As soon as Iger heard that something happened to the field team, his head was buzzing. He rushed to Joanna in two or three steps and asked nervously: "What happened to Bill and the others?"
"It's not Bill's field team, it's Nicholas' team." Joanna said, "Father Locke asked me to call you."
Almost as soon as Egger and the others set off, the Nicholas field team returned to Jixi Town.
"Uncle Vance, please keep an eye over here." After Iger said something to Vance, he turned around and climbed into the off-road vehicle driven by Joanna, and then the off-road vehicle drove quickly towards Jixi Town.
"What exactly happened?" Iger asked anxiously.
"I don't know." Joanna replied, "I heard that someone was infected by an infected person and is in isolation. That's all I know."
After returning to Jixi Town, Iger got out of the car and wanted to walk to the Morgan Building, but he took two steps back, turned around and walked towards the isolation ward.
There was a staff member sitting at the door of the isolation ward, and Ige motioned for him to open the isolation room door.
"No. You are not allowed to open the door without Captain Nicholas's order." The internal staff replied.
Egg nodded and asked, "How are the people inside?"
The internal staff replied: "No information is allowed to be disclosed without Captain Nicholas's order."
It seems that the matter is very serious.
Iger turned around and walked quickly towards the Morgan Building. If he guessed correctly, everyone should be waiting for him in the office on the fourth floor.
4th floor of Morgan Building, Chairman's Office.
After Iger opened the door, he found that the room was full of people waiting for him.
Without polite words, Iger asked Nicholas directly: "What happened?"
"Report Captain." Nicholas subconsciously called Captain Egger again, but no one paid attention. He only heard him say: "Take a look at this thing first."
Following Nicholas's guidance, Egger discovered a blanket on the floor of the office with something wrapped in the blanket.
Yesterday, after Peter calculated the power consumption, in order to facilitate freight transportation in the Morgan Building, the building reopened the freight elevator. This thing is loaded directly into the elevator from the underground garage and sent up.
After Iger walked over and lifted the blanket, I saw that the blanket was covered with thick blood. There was so much blood, it was as if a pair of big hands were holding the human body and squeezing it hard.
In the center of the blanket was the corpse of an infected person. The clothes and pants on his body had long been torn away. Only the corpse was still covered with a layer of sticky blood, making him seem to be a layer on top.
Man with red paint.
This blood is definitely not released by external forces.
The blood of infected people was originally semi-coagulated and viscous. Even if they were severely injured, their blood would flow out very slowly. However, this corpse was actually covered in blood.
After Iger stared at the body for a while, he suddenly thought of a lot. He asked Nicholas: "Was your team member bitten, or was it just skin contact?"
Nicholas said: "He was carrying the body with me because there was blood on his hands."
The field team is provided with a pair of gloves as standard, and Egger stipulates that gloves must be worn when touching the corpse of an infected person.
But when Nicholas was setting up the field team, he forgot to equip the team members. However, he thought it was a small matter and not a big problem at the time, but he forgot it again when he was busy.
Nicholas said: "Less than 10 minutes after contacting the body, Cook claimed to have a blood plague infection. After returning to Jixi Town, Dr. Haidmi used analgesics on him and is now in isolation. Dr. Haidmi said that Cook
The problem is not too serious. Fortunately, he just touched it, so he got some infection through skin contact. If it was a bite."
Nicholas shook his head when he said this, and everyone knew what he meant.
Iger took out his mobile phone and opened the offline map. He said to Nicholas: "Tell me about this attendance situation."
Nicholas stretched out his finger, enlarged the offline map a little, and said while gesticulating: "After we left Ross Town the day before yesterday, considering that we had not been to the red zone for a long time to carry out the clearing mission, I led the field team to set off from Felin Avenue and go all the way.
west.
On the first day, we walked here.”
Nicholas clicked on the map, which was about 20 kilometers away from the border of the safe zone. He continued: "Originally, we thought we would encounter infected people here, but in fact we did not. So, we continued to rush here, and the northwest corner
The edge of the mountainous area. Likewise, no infected people were found along the way."
Egg nodded. Nicholas chose the route very carefully. He followed the outermost circuitous path used by the field team when fighting the infected. He always moved along the line and did not rush into the core of the red zone.
.
"The next day, we moved in this direction along the road until we got here." Nicholas clicked on the map. Egger knew that the location was a fertilizer warehouse. During many field trips, that place became a semi-permanent
The campground is very safe as it is protected by a barbed wire fence.
"Similarly, we didn't find any infected people along the way." Nicholas said: "This morning, we moved here."
Nicholas was pointing to the town of Todo.
Todo Town is only 10 kilometers away from Puduo City. Egger's field team was even surrounded by a wave of infected people there. This is a dangerous area in the red zone.
"On the outskirts of Todo Town, we found a group of strange infected people. They were all red, as if they had been painted with a layer of red paint. Our team opened fire tentatively and quickly killed them.
Because it was a rare sample, we wrapped a body in a blanket and came back to find someone to study it. During the process, I put on a pair of rubber gloves, and Cook used his hands directly.
