VIRUS

Virus

Kang Zhou was finishing his shift at the hospital and was on his way out when something stopped him. He decided to check on a new patient that was admitted today, and his hospital room happened to be near the exit. When he was about to enter he heard someone talking and he immediately stopped. For some reason he stayed put and heard the man saying something about the patient, it seemed like he was on the phone. Kang found it really suspicious because he was talking about weird symptoms the patient was presenting and muttering constantly about keeping it a secret but he decided to leave before he got caught. 

The next day he tried to go check on the patient again but he found the room empty, so he decided to ask about it but nobody would give him an answer and that only made Kang feel more worried because it was just not making sense. He couldn’t stop thinking about it so he decided to pay more attention to his coworkers and specially his boss. Until one day he overheard a conversation his boss was having on the phone about a case similar to the patient who vanished and at that the red flags in his head showed up brighter than ever. Why would his boss hide something regarding a patient? Why was he being so secretive about it? It wasn’t looking right but he continued to silently be attentive.

A week later the hospital was fuller than normal, like people decided to get sick at the same time. Kang caught onto what was happening because he paid attention to every single detail and he concluded that a virus, that was highly infectious, was spreading really fast and the government was just hiding this information from not only the country but the rest of the world and that made him feel scared of the full truth. Days passed and the situation was getting worse and people were starting to ask questions so he decided he had enough and tried to gather a lot of information, because it was time the world knew. 

He prepared the camera and then pressed play. In the end he got a 20 minute video explaining everything he knew as best as he could and the only thing left to do was click “upload”, so that’s what he did and there was no turning back. When he went to work the next day, his boss immediately called him to his office and even though he was scared he tried to hide it on his way to the third floor. His boss was strangely calm and just asked him why did he uploaded that video but at some point while he was explaining he felt a needle on his neck and he blacked out. When he woke up, he was cuffed to a hospital bed and he could tell the door was locked, and after a few days he got sick. Something clicked. He had the virus, well more like they infected him but now he was in danger and nobody knew because they had him locked in a room. And he eventually died, even when he tried really hard to escape. Not knowing what the virus and these people had in store for the future.

The End.