Plague Doctor

Tick, tick.

The clock kept spinning, and on the big screen in the emergency command center, the countdown to Team B's departure was only 4:00:00, four hours away.

The countdown to blowing up the passage is ten hours left.

It has been two hours since Team A's problem team entered the Dreamland. The physical passage in Jiangxing Town is still stable, and more personnel are in place to guard it. Team B and Team C are also rapidly gathering, and there will be more spellcasters in the team.

Everywhere in the command center is busy, and personnel from various departments are making various coordination and arrangements.

Tong Ye was talking with Dr. Shen, Dr. Jiang and others. Long before Team A set off, when Gu Jun was still connected, they had discussed whether they could send personnel to enter their dreams and follow the instructions with him like last time. The spirit connects and passes. Entering a dream mentally will not consume the physical channel.

They didn't know where Karl Plain and the House of Worms were, but Dr. Jiang said that as long as there was a connection, they could theoretically give it a try.

"Don't let Wu Shiyu fall into a dream." Gu Jun said solemnly at that time, "Her being in a dream may bring bad luck. Great Elder Atal specially told her."

The problem is that Wu Shiyu is the person with the closest spiritual connection to him, but Gu Jun said that if he really wants to take this step, he should go to Wang Ruoxiang, she knows how to do it.

Extraordinary times have the principle of employing people in extraordinary times. Wang Ruoxiang has quietly set off from the isolation base to go to the dream team that is also gathering...

"It's been two hours." Dr. Shen was really worried, "I don't know what's going on with Ajun and the others."

At the same time, another thing that made the command center nervous was the "Laihua Tree" tree species, which was given by Atal and must be of great use.

The scientific research fleet has already planted tree seeds in the greenhouse. Since Gu Jun repeatedly emphasized that Atal said it should be planted naturally, the fleet followed this principle and was cultivated and cared for by a team of botanists. "We will never let the organization down," said Zhang Jinmin, the fleet's general chief.

"Master Tong, the condition of the body is not right."

The number of patients and deaths continues to surge globally, nationwide and in Shanhai City. Wang Guoxin's body has been transferred to the scientific research fleet for further research.

At this time, an eight-fold speed surveillance video was played on the large screen in the command center, and everyone could quickly and clearly see the changes in Guoxin's body.

The medical staff were especially chilled when they saw it. Xiao Huiwen, who had once observed the dissection of a ghoul, muttered in surprise: "It's too fast, it's too fast..."

Wang Guoxin's body maintained a high temperature of over 40 degrees, which was higher than before his death. This is not a strange thing, because after the death of patients with encephalitis, pneumonia, etc., due to the action of bacteria and viruses, decomposition in the body is enhanced and heat production activity increases. It is normal for the body to heat up for a period of time.

But other corpse phenomena happen too quickly!

Corpse decomposition usually begins to appear only 24 hours after death. Less than 5 hours after Wang Guoxin died, obvious decomposition appeared all over the body.

First, the lungs, then the abdomen, swelled up like air, and then bloody pus poured out of the mouth and nasal cavity. Dense pustules appeared on the skin all over the body. No external force was needed to pop them until they swelled to a certain extent. It exploded, splashing out a pool of stinking pus.

The whole body is rotting like this. It must be because bacteria are devouring and decomposing the tissues throughout the body.

"Bacteremia." Xiao Huiwen made this judgment. "When the patient died, Legionella had already entered the blood from the lesion, and bacteremia occurred."

Without bacteremia, bacteria in the lungs will not spread throughout the body.

Bacteremia is when bacteria enter the blood, multiply in the human blood, and spread throughout the body along with the blood flow. Even bacteremia caused by common bacteria can cause extremely serious consequences, leading to acute multi-organ failure. The mortality rate of bacteremia complicated by Streptococcus pneumoniae pneumonia can be as high as 60%.

Now here's this new Legionella...which explains why patients survive so short.

Their medical department had made this judgment before, but they didn't have time to do a clear examination and dissection.

Now it is basically confirmed that the late sign of Legionnaires' disease is bacteremia, which leads to symptoms of purulent infection throughout the body. However, before the symptoms appeared, the patient had already passed away due to acute multiple organ failure, and the symptoms became a corpse phenomenon.

This situation also occurred not only with Wang Guoxin's corpse, but also with the corpses of other patients in Jiangxing Town Hospital, as well as other corpses in other places.

They have that kind of Legionella bacteria that reproduces very quickly all over their bodies! Otherwise they wouldn't be rotting so quickly, they're turning into piles of pus.

And after the patient died, the reproduction rate of Legionella seemed to become faster...

"I bet you that there must be some magic in this." Tong Ye said in a low voice, "The vitality of this kind of bacteria is outrageous."

"There should be magic..." Dr. Jiang also thought, "Or maybe it's a science we don't understand yet."

Generally, the individual diameter of Legionella is 0.6-1.2 microns, and sometimes it can grow to more than 50 microns.

Now scientific researchers have detected from patients' blood sputum samples that some new Legionella bacteria have grown to more than 100 microns, and they can be extremely large.

But researchers are still not sure how small this Legionella bacteria was at its smallest.

However, it must be smaller than 0.3 microns, because the n95 medical mask with a filtration rate of 0.3 micron particles is completely ineffective, and the filtering respiratory protector that can filter 0.07 micron particles commonly used in level three protective clothing is also useless.

Bacteria can be very small. The smallest previously known bacteria, "nanobacteria," were only 50 nanometers in diameter, or 0.005 microns.

Therefore, when this kind of Legionella spreads, it is entirely possible that it is smaller than 0.01 microns, so that now only air-tight protective clothing is still effective, but it cannot support such a large demand, especially the needs of ordinary people.

However, so far, scientific researchers have not found such small Legionella bacteria in blood sputum samples and air samples, and the smallest one is only 0.1 microns.

Can they still shrink and deform?

In some previous scientific research experiments on bacterial culture on the space station, bacteria did know how to deform to resist drugs, but they could not deform at any time...

It's just that maybe it's a good thing. Everyone heard Gu Jun describe a foreign plague called "Hemoptysis" that could be spread without relying on bacteria, viruses, or parasites. The specific mechanism was unknown, and it seemed that it could be spread by just one thought, just like nightmare disease.

If this new type of Legionella is targeting hemoptysis, it is undoubtedly very close...

The country has launched the "Tinder Plan", and some big names and important figures are evacuating to secret bases.

At this time, no matter Master Tong, Dr. Shen, or Yao Shinian, everyone was thinking silently, Ah Jun, Ah Jun, what's going on over there, please hurry up if you can.

At this time, an alarm suddenly sounded in the command center, and the personnel whispered and exclaimed, "A fleet has appeared! A fleet has appeared!"

The real-time video coming from the scientific research fleet shows that on the sea outside the fleet, there is a ghostly fleet approaching in the dark night.

Love the Plague Doctor.