744: Chapter 744: The Situation Intensifies!
744: Chapter 744: The Situation Intensifies!
“What?”
Wu Jie felt a sudden shock.
On the other end of the phone, Tang Xin was imdiately sowhat baffled.
“Brother, what on earth happened?”
Wu Jie imdiately said sternly,
“Sothing major has happened, try not to have any contact with strangers these days, and always wear a mask!”
Tang Xin interrupted with a question, “What happened?
Was there a factory leak or sothing?
The air quality has been good lately!”
Wu Jie said annoyed, “Don’t worry about that, just minimize contact with strangers!”
Tang Xin felt a bit confused and hesitantly asked,
“Ah?
What…
what exactly…”
“Don’t hem and haw, just go do it!
This isn’t a joke, there’s definitely going to be big news in the next couple of days.
I’m hanging up now, rember what I said, and quickly notify your friends and family!”
After hearing Tang Xin utter a sound of acknowledgnt, Wu Jie hung up the phone and imdiately sent a text ssage to Tang Xiao.
The content was only three words—”It’s erupted.”
Wu Jie hadn’t kept what he was busy with these days a secret from Tang Xiao.
And since the group had business intelligence research, it would have been impossible to hide anyway.
So, Wu Jie always kept Tang Xiao updated with any new developnts in a tily manner.
Sending a three-word text ssage ant Tang Xiao, being clever, would understand what it implied and what needed to be done, without Wu Jie needing to explain further.
anwhile, Zheng’s expression was growing increasingly grave.
After hanging up the secure line, he imdiately turned his head to look at Wu Jie.
“The External Affairs Bureau has obtained new intelligence; several places in Yincheng have seen a sudden increase in patients with cold and fever symptoms today.
After analysis and diagnosis, the first case has already been confird to be infected with the Sakuragi Hana virus!”
“Yincheng has already initiated an ergency plan and has inford intelligence agencies of various countries about the situation.
They are probably already taking ergency actions to quarantine all the suspected infected patients!”
Wu Jie cursed, “Damn it!
It must be the Muto Conglorate in Yincheng that had a rat slip through the net, one that wasn’t captured.
To retaliate against human society, they just went ahead and released the virus!”
Zheng took a deep breath and shook his head slightly.
“Whether this is for malicious retaliation or not is no longer important.
There are already ordinary citizens in Yincheng who have been infected, which ans there must be quite a number of infected within their country!”
“It’s possible that there are more or less infected people in various countries around the world, it’s just that they have not been discovered and diagnosed yet!”
After a brief pause, Zheng heaved a long sigh.
“Alas!
The situation we least wanted to see has arisen, and the available cure isn’t 100% effective!
This is truly fucked up!”
Reaching into his pocket, Zheng could only pull out a crumpled pack of cigarettes.
With an overwhelming workload and imnse pressure, his smoking had beco particularly severe.
“Try to smoke less, don’t let the virus fail to kill people and you end up dying first!”
As he spoke, Wu Jie took out a cigarette and offered it to him.
Both n lit their cigarettes and puffed away in silence, lost in their thoughts.
Wu Jie knew what Zheng was worried about.
The virus had already broken out, and although a certain amount of the cure had been urgently produced and stocked up over the last ten days.
But in comparison to the population of 1.3 billion, the amount was evidently still far from enough.
The most worrying part was…
Whether there were side effects was unknown.
Whether there would be a relapse after the virus worsened in the future was also unknown.
Lacking sufficient human trials and long-term observation of the drug’s efficacy, who could guarantee it?
Wu Jie, however, had a thod he could try.
His system attachnt supposedly made him immune to all poisons, so he could totally give it a shot.
For instance, he could infect himself with the Sakuragi Hana virus to see if the cure could truly heal him without side effects or residual virus.
If it could not heal him, then he could have the system help him recover.
After recovery, he would inject the cure again, let his body develop antibodies to the virus, and then try re-infecting himself.
To see if the cure could function, whether it could make him immune to the virus, protect his body, and ensure he wouldn’t get infected.
It was just…
This thod, how to say it?
Wu Jie had thought about it.
If he told Zheng that he wanted to test the poison on himself, Zheng would never agree, and neither would Elder Tan.
Who would dare to let Wu Jie test the poison on himself?
No one would risk it.
Wu Jie had co to the research institute tonight to help expedite the bacteriophage research project, and Zheng had followed along.
That was clearly to ensure Wu Jie’s safety, preventing him from coming into contact with the virus or the cure.
