CHAPTER 560: CHAPTER 526 A MESS OF GARBLED TEXT

"It’s a shame, the medical journal doesn’t mention how long the incubation period of the virus is," Jiang Xiao frowned.

"Is that important?" Shi Shi looked up and asked.

"Yes, it can be said to be extremely important!"

Normal people would think a virus’s power mainly lies in its potency and modes of transmission.

But they often overlook an extremely important factor: the incubation period.

"I’ve played a game called ’Plague Inc.’"

Jiang Xiao spoke slowly, as if to impart knowledge to the young Shi Shi.

In ’Plague Inc.,’ a virus can develop towards high contagiousness or high lethality.

But usually, it’s high contagiousness first, then high lethality.

Because if a virus is highly lethal from the start, the initial hosts will all die, stopping it from spreading any further.

Like if the virus infects person A, but before A can infect person B, A dies, then the transmission ends there.

This is where Ebola has the most to say, the cure hadn’t been found, and the patients had all died~

If it’s not lethal, it also allows time for humans to develop an effective medicine, causing a game over, and there are many such viruses.

"I speculate that the incubation period of this virus could be about a week, but once the symptoms appear, it hits like a landslide, leaving the patient half-dead without a cure."

Highly contagious, highly lethal, and with a sufficiently long incubation period!

Only this could explain why the higher-ups ultimately had no strategy and chose to give up.

If the incubation period were short...

The authorities could isolate the area of the outbreak immediately!

But could such a perfect virus really exist?

Viruses tend to be either highly contagious and not very lethal, like the common cold—once one person catches it, the whole family comes down with it, but you recover after a week with medication or even without it.

Or they are highly contagious and highly lethal, and the illness kills quickly, but such viruses can’t have a long incubation period, can they?

With high lethality, how could it possibly remain latent for so long?

Headache...

Jiang Xiao shook his head and continued flipping through the medical journal.

Further in the journal, Jiang Xiao’s speculations appeared.

Even though it was written formally, Jiang Xiao could still sense the collapsing foundation of the recorder’s medical knowledge.

They had exhausted every method, both conventional and unconventional, legal and illegal.

They had never seen this kind of virus before!

This virus should not exist!

It is a virus that could exterminate all of humanity!

Hmm?

Wait?

It seemed that the last few entries had changed?

Or rather, had someone else taken over?

[March 8th]

Alas, everyone has left, some of us wanted to continue front-line research, but... the authorities think we "talents" should be shining elsewhere, as the front-lines are too dangerous.

Many young doctors and masters have already departed for the [X] laboratory.

Those left are either science maniacs like myself.

Or truly altruistic masters.

But I don’t blame them, I’m even grateful for their sanity.

Because this virus... is just too bizarre....

It’s better to survive than to die here.

[March 9th]

I think I’ve stumbled upon something incredible...

If it’s true, it will... be earth-shattering!

[March 10th]

The patient is barely clinging to life, sigh, it would be kinder to end his suffering.

But for the sake of scientific research, we have to be heartless. Live on, the longer you live, the more data we can gather.

(Of course, we haven’t observed any useful information so far)

"It must be him!"

Jiang Xiao’s eyes widened, the previous recorder had left, and the current writer of the medical journal must be the owner of the journal!

[March 11th]

I’ve been in touch with an old friend from the history department; he has begun an investigation.

History?

What?

Jiang Xiao read it over several times, even asking Shi Shi to take another look to make sure he wasn’t hallucinating.

What kind of situation was this, turning to a history department old-timer to cure a disease?

"What the heck, has this kid gone crazy?"

The 12th and 13th he did not continue to record; he might have been busy.

Until the 14th!

[March 14th]

My old friend died, and his death was a total mystery.

The people over there wouldn’t even tell me how he died. I heard it was a very brutal death...

I heard it was as if he aged...

And even though he was dead, his face bore an incredibly happy smile.

Did I cause his death?

It must have been me, but if that’s the case, then that means my suspicions were correct.

Jiang Xiao: .....

Sort this out, sort this out.

The big shot from the history department died?

He just asked an old friend from the history department for some research, and then the guy dies?

Jiang Xiao began to suspect a conspiracy. Could this virus have been created by someone?

And this history expert might have stumbled onto something, then was silenced?

No!

Even if it was a man-made virus, why would you not ask an agent or a physically strong young man, and instead get some history old-timer to investigate?

What exactly happened?

What was this medical expert’s line of suspicion?

Shi Shi had been quiet for a while, and now she finally realized that this Kaidan was completely different from anything before; it wasn’t something that could be resolved by fighting and killing.

[March 15th]

This isn’t a virus, it’s God’s punishment!

This abrupt statement made Jiang Xiao’s frown deepen.

[March 16th]

But even if it’s God, what right do you have to punish us?

[March 17th]

So what if you’re a god?

You killed my old friend, and I must find a way to kill you!

%#@%&! Even if you are a god, I will slay you!

Hahahaha!

Slay the god, I’m going to slay the god!!!

"Darn, what’s going on?"

At the critical moment, those key characters turned out to be garbled text!

He was so close to knowing how to deal with this Kaidan.

The medical log that followed was even more unbearable to look at.

It was all garbled text.

The occasional legible characters didn’t make any sense either.

Considering what he wrote in his diary later was also indecipherable.

Jiang Xiao secretly guessed, has this guy gone mad?!

Jiang Xiao continued to flip through but then he uncovered a horrifying truth.

[&#*@]

I’ve been targeted. Everything I’ve recorded about that, it’s all turned into garbled text...

My diary as well!

I thought that thing could affect the operation of networks, but I didn’t expect my own cognition to be altered.

Everything about that, all I’ve recorded has turned into symbols that I don’t recognize.

It cannot be recorded, cannot be touched, cannot be observed; the existence of that has far surpassed my understanding...

I was already being very cautious, but, but it seems I was still targeted.

I’m sorry...

All the records end abruptly here.

He was targeted?

Was it by the "god" he mentioned?

Is he still alive?

He must be dead already, considering his old friend was also killed by the "god."

What exactly is this god?

At this time, Director Wang also arrived at the Nika Tribe’s region with a group of experts in a helicopter.