Fortunately, there is a consensus among all parties on the need to implement the highest level of isolation measures, so even without the development of an effective treatment, large-scale isolation can still be carried out.
At times like these, one has to admire the fighting spirit of the government departments.
It makes sense. If they can control things like a young couple having children, letting them have as many as they want and not letting them have any, then what else can't they control?
Fancheng was immediately placed under martial law. Lingcheng, where Zhang Yifei boarded the plane, was also placed under strict control. No one would take such a life-or-death matter lightly.
When Zhang Yifei was in the emergency room, there wasn't time to investigate his relatives and friends' social circles. But when he needed to be quarantined, not only Zhang Yifei's wife, children, parents, and colleagues, but even netizens he had only chatted with online were identified.
It's really hard to say about online relationships; who knows if chatting online might lead to meeting in real life? This unnamed virus that can kill within three days of onset is truly terrifying.
Li Lechen has been discharged from the hospital.
However, he was immediately quarantined upon discharge from the hospital because he was on the same flight as Zhang Yifei. There were 124 passengers and 14 crew members on that flight. Now, apart from two passengers who have not yet been found, everyone else has been quarantined.
But isolation is far from simple.
From the time Zhang Yifei fell ill until his death, three days passed. During these three days, apart from Zhao Binghao and the fashionable woman who also developed symptoms, the others remained asymptomatic. However, this does not mean that only these three people on the plane were infected with the mutated virus, nor does it mean that only these three were infectious.
Therefore, the scope of quarantine was expanded to include: everyone on the plane, everyone they had contact with in the past three days, and everyone their contacts had contacted. In addition, this included people Zhang Yifei had previously been in contact with, and those people they had contacted in the past few days.
In addition, because it was uncertain whether Zhang Yifei was the first infected person, Zhao Binghao, who had already fallen ill, and the modern woman were also considered as the number one high-risk individuals. All the people they had been in contact with, as well as others they had been in contact with in the past few days, were quarantined.
Poor God knows, that fashionable woman also worked part-time as a bar hostess at night, and she came into contact with far too many people.
Even so, as the isolation area was defined, people started falling ill one after another.
What frustrated the relevant departments even more was that none of these sick people were within the quarantine area. In other words, Zhang Yifei, as the first death case, may not have been the first infected patient.
Of course, no one can say for sure now. Who knows if Zhang Yifei might have come into contact with other people that no one knows about before boarding the plane? For example, he might have gone to the restroom and brushed past someone else who was also going to the restroom. However, that person might have boarded another plane, flown to another city, and come into contact with other people there, and those people might have come into contact with even more people.
But the more serious problem now is that, although this terrible virus has been discovered and named "SW18 virus", many experts are still powerless to deal with it.
It spreads very quickly!
Experts believe that the SW18 virus is the fastest spreading virus in human history, and infection can occur through direct contact with vomit or face-to-face communication with patients carrying the SW18 virus.
It has incredible vitality!
Most viruses can be killed by high-temperature disinfection at 100 degrees Celsius or by washing with disinfectant. However, the SW18 virus can survive in boiling water at 100 degrees Celsius for half an hour, and can even survive in a vacuum environment for more than ten minutes. Ordinary disinfectants cannot completely kill its activity.
It exhibits extremely high variability!
This is even worse, as the SW18 virus found in Zhang Yifei's body was only at level one, while the SW18 virus found in Zhao Binghao's body had mutated to level three.
More and more people are infected, more and more people are in isolation, more and more people are getting sick, and then, more and more people die from the infection.
The experts are going crazy.
The government departments are also going crazy.
In just one week, the number of deaths from SW18 virus infection alone has exceeded 3,000. Tens of thousands have been hospitalized due to the infection, and countless others have been quarantined.
Although only a little over three thousand people died, it was already a disaster given current medical technology.
However, only Li Lechen knew that even if this had happened seven years earlier, or even back then, in 2025, the outbreak of this disease would have been a disaster, resulting in the deaths of tens of millions of people. It was truly terrifying.
At this moment, Li Lechen was frantically searching for information about the HI25 virus from back then in the library. His library, of course, was a library he had accessed through a live streaming platform, located two thousand years in the future.
Since he's encountered this situation, and there are resources available, we should naturally utilize them. Even if we can't stop the virus from occurring, we can at least stop its spread. Even if we can't stop its spread, providing some information to help develop an effective treatment as soon as possible would be beneficial.
At his current level of 22, he shouldn't be able to open the library at all. After all, the books in the library are all real and unmodified. If anyone of any level could enter, wouldn't there be no secrets left in the world?
Therefore, only those level 50 and above can unlock the library.
Fortunately, Li Lechen was lost in the time tunnel for seven hundred years, so within his authority, he can adjust to any level below level 90.
But even after entering the library, getting the information you want isn't so easy, because every place has an intelligent robot that Li Lechen considers idiotic.
That's the situation now.
"I want information about the HI25 virus."
Li Lechen's original words were as follows.
"Dear Wind Chaser Boy, the HI25 virus outbreak occurred in 2025. The first patient was a 37-year-old woman who was hospitalized for the common flu. She later developed symptoms such as chest tightness and vomiting and was diagnosed with acute pneumonia. Subsequently, it was discovered that her lung tissue was rapidly fibrosed, and she ultimately died..."
This kind of news-like information was not what Li Lechen needed, so he had to change his questioning style: "Do you have any internal information about the HI25 virus?"
"some."
Upon hearing that there was an answer, Li Lechen waited patiently.
A little over a minute later, Li Lechen felt a bit awkward and asked, "What's wrong? Haven't you found it yet?"
"What?" The AI guide was completely dumbfounded.
This left Li Lechen completely bewildered: "Didn't you look for internal information about the HI25 virus?"
"No."
Why don't you look for it?
Why are we looking for it?
"Because I need internal information about the HI25 virus!"
"oh."
Oh? What does "oh" mean?
Li Lechen was about to lose his temper. This was his first time entering the library, and he had even gotten in by cheating. Although he had expected the library's AI guide to be like the shopping mall's sales assistant and health assistant—either noisy or idiotic—he hadn't anticipated it to be this bad.
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