Plague Doctor

When the news that human patients began to show abnormal mutations reached the dissection room, Wang Ruoxiang and others were dissecting the mice that had failed to mutate and died violently.

Ten of them have completed the dissection, and they haven't gained much. The physiological structure of these mice is no different from that of ordinary mice. The most obvious difference is that they have stronger muscles. They seem to have failed to cross that line and thus fail to transform into a human-faced rat, a winged rat, or a giant-bellied rat.

After receiving the news, Wang Ruoxiang had to put down her work and rushed to the conference room.

Soon, she saw the surveillance video of what had just happened at a treatment center on the outskirts of Dahua City from the conference screen.

Multiple images were taken from different single rooms with severe cases. All patients had previously received some experimental treatments, such as making old marks, making crow marks, etc. They were not sure whether they had any effect. It was probably not because of the patient's anxiety. It was not alleviated, and mutations still occurred.

So far, 136 patients have developed this explosive mutation after reaching the critical point. 67 patients died after ineffective rescue, and another 68 survived. The success rate and failure rate are almost half.

In terms of the number of people around the world who are currently known to have viewed that site, this is a very scary trend.

When the mutation occurs in these images, regardless of success or failure, the patients will let out extremely weird non-human roars, and then the losers will die quickly in pain due to multiple organ failure; the winners will show the same symptoms as the small ones after they stop shouting. Rats are very hungry and seek out large amounts of food. No matter how much food the Tianji personnel sent them, they ate like crazy, and the digestion speed was incomprehensible, and almost everything they ate became converted energy.

They also have mutations in many directions. Among the 68 successful people, there are at least three different directions, two of which are well known to Tianji personnel.

One is ghoul, in which patients develop lion-like symptoms similar to secondary hyperparathyroidism, and their food intake becomes the largest.

The other type is deep divers. The patients' skin shows signs of scaly changes. The shape, color and feeling are the scales of deep divers.

There is also a "snake man" who is unfamiliar to both the Tianji Bureau and the Mysterious Bureau. The skin of the related patient also has scales, but it is another kind of mixed black and white scales. The patient's body has not shown signs of snake transformation, but his head has. Many organs are undergoing transformation, especially the tongue, which is the first to mutate. The patient's tongue is becoming like a snake.

The power of worship of ghouls and deep divers comes from different sources, and the manifest organizations are also different. The former is the Ghoul Secret Cult, and the latter is the R'lyeh Order.

Yet that site of enlightenment can cause mutations in these different sources of power...chaos, disorder, Nyarlathotep.

Because venomous snakes are one of the images of Nyarlathotep, this mutation of the snake-man is particularly dangerous to everyone, and they indeed know the least about the snake-man.

Moreover, the number of patients who have successfully mutated into snake-men is currently the smallest, only 5, which is less than one-tenth.

Regardless of the direction of alienation, these "strangers" have become very strong and very dangerous.

What is happening now is just the beginning. If it continues like this, Xiaoxu calculated for everyone: "If there are 100 million viewers in the world, half the success rate is 50 million people, one in ten. Five million snakemen can appear in one night, along with forty-five million ghouls and deep ones."

The conference room fell into silence, and everyone participating in the meeting frowned.

They all know that the real number is far more than 100 million...

These figures made Wang Ruoxiang, who had always refused to admit defeat, feel deeply powerless. Lou Xiaoning and Uncle Dan were also speechless. If tens of millions of strangers appear in the world... it is not a disaster that can be solved by breaking a pagan ritual.

Maybe within the next few days, this situation will come true.

"The era of cataclysm..." Peacock murmured, has it come yet...

Zhou Haorui and Yang Xinxin are not here. They left before and wanted to go back to discuss with Crow Crow whether to confirm cooperation with Tianji Bureau and how to deal with it.

Tong Ye is not here either and is too busy. The current situation involves various considerations and cannot be easily handled by any country.

But they know what must be done. Every time more time passes, there will be more dead people and strangers...

It is not yet certain whether there will definitely be strange shouts when there is a sudden change, but the work of notifying the public has been carried out, and all people will report it immediately if they hear such shouts. In this way, relevant personnel will go over to control the successful mutants and transport the bodies of the losers away.

"It shouldn't just be a genetic problem. We still have a chance..." Wang Ruoxiang thought.

Because it is difficult for genes to explain such a mutation speed, maybe it can, but another reason is that patients hear inexplicable restless noises in their heads. According to their experience, it was a dark force connected behind it, either Nyarlathotep or an organization.

Could it be Nyarlathotep? They thought it was unlikely that Nyarlathotep would be interested in so many people.

The ones that really aroused its interest were people like Gu Jun, Wu Shiyu, Yu Chi and Kezia Mason. It didn't care about the others at all.

"Could it be a negative choice of life?" Lou Xiaoning asked. She had just undergone a bone resection operation, but she still continued to be slightly injured and could not get out of the line of fire.

Will negative selection life make a comeback?

Lou Xiaoning had this guess because according to the inquiry and investigation, there were many strange sounds heard by the patients.

There is no difference between the multi-word and the information spread before by the Negative Selection Life Society. But they couldn't be sure, because they were just words that could express completely different sentences.

The negative choice life will be the power of the black goat, but the black pharaoh is also the power of the black goat...

They have reason to believe that Nyarlathotep's power can transform into any other dark power, and it has countless incarnations.

"It's not like that." Xiao Xu said, "According to the big data analysis of the existing patients, there are many ordinary students, low-income people and unemployed people, but there are also many high-achieving students, middle-class people and high-income people. And you don't Do you think mutation is a new judgment?"

Xiaoxu glanced at the people around the conference table, "Failure, death, a negative choice; success, survival, a positive choice; there is no draw."

"Just looking at it from a biological perspective, have you ever discovered that whether they are ghouls, deep divers, or snake people, their bodies are stronger than those of us ordinary humans?"

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