Tang Li smiled upon hearing this and said, "Then there's even less to worry about."
"This morning, the research module was placed under complete lockdown. All research personnel eat, live, and sleep within the research module, with all necessary living supplies brought in. Living waste and research byproducts are sent out by robots. Everyone and everything only goes out, nothing comes in, until the children are born."
"The area where the artificial wombs are located is also protected by layers of defense. Under this heavy protection, the 137 children in the artificial wombs are arguably the safest people in the world!"
Hearing Tang Li's words, Zhao Xiaoqing found it both amusing and exasperating, but still felt it was better to be cautious.
She then told Tang Li and Tang Guo that they didn't need to call her Director Zhao anymore. Following Xue Keyue's example, they could just call her Aunt Zhao.
Tang Li agreed.
The next day, Tang Li met with Zhao Xiaoqing again, this time under the guise of "Li Laoban," the omnipotent merchant.
After that, came six months of peaceful life.
In the underground city, Tang Li had little to do. She normally trained with other members of the "United Combat Team" in the training ground of Simulation Module One.
Even though there seemed to be no danger now, exercising had become a habit for Tang Li.
Under the effect of the longevity serum, Zhong Heng's body had regained its youthful state, and his combat power had returned to its peak.
However, even so, he still couldn't defeat Tang Li.
Time passed quickly.
In the blink of an eye, half a year had gone by.
Over these six months, the great plague had continued to spread.
Even the underground city of Haicheng was unfortunately infiltrated by the virus.
Although there were not many casualties among humans, many of the animals raised in the breeding modules died, with many species directly becoming extinct. They would only be able to reintroduce them from other underground cities after the great plague had passed.
It was worth mentioning that the animals currently raised in the breeding modules were basically native to China.
Foreign introduced breeds, while fast-growing, would go extinct after a few generations. Therefore, the breeding modules could only raise native Chinese species.
And this epidemic, even the underground cities could not escape, so the highland shelters established on the surface were naturally the hardest hit areas.
Whether it was Haicheng and Jiangcheng, which were submerged by seawater, or Longcheng and Shancheng, which were not submerged, large numbers of infected people appeared in all of them.
Everyone had been infected with more than one epidemic.
For some epidemics with milder symptoms, they were directly ignored. They were treated like the common cold, with no medication, and people were expected to recover on their own.
Only epidemics with severe symptoms and high transmissibility would be quarantined and treated.
If they truly encountered a malignant epidemic that caused death within an hour of infection, there was no way to save them.
In her previous life, Tang Li had also survived in this manner.
The corpses of people who died from epidemics could not be fed to the rice worms.
Because if the rice worms ate them, they would also become pathogens and spread the virus.
Fortunately, no one would eat the bodies of people who died from epidemics. If they wanted to die, it was more straightforward to jump into the sea.
These corpses would be directly thrown into a deep pit, sprayed with disinfectant, and buried.
Fortunately, although malignant epidemics were terrifying, due to their extremely high mortality rate, their spread was very limited.
Medical and scientific researchers across the country were working hard, collecting these viruses and developing vaccines.
After half a year, out of over 5,000 discovered viruses, more than 2,000 vaccines had been developed.
G City Underground City was relatively lucky, with no infected cases to date.
The researchers were confined to the research module with nothing else to do but focus on their experiments.
In the past six months, Song Pinxuan had successfully replicated the Data Brain and the Metaverse.
Both the Data Brain and the Metaverse were products of the brain-computer interface previously developed by Song Pinxuan.
Among them, the Data Brain could store memories, skills, and knowledge of people in data form, and perform operations such as reading, deleting, and modifying them.
Unlike invasive brain-computer interfaces, which directly modified memories in people's brains,
The Data Brain was an external device. Although it could connect with the human brain, it could not modify memories within the human brain, only the information stored in the Data Brain itself.
With the Data Brain, humans would no longer need to memorize things by rote.
Memorization and recall could be handed over to the Data Brain. The human brain would only need to be responsible for thinking and learning.
In addition, tasks like calculating numbers and measuring distances would also become very simple.
Since the invention of the Data Brain, it was immediately distributed to school teachers and students, as well as hospital doctors and researchers themselves.
With the Data Brain, learning became easier for students.
The work efficiency of teachers, doctors, and researchers also greatly increased with the use of the Data Brain.
Even, with the Data Brain, education would undergo significant changes.
It would no longer be possible to screen students through extensive examinations as in the pre-apocalypse era.
Because doing so would then be a competition of the Data Brain's capacity and computing power, rather than the students' own learning and thinking abilities.
As for the Metaverse, its impact on people was even greater.