Rumble!
With a clap of thunder, rain began to fall from the sky.
Guan Tong was sitting cross-legged on the bed, meditating. Hearing the patter of rain outside, he opened his eyes.
"Is it raining?"
It was mid-August, the height of summer and the rainy season.
Listening to the thunderstorm, Guan Tong felt the heart he had finally calmed through meditation begin to grow restless again.
He got up and paced around the room, then sat down at the desk, turned on his computer, and checked the time first.
4:00 p.m. Seven hours had passed since the rule was announced.
He then went online to check the news. Many people had uploaded photos and videos they had taken of infected people bursting with blood, and they were extremely disturbing to watch.
The Official Department had also released a statement. It had made a preliminary assessment of the virus and named it after the term mentioned in the rules: "Blood Plague."
It was a virulent infectious disease. After infection, internal and external bleeding would soon occur. The condition would rapidly worsen until it reached a certain critical point, when blood pressure would completely lose control, causing the body to display the horrifying effect known as "blood bursting."
The symptoms of Blood Plague infection had also been summarized. The most obvious phenomenon, bleeding from the seven orifices, was already a late-stage symptom of the second phase of infection. In the earlier first phase, large red patches would appear around the neck and shoulders.
These red patches were extremely distinctive. Unlike the dark spots caused by other skin diseases, they were bright red and very easy to identify. It could be said that as long as bright red patches appeared in those two areas, one could basically confirm a Blood Plague infection.
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