I can find treasures in my dreams.

The blood-red halo in the sky lasted for nearly ten minutes before quickly dissipating.

Inside the safe house.

The Shao family of three waited anxiously for ten minutes.

Finally, a figure appeared in one of the screens on the monitor.

Camilla made a small adjustment to the camera program, causing several cameras to constantly tilt and adjust their angles to expand the field of view.

As one of the cameras rotated, it happened to capture the end of the road in front of the door, where several unsteady figures suddenly appeared.

Valentina, with her sharp eyes, immediately noticed this: "There seems to be someone over there!"

Camilla immediately moved the camera over and recaptured the figure.

However, due to the distance, it is not very clear.

Shao Xinglan patted his wife's arm and said, "Camilla, zoom in on the image."

Camilla hummed in agreement and quickly opened a program, performing a few operations.

The figures were immediately framed by white lines, indicating that the camera had locked onto them.

The rest of the surveillance footage then disappeared, while the human figure quickly zoomed in, taking up most of the screen in the blink of an eye.

The three of them only glanced at it before their expressions turned horrified.

Valentina even turned her head and gagged, her throat bobbing violently as she nearly vomited.

These figures, though their outlines resembled human figures, could not be called human at all; rather, they looked more like monsters.

They—no, they should be called "them"—were not wearing clothes, and their bodies had no intact skin.

Their bodies were covered with pustules of all sizes, many of which had ruptured, and their surfaces were covered with yellow pus.

As they walk, pus continuously flows out, leaving streaks of yellow water on the ground.

Every now and then, a strange fleshy bud would sprout from their bodies, grow rapidly, and then burst open.

Something could be vaguely seen flashing by, but it was not clearly visible.

This scene was like something out of the horror movie "Resident Evil" playing out in real life.

No.

It's ten times scarier than the movie!
As Shao Xinglan previously mentioned, the Great Xia Disaster Relief Software simply described the symptoms of infection with the plague—the infected person's body would be covered with pustules and ooze yellow fluid all over their body.

The figure on the screen perfectly matches the above description.

This is definitely the result of a plague infection.

Camilla glanced at Valentina and noticed she was about to vomit, so she clicked the mouse to hide the monitoring window.

Valentina let out a breath, finally feeling a little better.

Camilla, however, remained quite calm and asked a question: "Honey, the infected people just now had granulation tissue growing on their skin. Is this how they spread the plague?"

Shao Xinglan forced back her nausea and nodded, saying, "The possibility is very high."

Valentina's eyes were filled with fear, and her legs trembled: "Won't we get infected?"

Shao Xinglan replied, "Let me ask."

He opened the DaXia disaster relief software and asked the AI, "Can the safe house I'm in protect us from the plague?"

The AI's answer was quite detailed: "The Jingzhou Legion, which is in charge of affairs in South Jingzhou and North Jingzhou, has urgently dispatched a small team to study the plague released by the Gameni people."

"Based on existing research results, infected individuals seem to have a certain sensitivity to people in their surrounding environment, and the more people gather around them, the stronger their sensitivity becomes."

"Infected individuals naturally have a strong tendency to spread the plague; they will roam the city and continuously spread this terrible plague to the surrounding population."

"Infected individuals will grow infection buds on their skin, and plague seeds will be conceived within these buds. Once an infected individual senses a target that can be infected, they can project the plague seeds onto that target."

"This projection method is very unique, somewhat similar to electromagnetic radiation. It does not rely on any medium and can penetrate some obstacles."

"If it is a regular metal safe house, the walls are less than 20 millimeters thick, which cannot isolate the senses of infected people. Even if you hide in the safe house, there is still a great risk of infection."

"If the wall is thicker than 30 millimeters, it can significantly shield the senses of infected individuals. If the material contains supernatural materials such as 'Merte,' the shielding probability will exceed 99%, and the safety can be adequately guaranteed."

The so-called "Silent Iron" is a first-class exotic material with the special effect of isolating mental signals.

The whole family understood that the key to avoiding infection was to isolate oneself from the infected person's senses.

