Tick tock, tick tock.
The clock kept ticking. On the big screen at the command central, the countdown for Team B's departure was 4: 00: 00, 4 hours left.
The countdown for blowing up the channel was 10 hours.
It had been 2 hours since Team A and the Problematic Team entered Dreamlands. The physical channel at Jiang Xin City was still stable. More people were in position to guard it. Team B and Team C were quickly assembling as well. There would be more Spell Department members in each team.
Everyone at the command central was busy. The various departments were busy making arrangements and coordination.
Elder Tong was conversing with Prof Shen and Prof Jiang. Before Team A departed, when Gu Jun was still connected to Gu Jun, they had discussed whether they could send people into Gu Jun's mind through the mental connection with him like last time. That way, Gu Jun would not exhaust the physical channel.
They had no idea where Kaar's Field and the House of Worm were but Prof Jiang said that as long as there was a connection, they could give it a try.
"Do not allow Wu Shiyu to enter Dreamlands." At the time, Gu Jun said seriously, "Her entering Dreamlands might bring bad luck, the Great Elder Atal has specifically warned us about that."
The problem was, Wu Shiyu was the person with the closest mental link to him. However, Gu Jun said that if they really wanted to take that step, they should go to Wang Ruoxiang, she would know what to do.
Desperate times had desperate times. Wang Ruoxiang had already departed from the quarantine base. She was heading towards the Dreamland Team that was also gathering …
"It's been 2 hours." Doctor Shen was worried. "I wonder how Ah Jun and the rest are doing."
At the same time, another thing that worried the command central was the Lai Hwa Tree seed. It was given by Atal, so it must be very useful.
The Research fleet had already planted the seed in the greenhouse. Since Gu Jun had emphasized that it should be planted naturally, the fleet followed this principle and had the botanists take care of it. Zhang Jinmin, the head of the fleet, said, "We will not disappoint the organization."
"Tong Ye, something is wrong with the body."
The number of patients and deaths around the world and in San Hai City was still increasing. Wang Guoxin's body had been transferred to the research fleet for further research.
At this time, the big screen in the command center played a surveillance video at 8x speed. Everyone could quickly and clearly see the changes in Wang Guoxin's body.
The medical staff felt a chill run down their spines. Xiao Huiwen, who had once observed a ghoul's dissection, mumbled in shock, "Too fast, too fast …"
Wang Guoxin's corpse was maintained at a temperature of more than 40 degrees Celsius, which was even higher than before his death. This was not strange, because after the death of patients with encephalitis, pneumonia, and other diseases, due to the role of bacteria and viruses, the body's decomposition increased, and heat production increased. It was normal for the body to warm up for a period of time.
But the other corpses appeared too quickly!
Corpses usually started to rot 24 hours after death. It had been less than 5 hours since Huang Guoxin's death, but his entire body had already started to rot.
Since his entire body was rotting, there must be bacteria devouring and decomposing all of his tissues.
"Bacteremia." Xiao Huiwen came to this conclusion. "When the patient died, the legionella bacteria had already seeped into the bloodstream, causing bacteremia."
If it was not bacteremia, the bacteria in the lungs would not have spread to the rest of the body.
Bacteremia was when the bacteria entered the bloodstream, they would multiply in the human bloodstream and spread throughout the body. Even if it was bacteremia caused by normal bacteria, it could cause severe consequences. It could lead to multiple organ failure. The mortality rate of bacteremia caused by streptococcal pneumonia was as high as 60%.
Now it was this new type of legionella bacteria … This explained why the patient's survival time was so short.
Previously, the Medical Department had already made this judgment, but they did not have enough time to do a thorough examination and dissection.
Now it was confirmed that the late stage of legionella pneumonia was bacteremia, it would cause purulent infection throughout the body. However, before this symptom appeared, the patient would have already passed away due to multiple organ failure and the symptoms would turn into that of a dead body.
Not only Wang Guoxin's body, the other patients' bodies at Jiang Xin Hospital and other places were showing the same symptoms.
Their bodies were filled with the rapidly reproducing legionella bacteria! Otherwise, they would not have decomposed so quickly. They were melting into a pile of pus.
Furthermore, after the patient's death, the bacteria appeared to be reproducing even faster …
"I'm willing to bet that there must be some kind of spell involved." Tong Ye said with a heavy voice, "The vitality of this bacteria is unbelievable."
"It should be some kind of spell …" Prof Jiang agreed, "Or it could be some kind of science that we still do not understand."
A normal legionella bacteria had a diameter of 0.6 to 1.2 microns, sometimes they could grow to more than 50 microns.
According to the Researcher's findings from the patients' blood and sputum samples, some of the new bacteria had already grown to more than 100 microns.
However, the Researcher still could not confirm how small the bacteria was at its smallest size.
It was definitely smaller than 0.3 microns because the N95 surgical mask with a filtration rate of 95% above 0.3 microns was completely ineffective against it. Even the 0.07 microns filter that was commonly used in level 3 protective clothing was ineffective.
Bacteria could be very small, the smallest known bacterium before this, 'nanobacteria', had a diameter of 50 nanometers or 0.05 microns.
Therefore, when the bacteria was spreading, it could be smaller than 0.05 microns. Therefore, only the airtight protective clothing was effective but it could not support the huge demand, especially from the general public.
However, so far, the Researcher had not found such a small strain of legionella bacteria from the blood and air samples, the smallest was at least 0.1 microns.
Could they shrink and change their shape?
In some of the previous bacterial culture experiments, the bacteria did know how to change their shape to resist the drugs but they could not change their shape at will …
In any case, this might be a good thing. The group had heard from Gu Jun that there was a plague among the foreign civilization called hemoptysis that could be transmitted without the aid of bacteria, virus, or parasites. The specific mechanism was unclear, but it appeared to be similar to the Nightmare Illness. It was contagious through a single thought.
If this new strain of legionella bacteria was targeting 'hemoptysis', then they were very close to it …
The government had already initiated the 'Tinder Project', some important figures were being evacuated to the secret base.
At that moment, be it Tong Ye, Dr. Shen or Yao Sinian, everyone was silently thinking, 'Ah Jun, Ah Jun, what's the situation on your side? Please hurry up.'
At that moment, the alarm rang in the command central. The personnel gasped, "A fleet has appeared! A fleet has appeared! "
The real-time image from the scientific research fleet showed a ghost-like fleet approaching in the dark.
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