13. Suspicious plague
"Hey", because Sula lifted the Transfiguration Technique, ****, shouted helplessly: "It's really a fight, you don't need to get something like the Vajra Banyan Tree out." ”
Once the Vajra Banyan Tree has formed a certain scale, unless it is easier to burn it all the way through with fire, any other method that wants to crack it will be extremely energy-consuming. Although Zuo Lin's qualifications are relatively shallow, because Sula will not feel that Zuo Lin has exhausted the power of nature now, and he will always be able to repair the branches of the Vajra Banyan Tree a little. If Insula were to enlarge the canopy and add a circle of outer branches when she burst into these branches, it was likely that Insula would be enclosed inside. Although Insula's ability is not afraid of such tricks, these are all physical and natural power consumption.
Insula had been thinking of using this kind of surprise attack to test Zuolin's combat effectiveness and reactions. From the very beginning, Insula never doubted Zuolin's druid identity, but he was also a little curious about what kind of disciples the legendary druid grandson would cultivate. Unexpectedly, although Zuo Lin was a little jerky and inexperienced in the battle, judging from his experience and judgment in using the surrounding materials to use spells, his foundation was quite solid. Using the leaves to transform into a long blade between the fingers, I can actually hit him a few times, which shows that the physical condition is quite good. However, Zuolin's fighting style is too defense-oriented, which is of course a common problem for all botanical druids.
After all, it's not a battle of life and death, it's just a test battle, and at this point, there is no need to fight again.
Insula took out a huge backpack from the bushes on the side, took out a set of clothes and began to put them on, while shouting at Zuo Lin in the defense of the Vajra Banyan Tree, "I am Insula. You passed the exam, don't hide inside, come out for me, there are still things to do. ”
Zuo Lin looks at it, everyone has a reservation to fight a dozen, and it is enough to understand the strength, and there is no need to force Insula to make a trick. This veteran druid's trick is generally intimidating.
Squeezed out of the trunk of the tree that wrapped him, picked up the backpack he had just thrown aside, and walked out of the range of the Vajra Banyan Tree. Insula seemed to have quite a lot of experience dealing with the naked body after the Transfiguration, and by this time she was fully dressed, and glanced at the large backpack that was still open, and it seemed that there was a change of clothes from underwear to shoes.
"Hello. Zuo Lin smiled and greeted in lingua franca. In this raid test, although Insula did not exert his full strength, he did not fall behind. I'm a little tired now, but I'm still in good spirits.
"I'm Insula, and you're stronger than I expected. Insula greeted politely.
Insula looked to be in her 40s, with brown hair and bronzed skin.
"I thought the exam would be held in the village you mentioned. Hehe," Zuo Lin said.
"No, I designated the location there so that I could find a place to test it in the field. I've been following you since I came out of Baoshan, and I went around in front of you last night. Your defenses are solid. Insula commented, "However, I have designated this place for testing on the one hand, and on the other hand, to ask for your help with a mission. ”
Zuo Lin was stunned.
"This is not the task of the Druid Council, but the task of the institution to which my social identity belongs. "I'm the commander of the CDC's anti-bioterrorism special forces. There are several villages on the edge of the Golden Triangle where something strange is happening. A research team was sent from headquarters, led by me. But the situation there is more complicated, and I can't mobilize more combat forces, so I think it's a bit troublesome. Just in time for you to take the test, I simply took you over to have a look. With you, it won't be a problem to protect those scientists. ”
"What the hell is going on?" Spreading out the mat on the ground and sitting down with Insula, Zolin couldn't wait to find out the truth of the matter. If a veteran druid like Insula finds things more troublesome, or even needs another druid to get involved, then the situation must be quite problematic.
Insula explained it to Zorin. It turned out that it was on the edge of the Golden Triangle, and several villages deep in the mountains were found dead in a few months. Due to the late discovery, the body was somewhat decomposed, and there was no experienced forensic doctor here in Myanmar, so the autopsy has been put on hold. It wasn't until about a month ago that the International Health Organization (WHO) heard about the incident in the border area when it came to Myanmar to assist in the prevention and quarantine of avian influenza and sent two doctors with forensic experience to examine the corpses that had been in the refrigerator for a long time. The doctors were shocked when the results of the examination came in, and there was clearly an abnormal, large-scale hemorrhage in the body, which was the cause of death of the villagers in several villages. There were no external injuries, no signs of other aggressions, and this strange situation was discussed and it was felt that it might be some unknown acute infectious disease.
