In the main world, in a hospital in a city in Southern California, in the United States, in a ward shared by many people, a patient is wearing a hospital gown, and his head is wrapped into a rice dumpling with bandages, with only his eyes, nose, mouth, ears and hair.

The exposed Jack lay flat on the medical bed, breathing evenly between his noses.

At this time, more than two hours have passed since the incident.

After waiting for a while, the police and ambulance rushed to the fast food restaurant where the incident occurred. After checking the records with the boss and people around him, Jack, who was seriously injured, was carried into the ambulance and sent to the hospital.

After arriving at the hospital, he was given a sedative to get rid of the pain and fell into a peaceful sleep.

However, at this moment, Jack, who was lying on the bed, suddenly opened his eyes, revealing his eyes with narrowed pupils and bloodshot whites.

Then Jack mechanically sat up and violently tore off the anti-inflammatory needle hanging from the back of his hand. Ignoring the blood flowing out of the broken needle tube, he turned over and fell to the ground. He quickly jumped to the side of his colleague who turned to look at him because of his actions.

The patient in the room bit each other on the throat.

This situation was completely a replica of the young man who bit him before!

"Ah!" A fierce scream immediately rang out from the man's mouth.

"ah!"

"Killing people!"

Immediately afterwards, other patients also screamed in fear and ran out of the ward in panic.

"Pah, pah, pah..."

With a rush of footsteps, two doctors in white coats and several nurses rushed into the ward. They all grabbed Jack's body and pulled him backwards.

Probably because he was tired of being pulled, Jack, who had been biting the patient, suddenly raised his bloody head, turned around and bit a nurse's finger.

"Ah!" the nurse screamed in pain.

"Click!" Then, there was an undetectable crisp sound, and half of the finger detached from the nurse's body and entered Jack's mouth.

"Quick, sedative!" the doctor, still unaware of the danger, yelled.

A nurse who had not taken action quickly ran out of the ward after hearing this. It was not until a minute later that she returned to the ward with a syringe in her hand. Through the small gap that others had left, she inserted the syringe into Jack's body.

, pushing the liquid inside into Jack's body.

But it was useless! Jack seemed to have developed antibodies and was completely unaffected by the sedative's sleeping effect. He was still struggling crazily, biting others.

It wasn't until more than five minutes later that the hospital's security guards arrived and were subdued with violence, restraining him on the bed in the same way as mania patients and mental patients were treated.

However, during the crackdown, two more nurses, a doctor, and a security guard were bitten on the arm by Jack.

"Man, you're okay," a security guard said to his injured companion.

"It's okay, it's just a skin injury. This son of a bitch has such a cruel mouth." The injured bailian raised his hand and looked at the bitten forearm, and swore obscenities.

"Let's go and find a doctor." The security guard who spoke earlier patted the injured security guard on the shoulder and reminded him.

The injured security guard nodded, left the duli ward with other security guards, and came to the nurse station to be treated by the nurse.

"Huh? Why do we need two injections?" The injured security guard asked with a puzzled look on his face as he watched the nurse who had just finished the anti-inflammatory injection take out a syringe and draw the liquid from a small medicine bottle.

"This is the rabies vaccine, if you don't want to become that crazy person." The nurse smiled.

Obviously, both the doctor and the nurse on duty regarded Jack's situation as an acute outbreak of rabies.

"No wonder, that guy acted like a mad dog." The injured security guard suddenly said, and then accepted the injection from the nurse with peace of mind.

"Okay, remember to keep the wound away from water as much as possible in the past few days, and come back tomorrow for rabies vaccination." The nurse who took the syringe off the security guard's arm casually instructed.

"OK."

Because of their injuries, the security guard and several other bitten doctors and nurses were all approved by the personnel supervisor and allowed to go home for recuperation.

At this point, matters related to Jack have been temporarily ignored. However, in order to trace the cause of Jack's illness and confirm that the other party was indeed suffering from an acute rabies outbreak as suspected, various examinations were carried out on Jack's body.

Time passed like this in peace for more than half an hour...

"Honey, are you okay?" In a room that was fairly well decorated and looked a bit bourgeois, a slightly plump blond woman with a very American figure walked to the sofa and sat down, putting her hand on her body.

The man next to him asked with concern on his shoulder.

And this man was the security guard who had been bitten when he suppressed Jack in the hospital.

At this time, I saw that he was the same as the young man Jack had found. His face was as red as if he had drunk alcohol, his pupils were tightened, the whites of his eyes were covered with bloodshot eyes, his mouth and nose were wide open, and he was making "ho, ho" sounds.

, a strange sound like no breathing.

"Mark! Mark!" Upon seeing this, the woman quickly turned around and squatted in front of the man, raised her head, and shouted anxiously.

Then he stood up quickly, ran to the telephone nearby, and skillfully dialed the emergency number - 999.

"Hello, this is the emergency center." A pleasant female voice came out on the phone.

