Extreme germ phobia

Chapter 388 Dilemma
Ever since Ouyang woke up, he had felt that something was wrong, so he didn't rush to leave the ward. Instead, he wanted to find something handy to use as a weapon.

Whether you need it or not, you feel insecure when you're empty-handed.

But there was nothing in the ward. They went around several times but couldn't find anything.

Just as I was having a headache, there was a soft knocking sound outside the door.

He stopped immediately, tiptoed to the door, pressed his ear against it, and the sounds outside became much clearer.

The knocking continued, but it was sometimes fast and sometimes slow, with no discernible pattern.

I tapped the door gently with my finger, making a soft sound. The impact sounds outside disappeared, but soon I heard a thud. Something hit the door, and my face, pressed against it, felt a distinct tremor.

Ou Yang thought for a moment, then went back to the bedside and picked up the stainless steel tray in his hand, treating it as a weapon—this thing was of very good quality, not one of those cheap, thin-layered products!
It's a pity my body hasn't fully recovered yet, otherwise I would have had more options!

Returning to the door, I found it locked from the outside with a key.

He gently twisted the lock, and with a snap, the first layer of hidden lock opened. As if to match the sound, someone outside immediately bumped into it again.

Ou Yang hid behind the door, opened the second door, and then, without waiting for any reaction from outside, quickly pulled open the door.

A strong smell of spores wafted over as a heavily infected person roared and rushed into the ward.

Ouyang's spirits lifted, and he suddenly felt an inexhaustible surge of strength. He swung the stainless steel tray and slammed it hard onto the infected person's head.

With a sharp crack, the tray deformed, and the infected person fell to the ground, his forehead bearing a dent the size of a fist, as if he had been hit by a hammer.

Ou Yang was a little stunned. He had just had difficulty sitting up, so how could he suddenly be full of energy and like a completely different person in the blink of an eye?
Touching my stomach, I felt hungry, but only mildly; that feeling of hunger that pressed against my back had inexplicably disappeared.
Just by opening a door and taking a couple of breaths of spores, my whole state of being changed; I felt completely refreshed!
Ou Yang was speechless. So all the changes that had happened to him were related to the spores?

Yes, I knew it was related to spores before, but I didn't expect the relationship between the two to be so close.

The rich rely on technology, the poor rely on mutation. According to Old Mi's habits, shouldn't he be nicknamed Spore Man?

It sounds disgusting and easily evokes images of mushrooms.

Mushroom Hero...

Don't even think about it; it's easy to make inappropriate associations for children!
With random thoughts swirling in his mind, Ouyang quickly locked the door and then used the deformed tray to slap the infected person to ensure the danger was over.

The person was wearing a garment similar to a hospital gown, with nothing on their body except for a handwritten number on the garment.

Based on previous analysis, Ouyang speculated that this was one of the infected individuals being studied.

Having worked on the Hua Tuo ship, he was very familiar with how strict the institute's management of infected personnel was, and the possibility of them escaping on their own was extremely small.

First, the wards were unattended, then the infected people got out of control... What exactly happened to the research institute?
Looking around after opening the door, there was a corridor about two meters wide and thirty meters long, with wards on both sides, almost exactly like hospitals in China.

Ou Yang's ward was located at the end of the corridor, and the room number, 022, was written on the door.

In other words, there are a total of 22... no, nowadays wards skip the number 4, 003 is next to 005, 013 and 015 are neighbors, so there are 20 wards!
Inside the passage, seven or eight infected individuals with blank expressions were wandering around. Perhaps hearing the sound of the tray being slammed, the previously scattered infected individuals began to move towards 022.

His movements were stiff and slow, just like Wu Lao Er who had suffered a second stroke.

Faced with such an opponent, Ouyang naturally had no reservations. He swung the deformed tray and quickly and efficiently dealt with all the infected in no time.

The two wards opposite 022 are 019 and 021. One is open, the other closed. In 019, with its door open, there's no one in sight. The layout is exactly the same as 022. Presumably, the other wards are similar!

Ou Yang's thoughts raced.

There are two things we need to do right now: first, leave as soon as possible and return to the ground; second, find out what happened here.

Both the elevator and the stairs were in the middle of the corridor. He walked over slowly, and when he passed each ward, he would gently turn the doorknob to make sure the door was locked.

Ignore the locked ones; open the unlocked ones and take a look.

It turned out that almost all the locked wards had infected people, and the unlocked ones... those lying on the floor were infected!

Ou Yang was a little puzzled. If he remembered correctly, the research institute adopted a management model of "light on top and heavy on the bottom". Simply put, suspected infected people lived on the upper floor of the underground structure, those who had been confirmed to be infected lived on the upper middle floor, and those with mild symptoms lived on the lower middle floor.

Severe cases are naturally at the bottom.

Without a doubt, none of Ouyang's neighbors had mild symptoms.

So here's the question: if he wasn't infected with pneumococcus, how did he end up being neighbors with a group of critically ill patients?
Could it be because they were still experiencing mild symptoms when they were admitted?

That's not right either. The card at the head of the bed clearly says "ordinary pneumonia." No matter how you look at it, it's not right for someone to be on the same floor as an infected person.

I've used up a lot of brain cells but still haven't figured it out, so I might as well put the problem aside and think about how to leave first!

However, as the old saying goes, sharpening the axe won't delay the work of chopping wood. Ouyang went into each empty ward and did a quick search, but unfortunately he didn't find anything.

When we reached the middle section, we discovered that the elevator had no power at all, and no matter how many buttons we pressed, it wouldn't move.

I turned around and went up the stairs, but the door was locked and I couldn't get in at all!
Ouyang was completely devastated.

There was a palm-sized observation window on the security door of the blocked staircase. The light behind the glass was even dimmer. Ouyang lay on it and peered intently, vaguely seeing a person lying on the corner of the descending stairs.

Because of the angle, he couldn't see the person's whole body, only two legs, one bent and one straight.

On the wall behind the man, a large area of ​​purplish-black bloodstains spread out.

Ou Yang was filled with questions: What exactly happened? Was that person infected, or someone else entirely?

I was tempted to kick it open, but when I tried to push the security door, it wouldn't budge; it was much thicker than I had imagined.

While brute-force attacks are possible, they are difficult to achieve with the existing resources.

Unable to use either the elevator or the stairs, Ou Yang looked up and saw the surveillance camera diagonally above him. He immediately had an idea, quickly found the best spot, and waved repeatedly at the camera, hoping to attract the attention of the monitoring room.

However, after jumping around like a idiot for a long time, there was still no movement.

Ouyang was immediately deflated, feeling like a complete idiot.

The lights in the wards and corridors are working properly, indicating that the power supply is still normal and the research institute should still be operating normally. The possibility of the monitoring system failing is extremely small.

Which link went wrong?

(End of this chapter)