The Collection Room director took the pathogen samples.

Shen Qiang just felt his heart beating fiercely.

A-type influenza had a high pathogenicity to humans and had caused several global pandemics. Among the three types of influenza viruses—A, B, and C—the A-type influenza virus was most prone to mutation. Usually, once there was a flu pandemic, it was caused by a new subtype of the A-type influenza virus or the re-emergence of an old subtype.

After obtaining the A-type influenza virus, it would only take seventy-two hours for it to evolve under the control of Plague Source. By then, whether Shen Qiang used it to infect enemies or use antibodies to treat and save people, it would be as simple as eating and drinking!

Not only that, Shen Qiang was even more pleasantly surprised by Pneumococcus.

Generally speaking, among pyogenic cocci, the pathogenicity of Pneumococcus was second only to Golden Staphylococcus.

With these two pathogens, if he ever got into a conflict with someone, the combination of influenza and pneumonia could quickly be fatal.

Excitedly watching the Collection Room director hand over samples of the two pathogens to him, Shen Qiang was ecstatic. He politely thanked the director and offered to treat him to a meal, but the Collection Room director declined.

In his words, it was just a small favor.

After all, these strains were collected from the air for bacterial culture for monitoring purposes, so even after culture, the number of colonies and their concentration were very low. Under normal circumstances, even if it was opened directly, it wouldn't infect anyone.

Director Chen's phone rang just as he received the pathogen strains.

As soon as the call connected, Shen Qiang could hear the frantic voice of Director Su.

"Where are you? Get back to your office, and if you leave your post again, I'm docking your bonus!"

After hanging up the phone, Director Chen felt awkward: "Shen Qiang, I have to go back on duty. What about you, are you going to work or going home?"

Shen Qiang laughed heartily, "You go do your thing, of course, I'm going home. After all, my contract expires in two days, and there's no salary to be had. Director Wang has fallen from grace anyway, so it's not interesting to continue working here. I'm off."

He made another appointment with the Collection Room director to have a meal together some other time and got his contact information.

Shen Qiang drove home, overjoyed.

Once home, he rushed upstairs and, as usual, first checked on the cultivation of the golden cicada.

He found it still in the state of cultivation, with no changes.

"Perhaps, she should also have a chance to succeed in cultivation," Shen Qiang thought.

But watching from the side, he was unable to help.

Having returned upstairs, Shen Qiang decided to immediately give the A-type influenza virus and Pneumococcus to Plague Source.

But just thinking about having to let these two pathogens enter his body for the Plague Source to get them made Shen Qiang feel a bit disgusted.

Almost simultaneously, as if sensing Shen Qiang's thoughts,

the babbling Plague Source sent a message: "Daddy just needs to touch it with a finger."

Shen Qiang was astounded, "I can just touch it with a finger and you can eat it?"

"I couldn't before, but after practicing the Daluo Heavenly Tribulation Heart Sutra, I now can."

The response from Plague Source delighted Shen Qiang.

With the protection of the skin, using Plague Source would be much safer from now on.

After all, many pathogens are quite terrifying.

He first put his finger into the box containing the A-type influenza virus culture.

Shen Qiang felt a slight numbness at the tip of his finger.

Afterwards, Shen Qiang felt the excited emotions of Plague Source in his mind.

"Delicious, delicious!"

With a single thought, Shen Qiang entered the Sea of Consciousness and immediately saw the nine leaves of Plague Source trembling excitedly.

"Greetings, Master!" Qingxuan knelt on one knee before Shen Qiang.

"Rise, be at ease, no need for such formalities," Shen Qiang commanded, then focused intently on watching the leaf of Plague Source that had absorbed the A-type Influenza Virus.

In fact, the A-type Influenza Virus, based on different H and N antigens, is divided into many subtypes.

As far as known to date, H can be divided into 17 subtypes (H1 to H17), and N has 10 subtypes (N1 to N10).

Only H1N1, H2N2, and H3N2 principally infect humans.

The natural hosts of the many other subtypes are various birds and animals.

So strictly speaking, the so-called avian flu is just a variant of the A-type Influenza Virus.

Previously, Shen Qiang had been pondering and guessing that Plague Source's evolution with pathogens should be categorized according to the different infectious carriers. In that case, this type of flu virus would naturally be divided into human flu and avian flu.

But in just a moment, the most basic A-type Influenza Virus had evolved from H1N1 to H1N2, H1N3...

He stared fixedly at the A-type Influenza Virus inside the leaf, mutating wildly.

He was not sure how much time had passed.

When the A-type Influenza Viruses had evolved to H1N10 and then stalled for about two to three minutes, H2N1 appeared!

This made Shen Qiang's mind boom, and not only did his thoughts suddenly clear up, but his mood also instantly became exhilarated.

It seemed that indeed he had been overthinking before.

The A-type Influenza viruses that pose the greatest threat to birds are the H5, H7, and H9 subtype strains.

To date, the avian flu viruses that can directly infect humans are actually subtypes within the A-type Influenza Virus.

They mainly include: A-type H1N1, H5N1, H7N1, H7N2, H7N3, H7N7, H7N9, H9N2, and H10N8.

Among these, the H1, H5, and H7 subtypes are highly pathogenic.

The highest fatality rate is from H5N1.

Generally, avian influenza viruses do not infect animals other than birds and pigs.

But in 1997, Hong Kong reported for the first time 18 cases of H5N1 avian influenza infections in humans, with 6 deaths, a staggering one-third death rate that caught the attention of the entire world.

Since 1997, there have been several occurrences of avian influenza virus infections in humans around the world.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses such as H5N1, H7N7, H7N9, and H9N2, once they mutate, acquire the ability to spread from person to person, leading to outbreaks of human avian influenza.

And now, if the A-type Influenza Virus in Plague Source continues evolving in this sequence,

Then the avian flu virus with the highest mortality rate, H5N1, will quickly evolve.

That is to say, with the A-type Influenza Virus, there's simply no need to go out of one's way to create it.

This discovery made Shen Qiang feel relieved.

However, it looked like he needed to make another trip to Bikang, for there are only three types of flu viruses, A, B, and C, and now that he had both A and B, collecting type C would undoubtedly be the perfect choice.

Once the 72-hour evolution is complete,

By then, should an avian flu outbreak occur again, it would be utterly powerless in front of Shen Qiang, as weak as a toy, easily defeated.

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