Chapter 349 The Hidden Virus

Chapter 349 The Hidden Virus

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“Blood pressure and heart rate are both normal,” the nurse reported as she checked the monitors.

But Sloane’s fingers lingered on the patient’s wrist. The pulse felt steady, yet every seventh cycle there was the faintest hesitation-so subtle it might have gone unnoticed. She had only ever read of such a pulse pattern in her master’s ancient medical texts.

“Draw blood again,” Sloane ordered suddenly. “This time, separate the serum with low-temperature centrifugation.”

The attending physician frowned. “Dr. Rivers, this will be the third blood draw today. The standard tests already show nothing unusual…”

Sloane didn’t bother explaining. She picked up the needle herself and drew the sample. As the pale yellow blood filled the tube, she caught a flicker of bluish fluorescence, almost invisible, glinting under the light at a particular angle.

standard analyses once again returned normal. The other doctors shook their heads, but Sloane retrieved a set of glazed crystal vessels her master had

Rivers, the patient needs rest…” one older

twenty-four hours,” she said firmly, locking the laboratory

methods. When the first rays of dawn pierced the window, the blood sample within the vessel finally revealed its true nature. Under a precise frequency of ultrasound, countless nano-sized viral particles shimmered into view-ghostlike, mimicking normal neurotransmitters but capable of

microscope, comparing the structures against the medical database. The screen blazed red with a

to her feet, knocking


into the director’s office with the results in hand. “Activate top-level

leapt from his chair in alarm.

onto the large screen. “This virus has a dual incubation phase. The first disguises itself as memory loss. In the second, it suddenly activates and attacks cardiac cells, with a fatality rate approaching one hundred percent. Worse…” She pulled up another set

drained the color from the

other end before his

pushed forward as someone else’s pawn,” Sloane replied coldly. “If she knew the truth about this toxin, she wouldn’t still be in Stonebridge. That

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