At night, there is no electric light on in a room where only a candle with a faint light reflects the surrounding scene. Takado Fujioka made an appointment with the members of the Junior Detective Corps to tell them about his experience in the epidemic area some time ago.

"Ah, that's right," Takado Fujioka said, holding an unlit cigarette and looking at the children in front of him indifferently. "I've just returned from the village where the infected people of that germ are. Rest assured, I was not infected and came back for a few days without the slightest sign. ”

"When I first arrived there, I didn't actually know that there was such a terrible thing there, but I just heard that there was an abnormal situation there when I was investigating in the neighborhood - there was a factory nearby, so I thought I could interview the factory that illegally discharged dangerous substances and caused the villagers over there to get sick or something."

"But when I went there, I realized that the factory's drainage pipe was downstream of the villagers' water area, and further down was the ocean, which seemed to be draining clean water. I was disappointed and ready to leave, but I stumbled upon something strange, and that was contagious. ”

"When I first went there, only the elderly were coughing in the shop, but when I looked into the drain and was about to buy some bread in the store for the way back, I found that the family had started coughing, and the old man and their children even had red rashes on their faces."

"I still didn't know it was a dangerous bacterium, but I knew there had to be something wrong with it." A small flame suddenly appeared at the end of the cigarette in Takado Fujioka's mouth - this is the tail light of an electronic cigarette, which is used to simulate the fire, but in fact, what comes out of the end is not real smoke, but water vapor. "So I was like a boss at the news agency who reported it and explained that there was something wrong with their body."

"My boss advised me to ask the village doctor to see the illness first, so I went to the doctor. The doctor told me to put on a mask and go with him to see what was going on. ”

"When the doctor first arrived, he decided that it was some kind of allergic reaction, so he started investigating whether there were any allergens or something."

"But then, the doctor and I saw that one of the customers who came to buy something was also coughing and had a rash on his body – we realized there was something wrong."

"The doctor took me straight back to the clinic and then told me to stay in a clinic where no one was around, after which he called the epidemic prevention center."

"I'll admit, I was quite nervous because I didn't know what was causing these symptoms, but I couldn't have imagined that the next period of time would be the most stressful moment."

"Think of how desperate it is to be healthy and healthy and other at-risk patients to be put in isolation gowns and masks, put in ambulances, put in hospital quarantine and then told that 'you may be infected with the same thing as them.'" When he said this, the expression on Takado Fujioka's face was quite palpitating.

"Why did you lock you up too?" Yuan Tai said dissatisfied. "Wouldn't it be enough to lock up those patients?"

"They didn't know what was going on with those people at the time," Takado Fujioka shook his head with a smile. "They were worried that it was a disease with a long incubation period, so they kept me for a check-up. Although they are cruel, they are doing the right thing, and only in this way are doctors who are responsible to the people. ”

"They were never able to find the cause – at first they suspected a parasitic disease caused by a contaminated water source, so they gave a lung X-ray scan of a volunteer lung and examined his sputum as well. They didn't even find a clue in the patient and did a lung biopsy on another volunteer to look for further useful information. They still didn't find the answer, but soon they didn't need to look for it. ”

"Why?" Mitsuhiko asked. "Could it be that someone has found out what's going on?"

"It's almost, but it's much more cruel," said Takado Fujioka, who revealed the answer with a look of calm calm on his face. "Because the first patient is dead, the little child of the shop."

"The doctor performed an autopsy on the child's body and found that although the blood test did not show anything unusual, although he passed the initial blood test, he found a large increase in neutrophils in the last stage of his life - which means that it is a very strange bacterial infection."

"They ended up finding bacteria in the blood that they hadn't seen before — something that other patients who weren't at an advanced stage of illness didn't find. After Gram staining, they concluded that it was a gram-positive bacterium and immediately gave the patient cefazolin for symptomatic treatment. ”

"What is cefazolin?" At this time, Mitsuhiko asked in a low voice to Chiha, who was sitting next to him. "Is it an antibiotic?"

"You write down the words you don't understand first, and then talk about them slowly." Qian Yu shook his head and said. "Listen to him first."

"Although cefazolin was given for treatment, it is strange that the effect is not ideal." Takado Fujioka continued. "One or two days after the outbreak of the pandemic, a large number of patients suddenly developed symptoms of bacterial overgrowth and died quickly when the bacteria had not been detected in the last blood test not long ago."

"The doctors were very surprised, and after discussion, they judged that it was most likely because cefazolin was not effective against all gram-positive bacteria, so they prepared the last resort for those who could do so—vancomycin. It is a super drug that has a very good effect on gram-positive bacteria, and it is also the most powerful antibiotic in this area today. ”

"However, even this drug has not been able to completely prevent the sudden outbreak of bacteria, although most of the patients' conditions have been controlled to a certain extent, and about a quarter of the patients have really been completely eliminated from the bacteria, but three-quarters of the patients who have not been completely eliminated have all died within 9 days, and many of those patients who have been completely eliminated have developed nephrotoxic symptoms caused by high-dose administration due to too critical conditions, and are still being treated."

"So, even though we have mastered the land, we can even cruise the sky and the sea...... "Takado Fujioka turned off the e-cigarette and sighed." But we're still so fragile sometimes...... Still so powerless......"