Three-body: The Most Competent Wallfacer in History

Jiang Que grasped a glass of water poured by a robot and found a place to sit down.

By now, she could confirm that some unknown bacteria must have entrenched itself in a certain reaction area of her brain, yet her brain was still capable of issuing normal commands to her body.

However, some actions and words exposed to the bacteria and damaged by them would be altered, making them seem insincere.

Thus far, no alarms had been raised throughout the Science Space City, clearly indicating that those infected hadn't been able to warn those who were not.

Jiang Que felt this was more like an intellectual battle. She had to eliminate the virus without it noticing and then warn the Governing Council, quickly locking down Science Space City to prevent the further spread of the virus.

But to deceive the virus was akin to first deceiving oneself, which seemed an impossible task.

She must think thrice before acting!

Jiang Que pondered in her seat, while her two students could hardly conceal their panic, pacing back and forth in front of her, continuously speaking words that failed to express their true inner fear.

Suddenly, Jiang Que had an idea.

She said to Little Q, "Give Zhang Yang an antibiotic injection!"

Indeed, the intelligence of the virus was insufficient, or its abilities were lacking; it could only protect and conceal itself.

Little Q had been observing Jiang Que and the others since a while ago. Upon hearing her command, it said to the robot that brought the antibiotics:

"My smart physician license has been sent to you, please check."

"Approval granted," the robot opened the small medical kit it brought and took out a syringe with a universal antibiotic.

Nowadays, syringes were rarely used. If inflammation occurred anywhere, one would typically use physiotherapy that could eliminate the inflammation in just a few minutes.

Experimental Zone Ten was a biological laboratory, and some experiments used antibiotics, so it was possible to find these "antiques" here.

Little Q took the syringe and approached the student Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang's face lit up with joy at first, clearly understanding this was the solution thought of by his mentor. He was just about to move toward Little Q when, suddenly, he sprung back a considerable distance.

Zhang Yang himself was stunned; he had never known he possessed such astounding leaping ability.

As Little Q approached again, Zhang Yang leaped away once more, obviously as the bacteria inside him sensed the danger and made him dodge.

Little Q, acting like an ordinary intelligent robot, was single-mindedly executing Jiang Que's command. As Zhang Yang retreated, it advanced.

Zhang Yang leaped back twice more, and suddenly, a robot lunged from behind, grabbing both of his arms and clamping onto his waist with a robotic arm.

Zhang Yang didn't realize that Little Q ranked quite high, high enough to command other robots.

No one knew this apart from Qin Hai, not even the people around Jiang Que.

Little Q's pursuit was simply a ruse to make Zhang Yang jump into the arms of a robot.

At that moment, Zhang Yang was struggling fiercely to no avail. Little Q, syringe in hand, was advancing towards Zhang Yang, when suddenly, it toppled to the ground.

This turn of events happened so quickly that even Jiang Que, who was behind, was startled.

As Little Q was dragged across the ground, Jiang Que and the others noticed that its legs had been entwined by something akin to a vine.

Following the vine, in a distant corner, there stood an over three-meter-tall orange plant covered in long spines, its leaves somewhat resembling those of a maple, with several root vines bearing short spines.

Jiang Que recognized it instantly—it was the Orange Leaf Assassin!

Long ago, Jiang Yu had mentioned this plant to her as a curiosity.

However, in Jiang Yu's description, the Orange Leaf Assassin was not so large and lacked the far-reaching vine structure.

The massive root of the Orange Leaf Assassin was slowly moving, creeping towards Jiang Que's side.

Entangled in its myriad roots was a figure in a white lab coat; it was evident that a research scientist had already fallen victim to it.

Jiang Que immediately said, "Little Q, activate battle mode."

Little Q's index finger instantly turned into a laser cutter and cut off the vines that were entangling him.

On Little Q's legs, one could see dense and fine traces, which was enough to illustrate the horror of the reverse thorns on the vines.

Little Q's shell was made of an extremely hard alloy, and the fact that marks could be made on it showed that the thorns had reached the hardness of metal.

The long reverse thorns on the Orange Leaf Assassin suddenly stood up like bristles and aimed at Jiang Que and the others.

Then they were fired one by one at every moving object, fortunately, the Orange Leaf Assassin's "eyesight" was poor, mistaking Little Q and other robots as its prey as well.

Otherwise, if the vines from just now had been wrapped around Jiang Que or her two students' legs, their legs would have been useless by now.

Little Q used the laser cutter in its hand to sever all the thorns that the Orange Leaf Assassin had shot at them.

But being inside Space City, Little Q was restrained and did not dare to use weapons that were too lethal.

However, it did buy time for Jiang Que and the other three to escape.

Jiang Que felt like she was running extremely fast, as if she had unlocked hidden potential within her.

She then realized that the survival instinct of the bacteria inside her body had also been stimulated, assisting her in tapping into her body's potential.

While running, Jiang Que still remembered to shout, "Little Q, catch up!"

But Little Q did not follow right away, instead quickly putting the syringe back into the medicine kit and grabbing the kit before chasing after Jiang Que.

The Orange Leaf Assassin moved very slowly and couldn't catch up immediately.

It was only after running out of Experimental Zone Ten that Jiang Que and the others felt their legs under their own control again.

They had returned to the cafeteria of Ninth Testing Zone, to find it completely deserted!

Jiang Que took a few breaths and then said, "Something's not right, not right. The Orange Leaf Assassin has escaped, but Galaxy III didn't issue any warning?"

But now was not the time to be concerned about that. Jiang Que went on, "Little Q, give, give, give..."

She was extremely anxious inside: This was bad, the virus had taken over a larger area or had become more intelligent, and within a matter of minutes, she already couldn't say things like "continue to give Zhang Yang antibiotics."

Clearly, the virus was now capable of discerning that this command would harm its kind.

Luckily, Little Q had a high level of intelligence and quickly took out the syringe, turning to look at Zhang Yang.

Just as Zhang Yang was about to continue leaping backwards, and Jiang Que was about to breathe a sigh of relief, Little Q acted with lightning speed, jabbing the syringe into Jiang Que's upper arm and fiercely pushing the antibiotic into her body.

The entire process of inserting the needle and administering the injection took only a fraction of a second, and by the time Jiang Que's body reacted, the injection was already completed.

Eight milliliters of antibiotics diluted with saline entered Jiang Que's body, causing her so much pain that she jumped on the spot!

This was the first time she had gotten a shot, and she hadn't expected it to hurt so much!

She wondered how people had coped with such poor medical conditions in the past.

What she didn't know was that the pain was due to Little Q pushing the syringe too quickly.

Then, Little Q, which appeared somewhat goofy, pounced on Jiang Que's two students like a fierce beast, administering their injections in turn.

Jiang Que had just completed the injections and didn't know if they would be effective.

But the cafeteria was not safe, so Jiang Que took her students to Laboratory 2 and ordered Galaxy III not to open the lab door without her consent.

Afterward, Jiang Que directly contacted Number Three, "Uncle Three, a virus outbreak has occurred in Science Space City, we need to quickly quarantine this area."

Jiang Que breathed a sigh of relief; it seemed the medication was starting to work.