Simulation Game: Crisis Management

Chapter 584 - 264: Citywide Outbreak (Part 2)

"Beep beep beep! Damn it, move out of my way!"

"Can the ones in front move?"

"Don’t cry, kid! Dad will get you out of here soon! Hey! Can the ones in front move?"

...

In the blink of an eye, the once orderly road.

Suddenly became congested, all jammed in the middle of the intersection, with no one yielding, and a few drivers even got out and started fighting on the street.

"What... how could this happen!"

Jang Siyun had never seen such a scene before. Seeing the cars packed around him, he anxiously looked at Gu Ji, "Senior, the car can’t move. What should we do now?"

"Get out of the car."

Gu Ji surveyed the surroundings, quickly judging that this traffic jam wasn’t going to clear up anytime soon, so he decisively started walking.

After all, their destination wasn’t far from here.

The two of them weaved along the sidewalk.

The shop owners along the street hurriedly closed up, except for convenience stores and pharmacies, which were swarmed with people.

A large number of pedestrians rushed into the stores, frantically grabbing food and necessities as if they were free. Some even got into fights over a few packs of instant noodles, knocking over a shelf and pinning down a couple.

"Senior! Someone’s injured in the convenience store!"

"Call the police first!"

Gu Ji glanced at his watch and rushed in with Jang Siyun.

"I grabbed this first!"

"Get lost! It’s not yours until you’ve paid for it!"

"I’m begging you, sir, I have a sick wife and child to take care of at home, please have mercy and let me have this box of instant noodles!"

"Waaah, mommy..."

The convenience store was total chaos. Several people tore at a bag of chips until it burst, spilling chips everywhere. Others pushed carts full of goods out of the door in a hurry, not even paying.

"Someone’s injured under the shelves, everyone stop fighting!"

Jang Siyun shouted, trying to wake the chaotic crowd, but at this critical moment, no one cared what he said.

"Lift the shelf first!" Gu Ji and Jang Siyun grabbed either end of the shelf.

With a strong lift, the woman underneath quickly got up, clutching her husband and crawling out while thanking them, "Thank you! Zhengxun, get up and thank them, Zhengxun?"

"Cough cough, ugh ugh..."

Unexpectedly, just as the woman pushed her husband twice.

The middle-aged man named "Zhengxun" began to cough violently, and suddenly passed out after a gasp.

"Zhengxun! Wake up! Don’t scare me!"

"Oh no, senior, was he seriously injured by the shelf?"

Jang Siyun looked flustered and at a loss.

Gu Ji quickly approached the middle-aged man, first feeling his ribs, finding no signs of fracture, indicating it wasn’t a pneumothorax. He opened his mouth, finding no obstruction in his throat.

"Does he have a history of heart disease?"

"No, he’s just had a fever recently, feeling miserable, and I didn’t expect..."

"Has he been to the hospital recently?"

"Oh, he might have gone to Shansang Hospital to get me some medicine because I’ve been having trouble sleeping lately..."

"Jang Siyun, call the CDC immediately, there’s a suspected MERS patient, we need to conduct a close contact investigation on everyone in the supermarket. Ma’am, stay here and don’t leave!"

Gu Ji interrupted the middle-aged woman’s words and positioned the man’s head to prevent saliva or mucus from blocking his throat.

"What? MERS!"

"Quick! Run! Someone has MERS here!"

"Damn it! Get out of my way!"

A nearby woman, who had been grabbing food, screamed in fear upon hearing the word from Gu Ji.

No one expected it to cause such a panic.

With the middle-aged couple and Gu Ji as the center, people quickly dispersed, forming a two-meter radius empty circle in the supermarket’s center.

Previously, no matter how much Jang Siyun shouted, the crowd was absorbed in themselves, showing how terrifying "MERS" is in the Korean people’s hearts now.

Moreover, the government is taking it very seriously now.

Shortly after Gu Ji had Jang Siyun call the police, the patrol officers in dark blue uniforms and riot helmets arrived with shields and batons, immediately sealing the supermarket entrance.

"The police are sealing off the supermarket!"

"Let us out!"

"Everyone, please cooperate, don’t leave yet, wait for CDC to finish the investigation first!"

It seems the Seoul Police Station has realized the chaos in the city and sent in its combat police, equivalent to the SWAT riot squad in the Xia Kingdom.

Before long, CDC personnel in white protective suits came in with yellow caution tape.

Gu Ji handed the person over to the on-site supervisor.

Because he and Jang Siyun had prepared protective gear before leaving the hospital, wearing goggles, masks, and double gloves.

After registering, they were the first to leave the supermarket.

Fifteen minutes later, Gu Ji finally arrived at the entrance of Seoul Shansang Hospital.

That’s right.

His first target is one of the two origins of MERS, Shansang, because among the "super patients," two of them are from this hospital, especially the strongest case who infected 85 patients.

Upon entering the outpatient department.

The number of people in the lobby seemed to be half less than AM Hospital, but judging by the mess, it seemed today’s public announcement of patient lists caused panic, scaring many patients away from Shansang Hospital.

"I need to see your hospital director."

Gu Ji didn’t waste words, directly grabbing a nurse and showing his credentials.

Unexpectedly, the director wasn’t in the hospital, supposedly called away by higher-ups for some press conference, likely to apologize to the public.

After all, in this MERS incident, Shansang, due to poor management, failed to report and quarantine promptly, resulting in infections in nearly 30% of the patients.

Eventually, a short middle-aged man in a white coat walked over slowly.

Unexpectedly, the one on duty today was him again, Li Minfu!

Previously, he deceived them about an Anthrax Virus outbreak in Shansang ER and allied with AM Hospital to suppress Shansang, so upon meeting, Li Minfu didn’t greet them warmly.

"What are you doing here?"

"Special jurisdiction from the Cheongwadae Secretarial Office, investigating super patients!"

Li Minfu initially wanted to refute Gu Ji, but upon hearing "Cheongwadae," his face changed.

Only after seeing the special jurisdiction document photo on the phone did he lead Gu Ji and Jang Siyun to the respiratory ward with a dejected look.

All confirmed patients and close contacts are isolated here.

Looking at the rows of beds filled along the ward corridor, with contacts lying around playing on their phones, Gu Ji was almost infuriated, "Is this how you do quarantine? Didn’t you know about the recent cases of suspected airborne MERS transmission?"

"We have no choice; there are too many close contacts, and many nurses and doctors are infected. The hospital is short on beds and staff."

Just as Li Minfu finished speaking.

Gu Ji spotted Han Zaiyuan lying in the ward, the former head of the ER respiratory department.

With a sigh, he asked Li Minfu to bring all confirmed patient information and the infection chains for second and third-generation infected individuals.

As expected.

Gu Ji found the two super patients in the files.

However, besides the original white-haired infected man and the strongest infected individual, another caught his attention, named Jin Canyu, 36 years old, infected five second-generation patients, "Who is this person?"

"He, he..."

"Spit it out!"

"He’s a soldier from the Wushan Base."