The room was pitch black, Wen Shu closed the door and turned on the light, and screamed in fright, Jinke was lying straight on the floor, there was cat litter everywhere around him, things on the table were scattered all over the ground, the windows were open, the wind blew books and documents everywhere, and some manuscripts on the ground were stained with blood.

Wen Shu squatted beside Jin Ke, just wanted to reach out and pick up Jin Ke, but immediately shrank back in fright, she saw Jin Ke's swollen face, a pair of small green eyes were looking straight at him, there were still many traces of blood and cat hair at the corners of his mouth, and his mouth was still squirming, as if he was chewing something.

Wen Shu had some difficulty breathing, retreated a few meters away, trembled and took out her mobile phone, first called 110, dialed 120, Jinke was still lying on the ground looking at her, her legs were still trembling, she couldn't leave Jinke like this, but when she thought of him eating her pet cat, she only had pain and horror on her face, looking at him on the ground, like watching a man-eating monster.

Ten minutes later, the hospital's car came, put Jinke into a breathable bag and wrapped it on a stretcher, and before leaving, he didn't forget to explain to Wen Shu not to go in again, Wen Shu looked at the chaotic home, called Gao Xiaotian, asked him to come over, and went to the hospital to see Jinke's situation together.

As soon as Wen Shu and Gao Xiaotian arrived at the hospital, they were taken to the hospital's serious illness isolation area. After taking blood and body temperature and other physical examinations, the two changed into full sets of equipment, and they were greeted by Director Wang of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Director Wang shook hands with Wen Shu as soon as he came up, and Wen Shu looked at his face and froze in place.

Director Wang introduced himself as the commander-in-chief of the disease prevention mission, and in addition to this person, he also introduced to her the director of the hospital, medical experts, university professors, strict forensic doctors of the police station, and the chief of the police department. When Wen Shu saw this posture, she "chuckled" in her heart and realized the seriousness of the situation.

Director Wang pulled Wen Shu to the control center, which is a multi-monitoring and remotely controlled control room, which is full of scientific researchers, and in the large glass isolation house in the control center, there are several naked people next to him, or corpses, only Jinke's body is full of many hoses, and he has an oxygen tube in his mouth.

Gao Xiaotian patted the glass and shouted Jinke's name, and was set up, he struggled to shake off those who restrained him, and more people hugged him and held him.

"Director Wang, what's going on? How is Jin Ke and how is he now? Wen Shu was anxious.

"The patient found in your home still has vital features, but he has the same biological toxin as the previous corpse, this toxin will destroy the human nervous system, according to the changes in the corpse, these toxins are probably not man-made, the toxins in the corpse increase with time, and show obvious green, this is actually a manifestation of the increase in concentration, this toxin has no information and records, I also saw it for the first time, from the last time the forensic doctor gave me the sample, We have been trying to find an antidote, but when part of the antidote was injected into Patient 2's body, the effect was not released, and the person died. So we don't have a real antidote. Our immediate priority now is to find the pathogen and find the source of the toxin. ”

Wen Shu looked at Jin Ke who was lying quietly on the test bench with all his thoughts: "If there is no suitable medicine, then he can only wait for death?" ”

Director Wang didn't speak, Wen Shu wiped her tears in a complicated mood, suddenly came back to her senses, and asked, "Where did patient No. 2 come from, those corpses were poisoned by this kind of poison?" ”

"Before the establishment of this serious illness monitoring center, two people were poisoned to death, and within one day after the establishment of the monitoring center, we treated five people, and here are their photos, you see."

Wen Shu took the photo and recognized the person inside at a glance: it was Lin Hai's employee, the two people who went into the basement to steal the civet cat, and one of them was bitten. ”

Director Wang's eyes lit up, and he immediately beckoned his subordinates: "Hurry up and go to the café run by the deceased, and the polluted place in the basement has not been blocked, which may be the location of the original source of pollution."

After the subordinates set off, Director Wang turned his head and said to Wen Shu: "We don't know how big the scope of toxin pollution is, and we don't know how many people have been contaminated. "Speaking of which. A voice came from the control center lab, "Director, come and see this. A researcher standing next to the microscope shouted at Director Wang.

Director Wang and Wen Shu walked in, and the experimenter showed them the lenses: "This is a slice of the deceased's brain, look at this." ”

Director Wang looked inside the microscope and found a dense patch.

"It's Toxoplasma gondii." Director Wang adjusted the microscope and said as he looked at it: "The density is very high, which means that the deceased's brain is basically occupied by Toxoplasma gondii." ”

Gao Xiaotian hid behind Wen Shu and didn't dare to look.

Director Wang raised his head and explained to Wen Shu: "Now human and animal toxoplasma infections are widely distributed around the world, and the adult infection rate in the United Kingdom and the United States is generally about 16-40%, and some are as high as 70%, while the adult infection rate in continental Europe and Latin America is 50-80%, and the French are as high as 90%. The positive infection rate in China is 5%-20%, and in some areas it is as high as 30%. Generally not fatal. After saying that, Director Wang then looked into the microscope and said after a few seconds, "No, wait, go to the computer to retrieve the information of Toxoplasma gondii." Director Wang carefully compared it next to the microscope, and the sweat couldn't stop flowing downward.

