The 16 year old patient by the name of Kevin Greer's condition worsened and he started to show new symptoms.
In the latest image sent to Phecda by FBM, he was sitting at the edge of his bed. His whole body was stiff due to ossification and his skin was as black as the Rio Negro. Since yesterday, on the 7th day of his illness, he started to experience a mental state similar to delirium.
"The pyramid keeps appearing in front of me … It's not an illusion, it's right in front of me … I can only dream of the pyramid when I sleep, it's right there … It's my body, I'm a part of it … Get rid of it, please, help me get rid of it …"
Kevin Greer scratched his head in pain but the pain only worsened. His stiff arms could not bend and the movement of his arms brought him immense pain.
And the pyramid that only he could see was still there, following him like a shadow, crushing every one of his muscles and fusing them together.
"The pyramid is still there, it's still there!" Kevin Greer suddenly tried to stand up like a madman. However, due to the ossification of the soft tissues in his ankles, the pain caused him to fall back to the bed. He could not control his body at all.
This was the same for patients with severe petrification. No matter how much they struggled, they could not kill themselves.
After a series of futile struggles, Kevin Greer lay motionless on the bed. All he could do was growl like a trapped animal.
His condition was classified by FBM's medical team as the third stage of petrification, mental petrification.
Not only did patients at this stage have ossification of their bodies, even their mental state was petrified. FBM conducted a mental examination on more than a thousand patients at this stage. They were all suffering from delirium, amnesia, dementia and so on. If this continued, they would turn into the living dead.
The pyramid that appeared before the third stage patients had something in common. It was blood red in color and upon closer inspection, one could see that it was human bones and each bone had a different head.
No one knew exactly where the pyramid was located. However, every country knew that it could not be allowed to descend into this world.
To prevent the disease from spreading, information related to the pyramid and the flood was censored around the world.
However, the new patients at places like New York and Lundy showed a new trend in the spread of petrification.
It was like a raging flood had broken through another dam, causing an even greater disaster.
When these patients were investigated, they recalled that they did not have a direct history of contact with the pyramids. They did not search on the Internet or learn about it from the media.
This was the first time they had come into contact with the pyramids in recent days, just because they walked on the streets of the city and saw high-rise buildings.
"At that time, there were a lot of cars and a lot of people on the road …" Ian Johnson, one of the patients, said blankly. "You know, it was very noisy around me. The sound of cars and passersby. Some were chatting on their phones, some were fighting. I felt a little annoyed. Then, those tall buildings suddenly reminded me of the pyramids. I don't know why, but I just remembered …"
Almost all of these patients said the same thing.
"I think of the pyramids, and then I feel more bored." Another patient named Jack O 'Toole panted as he spoke. A large area of his chest had already become ossified. "There are so many skyscrapers. The entire city seems to be pressing down on me. I can't breathe …"
"I haven't been to Egypt. I don't have any interest in pyramids." A female patient, Dina Pullman, hesitantly wanted an answer. "There can't be a pyramid in the Grand Canyon of Colorado, right? At that time, I stood on the edge of the cliff and looked at the scenery from afar. I felt that it was really amazing, too open … Suddenly, I was reminded of the pyramids. It was as if I could see them right in front of me. How did this happen? "
Dina Pullman represented a new group of patients. They also did not have a recent history of contact with the pyramids, and they did not get sick in the city. Instead, they were faced with natural scenery, mountains, or the sea. These things made them feel grand, and then the pyramids appeared.
"Don't think of the pyramids, don't look at the tall buildings, don't look at the tall things, don't touch the lofty things!"
Liu Jiecheng said this with a maniacal laugh before he died. Now, Phecda understood what he meant. This sentence had actually revealed the transmission route of the petrification disease.
The disaster that was happening all over the world was gradually going out of control. From 500,000 patients to 1 million patients, it only took a day.
Even those developed regions were facing the situation of medical resources collapsing. There were too many patients at the same time, and too few medical staff.
The epidemic was slowly becoming more and more difficult to hide from the public. The internet in these countries became even more chaotic.
On the other hand, since the disaster did not happen in Phecda Kingdom, even though the epidemic was so severe that human civilization might be heading towards extinction, there were many open and veiled conflicts between different countries. While FBM shared the information with Phecda, they obviously had a trump card up their sleeves. They even investigated Phecda.
The trust between them was fragile to begin with, to the extent that it had never existed.
The medical teams from different countries were already at their wits' end. If this was only a third-stage mental illness, lobotomies could be used to treat it but this was not the case. There was indeed something wrong with the patient's immune system. Their alkaline phosphatase and bone specific alkaline phosphatase could not be lowered.
Other than that, many things that were happening were beyond the scope of medical knowledge.
Prof Liu Qiqing, Prof Glasser and the rest, regardless of whether they were already infected or not, they were both mentally and physically exhausted.
It was possible to block the information but how were they going to prevent people from coming into contact with the skyscrapers? Modern civilization was built on skyscrapers.
It was impossible to suddenly evacuate everyone back to the village, that would mean the collapse of social order. Furthermore, the village could have skyscrapers and natural scenery …
Even without these external objects, just looking at the sky would bring a sense of grandeur. The sky was the tallest thing in the world.
"We have no way to control it …" Prof Glasser's voice was hoarse. In just one day, the disease had reached the tipping point of the third stage. He helplessly admitted his and the whole FBM medical team's failure. "There is nothing we can do. We don't even have the medieval method of bloodletting."
Petrification disease was one of the three diseases that destroyed human civilization in the later generations of the City of Kindle.
If the epidemic was a flood, the water level would be high enough to cover the sky.
Under such circumstances, Mysterious Heaven and Tianxuan sent out the Joint Mobile Force Unit, Stone Breaker, to head for Egypt.
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