I. Black sky

"Yo, we're meeting again. You remember me, right? Kate didn't care whether Pu Dehuan was welcome or not, she took a bottle of red wine and poured herself a drink.

"Are you ......? The vampire who appeared during the turmoil and had a contract with Ling? Why did you come to me? Pudde didn't stop either, leaving Kate to fend for herself.

"Don't be so out-of-the-box. With your clever mind, you believe you found out that it was me the last time we met, right? Kate handed Pud a cup.

"Yes, 60 years have passed, and you really haven't changed at all, but I'm old like this." Pudder took the glass.

"I know your plan, but if it goes on like this, it will be a matter of time before Zhuge Xun and them find out, what are you going to do then?"

"So, in what capacity are you asking about this? Is it Kate the vampire, or Ling's contractor and father? ”

"I hate Xiaoling and that Zhuge Xun's thoughts, so even if I knew, I wouldn't tell him, complicated things can bring fun, don't they?"

"It seems that we are all the way...... That is, even if you know something, you won't tell me? ”

"Well, maybe I don't know as much as you do."

"Why are you here? Big stars shouldn't be so laid-back. ”

"You're wrong, I'm so laid-back. Actually, the last time I saw you on the battlefield, I wanted to come and see you. ”

"I don't want to see you again." This demon!

"It's really ruthless to talk. Well, since you don't want to see me, then I'll go, anyway, there are a lot of lost lambs who like Uncle Ben in other places. ”

"Don't stay."

Kate shrugged helplessly. "Beware of your 'son'. Maybe you'll die this time. Kate waved to Pudde and disappeared into the 'space tunnel' created by the key.

"My son? Kate still spoke so indistinctly. The last time he showed up, I made that kind of mistake and actually used my hand to push the 'biochemical war' to a climax, but this time he came specifically to announce my death, what a miracle! Pudder took a sip of the wine from the glass, then dropped the glass. Even if I die, they don't want to get anything! ”

"Hey, Paul? Strengthen your defenses, I think I'll use them in the near future. ”

"I see." After Paul hung up the phone, he said to the man standing behind him in ancient Chinese attire, "That lord sent you to be my helper?" ”

"Yes."

"Do you know that person called 'Zhuge Xun'? You're all dressed the same, and I'm wondering if you're all together. Paul's eyes sparkled.

"I am an enemy of Zhuge Xun."

"Enemy...... Since 'that adult' asked you to come, I can't say anything. What are you going to do next? How do you need me to cooperate with you? ”

"I've come here for two missions. One is that 'the sir' asked me to give you a message: get the code as soon as possible, and if it takes a long time, I'm afraid Pud will find that things will not be easy to do. The second is my work, which breeds more sandflies carrying pathogens in the second circle. And 'that lord' is outside the circle to consolidate the remaining troops from the last unrest. ”

"I'll get the code as soon as possible, I'm in a tense time right now, and if I rush to ask Pud for the rest of the code, I'll definitely make him suspicious."

Second Circle Central Management Office:

"Henry, you called us to ......," Ling and Zhuge Xun led to the command center where Henry was.

"You've come just in time, ahem, ahem, things have gone beyond our imagination. I asked Mr. Zhuge to come over and discuss the solution. After only two days of not seeing him, Henry had lost a lot of weight and his face was ugly. Not only Henry, but also the people in the management office were in a state of high mental stress.

"On the way here, your subordinates have already explained to us, I didn't expect it to be so soon." Zhuge Xun noticed the image from the outside that he saw on the command center's surveillance.

"Do you know the pathogen?" Ling asked.

"This ...... Not yet, because all the corpses have become dried corpses, and there is no time to do any testing. The scientific research side has been doing its best, but there are too few valuable samples......" Orr, the director of the Central Research Institute, had already boiled out deep dark circles under his eyes, but this time the illness appeared too suddenly, and there was no warning at all.

"Can you know the symptoms of the disease? How long is it from the onset of symptoms to death? At the very least, isolation can be achieved at the onset of the disease. ”

"The time from the onset of symptoms to death is uncertain, from three days for the earliest infected person, to one day now, and now the time to receive the payback is half a day! We speculate that it is the new pathogen that adapts to the various indicators of the human body, so it will get faster and faster.

