When the smell of disinfectant was diluted by the morning mist, Mou Xuan was staring at the exit of the shredder.
The fragments of the delivery note stuck to the sole of Material Manager Zhou's shoe were curled up in the grooves of his radiation-proof boots. Under the microscope mode of the tactical eyepiece, the stamp of Mojiang East Bank Pharmaceutical Factory was clearly visible.
"The inventory list shows that there are enough antibiotics to last for six months." Materials manager Zhou pushed the tablet across the conference table. Water droplets condensed on the metal tabletop and gathered into a small puddle at the end of the number "6,324."
Mou Xuan tapped his knuckles on the file bag labeled "Mutans Streptococcus Infection Plan". In the photo inside the plastic film, the swollen purple tumors on the necks of three corpses were oozing fluorescent green pus.
"The penicillin shipped from across the Mojiang River last month had its labels printed with waterproof ink."
The conference room suddenly fell silent, with only the rustling sound of Chen Yao tearing open the coffee package.
Zhou, the material manager's Adam's apple moved twice, and the blue light from the tactical goggles cast a layer of protection on the surface of his pupils.
"I want to see the real inventory report before eight o'clock tonight." When Mou Xuan stood up, his tactical belt brushed against the edge of the table and knocked over the water cup. Chen Yao reached out to catch the falling cup lid, and the dial of her watch reflected the blue veins on the back of Zhou's neck that suddenly bulged.
The vibration of the medical elevator descending to the B3 floor awakened the dormant emergency lights.
Mou Xuan touched the biochip implantation point on the back of his neck. In the 0.3 seconds before the time stop ability was activated, he heard the rhythm of Chen Yao's tactical boots hitting the metal floor twelve percentage points faster than usual.
At 15:47 on November 7, 2019, the electronic calendar of Renhe Clinic was still playing advertisements for antihypertensive drugs in a loop.
When Mou Xuan kicked open the third loose floor tile in the clinic, the glass medicine bottles mixed in with the rotten wood debris reflected a faint golden light.
Twenty light blue medicines were sealed in the incubator in the secret compartment with a fingerprint lock. The words "X-37 Variant Coronavirus Inhibitor" on the label made him tear off three hemostatic bandages.
The space-time turbulence caused by the removal of the supernatural power tore a new crack in the wound on his left arm.
When Mou Xuan fell to the floor of the medical warehouse, the knocking sound of the incubator startled medical student Sun who was counting the gauze.
The young man stared at the medicine label like a scanner, until Chen Yao's ceramic dagger picked up the notes in his white coat pocket - the latest page contained a structural decomposition diagram of the mutated rabies virus.
"Even the virus culture medium uses an outdated formula from five years ago?" Infectious disease expert Li dropped the culture dish on the laboratory table, splashing lavender liquid. Medical student Sun's action of rescuing the notebook made the pen draw a blue line on the cuff of the protective suit. "The centrifuge parameters you used will destroy the prion sample!"
The finger of Mou Xuan, which was pressing on the edge of the culture dish, was cut by the glass, and blood dripped onto the cover of the "Aerosol Drug Delivery Scheme" just completed by medical student Sun.
Chen Yao suddenly raised the incubator, and twenty bottles of medicine glowed coldly behind the radiation-proof glass: "Why not test the theory in actual combat?"
When the nebulizer in the simulated ward sprayed orange smoke, medical student Sun put the mask on the dummy patient two seconds faster than the programmed process.
Infectious disease expert Li stared at the blood oxygen data being refreshed in real time on the monitoring screen, and the tip of his pen made a dent in the title page of the "Manual for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Variant Pneumonia".
When the seventh special medicine was injected into the intravenous pump, the red value of the alarm suddenly began to drop.
"You will be on field trips starting tomorrow." Mou Xuan stuffed the pass to Mojiang East Coast Pharmaceutical Factory into the interlayer of Sun Medical Student's badge. The snake-like pattern on the edge of the metal card brushed against the young man's trembling fingertips.
The gauze that Chen Yao used to wipe the ceramic dagger fell into the waste bin, and the blood-stained cloth just happened to cover the coffee packaging bag that Zhou, the material manager, had thrown away this morning.
As the river wind blew radioactive dust against the bulletproof glass, Mou Xuan saw twelve medical drones replacing fluorescent bandages.
The newly rising purple flares on the other side of Mojiang River illuminated the interlayer of his tactical belt, where the pass should have been placed, but now there was half a gold-stamped snake badge lying quietly.
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The orange smoke suddenly turned into a piercing scarlet red, and the dummy patient's chest monitor beeped sharply.
Medical student Sun opened the collar of his protective suit, and beads of sweat rolled down his Adam's apple into the ultraviolet-sterilized isolation suit - he noticed that the genetic sequence of the simulated virus strain had three more base pairs than the standard parameters.
"Turn off the atomizer!" Expert Li used a pen to pierce the protective film on the monitoring screen. "The blood oxygen concentration has fallen below the critical value!"
Chen Yao's ceramic dagger suddenly pressed against the emergency brake button, with the tip of the knife only half a millimeter away from the red button.
A data stream flashed through Mou Xuan's tactical eyepiece. The moment his time-stop ability was triggered, he saw clearly that Medical Student Sun's trembling fingers were raising the aerosol drug delivery parameters by 37%.
When reality began to flow again, the purple medicine mist precisely covered the mouth and nose of the dummy patient.
Medical student Sun tore off three infusion tubes to make a temporary airway, and used hemostatic forceps to inject the mutant enzyme inhibitor directly into the carotid artery.
As the alarm's red light swept across the ceiling for the seventh time, the dummy's chest monitor suddenly jumped to a steady turquoise color.
Expert Li tore off the experimental notebook that was punctured by a pen. The yellowed pages were still covered with the culture medium formula that had expired five years ago.
"You changed the speed parameters of my centrifuge?" He grabbed the sleeve of Medical Student Sun's protective suit stained with blood, "Do you know about prions..."
"The 20,000 revolutions per minute you set will destroy the virus envelope." Medical student Sun turned to page 32 of his notebook. The fluorescent anatomical diagram marked the latest mutation point of the mutant rabies virus. "When I adjusted it to 18,000 revolutions per minute, the survival rate increased by 42%."
Dr. Gu's hand, covered with age spots, suddenly pressed down on the petri dish.
The old doctor stared at the gradually stabilizing vital signs on the monitoring screen, and his cloudy pupils reflected the failed plague vaccine experiment twenty years ago.
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