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Chapter 180 Even in a parallel world, Xue's Law still saves the world in his own way.

He instantly realized something was wrong and immediately began to forcibly seal the memories that kept flooding into his mind with magic.

In an instant, his mind became incredibly clear. Xue Lude picked up his student ID and then looked at his surroundings and the information he could gather.

He is currently in a small laboratory filled with countless frozen dishes and numerous real tissue or bacterial colony samples.

In particular, the large number of manuscripts and documents on the desktop made Xue's Law realize a fact.

"Did I replace myself in a parallel universe?" Xue's Law immediately drew this conclusion.

No, it shouldn't be called a replacement. Rather, after he transmigrated to this world, the character of "Doctor Xue Law" from the parallel world naturally merged into his original body. Therefore, he is still his true self now, only with an additional parallel world experience that feels like watching a movie.

The memories of growing up with his aunt and relying on each other, as well as the vast amount of knowledge he gained about medicine and other fields after university, also occupied a significant part of his mind, and he understood why he felt unwell.

Although it was a parallel world version of himself merging into the real him, the parallel world version of himself was a "scholar," a genius who obtained his doctorate at the age of 21. The countless medical and biological research knowledge in his mind was a crushing blow to Xue Lude, who had just become a stupid college student.

In short, the individual in the parallel world actively merged into the real Xue's Law, but because he had too much knowledge in his head, Xue's Law was equivalent to having completed a course from university to doctoral level in an instant. Now he has to seal this knowledge, otherwise he will have a strange feeling that "his brain is being strengthened by knowledge".

He finally breathed a sigh of relief, looking at his memories in the parallel world, and felt a strange sense of seeing things through a fog.

Although it's all "the same self," there's always the realization that "I can live such a wonderful life even without any special abilities."

He followed the path of "Welcome to the Academy of Meritocracy." In his parallel world, almost all his memories were of studying and taking exams. He practically became the king of exams, getting into USTC at the age of 16. After three and a half years at USTC, he secured a graduate spot and was recommended to the partner Boston University.

He successfully graduated from Boston University in just two and a half years and is now a dual PhD in Clinical Medicine and Disaster Medicine from Boston University.

Now, wherever I go, everyone calls me "doctor".

As expected, he will complete his dual doctoral studies in three years and successfully return to USTC to teach, which was also the content of the agreement signed when he was recommended for postgraduate studies.

As for Xue's original plan, he also intended to use Austin's connections to lure out his parallel world self, then give him a good beating so that he wouldn't dare to study the occult.

However, things have changed. His parallel world self has been completely unified, and thus he has successfully regained his original identity in this world as well.

Xue Dinglu closed his eyes and slowly released his seal. It was now 2027, and the next US presidential election was in full swing. On television, candidates Vance and Harris were having a passionate debate, both preparing to win votes in the election a year later.

Wait a minute, why does this scene feel so familiar?

How come three years later, Vance and Harris are still arguing on TV?
Given the recent extreme weather events in many states, such as the flooding in New York and the extreme cold in Illinois that killed thousands, the incident a year ago in which numerous Freedom Militia missiles bombarded Boston seems insignificant.

The tragedy resulted in the deaths of several hundred people in the town of Salem, including dozens of "professors" from around the world who had come to the town for academic research. The official explanation given was that Vice Secretary Ma's Starlink rocket accidentally crashed into the town of Salem, causing the tragedy.

It seemed as if nothing had happened, the world remained peaceful, and America's mainstream media were still reporting on the upcoming election.

It seems as if the ancient plant Zigera and the overwhelming spores that appeared in the town of Salem a year ago were fake, as if none of it ever happened.

This made Xue's Law, who originally thought the whole world had fallen, start to think.

At that moment, Xue's law saw his own research, and his pupils constricted.

"An investigation revealed that during basic clinical examinations of over 100 randomly distributed individuals in Boston, more than 99.8% of them had an unknown prokaryotic archaea in their bodies."

This archaea structure resembles organisms from over three billion years ago, possessing characteristics of plants, fungi, and animals. It can combine with the human body, take root in human cells, and assimilate with them. It is tentatively named 'wild fungus'.

No harmful effects of this archaea on humans have been found yet. However, when this unknown parasitic archaea is extracted and cultured separately, it exhibits lignified growth characteristics and seems to have a collective consciousness, automatically tending to merge into other culture dishes.

We must be extremely vigilant against the invasion of this archaea, as it could have unimaginable consequences.

