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"The members of Dongpu City are really hardworking. Thanks to them, this kind of scum can live to such an old age without dying!"

"He's dead." Xia Ren reminded him.

"..."

Niu Changshou glanced at him, not sure if he was angry with him on purpose.

Qin Yun smiled at the side, Xia Ren sometimes speaks very strangely.

"What about the other members? There should be many researchers in their organization who are responsible for recording research results, right? Even if the leader is dead, just find them..."

"By the time they found them, they basically committed suicide."

This news was also learned by Xia Ren on the way here. He recalled Zheng Xinming's appearance before his death, and said, "The members of this alien organization seem to have a deep admiration for those worms. I don't know if they worship power or what. , in short... hard to understand."

"Isn't the clue broken?"

Niu Changshou was a little frustrated.

"Let's take one step at a time."

Xia Ren sighed, and asked, "I just saw that you looked troubled, did something happen?"

The topic came back again, and Niu Changshou's expression seemed even worse, and he said uncertainly, "Patients... it seems that something is wrong."

"what is the problem?"

Xia Ren asked immediately.

Zheng Xinming's words echoed in his mind again, and he was very concerned. According to what the other party said, something huge might happen tonight.

Niu Changshou glanced at the passing doctors, and said, "Something is wrong with the patients. They began to become agitated for no reason, as if being urged by something to do something. Several patients have already tried to escape from the ward, but They were all discovered and stopped by us in time.”

"And the place they want to go is...Patient No. [-]."

"Patient No. [-]?"

Xia Ren still remembered the half-vegetative little girl, and he felt something was wrong with her at that time.

"Take me to see."

"it is good."

Niu Changshou trusted Xia Ren very much, so he explained the situation to him in detail while walking.

"After the abnormality occurred, we checked the conditions of all the patients and found that most of them had the symptoms of trance. I asked several patients who were trying to escape, and they all had no specific understanding of their behavior, such as sudden Hysteria, can't remember what I did."

"What disturbs me even more is that as time goes on, the anxiety of the patients is getting worse and worse. Many of them are already debilitated by the complications of anthropophobia, but it is I would rather pull out the oxygen tube, but also achieve a certain purpose."

"Like instinct?" Xia Ren asked.

"uncertain."

Niu Changshou shook his head, with a trace of fear in his eyes, "Their behavior reminds me of hosts parasitized by certain parasites in nature."

"Especially they didn't get sick as usual last night. Now it seems that the parasites have reached a critical stage and are preparing for something..."

Nurses and doctors walked back and forth in the corridor, most of them looked in a hurry, Xia Ren saw some old men with gray hair, and there were also young men and women, who seemed to be students following the professors.

They are all wearing white coats, worrying about the patients, but what they don't know is that this plague is not caused by any known creature on the blue star, and there is no reference to it in human history. They don't know how contagious they are, or even the route of transmission, or even what the pathogen is.

They didn't know anything, but they came anyway.

While talking, Xia Ren and Niu Changshou had arrived at the ward.

Patient No. [-] was reclining on the hospital bed, staring blankly at the ceiling.

She was only six years old, and she should have been at an age to play happily with her friends, but she lay here, not even knowing who she was, and she needed help to eat and drink.

"Of all the patients, she was the only one who did not show any anxiety."

A nurse was in charge of taking care of Patient No. [-] at all times. Niu Changshou waved his hand to signal her to avoid it temporarily, then walked to the bedside and pulled Patient No. [-]'s slender wrist.

"But no matter how many times I check, her physical condition remains unchanged from before."

That is, the reason why the abnormal condition occurs cannot be found.

Xia Ren looked at him and said, "You're getting anxious too."

Niu Changshou froze while holding Patient No. [-]'s hand, came back to his senses, and muttered to himself, "Yes, I can't be in a hurry, but I can't be in a hurry, I must be calm..."

He is a plague scholar and is currently the top speaker of the Superman Association in charge of the progress of plague research in Dongpu City. All major decisions need to be confirmed by him. It doesn’t matter if others make a mistake. If he makes a mistake, the problem will be serious. .

Since entering the ward, Lily's eyes have been looking at patient No. [-].

"empty."

Her childish voice suddenly said.

"What's empty?"

Xia Ren turned around and asked.

As Lily is an important servant of Shoggoth, the ancient who had been extremely brilliant on the blue star, it is normal to see many things that no one else can see.

"here."

Lily pointed to her head, "Here, it's empty."

Niu Changshou frowned and said, "But after examination, her brain did not have any damage, nor did it suffer from quality loss like other patients."

Xia Ren turned his gaze back to patient No. [-].

Lily would not say such things for no reason. If she said something empty, then there must be something missing. Since it is not the brain, it may be something other than the brain.

"Sister Lu Yi is also free!"

Lily pointed to Lu Yi who was quietly working as a vending machine next to her.

"I'm not empty~ I sell things, such as roasted chicken nuggets, boiled liver nuggets, big bone soup..."

Lu Yi snapped her fingers and started reporting the names of the dishes.

Xia Ren looked at them, lost in thought.

"What could it be? The similarities between Lu Yi and Patient No. [-]..."

This question is destined to be fruitless.