Along the way, he saw too many patients with secondary mutations. Moreover, everyone at the Beverly Nursing Center had to check the dermatology department if they wanted to leave, which was obviously a sign.
Angel hesitated for a moment and put his perspective on the first floor of the nursing center.
On this floor, a death chamber is set up.
That is, the morgue.
In the death room, Angel saw nearly a hundred corpses covered with white cloth. When Angel scanned the corpses with God's vision before, he did not look at what was under the white cloth.
Now take a closer look.
Every corpse is a mutant who has mutated at least twice.
Their skins were all ulcerated, and unknown green liquid continued to seep out, infecting the white cloth covering the corpses with mildew spots.
Moreover, in the few minutes Angel was observing, a large number of staff came in from the door pushing corpse carts.
Even though this is a hospital, it is definitely abnormal to see such a large number of dead people.
It seems that the viral load in the air has reached a certain limit.
Perhaps, after the two-and-a-half-hour countdown ends, it will be the moment when the bowstring breaks...
While Angel was meditating like this, a sound of footsteps suddenly came from outside the door. Judging from the rapid overlapping frequency, the visitor seemed to be very anxious.
A few seconds later, a doctor in a white coat walked quickly into the dean's office.
While trotting, he shouted in a low voice: "Dean, it's not good!"
Connors, who had been immersed in work, finally raised his head.
He did not see the invisible Angel beside him, but looked directly at the person coming...
Wolfgang Schneider, Chief Physician of Dermatology.
Seeing Schneider's arrival, Connors's 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 you are not at the level of broadcasting in the hospital, don't do anything.
What the hell."
In other words, he did not hear any announcements from the hospital, which meant that even if something happened, it would not be worth such a noise.
Schneider and Connors are obviously old friends. He didn't listen to Connors's complaints and said directly: "You sit here so high up that you naturally don't know what's going on below. Something big has really happened this time!"
Connors put on his gold-rimmed glasses and looked at Schneider: "Tell me, what's wrong?"
Schneider: "Fourteen more patients died on my hands today."
"That's it?"
Schneider: "What do you mean... just like this? There are only twenty patients in my charge. Fourteen of them have died now, and the remaining six are almost at their limit."
"Also, you should know how many people have been sent to the death chamber in the past two days."
Schneider walked up to Connors and quickly rummaged around on the table. After a while, he pulled out a "Pursuant Room Usage Report", which showed data for the past week.
"Look, in just one week, the usage report is almost thicker than my palm. Do you dare to say that this is not a big deal?"
Schneider: "Moreover, you did not completely seal off the nursing center. Many patients have been discharged from the hospital in the past few days. If they tell what happened here, it will be an uncontrollable and huge blow to us. I completely
I don’t understand, why are you..."
Before Schneider could finish speaking, Connors interrupted: "What else?"
A calm voice came from Connors' mouth.
"Should we completely close the hospital? Even if these people have no signs of secondary mutations?"
Connors: "Don't forget, the residents of the underground neighborhoods have not been vaccinated. Once they are infected with the virus again, they are almost certain to die."
Schneider: "Of course I know, but we also need to balance public opinion..."
Seeing that Connors' eyes did not waver at all, Schneider also understood that it was impossible to get 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 want to avoid being backlashed by public opinion, we must at least solve the problem of secondary mutations."
"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 has obviously been working for a long time.
The sand below is almost reaching the bottleneck of accumulation, while the sand above only has a thin layer left.
Schneider: "This is..."
Connors' eyes revealed unspeakable complex emotions. After a while, he whispered softly: "This is the time for her to die."
"You mean... Henrietta?"
Connors nodded: "According to the report from Fengshang Hospital, it will only be in the past two days. If there is no accident, she may die today."
"So, you don't have to worry about that."
"Once she dies, the viral load in the air will drop rapidly and become inactivated. By then, the situation in the hospital will naturally improve."
When Schneider heard that Henrietta was about to die, his eyes flashed with depression: "She was also born unluckily and met a father like this."
Connors said "Shhh".
"Don't talk about this. Although we are underground, that person's skills are so powerful that he might be able to know our conversation. You know, some of the abilities of the Heat Series can ignore time and space."
For example, the "daily news" and "fixed news" of gossips may make their conversations spread.
"So, be careful in your words and actions."
Although Schneider looked a little angry, he still nodded: "I understand."
Connors: "Go back first, and help me explain to the people below, ventilate the corridor, and do a good job of disinfection. 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 Town 14 will become infected.
Rather, reduce the concentration of the virus in the care center.
Moreover, the air of the sixty-one towns in the underground district more or less contains that unknown virus. As long as it is completely dispersed, there will be no consequences.
At most, people born in a later period have a relatively higher chance of being infected with the mutation.
But this is just a mutation and is not life-threatening.
In plainer terms, if the risks are shared equally, then there is basically no risk.
Schneider nodded. He also knew that the reason why the nursing center was so tight during this period was all related to Henrietta underground.
As long as she dies, things will gradually get better.
Thinking of this, Schneider didn't stay any longer, turned around and left the dean's office.
…
Angel, who witnessed their conversation, was not as optimistic as they thought.
Angel had only speculated before that there might be a situation of "desperate bloodshed" and "no survivors" in two and a half hours.
But now, he has basically confirmed that this matter will definitely happen as long as no one intervenes.
The 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 from the side missions and Angel's own speculation, there was a high probability that Henrietta's death would cause the problem to be solved.
