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Chapter 3733 Countdown to Death
Chapter 3733 Countdown to Death
Ingres's guess was not groundless.
Along the way, he saw too many patients with secondary mutations. Moreover, everyone at the Beverly Care Center had to go to the dermatology department before leaving, which was obviously a sign.
Angel hesitated for a moment and put his God's perspective on the basement floor of the nursing center.
This floor is equipped with a chamber for the afterlife.
That is the morgue.
In the death room, Angel saw nearly a hundred bodies covered with white cloth. When Angel scanned with God's vision, he did not see what was under the white cloth.
Now take a closer look.
Every corpse is a mutant who has mutated at least twice.
Their skin was all ulcerated, and green unknown liquid kept oozing out, staining the white cloth covering the bodies with mold spots.
Moreover, in just the few minutes that Angel was observing, a large number of staff members came in from the door pushing corpse carts.
Even though this is a hospital, it is definitely abnormal to have such a large number of deaths.
It seems that the viral load in the air has reached a certain limit.
Perhaps, after the two and a half hour countdown, that would be the moment when the bowstring would break...
While Angel was thinking about this, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door suddenly. Judging from the rapid overlapping frequency, the person who came seemed very anxious.
A few seconds later, a doctor in a white coat walked quickly into the dean's office.
While jogging, he whispered, "Dean, something bad has happened!"
Connors, who had been working hard, finally raised his head.
He did not see Angel who was hiding beside him, but stared at the person who came...
Wolfgang Schneider, Chief Dermatologist.
Seeing Schneider coming, Connors' eyes flashed with obvious sadness. He put down the pen in his hand and adjusted his expression: "Schneider, I told you before, as long as it is not at the level of broadcasting in the hospital, don't make a fuss."
In other words, he didn't hear any in-hospital broadcasts, which meant that even if something happened, it wasn't worth making such a fuss.
Schneider and Connors were obviously old friends. He didn't listen to Connors' complaints and said directly: "You are sitting here high up, so you naturally don't know the situation below. This time something really big happened!"
Connors put on his gold-rimmed glasses and looked at Schneider: "Tell me, what's wrong?"
Schneider: "Fourteen more patients died today in my care."
"That's it?"
Schneider: "What do you mean... that's it? I was in charge of a total of twenty patients, fourteen of them died, and the remaining six are almost at their limit."
"Besides, you should know how many people have been sent to the afterlife in the past two days."
Schneider walked up to Connors and quickly rummaged through the table. After a while, he threw out a "Death Chamber Usage Report" which showed data from the past week.
"Look, in just one week, the usage report is almost thicker than the palm of my hand. You dare say this isn't a big deal?"
Schneider: "Besides, you didn't completely seal off the nursing center. Many patients have been discharged in the past few days. If they tell others about what happened here, it will be an uncontrollable and huge blow to us. I don't understand why you..."
Before Schneider could finish, Connors interrupted and asked, "What else?"
A calm voice came out of Connors' mouth.
"Should we completely close the hospital? Even if these people don't show any signs of secondary mutation?"
Connors: "Don't forget that the residents of the underground block have not been vaccinated. If they are infected with the virus again, they will almost certainly die."
Schneider: "Of course I know that, but we also need to balance public opinion..."
Seeing that there was no fluctuation in Connors' eyes, Schneider understood that it was impossible to ask the dean to seal off the nursing center.
He was silent for a moment. "Forget it, let's not talk about the blockade. Let's solve the current situation first. If we don't want to be attacked by public opinion, we must at least solve the problem of secondary mutation."
"Too many people are dying now..."
Connors lowered his eyes and did not speak immediately, but took out an hourglass from the drawer.
The hourglass had evidently been in operation for a long time.
The sand below is almost reaching a bottleneck, while the sand above is only a thin layer left.
Schneider: “This is…”
Connors' eyes revealed an indescribable complex emotion. After a long while, he whispered, "This is the time she died."
"You mean... Henrietta?"
Connors nodded. "According to the report from Fengshang Hospital, it will happen in the next two days. If nothing unexpected happens, she may die today."
"So, don't worry about your side."
"Once she dies, the viral load in the air will drop rapidly and become inactive. At that time, the situation in the hospital will naturally improve."
When Schneider heard that Henrietta was about to die, a hint of depression flashed across his eyes: "She was also born unlucky to have such a father."
Connors made a shush gesture.
"Don't say that. Although we are underground, that person has great powers and might know our conversation. You know, some abilities of the Heat series can ignore time and space."
For example, gossip-mongers’ “daily news” and “fixed-time news” may allow their conversations to be spread.
“So, be careful what you say and do.”
Although Schneider looked a little angry, he nodded: "I understand."
Connors: "Go back first. Tell the people below to ventilate the corridor and disinfect it. After she... leaves and the viral load drops, try to spread it as soon as possible."
Letting the virus spread to the outside world does not mean that the 14th Town will be infected.
Rather, it is about reducing the concentration of the virus in care centers.
Moreover, the air in the sixty-one towns of the underground block contained more or less that unknown virus. As long as it was completely dispersed, there would be no consequences.
At most, people born some time later will have a relatively higher chance of being infected with the mutation.
But this is just a mutation and will not be life-threatening.
To put it more simply, if the risk is shared, there is basically no risk.
Schneider nodded. He also knew that the reason why the nursing center was so tense during this period was all related to Henrietta underground.
As long as she dies, things should get better slowly.
Thinking of this, Schneider did not stay any longer and turned around and left the dean's office.
……
Ingres, who witnessed their conversation, was not as optimistic as they thought.
Before, Angle had only guessed that there might be a "bloodbath" and "no one survived" situation in two and a half hours.
