September 29th. One day remained until the Rule End of the [Lethal Blood Plague].
The Countermeasure Research Institute convened an emergency meeting. The expert researchers who arrived at the office after receiving the notice had no idea what was going on and were vaguely worried.
Normally, emergency meetings like this were only held when something bad and unexpected had happened.
Everyone sat uneasily in their seats and waited. Before long, Gao Liangwei, the person in charge, entered the room.
After taking his seat, he said, "Today's emergency meeting is to announce something. But before that, let's watch these videos."
Gao Liangwei had a researcher display several video clips on the large screen.
As everyone watched, they quickly realized the videos showed conflicts breaking out in major cities. Some scenes were so gruesome that they were hard to bear watching.
Moreover, everyone noticed that the people in the videos were not just ordinary civilians. There were also Administration Bureau employees in black uniforms, as well as armed squads.
As soon as the videos ended, Gao Liangwei said, "The purpose of showing you these is to make you understand how severely this Rule has torn society apart. In many places, groups of infected people who have resigned themselves to having no hope of survival are wreaking havoc in the cities."
"..."
Everyone fell silent.
In truth, this situation had not been entirely unforeseeable. Once most people discovered they were infected and would die in a blood explosion within twenty-four hours, they were bound to feel deeply wronged.
They would think, Why weren't others infected? Why me? It was hardly surprising for them to act irrationally in their despair.
Out of ten infected people, perhaps nine would accept their fate and quietly await death. But as long as one took things to the