Plague Doctor

The 16-year-old patient named Kevin Grier's condition worsened and he developed new symptoms.

In this latest clinical image sent to the Tianji Bureau by fbm, he is sitting on the edge of the hospital bed. His whole body has become stiff due to ossification, and his skin is as black as the water of the Negro River. As of yesterday, the seventh day after the onset of illness, he began to experience a delirium-like mental state.

"That pyramid keeps appearing in front of me... It's not an illusion, it's right in front of me... I can only dream about that pyramid when I sleep, it's there... It's my body, I'm a part of it... Take it off, please, help me take it off..."

Kevin Grier scratched his head with both hands in pain, but it only became more uncomfortable immediately. His stiff hands could not bend, and the pulling caused severe pain.

And the pyramid that only he saw was still there, following him like a shadow, crushing every muscle in his body and gluing it together.

"The pyramid is still there, it's still there!" Kevin Greer suddenly stood up like a madman, but because the soft tissue of both ankle joints had ossified, he fell back to the hospital bed in pain as soon as he tried to stand up, unable to do anything at all. Take control of your body.

The same is true for patients with severe petrochemical diseases. No matter how much they struggle indignantly, they can't do it even if they want to self-mutilate or commit suicide.

After Kevin Greer struggled in vain, he lay motionless on the hospital bed, only neighing like a trapped animal.

His state was classified by fbm's medical team as the third stage of petrification, "mental petrification."

Patients at this stage not only have their bodies ossified and have fluids in their bodies, but their spirits are also petrified. fbm has conducted mental examinations on thousands of third-stage patients and found that they have delirium, forgetfulness, amnesia, dementia, etc. It seems that if this continues, they will only become a living dead.

The pyramids that appear in front of patients in the third stage have the same characteristics. The whole is blood red. If you look closely, the stones on the wall are human bones, and each one has a different head.

Where this pyramid exists, no one can say for sure. But all countries know that they must not let it come to this world.

In order to do a good job in disease control, information related to pyramids, floods, etc. has been blocked globally.

Just some new patients who have just become ill in New York, Lundy and other places show a new trend in the spread of petrified disease.

It's like a surging flood has broken through another dam, causing greater harm.

When these patients were investigated, they recalled that they had no direct history of contact with pyramids. They did not search for it on the Internet themselves or learn about it from the media.

They came into contact with the pyramids for the first time in recent days just because they were walking on the streets of the city and saw tall buildings.

"At that time, there were many cars and people on the road..." one of the patients, Ian Johnson, said blankly, "You know, it was very noisy around, the sound of cars, the noise of passers-by, some chatting on their mobile phones , some were fighting, and I felt a little irritable. Then, those tall buildings suddenly reminded me of the pyramids. I don’t know why, but I just remembered..."

These patients all say almost exactly the same thing.

"I thought of the pyramids, and then I felt even more depressed." Another patient named Jack O'Toole gasped and spoke, with large areas of his chest ossified. "So many high-rise buildings, the whole city, seems to be overwhelming." It's on me, I can't breathe..."

"I have never been to Egypt, and I don't have any interest in pyramids." A female patient, Dina Pullman, wanted to get an answer hesitantly. "There can't be pyramids in the Grand Canyon, right. At that time, I was standing On the edge of the cliff, overlooking the scenery, I felt that it was really great and open... Suddenly and inexplicably, I thought of the pyramid, and even seemed to see it right in front of me, why is this happening?"

Dina Pullman represents another new type of patient. They also have no recent history of contact with pyramids, and they did not get sick in the city. Instead, they faced natural scenery, mountains, or the sea, which made them Feel something majestic, and then, the pyramids appear.

"Don't think about the pyramids, don't see the tall buildings, don't see the tall things, don't touch the sublime!"

Liu Jiecheng said this sentence with a crazy laugh before he died. Now the Tianji Bureau understands the meaning. This sentence has actually revealed the transmission route of petrochemical disease.

The disasters happening all over the world have gradually spiraled out of control. From 500,000 patients to 1 million patients, it only took one day.

Even those developed areas are facing the collapse of medical resources. At the same time, there are too many patients and too few medical staff.

And the epidemic situation has gradually been hidden from the public, and the networks in these countries have become even more chaotic.

On the other hand, since the disaster did not occur in the Kingdom of Tianji, even if the epidemic is so serious, human civilization may be heading for extinction, and many overt and covert struggles among countries have already begun. While fbm shared information with the Secret Bureau, it obviously kept a secret secret, and even the Secret Bureau was investigating.

The trust between each other was already very fragile, or even non-existent.

Medical teams in various countries are already at their wits' end. If this is a mental illness with only third-stage symptoms, they can still try to treat it with lobotomy, but this is not the case. There is indeed something wrong with the autoimmune system. Alkaline phosphatase and bone-specific If the alkaline phosphatase cannot be lowered, it will be useless even if the brain is removed.

In addition, a lot of things going on transcend the scope of medicine.

Professor Liu Qiqing, Professor Glasser and others, regardless of whether they have been sick or not, are exhausted mentally and physically.

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Information is still possible, but how can we prevent people from coming into contact with high-rise buildings? Modern civilization is built on tall buildings.

It is impossible for everyone to suddenly evacuate back to the countryside, which would be tantamount to a breakdown of order. Besides, the countryside can also have high-rise buildings and natural scenery...

Even without these external things, humans can feel sublime just by looking at the sky. The sky is the tallest thing.

"We have no way to control it..." Professor Glasser's voice was hoarse. After only one day, the disease developed to the critical point of the third stage. He weakly admitted the failure of himself and the entire fbm medical team: "There is nothing we can do. Not even medieval bloodletting."

Petrification disease is one of the three diseases that destroyed human civilization in the legend of Earth City in later generations.

If the epidemic was a flood, the water level would be so high that it would cover the sky and the earth.

It was under this situation that the "Stone Breaker Team", a joint mobile task force dispatched by the Tianxuan Bureau and the Tianxuan Bureau, set off for Egypt.

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