The T198 train from WLMQ arrived at Zhongzhou Station on time. Passengers crowded out of the carriage and squirmed toward the exit passage. Suddenly there was a commotion at the escalator entrance of the passage, and at the same time there was a scream from the crowd: "Someone is
I fell! Don’t squeeze..."
Seeing passengers who were leaving the station were seriously jammed at the escalator entrance, a platform attendant immediately stepped forward to provide relief. After squeezing through the crowd, he discovered that it was a middle-aged passenger who had collapsed at the escalator entrance. The man was twitching all over.
He made an inarticulate sound. The platform attendant advised other passengers to go down by the stairs instead, while trying to help the fallen person.
Unexpectedly, the man suddenly shouted and hit the platform attendant hard on the chest with his hand, knocking him and several passengers behind him down instantly. Then he got up again and staggered onto the escalator, staggering at his feet.
He stumbled, lost his center of gravity, and fell down on the escalator. Due to the congestion, the passenger on the escalator in front had already gone down a long way, and there was no one at the top of the escalator. Therefore, after falling, the person tumbled all the way down the escalator.
It directly hit the passenger in front and knocked him down, causing a series of "dominoes" on the escalator to fall to the ground. The passengers on the escalator screamed when they saw this...
The platform attendant ignored the pain in his chest and quickly pressed the emergency stop button on the escalator. He grabbed the walkie-talkie and called the staff in the exit hall below to rush to support immediately, and then followed the escalator...
Since the power of the escalator was turned off in time, the passengers who were hit were not seriously injured. Only the perpetrator's face was covered in blood, but he seemed to be crazy, throwing away the staff and running around in the basement. Finally,
Several policemen on duty who were caught up pushed him to the ground together.
The man twisted a few times and then suddenly stopped moving. Looking again, he looked like he had fainted.
The police on duty and the station staff thought that the emergency situation was under control and were preparing to evacuate the gathered passengers as soon as possible, but they did not expect that a bigger riot had already come!
From the escalator underground to the exit gate, and then to the hall outside the gate, passengers began to go crazy for no apparent reason. Some of them screamed, some fell to the ground, and some launched frantic attacks on the people around them.
The exit hall was instantly in chaos...
Domestic medical experts quickly gathered in Zhongzhou. However, what puzzled them was that although new people with mental disorders were constantly being sent to the hospital, among the dozens of passengers sent in the morning, except for a few who were still unconscious,
The rest gradually returned to normal about 2 hours after the onset of illness. During the period of stay in the hospital for examination and observation, no recurrence was found, and no other abnormalities in physical signs were found. As a result, these hospitals continued to accept new infected patients while not
There is a strange phenomenon of people recovering and being discharged from hospital.
Zhongzhou, which has just been upgraded to a municipality directly under the Central Government, has a permanent urban population of nearly 20 million. Its hub status and industrial economy focusing on manufacturing have brought together more than 10 million migrant workers. In such a central city, such an outbreak occurred
An acute infectious disease with unimaginable consequences!
The Zhongzhou Municipal Government and the Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention urgently studied the transmission path of this "epidemic" and found that the first infected person boarded the T198 train from Xishui Station in Gansu Province and collapsed at the elevator entrance when exiting the station in Zhongzhou.
passengers, and spread rapidly from Zhongzhou Station to the east and south. In less than an hour, it has basically covered a large fan-shaped area from the East Third Ring Road to the South Fourth Ring Road; the heat map shows that the number of infected people is very evenly distributed
, there is no obvious "hot spot". Strangely, to the west and north of Zhongzhou Station, the spread range is obviously much smaller and the speed is slower.
Before this acutely spreading strange disease is understood, in order to prevent its spread from further spreading and causing greater social panic and unrest, the Zhongzhou Municipal Government held an emergency conference call and decided to temporarily close the high-speed rail station located near the East Third Ring Road.
All trains were cancelled, and thousands of passengers in the waiting room were put into isolation and observation. At the same time, all public transportation in the sector-shaped infection area was ordered to be suspended, factories were suspended, schools were suspended, and large supermarkets were suspended.
The Central Theater Command also received the order and dispatched troops to cooperate with local authorities in enforcing vigilance.
Because government departments, streets, and community workers have promptly strengthened prevention, control, and publicity in each area of responsibility, and people have established a good system in the war to defend and fight against the acute contagious virus "COVID-19" that they experienced many years ago.
Psychological coping ability, therefore, the harm caused by this emergency to society has been controlled to a minimum.
However, the total number of people admitted to the hospital has exceeded 2,000 after all, and nearly a thousand people are still under observation. And importantly, medical experts and major hospitals in Zhongzhou have not been able to find accurate tests, effective diagnosis and treatment for the time being.