"This is..." The woman reported her residential address in a hurried tone, and described the current situation to the doctor opposite who was responsible for recording. However, she was on the phone and didn't notice at all. She was sitting on the sofa.

The man had already stood up, stretched his arms forward, and came behind her.

"Ah!" The next moment, the woman let out a fierce scream.

"Plop." The man biting the woman's shoulder fell to the ground together with the woman who lost her center of gravity.

"Hello? Miss, are you still here?" The female doctor's voice kept coming from the phone hanging on the ground.

"Help, help..." The woman who was completely unable to break away from the man's bite said in a difficult voice.

At the same time, the same situation as here also happened in the homes of several other nurses and doctors who were bitten by Jack. However, in some of them, children and elderly people were attacked, and in some of them, captive pets were attacked.

It was a big disaster, but no matter what, something must have been attacked.

And this situation not only happened in Southern California, but also started to happen in other places.

For example, areas near forests in South America, certain towns in Chile, villages near Shennongjia in China, and some fishermen in the South China Sea of ​​Japan, etc...

Of course, it is not only people who have become so aggressive and contagious, but also the animals that run out of the forest. It is precisely because of their addition that the speed of transmission becomes so fast, almost without any trace.

In two days, it quietly spread to the city.

In short, except for a few people, the vast majority of people still do not notice the changes happening around them. Even if they are discovered, they only treat it as a new infectious disease and still use the oldest methods.

Isolation control is being carried out.

On this day, at the checkpoint south of Akiruno City...

"Application number confirmed, passage allowed."

As a pleasant female voice sounded, the roadblock at the checkpoint immediately moved away from the middle, revealing the road leading to Akiruno City.

Seeing this, the ambulance, which had stopped at the checkpoint for review, restarted the car and drove towards the urban area of ​​Akiruno City at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour.

"Mom, can dad really be cured here?" In the back compartment of the ambulance, a teenager who looked like a junior high school student turned to look at the middle-aged beauty beside him and asked with expectation.

"Yes, it must be possible." The middle-aged beauty replied with a reluctant expression of conviction on her face, clenching her hands slightly.

"Don't worry, madam, the municipal hospital in Akiruno City is currently the best hospital with the most advanced equipment in the country. I believe that your husband will be able to be cured." Seeing this, the doctor following the car couldn't help but comfort him.

The middle-aged beauty showed a smile like the one in front of her, smiled, and then continued to look at the man lying flat on the shelf in front of her legs, but her body was bound by strong ropes as thick as a human arm, and her mouth

There was also a mouth ball on his body, but the man continued to struggle violently.

Judging from the crimson color on this man's face, as well as his tightened pupils and bloodshot whites, he was also a victim of that new disease.

Afterwards, there was silence in the ambulance. Only the hum of the engine and the collision caused by the man's struggle echoed in the ears of several people.

Just like that, after driving for about ten minutes, the ambulance stopped outside the door of a hospital.

"Wow~" The doctor pushed the door open and got out of the car, quickly walked to the back of the car and opened the door.

The doctor and the middle-aged beauty worked together to get the struggling man out of the ambulance, put it on the mobile bed that another doctor pulled out from the hospital, and then pushed the bed into the lobby of Akiruno Municipal Hospital.

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"We are here from Aichi Public Hospital. The patient's name is Yasaburo Saito. Where should the patient be sent?" The doctor grabbed a nurse and asked.

The nurse who was pulled was stunned at first, and then quickly took out the futuristic high-fiber plastic panel attached to the hospital, pulled it open, reached out and quickly clicked a few times on the things displayed on it.

"Is he a patient with a new disease?" the nurse asked, turning to look at the questioning doctor.

"Yes." The doctor nodded quickly in agreement.

"Follow me." The nurse clasped her hands together, reshaped the panel in her hand into a small stick and put it in her pocket, leading the doctor, patient and patient's family members to the building specially designed to accommodate patients with "new disease"

Walked over quickly.

Along the way, both the doctors who came from Aichi Hospital and the family members of the two patients were amazed by everything they saw in the hospital, and they had hope in their hearts that the patients would be cured.

"What's going on?" At the same time, at home behind the Akiruno City Shrine, Ito Cheng looked at the content displayed on the virtual screen created by Reimu in front of him and asked with a frown.

"The specific reason is unknown, but in the past week, the incidence of this new infectious disease has become higher and higher, and the cause of the disease cannot be found at all." Xiao Lingmeng replied.

"What about the mechanism of the disease?" Ito Cheng asked again.

At the same time, the words on the virtual screen in front of him changed, and a video picture similar to a laboratory dissection appeared. The object was an infected monkey! In the picture, even if it was disemboweled, the monkey was still full of vitality.

, struggling desperately.

"Damn, you really look like a zombie." Ito Cheng cursed secretly.

"After examination, whether they are animals or humans, the genomes of all patients with the disease have abnormal disintegration and recombination. At the same time, it is precisely because of this phenomenon of disintegration and recombination that the patient's body surface characteristics appear like that.
To be continued...