Xu Xingchen and more than 10,000 ship girls began a crystal recycling activity that seemed to be repairing the dead but was actually completely futile.

Two weeks later, the ship girls recovered tens of thousands of tons of crystals, but compared to all the fragments, it may still be a drop in the bucket.

At the same time, most of the crystal fragments gradually stopped growing, and these wreckage may have really died completely.

The things that Liaoning is worried about have not yet happened. The crystal spacecraft or some kind of creature seems to have been run away, or the other party is not ready yet.

When Xu Xingchen was hesitating whether to leave the solar system and return to his mother star to repair it, North Star sent unexpected bad news to Xu Xingchen.

"A strange skin disease broke out on the earth, and tiny purple-red crystals appeared on a large number of humans, and the number of infected people may exceed tens of millions..."

Xu Xingchen just looked at the beginning and jumped up:

"Crystal! Purple-red crystal! That crystal spacecraft!"

Polaris solemnly replied:

"Yes, we have verified that the ingredients are completely consistent, and the ones that grow on humans are significantly more active, and they seem to be new..."

Xu Xingchen asked in surprise:

"Isn't that fragment that landed on Earth destroyed by the defense system?"

North Star sighed softly:

“By the standards of dealing with meteorites and asteroids, we did destroy it.

"But by the standard of some strange seed, if we look back, we not only did not destroy it, but instead helped it to spread on a large scale...

"The infected people are now continuing to spread all over the world, with only the most remote polar and plateau areas yet to be heard."

Xu Xingchen sat back with a little pain:

"Can it be treated? Is it contagious?"

The North Star was not in a mood to talk, and continued to explain the situation very seriously:

"Treatment options are being tried to find, and the possibility of contagiousness is very high, and we are still observing..."

After a brief report from the North Star, the detailed situation description was sent directly to Xu Xingchen, and then he continued to study and deal with the earth's crystallization disease.

Xu Xingchen continued to stay in the polar regions of the solar system with an extremely heavy and frustrated mood and waited for news, but he waited for one more and more bad news one after another.

First, there are reports of animal infection, including a large number of wild animals, as well as domestic animals and pets in captivity, and infection reports have occurred one after another.

The infectivity was immediately confirmed, and its infectious ability was outrageously strong.

Not only can direct contact and droplets be directly transmitted, but the key is that all animals can participate in the transmission, and the effects of infection between animals and humans are basically the same.

The scale of infected people is getting bigger and bigger, showing a tendency to grow explosively.

There is no way to count the number in detail, so we can only roughly estimate it. One month after discovering it, the number of infected people may have exceeded 100 million.

There are more and more crystals on early infections, and a few serious ones have crystallized throughout the body. The body is completely unable to move and can only lie in bed for treatment.

The infected person's body is getting weaker and weaker, and the muscles and fluids of the body disappear rapidly, as if they are absorbed by the growth of crystals.

No deaths directly caused by crystallization are found at present, but the number of deaths caused by crystallization and complications is rapidly increasing.

At the same time, after the infected person dies, the crystallization will not disappear, and the crystal will continue to grow. It seems that the corpse can continue to serve as nutrients to supply the growth of crystal organisms.

The crystals are very contagious and may be infected if they are directly exposed to them. Remote areas have already driven away the infected person.

However, the attempts to treat them still ended in failure, but with the deepening of research on the crystal itself, the Ship Girl and the doctors on Earth finally discovered the pathogenic factors of crystal disease.

These are debris and special ions that appear to be almost biologically active and exist in the form of similar minerals.

They may exist in any tissue in human and animal bodies, including blood, skin, muscles, internal organs, bones, feces, etc.

Immediately afterwards, the ship girl and humans found the same infection symptoms in fish, insects, mollusks, plankton, and even parasites in humans and animals.

Xu Xingchen looked at the reports and wailed almost desperately:

"How is this possible! Can all creatures - be infected without differences!"

The Polaris, who came to report again, had become calmer and calmer in more than a month, and now he replied like a machine:

“Based on our analysis and speculation, this possibility cannot be ruled out at present, and the probability is rising rapidly…

"This crystallization pathogenic factor is likely not biological, at least not biological on earth, but similar to minerals.

"The organisms that reproduce spontaneously on the Earth all have very low-level similarities, at least they are carbon-based organisms, amino acids, proteins and other basic structures.

"It is indeed possible that there are pathogenic factors that can be effective for all carbon-based organisms."

Xu Xingchen could not express any opinions, so he could only ask with the mentality of taking a last look before dying:

"So, besides soaking the treatment compartment for everyone and creatures, is there a conventional way to treat this condition? Is there a way to clean up this thing on Earth?"

Polaris shook his head again:

"There is no conventional way to quickly and efficiently remove this ubiquitous mineral-like component from all infected people.

"As for thorough cleaning on the earth, it is no longer possible, the earth has been completely polluted.

"Before all living things are extinct, it is almost impossible for the earth's organisms to mutate themselves into their ability to adapt to crystallization components or resist crystallization components and the environment.

"According to our data model, all humans and animals on Earth will likely die within a year.

"The entire earth will become a world of crystals at that time."

Xu Xingchen closed his eyes in despair and muttered in a low voice:

"So, the source of this crystal creature, their civilized group, did not continue to fight back because we attacked their spacecraft or individuals. Maybe it was because that spacecraft was originally used to project seeds?

"Although the other party's spacecraft was destroyed by us, the seed projection has been successful. The creatures on the earth will gradually crystallize. There is really no need for them to come again?"

Polaris did not directly answer such meaningless questions, but directly expressed its opinions on the earth:

“If I want to restore the environment on Earth, I currently have two plans, overall migration and reshaping and historical reshaping.

"Use the repair cabin to completely clean up the crystal factors on Earth people, and then migrate to a planet where we have transformed our environment to live.

"Then come back and completely destroy and reshape the earth's biosphere, and then migrate humans back.

"Or try to enter the historical space-time of the solar system again, and when the crystal spacecraft enters the solar system, drive it out in advance to prevent the crystal from falling into the earth.

"This is equivalent to interfering in history, avoiding the earth being deeply polluted, and finally covering the existing polluted history through time and space synchronization.

"The first solution is operational for us, but it will inevitably not save the vast majority of people, or even a small number of people.

"After all, we only have 10,000 ship girls here, and we do not fully control the situation on earth. The number of repair cabins is relatively limited, which is not enough to supply billions of people.

"It is difficult for us to save all the people on Earth before they die on a large scale. It is difficult to ensure that the earth's environment is completely restored."

Xu Xingchen sighed softly, knowing that there is only a second solution that can be tried, so he directly ordered in a calm tone:

"Let everyone start preparing, wait for another month, if there is still no improvement and the civilization belonging to the crystal spacecraft has not arrived, we will enter historical time and space again.

"This time, bring more ship girls. In addition to the necessary left-behind ship girls, let as many ship girls follow me to the historical time and space of the solar system, and develop in them for decades.

"Research the structure of this crystal carefully, build more and stronger gravitational interference warships, build more defense equipment, and be fully prepared.

"But this kind of operation is not infinite. According to the interference range of the last eighty years, we still have three to five opportunities left. Let's accumulate experience and lessons."
Chapter completed!