Chapter 244 Spread
This person obviously didn't like him, but Wu Xi couldn't remember where he had seen him before. He had a good memory, but as a public figure, Wu Xi came into contact with too many people on a daily basis. Every time he traveled around the world to promote his new film, he would meet countless people... Maybe this was a face he had seen by chance in the crowd before?
As for the vague hostility, that is perfectly normal. There are countless people who like him , so naturally there are countless people who hate him. There are too many black fans, and he even encountered an incident where a crazy fan threw sulfuric acid on him, but fortunately he discovered it in time.
Therefore, when Wu Xi couldn't remember why he felt the other person looked familiar, he didn't take it too seriously. He just became a little alert, fearing that the other person would do something irrational.
"Oh."
When he walked out of the door, he seemed to hear a faint chuckle. The chuckle was so low that it seemed to break when it touched the air, making him wonder if it was his own hallucination.
Wu Xi subconsciously turned his head to look over, only to see that the cold hostility in the man's eyes had disappeared. The man looked at him with a hint of surprise and an indescribable...meaningful look in his eyes.
Wu Xi felt a strange feeling in his heart. He restrained himself, nodded politely, and turned away without waiting for a response. Somehow, his body suddenly felt a little cold and he felt a little uneasy.
…
Rong Yuan watched Wu Xi walk away, the corners of his mouth curled up imperceptibly, and he murmured like a sigh: "I really didn't expect..."
"What?" Pea asked in confusion.
"nothing."
Although Rong Yuan said this, his eyes were twinkling, as if he was expecting something good to happen. Wandou shut up, feeling that someone was going to be in trouble.
Noah, who could only contact them through various electronic devices, was also particularly in tune with the Pea at this time. Its body was disguised as an ordinary TV in the research institute. Suddenly, the screen flashed, and a row of candles lit up one after another, with the orange-yellow flames flickering.
Rong Yuan walked into the hospital in a very good mood and casually handed flowers to a patient who was sitting in a wheelchair and coughing. While the patient was holding the bouquet in a daze, he had disappeared around the corner and walked down the stairs.
He came here to see what Wu Xi wanted to do, which was just one of the reasons. The most important thing was that the first death of UCOC was in this hospital.
The person who died first should have been infected earlier than everyone else.
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Aubrey lowered half of the car window, one hand on the steering wheel, the other hand on the window. It was late afternoon, the sky was still bright, but the air was already cold. He was only wearing a thin shirt, but he felt very hot.
In front of his car, there was a line of cars that seemed to have no end; behind him, there was also a line of cars that were of unknown length. His car was stuck in the middle and couldn't move. Sitting next to him was his fat son, this ignorant and stupid boy was still playing with his mobile phone. Maybe he thought it was better if the car was stuck, so that he wouldn't be dizzy and couldn't see the screen of his mobile phone clearly; in the back seat were his wife and three-year-old daughter. The daughter fell asleep in his wife's arms, and she was not very restful in her sleep, with her two light eyebrows wrinkled. His wife's thin and pale face was slightly sad, with a bulge between her eyebrows, but she didn't complain or show a look of fear. She said nothing and silently supported her husband.
"Hey! You bad boy, stop right there!" a slightly fat policeman shouted loudly. In front of him, there was a teenage boy holding a women's bag in his hand. He jumped up and down among the vehicles as nimbly as a monkey and soon disappeared from Aubrey's sight. The fat policeman chased after him breathlessly, but it was obvious that the arrest would be fruitless.
Many people saw this scene on the road, but almost everyone remained indifferent and silent. Aubrey watched them disappear, and saw from the rearview mirror that his wife was also staring blankly in the same direction, with something in her eyes that frightened him. Aubrey felt that he had to say something, so he coughed and said, "Don't worry, Hannah, we will leave. Believe me, the road will be cleared soon."
Hannah didn't respond. Of course, she was smart enough to tell that he was making promises that he couldn't keep. But usually, she would give Aubrey a trusting smile that seemed to have been deceived by him.
Aubrey was a little flustered. He called out softly, "...Hannah?"
Hannah's eyes turned slightly and looked at him, and it took a long time for her to find her focus. Then Aubrey heard her say in a voice that was as vague as an echo: "Aubrey, Lily has a fever."
“Boom!”
The stupid son Galen's cell phone fell down and smashed straight down. But no one paid attention to it, and the air in the car became completely stagnant. Aubrey's eyes went dark, and there seemed to be a buzzing sound in his ears.
