crisis management game.

Chapter 578 Neurotropic Virus (asking for monthly ticket)
Whether it was the guard Tapa who first showed symptoms, or the doctor who was shot dead by Gu Ji himself.

Not only can they communicate normally, they also have basic thinking ability.

For example, resisting, calling, opening the door, etc.

But compared to the zombies in movies, TV shows and novels, these infected people are less aggressive.

At least they won't just rush up and bite people's necks, scratch them randomly, and kill them.

If he had not been too weak at the time, Gu Ji would not have rashly fired and directly killed the male doctor.

Gu Ji tightened the Galil ACE rifle against his chest, pulled out a pistol and a dagger from his tactical belt, crossed them, and carefully came to the door of the sixth-floor stairs.

Kaif followed behind, grabbing his shoulders nervously.

"Xima, are we just going in like this? Should we throw something first to attract the attention of those crazy people?"

"Shut up."

Gu Ji chuckled and first used the angle to observe the situation in the corridor.

What is visible to the naked eye is a central office observation area obscured by a half-person-high reception desk.

There is a filing cabinet on the left, and several rows of LCD TVs are hung on the right wall, showing images of different laboratories and various research values, including the temperature and radiation values ​​of each room in the confinement room.

In the middle are various desks and chairs.

But now it has become a mess, with tables and chairs tilted all over the place, all kinds of discarded documents scattered everywhere, and even several TVs have been smashed.

The most eye-catching thing is the pool of blood on the wall of the left entrance.

If I'm not mistaken, there is a lot of yellow-green liquid mixed in it, which is brain matter!

"Keep your eyes on the right."

There were straight corridors on both sides of the observation area. Gu Ji could only focus on one side and left the other side to Kafu.

Although this woman is a little timid.

But she's still alive today, at least she's not stupid.

So, Gu Ji slightly turned sideways, walked through the stairwell, walked along the wall to the door, turned the muzzle of the gun, and used the corner-cutting tactics to quickly cut into the corridor on the left.

And Kaif also moved to the right as he asked.

What Gu Ji didn't expect was that there was nothing on the left. Apart from the medical waste scattered on the ground and a few pieces of smashed glass, there was no suspicious figure.

He continued to move sideways, approaching the observation area.

What I saw instead was a disgusting scene.

The body of a nurse in a chemical protective suit fell at the base of the platform. Her head looked like a smashed watermelon, with her face and skull sunken in. All kinds of yellow and red turbid substances were splattered all over the ground.

Even though Gu Ji was used to seeing dead people, he couldn't help but be deeply shocked by the scene before him.

"Safe left."

“Right, right, right…”

As soon as he finished speaking, Kaif stuttered back. When she saw the female corpse next to Gu Ji, she was so scared that she jumped half a meter high!
Gu Ji quickly turned around and stepped forward.

The muzzle of the gun was pointed at the center of the corridor.

The shabby yellow-green painted walls of the entire corridor were covered with bloody handprints and traces of blood plasma. A figure in a hospital gown was lying near the corner at the end of the corridor, and it was unknown whether he was alive or dead.

"Hold on to me and keep an eye on the rear!"

After saying this, Gu Ji approached the target lying in the corridor on the right with a gun in hand.

Kaif followed closely behind him, holding his tactical belt with her left hand and holding a dagger in front of her with her right hand. She turned back every three steps and looked at the half-open laboratory rooms on both sides from time to time, fearing that the door of one of the rooms would suddenly open and a "madman" would rush out!
"Uh-huh..."

"Yes, there is movement! He, he's still alive!!"

Just when Gu Ji was halfway there, he unexpectedly heard a faint groan from the "corpse" in the hospital gown. Kafu was so frightened that her face turned pale and she almost screamed.

"Shut up! Watch behind you!"

Gu Ji shouted coldly.

This is the gap between ordinary people and professional military and police personnel.

If Wu Kang was present, no matter what happened in front, he would not look back unless he received an order, just like Gu Ji would never worry about a sneak attack from behind.

This is the trust and tacit understanding between teammates!
Get closer.

Gu Ji finally saw clearly that the person lying on the ground in the hospital gown was a middle-aged man.

His injuries were very serious. His hands were scraped by sharp weapons, and his body was covered with bloody holes. Next to his legs was a hardware wrench covered with minced meat.

It seems that the nurse in the observation area was smashed to death by him.

