine, medical laboratory science, medical imaging, pathology diagnosis, nuclear medicine, biomedical engineering, medical laboratory technology, nursing, pharmacy, nutrition and food hygiene, biotechnology, and computer applications. Every year, it provides medical talents to all parts of the country, and many students are also sent abroad for further studies.

When the virus broke out, the entire school experienced a period of chaos, but nearly half of the teachers and students successfully sealed off the teaching buildings and dormitories and survived.

Yan Shaohang, as a graduate student majoring in biomedical engineering at Clearwater Medical University, had been very interested in studying biological viruses long before. From the perspective of the surrounding students, he seemed to be a bit obsessed with this. Precisely because of this, in his eyes, this sudden virus outbreak was not just a disaster, but also an opportunity, an excellent testing ground to realize his talents.

Being trapped in the teaching building was bad luck for others, but for him, it was a rare research opportunity. Because the laboratory was in the teaching building, he only needed to go to the first floor to attract the zombies outside to attack him and take the opportunity to collect virus samples, which he could then study in the laboratory.

The plan was, of course, crazy, and the difficulties came one after another. Fortunately, in the process, he found several like-minded classmates to help each other, and they successfully achieved virus isolation and subsequent experiments, and didn’t starve to death because of being completely immersed in the research.

It was also during this period that he slowly discovered the original form of this outbreak virus. It turned out to be a substance that could promote the efficiency of human metabolic circulation and accelerate the regeneration of human cells. Although there would be a side effect of increased appetite with this positive promotion, it could achieve a qualitative leap in human physical fitness without long-term training, which was obviously very rare.

As we all know, in modern scientific development, there is also a type of drug that can achieve similar effects, namely synthetic anabolic steroids. However, the harm of this drug is very great. We often see reports in sports events that athletes from certain countries are suspected of using such stimulants, and their results are cancelled. The situation is then determined through testing.

But reports generally do not mention the side effects of using stimulants. In fact, the damage of using stimulants to the human body is considerable. Under normal circumstances, male athletes are prone to reproductive problems after taking them, which ultimately affects fertility. Some men may even experience changes in personality and lesions in detoxification organs. If female athletes take such stimulants for a long time, it will also cause a series of female diseases, and even a series of male characteristics will appear, which are irreversible even after stopping the drug. Finally, for both male and female athletes, the most serious harm is that it can induce hypertension, coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, and cerebral hemorrhage, as well as major diseases such as liver cancer and kidney cancer.

But if the substance Yan Shaohang discovered could achieve positive feedback while only causing some increased appetite, which is not considered a side effect, then it would be amazing.

But all of these are still only based on small animal experiments. To determine the effect of this substance in the human body, human experiments must be carried out. But in the current situation, who would dare to stand up and risk their lives for such a dangerous experiment?

So Yan Shaohang, this madman, started experimenting on himself, and even told the other students who were doing research with him that once they found that he had lost vital signs, they should throw him out of the window to the ground outside the teaching building.

However, to everyone’s surprise, his first experiment was surprisingly successful. To test how much his physical fitness had increased, he tested it by climbing stairs, and the data showed that it had increased by about 1.5 times the original. However, after the experiment, he also devoured nearly two servings of food.

However, because of the change in physical fitness, he successfully ran out of the deserted first floor of the teaching building at night, escaped the pursuit of the zombies, and brought back a lot of food for others.

Seeing that Yan Shaohang’s experiment on himself was successful, the other students who helped Yan Shaohang with the experiment also injected the extracted substance into themselves. Except for two guys with weaker physical fitness who had fever symptoms, the rest were basically lively and kicking, and there was no sign of any fatal side effects.

Until later, on the same day that Lu Ziming and Zhou Yuanyuan discovered the mutated zombies, Yan Shaohang and the others also saw super-speed zombies in the campus that were at least twice as fast as ordinary zombies.