At this time, fever = UCOC = death = large-scale infection. Although the probability of this equation being true is not 100%, it is not an exaggeration to say that their family has one foot in the door of hell.
The same scene appeared in countless vehicles and countless families, and despair and grief spread at an unimaginable speed.
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The knife slashed out and then retracted, so fast that you could hardly see the afterimage. At first glance, you would think that his hand had not moved at all. The red-haired female doctor who hurried by with her head down fainted silently. A pair of hands reached out in time to catch her, and mercilessly stuffed her into the bathroom, and skillfully locked the door from the outside.
Rong Yuan has changed his appearance: white coat, mask, brown hair, white skin. He is a middle-aged man with a very ordinary appearance and also a doctor in this hospital. He is lying in the cleaning room at this time.
He was walking towards the morgue of the hospital. In addition to looking at the specific symptoms of the first deceased, he also wanted to confirm his identity. Since electronic products were prohibited in the hospital building and the patient's information was highly confidential, he was still unsure of who the dead person was and could only come and take a look in person.
When Rong Yuan unlocked the door and was about to open the white door that automatically added a cold aura, Noah suddenly said, "Rong Yuan, the situation is deteriorating very quickly."
"What do you mean?" Rong Yuan asked, and at the same time he opened the door and knocked out a man who came over and wanted to say something to him.
"From the first death, 16 people died in the first ten minutes, 182 in the second, 339 in the third. Now we are halfway through the fourth ten minutes, and 922 people died just before I spoke to you." Noah's voice was filled with false fear, not knowing if it was intentional or not. "The news spread online, and some people even live-broadcasted the sudden death of a patient in a hospital... In short, except for some very strictly controlled areas in the city, people from other places are trying to flee this place, and almost all traffic arteries are blocked. There are also signs of large-scale exodus in surrounding cities and villages. In addition, UCOC patients have been found in half of the countries, and although they were isolated and treated in time, it seems to have no effect."
Everything was developing as if on fast forward. Every time I blinked, the situation would twist and turn into a crazier direction. It was like a dream, absurd and unreal, but so fast that it was suffocating. Even though Noah was an intelligent computer, he still felt thrilled.
Rong Yuan asked a completely irrelevant question: "What is the population of L City?"
"Eight million three hundred and thirty thousand."
"Hmm."
—What? Master, what do you mean? Are you saying that there are so many people that only a small number of them died and there is no need to worry? The key is speed! It seems that this disease has a 100% mortality rate, okay? It sounds super~ scary, okay? If it goes wrong, the earth will be destroyed, okay?
Noah was madly complaining in his heart. But he was trained after all, at least at this moment, he just quietly waited for Rong Yuan's conclusion, and didn't really say his own thoughts.
"What countermeasures does Juniper Country have?" Rong Yuan looked at the label on the refrigerator and asked a more reliable question - to Noah's relief.
"Blockade, control, entry and exit bans, etc. Oh, and a special UCOC treatment area was set up, with 440 doctors participating in the treatment, but..."
When the notice was issued from above, someone was dying; when the doctors were rushing on the road, someone was dying; when famous doctors and experts were sitting together to discuss the condition and treatment plan, someone was dying; when they were desperately trying to save lives... no one was saved, and the patient's pace towards death did not stop.
L City has almost become an empty city. Many people have UCOC symptoms and are crowded in the overcrowded hospitals. Most of those who have not gone to the hospital are on their way out of the city. But those who are celebrating their "escape" do not know that the virus is spreading all over the world at lightning speed. Of course, as the source, the situation in Juniper Country is worse than other places, and people think that L City is the worst manifestation of the situation. However, Noah feels that the situation can be even worse. If effective containment measures cannot be found in time, I am afraid that this planet will really face a catastrophe.
But ordinary people don’t know that countries have yet to figure out the cause of UCOC, let alone treatment. The government claims that it’s a viral cold, but in fact, it’s just the most likely one among many possibilities. Not to mention viruses, they haven’t even figured out the mutated tissue cells.
The speed of research cannot keep up with the speed of death. If this continues, by the time an effective vaccine is truly produced, there will probably not be many people left. Currently, there is only one person who has the hope of solving this problem in the shortest possible time.
There was no surveillance camera in the morgue. Noah stared at the darkness on the screen, not even interested in looking at the surveillance cameras elsewhere. He was silent, his heart pounding!
"Found it!" Rong Yuan said suddenly, pulling out a rectangular cabinet from the isolation room, revealing a cold corpse inside.
