"What?"
When Fangzheng heard the news from Ling, he was also shocked.
"You said those people melted? Completely melted? "
"Yes, they turned into a pool of … I don't know what it is. Only the bones were left here. Then, the liquid seemed to have self-consciousness and ran into the sewer … Big Brother, what should we do …"
Ling's voice trembled a little. Although he had seen some things with Fangzheng, he had never seen such a terrible situation.
"Are you guys okay?"
"We're fine. We're all fine. Nothing affected us."
"That's good. You guys go back to the apartment first. I'll investigate what's going on."
"Okay … But Big Brother, you didn't deliberately send us to another world to torment us, right?"
"Are you kidding me? Am I that kind of person? I don't know what's going on, but don't worry, I'll deal with it. "
With that said, Fangzheng hung up and snorted coldly.
Damn it, what the hell is going on in this world? Even my little girl doesn't believe me!
"It seems that guy ran to the street."
Fangzheng looked at AYA, who was investigating not far away.
"I just received a report. Someone said that they heard singing in the nearby square. Then, all the people there melted."
"Melted?"
AYA's reaction was as confused as Fangzheng's. If it were before, she definitely wouldn't believe this kind of nonsense. But after witnessing the entire theater burning in front of her, AYA obviously had an idea of how they melted.
"What are you going to do?"
"It's now beyond the scope of my personal investigation."
Originally, AYA planned to continue searching here and investigate the hiding place and personal information of the criminal. But now, it seemed that the other party didn't stop at all after committing such atrocities in the theater. Instead, they ran directly to the street and continued to cause trouble. In this case, it was obvious that she had to change her strategy.
"I'll call the police first."
After saying that, AYA entered the backstage room. After a while, she walked out with an ugly expression on her face.
"What happened?"
"Right now, the entire New York is in chaos. The director said that most of the police have been sent out to maintain order. He asked me to continue the investigation and must find the true identity of the mastermind …"
This was normal. After all, if it was just a tracking search, other police officers could do it. But at present, AYA was the only police officer who had personally experienced the incident. Instead of sending her to find the murderer who was nowhere to be found, it was better to let her investigate the scene and find as many clues as possible.
"So what did you find?"
"So far, that's all."
As she spoke, AYA handed a diary to Fangzheng.
"This is?"
"This is the diary of a woman named Melissa. I suspect that she might be that Eve."
Fangzheng quickly flipped through the diary and quickly learned about this woman called Melissa. According to Melissa, she wanted to be the heroine of this performance, but a woman named Susan competed with her for the heroine position. Although Melissa worked very hard, because she was weak and sickly, and her strength was not as good as Susan's, she felt that it was impossible for her to be the heroine.
But even so, she had been taking medicine to cheer herself up.
However, on the eve of the heroine selection, Susan's house suddenly caught fire, and she was burned. Naturally, there was no way for her to play the heroine. So Melissa automatically became the heroine, and in order to seize this opportunity, she also worked very hard to train. But her body was getting worse, so Melissa even wrote in her diary that "it doesn't matter even if I die after the performance" …
No matter how he looked at it, the woman who called herself Eve should be her. But what was puzzling was that Melissa didn't show any signs of abnormality in her diary. She didn't write anything about "nucleus" or "mitochondria" or anything like that. If one looked at it purely from the diary, then one could only see a weak woman working hard to become the heroine … that was it.
"What do you think?"
Just as Fangzheng was flipping through the diary, AYA suddenly asked him.
"What?"
"I mean what that Eve said, what the rule of the nucleus is over, and the era of mitochondria has begun … Do you know what that means?"
For a police officer like AYA, this kind of terminology was almost the same as a heavenly book. But fortunately, Fangzheng didn't live in vain these past few years.
"There will be mitochondria in the cell, and the nucleus is the most important part of the cell. But if you want to talk about it … the nucleus and mitochondria are indeed a little different."
"Eh? What do you mean? "
"You see, humans are made up of cells, and the nucleus is the core of the cell. Then let me ask you a question."
Fangzheng closed the diary and looked at AYA.
"Do you think the nucleus controls all the characteristics of the cell?"
