"Tong Ye, there's a new update from FBM. They've received multiple suspected cases of Progressive Muscular Ossification all over America …"
Just as Phecda was about to hold its latest press conference regarding the disaster in Qing An City, a sudden news arrived at Da Hwa City.
Because of this, the situation at the headquarters suddenly changed. This press conference was the first to change the original process and content. Li Zhenjing, Zhang Jingjing, and several other members of the Special Operations Division, who were originally going to appear at the press conference, rushed to the conference room in the Battle Center.
Due to Tong Ye's objection, no one from the Spell Department planned to attend the conference.
Be it Tong Ye, Lou Xiaoning, Xiao Xu, Wang Ruoxiang and the other frontline soldiers, they did not think the disaster was over.
Therefore, when something bad really happened, there was no surprise but many sighs, hoping that their hunch was wrong.
However, the bad news came one after another from GOA. It was like a domino collapsing.
"We've received the first suspected case from Russia …"
"We've received a similar report from England!"
"We've received news from Gaul, their doctors have received similar cases as well."
"The X-rays of these patients all show the same radiographic symptoms, it's consistent with Progressive Muscular Ossification."
"The number of suspected cases in America has exceeded 100. The results of the first batch of patients' alkaline phosphatase and bone-specific alkaline phosphatase are out, their levels are all abnormally high. This means that their osteoblasts are unusually active and bones are forming all over their body. This can be diagnosed as Progressive Muscular Ossification but the rate of ossification in these patients is even faster.
"According to their epidemiological investigation, 78 percent of the patients are related to Egyptology or related students …
"The patients all have a history of contact with the 'pyramids'. There are words, images, videos and even ways to recall them. Especially those who are not related to Egyptology, 100 percent of them have looked up information about the pyramids three days prior to the outbreak, 79 percent of them mentioned the Great Pyramid of Giza.
"The information related to Egyptology and the pyramids on the internet has been blocked to the maximum.
"The number of suspected cases in America has exceeded 1000, the number in Russia has exceeded 500 …
…
It had been a week since the disaster but Qing An City was still not back to normal.
Whether this place was safe or not was still a question, and a lot of investigation and prevention work still needed to be done, so the evacuated people could not return to their homes.
The frontline combat base of Qing An was located in an office building of Phecda Division. Inside this conference room, some of the key members of the Fairweather Unit were seated around the conference table. For the past few days, they had not left Qing 'an and had been busy here.
Lou Xiaoning was agitated, Chang Qianhang's face was haggard, Xiao Xu was as calm as ever, and Wang Ruoxiang and Uncle Dan, the two medical students, had the gravest expressions.
An unknown disease that was highly suspected to be Progressive Musculoskeletal Disease had broken out all over the world. The method of transmission was unknown. From the first case reported by FBM to now, there were more than ten thousand cases worldwide. The number was still rising rapidly, and it was unknown how many patients had not been seen yet.
This was a multi-party video conference. Not only Da Hwa's Phecda headquarters, there were also representatives from America, England and many other countries. Before this meeting, Phecda had a small internal meeting.
On the screen on the wall, Elder Tong and the group of specialists and professors from this medical team were there.
"The levels of alkaline phosphatase and bone specific alkaline phosphatase are more than ten times the normal value."
Progressive Muscular Ossification (FOR) was a disease classified under rheumatology. Therefore, the head of the medical team was a rheumatologist, Professor Lu Qiqing. At the same time, there were also people in epidemiology, orthopedics, genetic diseases, and other fields.
Professor Lu Qiqing not only had a wealth of clinical knowledge in the field of rheumatology, but he was also familiar with the most cutting-edge academic research. He was an authority on immune-mediated diseases of the musculoskeletal system, autoimmune diseases, and hereditary connective tissue diseases. Furthermore, he joined the Phecda Medical Department many years ago and began to interact with supernatural beings.
"During a child's physiological bone development period, the alkaline phosphatase activity can be one to two times higher than normal but these patients have an average of ten times, reaching 550 to 1250U/L. This is a scary number. This math is very scary. Basically, the patient's entire body is turning into bones, and this is irreversible. "
Lou Xiaoning and the rest were not medical students so they could only grasp the gist of it.
In the conference room, only the two doctors, Wang Ruoxiang and Uncle Dan, understood how scary that was …
Not only would it lead to the ossification of the whole body, it would also lead to serious problems in the liver, blood vessels and parathyroid glands. This was much more serious than FOR.
"We can't come up with any treatment." When Prof Lu said this, there was a deep helplessness in his voice.
Even when faced with a normal FOR, humanity could not come up with any treatment. The current situation was even more complicated and shrouded in mystery. The best solution was to eliminate the abnormal force behind this, but they lacked a solid clue to break through the situation.
However … there was a rather strange situation. It was unclear whether this was good or bad, but perhaps they should be thankful for it was that there were no such cases in their country.
This was, of course, a good thing, but things were abnormal. In this kind of world, there might be great dangers hidden.
Phecda and many other departments were conducting a comprehensive investigation. They were isolating the relevant Egyptian professors and students and keeping a close eye on the large number of practitioners, just in case any of them were from the Little Ram Order. For now, there was nothing out of the ordinary.
"What do you all think about this?" Tong Ye asked. "FBM is very confused about our situation. We should at least come up with a hypothesis later."
"I think it might be Shi Yu's doing." Lou Xiaoning's suggestion had many people nodding in agreement. "Those goat heads are afraid of her, they won't dare to cause trouble on our side."
But Xiao Xu disagreed. "She has left, she has left. She won't continue to protect us from the shadows, that's unlike her."
"We should inform FBM about this possibility first." Tong Ye decided, "Whether it's Shi Yu or not, she has contributed greatly to this."
Perhaps it was due to the protection of an unknown force that none of them fell ill. Even Chang Qianhang's test result was normal.
The disease this time was probably 'Petrification Disease' and the cause of the disease was probably the 'pyramid'. This reminded them of the Nightmare Illness. Previously, the Nightmare Illness had spread within Phecda at Eastern State and it had cost a lot of lives. They had to be careful but they all knew what the pyramid was. They had been in contact with it recently.
Temporarily, the most worrisome was Chang Qianhang. He mumbled strangely, "Do not think about the pyramid, do not try to understand it …"
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