Chapter 303: Chapter 303: A Puzzle
Liu Zheng shook his head in response to these comments, then spoke seriously.
"Actually, I just remembered something very important."
Upon hearing this, the confusion in everyone’s eyes naturally grew more intense, as they wondered what this important matter he mentioned might be.
"What is it? What’s the matter?"
"Yeah, yeah, don’t scare us."
Soon, Liu Zheng carefully organized his thoughts before speaking.
"Actually, I heard the same noise last night, but I was really too sleepy at the time, so I didn’t pay much attention to it."
When he said this, all those present were even more astonished.
They slightly widened their eyes, hardly believing what they were hearing.
This was a little too frightening.
Originally, they had thought all of this might be fake.
But now that Doctor Liu had spoken, they finally realized just how terrifying the whole matter was.
At that moment, everyone fell silent, truly at a loss for what to say.
How could they not find this matter incredibly difficult to comprehend?
Seeing everyone in such a state, Liu Zheng naturally knew what they were thinking and immediately continued.
"Not only that, haven’t you noticed? Actually, among this group of patients, some have more serious symptoms while others are relatively milder."
Caught off guard by his sudden mention of this point, everyone thought it over carefully and realized that it did seem to make sense.
The severe cases were almost all left here for IV treatments.
But they still had no clue why Liu Zheng would suddenly bring this up to them.
"What’s the matter? Is there some kind of relationship between the two?"
"Yeah, exactly, what’s going on here?"
There were indeed many questions in their hearts, completely unclear about how to answer them.
"I don’t know if you remember the old man we saw lying in the street yesterday. Those of us who were closest to him are now all here getting IVs, and the symptoms are pretty severe."
After he said this, a few people looked around carefully.
They indeed found things were as he had said.
It also indeed made them feel even more incredulous.
How on earth could such a situation occur?
Their minds raced, trying to figure out what exactly was happening.
How could they not consider this a very outrageous matter?
Everyone remained silent.
At this moment, the surrounding fell into a deep silence, as they also realized that what Liu Zheng said seemed indeed to be true.
Even they themselves were unclear as to why it was so.
Initially, they really hadn’t thought in this direction, but now that they thought about it seriously, it seemed indeed to be the case.
Even Liu Zheng himself was a bit confused.
He was unsure whether his thoughts were right or wrong.
The reason he had thought of this just now was simply because of a sudden memory of yesterday’s events.
But he had no evidence.
So seeing everyone in such a panicked state, he immediately said,
"You don’t have to believe me too much, It’s just my speculation. We don’t have any evidence right now."
Although that was what he said.
But everyone already felt panic in their hearts.
It had been discovered that all of this didn’t seem so simple after all.
They shook their heads one after another, finally snapping out of their own worlds.
"No, Doctor Liu, I think what you said makes a lot of sense."
"Right, before this we hadn’t realized this at all. Now, thinking about it carefully, it seems indeed to be the case."
"Could it be that the old man is the source of infection?"
"This is too terrifying to ponder."
"Then what about the old man they saw yesterday? They said he looked exactly the same, didn’t they?"
At this moment, they didn’t know how to answer.
Faced with such a situation, they indeed had many doubts.
It now seemed that they couldn’t fully understand what was going on.
Liu Zheng, having heard all these questions, could only shrug his shoulders in helplessness.
He truly didn’t know what to do about these matters.
The complexity of the issues he now faced weighed heavily on him, especially since the hospital hadn’t issued any sort of notice, which was a source of worry.
Logically, if the old man truly carried some contagious agent, the hospital would have taken him away and performed a simple check, which should have yielded results.
Then, they definitely would have informed everyone and advised them to take precautions.
Why then had they still not received any news?
He could only think of two reasons.
The first reason was that the virus in the old man’s body was extraordinary, so the hospital dared not to publicize it widely.
The second reason was that everything might be an overreaction on his part, and that there was no virus on the old man at all.
Yet now his mind was indeed full of conjectures.
Facing such a situation, he really didn’t know how to respond in the short term.
In the end, he could only sigh and shake his head at the few people in front of him.
"Sigh, I don’t know what to say either; the hospital hasn’t sent any news."
After he spoke, the others nodded one after another.
"Yeah, we don’t know what’s happening. So much time has passed, and we still haven’t received any useful information from the hospital."
"That’s right, that’s right, I’m unclear about what’s going on."
Everyone was already worried and scared because of what had happened last night.
Hearing about such an incident now intensified their panic even more.
If things were to get serious, what would they do?
And now, so many people had already fallen ill.
No one knew how long it would take for them to recover.
If this were to continue spreading, it might end up affecting everyone.
While these few people were still talking, several more patients arrived.
The symptoms they displayed seemed to be similar.
Liu Zheng couldn’t possibly stay there forever; he immediately headed toward them to see what was wrong.
He soon reached their side.
He prescribed medicine diligently and administered injections and infusions to those who were serious.
After settling them down, he prepared to take some rest.