Shao Xinglan pressed further, "The safe house I ordered from Daxia is 45 millimeters thick. Although the material does not contain iron, it does contain 0.3% 'snow lead stone'."

"With a sound-absorbing layer sandwiched inside the board, containing a small amount of sound-absorbing colloid, can such a safe room isolate sensors?"

The AI ​​responded instantly: "Of course! Snow lead is more effective than mercury. As long as you and your family stay in a safe house, the chance of being discovered by an infected person is negligible."

Shao Xinglan immediately smiled: "These tens of thousands of yuan were well spent."

He had considered that the situation in the Azik Alliance was too chaotic, so he specially found a company in Great Xia to customize a high-end safe house.

The total cost, including customization, transportation, and installation, reached as high as 170,000.

He felt the pinch when he paid, but now he truly feels that the money was well spent, as it directly saved the lives of his family of three.

Camilla gave her husband a thumbs up: "Honey, your decision to customize a safe house was incredibly visionary!"

Valentina's fear lessened considerably, and her legs stopped trembling.

She expressed her feelings in a more passionate and unrestrained way, directly embracing her husband and kissing him.

Shao Xinglan kissed his wife a few times and sighed, "The fact that we've survived today isn't because I was so farsighted."

"It's because I have an extremely powerful country behind me, a country with the most powerful industrial strength in the history of Azure Star."

"In addition, this country has the ability to develop the primordial world and has extracted a huge amount of primordial resources; otherwise, I would never have been able to book such a safe house."

"Even if we find a way to customize it, the price probably won't be 170,000; it might even cost 1.7 million."

Camilla strongly agreed with this view: "Yes, strong industrial capacity means a massive supply of resources."

"Ordinary people living in such a country do not need to exert too much effort to obtain resources that people in other countries cannot even imagine."

"The Azik people did not have a powerful nation and were powerless to resist natural disasters. When faced with plagues, they could only wait for death to come."

She paused for a moment, her tone full of envy: "You were born in Great Xia, you are so much luckier than us."

Shao Xinglan did not deny it: "Indeed, I'm better off."

He knew perfectly well that if a girl as beautiful and intelligent as Camilla had been born in Great Xia, he would never have had the chance to meet her.

But she happened to be an Aztec, and she couldn't find any opportunity to use her talents in this country.

That's why I can roll around in the same bed with her every day, and she's very happy to have a bunch of children with me.

There are also women like Valentina who could be called "femme fatales," but if they were in Great Xia, I wouldn't even have the chance to touch one of their fingers.

"husband!"

Valentina suddenly called out, her large, beautiful eyes glistening with tears.

Shao Xinglan turned to look at her: "What's wrong?"

Valentina got up and sat on his lap, then wrapped her arms around his neck: "Fuck you!"

Shao Xinglan was a little confused.

Camilla paused, looking at her as if she were a bluish mare.

What kind of time is this to be thinking of doing something like this?

Shao Xinglan said helplessly, "Valentina, now is really not the time." Valentina, however, hugged him even tighter: "Darling, it's very safe here, what are you afraid of?"

Shao Xinglan was forced to compromise: "Alright, let's try to be as fast as possible."

Camilla shrugged and stood up quite consciously: "Okay, you two have fun, I'm going to stay in the living room for a while."

She could tell that Valentina had been quite frightened earlier, and therefore now she especially needed her husband's special "comfort."

Shao Xinglan turned to look at his other wife's back, not forgetting to remind her, "Camilla, upload the video about the infected to the Great Xia Disaster Relief website."

It is the duty of every citizen of Great Xia to report disasters promptly and provide relevant information.

Camilla replied, "Okay!"

The interior of the safe house is a layout of one bedroom, one living room, and one bathroom.

The living room is not large, less than eight square meters, with a sofa and a folding table against the wall.

On the wall opposite the sofa, there is a TV screen, a refrigerator and a water dispenser are also embedded next to it, and the air conditioner vents are integrated at the top.

In addition, the bathroom comes with a smart bathing system, and the bedroom is equipped with a smart life support system and an emergency medical system.

With so many advanced features integrated, it's priced at only 140,000 yuan.

