It was hard to believe that this was the face of a 32-year-old man in the prime of his life.
He looked so skinny that he could be blown away by a gust of wind.
There was a picture of him before he got sick in the file. He was a gentle man with gold-rimmed eyes. Judging from his happy smile, he probably had a happy family.
Gao Peng quietly flipped open the last file.
When he flipped it open, Gao Peng's hand hung in the air. "This is … the patient?"
Gao Peng could not believe that the person in the picture was actually a human.
The body was crawling on the ground. White bones protruded from his spine. His eye sockets were sunken into two black holes. The toothless mouth was wide open. Gao Peng could almost hear a soundless scream through the picture.
Rather than a human, it was more like a mutated worm.
[Patient Name]: Jin Shengming
[Patient Age]: 18
[Patient Infected Time]: 726 hours
[Infection Symptoms]: All hair and skin have fallen off. Loss of vision, but suspected to have other sensory abilities. Slow movement, increased strength, about twice that of an adult male. At the same time, bone hardness increased. Strong desire for fresh blood … suspected to have been completely infected. No longer contagious.
Gao Peng frowned. "No contagious?" Gao Peng thought there was a mistake.
"Uh, sir, after our tests, this patient is no longer contagious," the doctor said confidently.
Gao Peng nodded. "Bring me to this patient."
The doctor seemed to have expected this. He turned around and led the way.
After passing through a corridor, Gao Peng saw Jin Shengming. However, this ward had obviously been specially modified. Even the glass had been replaced with bulletproof glass floor-to-ceiling windows.
He seemed to have heard the sound of footsteps. When Gao Peng passed by the window, he heard a bang.
A face was pressed tightly against the glass. What could be called a face was squeezed together. Thick yellow liquid and some black dirt stuck to the window, leaving a long mark.
Bang, bang, bang.
Inside, Jin Shengming was frantically banging on the window, making an incomprehensible roar.
"Sure enough, he's not human anymore …"
A row of data flashed past Gao Peng's eyes.
[Monster Name]: Green Plague Worm Infection
[Monster Level]: Level 3
[Monster Grade]: Normal
[Monster Attribute]: Poison
[Monster Weakness]: Fire
[Monster Description]: The offspring of the Green Plague Queen Bug has the ability to infect and divide. Targets infected by the Green Plague Queen Bug will gradually mutate into a carrier of the Green Plague Queen Bug, and new offspring will be born from the carrier.
The larvae of the Green Plague Bug possessed extremely strong survivability. At the same time, their small size allowed them to hide extremely well. However, they were afraid of high temperatures.
Gao Peng's footsteps paused. Larva?!
It was not a contagious virus.
That means …
Gao Peng looked down at his hands and feet. His white coat was clean and spotless.
"Baldy, scan the hospital." Gao Peng ordered the Growing Brain on the roof of the hospital.
Baldy was a nickname given to it by Xiao Huang. Along the way, Xiao Huang had called it so many times that the others followed suit.
When Gao Peng asked why it called others Baldy, Xiao Huang said confidently, "Although I don't have any hair, at least I have a scalp. It doesn't even have a scalp, so what is it if not Baldy?"
Baldy's spirit force scanned the entire hospital from top to bottom like a layer of transparent light waves.
The results of the scan were sent to Gao Peng through the Space of Consciousness. Gao Peng's hair stood on end.
Through the scan of his spirit force, he could see that the entire building was filled with tiny white dots of light.
Within the range of the Psychic Energy scan, any living being would be detected. Unless the target had the ability to isolate their own life force, there was no place for them to hide.
Depending on the strength of the target's body, the brightness of the white dots would be different.
The outer and inner walls of the hospital were covered with tiny white dots. Many people's clothes and hair were also covered with white dots.
If someone with trypophobia saw this, they would definitely feel disgusted.
"Do you want to kill these little bugs?" Baldy asked.
The life force of these larvae was even weaker than fireflies in the dark. It would be too easy for Baldy to crush them.
Gao Peng was about to agree when he suddenly thought of something.
"Wait, scan the streets outside and the entire city."
When Baldy's scan results were sent over, Gao Peng still felt his scalp go numb even though he was already mentally prepared.
Although these Green Plague Venom larvae had not reached the extent where they could cover the entire Hanzhong City, some of the streets, walls, and clothes of the pedestrians were infested with these larvae.
Gao Peng immediately held back.
Although he could eliminate these larvae, but …
If he could not eliminate all the disasters in one go, eliminating a few larvae would not help at all.
It was even possible that the mastermind would be alerted and a disaster that Gao Peng did not wish to see happen. "How troublesome."
"What's wrong, Mr. Gao?" The doctor beside him did not seem to have heard him clearly.
Gao Peng turned his head and smiled apologetically. "I'm sorry, the patient just now looked a little scary."
"Oh, oh, it's okay. Did Mr. Gao discover anything else?" The doctor stared into Gao Peng's eyes.
"I was just wondering why the infection of these plagues is so weak."
"Weak?" The doctor's voice rose two octaves, as if he was surprised.
"Yeah, so far, only normal people are infected, right? There have been no cases of monsters being infected, which means that the infection of this plague is limited. Even familiars and monsters cannot be infected, "Gao Peng said perfunctorily, then left.
The doctor held the documents in his arms as he watched Gao Peng's back disappear into the hospital corridor. He quickly lowered his head, his eyes calm under the frame of his glasses.
.....
"Do you know what to do in a situation like this?" Gao Peng asked Desolion.
"For parasitic bugs like this, usually, all the small ones will die after the big ones are killed," the Frosty Lion answered after thinking for a while.
"That's what I thought. The problem now is how to find the mother bug behind this." Gao Peng nodded.
Gao Peng had never been afraid of anyone in a head-on confrontation.
This was Earth Star, not the Black Fog World.
He did not believe that anyone could survive the bombardment of a group of King-tier familiars.
"Mr. Gao." Liu Xiaolu followed in her leather boots. Although she did not recognize Gao Peng and Ji Hanwu at the time, on the way back, she quickly learned the identities of the two big bosses in the car through other means.
When he found out their true identities, he was really surprised and bewildered.
At first, she only wanted to invite the Crocodile King. Who knew that she would invite two Mosasaurs?
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