"Starting areas are usually relatively safe zones within the entire scene. We have to use this time to gather some intelligence and find supplies," Xu Ning said.
Adams said, "Since this is a hospital, we may be able to learn something from the patient records and the doctors' schedules."
With that in mind, they arrived at the service desk closest to the elevator on the third floor.
"Look, there are patient records here. Three days ago, an unknown illness appeared in a town on Yelu Island. The survivors who were discovered were sent to the East Timor International Disease Treatment Research Center—that is, this place."
Rabel searched through the computer at the service desk and finally found some useful information.
Xu Ning rushed over to look, and everyone else gathered around as well.
After the Third World War, the United Nations Headquarters had moved to East Timor, and this hospital ranked among the world's best.
The building they were in had twenty-five floors, but it was only one structure within a massive comprehensive medical center.
Three days ago, something strange had happened on a nearby island. The cause was unknown.
According to the surveillance footage, at exactly nine o'clock that night, everyone at the scene seemed to have their brains affected by some kind of neurotoxin. They gradually began mutilating themselves and speaking in incomprehensible languages.
Their main forms of self-harm were: turning their headphones up to the highest volume, completely ignoring the intense noise blasting their eardrums; not sleeping, or being completely unable to sleep; and splitting their tongues down the middle, cutting them into forked shapes.
Because their physical condition was extremely poor, their home Smart Butler automatically called the police.
When the out-of-town police arrived, the town suddenly saw a mass suicide, leaving a thousand people dead.