Time: October 5, 2018.

Baghdad time: 02:14.

Location: The bridge containing the flagship of the fleet.

The holographic image of the Middle East is displayed on the center console, and a large area is marked with red, then yellow, and finally blue.

With a string of numbers;

Infected: 970,000 estimated.

Potentially infected: 900,000 estimated.

Asymptomatic patients: Estimated 7.9 million.

Civilians affected: Estimated 12 million.

Standing next to the center console, Andre frowned as he watched the imaging and data. After all, the current situation became'a little' grim.

Two minutes after the UNSC and Umbrella conducted a full-scale raid, serious disagreements arose among the rebel leaders.

Most warlords and politicians hope to surrender. In the face of the absolute superiority of UNSC and Umbrella, failure is inevitable.

Moreover, this group of leaders are also a group of life-saving people, saying that they will die and die together, but hope that UNSC can pay the ransom.

Buying two hundred billion barrels of oil for seventy dollars is a fantasy no matter where you are, but the price in the minds of the leaders is about ten trillion.

It was just to bluff UNSC.

However, the warlords also value UNSC too much. Ten trillion is also a fantasy, so UNSC will cooperate with Umbrella to carry out raids.

In just a few minutes of the war, the rebels were divided into two groups, surrendering and desperate to the end.

The idea of ​​dying together is simple, and that is to let Lao Mei pay the price it deserves.

Obviously, the group of leaders who fought to the end won, and directly released some ancient biological and chemical weapons in the underground facilities.

The'biochemical weapons' were excavated from the Gobekli Stone Circle.

The air spread of this virus extremely fast, and relying on a large number of quick-infected people, has plunged the entire Iraq into complete chaos.

Fortunately, the activity of the virus in the air decreases after one hour, and humans exposed to the air will not be affected in a short period of time.

However, in Iraq, even ordinary people and UNSC soldiers in the surrounding area have become asymptomatic infected persons.

That is to say, there is a virus in the body, which looks no different from ordinary people in appearance, and can be infected with this virus if you touch and talk with it.

Umbrella’s troops possessed nano-serum, coupled with strong disinfection technology support, allowed the troops in the theater to withdraw safely.

UNSC’s outlying forces have also temporarily stopped entering the infected area, and have assembled heavily for blockades in Jordan, Israel, Riyadh, Medina and other countries and regions.

Make every effort to prevent the spread of civilians, infected people, and asymptomatic infected people in the cordoned area.

In the face of this unknown virus, Umbrella’s Nano Serum is effective.

But even if Umbrella is on the earth and the pharmaceutical factory in the colony is started at the same time, it is impossible to prepare tens of millions or even billions of nanoserum in a short time.

At least several months of production time are required.

However, with the existing UNSC and Umbrella military strength, it is impossible to completely blockade areas like the Middle East.

Unlike Manhattan, which is an island, the Middle East is inland, and it is also connected to Europe, Asia, and Africa. It is impossible to achieve a complete blockade.

And with the spread of this unknown virus, only half a month's time is enough to infect hundreds of millions of humans with this virus.

When the nanoserum is promoted at the end, the death toll of humans will be around 300 million according to artificial intelligence such as Tina.

Indeed, as the rebels said, this is really a kind of'destroying virus'.

"..."

Looking at the estimated 300 million deaths and the more than 20 million'refugees' in the sealed area, Andre's brows tightened even more.

"Hey…"

In the end, the veteran sighed helplessly and thought about whether to take the saturation bombing of the fleet and sacrifice a small number of people to save the majority.

"General." At this moment, Tina, who stood behind Andre, reminded:

"The boss and the doctor are about to reach the bridge."

William?

Catherine?

Hearing Tina's reminder, Andre also put his sadness away and nodded: "Okay, I see."

"Huh-."

As soon as the words fell, the automatics of the bridge opened.

William in a suit, Halsey, who was wearing a white coat again, and John with Thor's hammer walked into the bridge.

"William." Andre looked at William who was slowly approaching, and couldn't help but blame himself:

"The failure of this military operation was caused by me alone. It seems that it is time to retire at my age."

"Eh." William waved his hand quickly: "Don't say that, Andre, you are now in your prime of life! And you are highly respected in the company's army.

The failure of this operation was mainly due to the fact that the group of rebels who insisted on perishing together would hate Lao Mei so much, which led to the virus leak.

Otherwise, under normal circumstances, in the face of completely crushed strength, the rebels should have surrendered long ago."

"Haha." Andre said with a wry smile: "Okay, you don't need to say these words to comfort my old man, I would rather retire and live with Xiya."

With that, Andre said to William again: "Looking at your expression, you know that you have a solution again? Come and listen."

"Yes." William nodded without denying, glanced at Halsey beside him, and then explained to his old father:

"The severity of this epidemic is more than tens of times that of Elizabeth Green, and time is not an ally on our side, so we need to contain the spread of the virus as soon as possible.

In other words, eliminate all infected persons in a short period of time and distinguish those civilians as asymptomatic patients."

"It's almost impossible." Andre shook his head:

"I have no objection to the elimination of infected persons, but testing asymptomatic patients requires a lot of manpower and material resources. When an asymptomatic infection is screened out, more asymptomatic patients will emerge."

"According to our human technology, this is indeed the case." William still smiled lightly: "But for abnormal phenomena, they can be easily distinguished."

"Anomaly?" Andre was taken aback.

"Yes." At this moment, William no longer smiled, but said with a sinking face:

"For example, Elizabeth Greene, who is in our containment, can perceive every patient who has been infected with the virus. Presumably it is best for her to distinguish asymptomatic patients.

More importantly, if she can infect those'zombies' that are ravaging the Middle East, maybe she can assist the troops to eliminate them in a short time.

According to Huaxia's idiom,'fight poison with poison'.

As for the control of the spread and defense of the virus, I believe that the 049 epidemic doctor should provide us with many valuable opinions."

"William... Are you sure you want to use them?"

Andre did not object, but his tone was full of worries. After all, using anomalies to deal with anomalies is risky.

"Don't worry, these two anomalies will definitely cooperate with our actions, and they are already on the way." William believes.