In the main world, the United States, in a hospital in a city in the Southern California area, in a ward shared by many people, Jack, who was wearing a hospital gown with his head wrapped in bandages and only his eyes, nose, mouth, ears, and hair exposed, was lying flat on the medical bed, breathing evenly from his nose.
At this time, more than two hours had passed since the incident.
Previously, after waiting for a while, the police and the ambulance rushed to the fast food hall where the incident happened. After the boss and the surrounding people gave their statements, Jack, who was seriously injured, was carried to the ambulance and sent to this hospital. He was sedated to get rid of the torture of pain and fell asleep peacefully.
However, at this moment, Jack, who was lying on the bed, suddenly opened his eyes, revealing a pair of contracted pupils and bloodshot eyes.
Then Jack sat up mechanically and violently tore off the anti-inflammatory needle on the back of his hand. He ignored the blood flowing out of the broken needle and turned over to the ground. He quickly pounced on his roommate who turned his head because of his action and bit the other person's throat.
This situation was a complete reenactment of the young man who had bitten him before!
"Ah!" A fierce scream immediately sounded from the man's mouth.
"Ah!"
"Murder!"
Immediately afterward, the other patients also screamed in fear and ran out of the ward in a panic.
"Pa pa pa pa …"
Accompanied by the sound of hurried footsteps, two doctors in white coats and several nurses rushed into the ward, pulled Jack's body forcefully, and pulled him back.
Probably annoyed by the pulling, Jack, who had been biting the patient, suddenly raised his bloody head, turned his head, and bit the finger of a nurse.
"Ah!" The nurse screamed in pain.
"Kacha!" Then, there was an undetectable crisp sound. Half of the finger was separated from the nurse's body and entered Jack's mouth.
"Quick, tranquilizer!" The doctor who was still unaware of the danger yelled.
A nurse who did not get involved quickly ran out of the ward. It was not until a minute later that she returned to the ward with a syringe in her hand. She stabbed the syringe into Jack's body and injected the liquid inside into Jack's body.
But it was useless! Jack seemed to have developed antibodies. He was completely unaffected by the sleeping effect of the sedative. He continued to struggle crazily and bite others.
Five minutes later, with the arrival of the hospital's security guards, he was subdued violently. They restrained him on the bed in the same way they treated patients with mania and mental illness.
However, during the suppression process, two nurses, a doctor, and a security guard were bitten on the arm by Jack.
"Buddy, you're alright," a security guard said to his injured companion.
"It's nothing. It's just a flesh wound. That son of a bitch has a vicious mouth." The injured police officer raised his hand to look at his bitten forearm and cursed.
"Let's go to the doctor." The security guard who spoke earlier patted the injured security guard's shoulder and reminded him.
The injured security guard nodded and left the ward with the other security guards. He came to the nurse's station to be dealt with by the nurse.
"Hmm? Why do you need two injections? " The injured security guard looked at the nurse who had just finished the anti-inflammatory injection and took out a syringe to draw the liquid from a small medicine bottle. He asked with a puzzled expression.
"This is a rabies vaccine, if you don't want to become that lunatic." The nurse smiled.
Obviously, whether it was the doctor who received the patient or the nurse on duty, they all regarded Jack's situation as an acute outbreak of rabies.
"No wonder, that guy's actions are like a mad dog." The injured security guard suddenly realized and then accepted the nurse's injection with ease.
"Okay, remember to keep the wound away from water for the next few days. Also, come back tomorrow for the rabies vaccine." The nurse who took the syringe from the security guard's arm casually said.
"Okay."
Because of the injury, the security guard and several other bitten doctors and nurses were all approved by the human resources director and allowed to go home to recuperate.
At this point, the matter related to Jack was temporarily ignored. However, in order to trace the cause of Jack's illness and confirm that the other party was indeed an acute outbreak of rabies as speculated, various examinations were carried out on Jack's body one after another.
Just like that, another half an hour passed by in this calm and peaceful manner …
"Dear, are you okay?" In a well-decorated room that looked a little bourgeois, a slightly plump blonde woman with an American figure walked to the sofa and sat down. She reached out and put her hand on the shoulder of the man next to her and asked with concern.
This man was the security guard who was bitten when he suppressed Jack in the hospital.
At this moment, he was the same as the young man that Jack discovered. His face was flushed as if he had drunk too much. His pupils were constricted, and the whites of his eyes were bloodshot. His mouth and nose were wide open, and he was making weird noises that sounded like he was not breathing.
"Mark! Mark! "The woman quickly turned around and squatted in front of the man, raised her head, and shouted anxiously.
Then she quickly stood up, ran to the phone on the side, and skillfully dialed the emergency number – 999.
"Hello, this is the emergency center." On the phone, a pleasant female voice came out.
"This is …" The woman hurriedly reported her residential address and described the current situation to the doctor who was responsible for recording. However, she, who was on the phone, did not notice that the man who was sitting on the sofa had stood up at this time. He stretched his arms forward and came behind her.
"Ah!" The next moment, the woman let out a fierce scream.
"Plop." The man who bit the woman's shoulder and the woman who lost her balance fell to the ground together.
“hello？ Miss, are you still there? "On the phone that fell to the ground, the female doctor's voice kept coming out.
"Help, help …" The woman who was completely unable to break free from the man's bite said with difficulty.
At the same time, the same situation happened in the homes of several other nurses and doctors who were bitten by Jack, but some of them had children and the elderly who were pounced on, and some of them had pets in captivity who suffered. But in any case, something must have been attacked.
This situation did not only happen in Southern California, but also began to happen in other places.
