American Evil God, starting with the American rebel leader raising poisonous insects.

Chapter 122 Croak! It's a real-life version of Resident Evil!

Philadelphia, 20 kilometers north of the city center, a private estate.

Lucao Kubrick stands in the data center on the second basement level.

He is 62 years old and a former hedge fund partner who once managed $47 billion in assets at its peak.

He didn't want to calculate how much was left.

The National Economic Security Emergency Act signed by Najib Razak after taking office cut off thirteen cross-border arbitrage channels that he had cultivated for many years.

The Ministry of Finance's "Guidelines on Transparency of Foreign Capital" directly froze his four main accounts in the Cayman Islands and the Virgin Islands.

The losses are tiered.

The first month saw a liquidity crunch.

In the third month, 30% of the positions were forced to be liquidated.

Investors withdrew their funds on a large scale in the sixth month.

He now owns the estate, some tangible assets that are not easily liquidated, and cash equivalent to about seven percent of his peak wealth, spread across twelve anonymous accounts.

He looked at the screen.

The screen is divided into two columns, left and right.

The left column shows a real-time monitoring screen of the Johns Hopkins University Microbiology Laboratory.

In the video, a researcher is placing a petri dish into a constant-temperature shaker.

The right column is the interactive interface of the Messier AI.

The interface displays a three-dimensional rotating bacterial structure model in the center.

The model has a label below it:

[Modified strain based on the Yersinia pestis genome]

[Renovation sites: 7]

[Two new plasmids added]

Antibiotic resistance: All known categories

[Aerosol transmission efficiency rating: A+]

Lucao has no medical background.

But he had played Plague Inc.

Now he looks at the structural model on the screen and feels it's similar.

But it's clearer.

More realistic.

The right side of the Messier AI interface has a parameter adjustment panel.

The panel has dozens of sliders:

Transmission routes (droplets/aerosols/water sources/contact)

Incubation period (1-30 days)

Symptom severity (level 1-10)

Mortality rate (0-100%)

Mutation speed (levels 1-10)

Environmental survival time (1-720 hours)

Each item also has sub-options.

For example, after clicking on "Morality Rate," you can select the cause of death:

Cytokine storm, sepsis, multiple organ failure, respiratory distress, cardiovascular collapse.

Yes, the Messier AI has brought gameplay that was originally only possible in the game into reality.

Lucao watched for three minutes.

Then he clicked on another tab and uploaded a file.

The file contains his whole genome sequencing data.

Upload complete.

He typed in the input box of the Messier AI: "Design a pathogen based on existing bacterial templates."

Claim:

It can be efficiently transmitted through air and water.

The incubation period is no less than 7 days, during which there are no symptoms and the infectivity remains at its peak.

The mortality rate is 100% within 72 hours of onset.

Built-in gene recognition mechanism:

It is only invalid for uploaded genome samples and their immediate blood relatives.

It applies to all other human individuals.

It possesses the potential to mutate and resist all known antibiotics for at least fifteen generations.

It can survive for more than 30 days in a normal temperature tap water environment.

He clicked send.

The reasoning progress bar appears and starts moving from 0%.

Luca turned around, walked to the liquor cabinet on the other side of the room, poured half a glass of whiskey, and didn't add ice.

He took a sip and looked at the screen on the wall.

The screen is playing a news channel.

The anchor is discussing the latest economic data:

Unemployment rate, inflation rate, manufacturing index.

The camera cuts to Washington, D.C.

Milk Dragon is speaking at a meeting.

"Stupid milk dragon!"

Lucao turned off the sound.

An hour later, the reasoning was complete.

New model generation.

The structure is more complex.

The bacteria still use Yersinia pestis as its backbone, but it has inserted a large number of gene fragments from other bacterial species:

The persistent infectivity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the toxin synthesis module of Bacillus anthracis, and the aquatic adaptability of Vibrio cholerae.

The gene recognition mechanism is achieved through a set of designed CRISPR-Cas systems.

The system scans the host cell’s HLA genotype, and if the match is below a set threshold, it initiates toxin gene expression.

