The Periodic Table of Words at Hogwarts

three days later

"Recently, a certain mild disease is widespread in Edenia and has spread to many areas such as Mexico, Chile, and the Japanese islands. Patients often suffer from fever, vomiting, diarrhea and other common cold symptoms, and may be accompanied by conjunctival congestion. , skin purpura”.

"The medical system on the east coast of Etonia is nearly saturated. Anti-quarantine demonstrations broke out in many places and continued to turn into riots at night. Governors of many states have ordered the dispatch of the National Guard to maintain public order."

In this spacious but extremely depressing conference room, the two rows of people sitting on both sides of the conference table were silently watching the slightly retro TV series and the news being broadcast inside.

"It's just a flu"!

The voices of protesters came from the TV, and at the same time there were obvious cries and the sound of breaking glass in the background. It was probably the windows of another store being smashed.

"Evacuate the embassy and charter a few planes to evacuate all overseas Chinese. Fortunately, we don't have that many citizens in Edenia, so the pressure for evacuation will be much less."

A middle-aged man in Chinese tunic suit said with a frown.

"Ahem, cough, cough, we managed to get some tissue samples from infected people, but since those things have just been sent to the 406th biological laboratory, we don't have much understanding of this pathogen for the time being, so we still We need Mr. Zhang Qi to give us a detailed introduction."

A middle-aged man wearing a white coat but wearing training uniforms coughed slightly, and then people wearing Chinese tunic suits on the left side of the conference table and people wearing camouflage uniforms on the right side of the conference table all came together He glanced at Zhang Qi, who had moved a separate chair at the end of the long table and was eating fried dough sticks and steamed buns there.

"Well, my intelligence information may be a little behind. Before I introduce the knowledge I know, I want to ask this person first"...

Zhang Qi looked at the soldier in a white coat and hesitated when he spoke.

"China Intelligence Analysis and Judgment Room, Lin Qianjun."

The man who looked to be in his 40s said very kindly.

"Well, Mr. Lin, what I want to know is what characteristics you have measured?"

Zhang Qi nodded.

"The pathogen is a fungus, which is initially judged to be capable of spore reproduction and budding reproduction, and is extremely sensitive to ultraviolet light. The aggregation of the pathogen can produce hyphae, which seems to be able to control the nerves of mammals. The specific form of control requires further research."

"According to the on-site situation provided by the special operations team, the infected person has lost all human behavior patterns, and his physical fitness is somewhat weaker than that of normal humans. However, the masseter and lumbrical muscles are significantly enlarged and can bite or scratch extremely thick clothing. ".

"Furthermore, according to the oral accounts of the special forces team members, the body temperature of the infected people reached a very alarming level. They saw with their own eyes in the slums of Brazil a sheet of steam rising from the surface of the body of the infected person in the heavy rain. It is speculated that the body temperature may exceed 50 degrees Celsius."

Lin Qianjun very fluently dictated the situation report that he had stayed up late yesterday, and then picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip of water.

"Have they seen something more strange and disgusting? Like a mountain of meat made up of corpses?"

Zhang Qi frowned.

"The action report did not state that the spread of local infections is not as bad as imagined."

"As for the issue of drug susceptibility testing, this takes time."

Lin Qianjun replied solemnly.

"Let me tell you what I saw."

Zhang Qi also cleared his throat at this time.

"In the more severe stage of infection, infected people may gather into huge complexes, searching for all organic matter that can be used for energy supply to devour. And due to the concentration of organic matter, these complexes usually develop in sewers or slaughterhouses. Places such as field treatment pools that are extremely difficult to search.”

"Pathogens are extremely sensitive to metallic mercury. A small amount of mercury salt solution can cause the fungi to rapidly autolyse, and high temperatures can also quickly kill them."

"This pathogen is extremely scary, but what is really scary is not the disease, but the people behind the disease."

Zhang Qi knocked on the table and then continued:

"To put it in layman's terms, there are status divisions among infected people, and those high-level infected people have been hiding in this world for nearly a thousand years. They occasionally spread the disease, but due to the imperfect evolution of the disease, they do not No success was achieved."

"But now, the evolution of this thing has made me feel uneasy. The first abominations I encountered would struggle painfully under the burning gasoline, but the most recent one is almost impossible to ignite."

"These things seem to have broken away from the category of living things. After all, if it were just evolution, there would be no creatures in nature that have specially evolved cuticles with a certain curvature to resist bullets."

When Zhang Qi finished saying this, he took a sip of water from his tea cup, and everyone involved in the meeting fell into deep thought.

"Ahem, cough, cough, it seems I'm a little late."

At this moment, the door of the conference room was suddenly pushed open.

Everyone raised their heads and looked at the door, only to see a young man wearing a white coat and square-rimmed glasses slowly walk in with a file bag, and then gently closed the door.

"Dr. Chu Ci".

Lin Qianjun nodded gently to the youngest doctor of mysticism in China.

"I bring two pieces of good news, which one do you want to hear?"

Chu Ci sat in his seat and then opened the file bag.

"Let's talk about it, we just heard too much bad news."

The middle-aged man who spoke first said softly.

"The first good news is that the drug susceptibility test has come out. Several broad-spectrum antifungal drugs are effective against pathogens. Although the effect may be a little worse, it is just a matter of increasing the dosage."

Chu Ci first handed the drug sensitivity test report to Zhang Qi, who took it and looked at it carefully, and then let out a sigh of relief.

"The second good news."

Chu Ci's eyes scanned the faces of everyone participating in the meeting one by one. After confirming that everyone had signed the confidentiality agreement, he spoke:

"Things on the mysterious side are still somewhat useful. This fungus belongs to the mysterious side of the world, so naturally we can use those methods to solve it."

"Mr. Kel'Thuzad now has a method to eliminate mild infections. We have conducted experiments on mice, crab-eating monkeys, and pigs, and the results are very good."

"and"……

Chu Ci paused when he said this.

"If it is a severe infection, antifungal drugs can be used while suppressing it with realistic stable anchors. Although no experimental animals survived in the current mammalian experiments, this is just a question of configuration."

"After conducting extensive animal experiments, we could find a complete cure for this disease within a few months."