"This … should be, after all, the nucleus …"
Facing Fangzheng's question, AYA thought for a moment, and then gave an answer doubtfully. However, Fangzheng shook his head.
"Unfortunately … wrong, the nucleus does not control all the shape of the cell, because there are a small part of the shape is controlled by the mitochondrial genes, which belongs to the cytoplasmic inheritance. People call the mitochondria a semi-autonomous organelle, do you understand what this means? "
"…???"
"In short, if the nucleus is the emperor, then the mitochondria is the minister. It has a certain degree of autonomy, but it can't be separated from the cell itself."
"If that's the case …"
After listening to Fangzheng's explanation, AYA frowned.
"Then what Eve said is that the minister wants to rebel against the emperor? Seize the ruling power? "
"Ugh … there is a prerequisite, and that is, the mitochondria must have self-consciousness …"
Fangzheng felt that this was too ridiculous. The mitochondria was a small substance in the cell, how could it have self-consciousness? It was like having its own thoughts with your heart, liver, spleen, stomach, and kidneys. But even if this was the case, why would it spontaneously combust? Whether it was the nucleus or the mitochondria, they would definitely die after being burned. This was not even considered killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred of them. It was completely a case of mutual destruction.
Besides, if the mitochondria had self-consciousness, why didn't the nucleus?
Of course, if AYA's hypothesis was correct, then Fangzheng could understand why the human body spontaneously combust before, and why the animals mutated. Because this was not affected by external interference, but by the changes in the cells inside the body. In this case, Fangzheng certainly couldn't feel it.
But this was the reason, but Fangzheng still didn't understand. What the hell is a mitochondrial rebellion?!
Why would the mitochondria in the cell rebel!
Then according to this statement, would there be a chloroplast rebellion, a Golgi rebellion, a centrosome rebellion, a ribosome rebellion, and a lysosome rebellion?
Isn't this the end?
But it seemed that in a certain world, Fangzheng did see a scientific research group in a periodical magazine that proved that the mitochondria were actually not involved in the cell's activities … Forget it, who knows what's going on in this world.
Thinking of this, Fangzheng mostly understood why the little girls he brought were fine. If the reason was as AYA said, that there was a problem with the mitochondria itself, then these mitochondria could only affect the people of this world. He and the little girls were not people of this world. The cell composition in the body was completely different from the people of this world, so naturally, they would not be affected.
Of course, the premise was that AYA's hypothesis was correct, but even so, Fangzheng still felt that it was too ridiculous for the mitochondria to have self-consciousness and rebellion … If this was true, then the mitochondria could easily control humans and animals. Was there a need to make it so exaggerated? This was not like the invasion of a foreign virus like the T-virus. If the cells in the body changed their nature, there shouldn't be any problems. Why did they do this? Or was there another reason behind it?
Anyway, in Fangzheng's opinion, this was simply puzzling. It was more reasonable to say that there was a mysterious organization called the Nucleus that secretly ruled the world, and then an organization called the mitochondria came out to try to seize control.
"Is it that strange? Mr. Fangzheng? "
Seeing the strange look on Fangzheng's face, AYA asked in puzzlement.
"Of course it's strange. What if I told you that suddenly one day, your hair felt that 'this woman is too annoying to cut our hair every day, so we might as well rebel against her and become the owner of this body', what would you think?"
"Ugh …"
Hearing until here, AYA's expression became a little stiff, and at the same time, she subconsciously touched the ends of her hair.
"In short, let's investigate this woman called Melissa first."
Fangzheng shook his head.
"From the diary, she often takes drugs. Perhaps these drugs are also related to her changes. It's best to start searching from here and find clues as soon as possible."
It was a special period now, so he couldn't care so much.
"Okay, I'll do it immediately … Aren't you going?"
"I'll be in charge of finding that woman and do my best to stop her from destroying the entire city."
It was a heavy crime to be suspected by his own little girl. Fangzheng didn't care whether she was a mitochondria or a chloroplast. He would just grab her and grind her into molecules to kill her completely!
How dare you find trouble for me, I'll kill you!
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