36: Chapter 38 Vulcan! Following the Ancient Covenant...

"What?"

"The spread of TK-B7L3 has been stopped?!"

Zheng Fei looked up, filled with doubt and uncertainty.

His pleasantly surprised eyes were filled with scarlet bloodshot veins, and the heavy sense of oppression left the Branch Captain somewhat at a loss for words.

"Zheng, Director Zheng."

He hadn't expected his words to provoke such a fierce reaction from Zheng Fei.

However, facing Zheng Fei's burning gaze,

the Branch Captain could only bite the bullet and continue speaking.

"I, it can't really be considered stopped..."

"Strictly speaking, it's actually that the hazard of TK-B7L3 seems to have gradually lost its effect after reaching the vicinity of the God of Fire, which is Beishan Hospital."

"In Beishan Hospital, although the patients can't be said to have recovered, the signs of whitening in their bodies have indeed slowed down or even stagnated."

The God of Fire in the Branch Captain's mouth

was naturally the Suitable One for 005, Li Li!

Ever since he wielded the ancient sword, summoned the flame dragon to descend to the world, burned up the flying insects all over the sky, and slaughtered these monsters,

his unbridled figure amidst the flames had surged to the trending searches on the internet.

Many meddlesome people called Li Li the God of Fire. This seemingly edgy title, as his deeds spread wider and wider, gradually became synonymous with Li Li, even replacing his real name.

On the internet,

if you mentioned Li Li, I'm afraid many people would look blank and bewildered.

But if you mentioned the God of Fire, a huge wave of people would definitely pop out and recount his deeds to you like a family treasure.

"The God of Fire?"

Zheng Fei's gaze congealed, and his brows furrowed into the shape of the Chinese character for river.

Of course he knew what the Branch Captain knew; he was not someone who sat high above and was detached from the masses.

Li Li?

The God of Fire?

Stopping the patients' condition from worsening?

Various miscellaneous thoughts collided in his mind.

He couldn't sort out the clues in a short time.

Zheng Fei decisively decided to go to the scene first; a field trip and firsthand observation gave him the right to speak!

"Let's go!"

"To Beishan Hospital!"

"We'll talk about the details in the car."

He had always been fighting on the front lines of anomalies.

When the divine invasion happened, he was not afraid and did not retreat or run away.

How could he be scared away by mere lingering poison!

"Yes!"

The Branch Captain nodded heavily.

Clearly,

his blood was also surging with the passion to sacrifice oneself for the country in times of trouble.

Among the officials, a few responsible for epidemic prevention also stepped forward.

Several of them didn't say much.

They just silently looked at each other and understood each other's determination.

Everything was left unsaid!

Time was tight, and there was no chance for nonsense.

Sentimental attachments were not what should be done right now; the resolute and swift individuals successively followed Zheng Fei into the special car.

The target, Beishan Hospital!

It was also one of the front lines of epidemic prevention!

——

The action was as swift as the wind.

Racing against time and snatching every second from the God of Death.

Just as the car was speeding and rapidly approaching Beishan Hospital,

Zheng Fei also gradually understood the ins and outs of the matter from the mouths of others.

As it turned out, it really was related to the God of Fire, Li Li.

After Li Li burst forth with power and came out of his coma, due to the particularity of his identity, he was sent to Xijing's best hospital, equipped with the best medical resources across the board, and even many top-notch instruments and experts sent overnight from the Imperial Capital.

They were terrified that this precious darling would get into trouble.

Matters up to this point were still considered normal.

The real change came after the outbreak of TK-B7L3.

White smoke wrapped around the lungs and continuously eroded other organs until death...

The infection method resembling smoke particles

caused a sharp increase in patients, strained medical resources, and massive shortages of beds. As local hospitals in Xijing became completely packed, with even aisles and corridors crowded with people, and even cadre sanatoriums actively contributing their spaces,

Beishan Hospital also changed from complete closure to a semi-closed state,

starting to receive related patients from the outside.

However, relevant leaders still had concerns and deliberately separated Li Li's location from other patients.

However, this little distance obviously didn't affect his performance.

As patients gradually moved into the hospital,

the medical staff discovered with astonishment

that the insoluble TK-B7L3 had actually been curbed.

Clearly, it was all the same medical means, prescription, nursing, diagnosis and treatment...

Patients in other places had their organs continuously deteriorate into a misty state, but the patients in Beishan Hospital abruptly stopped and welcomed vitality. Although TK-B7L3 was not cured and eradicated, its infection speed was indeed forcibly curbed.

Those who should lie down continued to lie down.

Those who should breathe continued to breathe.

But what was most unexpected!

Not a single patient admitted into the entire Beishan Hospital died from the worsening of TK-B7L3, nor did any of them degenerate into Entity B, losing reason and memory, and turning into low-intelligence walking dead.

At a time when divine lingering poisons were running rampant, viruses were breaking out and mutating, and every household tied white mourning banners,

this could be called a miracle!

Secretly, quite a few people had already called the place where Li Li lived the God of Fire Building.

Even the hospital was quietly renamed by these people as Mount God of Fire.

They worshipped him as the God of Fire, hoping that he would wake up as soon as possible and use the power of flames to purify the sins, burning up all these viruses and lingering poisons just like burning flying insects.

As gossip spread,

the crowd gathered outside the hospital became larger and larger.

Some people even brought their families to the front of the hospital, stationed themselves on the spot, and set up tents.

While taking care of the patients around them, they looked up into the distance towards the direction where the God of Fire was located.

Their tired eyes were filled with the most rustic hope.

Driving all the way across the empty and deserted streets, after arriving at Beishan Hospital and getting out of the car,

what Zheng Fei saw was precisely such a scene.

Inside the buildings, the medical staff were busy beyond measure, their feet barely touching the ground.

Outside the buildings,

the masses had bitter expressions on their faces, waiting for a miracle to descend.

The same picture appeared not only in Beishan Hospital.

Just when they were driving through Xijing earlier, everything that met their eyes

could almost be said to be the same across the entire city.

The masses were shrouded in despair, and panic spread in people's hearts.

On the contrary, because of the existence of the God of Fire, this place made the flame of hope ignite in their cold hearts.

Zheng Fei also harbored hope in his heart,

and resolutely stepped inward.

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"This is too miserable, right? White mourning banners fluttering in every household?!"

"Divine lingering poison? This damned virus is too tricky! Can medicine really conquer it?"

"Medicine? You're still counting on medicine? Among the deeply infected patients, some have already transformed into Entity B, brainless, memoryless, moving like walking corpses—this is properly a zombie, alright!!"

"TK-B7L3? Smoke lung? I'd believe you even if you told me this was a zombie infection!"

"Damn it, once this thing spreads, won't we be unable to escape infection either?"

"..."

The live broadcast room was in a boil.

Various bullet comments rolled by, crazily flooding the screen.

With the help of the special perspectives of the Gear and the Observer, the content they could see was beyond imagination.

The entire Xijing was within their field of vision.

In the city where despair permeated,

not only did deeply infected patients appear, turning into zombie-like walking corpses,

but flocculent white smoke also continuously rose from these 'zombies' and 'dead' patients.

Ascending into the air and gathering,

it turned into flocculent white smoke in mid-air.

The white fog that blotted out the sun and sky

even blocked the sun in the sky, preventing sunlight from shining onto the ground.

The entire city lived under the shadow of the white smoke.

What was most terrifying was that these flocculent white mists seemed to be alive!!