The Path to Ascension
However, no matter how scared you are, you still have to live your life.
The entire territory is disinfected every day, and the air is filled with the mixed smell of disinfectant and benzoin, giving people the feeling of a pharmacy standing in a swimming pool.
Except for the people passing by wearing masks, nothing seems to have changed.
Hopeful people counted the days until the zombie apocalypse would end. However, the hospital's specially designated isolation area still welcomed its first patient on the 80th day.
The patient was Old Li, who had been in poor health to begin with. He had a fever when the plague first broke out.
At that time, everyone thought it was just a common illness——
Old Li was used to hardship. When he was alone, he would only eat pickled mustard greens and plain porridge. Even though the family had milk and meat, he would not eat them.
His son and daughter-in-law had told him many times, but it went in one ear and out the other. There was also a three-year-old child at home, and he couldn't take care of everything.
How can you maintain good health like this? Minor illnesses are common.
Moreover, disasters occur quickly and sometimes the elderly cannot adapt to them.
Who would have thought? Last night, I was woken up in the middle of the night and found him burning hot.
I quickly applied alcohol to cool it down, and then I discovered that my armpits and groin, which were usually invisible, were swollen, as if I had egg-sized tumors!
These days, everyone in the group is talking about plague. After being infected, in addition to fever, chills, vomiting and diarrhea, the most obvious symptom is swelling of the body.
The family was terrified and rushed him to the hospital.
Although he was not diagnosed immediately, Old Li was sent to the isolation area as soon as possible and became the first patient.
A door separates two worlds. Relatives anxiously awaiting their loved ones outside are unable to pass through it, even though they know the struggle for life and death is unfolding within.
When Zeng Wei arrived, Old Li's son was sitting blankly on the bench, and his wife Xiaojia was sleeping with the child in her arms.
"Brother Zeng, thank you for coming so late." After a brief greeting, he couldn't help sobbing softly.
"It's all my fault, Brother Zeng. He said there was no need to go to the hospital, that he was fine, but how could I believe him? It was already so swollen, how could I, as his son, not notice it sooner?"
Zeng Wei handed over milk and bread, "It will be fine, you have to hold on, the family still depends on you."
Not daring to take off the mask now, Li Da could only take it and thank him, and then the two of them sat in silence.
After a long time, the sky outside the window began to brighten.
When I looked at the time, four hours had passed.
Li Da prayed softly, "Please, please, my father, please be safe and sound! I'm willing to do anything, I'm willing to give everything, please give me another chance..."
Zeng Wei was helpless and could only sigh that fate was playing tricks on him.
The plague came too quickly, and even with the experience of previous generations, no cure could be found at the moment. This meant that once infected, there was no cure.
What is most worrying is that Old Li must have been infected with the plague when the rats began to die in large numbers - the virus had been lurking in his body for three days.
As soon as this incident got out, everyone felt insecure.
Who knows if there are people around you who are infected and in the incubation period.
Fortunately, apart from Old Li, there are no other people who fall ill for the time being.
Ye Miaomiao stood in front of the glass window, frowning as she looked at the old man on the bed. Beside her stood Li Yihan and Fang Siyuan from Baiyun Town.
There are currently no patients in these two territories - but it is more likely that they have appeared but have not been discovered yet.
The fact that the first case of hunger appeared so quickly is most likely due to strict monitoring.
"With the level of medical technology in our territory, the speed of researching this disease is too slow."
In fact, we started researching it a few days ago, but until today, we cannot say that we have not come up with anything. We can only say that we have hardly come up with anything.
"You even built a quarantine area and a medical research institute. That's not fast enough!" Fang Siyuan sighed, touching the glass. "If we hadn't met you, we would probably just have to hide and rely on our luck."
Hide? Ye Miaomiao shook her head. It was impossible to hide——
There is no point in being defeated by the accompanying disaster halfway.
"The slow research speed is due to the low level of technology and poor equipment. However, I have a solution!" Ye Miaomiao turned around, facing Old Li, and said firmly.
"It's best for everyone to get involved and get the technology and equipment as quickly as possible. Every person saved is a life saved!"
There is a way!
Everyone's eyes suddenly lit up——
If there is a way, who would want to hide?
Ye Miaomiao took out the USB flash drive and handed it to everyone one by one. Immediately, the message "Congratulations on obtaining the side quest - the road to biochemical ascension" appeared on everyone's screen.
Fly...ascend?
Fang Siyuan and Li Yihan widened their eyes - they were discussing how to survive in the last second, how come in the next second they were... ascending to heaven?
Fang Siyuan took a look and immediately cheered up, his heart burning with excitement: "Is this a mission to pass the level? Who will care about the plague after passing the level!"
This...can this be shared?
"Yes and no," Ye Miaomiao shook her head. "There are many ways to pass the level, but none of them are good ways."
"Why not?" Fang Siyuan retorted subconsciously.
[Immortality, achieving the game’s ending], they’ve clearly stated the ending!
This time, even Li Yihan shook her head. "Don't forget, you're a player. This is just a game," she said speechlessly. "If you ascend like this, even if you survive, you'll be neither human nor ghost, and you'll remain in the game forever."
"We players are trapped in the game? Can that be called ascension? That's illegal imprisonment, imprisonment in hell!"
Fang Siyuan: “…” His words were rough but the logic was sound. It actually made a lot of sense.
After a moment, he suddenly realized.
"I understand. We don't want the path to ascension set by the system. We just want its technology and equipment, and then we can forge our own path!"
Fang Siyuan was immediately amazed. What is this?
This is the pattern!
When he only had the lowest goal of the game ending, the boss had already started planning a distinctive path, and used the ending given by the dog system as a stepping stone.
When he thought of this, Fang Siyuan suddenly became more determined to curry favor with someone powerful.
Of course, he is not a game lover, and has no idea about the psychology of perverted players who look down on games, or the experience of farming players who want to hoard everything and have collected so many different endings that they are very familiar with these endings.
"How long did it take to get it?" Li Yihan glanced at Ye Miaomiao.
Ye Miaomiao had been so busy hunting zombies and filling the warehouse all day that she had forgotten about her mission, let alone telling Li Yihan about it.
Covering up the embarrassment, Ye Miaomiao pointed to the center of the central district map and changed the subject -
"We've been slowly clearing that area these days, and we're already very close to the center. With a few more people, we can complete the side quests in one go!"
"It's at least advanced technology that can achieve this outcome. With these technological instruments, we'll soon be able to develop a cure for the plague."
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