"Knock Knock Knock ......"

While the two were talking, there was a knock on the door of the laboratory.

"Please come in. Murphy raised his head without a trace and said.

"Your Highness, why did you close the laboratory as soon as you returned! I haven't had time to report this big thing to you in the city!" Arthas pushed the door open, visibly relieved to see Murphy.

"It's not a good situation, it's just that I have a contract here that is about to expire, and I want to hurry up and complete the content of the contract, which is now a half-finished product, and invite Mr. Luo Cheba to test it. Murphy took a silent sip, "It works very well, I plan to test it again when Mr. Carolon returns from the front." ”

"Seeing that Your Highness is so relaxed, the situation in the barracks should be better, right?" Arthas casually sat down on the sofa, referring to the situation of the epidemic in the army.

"At least the situation there was much better when I left, Simon's movements were very fast, and Mr. Carolen's arcane skills also came in handy, and now the situation in the barracks has been basically controlled, and the resistance of the transcendents to this virus is still much stronger, and after about ten or twenty, the number of cases can be reduced to zero. Murphy was optimistic about it.

"Thanks to your quick response, Your Highness, the latest news, the rebel leader Haraus and his two ministers are all confirmed to be infected, and three people in the escort team are also confirmed to be infected. Oh, by the way, there's also a secret letter from Mr. Carolen. After the pleasantries, Arthas took out his bag of papers, took out two documents, and handed them to Murphy.

"Harlaus is infected?" Murphy raised an eyebrow and took the two documents.

One was sent by Simon with a report on the latest outbreak in the barracks, and the other was sealed with a skull and a Carolon emblem engraved with the word Carolen.

Murphy opened a nearby letter and set Carolen's secret letter aside.

Simon said in the letter that three-quarters of the more than 2,000 soldiers who were quarantined had been released from quarantine, and that the remaining four or five hundred had some mild symptoms of illness, and that unexpectedly, Harlaus and his two ministers, both of whom were close to the highest transcendents, were also infected!

This gives this virus a very dangerous label, because from the current data, in terms of infectivity, lethality, and severity, no plague in history can be compared with this time, there are a total of five quarantined transcendents at level 3 and above, and three of them are infected, and the number of transcendents below level 3 is close to 100.

Extraordinary people with extremely strong physical functions and immunity can have an infection rate of nearly four percent, and the probability of reaching a quarter for ordinary people has to be, if the virus is allowed to spread wantonly, the infection rate may increase several times, and the mortality rate is estimated to be more than half!

Fortunately, all the infected personnel have been contained, and those who have been released from quarantine have returned to the army, replenishing the originally overstretched strength of the 1st Guards Division of Fort Remlos, and even a Vulcan heavy machine gun from the prisoner of war camp has been removed from the outpost and transported to the ruined walls of Crescent City.

It took the first group of 500 warriors a full two years to clear less than a third of the corpses in Crescent City, but at least the corpses and gallows from the city gate to the Marquis' Castle were cleared.

However, with Charles later mobilizing 30,000 civilians to join the cleaning team in the civilian settlement, the subsequent cleanup will be easier, and yesterday afternoon, the first batch of 10,000 people arrived in Crescent City and joined the cleaning team.

"Your Highness, you don't want to see the miserable state of Crescent City, it's a hell, the rows of wild dogs roaming around the city are gnawing on the mutilated corpses that are beginning to rot and stink, and piles of corpses, neatly arranged gallows, and groups of eleven or twelve wild dogs have become the new symbol of the city that the former Northland Star, the second largest city in Auckland, and the merchants yearn for, and there are no living people in the city except us. ”

These were Simon's exact words, and they were also the biggest feeling he had since seeing Crescent City with his own eyes, and the once prosperous city had been reduced to ruins.

"Alas, Crescent City!" Murphy sighed, recalling the contrast he had seen when he first came to the North.

"Crescent City is indeed a tragedy, but such a tragedy will never again happen in our sphere of influence, we are already capable of resisting all enemies, and we are no longer the defenseless city of four months ago!" Arthas shook his head, and said with great confidence.

"It's true, we're only going to get stronger. Murphy replied with his head down, then picked up Carolen's letter.

After verifying his mental power, he successfully opened the envelope and took out the letter inside.

The letter was empty, with no words written, and had been carved on it by Carolon with great soul power.

As for why he didn't contact Murphy directly through the soul or the moment of the dead, because the moment of the dead could only be unilaterally invited by Murphy to Carolon for dialogue, and the direct soul talk was too far away for Carolon to leave, so he could only send a letter, and because he was afraid that after passing through the bunker where Harlaus was imprisoned, he still detoured to the more dangerous forest road in the Urso Mountains.

Fortunately, the letter was safely delivered to Murphy.

Murphy read the letter, his eyes became more and more solemn, the content of the letter is still related to the virus, but unlike Simon's report on the lifting of the ban, this time the report is the death toll, because he is afraid of causing panic among the masses, so he chose to send it to Murphy in this secret letter.

There are a total of 2,220 possible contacts in the barracks, of which 624 have been confirmed to be infected; 110 of the infected have become seriously ill, most of them are ordinary people, but there are also 13 transcendental people; 27 of the seriously ill people have become critically ill, and 6 are extraordinary; so far, there have been seven deaths in a week, with an average of one death.

Even against the rebels, there have never been such high casualties!

And there is no effective treatment for the virus, the medical teams of Carolen, Sunia and Cheng Hai can only come up with drugs to fight this disease for complications and what kind of illness they have, but for those critically ill patients, the possibility of rescue is very small, and they can basically just lie there and wait for death.

However, there is also good news, there is no sign of severe illness in mild patients, and the condition of most severe patients is also improving, if it goes well, the epidemic can be declared over by the end of this month!

When the pandemic is over, we must make it clear to the public, we are fighting the disease as much as we fight the rebels!" thought Murphy.