novelraw Chapter 79
Chapter 79
Gotham City
The staff of the Wayne Laboratory, wearing white isolation gowns and full-scale respirators on their faces, carefully took over the sample storage box.
It has been 4 days since the accident at the Gotham Royal Hotel. The gcPD declared that it was a leak of dangerous chemicals, so the Royal Hotel was blocked and 2 blocks nearby were emptied.
All investigations into the Royal Hotel were carried out in an extremely secretive manner.All the staff of Wayne Lab confiscated all communication equipment and signed a non-disclosure agreement. They just saw the video shot by the investigator at the Royal Hotel.
Cosmo is a newcomer who has just been in the lab for less than a year, and he is not qualified to touch the samples, so he just stood by and waited for the task assigned by the instructor.Dr. Jeffrey is not only his superior but also his mentor, and he introduced Cosmo to Wayne Lab.
He was inexplicably nervous, and because of his shortness of breath, a thin white gas appeared in the goggles.He couldn't help but smile wryly in his heart, he never thought that a 30-year-old would still be nervous about an experimental sample.
Cosmo’s mind flashed through the video of the Royal Hotel that he had seen before. White and brown tumor-shaped mushrooms were all over the floor and walls, and the hyphae were stretched through the top.The white, slender, cotton-wool-like hyphae are combined with each other, floating in the air densely.It doesn't look like the scene you can see in a modern building, it's more like a certain exotic space.
Mushrooms are only taken for the sake of shouting. After all, mushrooms are characterized by a canopy full of gills.However, the tops of the mushrooms in the Royal Hotel are all nodular and tumor-like, and there are no gills, but smooth, with bulging sacs in between, like a pustules about to spray.
"what!"
The short shout of the researcher standing opposite him drew Cosmo's attention back. It turned out that the mushroom suddenly exploded during the detection process, and a thin brown liquid was sprayed out. Dr. Jeffrey and several other doctors' gloves Contamination with many liquids is inevitable.
This is also a very normal situation in the experiment. The researcher must be too nervous, so he couldn't help crying out. Although he couldn't see his face wearing a respirator, the researcher also realized how unprofessional he was just now, and hung down in shame. head.
Dr. Jeffrey's attention was focused on the specimen in his hand, he muttered to himself: "What stimulated you?"
He turned his back to Cosmo and waved, and Cosmo immediately went up to him, obediently standing aside and waiting for the instructor to give an order.
Dr. Jeffrey is still talking to himself, but his voice is getting lower and lower, slurred, and it is even more difficult to hear clearly through two layers of protective clothing. Cosmo tried to get closer, and heard some strange voices from the doctor's throat .
It wasn't until the tool in Dr. Jeffrey's hand fell to the ground feebly, tearing his protective clothing desperately, that no one realized what had happened.
No, not only Dr. Geoffrey, but the other 3 Drs.
The protective clothing was difficult to tear off for a while, and it took the four of them a long time to pull off the goggles. Cosmo was stunned when he saw that they were about to take off the protective clothing, and immediately stepped forward to try to stop the instructor's dangerous movements.
"Uh, ah—"
The cries of pain stopped abruptly, and the four researchers fell to the ground.
"Evacuate all! Wait in the isolation room!" Someone shouted, and everyone retreated as if they had just woken up from a dream.
Four scientific researchers including Dr. Jeffrey had an accident, which means...the third-level protective clothing lost its effect.They were wearing special airtight protective suits connected to the oxygen cylinders behind them. This was already an extremely strict protective measure. They didn't even contaminate the air at all, but they were still hit.
They will be kept in an isolation room for observation for a period of time, waiting for other colleagues to find out the cause of the accident.
Cosmo truthfully wrote the report, especially emphasizing that the liquid in the "mushrooms" was most likely the cause of their contamination.
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Cosmo's report and the accident monitoring are currently being projected on the screen in the Batcave.
