Norton also knew that his subordinates would not make such a joke casually, so he sat up straight without hanging up the phone and opened his email on the computer.

The content of the email is basically all video material, with dubbing commentary on the side, or it should be voice recordings of experimenters and medical staff.

"The first case was confirmed to have died at around 2 a.m. on the third day after being sent to the hospital. We obtained the consent of the family and performed an autopsy on the patient."

And then the thing that continues in the video is the autopsy record.

"Oh my God, his chest, lungs and respiratory tract were all severely burned, and a small part of his lungs showed signs of charring. I can't imagine what kind of pain the patient was going through!"

The lungs were removed directly and other organs were examined one after another.

"The first person to discover the peculiarity of this disease was medical expert Dr. Irwin. He responded promptly and efficiently, and the second patient has maintained stable vital signs to date."

After this interlude, the dissector had already removed all of the deceased's chest organs next to the lungs.

"We found that in addition to the serious injuries to the lungs, other organs of the deceased also had some damage, but this was basically in the category of passive burns at the edges, rather than autonomous fever like the lungs."

The autopsy ended here, and some body research and virus analysis were also carried out.

"It is now basically confirmed that this lung fever is not contagious and there is no sign of spreading or metastasis to other parts of the body, but the root cause of the disease remains a mystery."

Norton frowned and continued to click on several other videos.

"People from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in cooperation with the St. Louis police, quarantined the Bevo community today and required more than 10,000 residents in the community to evacuate first."

This is a reporter's recording and the background is quite noisy.

However, most of the people in the video are police officers. There are not many people from the CDC, and there seem to be many angry people in the community.

"We are American citizens! We have our rights, why are we being forced to leave our homes?"

“We refuse to leave!”

"Yes! Refuse to leave!"

…

Seeing this small-scale riot of resistance, Norton couldn't help pinching his nose even on the other end of the video.

"Democracy is being used in this way by these people..."

Although we cannot say that we do not understand the people’s feelings, it is inevitable that we will be annoyed when we encounter such behavior that hinders the government from taking correct measures.

Just changed the video.

This time, a research team was conducting an environmental survey in a hastily built isolation shed, which should be the building of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

“Is the air environment normal?”

"The air composition is normal, but the fungal environment seems to be wrong. Some fungi or viruses that prefer low temperature and humidity have been greatly reduced."

Norton tensed up all of a sudden and expanded the video to full screen before continuing to play it.

"Is it an isolated phenomenon? Or is it seasonal?"

"No, after the accidental discovery, I took samples from 12 different locations in the community, all of which were environments where mold is prone to grow, but the results were very different from other normal environments."

“It should be said that the mold in these places is almost extinct!”

The voice of one of the researchers in the video became noticeably serious.

"Everywhere? Or just where the patients are?"

"I'm sure it's everywhere!"

There was a brief pause in the video. I don’t know if it was because the recording stopped or something else happened. When the video continued, you could see in the upper corner of the video that two hours had passed.

After a busy period that Norton couldn't understand the process, it was still that serious voice.

"Notify the CDC immediately and recommend, no, it is imperative that all residents of the Bevo area be evacuated!"

The video ends here, and I guess this is also the reason for the evacuation video.

So far, the incident can still be classified as an unknown disease, and it is not special enough to be directly established as a mutation event.

But sometimes, things like premonitions are just so annoying.

This is what Norton is feeling now. There is a voice in his heart that keeps telling him that this is a mutation, absolutely!

And this incident is probably more difficult than any other before.

Not only because the type is unknown, but also because the scope is wide and the population density is high, it is extremely difficult both to keep it confidential and to deal with it.

The responsibility is on my shoulders, I can't play dumb.

So within a short period of time, the 19th Organization Department was mobilized again. Norton even hesitated whether to call back the "Eagle", but he restrained himself.

…

Outside the Belvoir area of ​​St. Louis, Josephine of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was suddenly notified last night that she was no longer the person in charge of this area.

In the morning, she drove to the scene with a slight anger in her heart.

'What's going on? The National Guard?'

The quarantine and blockade are much stricter than yesterday, and the police who were originally on the front line have now retreated to the periphery. Armed forces have appeared inside, which are more like the US Army than the National Guard.

Josephine got out of the car and walked outside the newly marked cordon, where she was stopped by two soldiers armed with rifles.

"Hey! I'm Dr. Josephine from the CDC, I want to come in."

After showing her ID, one of the soldiers asked for instructions on the intercom before taking her into the cordon.

"Hello, I'm Anthony from the 19th Organization Department. We are in charge of this place from now on, and the CDC will cooperate with our work."

This was the answer given by a young man after meeting Josephine.

The nineteenth organization department?

After all, Josephine is a person of a certain level in the CDC. She has heard of this mysterious department. Once things involve that department, they are often not as simple as they seem.

She no longer resisted, showed considerable cooperation, and quickly reported the previous work together with other colleagues.

When Norton arrived, everything seemed in perfect order.

'But that's not enough!'

This premonition continued to haunt Norton.

For three days, the army searched the entire emptied community in detail.

There are no mutated creatures, no special dangers, and no one is sick. It seems that the Bevo community is completely safe?

There was one person whose foreboding was even stronger than Norton's, and that was Jenny.

Her aunt was a devout Christian and had always lived in St. Louis.

Her aunt loved Jenny very much since she was a child and treated her as her own daughter, so Jenny would go to St. Louis to visit her aunt many times every year.

But this time, when she happened to pass by Bevo, she felt that something was wrong!

The mentor's magic power was always dormant in his body, but the moment the taxi passed the Bevo community, it suddenly erupted and spread directly to the surface of his skin, completely enveloping Jenny.

A burning sensation came faintly from outside the magic power, and at the same time there was a strong sense of crisis.

Jenny in the taxi forced herself to calm down and glanced at the distant blockade through the taxi window.

"Mr. Driver, what happened over there?"

The driver was a black man. In fact, they had been discussing Jenny's issue in the taxi circle for quite a while recently.

"That's the Bevo area. It's said that there may be hidden dangers of toxic substances that can cause a disease. Although it has been isolated, according to the CDC press conference, the disease itself is not contagious. It should be just a physiological reaction caused by an unknown toxin."

"But there seem to be a lot more people over there today. Have the National Guard been dispatched?"

The hairs on Jenny's body were standing up one by one, and in a short period of time, the sense of crisis from the magic feedback continued to increase.

She looked up at the sky and her pupils shrank.

Something like the scorching air on a hot summer day was spreading above, and seemed to contain some kind of pattern!

Almost resisting the urge to ask the driver to turn around and drive away immediately, she continued to sit in the car, taking deep breaths and silently reciting the Silent Knight's oath to build up her courage.

Her aunt's house is near the Bevo area, and she must convince her aunt to leave!