Otherworld Girl Development Guide

Boom boom boom!

Linda cautiously peered out through a crack in the doorway and saw some medical staff in protective suits standing there.

"Hello, we're from the city's central hospital. We have good news for you: there are vacancies in the wards..."

"Oh God, this is truly the best gift God has given us! Please come in!"

After saying that, Linda quickly opened the door and saw four medical personnel in full protective gear carrying a stretcher into Sam's room.

The lead medical staff member looked at Sam lying on the bed, picked up the walkie-talkie, and said, "Target located, confirmed infected..."

Are there any close contacts?

"Yes, his wife..."

"Bring them all back..."

"clear..."

"Wait..." Linda's expression changed abruptly as she realized something was wrong, looking warily at the medical staff in the room: "...You're not from the hospital?!"

"Who we are is not important, but we represent the United States... Miss, please cooperate!"

The medical staff showed Linda their credentials and then waved.

Several medical staff rushed forward and yanked off the sheet, only to find it covered in blood, like menstrual blood spread out on the bed, with some blood clots visible... The stench filled the room.

"God! Sam! What's wrong with you?!"

A medical worker approached Sam to check on his condition, then gave him a look as if he were a dead man before taking out a test tube to collect some of the "menstrual blood" from the sheets.

Several other medical staff members carried Sam onto a stretcher and then disinfected the room.

Soon, Linda and Sam arrived downstairs and saw a white box truck with a special logo printed on the truck bed.

Inside the triangle are three crescent-shaped semicircles...

"Wait! Something's wrong. This isn't the ambulance to the hospital. You need to..."

Before Linda could finish speaking, she was roughly pushed into the car, the door was closed, and the car drove towards the suburbs outside the city.

"Let me out, I need to see my lawyer..."

Upon hearing this, the medical staff member in the carriage, whose face was expressionless beneath the mask, gave Linda a cold look, a look that made Linda feel uneasy.

"Madam, I'm sorry... for the safety of the United States, you need to be quarantined."

Meanwhile, in other regions, all sorts of sick people were mysteriously taken away and sent to secret "concentration camps," where they were all confirmed to be infected with the "blood plague."

They will be centrally managed, or rather, left to die in a centralized manner. Perhaps those favored by God will survive, while the unfortunate ones will be cremated on the spot.

Throughout the concentration camp, medical personnel in protective suits were everywhere, moving around patients to examine them.

Although medical staff kept disinfecting and cleaning the ground with disinfectant, they still couldn't get rid of the strange smell that filled the air... a stench that was a mixture of vomit, disinfectant, and excrement.

Some critically ill patients experienced continuous convulsions, with blood flowing from their nostrils, mouths, and ears...

The body is filled with Ebola virus, and the necrotic blood spreads throughout the body via the circulatory system, carrying the Ebola virus out of the bloodstream.

All the organs in the human body are slowly failing and melting away. The patient experiences endless pain as flesh and blood melt away every moment. Necrotic blood flows out from every orifice of the body, even the pores!

The entire concentration camp seemed to have become a living hell, and all the media outlets unanimously avoided reporting on it, as if it had been forgotten by God.

The dead were sent directly to the laboratory for dissection without being asked whether they wanted to, in order to understand in detail the effects of the Ebola virus on the human body.

However, when the researchers used a sharp scalpel to cut open the patient's thoracic and abdominal cavities, all organs except the heart melted into a liquid...

After collecting some tissue samples, they were sent to the laboratory for analysis.

Chapter 24 Fermentation

Suburbs of New York, the "beacon of light".

This is an isolation zone set up by the US government's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Another sanatorium is temporarily serving as a shelter, housing patients infected with the blood epidemic and their close contacts. Yet, the "omnipotent" media is collectively choosing to be selectively blind.

The US government's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the military's Centers for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are essentially sister departments, jointly managing this concentration camp.

Inside the quarantine zone, even the bright lights could not conceal the stench of death. Countless black crows circled around the concentration camp on Thursdays, their dark eyes fixed on the interior, yearning to taste flesh and blood.