And we have all tried the 'isolation' you mentioned, and the infected person was initially infected with an unimaginably high fever, followed by diarrhea and vomiting, and the body was rapidly dehydrated. Once, we wanted to see if we would cure the patient if we replenished the water needed by the body, so we soaked the whole body of the patient who was still in the diarrhea stage into a solution similar to body fluids, so that the cells of the body could get sufficient nutrients, and the result was ...... Although the body did not become like a dried corpse, the patient still died due to the decrease in white blood cells in the body. But we made an important discovery! Please come with me to the lab. Orr led the group to the laboratory building.

Basement 1 of the laboratory building:

"Please change into protective clothing here, and then we will go down to the second floor of the laboratory, if the protection is not good, we will not be able to protect you from infection!" Orr reminded everyone.

When he came to the laboratory, Ling is frowning, and then whispered to Zhuge Xun: "I'll leave it to you here, I'll go back to see what else is going on." ”

"Why, you stayed with you...... All right. I'm informing you of something. Zhuge Xun noticed Ling's pained expression, although he didn't know why Ling left suddenly, he should have some important reason, Ling was not the kind of person who gave up his job at will.

Central Management Office:

"Henry, how are the other healthy people out there being now?" The reason why Ling was reluctant to stay below with Zhuge Xun was because seeing the situation in the laboratory below couldn't help but remind him of the time when he was in 'Paradise', although it had been so long, whenever he remembered that time, his body still couldn't help but tremble, and he vowed to change the world!

"Why did you come up so quickly? Did you find anything? Why is it only you, Mr. Zhuge ? Henry, who was in command, saw that Ling was the only one to return to this management office.

"I'll come back and check on the situation with you first, Kaoru is below. How's the situation going? ”

"People outside have been ordered to stay at home, prohibiting everything from going out, and the home where the second circle of people live is a small 'circle' so it can be isolated from the outside air, and there will be no large-scale infection for the time being. If you notice a high fever, notify the medical team immediately. Moreover, most of the infected people are the elderly and children, and these people with low immunity are relatively low. The only thing that can make us happy is that the speed of infection has basically been controlled, and now we hope that scientific research, or Arian, can find a solution sooner. Ahem, ahem. Henry pointed to the screen and explained to Lead.

"Outside the circle, is there any movement on the border?" Ling worries that 'that adult' will take advantage of this period.

"Under close surveillance, nothing has been found. Ahem, ahem. ”

"Feeling unwell? Don't get too tired. Ling asked with concern.

"It's okay, everybody's on the same level. Everyone was nervous. ”

"Physical Examination ......"

"Ling, rest assured."

Underground Laboratory:

Zhuge Xun, who remained in the laboratory, saw five glass jars filled with liquid erected in the laboratory, and there were five infected people inside, and the electronic instrument on one side recorded their changing data from time to time......

"The sample of No. 3 is no longer good, replace it! Put the eleventh infected person in the third jar! ”

"What, Rod, is another one dead?" Orr questioned the person directing the replacement of the infected.

"It's Orr, well, the original number three is no longer good. To be replaced, I want to try to improve the composition of the solution. The man named Rhodes explained to Orr.

"Mr. Zhuge , he is the person in charge of our laboratory, if you have any questions, you can ask him." Orr introduces Rhodes to Zhuge Kaoru.

"And Mr. Rhodes, what are you doing now?" Zhuge Xun noticed that the other doctors were helping a blindfolded, naked and vomiting man, to the empty jar No. 3.

At this time, the liquid in the jar had been refilled, and the medical staff took the man up to the top of the jar and searched for two tubes in the jar, one of which was stuffed into the mouth of the infected person, and let his vomit flow from the tube to the outside for disinfection and testing. Another tube is inserted into the anus of the infected person, and a detection device is installed on the infected person, and after these are done, the infected person who still has vital signs is gently placed into the jar and the jar is sealed.

The infected person who was replaced quickly turned into a dried corpse after leaving the liquid, and then placed on a special dissection table for dissection.