Methods: Most of the infected people have a sudden attack, and then inexplicably wake up and recover after 2 hours, and those who are comatose for a longer time are mostly caused by triggering their own inherent causes.
In the evening, several military representatives who made a special trip from Base
Experts on infectious diseases, psychiatry and mental illness from all over the country, as well as responsible comrades from the General Office of the State Council, the National Health Commission, the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the mayor of Zhongzhou City, among others.
"The first infected person who appeared in Zhongzhou Station is a staff member of our logistics system." The military representative from Base X first informed everyone. "The unknown disease that spread widely in Zhongzhou City today is different from yesterday
What appeared at my base in the morning was exactly the same. The first people to be infected at my base - I temporarily use the word 'infection' to describe this unknown mode of transmission - were several staff members on the landing platform of the spacecraft return capsule.
, but not all. There were 24 people on the platform at that time, including 3 astronauts on the spacecraft, 6 engineers, 3 photographers, 9 medical staff, as well as the chief of our base and 2 staff officers. The spacecraft landed
Afterwards, the astronauts were sent to the rehabilitation center at the base, and the spacecraft was loaded onto a truck and sent to the assembly plant maintenance workshop. Around 10 a.m., some people in the rehabilitation center began to show symptoms. They were all medical staff who had returned from the landing platform, a total of five people.
; Subsequently, the number of infected medical staff gradually increased. In the afternoon, infected people also began to appear in other units of the base. The base immediately took emergency measures to isolate the rehabilitation center and maintenance workshop with symptoms of infection, and also quarantined the entire
The base has been fully closed and controlled. It should be noted that the three astronauts have not shown similar symptoms so far, and they are in good health. The person who arrived at Zhongzhou Station on the T198 train arrived at Zhongzhou Station one hour before the base was ordered to be fully closed.
He left. We investigated his activities and found that he only went to the work unit yesterday morning to hand over work, which took less than 10 minutes, and then took the commuter bus to Xishui Railway Station. He was returning to Zhongzhou to visit relatives, and the leave application procedures were also in
It was done three days ago. Yesterday, he neither approached the landing platform nor had close contact with any infected people at the base; and according to our investigation, all those who had close contact with him were
There are no symptoms now; there are no cases of infection in other passenger trains that stop at Xishui Station and at the stations. Therefore, we judge that the pathogen may have an incubation period of about 3 hours or even longer in infected people. At present, the base has no
New infected people are appearing again, and early infected people are gradually recovering, and some have been discharged from hospital. However, this infection does not belong to the common droplet transmission and close contact transmission, nor does it belong to the 'COVID-19' that occurred many years ago.
The kind of aerosol transmission; our experts suspect that it is conscious and can be transmitted to people he can see through the carrier's visual nervous system. Moreover, it only attacks people's consciousness, causing the infected person to suffer from neurological disorders or coma symptoms
, but the impact is not long-lasting and usually wakes up on its own after 2 to 3 hours; patients with severe infections have not recovered yet, but their symptoms will be alleviated with injections of sedatives and saline. There is a phenomenon worth mentioning here.
Attention: All infected people have selective amnesia after waking up. That is to say, they do not remember anything after the onset of their symptoms, but they have a clear understanding of their experiences before the onset. It is as if there is an invisible hand.
It’s as if all their memories have been erased!”
The venue fell into a brief silence, and the atmosphere was suffocating.
"The situation in Zhongzhou is roughly the same." said the responsible comrade of the National Health Commission. "When the incident broke out this morning, it once caused panic in the society, and everyone was helpless. But in the evening, the situation seemed to be gradually under control. But we still
We cannot take it lightly. So far, we have never been able to find the exact pathogen, nor can we know its exact mode of transmission, nor can we take effective prevention, control and treatment measures. We seem to be passively waiting for one infected person after another to attack, and we are busy.
We treat infected people on a regular basis, and then wait helplessly for their symptoms to disappear on their own... We don't know whether these people have really recovered, and we don't know whether this infection will leave them with any sequelae, and whether they will have any sequelae in the future.
Relapse, will it cause more serious physical harm after relapse?...
"Just now, comrades from Base
As a hypothesis. However, human beings’ understanding and understanding of the objective world since the birth is at best the tip of the iceberg; if viewed on a cosmic scale, it is like a grain of sand in the vast desert. Therefore, we
This assumption has to be treated with awe!”
"If the pathogen was brought by the spacecraft, it may belong to extremely small interstellar matter. Perhaps the astronauts once..." The person in charge from the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention stopped mid-sentence. He knew clearly that he would continue to speak.