The ward floor was covered with bloody footprints. Patients infected with the Obola virus groaned in their beds, constantly feeling their bodies melting... Blood splattered from their mouths and noses. The military medical staff who cared for them simply injected some antibiotics and then placed them under observation.

Countless medical staff in protective suits are "recording" patients, whose samples are being sent to the Center for Infectious Diseases and Control to study the effects of the Ebola virus on humans.

The United States is very interested in this super virus. After all, viruses are much more useful than nuclear bombs, and they are more covert. In some ways, they are also more lethal. These patients provide them with a wealth of material, which helps to further understand the virus.

The perimeter of the concentration camp is surrounded by countless barbed wire fences, and Predator drones carrying guided bombs patrol the sky 24 hours a day. Military soldiers are also on guard, and most of the weapons are deployed towards the concentration camp, reminiscent of the Hanscat concentration camp during World War II. However, here there is no forced labor, and the animals are not used to make soap... but in essence, they may be the same.

A pale-faced man shouted "Freedom and justice!" as he struggled to break free of the security guards and ran out of the sanatorium. He vowed that once he escaped this hell, he would expose the government's evil deeds!

His actions immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding military personnel. After a warning was ignored, the soldiers did not hesitate to open fire, killing him on the spot. Then, while the body was still warm, the medical staff moved it to the autopsy room for a thorough dissection to understand the pathological changes in the bodies of early Ebola patients...

The patients housed here were already used to the gunshots. At first, they protested, but found that the protests were ineffective. Everyone's cell phones were confiscated, and they lost contact with the outside world. It was as if the whole world had forgotten them.

"Cough cough..."

Turning her gaze away from the window, Linda coughed violently, a trickle of blood flowing from the corner of her mouth. Her eyes were numb as she watched the group of "white devils" move the man's body onto a stretcher and then carry it into the two-story building of the containment center, where all the dead were sent...

When she first arrived here, she thought she and her husband had arrived in paradise, only to discover that it was just wishful thinking on his part. The medical staff here all had cold, indifferent faces, and Sam's treatment consisted of administering various unknown medications daily, followed by record-keeping...

Linda's initial hope quickly turned to despair. Sam's condition deteriorated rapidly; he was soon unable to walk, and his life was sustained only by extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Blood was flowing from every part of his body, a black liquid resembling demonic blood...

After making a final record, the medical staff determined that Sam was no longer of "value" and unhesitatingly removed his ventilator...

Sam is dead...

Linda witnessed her husband transform from a perfectly healthy person into a half-melted lump of rotten flesh. She had no idea where Sam's body went, and what followed was even greater despair... She discovered that she too had been infected with this unknown virus.

Her body burned like a torch, her muscles ached and were weak, and those "white demons" treated her like they treated Sam, their gazes like...like looking at a lab rat, without malice or kindness, just recording.

The greatest despair is the despair that follows hope. Every day, people infected with the blood plague are brought in, but no one can leave. There is no democracy here, nor is there any seed oil; only death and those marching towards death... Some patients who miraculously survive disappear after recovering; no one knows where they went...

Every day, reports from the shelters were sent to Trump's desk, and the news was getting worse every day. Their worst fears had come true—the blood plague was brewing and would explode at any moment.

"Your Excellency, although we have taken emergency measures, the blood plague has inevitably spread, and the number of people infected with the virus is constantly rising..." The virus expert wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with an extremely solemn expression, "...If this continues, we will be unable to control the spread of the blood plague. From the worst-case scenario, perhaps the entire population of the United States will be infected with the blood plague!"

Trump leaned forward tactically, his eyes narrowing slightly: "I remember the blood plague cannot be transmitted through the air, right?"

"It cannot be transmitted through the air, but I suspect there is another infected host spreading the virus..."

Humans are relatively easy to control, but other hosts are completely helpless. Who can command a rat to stay in its nest and wait to die instead of running around?

"So... in the worst-case scenario, what price would we have to pay?"

