The Luna Is Gone (Diana and Nathan) by Angelique Quinn novel Chapter 55

Chapter 55 

Diana’s pov 

When I arrived there, most of the people on site had already been evacuated, leaving only a few doctors and nurses, as well as security guards who were trying to prevent those crazy patients from running around. 

They found two huge pieces of glass to separate the front and back of the hospital corridor, forming a closed space. 

Between the two pieces of glass, a dozen crazy patients were trying to break open the glass. 

They all had their hair blown open, their eyes turned red, their nails swollen, and occasionally scratched themselves in pain. 

Unlike Avia, there wasn’t a rash on their skin, but rather… ulcerated blisters! 

Obviously, they were much more serious than Avia. 

The only fortunate thing was that the color of the blisters was deep red and had not turned black purple, indicating that their blood and saliva were not yet infectious. But… it was almost there. 

“Director, what should we do now?” The doctor following me asked in panic. 

I calmed myself down and tried to work out a solution. 

“Go find Ryley,” I said to the doctor, “Let him bring his men and things over.” “Things? What thing?” The doctor blinked blankly. 

“I don’t have time to explain. Ryley knows it. Just go!” 

If we delayed any longer, those security guards would probably not be able to hold 

1. on. 

“Okay… okay, I’ll go right away.” 

The doctor ran at once. 

“What exactly happened?” Nathan frowned beside me and asked, “Why are these people’s symptoms almost the same as Avia’s?” 

He didn’t go back to the ward, but rushed to the scene with me, even wearing a hospital uniform. 

My gaze swept over his pale face, instinctively trying to persuade him to rest to avoid worsening his injury. 

However, I didn’t say anything in the end. 

This matter concerned his sister Avia. It was impossible for him to stand aside. 

After thinking for a moment, I confessed some of the facts to Nathan. 

“I never told you that Claud’s injection of Avia was not a regular medication, but a drug called ‘Gummy Skull‘. Simply put, it is a hallucinogen.” 

Nathan’s pupils suddenly tightened. 

I continued, “This drug is used almost every two weeks. Once stopped, it can cause unbearable pain and lead to illness, just like Avia and the people in front of us.” 

“But Avia fell ill shortly after her last injection. It didn’t even take half a day for her to go crazy.” 

“It is the dosage. Claud’s last injection of Avia clearly exceeded the limit, because he wanted to create signs of Avia’s illness in the shortest possible time. Nevertheless, Avia was lucky. She only took Gummy Skull once. Although the dosage exceeded the limit, it was still controllable. So Healer’s medication was able to ensure that she wouldn’t go crazy for a month. However, these people have obviously been having the drug for a long time. The toxin in the body was too much. Even if they take Healer’s detoxification pills, they won’t be able to persist for that long.” 

Inside the glass partition, the patients were howling in pain. Their voices were heart–broken. 

I thought if there was a knife at this moment, and they were conscious, they would not hesitate to choose suicide, better than this intense pain. 

I have seen those patients who were already infected and locked up in the laboratory. 

They were all unrecognizable, with no intact skin on their entire bodies. 

Some people even bit their teeth or blinded their eyes due to unbearable suffering. 

Although the medicine I developed could alleviate their momentary pain, they could only unconsciously harm themselves most of the time. 

Sometimes I even wanted to end their lives. 

Because that scene was much more tragic than what I was seeing now. 

“Can’t it be quit?” Nathan asked. 

I shook my head and said, “This is the strength of this drug. Once it enters a body, it evolves into a virus. At first, the patient only has a rash, but gradually the rash will grow larger and become light colored blisters. Then with each onset of the disease, the color of the blisters will deepen. When they turn black purple, the patient’s blood and saliva will become infectious and harm those around them.” 

Nathan’s lips curled in a straight line. 

After a moment, he asked, “Will Avia be the same?” 

“If Healer can’t develop a specific drug, then yes,” I averted my gaze. 

Nathan couldn’t speak for a long time. 

I knew Avia was important to him, so I patted his shoulder and comforted him, “Don’t worry. Our hospital will do our best to assist Healer in quickly developing a special drug. Things will get better. After all, besides Avia, there are many people here waiting to be saved.” 

But… I didn’t tell Nathan about those people in the laboratory. 

stand in I hoped that one day they could also escape from that dark isolation zone, the sunshine again, stay away from pain and torture, and live like ordinary people. During the conversation, Ryley rushed over with some of his subordinates. 

My gaze swept over them, who were holding an anesthetic gun each in their hand. But the anesthetic guns didn’t contain any anesthetic. It was my specially designed antidote. 

I had already told Ryley about this. They were originally designed to deal with patients locked up in the laboratory. 

I walked up to the security guards who were supporting the glass partition and whispered to them about my next arrangements. 

Then, all the people holding anesthesia guns stood in a row ten feet from the glass partition.