"You're here."

When Niu Changshou saw him, he was surprised at first and asked, "Why did you come so quickly?" The clues of the alien faction have been found? ”

"It's all dead."

Several doctors were about to come out of the gate, Xia Ren pulled Niu Changshou to the side to get out of the way, and said: "We have found the real major shareholder of Changsheng Company, and confirmed that he is the founder of this alien faction, from his mouth, we know that this plague was deliberately spread by them, and the source of ** type phobia is a white worm, and this worm was obtained by them by studying an evil book." ”

"Do you remember the disappearance case at Dongpu University of Science and Technology two years ago? The missing paleontologist was responsible for researching the book, and although he and his students mysteriously disappeared, the results were preserved by her daughter. ”

Xia Ren told Niu Changshou the ins and outs of the whole thing, and the other party bowed his head and was silent for a long time after listening to it.

And then.

"!"

For the first time, Xia Ren heard him explode.

As if to vent his emotions, he wandered his eyes around his feet, but ultimately failed to find anything that would allow him to vent his anger.

"These councilors in Dongpu City are really conscientious, thanks to them, this kind of scum can safely live to such an old age and not die!"

"It's dead." Xia Ren reminded him.

“……”

Niu Changshou glanced at him, unsure if he was deliberately angry with himself.

Qin Yun smiled beside him, Xia Ren sometimes spoke very strangely.

"What about the other members? They must have a lot of researchers in their organization who are responsible for documenting the results of research, right? Even if the leader is dead, as long as they are found......"

"When I found it, I basically committed suicide."

Xia Ren also learned the news on the way here, he recalled Zheng Xinming's appearance before he died, and said: "The members of this alien organization seem to have a deep admiration for those worms, I don't know if they worship power or what, in short...... Incomprehensible. ”

"Isn't the clue broken?"

Cow longevity is a little frustrated.

"Let's take it one step at a time."

Xia Ren sighed and asked, "I just saw that you looked like something was wrong, did something happen?" ”

The topic turned again, and Niu Changshou's face seemed to be even worse, and he said uncertainly: "Patients...... Something seems to have gone wrong. ”

"What's the problem?"

Xia Ren immediately asked.

Zheng Xinming's words echoed in his mind, and he was very concerned, according to what the other party said, what huge changes might happen tonight.

Niu Changshou glanced at the doctors who came and went, and said: "There is something wrong with the patients' emotions, they began to be inexplicably anxious, as if they were being urged by something to do something, and several patients have tried to escape from the ward, but we have found and stopped them in time." ”

"And where they want to go, is ...... Patient number three is there. ”

"Patient Three?"

Xia Ren still remembered the little half-vegetative girl, and he felt something was wrong from her at that time.

"Take me to see it."

"Okay."

Niu Changshou trusted Xia Ren very much, and began to explain the situation to him in detail when he walked.

"After the abnormality, we checked all the patients and found that most of them were in a trance, and I asked several patients who tried to escape, and they all had no specific understanding of their behavior, such as sudden hysteria, and they had no memory of what they had done."

"What makes me even more disturbing is that as time goes on, the anxiety of the patients is becoming more and more serious, and many of them are already weakened by the complications of ** type phobia, but they would rather pull out the oxygen tube than achieve some kind of purpose."

"Similar to instinct-driven?" Xia Ren asked.

"Not sure."

Niu Changshou shook his head, with a hint of fear in his eyes: "Their behavior reminds me of the hosts in nature that are parasitized by certain parasites. ”

"Especially since they didn't get sick as usual last night, and now it looks more like the parasites have reached a critical stage and are preparing for something......"

The nurses and doctors walked back and forth in the corridor, most of them looking hurried, and Xia Ren saw some old men with gray hair and drooping old age among them, in addition to the unusually young men and women, who looked like they should be students who followed the professors.

They were all wearing white coats and worried about the patients, but what they didn't know was that the plague was not caused by any known creature on the Blue Star, and there was no information to be found in the history of mankind that could be used as a reference, and they didn't know how contagious it was, not even how it was transmitted, or even what the pathogen was.

They didn't know anything, but they came anyway.

