The city was filled with skyscrapers.
On the busy street, a pedestrian suddenly screamed in pain. He collapsed on the zebra crossing. The pedestrian gripped his ankle and groaned in pain.
Some of the people who were crossing the zebra crossing continued to walk, some turned back to look, some went forward to help. The cars parked on both ends of the road were still waiting.
However, people soon discovered that this was not the only case. On both sides of the sidewalk, pedestrians also suddenly fell to the ground. It seemed that they were all because of a sudden, unbearable pain in a certain lower limb joint. Everywhere was in chaos.
This was a street in the heart of Eastern State. People hurried past and stopped in confusion.
They knew that a disaster was about to happen …
The exhaust from the vehicles was still pungent. There was also the smell of cheap plastic, the oil from the shops, and the stench from the sewers. This was more and more unbearable. Under the scorching heat, the air became thinner. More and more people collapsed, the pain becoming greater and greater.
The skyscrapers that stood on both sides of the road seemed to spin. The heat was suffocating.
The sky was cramped, the streets were cramped, and the time was cramped. In the vast world, everything was too cramped.
…
At the outskirts of Eastern State, Phecda's Medical Department base.
In less than a day, the scene here changed completely. Other than the members at the headquarters, there were also a large number of personnel from other departments that were transferred over from other places. A large number of Ancient Seal Stones were placed around the base. This was especially so for the Gu Jun statue that stood in front of the psychology building. It was guarded by many Special Mobile Force members.
This place had become another frontline, a place that was fully guarded.
The Eastern State had become a sanctuary. Many important officials, experts, and scholars were urgently transferred to this city.
Once, Eastern State was suspected to be the source of many disasters due to Gu Jun's uniqueness, but now it was also because of Gu Jun's uniqueness that it became a shelter.
The disaster situation here was not even one-tenth of that of other places. Even the neighboring cities were clearly much more severe than here.
The statue of Gu Jun was still young. It was wearing a white coat and the pair of large hands were a pair of surgical hands.
In front of the main entrance of the building, the leader of the psychology team, Tang Zhifeng, was directing his subordinates to move another batch of petrification patients into the building. This was originally a mental psychology building, but now the entire base was filled with patients suffering from petrification.
Due to the danger of being attacked by the enemy at any time, the important personnel who were not sick were temporarily at the branch base.
Only those who had fallen ill would be transferred here. The closer they were to the statue, the more likely they would be able to suppress the progression of their illness.
Among this batch of patients, there were a few high-ranking members of Phecda. They had been rushed over from Da Hwa City. Their condition was no different from that of ordinary patients. Their bodies were in acute pain, so the Medical Department could not provide more treatment than ordinary patients. They could only prescribe painkillers.
The reason why Tang Zhifeng came down personally was not for these higher-ups, but for another patient, Professor Lu Qiqing.
"Team Leader Tang, the orders from above have come down …"
On the side of the lobby, Tang Zhifeng and Professor Lu, who was lying on a mobile hospital bed, were talking to each other. Not far away, there were people hurrying by.
Professor Lu Qiqing had already entered the third stage. The blood-colored pyramid kept appearing in front of him. This could not be explained by the patient's immune system. He had become very weak, and his face was haggard. He was in his seventies, so he could not take much more than this.
"Yes …" Tang Zhifeng nodded darkly. "We are recruiting human subjects."
The orders from above were not to let this situation go. They had to start various experimental treatments to find a viable solution.
If normal drugs did not work, he would have to try unconventional methods that had worked before, such as lobotomies.
They wanted to see if they could sever the connection between the patient and the abnormal energy, just like the Nightmare Illness.
"I'll go first." Professor Lu sighed. "I'll be the first subject."
"Professor Lu, it's not like you don't have high hopes for this treatment …" Tang Zhifeng was startled. The situation this time was very different from Nightmare Illness. Nightmare Illness started from a mental illness, but Petrification Disease started from an autoimmune disease. Even if there was delirium, it was more likely to be caused by physical weakness.
"I do not have a high opinion of it, but we have to give it a try. The higher-ups have the same opinion." Professor Lu sighed again. His eyes were not as bright as they were a few days ago. "If it is useless, there is no need to start such a large scale experiment … Whatever happens, it is all because of my own negligence …"
As a renowned rheumatologist and the supervisor of the medical team, he had made no contribution and was at his wits' end.
"Professor Lu, this is not because of you …"
"You don't have to say that. Professor Qin and I are old friends. Why can't I do what he can? I can't do anything else now. If I don't do this surgery, I'll just be waiting for death … I want to do something to conquer this disease … "
Seeing that the man had made up his mind, Tang Zhifeng nodded and said in a hoarse voice, "Okay, Professor Lu … I respect your decision. What about Tong Ye? "
"I've told Ol 'Tong, he has no objections." Professor Lu said with a smile, "But he suggested you do it for the other higher-ups as well."
Tang Zhifeng smiled bitterly. He had heard a little about the inside story. Ah Jun's case was not that simple.
Other people might not know but he knew that Ah Jun's brain stem tumor had been miraculously cured. He even participated in the research and confirmed that Ah Jun's cause of death was not a brain stem tumor.
Now, as a member of the Spell Department, Cai Zixuan had returned. He did not want to talk about Ah Jun.
While Professor Lu Qiqing and the other patients were sent into the building for surgery, more Ancient Seal stones were piled up beside the statue. Another team of Ancient Seal members arrived. The reinforcements from Mysterium had arrived as well. Now everyone had to focus on guarding this place.
The enemy did not ambush both the tomb and the statue at the same time. They did not ambush the statue immediately after they ambushed the tomb. This meant that the enemy did not have enough power to do that.
But now, after a day's time, the balance had long been out of balance.
If this statue of Gu Jun was really an invisible dam, the enemy would definitely come to remove this thorn in their side to spread the disaster.
The darkness of the night was broken by the strong light. The chilling wind blew. Everyone was alert for any movement around them.
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