Extreme germ phobia

Chapter 82 Sampling
The painting style is still normal at this time, after all, Emily is the only one who has turned into fungi.

However, as time progressed rapidly, the lights in the picture suddenly went out, leaving only the dim green light of the emergency light.

The surveillance system appeared to have an independent power source and continued to operate for several days after the building lost power.

During this period, the roots growing from Patient Zero drilled into the power-off freezer, using the remains inside as soil, and began a new round of spread.

Until July 7, the surveillance footage came to an abrupt end.

Ou Yang finally understood what had happened in the morgue.

All the footage that needed to be found was found, but after sorting out all the videos related to Patient Zero, no clues were found.

Garrison was impatient: "Did you find anything?"

"Not yet," Sanova said. "Let's make a copy of the video first and analyze it slowly when we get back."

Garrison nodded and began to intercept the videos and download them one by one.

Ou Yang once again saw the middle-aged woman being locked up in the ward by security, and suddenly asked, "Where's the bag?"

"What?" Garrison didn't react.

Ou Yang pointed at the screen and reminded: "Where is her bag?"

The others suddenly realized that they had just been discussing whether the doctor would return the belongings to the middle-aged woman, but how could they have forgotten everything in the blink of an eye?

Garrison immediately re-examined the video and found that the small bag was still on the woman's arm when she entered the morgue, but it disappeared when she left.

The video starts playing from the moment they enter the morgue. The woman talks to the doctor, the doctor opens the body bag, the woman sits down on the ground, and gets up and has a conflict with the doctor... The bag is still there when she sits down, but when she gets up, it's gone.

This time, he finally discovered some clues. Garrison paused the screen and said, "See? When she fell, the bag was still in her hand, but when she got up, it was gone!"

Ou Yang thought to himself, isn’t this nonsense? It’s not just you, we all saw it too.

"The question now is where did the bag go!" said Sanova.

Coincidentally, at the moment of falling, the woman was blocked by the doctor behind her and the scene of her handbag falling to the ground was not captured.

When she attacked the doctor, the doctor who was blocking the woman moved out of the way, but there was no bandage on the woman's hand, nor on the ground.

A question appeared in the minds of several people at the same time: What exactly happened at that moment?
“Are there any surveillance videos from other angles?” Sanova asked.

"There's only this one." Garrison shook his head. "The bag must have fallen. It must have been blocked by something and not captured in the shot!"

I continued to watch the video later, but didn't see anyone picking up the items.

Ou Yang drew a circle on the screen. "If they found that bag, they definitely wouldn't turn a blind eye. So the bag's location is not only a blind spot for surveillance, but also a blind spot for vision!"

Garrison and Sanova said in unison: "Behind the door!"

In the picture, only the open door meets the conditions proposed by Ou Yang.

When the scene of the fall was called up, the woman and the doctor happened to be blocking the most critical position.

Garrison played it frame by frame, not missing any detail, but in the end he found nothing.

Ou Yang was stunned. Have you guys been infected a long time ago?
"Why are you just looking at it here? Why don't you just go to the B3 floor and take a look for yourself?"

Garrison stood up immediately: "Yes, yes, thank you for your help."

Ouyang...

Is this considered digging a hole for yourself?

A few minutes later, Ou Yang came to the outside of the morgue and saw the sterilized Patient Zero again.

He hadn't initially thought much about Emily's post-bacterial state, but after watching the autopsy, the scene kept replaying in his mind, and the physical discomfort never subsided. The spore detector's flash stopped at a high concentration.

After breaking the quarantine, the spore concentration here has dropped a lot, but it is still very dangerous for others.

After a brief mental preparation, Ou Yang walked into the morgue and peeked behind the door. Sure enough, he saw a handbag covered in dust, half buried under the fungal mat.

However, this was just the beginning. According to Garrison's request, Ou Yang took the handbag out of the slightly sticky fungal mat and put it into a pre-prepared self-sealing bag and sealed it, without touching Emily as much as possible.

Then he dug another sample of the fungus, put it in a bottle and labeled it.

Cut another piece of rhizome about three centimeters long, put it in another bottle and label it.

The next step was to take samples from various locations on Emily's body.

Next to the fungal remains, there were several areas where roots were particularly concentrated. When he first saw it, Ou Yang didn't pay any attention to it at all, but now he knows that they are actually the internal organs that fell on the ground.

Samples must be taken and bottled at each location.

Not only will samples be taken from Emily, but the bodies still in the freezer will also be targets for sampling.

Taking samples is not enough, every body must be photographed and kept on file.

Ou Yang endured the physical discomfort that ran through his body and worked for a while before he finally finished fulfilling Garrison's request. He changed the filter element alone three times.

More than an hour later, Ou Yang brought the last batch of samples back to the ground and handed them to Garrison personally.

"Thank you, thank you, I'm so grateful!" Garrison was ecstatic. "Joe, send the sample back to the base immediately!"

But in Ou Yang's eyes, his face was distorted like a balloon being trampled by a naughty child, and his voice was sometimes far away and sometimes near.

He immediately threw the gun aside: "I've been hit!"

"What?" Garrison didn't understand.

"I'm hallucinating!" Ou Yang sat down on the ground, closed his eyes and tried his best to stay awake.

But it was no use, the illusion still existed.

It turns out that hallucinations don’t just stop consciousness.

Ou Yang simply lay on the ground and kept hypnotizing himself. No matter what he saw, his body remained motionless.

The group of Americans were all stunned.

After hallucinations occur, not only do you know that something is wrong, but you can also control your actions?

We have seen too many infected people and have come into contact with many immune people, but this is the first time we have encountered such a situation.

Garrison kicked the weapon away from Ouyang and carefully kept a safe distance: "Yang, are you okay?"

"It should be fine. Let me lie down for a while, it will be fine in a while!" said Ou Yang.

He had some experience with hallucinations.

A few minutes later, Ou Yang turned over and sat up. The world in front of him basically returned to normal, and the sounds were no longer erratic.

Garrison lowered his voice like a stupid thief: "Yang? Are you okay?"

"It's okay." Ou Yang smiled and stood up again.

The effects of the hallucinations haven't completely worn off, but they're no longer a problem.

The old Mi fans were amazed again. Isn’t this recovery too fast?
Garrison still didn't dare let Ouyang touch the weapon. After thinking for a while, he made a new arrangement: "Sergeant, you take half of the team and send the samples back to the laboratory. Yang, you go with Sanova, he will take you to the shelter. The others will set up a defense line on the spot!"

(End of this chapter)