The toxin is a newly designed protein fold that can simultaneously damage both the mitochondrial membrane and the nuclear membrane.

The cultivation protocol is attached below the model.

The plan is very detailed, listing all the necessary reagents, equipment, and operating procedures.

Lucao glanced at it.

He has most of the materials in his private laboratory.

He clicked "Confirm".

Then I dialed an internal number.

"The recipe has been received. Preparations are underway. I expect to see the first batch of finished products within five hours."

A brief response came from the other end of the phone: "Understood."

While waiting, Lucao checked the news again.

This time he changed the channel.

International news is reporting on the energy crisis in Europe, supply chain disruptions in Asia, and food riots in North Africa.

The scene shows people running, shop windows being smashed, and thick smoke rising from the street.

He turned off the TV.

Five hours and seven minutes later, news came from the laboratory.

The finished product is ready.

Two sealed test tubes, each containing 5 ml of colorless, transparent liquid.

The liquid contains lyophilized bacterial powder in a dormant state, which can be activated after reconstitution.

Lucao went to retrieve it himself.

He walked through a fifty-meter-long underground passage and entered a separate biosafety house on the side of the manor.

The room meets the P3 standard.

He put on protective clothing and entered the core area through the airlock.

Two test tubes were placed on the worktable, next to which was sterile saline solution for reconstitution.

He did not act immediately.

Instead, he went to the corner of the room and opened a metal cabinet.

The cabinet contains a complete set of personal disinfection equipment.

He spent twenty minutes cleaning himself, changing his clothes, and finally putting on a mask with a built-in miniature air filter.

Then return to the control panel.

The bacterial powder in the test tube is reconstituted and then aspirated into a specially designed high-pressure spray can.

He carried two items, left the safe house, and returned to the main building.

The time is 3:17 AM.

All servants in the manor have been dismissed in advance, and the security system has been shut down.

He went to the main bathroom on the first floor and opened the access panel under the sink.

Below is the manor's independent septic tank, and a branch pipe leads to the municipal sewage main network.

He inserted the nozzle of the spray can into the pipe.

Press the switch.

The canister emitted a slight hissing sound that lasted for twelve seconds.

Then he went to the main return air vent of the central air conditioning system and repeated the operation.

After completing these two tasks, he returned to the data center.

The manor's self-cleaning process has been activated.

All ventilation systems are shut down, ultraviolet disinfection lamps are turned on at full power, and the ozone generator is running.

He himself entered a private elevator.

The elevator panel has no floor numbers, only a downward arrow.

He pressed it.

The elevator began to descend.

It was very fast, but almost silent.

We passed through Philadelphia, where the ground was actually nearly 100 meters above the ground, but was layered on top of each other.

It kept descending, and soon it reached a depth of several hundred meters underground, and it took a long time to descend.

The door opened.

In front of me is a space of about two hundred square meters.

The ceiling is seven meters high, and the walls are made of gray-white composite armor plates with a smooth and seamless surface.

The air circulation system operates independently, and the filtration level meets military-grade biological and chemical protection standards.

The storage area was filled with vacuum-packed food, bottled water, medicine, and weapons and ammunition.

The entertainment area has books, audio-visual equipment, gaming equipment, and three computers connected to a satellite network.

The living area has a bed, a toilet, and a simple kitchen.

All equipment is designed for minimal energy consumption, with electricity provided by geothermal generators and photovoltaic arrays, and fuel reserves sufficient for thirty years.

Everything here is enough for him to live until he dies.

Lucao took off his coat and walked to the control panel.

Show the surveillance footage from the manor grounds.

Infrared camera footage showed no signs of life around the estate.

The flow sensor in the sewage pipes indicates that the discharge has entered the municipal sewer network.

The normal pressure reading of the ventilation system indicates that the spray has been dispersed with the airflow.

He turned off the surveillance camera.

He walked to the living area, took a bottle of water from the storage cabinet, unscrewed it, and took a sip.

Then he walked to the center of the room.

There was nothing there except a smooth floor.

He knelt down.

Hands clasped in front of the chest.