Northern Europe is located in a country near the Polar Circle.

"Ahem......"

After a heart-rending violent cough, the gray-haired man forced down the tingling itch that continued to rise in his throat, and looked at his worried wife who hurriedly walked in.

"Honey, I have a bit of a bad cold this time, ahem...... Don't stay in the same room with me, get out of here and take precautions. ”

After saying that, there was another violent cough.

The same woman with gray temples stopped, her eyes full of worry.

"Your situation is indeed a little wrong, let's go to the hospital to see, take your own medicine and get better after all......"

A few days ago, the old man who was still alive and well accompanied her to go shopping for groceries, but now the haggard look on his face made him look at least ten years old, and the whole person was sad.

To say that his cold is really a little unusual, even after taking medicine, the old man's cough is not better, but has an increasingly violent posture.

Thinking of this, she suddenly felt an itch run in her throat.

In the end, the man did not resist his wife's repeated urging, and obediently dressed and went to the hospital for examination.

"Ahem."

Before leaving the door, the woman couldn't hold back her cough twice.

The man's footsteps faltered.

"What's wrong with you, my dear? Am I infected? ”

"It's okay, I accidentally choked."

The woman didn't take it to heart and said casually.

On the way to the hospital, the two were surprised to find that the road, which was usually not congested, was extremely busy today.

"Is it a good day today? Everybody's out for a walk? ”

This question was not answered until they arrived at a nearby hospital.

"No, they're all coming to the hospital!"

The woman frowned and looked at the almost full parking space outside the courtyard.

There are quite a few people like her who are looking for empty parking spaces in circles.

"Ahh Ahem......"

A hurried man walked by, coughing as he walked, listening to the movement, as if he would not stop coughing out his lungs.

"There are quite a few people who have caught colds lately."

The woman shook her head.

After seeing passers-by go away, she got out of the car with the man and walked into the hospital.

As expected, there were a lot of people who came to the hospital, and almost all of them lined up outside the door of the respiratory department.

In the hallway, the sound of coughing made the woman feel a little uneasy.

"What's going on?"

There are so many people coughing, is it a new type of flu?

Just as he was thinking about it, there was a commotion in the crowd in front of him.

"Let it all go, let it go!"

"Dr. Gray, what do you mean by that? Why isn't this a cold after me......"

"I said it all, you have allergies, do you know about allergies?"

The white coat reluctantly explained again and again.

"How is that possible! Doctor, what is the source of my allergen? What makes me cough all the time? If I continue like this, my body will collapse! Please, prescribe me some medicine! ”

"Ah, Dr. Gray, I've been coughing all the time, can you help me take a look at ......"

For a while, the originally orderly team was in chaos, and everyone had a touch of nervousness and expectation on their faces.

"Come, Dr. Gray! There is a situation for 12 bed patients! ”

In the end, Dr. Gray, who was almost overwhelmed by the crowd, was finally able to get out with the help of several assistants.

Situations like this are repeated in cities near the Polar Circle.

At first, people thought it was a flu.

However, it soon became clear that this "cold" was not simple.

The initial symptoms are fever and cough, and the whole body is weak, like a common cold.

However, gradually, starting from the lungs, the internal organs of the body begin to malfunction, failure, internal bleeding and other phenomena, and the disease progresses rapidly, making treatment very difficult.

Then, the patient will start to have various complications from the inside out, and the mind will become confused.

However, the strange thing is that even though the disease is so tormented that the human body is tormented, the breath is dying, and the expression is in a trance, there has not been a single death from the disease so far.

Not long after these countries reported the news, and before the World Health Organization had time to investigate and figure out the situation, this strange disease spread like wings around the world.

……

An underground laboratory in the United Nations.

"What's going on? Where did all this stuff come from? ”

A thin, shriveled little old man frowned, looking at a virus that was extremely active under the microscope.

This is a terrible ancient virus, which has been frozen underground for more than a thousand years, and once it is revived, it can still wreak havoc on humanity.

What makes him angry is not the horror of this virus, but the fact that there is more than one terrible virus like this that is raging around the world.

"Old George, don't talk about those useless ones. You just say can you provide me with a vaccine as soon as possible? ”

A white-skinned and blue-eyed young man standing next to him asked impatiently.

"The whole world is working on a vaccine, and so many people have not solved the problem, and you are counting on me alone?"

The little old man laughed angrily, and his wrinkled face showed deep mockery.

"Don't dream, you're just squeezing me dry, and I can't get the vaccine for you."

"Yo, old George, I'm not happy if you say that."

The white-skinned young man remembered the pressure put on him by the upline, and threw it at the little old man without any psychological burden.

"Anyway, I'm talking about it, and within a week, I'm going to see results. Otherwise, huh. ”

He doesn't care if this little old man is busy alone or not, that's not his business.

"What a sin."

Old George shook his head and sighed, not knowing whether he was sighing for himself or the white-skinned young man in front of him.

In order to let him come up with research results as soon as possible, this person "sent" no less than ten people as "guinea pigs" to study vaccines.

It's simply inhumane.

His gaze lingered on them with a hint of pity for a moment, then turned away.

He's just a prisoner under "house arrest" here, and there really isn't a need for such a flood of compassion or something.

After sighing, he lowered his head and continued the work in his hand, picking up a pen from time to time to record the doubts in his heart.

The sudden invasion of this ancient virus always felt a little strange to him.

……

Perhaps the virus is afraid of the cold, or it is fed up with being frozen for more than a thousand years, and they do not seem to be spreading northward.

With the Arctic Circle as the boundary, two contrasting worlds are formed.

The people who have been staying in the Arctic region to engage in infrastructure construction have invisibly survived their lives, and they are all crying out in their hearts.

"Mom and Dad, stay here for the time being, don't rush home."

Tang Qinqin earnestly advised.

Although she is not sure if the Arctic region is really safe, at least by her side, she can protect them in time if there is danger.

"Silly girl, don't worry, let's not go, we'll talk about it when we're done."

Tang's father, who devoted himself to the construction of the Arctic, has activated the infrastructure madness attribute in his blood, and completely forgot his original intention of bringing his daughter-in-law to the North Pole.

Tang Ma couldn't help but glance at him.

"Baby, mom has no other requirements, no matter what you do, your own safety must be put first, and you must take care of yourself."

Dad Tang was smirking on the side.

Knowing that the two of them would not leave the Arctic region for the time being, Tang Qinqin was also temporarily relieved.

(End of chapter)