This lab was similar to the lab in his previous illusions. Other than the equipment, there was not much resemblance.
However, when Gu Jun walked in, illusions surged before his eyes, it was like a flood that was about to burst out.
This flood had been gathering since he arrived at this hospital. The various images made his heart feel like it was being torn apart. This was not the same as what he saw during the Malformed Banyan Disease and Nightmare Illness.
The hospital was filled with patients. When they saw the members in protective gear, the patients who still had energy rushed forward to surround them, making it difficult for them to move.
Amid the coughing, some begged for help while others cursed angrily at them for not doing anything. They did not even send more medical personnel, they were just waiting for the people to die …
Some of the medical personnel were still at their posts while others were slumped to the side, waiting for death to come.
Coughing, crying, cursing and pleading combined to form a requiem that could crumble one's will.
"Move aside, please move aside." The members had to wave their guns to clear the way.
Gu Jun was silent. Even when he walked into the lab, he did not say anything to Uncle Dan and the rest.
He walked to the microscope and placed the rifle on the table. He turned to look at the petri dish. It was filled with clusters of greyish white bacteria …
The illusions grew stronger. Gu Jun leaned closer to the eyepiece. When he saw the strange legionella bacteria, the splitting pain in his head intensified.
His surroundings appeared to be twisting and wriggling like the many limbs of the bacteria …
"This is not enough. The reproduction rate needs to be faster and the drug resistance is not high enough. If erythromycin is effective, then it will be pointless."
"This is not enough! We cannot allow the current antibiotics to have any effect on the bacteria, that is our only goal. "
"We're getting close, we're getting close …"
Gu Jun heard a male voice speaking in English. It sounded like it was speaking at a different time. 'Is this the process of developing this bacteria?'
With a jerk, his vision left the ever-changing bacteria under the microscope to focus on his surroundings.
The familiar headache told him that this was not an illusion set up by someone else, he was the one who triggered it …
He went to the laboratory again, but it was not yet ruined, and the words in blood were not painted on the walls.
Centrifuges, incubators, ultra-clean workbenches, and all kinds of equipment were neatly placed around. Some people in black airtight protective suits were doing something. He could not see their faces clearly under the airtight hoods, but they seemed to be Asian and Caucasian, and they were talking in English.
Suddenly, someone said excitedly, "Erythromycin is ineffective, erythromycin is ineffective!"
"We did it! We did it!"
"Oh my, this is amazing."
The illusion flickered. The people stood in a row, and there was another figure in protective gear in front of them.
The figure was holding a petri dish full of bacteria, calmly saying: "It will cause great damage to this world, but this is the dawn of a new era"
Were these people the culprits …
Gu Jun tried to get a better look at them but his mind was quickly losing focus. His head was throbbing with pain. It did not seem like that withered face, they looked different …
Gu Jun had thought about it before. This plague was not an unknown infectious agent like the Malformed Banyan Disease but a real new strain of legionella bacteria. There was no need for spells or rituals, they only needed to spread the bacteria. That was why it was so contagious.
To create this new bacteria, normal cultists were not enough, they needed medical and biological geniuses.
'Are these people part of the Afterlife Cult … or are they working with the cult?'
“the dawn of a new era”
"The dawn of a new era"
The words of the figure kept echoing in Gu Jun's mind, 'But this is the dawn of a new era' …
He tried to take a closer look at the picture in the frame on the table, he had been wanting to do so since last time.
However, the illusion suddenly stopped. Gu Jun shook his head and took a deep breath. He was annoyed that he could not see the picture, but many thoughts popped up in his mind.
'No matter who they are, they hold the same view as that withered old man. Perhaps this is what brought them together.
They want to create a plague and through it, they want to create a new world … '
The belief that the plague and the sudden drop in population was positive in some way, it sounded ludicrous but it was not uncommon.
The plague debate was not new, it had always existed.
Gu Jun thought back to what the withered old man had said. Raw meat, Black Plague, smallpox … Black Plague, Black Plague …
The most talked about plague in history was the Black Plague in Europe. Its aftermath reverberated for hundreds of years until the industrial age.
From medicine, history, economics, society … the impact of the Black Plague on Europe and the rest of the world, there were countless studies and viewpoints.
Many of the viewpoints were contradictory, some were abandoned by the academic community while others were new.
"Ah Jun, are you alright?" Uncle Dan asked.
In just a few moments, Gu Jun told them, "Uncle Dan, start the medicine test immediately. I need to make a call."
He walked to the side with his phone and called Phecda's command central. Once the call was connected, he said, "Command central, please investigate those theories and factions that believe the Black Plague is a positive influence on Europe's development. I suspect there are related organizations that are collaborating with the Afterlife Cult to develop the pathogen. In English, they believe the Black Plague is' this is the dawn of a new era '. "
"Roger, roger." The operator at the command central replied.
At the same time, Uncle Dan and He Feng busied themselves with the antibiotic sensitivity test.
Now they were not testing which medicine was more effective or how effective the medicine was against the bacteria.
Instead, it was whether the medicine was effective or not, even if there was only a slight effect.
The medicine used for the test was the few things that Gu Jun had brought with him. He had already given a portion of them to the research fleet.
The powder that he scraped off from the scale 'given by Atal' and the two medicines that Atal had given him — Gu Jun had requested that he take them out now.
Only Gu Jun himself knew that those were two foreign drugs. They were the only two that he had obtained from the system. In his current situation, he had to try anything.
One was a 'brainstem tumor-targeting drug' and the other was a 'human anti-inflammatory drug'.
Although his "belongings" had been rummaged through before, they had been sealed up without any special reason. A few days ago, all his belongings had been sent from Eastern State to the Spell Department's base, including these two bottles of sleeping pills. He did not expect them to be used as test drugs.
Naturally, Gu Jun placed his hope on the human anti-inflammatory drug. Penicillin and erythromycin were both anti-inflammatory drugs. The production process was not complicated but they were very important.
The most important thing in medical treatment was to target the symptoms. Even though this was a reward from a normal mission, it could be a life-saving medicine. However, the medicine used by the foreign people had nothing in common with the humans on Earth. Gu Jun had no idea what kind of anti-inflammatory drug it could be and whether it could cure the legionella bacteria.
It was also packaged in a capsule and inside it was a chemical powder.
This meant that once it was effective, as long as the molecular structure of the drug was understood, one could replicate it …
"Try that first!" Gu Jun pointed it out to them. He did not elaborate on the fact that it was an anti-inflammatory drug.
He continued to think about the old man's words. It felt like someone was whispering into his ears, 'You refuse to face the truth because of your view of good and evil … The truth of history belongs to those who are willing to accept it … This plague will be a great milestone …'
On the other side, Uncle Dan and the rest started to experiment. They used many methods, such as diffusion and dilution.
Gu Jun stopped thinking about it. He was about to step forward to help when his phone rang. It was a call from the command central.
Once he answered it, Xue Ba's voice came from the other end. "Ah Jun, this is Xue Ba. I've found it. This is a quote made by the late British economist, Bertram Rogers, in 1909. Bertram's father, Roald Rogers, economist and historian, was a master of this view in the 19th century. "
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