Drip, drip, drip. The anti-inflammatory drug dripped from the drip bag into the vein on the back of Gu Jun's hand.
Gu Jun lay on his back and stared at the pale ceiling. There was no one else in the spacious and clean sickroom.
This was a sickroom at the quarantine building of Eastern State's Medical Department. It had been 3 days since they were rescued from the alley at Anfu Village.
When he was sent here, his left pinkie and right lower limb had undergone surgery. Even though the Palace of Black Goat was a strange and corrupted place, none of the injured, including himself, showed any serious infection. Perhaps that was because the darkness had dissipated with the collapse of the mutated area.
The lack of serious infection saved them a lot of trouble. The surgical team stitched up the nerves, blood vessels and muscles around his wounds and fixed the fractures in place.
Now they were going to quarantine and rest in bed. Then they would start rehabilitation training to reduce the possible sequelae.
The remaining 6 members of the mistbreakers stayed in the other sickrooms on the same floor.
Even though Lou Xiaoning was heavily injured with multiple fractures and internal bleeding, she was still alive. Her vitals were stable. She did not even need to be placed on ECMO. Deng Ximei, Feng Peiqian, Uncle Dan, Peacock and Malachite all had fractures but they were not serious. They could get down from bed with crutches.
The villagers and Phecda members who disappeared with the change at the alley did not reappear.
Another 61 people were rescued. They were currently being quarantined and undergoing a series of tests and investigations …
61 people. Compared to the number of people who surrounded them from all sides, this was not a large number. Many of them would never be seen again.
In the end, it was Dirty-minded Yu who saved them …
When he heard Dirty-minded Yu's voice, he felt like he was being grabbed and pulled … The voice seemed to come from the sky. Gu Jun slowly closed his eyes and many shadows flashed in the darkness before him. Dirty-minded Yu told him about her dream, the crow …
'What is that? '
The first time he saw the crow should be after he found the amnion wall. He still had some memory fragments about it. He carved the words on the tree, and then he seemed to be summoned by the crow and chose to go north … It was also the reason why the fog-breaker team chose to go north.
Based on the current situation, it seemed that the crow had helped them in this matter …
Why? The power of the City of Dusk?
Gu Jun now roughly understood what the City of Dusk meant when it said that the voice of negative choice was "a great enemy", "not just … but always a negative choice". Not just a person, but a community. This time, they had only repelled this community, but they did not destroy it. As long as there was a world of difference, it would still exist.
Its purpose was destruction. To the infinite worlds, this was a great enemy.
The City of Dusk had a reason to help them fight against the Life Society of Negative Choice and prevent the spread of darkness.
However, Gu Jun doubted whether the City of Dusk had the power to do that. There were too many times when his life was hanging by a thread. If he died, it would lead to a completely different outcome, and the City of Dusk had done too little. He suspected that the City of Dusk would not be able to see the situation in the Black Goat Palace at the same time.
Or was that crow … the power of Nyarlathotep?
This thought had crossed Gu Jun's mind more than once over the past 3 days. At Mo Bei, it was Shub-Niggurath's power that stopped Nyarlathotep.
With the personality of the God of a Thousand Faces, it would be inappropriate for him to not interfere in this matter … Or it was not him but Keziah Mason?
As Gu Jun thought about it, Yu Chi's face flashed before his eyes. He couldn't help but exhale and open his eyes.
'Is this the end of this? Is Shub-Niggurath's power gone? '
The number of the abnormal infants stopped increasing but there were already more than 1 million of them globally and the Mysterium World had more than 1 million of them.
'Doctor Gu, open your eyes and look, the world is getting sicker … '
The voice of negative choice appeared in his mind again. Over the past 2 years, the disasters that he had been involved in, the Malformed Banyan Disease and Nightmare Illness, were limited to the Eastern State. However, the legionella pneumonia that plunged the world into despair, the Mutated Scale Disease that plagued many public figures, the Locust Sickness that turned two Earths into wastelands …
Now there were more than 2 million abnormal infants and more than 2 million victims.
This world was indeed getting sicker and sicker …
The power of the Black Goat of the Forest would not disappear. The next black goat cub, the next round …
Gu Jun took another deep breath. The pale ceiling appeared to be dripping blood. The stench of decay thickened in the air, suffocating him.
He had to do something, he had to save it …
The foreign world did not start with hemoptysis. There was the plague that caused the zombies, so there should be other strange diseases and epidemics. Then the hemoptysis suddenly broke out. The foreign people had no idea how the disease was transmitted. The people died one after another, and the cities were destroyed one after another.