But now, he has basically confirmed that this will definitely happen as long as no one intervenes.
That two and a half hour countdown refers to the time of Henrietta's death!
Connors and Schneider were obviously too optimistic. They thought that the problem would be solved after Henrietta's death... But based on the intelligence of the side quest and Angel's own speculation, there was a high probability that the situation would get out of control after Henrietta's death.
To what extent is it out of control?
Just think about the names of the side quests for Connors and Henrietta.
A deadly town, a deadly town with no survivors.
By then, the Fourteenth Town will probably face doomsday.
After hearing the news, Angel felt a little depressed. He had just come to take a look at the situation, but ended up encountering this doomsday scenario.
If he hadn't encountered it, Angel wouldn't care; but now that he has encountered it, he naturally wants to complete this doomsday story.
However, Angle was a little confused about what he should do?
According to the normal plot process, you have to wait for two hours, then find Connors to accept the task, and then take Henrietta's task after completing the task.
However, Angel has now guessed that once Henrietta dies, the virus will most likely become rampant rather than static.
So he has another choice -
Stop the doomsday scenario before it happens.
Let this plot just be scrapped.
But what Angor was worried about was that once he prevented the doomsday plot in advance, he would definitely not be able to take on the side quests assigned to Henrietta and Connors.
——After all, without the doomsday plot, their side quests would definitely be useless.
Without side quests, there are no rewards.
This means that if he prevents the doomsday plot from happening, he may get nothing.
The only thing he might have gained was... saving the residents of the Fourteenth Town, and becoming an unknown hero that no one knew about.
So, how does he choose?
Angel rubbed his fingers, calculating silently in his mind.
After thinking for a moment, Angel had already made up his mind...it's better to prevent the doomsday plot in advance.
There are two reasons. First, he was too lazy to wait for two hours. Second, Angel estimated that once the doomsday plot was launched, it would definitely be a big plot. When he got involved, the cause and effect relationship with Modern City would probably deepen to an extremely high level.
At that time, it would be unlikely for him to enter and exit the copy freely.
In the early stage, Angel still hopes to maintain a "close but not too close" causal state with Modern City, and when he decides to attack this dungeon in the later stage, it will not be too late to get involved in a deeper entanglement then.
Of course, even without these two reasons, he might have chosen to prevent the doomsday plot.
Even though this is just a simulated copy, the talented people in the copy have the potential to be transformed into "new residents". By saving them, Angel may also be saving future people.
After making his decision, Angle turned and looked at Connors.
At this time, he was already sitting at his desk and writing quickly.
Angel walked up to him, stretched out his finger and pointed at the air. A large number of nightmare nodes emerged and poured into Connors's brow...
Before preventing the doomsday scenario from happening, Angel needs to know more about Henrietta, the nursing center, and this unknown virus.
Connors is clearly the best intelligence agent.
……
About twenty minutes later, Angel walked out of the Beverly Nursing Center.
Standing near the gate, his figure appeared.
According to Nightmare's perception, Com is about to come, so Angel plans to meet with Com first and then save the world.
While waiting for Come to arrive, Angle was also sorting out the information he had previously obtained from Connors.
Beverly Nursing Center, as Turing speculated, is indeed backed by the largest hospital in the modern city: Fashion Hospital.
Connors was sent to this hospital to study the virus that caused the mutants.
——Weird virus.
This is the name given by Fengshang Hospital.
Most of the mutants infected with this virus will grow growths on their faces, making their faces look weird and considered "weird".
Beverly Nursing Center was built specifically to study the weird virus.
And Henrietta was the first experimental subject of the Beverly Nursing Center.
Henrietta has a very sad story.
She was originally a resident of the Earth, in other words, she was vaccinated. But perhaps her body was different, even with the vaccine to build a defense line, she was still infected with the strange virus.
However, even if she was infected with the virus, given her family conditions, she would still be able to contain the spread of the virus, and at least she would not die from it.
But unfortunately, she has a father who is not a human being.
Her father, Horace Beverly, was a doctor at Fashion Hospital and a magician at the Fashion Guild, holding a high position. After discovering that the Strange Virus had bypassed the vaccine and infected his daughter, he had evil thoughts.
Connors actually didn't know exactly what the evil thoughts were. He only knew that Horace published a large number of papers by studying the virus in Henrietta's body, which attracted a lot of attention and made him the vice president of the Fashion Guild.
After Horace became rich, he did not let his daughter go, and planned to continue studying the strange virus in Henrietta's body.
So, there was the Beverly Nursing Center.
And the name "Beverly" is quite ironic.
It was Beverly who built the nursing home, and it was also Beverly who was studied and dissected.
As for the information about the strange virus.
Angel also heard a lot from Connors, but because Connors's words were too professional, Angel didn't really understand much. He only knew that this was a virus with a very unstable RNA structure.
The reason why people have extra organs is that their expression chain contains a series of special gene fragments that can encode a unique protein. This protein binds to the specific receptors of human cells and can interact with the genetic material of human cells themselves, causing gene regulation disorder.
Although Angel didn't understand the nature of the virus, he understood one thing Connors said.
"The genetic sequence of this virus has an unnatural pattern, as if it were choreographed by an invisible hand."
What this means is that this strange-looking virus is most likely man-made.
Man-made and released in underground blocks…
Angel seemed to have smelled a conspiracy.
However, even if it was a conspiracy, it happened countless years ago. Angel didn't think much about it and just sorted out his thoughts silently.
Thinking about how to prevent the doomsday scenario from happening.
The source of "Dead Town" and "No One Survived" was Henrietta.
If one wants to prevent the doomsday plot, controlling Henrietta is obviously the key.
(End of this chapter)