Chapter 20: Sure enough, it was him
The storm outside the temple was still raging, like a ghost crying wolf, but inside the temple was unusually quiet, and the sound of a needle falling could be heard. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Zhao Qiang and the others still haven't arrived at the temple for a long time, and I don't know if they have seen the words that Uncle Li left on the table?
At this time, Uncle Li suddenly turned his head and asked the middle-aged man, "How long have you been in this ancient city?"
The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, and then said a little confused: "I don't remember clearly, it should have been a few days." ā
Uncle Li asked again: "Then do you know what day it is, and who is the current president?"
The middle-aged man still didn't answer him immediately, but took out a notebook from the satchel he was carrying, rummaged through it, and then pushed the black-rimmed glasses on his face and said, "I got lost on the way to find water, and it was June 17th." I've only been here for a few days at most, and now I think it's only in my twenties. As for who the president is, I can't say who he is, I don't have the right to say who is the president and who is not. ā
I was a little baffled by the middle-aged man's words, but when I saw that Uncle Li seemed to understand, I asked him, "Are you Dean Huang?"
The middle-aged man's expression was even more surprised, and he looked at Uncle Li without saying a word for a long time. Uncle Li should have seen his expression nine times out of ten, so he said to him, "Actually, our group came here to search for clues about your disappearance." ā
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Dean Huang suddenly snorted coldly: "You came to me? Not necessarily, did you people come to me? Or did you come to find the virus sample?"
I was stunned when I heard this, and I hurriedly turned my head and asked Uncle Li with my eyes, what kind of virus sample? But looking at his reaction, he shouldn't know anything more than me, and he was also stunned.
Seeing the hostility on Dean Huang's face, Uncle Li had no choice but to have a showdown with him: "Dean Huang, I can tell you sincerely, we don't know what the virus sample in your mouth is, and the current time is not 1980, but 2010. We were hired to search for your body in the place where you were lost, but we didn't expect you to be standing in front of us so alive, and your appearance didn't seem to change much......"
"Impossible!" Dean Huang suddenly interrupted Uncle Li's words, "What 2010? I shouldn't have been trapped here for more than a week, you must have been sent by a spy organization from overseas, right? Don't you want to take the virus sample from me!"
Seeing that there was no point in arguing like this, I took out the pocket watch on my body.
"It's your thing, isn't it?"
I knew in my heart that there was his remnant soul on it, and he must be dead, but I don't know what caused him to be imprisoned in this strange ancient city.
Dean Huang saw the pocket watch in my hand and snatched it, then put it in his hand and stroked it gently, and said to himself, "Why is this thing here for you?
The three of us were dumbfounded for a while, watching the tears in Dean Huang's eyes slowly slide down, I could see that he should have thought of something important, otherwise he wouldn't be so emotional.
Just when the three of us were at a loss for what to do in the face of the tearful Dean Huang, the gate of the temple was suddenly blown open by a gust of wind, and several figures covered in dirt walked in. I knew it was Zhao Qiang and the others at a glance, but when they approached, I found out...... Something is wrong!
I saw Luo Hai and Ye Zhiqiu helping Liu Ziping and Zhao Qiang to walk towards us with difficulty respectively, Ding Yi and I hurriedly stepped forward to check, and found that Zhao Qiang and Liu Ziping, who were fine when they broke up just now, were full of red envelopes at this time, and their skin had begun to fester.
"What's going on?" Uncle Li asked in surprise.
Ye Zhiqiu, who was pale, said with a panicked face: "I don't know what's wrong with them, they were fine when they were separated from you, but when we returned to the adobe house, the wind began to rise outside." When we saw a few words on the table, we were just about to come to you, but Brother Zhao and Brother Liu suddenly felt very itchy on their bodies, and desperately scratched their faces with their hands! The symptoms on their bodies came so quickly that I didn't know what caused them, so I could only help them to come to you first. ā
At this time, I remembered that when we were both in the adobe house, I noticed that Zhao Qiang had a similar red envelope on his hand, and I mistakenly thought that he was bitten by mosquitoes, but now it seems that things are not so simple.
Dean Huang, who was still immersed in his memories just now, immediately shouted in horror when he saw the illness on the two of them, "They ...... They are infected with the YN-12 virus, you should hurry up and stay away from them, the transmission route of this virus is not clear! I don't know if it will be transmitted from person to person!"
When Ye Zhiqiu and Luo Hai heard this, they also looked at Uncle Li with ugly faces, but Uncle Li didn't know what was going on with the YN-12 virus, but for the sake of safety, he still asked Luo Hai and the two of them to help Zhao Qiang and Liu Ziping to a corner of the temple hall, and let them sit there for a while to rest.
Liu Ziping is a little better, his consciousness is still quite clear, but Zhao Qiang has begun to appear in a semi-comatose state. After Ye Zhiqiu settled them, he immediately ran over and asked Dean Huang, "What is the YN-12 virus you are talking about? Why have I never heard of it? Is it deadly? Will it kill people?"
Dean Huang's face was so ugly that he pulled us to sit down relatively far away from Zhao Qiang and Liu Ziping, and then told us the real purpose of his scientific expedition to Xinjiang......
It turned out that Dean Huang was completing a scientific research project in Urumqi, and when the project was nearing the end, he suddenly received instructions from his superiors to come here with several biological and pathology experts to investigate a large-scale infection incident in the local area.
After they arrived at the epidemic area, they found that the first to be infected were several soldiers, their first symptom was a rash all over their bodies, the situation was very similar to the bite of some mosquito, but as the infection aggravated, there would be different degrees of skin ulceration, and finally because the cause could not be found, these soldiers died of wound infection a week later.
At first, the military doctors of the army only thought that these were just a few isolated cases, but the subsequent development of the epidemic was far more serious than imagined! Not only in the troops, but even ordinary people in some places began to be infected one after another, and this attracted the attention of the leaders of the troops.
Because this area is the experimental area after the explosion of China's first atomic bomb, it is difficult to say whether there will be any mutated viruses caused by nuclear radiation. After the incident was reported, the Party Central Committee instructed Dean Huang and several of them to form an expert group to go deep into the hinterland of the desert to investigate the incident, find the source of infection, and completely control the epidemic......