Simulation Game: Crisis Management

Chapter 590 - 267: The Laboratory’s Secret (Part 2)

In order to maintain the prosecutor’s reputation and dignity, the attack by special Staphylococcus was not made public, and everyone received orders to keep it confidential.

During this time, Seoul was also in a state of panic.

Although the riots caused by the lockdown had ended, the price of vegetables began to skyrocket. With the increasing number of people in quarantine, everyone was too scared of MERS to go outside and had to stay indoors.

Food became a problem.

Medicines and masks were even more expensive and hard to find.

Ordinary people couldn’t buy medicine for a fever or cold, but in the blink of an eye, scalpers had plenty of stock.

A simple box of antipyretic drugs was being sold at dozens or even hundreds of times its original price.

Even Cui Ridou said, nowadays, gangs don’t make money from drug dealing or human trafficking. The most lucrative business is smuggling medicine!

In a short period, the public’s resistance rate continued to rise.

The internet was filled with negativity and accusations, putting great pressure on medical staff.

Gu Ji, afraid that the suppressed infection would flare up again, proposed to Li Xianzhen to have Cheongwadae announce a vacation regime for medical staff, rally chaebol investment to set up a MERS special aid fund, lower food and medicine prices, and have medical authorities frequently give public speeches.

After some operations, they finally restored the South Korean public’s confidence in the government.

The subsequent control policies were executed very smoothly, with the number of new infections decreasing daily.

The other good news was:

With the help of Lin Renna and Jiang Songyuan, Jin Canyu was finally forced by Cheongwadae to be transferred from the poorly-equipped Wushan Base Military Hospital to the negative pressure ward of Seoul’s CDC for comprehensive isolation.

This finally concluded his side mission.

Unfortunately, there were still MERS infected individuals within the military hospital who had not been reported.

Until July 4th, there were 2 new MERS confirmed cases, one of which came from the Wushan military area, but this information was not reported to the authorities, who only announced one infection, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 185 and cumulative deaths to 32.

Gu Ji repeatedly called Jiang Chengxun, asking him to find a way to investigate in the military area.

However, due to the unique nature of the military, the CDC was still unable to intervene.

Every day was spent in such ambiguity, allowing the military to handle things themselves, which even resulted in one more death.

Finally, on the 14th day.

The medical observation ended, and Gu Ji’s group was confirmed not to be infected by special Staphylococcus, and the lockdown was completely lifted.

The moment he left the CDC isolation ward.

He turned and walked towards the intensive care unit.

That’s right.

Gu Ji now wanted to see who this "Jin Canyu" really was.

Under the guidance of Deputy Director Jiang Chengxun, he donned a level 3 positive pressure full bioprotection suit and walked step by step into the MERS "super patient" isolation area, which controlled the "Virus King" of the entire South Korea MERS, so full protection was necessary.

Most people feel deeply oppressed the first time they wear a fully enclosed hazmat suit.

That sensation is like falling into water, with perceptions severely dulled, and only their own breathing can be heard.

Fortunately, Gu Ji had just undergone Jinbang training and had been armed with swimming practice.

He had also personally experienced the explosion of a WW2 factory, with yellow chlorine gas covering overhead, a fear far worse than this.

"Ahead is Jin Canyu’s room."

Jiang Chengxun pointed to room 1023 on the left.

Gu Ji stopped, stepped up to the observation window of the ward door, and peeked inside.

Although Jin Canyu was from a military background, physically fit and without underlying conditions, he was not young, and as the MERS virus replicated heavily in his body, he occasionally needed oxygen to maintain a high blood oxygen saturation level.

At that moment, he was wearing a blue and white striped hospital gown, lying on the bed with an oxygen mask on, inhaling oxygen.

"Can I go in and take a look?"

"You can’t stay too long, there’s surveillance inside, and the disease control headquarters director is watching."

Jiang Chengxun reminded Gu Ji.

As friends, he somewhat understood Gu Ji’s conflict with the military.