“It’d be aweso if one could be immune to all poisons, in that case, I could test the poison on myself!”
Wu Jie muttered a jest in silence.
Zheng glanced at Wu Jie and scoffed,
“How could that be possible?
I’m warning you, put aside those crooked thoughts.
Elder Tan personally ordered to protect you at all costs; you must not be endangered by either the Northern Fox Organization, the Rosdelle Auxiliary Business Association, or any other danger!”
Wu Jie gave a faint smile and said no more.
Without access to the virus or the cure, Wu Jie couldn’t risk testing it on himself even if he wanted to.
But Wu Jie estimated that it would be extrely difficult to get in touch with the patients, as there were always people accompanying him, making it terribly inconvenient.
Being guarded like a national treasure, Wu Jie was really exasperated.
“I just hope the cure won’t have any issues!”
Looking at the brilliantly lit city through the car window, Wu Jie muttered to himself silently.
Hum~
The sedan sped along the highway.
Upon arriving at the compound, he imdiately headed to the joint command center.
Any significant ergency situation would make this place particularly bustling.
Many departnts would jointly work from this location to concentrate resources for major tasks.
“According to incomplete statistics, there are now over ten thousand patients with colds and fevers being treated in nurous public hospitals nationwide, and it will take a long ti to draw blood from each for lab tests to confirm whether they are infected with the Sakuragi Hana virus,”
“As for the patients in private hospitals and small clinics, and those who think a cold is no big deal, who can tough it out, or buy their own dicine, we can’t even begin to count them!”
As he entered the command hall, the head of the dical departnt ca over to report.
…
Zheng continuously coordinated and arranged work.
The cybersecurity departnt, of course, received its task, which was to imdiately monitor and manage online public sentint.
In this era of information networks, Yincheng had already experienced a virus outbreak, and the number of infected people was substantial.
You can’t wrap fire in paper!
The citizens of Yincheng would definitely learn about this very soon, even dia who thrives on sensation and busybodies would rush to broadcast the news, pushing it onto the internet.
However…
The internet is constantly generating all kinds of information every mont.
All sorts of videos, audio, images, text, GIFs, etc.
Just in one minute.
Youku has hundreds of hours of videos uploaded, Facebook has over two million posts.
People send over ten million ssages on Weixin, post nearly a million ssages…
That’s just in a short minute.
The internet keeps generating various types of information data.
All kinds of information in various colors and forms are mixed in.
So major international websites use artificial intelligence algorithms for large-scale removal and blocking.
They also employ workers in regions with low labor costs to conduct precise reviews, deleting and blocking those illegal contents as much as possible.
And now.
To strengthen supervision of public sentint, it was not feasible to have people watch every ssage sent, every video, and photo one by one.
No matter how many people were assigned, it would never be enough and moreover, the efficiency would be too low.
Therefore.
Wu Jie transplanted the ‘Intelligent Prohibited Content Review System’ running on the server backend of the Dashen Pai app software.
He also carried out specialized enhancents and upgrades, using more advanced and intelligent algorithms to block and eliminate prohibited content.
anwhile.
Many departnts across the country were on ergency response, ready for action.
…
The next morning.
The External Affairs Bureau reported the latest situation in Yincheng.
From the discovery of the first case, there were already thousands of infected patients treated and blood-tested confird in just the cities of Rocky Continent and Cai City.
The speed of infection was so rapid and widespread it was astonishing.
Clearly, the person who released the virus mostly did so in densely populated areas.
A bus station, after all, is an open-air environnt.
Could it have been a recent concert?
A sports match?
Or perhaps, the crowded subway transfer stations?
The authorities in Yincheng have already given up on the investigation and are contemplating whether to deploy the cure.
But what’s troubling is…
Even Mutoh Yoshio himself said that the cure could be confird 100% effective for three to five months.
As for whether the virus might recur in the years after…
even he couldn’t be certain!
After all, they had only recently succeeded in developing the drug and began human trials this year.
And the longest a patient had gone without a relapse was just five months; who knows if they might die next month?
This really was a problem.
The number of confird infected patients was increasing.
Are we to just watch them as their conditions worsen, dying miserably?
But what if the special cure was used on patients, injected into healthy people?
If there’s a mass death soon after, who would take responsibility?
While Yincheng was hesitant and undecided, thousands of miles away, the Star Federation reported that their first infected patient was also confird.
Now it was certain that this biological crisis was destined to sweep across the globe…
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