35: Chapter 37 Divine Residual Poison, Organs Turning into White Smoke!

"That's right..."

"This flu virus is suspected to be related to an anomalous phenomenon."

The Branch Captain spoke with a solemn expression.

This completely confirmed Zheng Fei's inner worries.

"An anomaly." Zheng Fei paused, and after his guess was confirmed, his anxious emotions actually calmed down, losing the previous apprehension.

Since the crisis had truly appeared,

he would try his best to solve it.

Worrying needlessly accomplishes nothing!

Rather than excessively struggling with internal friction, it was better to rise up and take action immediately.

"Speak!"

"What is the exact situation?"

Zheng Fei took a deep breath, adjusted his state, and immediately got down to business.

"It's..."

A look of astonishment appeared on the Branch Captain's face,

as if he were not quite accustomed to this highly efficient way of working.

But facing Zheng Fei's burning gaze, he ultimately opened his mouth.

"It's a certain kind of flu virus!"

"Tentatively designated as TK-B7L3! Smoke Lung!"

"The outbreak time of the first case can no longer be traced; it can only be roughly determined to be after the divine invasion event..."

"It is currently erupting in concentration around Jianghan District. According to analysis, this flu possesses extremely strong infectivity. The infected person's immune system will collapse out of balance, and white smoke will wrap around the lungs, continuously spreading into the body."

"In severe cases, the organs within the body completely undergo white atomization, the body approaches exhaustion, physical strength and muscle mass highly diminish, instinctual reactions are lost, and basic physiological functions gradually cease..."

"Moderate cases involve generalized fatigue, loss of appetite, inability to move, accompanied by high fever or chills, etc..."

"Mild cases involve fatigue, shortness of breath, plummeting weight, and breathing difficulties..."

"After white smoke appears in the organs, no method has been found yet to stop the white smoke from spreading or the organs from turning into smoke. The internal organs of severe patients are basically whitened, attached with a large number of smoke-like particles, and this condition is irreversible..."

"The strong infectivity of the Smoke Lung seems to be related to these smoke-like particles. Although difficult to detect with the naked eye, they diffuse into the air with conversation or breathing. After being inhaled, there is a very high possibility of becoming infected..."

"..."

The Branch Captain took out a government tablet.

A massive amount of data poured down from it, and from the shocking medical cases, one could see the terrifying nature of this virus.

"Strong infectivity?"

"White atomization? Smoke-like particles? Irreversible?"

"White smoke wrapping around the lungs?"

"..."

Zheng Fei muttered in a low voice,

trying to summarize and extract the key points from the Branch Captain's words.

But as he spoke,

he suddenly seemed to discover something.

Hm?

Something is wrong!

The report given by the Branch Captain...

It's not to say it's bad; on the contrary, it's simply too good.

It is perfect beyond expectations.

Clear and well-ordered, it not only distinguishes between mild and severe infections, but even finds the general channels of transmission.

The epidemic prevention preparations can be said to have been done extremely well, so well that it is even somewhat abnormal!

Smoke Lung!

TK-B7L3!

The time of its appearance was after the divine biological invasion.

That is to say, at most no more than two days.

In just over a day,

being able to dissect a suddenly appearing flu virus to this extent is definitely something current medicine cannot achieve!

Zheng Fei, who has an extremely wide range of reading and also studies pathology,

dares to affirm that this speed has already exceeded the world's top level.

Moreover, not by just a little bit.

According to conventional circumstances,

being able to analyze the outline within a week would already be the standard of medical frontiers.

This wave—

The reaction of the Xijing authorities

could actually be several times faster than usual? It can be called crushing efficiency.

When things are abnormal, there must be demons!

Zheng Fei's expression condensed, as if he had thought of something.

"Could it be..."

Zheng Fei's eyes were like lightning, "Is it Gear Science?"

By conventional logic, it is indeed impossible to achieve, but if extraordinary power is added, then not necessarily!

In the present where various anomalies are iterating,

the first thing he thought of was the unfathomable Gear Live.

Rumored to be a gaze from a higher dimension!

Facts proved that his guess was right.

Just after Zheng Fei blurted it out, the Branch Captain, with a trace of astonishment in his eyes, also nodded heavily.

"That's right!"

Right in the middle of the night,

when he was talking and conversing with several big shots in the Imperial Capital,

the silent world was suddenly broken by a rotating Gear.

The medical staff running around in various hospitals and busy around the clock finally knew

that what they were facing was not a so-called flu virus at all,

but rather a solid, real anomalous phenomenon!

[█ █ -- Smoke Lung]

[Category: Divine Remnants]

[Danger Level: High Risk]

[Infection remnants from the Spacetime Worm, carried by the Iron-Eating Locust, entering the current spacetime. After crossing spacetime, they were weakened by the Heavenly Rail -- World Will, and the hazard has been greatly reduced...]

[The infected person will have their lifeform eroded by the remnants, converting into Entity-A. The internal organs within the body will transform into a white smoke shape, and continuously extract organ functionality as nutrients to let the white smoke proliferate. This reaction is irreversible...]

[When the erosion degree exceeds 70%, there is a probability of converting into -- Whitened Entity-B, or dying directly...]

[Entity-B will lose its original memory or mental functions, possessing only basic motor skills and reaction mechanisms, and enter an indolent state, showing dullness to external stimuli...]

[These remnants possess extremely strong infectivity. When the quantities of Entity-A and Entity-B reach a certain level, the white smoke within the body will actively detach from the body, aggregate into a white mist-like entity to spread outward, and forcibly infect and whiten surrounding races...]

[...]

Zheng Fei picked up his mobile phone from the desk.

Inserted the card, charged it, and turned it on!

...

It was done in one go.

When the phone screen lit up with fluorescence, he indeed saw the familiar Gear interface.

A massive amount of data intertwined on it, flowing down,

transforming into text that everyone could understand.

As lines of subtitles emerged,

Zheng Fei's expression also instantly turned ashen.

Divine Remnants!

Whitened Infection!

He just knew that anything involving divinity wouldn't be so simple to resolve.

They were still happy too early!

Unexpectedly, even after the monsters were solved, this kind of crisis could still pop up.

"We must act as soon as possible!"

"Since it is determined that the infection of TK-B7L3 is related to the smoke-like particles exhaled, we should try our best to isolate these particles, trying to adopt gas masks for blocking..."

"And let the public cooperate, minimizing going out as much as possible, cutting off interaction from the root..."

"Organize relevant departments to carry out disinfection with all their strength..."

Zheng Fei tightened his brows.

Soon, he sorted out a long string of action guidelines,

rapidly promulgated them, and executed them.

Unfortunately, the results shocked everyone as a letdown.

Terrible!

Very terrible!

The disinfection effect was close to zero!

Only the silence of blocking interaction from the source was somewhat useful, but it was impossible for the entire city to completely ban going out. Not to mention the difficulty of implementation, the resources consumed by millions of people every day alone were an unsolvable puzzle.

Power related to anomalies and surpassing conventional logic was indeed not something conventional methods could handle.

"..."

Even if Zheng Fei had guessed long ago that it might be this result,

acting actively was just because he didn't want to sit and wait for death.

To a large extent, he tried it holding the mindset of treating a dead horse like a live one.

But when the bloody failure truly appeared before his eyes, he still couldn't help but feel depressed.

Could he only watch it infect unbridled like this?

Just as Zheng Fei tightly clenched his fists,

with his nails digging into his flesh and traces of blood faintly seeping out,

an unexpected piece of news

suddenly reached his ears!

It seemed, roughly, as if... TK-B7L3 had been stopped!!