After making a phone call to a nearby shop, Gu Jun's group stayed at the shop. About 10 minutes later, the police arrived to seal off the area. Then Phecda's convoy arrived. They escorted the group into quarantine vehicles and detained the citizens who had interacted with them.
The main reason the Phecda members could arrive so quickly was because this city had a large Phecda branch.
This was Eastern State City.
Gu Jun had no idea whether this was related or not but he did not believe in coincidences. At least this proved that Eastern State City was closely connected to Dreamlands. However, according to the Zoogs, ever since they discovered this collapsed dream channel, no living creature had ever visited this place.
Eastern State City was not part of the epidemic but due to the frequency of incidents in recent years, the city had always been heavily guarded. It was even more so after this disaster.
There was a set of well-established and efficient procedures for the isolation and handling of suspicious individuals. Now the 16 members of the Problematic Team and their belongings would be transported to the quarantine base for inspection. After ensuring there were no problems, the headquarters would make further arrangements.
On the way to the quarantine base, as the team leader, Gu Jun had a private conversation with the few leaders at the headquarters.
The survival of all 16 members was a pleasant surprise to the headquarters. This was because when the Phecda members were brought out from the dream, they thought Ma Feng was dead.
The recovery of Gu Jun's appearance was another good news. Yao Sinian said meaningfully, "Ah Jun, your face has returned at the right time."
"Why?" Gu Jun was confused. Yao Sinian did not sound like he was joking.
After that, he found out the reason and also learned about the latest situation here.
10 days ago, on the night of 3rd August, the Problematic Team entered Dreamlands. 3 hours later, they dealt with the thousand-eyed worm on the morning of the 4th.
After the abnormal power of the new legionella bacteria was removed, its transmission ability was greatly reduced. Through microscopic observation, the researchers confirmed that its minimum size had returned to more than 0.3 microns, and the N95 mask became effective. Its range of transmission, survival time in water, and so on were only slightly better than normal legionella bacteria.
Therefore, the epidemic was under control. There was no need to lock down the entire country. They only needed to lock down a few infected areas such as San Hai City and strictly control the traffic throughout the country.
The epidemic area that was almost abandoned before now had a large number of people stationed in it, and they had been carrying out anti-epidemic and disaster relief work for the past few days.
There were many difficulties in the work of each unit. As for the medical staff, they had to fight on the frontlines.
On the bright side, the development of patients all over the world had slowed down, and erythromycin had a weak therapeutic effect.
The replication of Drug No. 1 was not 100% complete. Even though the first batch of the drug was lacking in weight, when used on the patients who volunteered to participate in the clinical trial, it was quite effective. It was equivalent to erythromycin for legionella pneumonia, it could cure the patients.
It was just that the condition of the first batch of patients was already too serious when the abnormal bacterial force was destroyed, and there was no effective treatment at that time, so the number of casualties was very high.
At this point, Yao Sinian and Tong Ye did not give a specific number. Instead, their tone was heavy. They moved on to the sea battle. Currently, the salvage of the broken pieces of the ghost ship and the bodies of the Deep Ones was still ongoing. The only thing that could be confirmed was that the Seagull was not among them.
The investigation was also ongoing. This time, the whole world was working together to investigate the Afterlife Cult, the R'yleh Cult and the Rogers Theory that Gu Jun suspected.
Every country in the world was determined to eradicate these evil organizations once and for all. However, cooperation was not going to be easy. America, Russia, England … every country had their own agenda. However, those who knew the truth knew that the country that was leading the charge was the country where Phecda was located.
This was a global disaster, the country could not and did not need to hide it from the public. However, they only told the public about the legionella pneumonia.
"Over the past 2 years, there have been many changes throughout the world, especially this time."
Yao Sinian gave a long sigh. "According to our intel, the United States and other countries might announce the existence of supernatural forces to the public and reveal their own department to deal with it. We'll have to wait and see. Ah Jun, you have to be prepared. You might represent Phecda and walk into the public eye as a role model. "
Gu Jun understood instantly. Once the United States made the announcement, their country would have to follow suit. That was why his face was so important.
Mr. Yao was only giving a brief summary of the situation, there were still some things that he did not understand.
'Am I a hero, Gu Jun? Perhaps, but this time, he was not the only hero. 'He was reminded of those eyes and faces …
"How is San Hai City's disease control expert, He Feng?" Gu Jun asked. This had been on his mind for the past few days.
On the other end, Yao Sinian was silent. Tong Ye said, "He Feng passed away on the 4th. But his wife and children are fine, they are in stable condition."
"Oh …" Gu Jun fell silent. Professor He was a hero, he was loyal to his duty and his family.
He asked about the other disease control members at Jiang Xin Hospital that day. Tong Ye said they had all died in the line of duty.
"Tong Ye, can you tell me the current death toll?" Gu Jun asked. "I can handle it."
But when he heard that frightening number, he was silent for a long time and didn't say a word …
After the call ended, Gu Jun updated his team with the latest death toll. He understood their mental state, they had the right to know.
Be it Uncle Dan, Lou Xiaoning, Peacock or Ma Feng, the joy of victory disappeared instantly when they heard the number.
Combined with the global epidemic, the death toll was over 2 million.
In 1917, the Russian typhus epidemic killed about three million people in that country. In 1918-1919, the Spanish influenza epidemic infected about one billion people worldwide and killed 20-40 million people. At that time, the global population was only about 1.7 billion.
This time, the legionella pneumonia killed more than 2 million people.
The team arrived at the quarantine base with a heavy heart. After a series of inspection and review reports, they were moved into individual quarantine rooms.
Gu Jun tried to read, he tried to meditate, but whenever he thought about the large group of people behind the death number, even though they were ordinary people, they would still be He Feng, Shen Haoxuan, Huang Lin … His heart felt heavy. It was not until that night when he saw an expected visitor that his heart relaxed.
"I'm here to inspect the goods." Wu Shiyu was wearing an airtight protective suit. Ever since he walked into the room, his eyes had been studying Gu Jun's face.
"Understood." Gu Jun nodded and sat up straight on a chair. "Go ahead."
"Hmm, hmm." Wu Shiyu walked a circle around Gu Jun. He sniffed his hair and touched his face, "This is the smell! It's authentic. "
Gu Jun smiled. "Dirty-minded Yu." He gave a long sigh. "Many people have died but it's good to see you're still alive."
"Hmm …" Wu Shiyu's eyes focused and he nodded heavily. "I will live for a very long time and so will you."
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