This was an article published by his parallel universe self, but it didn't attract much attention. He was even warned by the FBI to stop this kind of research, otherwise it wouldn't be a warning, but surveillance and an investigation. Xue Lude frowned; he suddenly had a bad feeling.

I once played a game called Plague Inc., where I controlled a virus with the goal of killing all of humanity.

The most difficult and reliable way to beat the game is to maximize the spread speed without maximizing any symptoms or pathogenicity. First, infect the vast majority of people in the world, and then, once everyone in the world is infected, instantly maximize pathogenicity and lethality to wipe out the entire world.

Now, looking at the research in his hand, he suddenly felt that the strategy of the arid fungus was extremely similar to his own when he played Plague Inc. It was as if they had a unified consciousness. The characteristic that allowed them to grow lignified structures on animals and humans had also degenerated and completely gone dormant.

Xue Lude thought of the mystic who ultimately killed Austin. Was he secretly manipulating the waste fungus?
However, his parallel-world counterpart seemed to ignore the FBI's warnings. He continued to secretly study the Wild Bacteria, even conducting countless animal and reverse experiments on top of the original work. The freezer behind him was filled with culture dishes of Wild Bacteria.

He's researching a drug to inhibit fungi!

Xue Dinglu immediately began searching for traces in his memory. He understood that his parallel world self had been preparing for the worst. As a half-baked expert with one foot in the field of mysticism, he knew some of the inside stories of Salem town and had extracted a sample of Zijra's organization from there immediately after the disaster.

That is, the original strains in his laboratory now. At the same time, he compared these strains with the strains on the people who came for physical examinations. When he found that they were exactly the same, Xue's Law of the parallel world immediately began to use tens of thousands of exhaustive methods to study the special drug.

He tried everything from antibiotics to alcohol to countless other chemical or biological methods, but he couldn't find an effective way to kill the bacteria. He even used a laboratory heating device to heat the bacteria up to 1400°C, but it still didn't kill them effectively.

Meanwhile, his articles warning about this archaea published in major mainstream media outlets all went unanswered.

But perseverance pays off, and he finally made some progress in his research.

T-166 bacteriophage, an ancient virus accidentally extracted from itself, is the only microorganism in all his research that was able to survive the invasion of wild bacteria and even launch a counterattack.

This microorganism is not aggressive towards the human body at all, but it can unleash unimaginable fighting power when facing wild bacteria, and even parasitize wild bacteria in reverse.

Xue immediately took out a petri dish and began to reverse-engineer the bacteriophage and the waste bacteria through the cursed blood. He immediately felt a sense of incongruity.

Because the RNA of this T-166 bacteriophage showed traces of being modified by the cursed blood.

Although it had mutated many times, even to the point of being unrecognizable, the traces of the cursed blood were too obvious, causing Xue Dinglu to close his eyes as he considered a possibility.

“3200 years ago, I used cursed blood to unleash a plague against the gods on Mount Olympus in ancient Greece…”

"But even if there is a host for this bacteriophage, it should be a descendant of the Greeks, so why is it appearing on myself..."

However, looking at the thousands of separately packaged bacterial samples and a small number of bacteriophage samples in the petri dishes behind him, as well as the densely packed manuscripts in his hands, Xue Dinglu suddenly smiled.

Even though he was in a parallel world, he still tried to save the world in his own way. Although he had only just made a small breakthrough, Xue Lude saw that he had tried at least thousands of solutions, trying to find an inhibitor through exhaustive methods like a blind cat stumbling upon a dead mouse, but he never thought of giving up.

Xue Law's lips curled up. Perhaps he was somewhat dissatisfied with his parallel world self entering the field of mysticism, but now it seemed that this "Xue Law" and his essence remained unchanged, only the method was different.

"Use bacteriophages as an antidote to fight the germs? But bacteriophages work too slowly..." Xue said. Now he couldn't be sure when the disaster would break out. Perhaps his parallel world self would fight with all his might, only to end up with an extremely painful future.

"Click..."

The laboratory door was opened with a key. Xue Dinglu was stunned for a moment. In his memory, this was his private laboratory, and no one except him and the administrator had a key.

However, it wasn't the administrator who came in, but a girl with brown hair and glasses wearing a white coat. As soon as she entered, she skillfully took off her coat, revealing her beautiful figure, and then expertly put her coat in the cabinet.

Xue Law: “?”

"Ah Xue, what's wrong?" The girl seemed to have noticed Xue Luding's emotional change and asked with a puzzled look.

At that moment, Xue Dinglu suddenly felt a headache coming on. He realized something: the person in front of him was his wife from a parallel world, and his parallel world self was a married person!

(End of this chapter)