After inputting the password.

The door to the negative pressure ward opened.

Gu Ji walked over to Jin Canyu’s side.

Probably having heard footsteps, the oxygen-breathing Jin Canyu opened his eyes in a dazed manner, his crew cut, his forehead furrowed with deep lines, and coarse eyebrows took a glance at Gu Ji wrapped in yellow hazmat gear.

In an instant.

Both of them widened their eyes suddenly in a state of shock!

Jin Canyu was shocked by Gu Ji’s sudden appearance;

Gu Ji was shocked because...

This Jin Canyu’s brows and eyes were identical to the hitman who injected anthrax into him in the ward last week!!

So it was you who attacked me!

Indeed.

Since Jin Canyu could use "fractures" as an excuse to repeatedly enter the Seoul Shansang Hospital orthopedic diagnosis and under police close guard, kill important witness Park Jun-ryeol with a lethal bacterium, he could just as easily get rid of him.

Except this round of bacterial attack shouldn’t be his doing.

Because Gu Ji was rooted in AM Hospital, staying with Jiang Youzhen and the others all day, giving Jin Canyu no chance to strike.

Besides, he was infected with MERS, so the military likely sent someone else to take action.

"Mr. Jin, I’m Prosecutor Jin Zhijiu, I’ve long wanted to understand why the military hospital was so eager to retrieve you, clearly the Wushan Base Hospital is not large and lacks negative pressure isolation facilities, aren’t you afraid the virus might leak and spread throughout the entire base!"

"Hehehe..."

Faced with Gu Ji’s blunt questioning from the start.

Jin Canyu couldn’t help but laugh, "Jin Zhijiu, stop pretending here, who doesn’t know what you’re thinking, I advise you not to waste your efforts, instead think about how to live well, cough cough cough..."

"Mr. Jin, we have to leave now."

Behind, Jiang Chengxun glanced at the ward’s surveillance camera and gently reminded.

Gu Ji squinted.

He could only temporarily give up; with the surveillance, he couldn’t use interrogation methods on Jin Canyu.

Leaving the intensive care unit.

After disinfecting, removing the stifling protective helmet, he panted for fresh air while analyzing and organizing the entire incident.

Initially, he was solely focused on fighting MERS.

But with these series of unusual events, he grew increasingly curious about the "Wushan Laboratory Explosion."

What on earth would cause the military to go to great lengths to use a top sergeant to silence the explosion site’s only living eyewitness, let alone a prosecutor?

If not for the military picking up "Jin Canyu," Gu Ji would have suspected this guy to be an accomplice to the attackers.

The more the military employed these tactics.

The more it signified that the laboratory held shocking secrets unseen by the world.

"Jin Zhijiu must have discovered something."

Gu Ji immediately headed home.

First, he turned his apartment upside down but found nothing, then went back to the district prosecutor’s office, searched his office in a disorderly fashion, and still found nothing.

"No, Jin Zhijiu is a prosecutor, he wouldn’t be so stupid, whether at home or in the office, with the military’s capability, they would have searched everything, the item must be somewhere safer, somewhere safer..."

The next day, Gu Ji sat in his office chair, muttering to himself.

Suddenly, a person came to mind.

Park Jun-ryeol’s daughter!

"Jang Siyun, help me find someone!"

"Got it, senior."

An hour later, Jang Siyun sent the personal information of Park Baomei to Gu Ji’s phone.

Interestingly, this person actually resembled the fake high school student Cui Ridou looked for last week. He immediately called Cui Ridou.

As expected.

This guy did follow Park Baomei after getting the message, and even interrogated her for "Jin Zhijiu’s" information, scaring the girl so much she nearly wet herself.

"Cui Ridou, you bastard shouldn’t even exist!"

Gu Ji cursed loudly, demanding Cui Ridou roll over to apologize to Park Baomei together.

But as soon as he got in the car with Cui Ridou, ready to head to Park Baomei’s home.

A black Hyundai sedan behind suddenly caught his attention.