The fact that prices can be this low also proves how powerful Daxia's intelligent industrial system is.

Camilla felt that if the Azik Alliance produced it, the cost would be several times higher, which was perfectly normal.

When she first saw this fully equipped safe house, she mistook Shao Xinglan for a wealthy man from the Great Xia Dynasty.

Because in the Azik Union, only the truly wealthy can afford to purchase such high-end safe houses.

She later learned that any middle-class family in the Great Xia could afford to buy such a safe house.

Of the 5.6 million families in Daxia, the number of middle-class families reached an astonishing 4.2 million.

When Camilla learned of this data, she immediately equated Great Xia with paradise in her mind.

At this time.

The sounds of "uh-huh" and "uh-huh" could be faintly heard coming from the bedroom.

Although a safe house can block out more than 150 decibels of sound, the sound insulation inside is only average.

Camilla has exceptionally keen hearing and can clearly hear everything happening in the room.

She shook her head and didn't say anything.

Having lived together for so long, the three of them had heard about this kind of activity more than once.

Camilla took out a tablet computer, sat comfortably on the sofa, and began to do the chores as her husband instructed.

Not long after.

Video upload complete.

Camilla turned on the surveillance camera again to observe the activity around her home.

The moment the surveillance footage appeared, her pretty face changed instantly.

In one of the frames, a group of infected people appeared, with more than a hundred people shown.

They surged through the streets in droves, leaving disgusting streaks of water on the ground.

A thought flashed through Camilla's mind: "As the number of infected continues to increase, the spread of the plague will accelerate."

She bit her lip hard, her heart filled with sorrow.

Without outside assistance, Biel would have been doomed; probably more than 95% of the civilians would have died.

Her friends and acquaintances in this city are unlikely to survive.

The only saving grace was that the infected people did not approach their homes.

This confirms the judgment given by the intelligent AI earlier—the safe house has the ability to isolate the senses of infected individuals.

Camilla would never have imagined that footage of infected people captured by her own security cameras would spread all over the world.

*
Fifteen minutes later.

Daxia urgently convened a global cybersecurity conference.

The topic of discussion at this meeting was, naturally, the horrific plague that had occurred in the Azik Union.

Ji Zelin, the spokesperson for Daxia, said with a serious expression: "According to the detection data of Daxia satellites, a very terrible plague has occurred in thirteen cities in the south of the Azik Alliance."

The Gameni Federation has long been expelled from various international organizations. With the current overwhelming strength of Great Xia, no other country dares to openly oppose Great Xia.

Countries like the Bering Kingdom and the Blue Lion Kingdom, whose territories have been fragmented, have to behave themselves in front of the Great Xia.

Not every country submitted to the Great Xia.

But all nations feared the Great Xia.

Ji Zelin didn't waste any words and went straight to the point: "We have obtained some video clips of the plague-stricken areas. Please watch them."

He paused, then deliberately emphasized, "These videos are all extremely terrifying; please be prepared."

After saying that.

A series of images appeared.

The first shot was clearly footage of infected individuals captured by the security camera in Shao Xinglan's home.

The moment several infected individuals appeared, many delegates vomited.

The expressions of all the other representatives changed drastically.

Subsequent videos revealed the specific process of infection transmission.

A large group of infected people deliberately surrounded a local police station.

Although the officers were all quite frightened, they quickly organized themselves and used firearms to shoot at the infected.

The infected acted as if they had no weaknesses; even after their heads were blown off, the headless corpses could still walk forward.

Flesh buds sprouted from their bodies, and then the flesh buds burst open.

More than ten seconds passed.

The officers screamed in pain as numerous pustules burst from their skin.

The abscesses swelled to the size of jujubes, and some of them ruptured, oozing yellow fluid, turning the police officers into monsters.

"vomit!"

"vomit!"

The sound of vomiting echoed throughout the conference room.

There were also hushed whispers mixed in.

"Oh my God!"

"That's terrifying!"

"This is a biohazard!"

As a globally renowned horror film, most attendees had seen or heard of Resident Evil.

No one could have imagined that a biohazard crisis would one day actually happen in real life. (End of Chapter)