The International Health Organization did not have the financial resources to deal with the investigation of the situation for the time being, and the Americans, who were most afraid of death, took the initiative to send CDC infectious disease experts and virology experts, plus several coroners with rich forensic experience, to Myanmar with a full set of equipment to examine all the bodies. Although it is almost certain that it is caused by an unknown virus, it is impossible to extract a tissue sample from the corpse that can be analyzed, and it is impossible to understand the composition of the virus.
Even more alarming is that on a certain corpse, traces of an air syringe were found on the forearm. Since the guy had a history of drug abuse, the syringe on his arm didn't attract everyone's attention at first. But eventually, a coroner raised the suspicion. Injecting drugs is normal for long-term addicts, but they usually use disposable syringes. Although high-pressure air syringes are becoming more widely used in the medical field, especially in the field of first aid, they do not seem to have reached the hands of drug addicts. For drug addicts, getting drugs into high-pressure air registrants is not only a complicated device, but also a delicate job, and there is no need for this.
Therefore, the research team proposed another possibility, that is, the extinction event of these villages was caused by someone taking advantage of the relative independence of these villages to experiment with an acute deadly virus. In the order in which the extinction events occurred in several villages, it is indeed possible to roughly delineate a center of infection and a week-long paradigm of infection. That's by far the most self-justifying explanation for this series of things, at least.
In this way, things escalate from infectious diseases to bioterrorism. And now, the only special forces in the world formed to deal with bioterrorism are the dozen or so people under the command of the CDC. This unit, which was established less than half a year ago, has not completed the scheduled basic training at all, and less than 20 percent of the specialized training has been carried out, but it can only go into battle head-on. In any case, as a force commander, he still has a high value for these subordinates. These special forces fighters are not very strong in combat skills, but the requirements for professional knowledge are very high, and if there are big losses, I am afraid that Sulla's plan to form a force will have to start from scratch. What's even more worrying is that those experts who accompany the team, although they also have some combat knowledge, but their level is really not good. Regardless of how defense-resistant the so-called bioterrorists are, just because they're on the edge of the Golden Triangle makes things complicated enough.
Insula's boss at the CDC knew that he was always in touch with some strange and capable friends, and this action gave Insula the green light to find someone to help. However, it is not so easy to find someone in the Druid Council to help. Those experienced guys are soaked in the deep mountains and old forests all year round, and there is no contact information such as mobile phone phone and email, even if they can be contacted, they can't let others leave what they are doing in a word, and a few guys don't even have an address to send letters, so they can only find someone to talk to them, or pray that those guys will get up early and go to the mailbox of the nearby post office to get the letter.
In the absence of a choice, Insula had no choice but to make use of the left forest, thinking that in a place like the tropical rainforest, where the vegetation is abundant and the water and soil are moist, the druids of the botanical department can fight and fight, and they should also be able to play a considerable role.
"Come with me, get to the border today, and cross the border at night and you'll be fine. Seeing that Zuo Lin did not object to help, Insula hurriedly pulled Zuo Lin up and prepared to hurry.
Zuo Lin was taken aback: "You entered the country illegally?"
"Yes, otherwise, with my identity, I will definitely be targeted as soon as I enter the country. I used to be the chief instructor of the U.S. wilderness survival training course, and now I do advanced training every year. Insula said smugly.
It's not much harder for a druid to survive in the wild than it is to breathe, and revealing a little skill is enough for anyone to learn for a long time. In particular, the druids of the animal department have strong perception ability and many means of hunting animals, which is easy for short-term survival training in the wild.
Insula asked about Zuo Lin's situation and what Zuo Lin knew about Sun Lao, and at the same time led Zuo Lin to hurry away. Because Sula's super physical strength is reflected at this time, running from morning to night, Zuo Lin has had to use the power of nature to catalyze drugs that reduce muscle soreness and fatigue into the body to alleviate the discomfort of the whole body, but Insula doesn't even seem to sweat much, and he can't see that he has also run for a day.