This is different from the zombie settings in movies, TV shows and novels.

Zombies will not attack each other.

But these infected people will indiscriminately attack any humans, animals, and even inanimate objects. The broken televisions on the walls and the broken glass on the floor are the best proof of this.

“Ah… it hurts… it hurts so much. It’s fun. Are you guys here to play hide and seek too? Hahahaha…”

The middle-aged patient first screamed in pain, but as he was screaming, he suddenly started laughing wildly, which was completely unpredictable.

But according to Kaif, he was originally a severely mentally ill patient.

"There's another person. Where is he?"

Gu Ji didn't have the energy to talk nonsense with him, and didn't even want to get close to him.

Even though he is wearing an M50 gas mask, he does not have a chemical protective suit and the gunshot wound on his leg is completely exposed to the air. If the virus can be transmitted through aerosols, the closer you are to this guy, the easier it is to be infected.

"People? Where are the people? Damn it! You are all sinners! I will kill you, kill..."

"Wow!"

“Ah! Be careful!!”

A sudden change occurred!

The middle-aged patient on the ground was venting his anger when suddenly, there was an unusual noise from the room on the left. The moment the door opened, a dark shadow suddenly pounced on him.

Kaif screamed.

Gu Ji glanced around and saw the cold blade coming at him. He reacted quickly, pushed off the ground with his front foot and stepped back to avoid the attack.

Then his upper body spun like a top, the blade in his left hand flashed, and with a "swish", he stabbed horizontally into the opponent's shoulder and twisted it hard.

"what--!"

The attack missed, and the blade rotated in the flesh and blood, causing the black shadow to scream in pain.

He wanted to pounce back, but Gu Ji's back foot had already left the ground. He twisted his waist, turned his hips and raised his knees. His front leg was like an arrow shot from a bow. His instep was straightened, and he swept and hooked, and with a "snap", he hit the black shadow's wrist.

This kick goes down.

The kick instantly caused the black shadow's wrist tendons to go numb, his fingers loosened, and the metal weapon flew out of his hand.

As he stepped down, Gu Ji covered his face with a mask, his eyes were as cold as knives, and he swung the pistol in his right hand, aiming it at the shadow's face, and smashed it repeatedly, each blow more fiercely and heavily than the last.

Just a few moves.

The black shadow's nose was collapsed, his eyelids were swollen, his face was covered in blood and flesh, and he was kneeling on the ground.

"This……"

Kaif had already run out of the room five meters away and hid.

Seeing this scene, I was so shocked that my jaw almost dropped.

After dealing with the last madman, Gu Ji finally pulled out his dagger, rubbed the gun handle against the patient's gown to remove the blood stain, and asked, "Anyone else?"

“Should be gone!”

Kaif rushed over.

"Then go find me a set of chemical protective clothing, as well as alcohol, gauze and food!"

"Yes, I'll go right away!"

Having witnessed Gu Ji's bloody methods, how could Kaif dare not disobey him? She turned around and rushed into a room and began to collect the supplies he mentioned.

Gu Ji took a few steps back.

Start observing the two infected people carefully.

His previous inference was wrong. After these lunatics were infected with the berserk virus, it was not that they had no sense of pain. Instead, just like normal humans fighting, a large amount of adrenaline was secreted, which weakened the pain to a certain extent.

At the root of the matter, it is still emotional changes: irritability, and inability to control the desire to attack.

This is very similar to the symptoms of certain mental illnesses.

The main cause of mental illness, in addition to genetics and external stimuli, is damage to the brain's central dopaminergic system, or the frontal lobe, basal ganglia, and temporal lobe.

To put it bluntly, the "brain" is broken.

So is it understandable that the pathogenesis of this unknown virus that can drive people crazy is destroying the nervous system of the human brain?
This made Gu Ji think of a virus classification:
Neurotropic virus!
The most famous viruses in this category are rabies virus, herpes zoster virus, and HIV (human immunodeficiency virus).

Without exception, neurotoxins are extremely harmful to the human body.

If you don’t get vaccinated early or receive active treatment, there is basically only one result: death!
The mechanism of their disease is also very simple.

It enters the human body through the blood or respiratory droplets, replicates in large numbers in the host cells, and then spreads to the central nervous system and peripheral nerve roots.

Among them, rabies virus is quite special.

