By noon, the condition of the sick had started changing.
Slowly, coughs could be heard constantly, rising and falling intermittently. Moreover, as symptoms worsened, rapid breathing and even spitting blood occurred.
It was no longer merely a simple cold.
Everyone on the ship wore masks, maintaining a certain distance from even their closest peers, taking bodily precautions and displaying visible wariness in their eyes.
The atmosphere became very heavy.
The captain quickly arranged for the rooms closest to the medical room to be used as wards and isolation rooms, but it was to little avail.
The disease worsened rapidly, leaving no time for the medical staff in the medical room to prepare their response. And with the disease's fierce onset, it caused great alarm.
The captain, valuing the lives of everyone aboard, had already reported the situation by this afternoon.
