Outside the Countermeasure Research Institute's base lay an open-air plaza. At this moment, several men and women were walking around it, occasionally taking deep breaths.
"You have been outside for fifteen minutes now. How are you feeling?"
Zhang Minglu's voice came through the Headphones they wore.
"Report: I don't feel anything unusual yet."
"Dr. Zhang, I feel like my body has become much lighter."
"I feel especially calm. My heart is filled with gratitude, as though all my negative emotions have vanished."
The group gave their reports one after another.
They were all volunteers participating in this Rule experiment, including both Ascendants and ordinary people.
The experiment involved outdoor activity, attempting to inhale Alien Spore, then observing the resulting physical and psychological changes.
"Good. Continue your activities. I'll ask again in another fifteen minutes."
After speaking, Zhang Minglu recorded every volunteer's feelings along a timeline.
By documenting their condition every fifteen minutes and comparing the time intervals with the changes, they could obtain data for analysis.
The experiment continued for several hours. Afterward, all the volunteers were brought back into the base and placed in specially isolated rooms.
Zhang Minglu took a tablet to Gao Liangwei's office.
"Director, the preliminary experimental results are in."
"How is it?" Gao Liangwei asked.
"Very serious. Every volunteer was confirmed to have inhaled spores and showed signs of infection, including those wearing professional-grade protective equipment."
Gao Liangwei frowned at that.
During the Blood Plague Rules, even when the virus could spread through the air, not everyone exposed to it became infected, and protective equipment could block it out.
He had not expected Alien Spore to be even more transmissible, capable of piercing through protective measures. That undoubtedly meant nowhere was safe, and everyone could potentially inhale the spores.
"This is the post-experiment interview report.