Spending an entire day with these strange corpses required extremely strong willpower.
Although Sanjae had gotten used to living with corpses a long time ago, he still felt a sense of dread and malice when faced with these corpses.
Yes, malice.
It was as if these corpses were still alive. Not only were these corpses distorted, but they were also constantly distorting Sanjae's consciousness. Every second that he spent with these corpses was torturous.
However, Sanjae still stretched out his trembling hands and removed the white cloth on the second stretcher.
Then, the third, the fourth...
The further he went, the more Sanjae felt as if his consciousness was being distorted. He wanted to close his eyes but every time he did so, the images of these corpses would appear in his mind. He wanted to forget them but he could not do it no matter how hard he tried.
The images of these corpses were deeply etched into his mind. It was like a sharp knife twisting and turning in his mind, tormenting his mind.
Before he knew it, Sanjae passed out...
"Fuse, fuse, we're all alone. Only by fusing as one, fusing as one..."
In his dreams, endless murmurs could be heard. An inexplicable nightmare began to invade Sanjae's mind, causing him to furrow his brows.
"Hey, wake up!"
After some time, when Sanjae felt someone pushing him, he slowly opened his eyes. He saw several people in protective suits and polyethylene helmets standing in front of him.
Sanjae instinctively wanted to rub his eyes but when his hand was blocked by the helmet, he came to his senses. He supported himself against the wall and stood up, staring blankly at the people in front of him.
There were five people in front of him. They were medical examiners who frequented the morgue and performed autopsies here.
"Hello, medical examiners."
Sanjae quickly bowed and did not dare to look up at them guiltily.
"What's going on? It's office hours now. Are you sleeping here?"
The medical examiner asked, amused. "How can you fall asleep like this?"
"No, I didn't, I didn't..."
Sanjae stuttered. "I just..."
The medical examiner waved his hand, obviously just asking casually. "We've taken over control of this place for now. We'll be dissecting these corpses. If there's nothing else, you may leave."
"Yes."
Sanjae felt as if he had been granted amnesty. He ran out of the room without a second thought and reentered the disinfection room through the makeshift passage. The Android named Joey was still standing faithfully at his post, reminding Sanjae how to disinfect his body and remove the protective suit.
However, after taking off the protective suit, he was not asked to leave through the exit. Joey pointed to the passage on the other side. "After disinfection, please go this way."
"Where is this place?"
Sanjae was puzzled and looked at Joey. The Android immediately explained, "Dear Mr. Sanjae, according to the regulations, you're required to undergo a short period of isolation after coming into contact with a corpse. Therefore, for the next month, you'll be responsible for managing the morgue during the day and at night, you'll follow this passage to the isolation room prepared for you by the hospital."
"Wait, I didn't touch those bodies …"
Sanjae quickly explained, "I've been wearing the protective suit the entire time, there's no way I'll be exposed!"
"Don't worry, this is just a process."
Joey replied with a smile again, but there wasn't any genuine smile on his stiff face.
"But my family …"
Sanjae still wanted to argue.
"We've already informed your family."
The Android blocked the last path. "The hospital has signed an agreement with them and obtained their consent, so please rest assured."
Sanjae had no choice but to reluctantly enter the passage on the other side.
At the end of the passageway was a newly built quarantine area. The walls of the quarantine area were pure white, and they were numbered from 1 to 10.
At this point, another Android appeared in the corridor and pointed to Room 1. "Dear Mr. Sanjae, please enter Isolation Room 5."
Sanjae could only nod. He opened the door to isolation room number 5 and immediately saw two figures.
The moment he saw the two figures, Sanjae felt his mouth go dry for some reason. His heart skipped a beat for a split second before the feeling disappeared without a trace.
Sanjae was taken aback. He wasn't sure if the palpitation he felt earlier was just an illusion.
It was only then that he saw the two figures in the room.
"Varro?"
Sanjae immediately realized that it was indeed the two people who had just left this morning and were doing the same job as him.
He did not expect that the two of them did not leave but were quarantined just like him.
"Sanjae, you're in here too!"
Varro's expression was no longer the same as he was in the morning. He sat on his thin bed and looked around in despair. "We're trapped, there's no way to go back..."
"We're not trapped, we're just quarantined."
Sanjae replied.
"What's the difference?"
Varro was on the verge of breaking down. He hammered the wall in front of him. "I should've known, those corpses are some kind of infectious disease! I'm afraid we're all infected! "
"No, we're wearing protective suits and they're very expensive. This means that the hospital won't give up on us easily!"
Sanjae tried to cheer up his colleague.
"Is that even possible? Why would the hospital care about people like us? "
Varro was still in despair. "It won't be long before we end up like those twisted and fused corpses. We'll become lifeless but fused corpses..."
Before Varo could finish his sentence, he heard a flurry of footsteps outside the door. Sanjae hurried to the door and was about to open it to see what was going on when he realized that the door to the isolation room was locked...
"Several batches of people have entered."
Varro was a little dejected when he saw Sanjae's actions. "Everyone who came into contact with the corpses, including their relatives, medical staff, us, and even the police... Everyone has been quarantined!"
"How is this possible..."
Sanjae was completely stunned by Blackwatch's generosity...
...
After an unknown period of time, Varro and his companion gradually recovered from their excitement. Coupled with the fact that the two of them had been on the night shift, they were already very tired.
After eating the food that was brought in through the window of the quarantine room, the two of them fell into a deep sleep on their own beds. Their deafening snores echoed throughout the entire quarantine room.
Sanjae sat quietly on his bed, munching on the food from the lunchbox in his hand.
The lunch box was filled with curry rice, a rare sight to behold.