It must involve a top-secret topic, which cannot be asked and it is impossible to get the answer. "I think the selective amnesia of infected people is the issue we should focus on. If this is used as a weapon to attack humans,
We will be unable to defend ourselves."
Representatives of Base
Pressure, why go through destructive attacks? As long as human consciousness and memory are controlled, human beings will return to the level of beasts, and the earth's civilization will naturally return to dust! He did not tell everyone present about Li Zhanxiong's worries, because the "cloud body"
The threat to humanity has not yet been announced to the whole society.
“The top priority now is to cut off the chain of transmission as soon as possible,” the person in charge of the National Health Commission instructed. “The areas in Zhongzhou City that have been quarantined and controlled cannot be unblocked within 48 hours, and the surrounding adjacent areas must also be managed on a grid.
We must do a good job in the ideological work of the masses and ensure social stability. We must use the courage and confidence we had to defeat COVID-19 and resolutely fight today's battle!"
Gao Tianjun received a phone call from the staff of the X base headquarters, asking him to take Aisen back to the base immediately.
Recently, Gao Tianjun discovered that Aisen has become much more taciturn. He often sits there meditating alone, which is a bit unpredictable. The research work on "601" originally focused on Aisen, and both Gao Tianjun and Ding Yushi wanted to obtain the information as soon as possible.
Breakthrough, they had a vague feeling that they were getting closer to the truth. However, Eisen's autistic tendency forced them to slow down the pace of research and experiments.
But what relieved them was that through this period of time together, Aisen's dependence on Ding Yushi seemed to be more obvious than when he was in Nanbin. Ding Yushi even told Gao Tianjun privately: Will Aisen suddenly understand life?
philosophy, has become so affectionate? However, despite this, she still suffers from not being able to understand what ultimately led him to become autistic.
Although the phone call from the staff officer only lasted one or two sentences, Gao Tianjun could still keenly feel that there must be an urgent task for him to take Aisen back this time, and this task would probably rely on Aisen's special abilities. Therefore.
He thought about it for a moment, then called Li Zhanxiong directly and said that in view of Aisen's recent situation, he suggested that Ding Yushi also go back together. Li Zhanxiong didn't say much and immediately approved it.
Gao Tianjun and Ding Yushi came to find Aisen together. Aisen was sitting in meditation with his eyes closed facing the hourglass. Ding Yushi had seen him like this for many days.
Before Gao Tianjun could speak, they heard Aisen's voice: "I saw people in panic and confusion. They all appeared in X Base and Zhongzhou!"
Gao Tianjun was startled. He subconsciously looked at Ding Yushi and met her eyes. Both of them were convinced that Aisen did not open his mouth, but he made a sound.
"Eisen...can you transmit sounds with your thoughts?" Gao Tianjun asked in surprise.
Aisen did not answer Gao Tianjun directly. He opened his eyes and looked at them, his lips tightly closed.
"What's happening there is not an infectious disease, but 'cloud' molecules are invading the brains of one person after another. They are learning about the form of life on earth. A large-scale 'fourth kind of contact' has begun!"
"'Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind'?!"
Gao Tianjun knew that the international "UFO" research community refers to the phenomenon of aliens directly abducting humans or taking humans for experiments as "the fourth kind of contact." What surprised him now was that there was no such thing in the notice from the base headquarters.
Tell him what, when he called General Li Zhanxiong, the latter didn't say a word. This was the first time he heard from Eisen the description of the events that happened at Base X and Zhongzhou.
If it is true, as Eisen said, that "cloud body" molecules are invading the human brain and causing local panic and chaos, then of course it belongs to the "fourth type of contact"! Moreover, he also knows that if such an incident really occurs, the base and local governments will
It will definitely be kept strictly confidential to minimize its impact on society. This is why neither the base command nor Li Zhanxiong disclosed it to him on the phone.
However, how did Aisen know this?!
"We don't know what happened, Eisen. How did you know that a large-scale 'fourth kind of contact' incident occurred in Base X and Zhongzhou?! Did you receive this information?!" Gao Tianjun asked.
"Just now, maybe at the same time you came over, they appeared in front of my eyes like a movie scene. And I also heard a voice saying to me, this is not an infectious disease, but the molecules of the 'cloud body'
Invading people's brains and controlling people's consciousness."
"I received a notice from the base, asking us to rush to the base immediately. You, Yushi, we all go!"
"I knew it from the moment you came over! Your thoughts have already told me."
Gao Tianjun suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of relief in his heart. His previous worries about Eisen had disappeared at this moment!
"Don't worry, we will come back!" When Gao Tianjun said this, he felt strange. In fact, in his subconscious, he fully understood the reason why Aisen insisted on staying in Death Valley in Kunlun Mountain.
The reason is because this place can really give extraordinary energy to immortal people!