"Mr. Rhodes, you are healthy...all your body data are normal."
"No, I'm sick."
Hearing this, the doctor raised his head and looked carefully at the man sitting across from him. His face was yellow and his lips were pale. He looked like a stray dog huddled on the street corner waiting to die.
"Can you tell me more about it?"
"You may not believe it, but I have been extremely sleepy recently and always have some bizarre dreams. Not only that..."
At this point, the patient named Rhodes was in a daze, and his bloodshot eyeballs made people feel like they would explode in the next moment.
Mental illness?
According to his statement, the doctor made a rough judgment and proactively asked: "Have you taken any tranquillizers such as estazolam or zopiclone recently?"
These drugs can be used to treat various types of insomnia and keep people calm, but taking too much at one time or taking them for a long time can cause side effects, such as drowsiness, fatigue...
These are consistent with the patient's symptoms.
However, what puzzled the doctor was that judging from the test report, Mr. Rhodes was very healthy - could it be that the machine was malfunctioning? That's probably the only way to explain it.
At this time, Mr. Rhodes, who was suffering from the pain, decided to speak frankly: "Duloxetine, a friend who runs a private clinic once prescribed a bottle of this medicine to me."
Regarding these friends who can get prescription drugs, the doctor said that he has seen it many times and is not obsessed with it. He continues to inquire: "Well, besides drowsiness, are there any other adverse symptoms?"
"I lost a tooth last night. Look at my arms. They are covered with rashes." As he spoke, he opened his sleeves and hurried to the doctor's side like a drowning man grabbing driftwood.
After studying it carefully for a while, the doctor opened the medical record: the patient had taken a large amount of doloxetine and had developed adverse drug reactions.
"Besides the arms, is there anything else?"
"It's the same on the legs, and it's more serious. The pus has been leaking out since the day before yesterday." Mr. Rhodes thought that he had a rare and difficult disease. He looked at the doctor desperately: "I will be fine, right?"
"You pay the fee first, and then do blood routine and liver and kidney function tests."
The doctor answered the question incorrectly and acted very cautiously, for fear of getting into trouble.
"I'll be fine, right?"
He shook his head and kept repeating this sentence, his voice was hoarse and miserable, his expression was dull and blurry, and he looked like a dying person.
"It's hard to say yet about this issue. We have to wait for the new test report to come out before we can make an accurate judgment."
"..."
Mr. Rhodes was used to hearing this answer. The last doctor said the same thing, so in despair, he got up and left.
"In seven days, I had 13 medical visits and changed to five hospitals."
Watching the hunched figure close the door and leave, the doctor took off his mask and gloves, stared at the internal information on the computer screen, and murmured to himself: "This guy must be a professional athlete wearing makeup, haha, his acting skills are very good. But what kind of variety show can be so boring?"
The corridor was filled with the smell of disinfectant. Mr. Rhodes felt disgusted and subconsciously speeded up his pace.
Buzz buzz...
The phone in his trouser pocket kept vibrating.
[WHO issued a red warning. Experts discovered a new type of prion in the Inca region. According to existing data, the virus can be transmitted through blood. The symptoms are persistent fever accompanied by obvious neurological signs...]
[① Disorientation ② Hallucinations ③ Drowsiness ④ Nightmares and night sweats ⑤ Skin redness and swelling (most obvious in the lower limbs, with pus, exudation, etc.) ⑥ Teeth loss ⑦ Malicious attacks from pets...]
Seeing this, Mr. Rhodes, who was already restless, tightened his grip on his cell phone. He felt that his personal information had been leaked by the hospital—obviously, this was a fraudulent message.
Look down.
[If you have four or more symptoms, please contact us in time, the 24-hour emergency hotline: ＊＊＊＊＊】
"What's wrong?"
A gentle voice sounded in his ears. Mr. Rhodes turned off his phone and forced a smile: "The doctor said I have been under too much stress recently and need more rest."
"Well, let's go home."
As the couple drove away from the hospital around 2 p.m., a man took off his headphones and placed the telescope and stand back in a metal storage box.
Buzz…
Mobile phone vibration.
[Did Patient No. 14 reply to the message? 】
Lu Li lifted the metal storage box with one hand while tapping the screen with the other hand:
[He refused, therefore, I feel it is necessary to take coercive measures]
The other side was silent for dozens of seconds——
[According to the assessment, Patient No. 14 will transform into a beast as early as 10 o'clock tonight. Pay attention to safety! 】
【receive】
Just like the weird new prions, there is a group of people who call themselves containment experts and are doing their best to seal everything off...
Of course, strictly speaking, Mr. Lu Li is not an expert. He has just arrived. He is currently a newcomer to the foundation who has been with the Foundation for less than three months and is currently performing his first field mission.
5:30 p.m.
The street stalls were filled with all kinds of people, and Lu Li, who was carrying a metal storage box, was among them. Like everyone else, he was looking down at his phone while eating.
"Your friend [Passenger No. 1] sent a video file. Do you want to accept it?"
"?"
"It will be helpful for your task. Please click on it and take a look. In addition, I suggest you watch it while eating."
It was a clumsy prank. Lu Li judged it immediately, but still clicked [Accept] with his finger.
Download completed.
A CG special effects video begins to play.
In the upper left corner of the screen, a lighthouse is guiding ships to the shore, and the whistle is faintly discernible.
And low on the cliff, about two or three meters away from the sea, there is a sewage outlet that is slowly flowing out with sewage.
Suddenly, a strong light came from the top of the lighthouse and shined straight towards the sewage outlet.
A skinless humanoid creature jumped out. Under the camera, it jumped high, then grabbed the raised rocks to use its strength. After only two jumps, it successfully landed ashore and disappeared into the night.
The camera zoomed in, and several bloody marks appeared, which were obviously left by the humanoid creature. Because the video quality was very clear, Lu Li could see many details - every time the monster jumped, blood would splash down.
"What is this, a frog man who was just dissected by an evil scientist?"
Lu Li munched on the blood sausage as if nothing had happened and sent a message to his friend [Passenger No. 1].
Ding dong!
A few minutes later, a beep sounded, and Lu Li looked at the screen of his phone——
"He is Patient No. 6 on the file. Because he was not treated in time, he turned into a beast like this."
Ding dong!
"Are you scared?"
Land from:"……"
The memory he inherited shows that he received professional training before taking up the job. He has watched hundreds of videos of this kind of curiosity, so naturally he will not feel sick.
What's more, when it comes to appearance, the soul-returning corpses seen in the previous world are not much better-looking than this monster.
"Okay, I heard you are planning to take action tonight?"
"Well, No. 14 is about to enter the disease stage. I must contain him before he turns into a beast."
"Him? Let's call him something else, brother."
"In my opinion, you'd better give up observation and go find Patient 14 now. In fact, it was already aggressive three hours before it transformed into a beast."
"knew."
"You didn't even say thank you for providing you with such valuable personal advice?"
"Thanks."
"It's okay, son, I'll treat dad to dinner later."
The phone screen freezes.
