Survival

OTSO

Otso

Euro

Is the new member? Of course he would be, with his brain that works like hundreds of motherboards being packed into his brain. No wonder he is here. 

He just looked at me and wave. Now, I'll be working or teaming up with legendary mind.

"Mr. Valdez, your office will be the same unit with Ms. Solijon. Please let him show the way miss," said by the secretary that immediately shift her focus from us to her paperwork. We will be living robots for the mean time.

I motioned him to follow me and he obliged. 

"I've heard you successfully create a patent for the virus to be eliminated," he broke the comfortable silence.

"Yeah, but I still cannot guarantee it will be effective yet since every person have different body chemical composition or the dosage they need," I said with a matter of fact. Well some humans have high immune system while other don't. It also trigger that some patient have medical history to some illnesses and most of all, the allergies of the medicine. This is a risky path.

"For the short period of time that you have been here and come up such patent, we will improve that and save humanity from this virus. The active cases is at alarming rate and it is spreading worldwide," he commented. Well, it is indeed an alarming rate right now. I saw our laboratory slash office at the far end. 

"The laboratory is nearby so you can see the closer look of this enemy," I said while my ears caught some whispers. 

"Isn't that the new staff? Was it from the Land of the Orient Pearl?,"

"Yeah, he is. I heard great information about him plus he is a handsome guy,"

Okay, why is it that every female in this planet are looking for handsome men?

"It would be great if we can gather another sample from the patients with different strains so we can study its nature," he stated and now he's in the deeper state of thinking. 

"Yeah, and welcome to Hell, Euro," I jokingly said to him and open the laboratory. I saw Mandy and Archie doing some research with the virus.

"Cinth! The virus forms a new strain. And this strain is stronger from the original. The original attacks the pulmonary system but now it attacks the heart and the gastrointestinal-,"

"BAD NEWS! The virus attack the nervous system!," we are now in deep chaos. Why is this virus is so formidable?

"Record the vitals of the patients with those conditions. Also give us the laboratory results and its CT scans so we can find a solution," Euro commanded. Well this is crucial. 

I go the table where I put the patent, the sample and some chemicals. I safely transfer the virus sample to the dish and isolate it. I get another tubes to fill the patent and chemicals to combine. 

"I suggest you add some protein from the plasma and add some Aluminum salts," Euro suggests and I take his suggestions. After mixing with the machine that have a centrifugal contraption, the new patent is ready to test the virus sample.

Euro ready the dish that contains the virus and I extract the patent using the syringe. I carefully drop the new patent directly to the virus and boy, the patent destroys the virus more quickly done the previous one. 

"YEAH BOY! It destroys the shameless virus!," Archie loudly stated while Mandy suggests to try the patent with the different strains of the virus and she ready the sample dish containing it and boy, it has the same effects. It eliminates the virus.

" We may formulate the patent but we don't know when this vaccine will last and this is a problem and at the same time a challenge," Mandy stated and we all agree to this. 

"CODE BLUE ICU! CODE BLUE ICU!"

The four of us look at each other at sprint to the said ICU. Code blue means another critical condition. Once we arrived there, more and more patients have been admitted and small privacy they have. The hospitals that the government promised will be done by next week, fully furnished with medical supplies even electrical wiring and the water-filter system. 

The patient that has been in critical condition was a young lady, aged 19 years old infected with the virus and now it affected her nervous system but it also affected her heart, her heart rate is falling. The nurses inject her some potassium to keep her heart beating to normal pace. The neurology department arrived and even the thoracic department arrived. Chief doctors of both departments instructed the nurses to do some kind of diagnosis and give the patient a treatment by injecting it through her dextrose hose. 

I recognize the thoracic chief doctor, Dr. Hans.