Chapter 3734 Death Countdown

Chapter 3733 Countdown to Death

Angel's guess was not groundless.

Along the way, he saw too many patients with secondary mutations. Moreover, everyone in the Beverly Care 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 God's perspective on the first floor below the care center.

This floor has a death chamber.

That is, the morgue.

In the death chamber, Angel saw nearly a hundred corpses covered with white cloth. When Angel scanned with God's vision before, he did not see the situation under the white cloth.

Now take a closer look.

Every corpse is a mutant with at least secondary mutation.

Their skin was all ulcerated, and green unknown liquid kept oozing out, infecting the white cloth covering the corpse with spots of mold.

Moreover, in just the few minutes that Angel observed, a large number of staff members pushed corpse carts and came in from the door.

Even though this is a hospital, it is definitely abnormal to have such a large number of dead people.

It seems that the virus load in the air has reached a certain limit.

Perhaps, after the two and a half hour countdown, it will be the moment when the bowstring breaks...

While Angel was thinking about this, there was a sudden sound of footsteps outside the door. Judging from the frequency of rapid overlap, the visitor seemed very anxious.

A few seconds later, a doctor in a white coat walked into the dean's office quickly.

While jogging, he whispered: "Dean, it's not good!"

Connors, who had been buried in his work, finally raised his head.

He did not see Angel who was invisible beside him, but looked straight at the visitor...

Wolfgang Schneider, chief physician of dermatology.

Seeing Schneider's arrival, Connors' eyes flashed with a trace of obvious sadness. He put down the pen in his hand and adjusted his expression: "Schneider, I told you before, as long as it is not at the level of the hospital broadcast, don't make a fuss."

In other words, he did not hear any hospital broadcast, which means that even if something happened, it is not worth making such a fuss.

Schneider and Connors were obviously old friends. He didn't listen to Connors' complaints and said directly: "You sit here high up, so you naturally don't know the situation below. This time, something really happened!"

Connors put on gold-rimmed glasses and looked at Schneider: "Tell me, what's wrong?"

Schneider: "Fourteen more patients died in my hands today."

"That's it?"

Schneider: "What do you mean...that's it? There are only twenty patients in my charge, and now fourteen have died. The remaining six are almost at their limit."

"Besides, you should know how many people have been sent to the death room in the past two days."

Schneider walked up to Connors and quickly searched on the table. After a while, he threw out a "Death Room Usage Report" showing data from the past week.

"Look, in just one week, the usage report is almost thicker than my palm. Do you dare to say this is not a big deal?"

Schneider: "Besides, you didn't completely block the nursing center. Many patients have been discharged in the past few days. If they tell others about what happened here, it will be an uncontrollable and huge blow to us. I don't understand why you..."

Before Schneider finished speaking, Connors interrupted and said, "What else?"

A calm voice came from Connors' mouth.

"Do we have to completely close the hospital? Even if these people don't show signs of secondary mutation?"

Connors: "Don't forget that the residents of the underground block are not vaccinated. Once they are infected with the virus again, they are almost certain to die."

Schneider: "Of course I know, but we also have to balance public opinion..."

Seeing that Connors' eyes did not fluctuate at all, Schneider also understood that it was impossible to ask the dean to block 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 don't want to be attacked by public opinion, we must at least solve the problem of secondary mutation."

"Too many people have died now..."

Connors lowered his eyes and did not speak immediately. Instead, he took out an hourglass from the drawer.

The hourglass had obviously been working for a long time.

The sand below was almost reaching the bottleneck, and only a thin layer of sand was left above.

Schneider: "This is..."

Connors' eyes revealed an indescribable complex emotion. After a long while, he whispered: "This is the time she died."

"You mean... Henrietta?"

Connors nodded: "According to the report from Fengshang Hospital, it will be in the next two days. If nothing unexpected happens, she may die today."

"So, don't worry about you."

"Once she dies, the viral load in the air will drop rapidly and become inactive. At that time, the situation in the hospital will naturally get better."

When Schneider heard that Henrietta was about to die, a trace of depression flashed across his eyes: "She was also born unfortunate and met such a father."

Connors made a "hush" gesture.

"Don't talk about this. Although we are underground, that person has great means and may know our conversation. You know, some abilities of the heat series can ignore time and space."

For example, the "daily news" and "fixed news" of the gossip spirit may let their conversation spread.

"So, be careful what you say and do."

Although Schneider looked a little angry, he still nodded: "I understand."

Connors: "Go back first, and tell the people below to ventilate the corridor and disinfect it. After she... leaves, the viral load will drop, and try to spread it out as soon as possible."

Letting the virus spread to the outside world is not to let the 14th town fall into infection.

Rather, it is to reduce the concentration of the virus in the nursing center.

Moreover, the air in the 61 towns of the underground block contains more or less that unknown virus. As long as it is completely dispersed, there will be no consequences.

At most, people born in a period of time later will have a relatively higher chance of infection and mutation.

But this is only a mutation, and there will be no life-threatening.

To put it more bluntly, the risk is shared, and there is basically no risk.

Schneider nodded. He also knew that the reason why the nursing center was so tense during this period was related to Henrietta underground.

As long as she died, it should slowly get better.

Thinking of this, Schneider did not stay any longer, turned around and left the dean's office.

...

Angel, who witnessed their conversation, was not as optimistic as they thought at this time.

Before, Angell had only guessed that there might be a "death bloodbath" and "no one survived" situation in two and a half hours.