The situation is out of control.
As for how out of control it is?
Just think of the names of the side missions for Connors and Henrietta.
A desperate town with no survivors.
By then, Town 14 will probably face the end.
After hearing the news, Angel felt a little depressed at this time. Originally, he just came to see the situation, but he ended up encountering such a doomsday scenario.
If he hadn't met him, Angel wouldn't have cared about it; but now that he had met him, he naturally wanted to complete this doomsday plot.
However, Angel is a little confused about what he should do?
According to the normal plot flow, that is, after waiting for two hours, first find Connors to pick up the mission, then complete the mission and pick up Henrietta's mission.
However, Angel has now guessed that once Henrietta dies, the virus will most likely become raging rather than static.
So he has another option -
On the eve of the doomsday plot, take the first step to prevent the doomsday plot.
Let this plot be scrapped directly.
But what Angel is struggling with is that once he prevents the doomsday plot in advance, he will definitely not be able to accept the side missions of Henrietta and Connors.
——After all, without the doomsday plot, their side missions will definitely be abolished.
There are no side quests, and there are no rewards.
In other words, if he prevents the doomsday plot from happening, he may get nothing.
The only thing he got may be... he saved the residents of the 14th Town, and he was an unknown hero that no one knew about.
So, how should he choose?
Angel rubbed his fingers, thinking silently in his mind.
After thinking for a moment, Angel already had a preference in his mind...it would be better to prevent the doomsday plot in advance.
There are two reasons. First, he is too lazy to wait for two hours; second, Angel estimates that once this doomsday plot starts, it will definitely be a big plot. If he gets involved by then, the cause and effect with Modern City will probably deepen.
A very high level.
By then it will be impossible for him to freely enter and leave the dungeon.
In the early stage, Angel still hopes to maintain a shallow causal state of "apartness" with Modern City. When he decides to attack this dungeon in the later stage, it will not be too late to deepen the entanglement.
Of course, even without these two reasons, he might still choose to prevent the doomsday plot.
Even though this is just a simulated dungeon, the gifted people in the dungeon may be transformed into "new residents". By saving them, Angel may also be saving future people.
After making the decision, Angel turned his head and looked at Connors.
At this time, he was already at his desk writing quickly.
Angel walked up to him, stretched out his finger, and a large number of nightmare nodes came out and poured into Connors' eyebrows...
Before preventing the doomsday plot from happening, Angel still needs to know more information about Henrietta, the nursing center, and the unknown virus.
Connors was clearly the best informant.
…
About twenty minutes later, Angel walked out of the Beverly Nursing Center.
Standing near the gate, his figure appeared.
According to Nightmare's perception, Come is coming soon, so Angel plans to meet with Come first before going to save the world.
While waiting for Come's arrival, Angel was also sorting out the information he had previously received from Connors.
The Beverly Nursing Center is indeed as Turing guessed. Behind it is the largest hospital in the modern city: Fengshang Hospital.
Connors was sent to this hospital to study the virus that caused the emergence of mutants.
——Weird look virus.
This is the name given to Fengshang Hospital.
Most of the mutated people infected with this virus will develop growths on their faces, making their faces look weird and considered "grotesque."
The Beverly Nursing Center was specially built to study the weirdo virus.
And Henrietta was the first experimental subject at the Beverly Nursing Center.
Henrietta has a very sad story.
She was originally a resident of the ground, in other words, she was vaccinated. But maybe there was something wrong with her body, and even though there was a vaccine to build a line of defense, she was still infected with the weird virus.
However, even if she is infected with the virus, given her family conditions, she can still contain the spread of the virus, at least she will not die from it.
But unfortunately she has a father who is not a human being.
Her father, Horace Beverly, was a doctor at the Fashion Hospital and a magician of the Fashion Guild. He held a high position. After discovering that the weirdo virus had bypassed the vaccine and infected his daughter, he had evil thoughts.
Connors didn't know the specific evil thoughts. He only knew that Horace published a large number of papers by studying the virus on Henrietta's body, which gained a lot of attention and became the leader of the Fashion Guild.
Vice president.
After Horace became rich, he did not let his daughter go, and planned to continue studying Henrietta's strange-looking virus.
Thus, the Beverly Care Center was born.
And being named "Beverly" is quite ironic.
It was Beverly who built the nursing center, and it was Beverly who was studied and disemboweled.
As for the information about the strange looking virus.
Angel also heard a lot from Connors, because what Connors said was too professional, and Angel didn't really understand it. He only knew that this was a virus with a very unstable ribonucleic acid structure. .
The reason why people develop neoplastic organs is because their expression chain contains a series of special gene fragments that can encode a unique protein. This protein binds to specific receptors in human cells and can interact with the human body. The cells' own genetic material interacts with each other, causing gene regulation disorders.
Although Angel didn't understand the nature of the virus, he understood one of Connors' words.
"The genetic sequence of this virus has unnatural patterns, as if it had been programmed by an invisible hand."
The implication is that this strange-looking virus is most likely man-made.
Artificially created and released in underground neighborhoods...
Angel seems to have smelled the conspiracy.
However, even if it was a conspiracy, it happened countless years ago. Angel didn't think much about it and just silently sorted out his thoughts.
Thinking about how to prevent the doomsday scenario from happening.
The source of the "desperate town" and "no survivors" is Henrietta.
And if we want to prevent the doomsday plot, controlling Henrietta is obviously the key.