The director said to himself as he looked at it: "The rods in these toxoplasma gondii are very large, basically occupying most of the space in the body, and the other nuclei or Golgi apparatus are not there, or are incomplete. That's not normal. Xiao Wu changed to a high-power electron microscope. ”

The microscope was quickly ready, and Director Wang personally observed it for a while before he said in a hurried tone: "This is a parasite smaller than Toxoplasma gondii, and it parasitizes Toxoplasma gondii. It is reproducing with Toxoplasma gondii, and it is reproducing very quickly. A blue-green toxin is released during reproduction. “

After listening to this, everyone only felt goosebumps all over their bodies.

Director Wang wiped the sweat from his forehead: "According to the calculation that about 50% of the people infected by Toxoplasma gondii now account for all human beings, at least more than half of the human race will die without an antidote, and we must now quickly figure out the habits, breeding conditions and infection routes of this small parasite...... " Director Wang's voice trembled a little, and he coordinated and commanded the scientific research team to seize the time to analyze the insects and develop an antidote.

Wen Shu and Gao Xiaotian were shocked by the hustle and bustle here, and when they saw Jin Ke lying on the test bench, they volunteered to go up and say, "Director Wang, can we help with anything?" ”

"I want to know how your friend behaved from the time he got the disease to the time he got it, and I need to know what the effects of this parasite are on people." As soon as Director Wang finished speaking, it was noisy outside the house again, and a staff member pushed the door in, looking anxious: "Director Wang, a few more patients have been sent outside." ”

"What? How many digits are there? Director Wang's voice was not calm, he didn't expect the spread of this toxin to be so rapid.

"10!" The staff pushed a bunch of patients in, and the space in the isolation ward immediately became crowded.

"These are all patients who used to be in the same ward as Lin Hai." Gao Xiaotian looked at the people who had just been sent in and said, "I saw them when the hooligans were making trouble, and I know that uncle." ”

"Quickly send them to the isolation room, each patient must be isolated separately to prevent mutual infection. I also told the director of the hospital that our monitoring area needs to be expanded to prepare more space for patients. Director Wang was obviously disrupted by the speed of the virus, and his movements were a little flustered.

"Director Wang, why don't you sit down first." Wen Shu said, motioning for Gao Xiaotian to move a stool over.

"Okay, let's sit here and say, Xiao Wang will make a record." Director Wang began to ask questions: "First of all, do you feel any discomfort symptoms? ”

The two shook their heads.

"How did you get in touch with Jinke before?"

"I've eaten."

"Chinese or Western?"

"Chinese food." Wen Shu and Gao Xiaotian replied in unison.

"This basically excludes this route of infection." Director Wang then asked, "When you see him having symptoms, you must explain any abnormal behavior and time." ”

Wen Shu recalled carefully: "A few days ago, he was a bit like a cold and fever, as if it was the day Lin Hai died. When I saw him, I felt as if he had drunk, but when I entered his house, there was no smell of alcohol, only a faint taste of glutinous rice, similar to the cat poop coffee sold in the coffee shop. ”

Director Wang nodded: "This clue is very important, we also found that the corpse will emit this smell similar to glutinous rice." And now at this time, we can probably judge the early development rate of this disease. Other than that, is there anything that you feel is not quite right? ”

"He likes to open the window and like to ventilate, and the few times I saw him standing by the window, he stuck his head out, and it was very large, and it seemed to me that it was dangerous. I've stopped him a few times. Gao Xiaotian said.

Wen Shu gritted her teeth and told the incident: "He ate my neighbor's cat, raw." ”

"Eat the cat raw! This was unusual, Xiao Jia went to test the residue in the mouth of Jinke's patient, the skin tissue between the fingernails, and the blood. ”

When someone came to check on Jinko's body, he was unconscious.

"And whether the patient's mental aspect is normal, that is, has he noticed that he is mentally ......" Director Wang didn't finish speaking, and the news came from the quarantine area that patient No. 9 had been declared dead, Wen Shu and Gao Xiaotian were heartbroken, and Wen Shu cried: "It won't be Jinke." ”

Gao Xiaotian looked at the control video and comforted: "No, no, it's the uncle who was sleeping next to Lin Hai's hospital bed at the time." ”

"I'm too old to resist." Director Wang shook his head, "The momentum is too fast. ”

The phone rang, and Director Wang answered the phone, and the call was from his subordinate from the coffee shop.

"Report to Director Wang, after searching, it was found that there were suspicious animal bones and blood stains in the basement, as well as a small and narrow passage. The passage is connected to the lower vent of the animal cage, and the upper vent pipe is filled with a lot of bat feces, as well as a small amount of live bat feces and bat feces and bone remains, which can be determined to be bats after on-site laboratory tests. Living bats and feces contain small parasites and the same toxins as in patients......"