Chapter 24: Mutant Virus

  Xia Xue also noticed the content of the news broadcast at this time. Although Xia Xue rarely watches the news broadcast, her father must watch it every day and often hears him talk about the hidden content in the news broadcast. Originally, if this news were to be broadcast on an ordinary day, Xia Xue would not have paid attention to it, even if she had heard it, she would have just listened to it casually.

  However, now looking at Xiao Lin, originally Xiao Lin was half-reclining on another sofa, but now he sat up, the relaxed expression on his face disappeared, and a serious expression appeared, as if paying attention to something.

  "What did you see?" Xia Xue asked herself and couldn't help but laugh. The content of this news broadcast, insiders see the way, outsiders see the excitement. Although in the eyes of the general public, the first ten minutes of this news broadcast is how busy the national leaders are, the middle ten minutes are about how good the domestic people's lives are getting, and the last ten minutes are about how people abroad are living in misery. However, Xia Xue's dad insists on watching the news broadcast every day, and Xia Xue has been influenced by it since she was young, knowing that a lot of information can be revealed from it, and those who listen carefully will grasp many opportunities.

  But looking at Xiao Lin, it doesn't seem like he's from a wealthy family either. His fashion sense isn't great, and he drives a QQ worth around 20-30 thousand yuan. What's the point of that?

  "Hmm!" Xiao Lin nodded honestly.

  "Can you really understand?" Xia Xue asked in surprise at this time, the content here is not simply that a contagious virus that was cured a few years ago broke out in Jingliang Province.

  "I'm not an idiot, how can I not understand? Recently, a variant of the HTC4 infectious virus was discovered in Jingliang Province. Dozens of expert professors formed a medical team to investigate the epidemic in Jingliang Province!" Xiao Lin said with a hint of annoyance.

  Xia Xue laughed, "I thought Xiao Lin could really understand the meaning of this news, but it turns out he only understood the literal meaning." Xia Xue smiled and said, "It's not just that. Based on my estimation, I think the epidemic situation in Jingliang Province is not optimistic, which is why it was reported on the News Broadcast. Apart from activating the emergency mechanism for epidemic prevention departments across the country, Jingliang Province has also sent out a distress signal to other provinces and cities. The previous batch of experts and professors may not be able to handle this mutated virus!"

  Xiao Lin was quite surprised at Xia Xue's explanation and looked at her with a hint of confusion, "Is it necessary to use this?"

  "It may be worse than I said, let's see, after we go back to work tomorrow, the department must have issued a notice! Xia Xue said with confidence: "I hope this virus is like four years ago, and it will be controlled as soon as possible. This virus is quite ferocious, as long as it doesn't spread to our Yanjing, it's fine!" Jingliang Province is two provinces away from Yanjing, if it can spread to Yanjing, then this virus may be a national outbreak."

  "It shouldn't spread that quickly!" Xiao Lin said hesitantly, as for this virus, Xiao Lin was the most clear about it, but now this virus has mutated and doesn't know what kind of mutation it has become, hoping it's not too serious.

  "Who knows? Just do our part and that's it!" Xia Xue said with a pout.

  Afterwards, the two of them chatted for a while before returning to their respective rooms to attend to their own matters. Xiao Lin returned to her room and checked her email but didn't find any new messages. She then went online to search for information on the HTC4 variant virus but only found news about its recent discovery in Jingliang Province, with no other relevant information available.

  "Xia Xue is right, doing one's own thing is enough!" Xiao Lin comforted herself, then opened QQ and received private chat messages from Ji Mo, Yue Liang and Qing Chun Xiao Tai Mei. From the messages, it seems that these three are all in Yanjing.

  As for Xiao Lin and Yue Leng, Xiao Lin did know a bit about them. They were a young couple who had joined the guild around this time last year. Both of their levels were pretty good, and they had even taken the top three spots in an online tournament with himself and two other guys who were already married. Those two guys got married in May and rarely showed up afterwards. And for the past few months, Xiao Lin had been busy with his own things, so he didn't know much about those two married guys either.

  Xiao Lin casually opened the group chat, but there were no nutritious topics, just some messages looking for team formation. Xiao Lin glanced at them briefly and closed the group, then replied to Ji Mo and Yue Liang, Qing Chun Xiao Tai Mei one by one.

  Just as Xiao Lin was about to close the group, the avatar of Qing Chun Xiao Tai Mei lit up and sent a message: Military doctor, I'm having food with Ji Mo and Yue Liang now, do you want to come over?

  Xiao Lin was a bit speechless, and then the moon also sent a message: "Military doctor, we are with Qing Chun now, do you want to come out and meet?"

  If it weren't for seeing that viral news, Xiao Lin would have nothing to do now and might go out. But now Xiao Lin isn't in the mood to go out, so he replied with a sentence: "Next time we'll catch up, I'm busy right now, you guys have fun!"

  "Alright, you go ahead and get busy!" Moon replied with a sentence.

  "Is it because you look down on us girls and don't want to come out and meet us?"

  Xiao Lin didn't bother with the innocent little girl anymore, shut down QQ, and entered a highly confidential internal website, which had all the information about the HTC4 virus. Although Xiao Lin said he wouldn't interfere with things that weren't his responsibility, he couldn't help but wonder what kind of mutations this virus would undergo, and what characteristics it would have after mutation.

  It was around eleven o'clock, Xiao Lin was still browsing the information about HTC4 virus, when there was a knock at the door, followed by Xia Xue's voice: "Little man, I've cooked some midnight snacks, want to have some?"

  For several hours, Xiao Lin had been browsing through the various epidemics that had occurred in recent years, both large and small, but he hadn't found any clues about the HTC4 variant virus. At this moment, when he heard Xia Xue's words, he replied, "Mm, okay!" Then he stood up and walked out the door.

  Xia Xue cooked a small pot of fish porridge, as delicious as ever. Xiao Lin temporarily put aside her worries about the HTC4 variant virus and had a midnight snack with Xia Xue. After they finished eating, Xia Xue suddenly remembered something and said to Xiao Lin, "Oh right, tomorrow when you go to work, pretend not to know me!"

  "Why?" Xiao Lin took a sip of porridge and looked at Xia Xue with confusion.

  Xia Xue furrowed her brow and said, "There's no need for so many whys, remember, don't say you know me, it won't do you any good!" For some reason, Xia Xue's mood also turned sour, she randomly drank two mouthfuls of porridge, then returned to her room.

  "Hmm!" Xiao Lin could only helplessly nod her head.