More than ten minutes after wrapping the thing in a blanket, Cook started to convulse and have high fever. I decided to stop the investigation and immediately returned to the camp."
After listening to Nicholas' story, Egger turned his head and squatted down to look at the body on the ground. He suddenly said without raising his head: "Can anyone help me get a pair of waterproof gloves and a sharp knife?
"
Egger decided to dissect the corpses of infected people.
Sister Maria quickly brought what Iger wanted. After he put on his gloves, he said to Father Locke and Sister Maria: "Godfather, Sister Maria, I think it might be better for you to avoid it. You can
Go and rest in the secretary's office next door, and I'll call you when it's over."
Father Locke did not insist on staying. After listening to Egger's words, he stood up and took the nun out.
A few minutes later, Andy also walked out of the office. He took several deep breaths in the corridor but could not suppress the nausea in his heart, so Andy hugged the trash can at the door and vomited a few mouthfuls of water before he felt better.
Also staying in the office and watching now is Nicholas.
It is difficult for ordinary people to accept dissection, let alone a person who does not understand the physiological structure of the human body. In addition, Egger’s original plan was to destructively dissect. Whether it was the scene or the smell, it was not something ordinary people could do.
Endured.
After following Egger for a long time, Nicholas finally understood Egger's purpose. He just wanted to see whether the blood on the corpse was "secreted" by the infected person himself, or whether it was a "buff" created by someone else.
The former involves a change in the infected person's physiological structure, and the latter takes into account the evolution of the infected person's behavioral pattern.
After Egger's nearly ten minutes of destructive dissection, the infected body could no longer be seen as humanoid. Now Egger is very sure that the blood came from the infected person's body, because whether it was organs or muscles in his body,
Not even much blood can be released from the heart vessels.
I really don’t know how this thing “survived” with such a ghost appearance.
Egger threw the knife into the pile of meat, took off his gloves and threw it in, then wrapped it in a blanket and asked someone to clean it up later.
Egger walked to the window and wanted to open it, but it turned out that the large floor-to-ceiling window was fully enclosed. He took Nicholas to the secretary's office.
The small secretary's office was now crowded with people, but no one cared much, so Iger prepared to tell everyone his opinion.
"I have two points of view. First, the tide of infected people is shrinking, and the reason is unknown. Second, this is a new mutation, which is very deadly." Egger said to everyone, still in the same kind of tone that is not surprising but never stops dying.
style of.
"First, the tide of infected people is shrinking. You already know it after listening to Nicholas' field report, so I won't repeat it. Let me analyze the results. I think a new blood epidemic has formed somewhere in Puduo City.
"Iger said to everyone with a headache: "In fact, we should have expected that killing the queen bee larvae will not exterminate the bee colony. As long as the bee colony is still in size, they will immediately raise a second queen bee larvae.
.”
"Maybe we are careless, but I think it's more that we can't do anything about it, because there is nothing we can do to prevent the infected from evolving.
The field team worked hard in the red zone for several months before killing about 5,000 infected people. However, the population of Puduo City is about 80,000. According to estimates, the number of infected people is no less than 70,000. We killed
The amount of about 7% is still too small and far from enough.
Puduo City is a serious problem for us, and we must find ways to greatly reduce the number of infected people in Puduo City, but our power is too limited now."
At this point, everyone sighed.
In fact, there are many survivors in Puduo City, very many. The gospel team alone has met hundreds of them. However, except for more than a dozen of them who joined the gospel team, the others all stopped briefly in Jixi Town to exchange and supplement.
After grabbing some supplies, he fled.
Now the west and north of Jixi Town are areas completely controlled by the infected. Without the control of human survivors, it will be a matter of time for the infected to spill out. The first barrier to stop them is the Jixi Town Fortress.
After letting everyone sigh, Iger continued: "The second news is that the infected people have new mutations.
Having said that, let me remind everyone first that everyone should know that this unknown infection that broke out this time is called the ‘blood plague’, right?”
Everyone nodded.
The name "Blood Plague" was not given by anyone, but everyone can see it in their own character attributes.
Whether it's "Blood Plague Infection" or "Blood Plague Excitation", they are all talking about this mutation.
Egger continued: "I was very surprised at first. It was obviously airborne, and then the whole world suddenly broke out at the same moment. After the outbreak, biting did not lead to reinfection, so why was it called a blood plague?
Now I understand this. The source of infection that caused this mutation, that kind of infectious body, and their parasitic environment is our blood, so this kind of 'disease' transformed by infected people is called blood plague."
After Egger said this, everyone nodded.
"Since the parasitic environment of infected bodies is blood, and these infected people drain all the blood in their bodies through their pores and adhere to the surface of the skin, it is obvious that they want to use blood as a medium to spread more infections.
No matter how capable an army is, its combat capability has its upper limit.
Perhaps through the air, body contact, saliva, other body fluids and other non-blood methods, infectious agents can also infect humans, but for immune people, the infection concentration is not enough.
However, blood is different. It has a concentration sufficient to break down our body’s immunity.
Never, never get bitten by these guys, you will die."