Unlike the servant who died at the beginning, Zhuge Xun noticed that the belly of the soaked person did not bulge after turning into a dried corpse, and the internal organs in the abdominal cavity were also intact after dissection, but they all became similar to 'air-dried jerky'.

"Is that true of all people?" Zhuge Xun asked Rode, who was dissecting.

"Yes, all of them, except that if they are infected people who have not been soaked in liquid, after the dissection, the inside of the abdominal cavity is empty and white, and the internal organs have turned into pus. We also want to find the infectious agent as soon as possible. Rhodes dissected the internal organs of the dissected person and sent them to other medical staff for testing.

"What did you do with the corpses and the other infected people out there?" Zhuge Xun took off his gloves and pressed the dried corpse on the autopsy table with his hand.

"Send it to the observation room on the fifth floor of the basement, put the body in the three days at will, observe his changes, and if there is no information available, we will send the body to a special crematorium on the border outside the second circle and burn it. Infected individuals who die before they can be retrieved outside will be sent directly to the border. ”

"Are you burning at the border? Wouldn't the chance of infection be greater in the 'civilian area'? Zhuge Xun questioned Rode.

"I can't care about that much now......"

"What do you mean you can't care so much? There are also people living in the civilian area! They don't have any protection! ”

"I understand Mr. Zhuge 's feelings, but the infection has been happening for three days, and according to the report, the infection only occurred in the second circle. We once took an infected person to the third circle of recovery to see if it could be transmitted in other environments, but after the infected person left the second circle, he died, his body did not become a dry corpse, and his internal organs did not disappear, and according to the cause, he was only infected with a pathogen similar to 'cholera'. Although the causative agent of cholera has long since disappeared, it cannot be denied that the current environment has brought 'it' back to life. And this infection, outside the second circle, is not contagious. Orr explained to Zhuge Xun.

"Do you think the causative agent this time is 'cholera'?"

"I'm not sure yet, it's just similar to the symptoms of cholera. Did Mr. Zhuge think of anything? ”

"Can you take me to the 'observation room'? Zhuge Xun wanted to see the situation of those corpses.

"But you can...... You're a guest though...... The chance of infection is much higher there than here," Orr grimaced.

"You don't have to worry about this, if you can let me go."

"Of course, we also hope that Mr. Zhuge can help us. I'm going with you. ”

"I'm sorry for you."

Orr, along with Zhuge Xun and two other medical staff, took the elevator down to the fifth floor. As soon as I opened the elevator door, I smelled a strong smell of disinfectant water, and at the end of the corridor was a glass room of about 50 square meters, in which the bodies of six infected people who had been clearly decomposed were discarded at random.

"Can this door be opened? I'm going in. Zhuge Xun stood outside the glass room.

"No! You see the indicator on the monitor over here shows that the air inside is enough to kill a person in a split second. I can't let you in! Orr was adamantly opposed.

"Then how do you get out of useless corpses?"

"Actually, it's been a long time since I've sent people in or come out of it."

"How long has it been there?"

"It's been three days since the earliest."

"So the first time an infected person was found in the circle was three days ago?"

"You can say the same thing."

Zhuge Xun closed his eyes and used his aura to feel the subtle changes in the room. And Orr and the other two just looked at Zhuge Xun quietly. Within the scope of Zhuge Xun's aura, Zhuge Xun carefully pounced on the information transmitted back from the corpse. Suddenly, the paper figure in Zhuge Xun's hand was launched.

Paper figures hovered through the glass over the corpses. Then, Zhuge Xun took out an empty small glass bottle, opened the cap, and pointed in the direction of the glass room. After a long time, I saw the paper figures that had been released hand in hand in a circle through the glass room and into the vial in Zhuge Xun's hand. After seeing that they had all come in, Zhuge Xun closed the bottle cap. That's when the phone rings.

"Kaoru? Are you done over there? Come up, I've got something to look for you. Ling's voice came from the phone.

"I'm just done, I'm going up, I've got something good to show you!" Zhuge Xun hung up the phone and said to Orr: "Let's go back to the top, Ling seems to have found something." And I caught this too! Zhuge Xun shook the vial in his hand.