They crossed the border with ease, ran for another night, and finally arrived at the preparatory camp of Insula's men at Manlahim at about 8 o'clock the next morning.
After a few hours of sleep, Insula took Zolin to see what had been collected. Listening to the virologist explain the paradigm diagram of virus transmission is nothing, there are more new words, but I can understand it if I make do. However, despite his knowledge of the anatomy of the human body, when Insula took Zuolin to the coroner's room with 12 stainless steel autopsy tables containing corpses that had been cut up and corroded to varying degrees, Zuolin still wanted to vomit. He hadn't seen so many corpses. What's even more uncomfortable is that although I want to vomit very much, it is not easy to find a place to vomit while wearing a biochemical protective suit. Zuo Lin only had to force down the strange-tasting mixture that was about to rush to his throat.
"Zorin, what have you noticed?" asked Insula.
"The bleeding area is very large, although it seems that there is bleeding in the internal organs and muscle tissue, but the body has been left for a long time, and I can't see what order it is. Or, the bleeding phenomenon occurs almost simultaneously, and the target of the virus attack is the blood circulatory system. Zuo Lin thought for a moment and said.
The conclusions drawn are basically the same as those of the experts. Insula nodded and said, "According to the virus expert just now, according to half of the rules of action, if it is really a bioterrorist, the other party's laboratory will not be too far away from the place where the accident occurred. There are a total of 4 preset goals, 2 of which have been ruled out. Tomorrow we'll set out to check on the remaining two, which is estimated to take a few days. ”
For the famous Insula, those players and experts didn't dare to say anything, but Zuo Lin's eyes were full of distrust. Zuo Lin is too young.
But Zuo Lin was also very strange in his heart. Since he was a child, he was educated to love the party and the country and to defeat US imperialism and to lag behind the pace of the city. I have been away from the mountain village for a few years, and I have come into contact with a lot of things, and now I know that the United States is probably also a "strategic cooperative partnership" country, and although it is occasionally a little ugly, it is not an enemy after all. But the first time I dealt with the Americans was to conduct covert operations with their army, which was not a good experience after all. Fortunately, Zuo Lin made up his mind that he was here to help Insula, to look less, ask less, and talk less, and he didn't need these American GIs to understand and trust him.
Fortunately, it is not far from the China-Myanmar border, and the renminbi is not only passable, but also has good purchasing power. Zolin spent several hours searching for some of the commonly used herbs that Manlasim could find, bought some medicine tools, bought some wood, and returned to the camp. The American side who had quietly followed him didn't see him talking on the phone or doing anything strange, but they were curious about what he bought. What else can Zuo Lin do to prepare?
Talent is never blown out, but proved by both hands. Before dinner time, Zuo Lin made a small batch of medicines, due to the lack of some main medicines, and under the supervision of the druid's natural power, the medicine used to improve resistance and remove toxins could not be made, so he could only hurriedly get some conventional medicines used to hide his breath in the woods, avoid mosquitoes, and refresh his mind. As soon as Insula saw all these things, he confiscated them and distributed them to the whole team, explaining the purpose. Just in this way, everyone's view of Zuo Lin has changed.
Even more surprising things are to come. Although he gave Zuo Lin a weapon, but for Zuo Lin, who is still only at the beginning of Chinese, he has just mastered the computer, those things such as head-mounted night vision goggles, individual digital terminals and other things he really can't use, M1 rifle is no problem in hand, shooting is definitely not accurate, it is better to prepare some of your own weapons. So, in full view of everyone, Zuo Lin, who had dinner and was idle, used a military thorn to cut out two short bows and more than 20 arrows. Judging from Zuo Lin's skillful craftsmanship and the speed at which he made bows and arrows, this rudimentary weapon was by no means Zuo Lin's highest level.
These days, not to mention making bows and arrows, being able to shoot arrows at targets stably is something to boast about to your friends. Maybe this is still not enough for everyone to trust a young man who has just arrived, less than 20 years old, but it is enough for everyone to put away their contemptuous eyes and solemnly treat Zuo Lin as a temporary colleague.