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In the dead of night, all was quiet in the capital city.

In the master bedroom of the courtyard house, Lin Chen was holding Su Qingge, who was fast asleep. Su Qingge was like a docile kitten, curled up on Lin Chen's broad chest, breathing evenly.

Suddenly, the phone on the bedside table started vibrating wildly and piercingly. In the quiet night, the vibration sounded particularly abrupt.

Lin Chen opened his eyes instantly, his gaze clear and bright, without the slightest trace of the confusion one might feel upon waking.

He immediately activated [God-level Danger Perception].

The system did not issue a sharp alarm, indicating that the danger was not directly aimed at him or his family.

Lin Chen glanced at the caller ID; it was his father, Lin Haifeng, calling. He immediately answered the phone.

On the other end of the phone, Lin Haifeng's voice came through, sounding extremely anxious and even somewhat panicked.

"Xiao Chen! Come to the First Hospital immediately! Something terrible has happened!"

Lin Chen frowned and asked in a deep voice, "Dad, don't panic, tell me slowly, what happened?"

"Old Wang... Old Wang has gone mad!" Lin Haifeng's voice trembled. "I received a call from his wife in the middle of the night, saying that Old Wang suddenly had a high fever, was incredibly strong, and even bit her! He was just taken to the First Hospital's emergency room, and several doctors can't hold him down!"

Lin Chen's eyes instantly turned cold.

really!

During the day, while at the convoy, Lin Chen suspected that Old Wang, who had just returned from the southwest, had been infected with that unknown fungal spore. He hadn't expected it to develop so quickly!

"Dad, stay in a safe place and don't go near Lao Wang. I'm coming right away!"

Lin Chen hung up the phone, quickly threw off the covers, got out of bed, and got dressed.

Su Qingge was woken up and sat up, rubbing her sleepy eyes.

"Honey, what's wrong? Where are you going in the middle of the night?"

Lin Chen turned his head and kissed her on the forehead.

"Something urgent has come up with for my dad, I need to go take care of it. You keep sleeping, and remember, don't take off that sachet."

Although Su Qingge was a police officer, seeing Lin Chen's serious expression, she knew things weren't simple. She nodded obediently, "Then be careful."

Lin Chen dressed quickly, walked out of the courtyard, and started the bulletproof Phaeton.

With a deep roar from its engine, the Phaeton sped through the streets of Beijing like a black steel behemoth in the dead of night. In just fifteen minutes, Lin Chen arrived at Beijing's First Hospital.

Chaos reigned in the emergency room lobby. Panicked patients and their families were everywhere. Several security guards, armed with riot shields, stood tensely outside the emergency room corridor.

Lin Chen immediately spotted Lin Haifeng standing in the corner of the corridor, pale-faced and trembling. Several nurses were holding him back tightly, preventing him from approaching the emergency room.

"Dad!" Lin Chen strode over.

When Lin Haifeng saw Lin Chen, it was as if he had seen his pillar of support, and he grabbed Lin Chen's arm.

"Xiao Chen, you're finally here! Old Wang in there was terrifying, he was like a completely different person!"

Lin Chen patted his father's hand, signaling him to calm down.

At that moment, a series of muffled roars, completely unlike anything a human could make, came from behind the heavy soundproof door of the emergency room.

Lin Chen's eyes narrowed.

[Ding! God-level hearing has been activated!]

Instantly, all the sounds in the emergency room reached Lin Chen's ears with perfect clarity.

Besides the terrified screams of doctors and nurses and the sound of equipment being knocked over and shattering, Lin Chen also caught an extremely eerie sound.

That sound came from Old Wang's chest!

Along with the roaring, a thick, rattling sound, like a broken bellows, came from Old Wang's lungs. It was the friction sound caused by fungal spores multiplying rapidly in his lungs and blocking his airway!

Without any hesitation, Lin Chen pushed aside the nurse blocking his way and kicked open the emergency room door.

The horrific scene in the emergency room immediately came into view.

Both hospital beds had been completely overturned, and medical equipment fragments were scattered all over the floor. Old Wang was bound hand and foot to the innermost resuscitation bed, his limbs tightly bound with thick medical restraints.

But he continued to struggle frantically, with astonishing strength, tearing the solid steel bed frame so badly that it creaked and groaned.

Old Wang's eyes were completely rolled back, with no pupils visible. His mouth was wide open, constantly spewing out thick white foam speckled with dark purple.

What's most chilling is...

On Old Wang's exposed arm, several clusters of extremely tiny, mushroom-like, dark purple fleshy fungi had broken through the surface of his skin!

These fungi are still wriggling slightly at a speed visible to the naked eye!

The doctors and nurses on duty huddled in a corner, trembling, too terrified to approach. In all their years of medical practice, they had never seen such horrifying symptoms; it was like a zombie apocalypse!

"What are you all standing there for! Give him a sedative!" an older doctor shouted, his voice trembling.

"Director, we can't get the needle in! His muscles are as hard as rocks, and two of the needles have broken off!" a young nurse cried out.

Just then, Old Wang roared and forcefully broke free of the thick restraints with his right hand! He swung his fungus-covered arm and grabbed the nearest nurse.

The nurse was so frightened that her legs went weak, and she didn't even have the strength to run away.

At the critical moment.

A dark shadow flashed by like lightning. Lin Chen strode forward and pulled the nurse behind him.

[Ding! Mastery of Divine Traditional Chinese Medicine has been unlocked!]

[Ding! Grandmaster-level combat skills have been unlocked!]

Old Wang's claws, covered in dark purple slime, swung with extreme ferocity as they viciously clawed at Lin Chen's face.

Lin Chen remained unfazed, subtly shifting his stance to easily evade the fatal blow. Immediately afterward, he formed his right hand into a sword-like finger, imbued with terrifying hidden force, and precisely struck Old Wang's carotid sinus on the side of his neck!

"Bang!"

A muffled thud.

The carotid sinus is one of the most vulnerable nerve centers in the human body. With Lin Chen's master-level strength and the precise acupoint identification of a divine-level traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, this strike instantly severed the nerve conduction in Old Wang's brain.

Old Wang's body stiffened abruptly. His eyes, which had rolled back to their backs, instantly lost focus. His massive body, as if all the bones had been drained, collapsed limply onto the hospital bed, and he fell completely unconscious.

The entire emergency room fell into a deathly silence.

All the doctors and nurses stared in disbelief at the young man who had suddenly barged in and subdued the monster with just one finger.

Lin Chen ignored their shock.

He turned around, his gaze sweeping sternly over all the medical staff present, his voice cold and imposing.

"Immediately seal off this emergency room, and shut down the central air conditioning and all ventilation vents!"

"Everyone, evacuate immediately and retrieve the highest-level biohazard suits!"

"What he has is contagious!"