For example, areas near the forest in South America, some towns in Chile, villages near Shennongjia in China, and some fishermen in the South China Sea region of Japan …
Of course, it wasn't only humans who had become so aggressive and contagious. The animals that ran out of the forest had also joined in. It was precisely because of their participation that the speed of transmission had become so fast. In less than two days, it had quietly spread to the city.
In short, now, except for a few people, the majority of people still did not notice the changes happening around them. Even if they did, they only thought it was a new infectious disease and still used the most ancient methods to isolate and control it.
On this day, at the checkpoint in the south of Akikuruno City …
"Application number confirmed. Permission granted."
As the pleasant female voice rang out, the roadblocks at the checkpoint immediately retreated to both sides, revealing the road to Akikuruno City.
Seeing this, the ambulance that had stopped at the checkpoint for inspection restarted the engine and drove toward Akikuruno City at a speed of sixty kilometers per hour.
"Mom, can this place really cure dad?" In the rear compartment of the ambulance, a young man who looked like a middle school student turned his head to look at the beautiful middle-aged woman next to him and asked with a face full of expectation.
"Yes, it definitely can." The middle-aged woman slightly clenched her fists and reluctantly replied with a firm expression on her face.
"Don't worry, madam. Akikuruno City's hospital is currently the best in the country with the most advanced equipment. I believe that it will definitely be able to cure your husband." Seeing this, the doctor on the side saw this and couldn't help but comfort her.
The middle-aged woman smiled and then continued to look at the man lying on the stretcher in front of her legs. His body was tied up by strong ropes that were as thick as an arm, and there was a ball in his mouth, but he was still violently struggling.
From the crimson color of this man's face, as well as his contracted pupils and bloodshot eyes, this was also a victim of the new disease.
Then, the ambulance was silent. Only the humming of the engine and the sound of the man's struggle echoed in their ears.
Just like this, after about ten minutes of driving, the ambulance stopped in front of a hospital.
"Hua ~" The doctor pushed the door open, quickly walked to the back of the ambulance, and opened the door.
The doctor and the middle-aged woman worked together to get the stretcher with the struggling man lying on it out of the ambulance and placed it on a mobile bed pulled out by another doctor from the hospital. Then, they pushed the bed into the lobby of Akikuruno City's hospital.
"We are from Aichi Public Hospital. The patient's name is Saito Misaburo. May I ask where we should send the patient?" The doctor pulled a nurse aside and asked.
The nurse who was pulled aside was stunned at first. Then, she quickly took out the futuristic high-fiber plastic panel provided by the hospital and opened it. She reached out and quickly tapped on the panel a few times.
"Is this a patient with the new disease?" The nurse turned to look at the doctor who asked the question.
"Yes." The doctor quickly nodded in agreement.
"Follow me." The nurse put her hands together and rearranged the panel in her hands into the shape of a small stick and put it in her pocket. Then, she led the doctor, the patient, and the patient's family members to the building specially used to accommodate the "new disease" patients.
Along the way, whether it was the doctor from Aichi Public Hospital or the family members of the two patients, they were all amazed by what they saw in the hospital. In their hearts, they hoped that the patient could be cured.
"What's going on?" At the same time, in the house behind Akikuruno City's shrine, Sei Itō frowned as he looked at the virtual screen in front of him.
"The specific cause is unknown. However, in the past week, the incidence of this new infectious disease has been increasing. We can't find the cause of the disease at all." Little Ling Meng replied.
"Then, what's the cause of the disease?" Sei Itō asked again.
At the same time, the virtual screen in front of him changed to a video that resembled a laboratory dissection. The subject was a infected monkey! In the video, even though its stomach had been cut open, the monkey was still full of vitality and desperately struggling.
"Damn it, it really looks like a zombie." Sei Itō secretly cursed.
"After examination, whether it's animals or humans, all the patients' genomes have shown abnormal disintegration and recombination. At the same time, it is precisely because of this disintegration and recombination phenomenon that the patient's body features show such a situation. Therefore, the researchers concluded that there should be something that affects the stability of the genome, causing the disease to occur." Little Ling Meng replied.
"If it's just disintegration and recombination, then what's the matter with the bestial desire to attack?" Sei Itō continued to ask.
At the same time, the virtual screen changed again and presented a microscopic image of the human genome and the genome.
"The researchers found that when the genome disintegrates and recombines, a new substance will be released. Then, through the blood circulation, it will enter the patient's brain and stay in the brain stem. There, it will undergo a second transformation, causing the brain stem to produce a new biological signal and secretion that affects the entire brain. This will cause the patient's consciousness to fall into chaos and release the bestial desire."
"Make a copy of their research data and give it to me along with the sample of that substance. I will arrange for people to conduct research on targeted drugs." Sei Itō thought for a moment and ordered.
"Yes." Little Ling Meng replied. Then, she suddenly disintegrated into countless photon particles and disappeared before Sei Itō's eyes.
"Could it be that the leap has already begun …" Sei Itō walked out of the room and looked up at the blue sky filled with white clouds. He narrowed his eyes and thought to himself.
A moment later, with a thought, he disappeared from the room.
A few minutes later, Sei Itō's figure appeared in the dark and boundless universe. He looked around.
He did not find anything.
Sei Itō did not give up. He gently closed his eyes and unleashed his spatial awareness to the maximum. Using the omnipresent spatial laws as a medium, he carefully sensed the changes in his surroundings.
In this way, after an unknown amount of time, Sei Itō's eyebrows, which had remained unchanged all this time, suddenly twitched imperceptibly.
After a while, Sei Itō opened his eyes again.
"Sure enough … although it's very weak, it has indeed begun." Sei Itō's eyes flashed with a long silver light. He narrowed his eyes and thought to himself, "In other words, the current zombification is only the beginning …"
Then, Sei Itō looked at the dark universe again and disappeared from space again. rs！。
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