While speaking, Xia Ren and Niu Changshou had already come to the ward.

Patient Three was reclining on the hospital bed, staring blankly at the ceiling.

She was only six years old, and she was supposed to be playing happily with her friends, but she was lying here, not even knowing who she was, and even needed help to eat and drink.

"Of all the patients, she was the only one who did not show any anxiety."

There was a nurse who was in charge of taking care of patient No. 3 at all times, Niu Changshou waved her hand, signaling her to avoid it for a while, and then walked to the side of the bed and pulled up the slender wrist of patient No. 3.

"But no matter how many times I went through the examination, her physical condition did not change from before."

That is, the cause of the anomaly cannot be found.

Xia Ren looked at him and said, "You are also getting agitated. ”

Niu Changshou stiffened holding the hand of patient No. 3, came back to his senses, and muttered to himself: "Yes, I can't be anxious, but I can't be anxious, I must be calm......"

He is a plague scholar, and he is currently the highest person in charge of the progress of plague research in Dongpu City, and all major decisions need to be confirmed by him, it doesn't matter if others make a mistake, if he makes a mistake, then the problem will be serious.

From the moment she entered the ward, Lily's eyes had been looking at Patient Three.

"Empty."

Her childish voice said suddenly.

"What's empty?"

Xia Ren asked back.

As an important servant of Shoguez, an ancient man who had been incomparably brilliant on the Blue Star, it was normal for Lily to be able to see many things that no one could see.

"Here."

Lily pointed to her head, "Here, it's empty. ”

Niu Changshou frowned and said, "But after examination, her brain is not damaged at all, and she does not have quality defects like other patients." ”

Xia Ren's gaze shifted back to Patient Three.

Lily wouldn't say such things for no reason, if she said empty, then there must be something missing, since it's not a brain, maybe it's something other than the brain.

"Sister Lu Yi is also empty!"

Lily pointed to Lu Yi, who was quietly working as a vending machine next to her.

"I'm not empty~ I have things to sell, such as grilled chicken nuggets, boiled liver pieces, big bone soup, ......"

Lu Yi snapped his fingers and began to report the name of the dish.

Xia Ren looked at them and fell into deep thought.

"What could it be? Similarities between Lu Yi and Patient No. 3......"

This question is doomed to be fruitless.

Time passed minute by minute, and soon it was evening.

The anxiety of the patients has worsened, they are confined to the ward, they cannot go out, and some patients have even begun to self-injure.

Cattle are busy with longevity, but they still have no clue why this happens.

At this moment, the director of the Affiliated Hospital of Dongpu University of Science and Technology suddenly ran over in a hurry and said loudly: "Oh no! Look outside! ”

Xia Ren and Niu Changshou glanced at each other, and the uneasiness in their hearts suddenly reached their peak.

They followed the director through the emergency building to the hospital gate.

Before they got close, the first thing everyone heard was the honking of various car horns and the sirens of police cars, like the flutes that were urging life, resounding in the night sky.

Xia Ren and Niu Changshou looked at the scene in front of him and was stunned.

The lights are shining, the whole street in front of the hospital is already densely jammed with vehicles, they are not normal driving at all, a large number of cars are rear-ended, some have more serious accidents, stacked together, the green belt on the side of the road is jammed with cars, there is no idle place on the street, it is simply impassable.

The superintendents were also blocked from the perimeter and could not enter the field to maintain order.

This situation is absolutely not normal.

Xia Ren was thinking like this, and before he could get close to the gate, he saw that among those vehicles, one by one stupid-faced humans climbed out of the windows and doors, like puppets being manipulated, with stiff steps, gathering in the direction of the hospital.

"What's going on, how can so many people ......"

Niu Changshou's eyes widened, and he already had a bad guess in his heart.

"Something is wrong! Close the door! ”

Xia Ren shouted to the hospital staff to close the door and stop them first, and at the same time took out his mobile phone, wanting to contact the Foundation quickly.

Before he could dial the phone, there were several bright lights in the sky, followed by the sound of propellers turning.

More than a dozen helicopters hovered over the hospital, with the Foundation's logo emblazoned on their tails.