But now, he has basically confirmed that this 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 according to the intelligence of the side quests and Angell's own speculation, there is a high probability that Henrietta's death will make the situation out of control.

As for how out of control?

Just think about the names of the side quests on Connors and Henrietta.

A deadly town, no one survived.

By then, the 14th town is expected to face doomsday.

After hearing this news, Angell was a little depressed at this time. He just came to see the situation, but he encountered this doomsday plot.

If he hadn't encountered it, Angell wouldn't care; but now that he has encountered it, he naturally wants to complete this doomsday plot.

However, Angell is a little entangled about what he should do?

According to the normal plot flow, that is, wait two hours, find Connors to accept the task first, and then take Henrietta's task after completing the task.

However, Angel has now guessed that once Henrietta dies, the virus will most likely become rampant, rather than static.

So he has another choice-

Before the doomsday plot is about to be staged, stop the doomsday plot in advance.

Let this plot be directly abolished.

But Angel is entangled in that once he stops the doomsday plot in advance, he will definitely not be able to take the side quests of Henrietta and Connors.

——After all, without the doomsday plot, their side quests will definitely be abolished.

Without side quests, there will be no rewards.

In other words, if he prevents the doomsday plot from happening, he may get nothing.

The only thing he gets may be... saving the residents of the 14th Town, and he is an unknown hero that no one knows about.

So, what should he choose?

Angel rubbed his fingers and calculated silently in his heart.

After thinking for a while, Angell had already made up his mind... Let's stop the doomsday plot in advance.

There are two reasons. First, he is too lazy to wait for two hours; second, Angell estimates that once this doomsday plot is opened, it will definitely be a big plot. When he gets involved, it is estimated that the cause and effect with Modern City will deepen to an extremely high level.

At that time, it will be unlikely for him to enter and exit the dungeon freely.

In the early stage, Angell still hopes to maintain a "close and distant" shallow cause and effect state with Modern City. When he decides to attack this dungeon in the later stage, it will not be too late to get deeply entangled.

Of course, even without these two reasons, he might choose to stop the doomsday plot.

Even though this is just a simulated dungeon, the gifted people in the dungeon may be transformed into "new residents". Angell saves them, and maybe he is also saving the people of the future.

After making a decision, Angell turned his head and looked at Connors.

He was already writing at his desk again.

Angel walked up to him, stretched out his finger and pointed at the void, and a large number of nightmare nodes emerged and poured into Connors's brows...

Before stopping the doomsday plot from happening, Angel still needs to know more about Henrietta, the care center, and the unknown virus.

Connors is obviously the best intelligence agent.

...

About twenty minutes later, Angel walked out of the Beverly Care Center.

Standing near the gate, his figure appeared.

According to the perception of the nightmare, Com is about to come, so Angel is going to meet Com first, and then save the world.

While waiting for Com to arrive, Angel is also sorting out the information he got from Connors before.

Beverly Care Center, as Turing speculated, is indeed backed by the largest hospital in Modern City: Fashion Hospital.

And Connors was sent to this hospital to study the virus that caused the mutants.

——Weird Virus.

This is the name given by Fashion Hospital.

Most of the mutants infected with this virus will grow growths on their faces, making their faces look weird and considered "weird".

Beverly Care Center was built specifically to study the Strange Virus.

And Henrietta was the first experimental subject of the Beverly Care Center.

Henrietta has a very sad story.

She was originally a resident of the ground, in other words, she was vaccinated. But perhaps her body was different, even with the vaccine to build a defense line, she was still infected with the Strange Virus.

However, even if she was infected with the virus, her family conditions could still contain the spread of the virus, at least she would not die from it.

But she had a father who was not a human being.

Her father, Horace Beverly, was a doctor at the Fashion Hospital and a magician of the Fashion Guild, holding a high position. After discovering that the Strange Virus bypassed the vaccine and infected his daughter, he had evil thoughts.

Connors was actually not very clear about what the evil thoughts were. He only knew that Horace published a large number of papers by studying the virus in Henrietta, which attracted a lot of attention and became the vice president of the Fashion Guild.

After Horace became rich, he did not let his daughter go, and planned to continue studying the strange virus in Henrietta.

So, there was the Beverly Care Center.

And it was quite ironic to name it "Beverly".

It was Beverly who built the care center, and it was Beverly who was studied and dissected.

As for the intelligence of the strange virus.

Angel also heard a lot from Connors, but because Connors was too professional, Angel didn't really understand it. He only knew that it was a virus with a very unstable RNA structure.

The reason why people have hyperplastic organs is that its expression chain contains a series of special gene fragments that can encode a unique protein. This protein binds to the specific receptors of human cells and can interact with the genetic material of human cells themselves, causing gene regulation disorder.

Although Angel didn't understand the nature of the virus, he understood one sentence from Connors.

"The gene sequence of this virus has an unnatural pattern, as if it was arranged by an invisible hand."

The implication is that this strange virus is very likely to be artificially created.

Artificially created and released in the underground block...

Angel seemed to have smelled the scent of conspiracy.

However, even if it was a conspiracy, it was already countless years ago. Angel didn't think much about it, but just sorted out his thoughts silently.

Thinking about how to prevent the doomsday plot from happening.

The source of "Death Town" and "No Survivors" was Henrietta.

And if you want to stop the doomsday plot, controlling Henrietta is obviously the key.