It will go up along the nerves, invade the spinal cord and the entire central nervous system, destroy neurons in the brain and cerebellum, and eventually kill the host!
The unknown berserk virus in front of us seems to have a very similar mechanism to this type of neurotropic virus.

It is likely to cause positive symptoms of schizophrenia, such as hallucinations, delusional and aggressive behavior, by destroying neurotransmitters in the central nervous system of the brain, stimulating excessive secretion of dopamine.

If the amygdala in the limbic system of the brain is stimulated, symptoms of emotional instability may also occur.

But these are not the most important things to Gu Ji.

What he needs to solve most now is how the virus is transmitted and the source of infection.

Because the virus in front of him was a new type he had never seen before, it was impossible for him to study treatment plans, vaccines and special medicines through the pathogenesis of the disease by himself.

To put it more bluntly, even a country cannot do it without three to five years.

Unless several superpowers work together, it will still be calculated on a monthly basis.

and so.

The fastest way to resolve this crisis is to identify the source of infection, strangle it first, and then determine the mode of transmission and take appropriate isolation measures.

Only in this way can we truly resolve this "zombie crisis".

Relying solely on the armed blockade by the police outside is completely self-consolation and has no effect.

do not forget.

All the members of the extremist organization have fled in advance, and among these retreating people, there must be some people in the incubation period who are carrying the virus.

When the time comes, they will wait for an outbreak and bring the virus into society.

First the city, then the region.

In the end, the whole of Nepal will probably fall! !
"Suck it~"

Just as Gu Ji was lost in deep thought, he suddenly felt a heat in his nostrils, as if snot was flowing.

He took a deep breath subconsciously.

But soon I felt some sticky liquid flowing back into my throat from my nasal cavity, first it tasted fishy and sweet, then a strong smell of rust.

is blood!

Gu Ji’s eyelids twitched.

Bleeding is also a symptom of radiation sickness.

He quickly turned on the Geiger counter on his shoulder, and with a "buzzing" sound, he measured a value as high as "1904" millisieverts.

"Damn, what on earth are these guys researching..."

Gu Ji cursed as he retreated, using a Geiger counter as a detector to find the area with the lowest radiation.

At this time, he already felt waves of nausea surging in his chest, and his head began to feel dizzy, as if he had hypoglycemia, and his eyes went black.

The next second, a figure suddenly appeared in front of him.

Gu Ji instinctively raised his pistol.

"Ah! Don't shoot! It's me!"

Kaifu screamed and quickly blocked the way with her chemical protection suit, "I've found everything you want!"

"Hurry, help me in!"

Gu Ji was extremely weak at this point, and he looked like he could fall down at any moment.

Kaifu didn't know what happened and thought it was because she hadn't eaten for too long. But at the moment, except Gu Ji, no one could protect her and let him leave this killing experiment area.

So she obediently helped Gu Ji into the office next door and locked the door.

Enter the house.

Gu Ji glanced at the Geiger counter and confirmed that the value was getting lower.

He then suppressed the dizziness and nausea and took off his equipment and outer clothes, but he always held the pistol in his hand to ensure that he could control the situation at any time.

"Alcohol! Quick, pour it all over me!"

"it is good!"

Kaif did all of it.

After full body disinfection, Gu Ji put on the gun-gray military three-defense suit, and put on the tactical vest, belt and other equipment one by one.

This is the end.

He has truly achieved 360-degree protection without blind spots.

"All the supplies are here, but I can't find any food..."

"It's okay, there will be food downstairs."

Gu Ji covered his head, sat down and rested for a while, and immediately felt better.

When it comes to the following, Kaif's emotions immediately rise, but then quickly retreat.

"But how can we get down? The access control system has been blocked, and the doors are all made of metal. Even with a gun, they can't be opened. And we don't have an IC card..."

"Who said we have to go through the front door?"

As he spoke, Gu Ji turned his head slightly.

Following the direction of his gaze, Kaif saw the office window.

In order to prevent patients from losing control of their emotions and committing suicide, the windows of the mental hospital cannot be fully opened and metal security nets are installed on the outside.

But compared to the access control system.

The probability of this thing being destroyed by a gun is actually higher.

Gu Ji stood up and opened the window. It could be opened inwards, but there was a steel bar as thick as a little finger blocking it from the outside. He touched the edge of the protective net and found the fixing bolt. "There seems to be a tool wrench next to the middle-aged infected person!"

(End of this chapter)