The rice grains were golden in color, as dazzling as gold under the sun. The curry was also extremely delicious. Even he could only eat this kind of boxed lunch occasionally when he worked overtime …
After all, he was not an official employee of the hospital and did not have the right to enter the cafeteria. To eat the hospital's meals, he had to have an official employee ID.
For the past three years, he had been using a temporary ID.
However, for some reason, perhaps due to the horrifying scene he had witnessed earlier in the day, even though he was eating the food that he yearned for day and night, even though the food was delicious, he could not lift his spirits. There was an inexplicable throbbing in his heart.
"Clatter..."
The lunch box in his hand fell to the ground and golden curry spilled out. Sanjae stood up stiffly and turned around to look at the two people on the bed behind him.
Varro and his colleague were sound asleep.
Looking at the two people on the bed opposite him, Sanjae had a strange expression on his face for some reason.
There was an indescribable expression on his face. It was a mixture of pain, conflict, and an inexplicable longing.
"Fuse, fuse, everyone is lonely. Only fuse as one, fuse as one..."
A bewitching voice echoed in his mind. At first, the voice was very soft, but as he approached the two people, the voice grew louder and louder until it drowned out his thoughts and everything else!
"Everyone is lonely. Fuse, fuse as one..."
The voice in his mind was like a violent storm that assaulted his sanity. Sanjae approached the two people and slowly reached out his hand to touch their faces.
Then, something strange happened!
When Sanjae touched the other person's face with his right hand, his hand began to change shape. The skin, flesh, and bones seemed to transform into another substance. At the same time, the other person's face also changed shape. It was as if Sanjae's hand had sunk into the other person's head!
At that moment, Sanjae's lips curled into a sickly smile of satisfaction...
"Bang!"
However, just as he was about to bend down and fuse more, the door was suddenly slammed open. Several soldiers in black combat uniforms rushed in and one of them fired a shot at Sanjae's arm without hesitation!
"Bang!"
In the next second, the bones in Sanjae's arm exploded. He let out an inhuman scream and charged at the soldier in front of him like a madman!
However, his physique was no match for the soldier in front of him. With just a wave of his hand, Sanjae was sent flying again and landed heavily on the ground!
Following that, the remaining soldiers rushed forward and bound Sanjae tightly before dragging him out of the quarantine room.
The remaining soldier came forward to take a look at the person on the bed. However, he discovered that Sanjae had fused his right hand into the person's head, causing the person's brain to be damaged. The person was now as dead as a doornail.
On the other bed, the man named Varro finally opened his eyes in a daze.
"What, what happened?"
Varro was awakened by the commotion in the room. He saw Sanjae being dragged out and a soldier in a black combat uniform standing in front of him.
The soldier did not say anything. He only glanced at Varro before leaving the room again, leaving Varro in a daze.
...
"The fusion has been interrupted."
Meanwhile, far away on the other side of the world in Namibia. In an underground hall, Chen Chen was looking at the screen in the void. It was showing the image of Sanjae's fused colleague.
"It can be confirmed that the protective suit can't prevent the infection."
Little X reported, "But the good news is that this strange fusion phenomenon is ineffective on Black Knights. Black Knights have been in and out of these quarantine rooms many times without showing any signs of being infected."
Chen Chen did not say anything. He only watched as the Punjabi man named Sanjae was taken to a secret laboratory and was subjected to a thorough examination. His severed right arm, his brain, internal organs, and even his blood were all examined.
"It's the same as the test results in the Spire Experimental Base..."
Half an hour later, Little X continued. "There are no signs of genetic mutation or microbial infection. Just like the fused corpses, everything is normal. There's nothing out of the human realm detected."
"There are no traces of memetic effects either?"
Chen Chen asked, still a little uncertain.
"Absolutely not."
Little X was certain. "Although memetic weapons can do what we're seeing, if it's a meme, I'll be able to detect it immediately."
Upon hearing this, Chen Chen stood up and began pacing around.
During this period of time, he had conducted dozens of experiments. Whether it was recording the scene of the fusion, dissecting and studying the corpse after the fusion, or interrupting the fusion process like what he did just now, he had not discovered anything.
The protoplasmic liquid in the meteorite represented an alien lifeform but it was not infectious. This meant that it would not infect human cells or the deeper layer of DNA. It was a harmless substance and was even rich in protein that could be consumed directly by any animal.
For this reason, the Spire Experimental Base had also experimented with animals and even Delta-level subjects drinking the protoplasmic liquid. The results showed that neither the animals nor the humans showed any signs of infection...
However, the Delta-level subjects who drank the protoplasmic liquid also began to have strange dreams...
At this point, the Spire had figured out a pattern. Be it animals or plants, the protoplasmic liquid had no effect on them. In other words, it did not affect humans either.
Strangely enough, although humans were not affected physically, they would start having strange dreams. Furthermore, whenever they encountered another human who had come into contact with the protoplasmic liquid, under certain conditions, they would fuse together in a strange way.
This fusion was beyond any known physical phenomenon. The human body was not liquid, so how could they fuse together so easily?
This was an extremely frightening riddle to think about.
Moreover, it was not impossible to interrupt the fusion process. For example, interrupting Sanjae's fusion process just now would cause the fusion to stop temporarily. However, the person who fused with the protoplasmic liquid would lose their sanity and become extremely aggressive. Their brain would slowly deteriorate and they would die completely within ten hours.
"It doesn't affect animals, but it does affect humans."
Chen Chen frowned as he stared at the screen. "At the same time, it doesn't affect the Black Knights either... Does this mean that the body fluid of this alien lifeform only affects sentient beings?"
"But how did it infect humans when it's wearing the protective suit?"
"Could it be..."
Chen Chen seemed to have thought of something. He suddenly narrowed his eyes and a dark glint flashed in them.
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