Tim still can't go out with Bruce on missions, but Bruce acquiesces that he can look up information in the Batcave and do some non-dangerous auxiliary work.
It was late at night, and the busy Batman was dealing with the mess after the clown riot in the night sky of Gotham.
Major events have occurred frequently recently, such as the threat of nuclear bombs, the accident at the Royal Hotel, and the strange disease that is prevalent in New York.It seems that the disasters in the past ten years have happened at one node at once.
He shook his head with a wry smile, but even though he was so busy, Batman still didn't let him follow the mission.After a while, he calmed down his complicated thoughts and focused on the accident in Wayne's laboratory.
The tenants and staff of the entire building of the Royal Hotel disappeared and were replaced by a variety of weird tumor-shaped mushrooms.It stands to reason that this is a major case involving a wide range of aspects, but no one has noticed anything unusual. They know that this matter is still based on the information that the red hood sent to the Batcave.
It's so weird, can this thing really be done by humans?
If what happened at the Royal Hotel was so mysterious, how did the Red Hood know about it?All the monitoring and computer equipment in the hotel have failed. Fortunately, this is a hotel with a very long history, so they have passed down a traditional rule, which has not been changed.
It is the Internet age now, and everyone relies on computers to back up all the information, but after entering the check-in information of the guests of the Royal Hotel into the computer, they will also record it in the notebook.
The A4-sized record book was lying quietly in a counter drawer and was discovered by investigators.So Tim noticed something odd in that week's guest check-in list.
One person's identity information is false.
The name of the man in the record book was Wyatt, no surname.Tim's age, phone number and other information were not found.He checked in at 23:45 the night before the accident.False identities are not uncommon in Gotham, but Tim has a hunch that there is something wrong with this person.However, there is no surveillance video, and he doesn't even know what the other person looks like. Just relying on a name without a surname, in Gotham, a city with a population of 1 million, is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.
So he had to temporarily abandon this clue.
There was one other name on the record book that Tim cared about—Ed.Also no last name.
No trace of anyone was found in the Royal Hotel, which means that Ede is also missing.Of course, there is another possibility that Ede did not return to the hotel after the clown incident, but Tim checked the surveillance on the main road near the hotel, which showed that Ede entered the hotel with a black-haired man.
After zooming in on the monitor, he silently discovered that the man was Jason Todd who was supposed to die.And the Red Hood is so familiar with sending information to the Batcave, it seems that the identity of the Red Hood is self-evident.
Since the Red Hood can transmit the information alive and kicking, there is no problem with Ede's life safety.Tim really wanted to contact them for details, but he couldn't contact them all the time. The two of them seemed to disappear.
Considering that Jason was once Batman's apprentice, this is not surprising.
The investigators entered the Royal Hotel, but nothing unexpected happened, and the specimens were successfully transported back to Wayne's laboratory. Other researchers who did not touch the liquid inside the mushrooms did not find anything unusual, and they all seemed to be explaining that as long as the mushrooms Explosion, they are very low risk.
Tim pointed his finger at his chin. The key now is to find out who is behind the accident. They have such a great ability to turn a building into a mushroom farm without saying a word. What should they do if they target this city next time? how?
The liquid inside the mushrooms was tested by robots in Wayne's lab, but nothing was found. Their ingredients did not match anything known to humans!And those mushrooms... They grow so fast, much like typical spore reproduction, but no spores were detected, nor were any known ingredients detected, all were question marks.
Tim knew that many Wayne Lab workers called the mushrooms a product of the devil, a disaster from outer space.
They are not to be blamed either. During the autopsy of the four deceased, it was found that their flesh and blood vessels were covered with densely packed small mushrooms, which would break out of the "soil" in a few days and grow vigorously using their corpses as petri dishes. .
The direct cause of their death was suffocation, because their throats were all filled with dense mycelium...
Those autopsy photos are enough to make grown men spit out, full of weirdness and mystery.