After the sixth rule began, crowds started pouring out of the various Gathering Points.
The official evacuation hadn't even started, yet many people were already looking for their own way out.
If the virus only spread through the air, people might still have gathered in shelters. But since it could also be transmitted through blood, congregating in one place was far more dangerous.
Especially since the Infected would die from a violent hemorrhage within 24 hours. If you were unlucky enough to get splattered by someone else's blood and become infected yourself, it would be a truly undeserved disaster.
Even if you didn't come into contact with an Infected's blood, would their hemorrhaging death create more of the virus? This was another major concern.
Therefore, people decided to seek shelter separately, and many planned to leave the city altogether.