Could it be that the root cause did not lie in who was infected or which country or city.
Instead … it was the outbreak of the foreign civilization?
When Gu Jun reached this point, his face tightened.
The more he thought about the hazy thoughts that he had had for the past 3 days, the more chilled he felt.
The source of the disease was the civilization. All the individuals in this civilization formed the body of the civilization. Every individual was like a cell in the body of the civilization. The cells could not leave the body, just like how homo sapiens could not leave the earth civilization unless they were no longer homo sapiens.
When the body of the civilization was infected, the sicker it was, the faster the individual cells would die …
Doctor Gu, can you cure this disease?
The ghostly voice flashed in his memory again. Gu Jun pushed himself up with his hands. He had to change, this civilization had to change …
Many messy thoughts rushed through his mind.
Gu Jun sat for a long time but he could not sort them out. His head felt like it was going to explode.
At that moment, there was knocking on the sickroom door. Wu Shiyu's voice came from the corridor outside. "Dirty-minded Jun? I'm here to visit you. "
He gave a long sigh. The moment his mind relaxed, a wave of fatigue washed over him. He could barely keep his eyes open. "Come in."
The sickroom door was pushed open. Wu Shiyu in an orange protective suit walked in. She carried a thermos and bowls. She raised the thermos and said, "Grouper soup, it's good for wound healing." Accompanying them were Ji Li, Fei Bao and the other Zoogs in their Zoogs' special protective suits. They were his frequent visitors.
"Did you cook it?" Gu Jun asked with a smile. Only when he saw Dirty-minded Yu would he smile naturally.
"The base chef did." Wu Shiyu walked to the bed and poured the soup into the bowl with clumsy steps. "My cooking is not as good as this."
Ji Li patted his helmet with his claws. "We can vouch for that. The soup tastes horrible, it's not because of laziness." Fei Bao and the rest of the Zoogs nodded.
"Come, leave us." Wu Shiyu pointed at the corridor outside. "Do not disturb us."
Ji Li realized that he had said the wrong thing and let the cat out of the bag. He hurriedly led Fei Bao and the rest away, running faster than a mouse.
Gu Jun smiled. He accepted the bowl from Wu Siyu with his left hand, which was not pierced with needles. The fragrance of the fish soup filled his nostrils. He asked, "Do Uncle Dan and Ah Mei have a share?"
"One for each person, it's customized to suit their taste." Wu Shiyu nodded. "Don't worry, the reputation of the Recreation Department will not be ruined by me."
Gu Jun gulped down half the bowl of soup. His heart was warmed by the heat of the soup but then a sharp pain shot through his heart. "How is Peiqian today?"
He knew Wu Shiyu visited Feng Peiqian first before coming to his sickroom. Feng Peiqian was not seriously injured but her mental state was very low. She might need a long period of therapy.
"Peiqian is fine." Wu Shiyu pulled over a chair and sat down. He looked at Gu Jun. "She is very strong, she even started to worry about you."
"I'm fine as well …" Gu Jun said as he finished the rest of the soup. "With so many people providing the best treatment and soup, what could possibly happen to me?"
He knew what Dirty-minded Yu was talking about. Of course, he knew everyone was worried about him. The psychology team had already done a series of evaluations on his mental state.
Because … of Yu Chi's death …
Gu Jun's heart throbbed with pain again like it was being torn apart. His 12 pairs of ribs also experienced phantom pain but it was definitely not even a tenth of the pain that Captain Yu suffered. "I do not blame myself and I will not go crazy … but these few days … whenever I close my eyes, I see Ol 'Yu. Even you are different."
He shook his head with a forced smile.
"Oh." Wu Shiyu reached out to pat him on his shoulder. "Then I will thank you. If I have to appear before you every time you close your eyes, how tiring would that be? But I have to be optimistic … "She thought about it." I can teleport the moment you close your eyes, that saves me a lot of energy. "
"And it's definitely not because I'm slacking off." Gu Jun handed her the soup bowl. "Give me another bowl."
But Wu Shiyu accepted the bowl. Instead of pouring the soup, she studied him. "Dirty-minded Jun, don't keep it to yourself, you can tell me."
"I want to say …" Gu Jun let out a long sigh. He wanted to say something but stopped himself. He was lost. "But I don't know how to say it …"
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