37: Chapter 39 Dark clouds loom over the city, threatening to crush it! White smoke engulfs the world!

White smoke?

It's alive?!

Once this terrifying thought appeared, it could no longer be suppressed.

The Netizens in the live broadcast room were all scared out of their wits.

An indescribable chill rose from their spines and surged upward.

Could these flocculent white wisps...

Not only be a high-risk infectious virus...

But also formed by the aggregation of some tiny creatures?

Were the patients infected with smoke lung actually petri dishes for these miniature creatures?!

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Just as the Netizens' imaginations ran wild and they were almost scared out of their pants,

Zheng Fei walked into the ward where Li Li was.

As expected, he saw his unconscious figure lying on the bed.

The youth was lying on the hospital bed, his face slightly pale, brows furrowed, and cold sweat beading on his forehead as if enduring some unusual pressure. Upon approaching his body, one could even feel a faint, illusory high temperature of flames.

And the Tang-style ancient sword tightly gripped in his hand was impressively the ancient sword covenant that had been causing a huge uproar online recently!

An extraordinary divine artifact sufficient to suppress and seal divine anomalies!

Even this incident of 'divine leftover poison' and 'TK-B7L3 smoke lung' was very likely to be restrained by its power.

Unfortunately, Li Li remained unconscious from beginning to end.

No one dared to rashly wake him up, nor could anyone actively utilize the power of the ancient sword.

Otherwise, with the passively emitted 'Eternal Suppression of Chang'an' effect,

it could stop the deterioration of 'smoke lung' and slow down or stop the whitening infection.

If they could actively activate the 'Eternal Suppression of Chang'an' effect of the ancient sword, they might really be able to drive away and shatter all these viruses!

Zheng Fei pressed his lips together, his pleasant fantasies flashing through his mind.

Unfortunately, there are no ifs in this world!

After confirming that Li Li had fallen into a deep coma, his body shrouded in invisible flames that made it impossible to approach and wake him up, he had no choice but to abandon this idea, take out his internal computer, and report to the central high-level authorities.

The other security personnel also tactfully retreated.

They stood outside like door gods, preventing others from barging in rashly.

After a long time, the tightly closed door was finally pushed open.

No one knew what Zheng Fei and the high-ranking bigshots had chatted about inside.

They only knew that as he walked out of the door with a sense of relief, directive after directive was passed downward.

The Armed Police Force marched into the urban area, cooperating with relevant personnel to carry out epidemic prevention and evacuation.

A large number of heavy industry enterprises arrived at Beishan Hospital one after another.

More than eighty local material suppliers rushed their inventory at top speed, following closely behind.

Afterwards, an unimaginable composite medical building quickly rose from the ground at a shocking speed.

Allowing everyone to witness once again the true caliber of the infrastructure maniacs.

The total construction area reached tens of thousands of square meters.

It could accommodate tens of thousands of infected people, and even accommodate over a thousand severe patients who were unable to walk and could only stay in bed.

Inside, it set up intensive care wards, severe wards, general wards, quarantine zones... and so on.

Although the time was short, the internal structure was not compromised in the slightest.

The Authorities named it the 016 Military Region Epidemic Prevention Special Care Hospital, but the patients residing inside, along with the masses dragging their families along, were even more willing to simply call it —— Huoshen!

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"Director Zheng!"

"The matter has basically been handled well, and the accommodation arrangements for patients from all sides are officially on track..."

The remote communication lit up, bringing out the Branch Captain's pleasantly surprised voice.

Working without sleep, his face sporting dark circles, despite being exhausted, he still couldn't hide his excitement and thrill.

That's right, excitement!

Following the completion of the 016 Military Region Hospital and patients moving in one after another,

good news finally arrived!

For smoke lung patients, whether with mild-to-moderate symptoms or severe patients, the rate of white smoke erosion in their bodies had all slowed down or stopped to varying degrees.

Especially for severe patients who were only a thread away from death, where the white smoke had already invaded their five viscera and multiple organs showed whitening, after checking into the hospital, the infection was forcefully halted.

Having one foot in the gates of hell yet temporarily saving their small lives, people who escaped death wept for joy.

Inside the entire hospital, the previous decadent atmosphere of waiting to die was swept away.

Everyone became proactive, as if hope had ignited in their hearts.

This overall upward trend of getting better and better

made the Branch Captain's tightly furrowed brows involuntarily relax.

They had never feared sacrifice and toil.

What they feared was only that their hard work would ultimately turn out to be in vain.

Not just him.

The other personnel around him also had their faces filled with joy and fighting spirit.

Except for Zheng Fei!

"Is that so?"

Zheng Fei nodded to indicate he received the message, but the brows on his face did not unfurrow.

Unlike the others,

his heart was far from being that optimistic!

As long as TK-B7L3 was not conquered for a day, the crisis would not be lifted for a day!

The passive effect of the ancient sword covenant

had always been merely curbing the spread of the TK-B7L3 virus rather than curing and recovering.

The natural disaster had descended for a week.

Except for a few patients who relied on strong willpower and physique to activate their own immunity and self-heal, not a single instance of recovery due to external intervention had been found yet.

In other words,

up until now, they still had no effective treatment methods for TK-B7L3.

What the ancient sword could do... was merely curb it...

Moreover, what was most tricky!

Its suppression seemed to be reaching a bottleneck soon as well.

Zheng Fei looked up into the distance, and in his solemn gaze, he could see countless pale-faced patients.

Although the 016 Military Region Hospital was still expanding, the high-level authorities even intended to build another larger composite medical area next to it as a place to accommodate patients.

However, the most important suppression by the ancient sword had begun to gradually decline.

That's right, the protection effect of the ancient sword had a range limit and did not spread infinitely!

Otherwise, the masses in Xijing would not have been infected by the 'divine leftover poison' and suffered from the torment of this abnormal phenomenon.

Spreading outward with Li Li as the center,

the protection effect inside Beishan Hospital was the best, basically halting the erosion of white smoke, which was why there were severe patients inside.

The newly built 016 Hospital came second, capable of slowing down the rate of organ infection and failure to a certain extent, and maintaining patients' physiological characteristics so they wouldn't completely deteriorate and show whitening phenomena.

Further out, the place the high-level authorities were plotting to build?

Perhaps it would only provide psychological comfort!

Zheng Fei climbed high to look far. Standing on the high tower, he could take in most of the city at a glance.

Precisely because of this, he could feel the spreading despair in the city even more.

Being too far apart and separated by layers of buildings,

the pale despair on the patients' faces could not be clearly seen.

However, the soaring white smoke was impossible for people to ignore.

Wisps of flocculent white smoke constantly rose from the severe patients.

Interweaving into thick white mist and clouds in the sky.

Clearly an off-white color,

it gave Zheng Fei a chest-tightening feeling of black clouds pressing down on the city, threatening to crush it.

The entire city

had catkin-like entities drifting everywhere.

Viewed under a high-magnification microscope, one could even find countless wriggling miniature white worms inside, which could make anyone with trypophobia bristle with goosebumps in minutes.

The white catkins continued to spread outward, as if wanting to shroud the entire city in white smoke.

Compared to Li Li waking up, activating the power of the ancient sword, and displaying great divine might,

Zheng Fei felt that the speed at which the white catkins spread outward and engulfed the city might be even faster.

Just as his heart continued to sink

close to the abyss,

"Director Zheng!"

"Look quickly, there's a situation!"

The Branch Captain handed over a video with an anxious expression.

In the seemingly ordinary footage of deserted streets and fully armed movements, a medical worker dressed in white, holding a syringe, and suspected of combining the identities of a doctor and a nurse abruptly appeared.