The incandescent light bulb in the emergency room suddenly exploded, and glass shards mixed with anti-radiation gel splashed onto the surgical pad made of mutant mouse skin.
Mou Xuan pulled off his rubber gloves covered with fluorescent powder. Under the cold blue and white light of the emergency lamp, thirty-seven patients with high fever were lying on the sterilized cotton mats temporarily laid in the corridor, twitching.
"Aerosol transmission." Expert Li used a scalpel to cut open the mutant rabbit's lung lobe. Dark red foam flowed along the dissection table into the glass dish where the virus was collected. "The vomit samples from three hours ago showed..."
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by the sound of vomiting.
Nurse Qian's knuckles turned white as she gripped the waste bag, but she still accurately caught the dark green mucus vomited by the patient.
Around her neck hung a counting knot made from an IV tube. After treating each patient, she would move a plastic bead - this was the stress-coping method she learned from Medical Student Sun last night.
"Blood pressure dropped suddenly!" Material manager Zhou suddenly pushed open the door of the pharmacy, holding in his hand a simple blood pressure monitor modified from a can lid.
Behind him was a distillation device piled with mutated plant roots and rhizomes. Pharmacist Zhao was crushing moldy antipyretic tablets and throwing them into the boiling brown-red liquid.
Mou Xuan grabbed three yellowed epinephrine syringes, but found that the scale on the syringe was blurred by some kind of mucus.
Chen Yao suddenly pressed down on his forearm with her wrist wrapped in a tourniquet. The blood oozing from the cracks in her sleeves glowed an eerie blue under the emergency light.
"Ward No. 3 in the southeast corner needs to be isolated." Medical student Sun pulled off his gas mask, revealing a medical gauze mask soaked with sweat.
The tablet in his hand was covered with an anti-radiation film, and on the screen was the "Pathogenicity Atlas of Variants" that he had compiled overnight. The cursor was on a fluorescent image of a coronavirus-like strain.
Doctor Gu suddenly started coughing violently, and the spider-web-like black lines on his neck crawled onto the operating table like a living thing.
The hemostatic forceps made of mutant beast teeth fell to the ground with a clang. Just as Expert Li was about to reach out, Mou Xuan pressed his throat with an explosion-proof fork. "The gaps in the filter layer of the protective suits you brought were filled with ordinary cotton."
The beeping sound of the radiation-proof lead plate suddenly became louder, and twenty modified ventilators issued overload alarms at the same time.
Nurse Qian suddenly rushed to the distribution box, removed the heated fuse, and twisted the two pieces of mutant vine fibers together with her frostbitten fingertips.
The moment the emergency power supply started, Pharmacist Zhao pushed open the isolation curtain holding the steaming medicine.
"Ephedrine mixed with sage extract." The blisters on the back of his hand were still bleeding, but the boiling purple liquid in the test tube made the three unconscious patients open their eyes.
Material manager Zhou suddenly poured a whole box of expired vaccines into the distiller. The yellowed glass bottles exploded in the high temperature, and the precipitated crystals caused the medicine concentration meter to suddenly soar by fifteen percentage points.
Medical student Sun suddenly pulled open the patient's collar: "The subcutaneous hemorrhages are arranged in a hexagon!" He drew three cross lines on the patient's chest with his finger dipped in fluorescent powder. "According to the seventh edition of the Military First Aid Manual, this is a mixture of neurotoxins..."
"Cross-prescription!" Mou Xuan kicked open the rusty vent, and the mutant bat feces fell like black snow.
Chen Yao had already pushed ten medicines of different colors into the three-way tube. The moment light golden smoke overflowed from the needle, the heartbeat waveforms of thirty monitors simultaneously resumed their regular fluctuations.
Expert Li suddenly snatched Nurse Qian's dirt bag, tore off the moldy lining of his protective suit, and dripped the vomit sample on the leaves of the mutant dodder.
When the dark purple veins spread on the surface of the leaves into a DNA chain pattern, the old expert showed a look of horror for the first time: "This is not a virus that evolved naturally!"
The training room suddenly fell into silence, and everyone turned to look at the operating table.
The disinfectant gel under Dr. Gu had solidified into amber crystals, with spider-web-like black lines interweaving inside the crystals to form the emblem totem of a certain organization.
Mou Xuan touched the modified pistol on his waist and found that the blood on Chen Yao's cuffs had turned dark blue at some point.
The moment the anti-radiation lead plate stopped vibrating, Zhou, the material manager, suddenly held up the crystal core remaining in the distiller: "Anti-viral factor with a purity of 92%!" He still had the counting knot hanging around his neck, and the surface of the plastic beads had been dyed into a starry sky pattern by fluorescent powder at some point.
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Silver-white ripples appeared in Mou Xuan's pupils, which was a precursor to the activation of his time ability.
He touched Nurse Qian's wrist under the pretext of checking on a patient. The moment his fingertips touched the counting knot, seventeen possible routes of the epidemic's spread flashed before his eyes.
"The bat droppings left in the ventilation ducts must be cleaned up immediately." He turned to Medical Student Sun who was adjusting the ventilator, his voice hoarse after traveling through three timelines, "Ask Administrator Zhou to mix the lime powder in stock with the mutant pine needle ash for use."
Chen Yao immediately tore off her sleeves that were stained with dark blue blood and drew a reconstruction map of the quarantine area on the ground with a fluorescent pen.
The tourniquet on her wrist had been corroded and scorched when she was dispensing the medicine just now, but at this moment it accurately marked the seven points where the aerosol concentration exceeded the standard.
Expert Li suddenly pushed the microscope in front of everyone.
Under the action of mutant dodder juice, the virus in the culture dish revealed artificially edited gene fragments. "These recombinase cleavage sites..." The old expert's goatee trembled slightly, "At least national-level laboratory equipment is required."
Mou Xuan's temple was throbbing.
He activated his time power twice more and saw that the purple potion that Pharmacist Zhao was distilling suddenly exploded in a certain timeline.
When he grabbed the radiation-proof lead plate at hand and put it in front of the distiller, the boiling medicine splashed onto the steel plate, corroding honeycomb-shaped holes.
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