"It is estimated that at least 800 million people will die from the blood plague, even with mandatory measures in place, and most of them will be elderly people who are relatively frail."

Trump nodded and then asked, "How long will it take us to develop a vaccine or a cure?"

"...Because we've been researching the Ebola virus, even with our full-scale research, it would take at least six months...but that would likely cost us the lives of 200 million people, and we can't rule out the possibility of the virus mutating..."

"...Sir, based on the information we have so far, it seems the blood epidemic is out of control. To prevent the virus from spreading further, we need to take stronger and more forceful measures, especially for the medical system, otherwise the infected patients will overwhelm it!"

The virus expert expressed great concern, to which Trump neither confirmed nor denied, but simply asked, "Is disinfectant effective?"

Chapter 25 The Lost Christmas

"Disinfectant?" The virus expert was taken aback; he didn't understand what Trump meant.

"Yes, disinfectant...can it kill the Ebola virus?"

"If it's outside the body, it's entirely possible..." the virus expert said seriously.

In the external environment, no virus can withstand disinfectant. After all, even viruses have their limits and cannot become magical viruses.

The King nodded, pondering the matter in his mind, while the virus expert reiterated:

"Your Excellency, if we don't take action soon, it might become a lost Christmas, and the entire United States will become a desolate wasteland, like Europe during the Black Death! Think of those needles, and those safe injection centers..."

"...And it's winter now. Once summer comes, those Aedes albopictus mosquitoes will be buzzing around our heads, making them the perfect vector for mosquito transmission!"

The Aedes albopictus mosquito is not only a highly aggressive mosquito but also an important vector for viruses, transmitting numerous pathogens. It is the second leading vector of dengue fever, after the Aedes aegypti mosquito!

Experiments have shown that Aedes albopictus can transmit 7 types of alphaviruses, 8 types of Bunyaviruses, and 3 types of flaviviruses to humans. It can also transmit dengue fever and the aforementioned 3 flaviviruses through transovarial transmission!

The thought of Aedes albopictus mosquitoes swarming the skies in the summer makes the virologist's head buzz.

While Trump was having a secret meeting with virus experts, on a passenger plane flying from the United States to Europe, a middle-aged man was coughing slightly, sweating profusely, and trembling slightly.

"Cough...cough..."

"Sir, are you feeling unwell?" the flight attendant asked with concern.

The man struggled to lift his head to look at the nurse, and just as he was about to say that he was fine, he suddenly vomited.

Various digested and semi-digested foods, along with bright red blood, sprayed out of her mouth, splattering all over the flight attendant.

Suddenly, an unusually unpleasant odor filled the cabin, and the man, after vomiting, slumped into his chair, his consciousness becoming blurred.

"Sir? Sir!"

The flight attendant called out softly twice and, seeing that the man had already lost consciousness, quickly reported the situation to the chief flight attendant. At the same time, disregarding the fact that the man was covered in vomit, she went forward to begin first aid.

The flight attendant first checked the man's condition, examining his pupils and pulse. She then quickly placed her hands together on his chest and began CPR...

He pressed down again and again, trying to get his heart beating again...

As the flight attendant took emergency measures, the man made a hissing sound, then suddenly straightened his upper body, and more blood and foam, along with something unknown, sprayed out, like a fountain, covering the surrounding passengers.

"Oh! Damn it!"

"FXCK!"

"What's up with him?"

......

Amid the passengers' chatter, the man straightened up, then collapsed back onto the cabin floor, his pupils slowly dilating as his body went limp.

Other flight attendants rushed to clean up the paint and vomit sprayed by the man, and the cabin quickly became chaotic.

After the plane landed at the airport, the man was quickly put into a body bag and taken to the hospital. Meanwhile, the airport attempted to contact his family to inform them of his death.

During the journey to the hospital, the body bag made a clattering sound as the car shook, as if it were filled with liquid.

Inside the body bag, a large amount of Ebola virus continued to devour the man's still somewhat alive corpse, consuming the internal organs and turning them into a fluid...