CHAPTER 559: CHAPTER 525: TERRIFYING VIRUS

Shi Shi deftly jumped in front of the computer, merely searching for some information—it wouldn’t pose a challenge for her.

Meanwhile, Jiang Xiao’s gaze was drawn to the injection syringes held by mechanical arms.

He walked closer and noticed a row of different medicine bottles, each labeled with various technical terms, some of which he couldn’t even pronounce.

"Damn, the disadvantage of being uneducated."

He wasn’t a doctor and had no knowledge of the specific effects of these medications.

But he knew that in the face of such a terrifying viral infection, antibiotics might be the only hope.

He hesitated for a moment but ultimately decided to take action.

"Brother, don’t blame me for being ruthless—anyway, you’re doomed," Jiang Xiao murmured to himself as he picked out a few of the most potent-looking antibiotics.

Then he decisively started operating the mechanical arms, aligning the syringes with the medicine bottles and drawing the liquid.

His technique was unprofessional, and he didn’t know precisely where to aim the injections with the mechanical arms, seeing that the thing inside the medical pod was nearly a mush of flesh.

But in this situation, he couldn’t care too much.

He then aligned the syringes with the infected patient in the medical pod, almost unrecognizable as human, and thrust it towards the heart.

The medicine slowly injected into the infected patient’s body, and Jiang Xiao watched the medical pod closely, hoping to see some positive changes.

However, as time ticked by second by second, the patient’s condition seemed to show no improvement, and the yellow blisters continued to grow and spread.

"Dad, how’s it going over there?"

Shi Shi’s voice interrupted Jiang Xiao’s observation; she had turned on the computer, which displayed some complex data and records.

However, the computer was somewhat slow in loading.

"There’s no change yet," Jiang Xiao replied, a hint of disappointment in his eyes.

Shi Shi didn’t say much, her attention fully focused on the content on the computer screen.

"Huh? It’s changing!"

The infected patient, previously still like a corpse, suddenly began to tremble violently.

Definitely the antibiotics taking effect!

It made sense, what normal substance would be placed in a medical pod of this level?

"Dad, there is a change, but... it seems like a negative one..."

The infected patient’s body was already largely forsaken, almost completely covered with blisters.

Now, some areas of blisters might be falling off due to the antibiotics...

Logically, this should be a good thing.

But the problem was that the patient’s body was already so ravaged by the blisters that hardly any flesh remained.

So, where the blisters fell off, half-rotted tendons and bones were directly exposed.

There was no more blood in those tendons...

Jiang Xiao realized that the only reason this patient hadn’t died yet was probably because the fluid in the medical pod was sustaining his bodily functions.

It still wasn’t working...

It cured the symptoms, not the root cause!

Even though the previous blisters were falling off, pus continued to flow from the spots, and wherever it settled, new blisters developed.

Jiang Xiao did not suspect that the medication was counterfeit.

In a world that could create such miraculous fluids inside a medical pod, the medical standards here were surely not inferior to Blue Star.

"This virus is indeed terrifying; it’s just unclear how it’s transmitted."

The contagious efficiency of that thick fluid was unquestionable—anyway, Jiang Xiao was not willing to touch it.

"It seems likely to be transmitted through body fluids like saliva, blood, semen, etc."

"If it could be transmitted through the air, that would be serious..."

"Also, it’s unknown how long the incubation period is—if the disease manifests immediately after contact, that would be relatively manageable."

"I’m just worried about it lurking around for ten days to half a month; that would be an absolute disaster."

Watching Jiang Xiao talk to himself nonstop, Shi Shi’s eyes were filled with admiration.

"Daddy, you know so much!"

"Alas, our generation on Blue Star has been through everything. Diseases that, in ancient times, would appear once every few centuries; we’ve personally experienced them twice, and we survived both times. These things have become common sense."

At the very least, the people of Dragon Country understood the basic logic of preventing the virus from spreading.

Moreover, Jiang Xiao felt that the incubation period of this virus was definitely not short.

Otherwise, it would not have erupted suddenly, causing the governments of the world to instantly collapse and abandon their rescue efforts for the populace.

"The data is here!"

Shi Shi called Jiang Xiao over to look at it with her.

Sure enough, just as Jiang Xiao thought, this computer contained the medical diagnostic records and logs of the infected person in front of them.

[March 2nd]

Patient: Rong Feilong

Age: 24

Gender: Male

Temperature: 37 degrees

The following information was various details like height, weight, and blood type.

Based on the information above.

This was probably written in the diary, the day schools were arranged to close and the patients were accepted by the Medical University.

And this infected individual was most likely the first patient admitted by the Medical University.

The medical log was detailed, but unfortunately, the names of the medications on Blue Star were different, and Jiang Xiao really could not make sense of them.

But what was clear was that all the top antibiotics from both domestic and international sources had been used on this patient, but they were utterly ineffective!

Day one.

The approach was typical: debriding the blisters, followed by anti inflammation and pain relief.

It was useless!

Day two.

In desperation, someone suggested going directly for antibiotics!

Antibiotics are potent and rather brutal.

People living in the countryside would know, when you had a fever as a child, getting a couple of IV bags at the local clinic could cure it.

It worked almost immediately; as soon as the IV was done, the fever would subside, and your headache would disappear, making everything taste better!

However, all antibiotics also cause load-induced damage to the body, particularly harsh on the kidneys.

But back in that era, nobody understood these things.

They only knew there were several clinics in town; naturally, you would go to whichever one worked best...

The antibiotics used on this infected individual, if used on a normal person, could have claimed twenty years of their life span.

There was an effect.

At that time, it was likely that the patient had far fewer blisters than now.

According to the records in the medical log.

After administering the antibiotics, it suppressed the spread of the virus; the main steps next were to kill all the viral cells in the patient’s body and achieve recovery.

But it failed.

Merely two hours later, the virus had crushed the antibiotic forces, and rapidly spread (diffused) throughout the patient’s body.

After that, nothing worked anymore.

The virus penetrated deep into the patient’s skin, flesh, tendons, and bones...

With the current medical techniques of this world, they shockingly found that they had no way to deal with this virus!