"There's a dead person!"

"Move! Quickly move!"

...

The passengers who were originally excitedly preparing for a lottery now looked as if they'd encountered a demon. They were so frightened that their features twisted, their limbs weakened, and they scattered like birds and beasts away from the corpse.

Passengers resting in the cabins on the second, third, and fourth floors were also drawn out and leaned over the corridor railings.

Gu Ji stared intently at the shattered corpse.

Blood was oozing out from all the wounds and orifices on the body's surface.

But he could vaguely recognize from the dead person's clothing and full head of silver hair that it was the elderly man with white hair from the deck three days ago!

Who would have thought that in just three short days.

The virus would turn a living human into a decayed mass of flesh.

This is the horror of the hemorrhagic fever virus!

Once infected, the onset is abrupt. In the early stages, there is fever and muscle pain, symptoms which are not very distinctive and might be misdiagnosed as the flu;

In the middle stage, the virus reproduces rapidly in the body, tissues are destroyed, internal bleeding, subcutaneous purpura, and hematemesis may occur;

In the severe stage, many organs are liquefied by the virus, blood flows from the skin, eyes, and nostrils, and in severe cases, there is continual hematemesis, even vomiting parts of the intestines until death from blood loss.

The entire process can take at most half a month;

But in swift cases, only a few days!

Morioka's face changed drastically, he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and hurriedly used the walkie-talkie to contact the ship's police room and medical room, commanding the cleaning and security personnel to cordon off the corpse, loudly warning:

"Please refrain from recording videos or tampering with the scene, wait for the cruise police and doctors to investigate and resolve this!"

"I said! Do not approach the corpse! You will get infected!"

Gu Ji shouted again. The main transmission mode of the hemorrhagic fever virus is through blood and secretions. Now there is blood and vomit all around the corpse, and just a careless touch could result in infection!

Upon hearing the word "infection," the staff members who intended to approach became deathly pale.

And at that moment, the crowd noticed Gu Ji's attire.

In such hot weather, not only was he thoroughly covered, but most notably, he was also wearing a mask and medical gloves!!

"Wow!"

The crowd instantly retreated backward, and the few tourists who had been splattered with blood desperately wiped their faces with their sleeves, some even directly tore off their clothes and threw them on the ground.

"Miss Jian Na, please do not incite panic, interfere with the crui…"

Morioka quickly stepped forward to warn, but before he could finish, Gu Ji lunged like a fierce tiger, grabbing Morioka by the collar and pinning him in place: "Interfere!? You say I'm interfering?!"

"Didn't you say the test results were just the common flu? Is this the common flu? Did you even send the virus blood samples for testing!"

The entire cruise ship hall echoed with his hysterical yelling.

Gu Ji's eyes were bloodshot.

A legitimate hospital laboratory would never mix up the hemorrhagic fever virus with the common flu virus, so Morioka simply did not send the patient's blood samples for testing, or rather, from the beginning, he had no intention to report it and wanted to cover it up!

All for the profit of a trip.

Disregarding the lives of over 3,000 people on the ship?

How is this any different from the bald tattooed thug from the airport massacre!!

Morioka stood frozen, speechless.

But he was, after all, the manager of a top luxury cruise ship, he quickly regained his senses, reached to grab Gu Ji, trying to break free and resist, "You...what nonsense are you talking…"

"Yamero!"

At this moment, the cruise police and doctors finally arrived, ready to stop the dispute between the two.

But before they could separate them, a chilling gurgling sound came from the crowd, frightening others into hurriedly avoiding.

"Gah...heh..."

Gu Ji turned his head to see the middle-parted man who had just been expelling vomit.

Somehow, he was frozen in place, his face expressionless, like wearing a mask, his eyeballs paralyzed and staring dully, as if frozen in his sockets, turning a bright red, his face covered in rashes and ruptured blood blisters.

"Gah..."

Suddenly, he took another deep, ragged breath, his spine arched backward, clenching his hands into claws, body convulsing, foaming blood at the mouth, just like a zombie from a post-apocalyptic movie!

Thud! Not far from the right side of the middle-parted man, another female tourist suddenly collapsed to the ground, her limbs thrashing wildly, body convulsing incessantly, shaking side to side.

"Honey! What's wrong…"

The woman's husband hurriedly lifted his convulsing, frothing wife, but before he could utter a few words, "Ugh—!"

The man retched violently, spewing a viscous mucous mixed with yellowish and white tinged with blood all over the woman's face, meanwhile, two nearby European and American tourists pinched their noses in disgust and began retching as well.

Thud, thud...

One, two.

Two high-fever infected individuals on the upstairs corridor couldn't hold on and collapsed to the ground.

"Ginger rou (Run)——!"

"Ah!!"

"Run! Corpses are transforming!!"

...

In an instant, the crowd descended into chaos, like the end of the century, everyone was frantically fleeing around the hall, some running towards the elevator, some heading directly towards the ship's doors to escape onto the deck, others hiding in the mall's stores.

Meanwhile, several more high-fever tourists passed out on the ground during the run.

Countless frantic footsteps echoed continuously in the ship's cabin, like the pounding of mighty waves.

Morioka, Matsushima, Xiaowu Yefu…

Whether it's managers, security, or police, including the ship's doctors, each of them was stunned by this scene before them, as if receiving an electric shock, in a semi-dazed state.

In the face of crisis, Gu Ji pushed Morioka aside, swept towards the policeman's waist, and a black Sig Sauer P230 pistol fell into his hand, he pulled the slide, engaged the safety, aimed at the ceiling of the hall: Bang! Bang!

Two gunshots.

The chaos screeched to a halt!

Everyone immediately crouched on the ground.

"What… what are you doing!"

The policeman whose gun was snatched reacted sharply, swiftly retreating, while his colleague hurriedly drew his gun, aiming at Gu Ji.

"Everyone stop where you are! Listen to me!"

Gu Ji shouted as he slowly placed the handgun on the ground, indicating he was no threat, the two policemen immediately rushed forward to kick away the gun and pinned his wrist, pressing him to the ground.

But Gu Ji did not stop, continuing to shout:

"My name is Jian Na, an observer from the Epidemiology Section of the Xiangzhou Health Protection Center, instructed by the highest medical and health bureau in Xiangzhou to investigate the mysterious virus incident on the cruise ship, please believe me, do not run amok, besides resulting in stampede casualties, this will only mix infected and healthy individuals, causing the virus to spread faster!"

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