Chapter 15: Deep Mountains
Alex did not go back to the old house of the Nan family, but in the apartment of Longteng Villa, he first used the computer to locate the location of the yellow light point on the map, Songlintun in the northeast mountainous area, and Yage Village in the southwest border.
After sending the location message to Nan Zhiqiao, Alex took the pass card to Tinder One Base to look for clues related to Bavar.
After receiving the information, Nan Zhiqiao first notified the local CDC to send people to Songlintun and Yage Village to check the situation, and then acted separately with Zhen Zhen.
Zhen Zhen took the disease control emergency helicopter and flew to the nearest Songlintun in Northeast China.
Nan Zhiqiao went to the village of Yager, deep in the mountains in the southwest.
Songlintun, located in the depths of a mountain range in Northeast China, is surrounded by coniferous forests that have grown for hundreds of thousands of years, and has a typical subarctic coniferous forest climate.
Judging from official information, Songlintun is a small tunzi with 22 families and 84 people, and there is only one mountain road leading to the outside world, and the villagers rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and are self-sufficient.
By the time Zhen Zhen's helicopter arrived at Songlintun in Northeast China, people from the local CDC had already arrived at the scene.
There was silence in the pine forest tun, there was no sound, only a few domestic animals occasionally roamed around the mouth of the tunzi.
The emergency response team from the local Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Zhen Zhen wore protective clothing and entered the tunzi, walked through the dirt path in the tunzi, and entered the nearest home to the tunzikou.
Wooden fences, wooden huts, the doors are open, and when you enter the huts, flies fly around, and it's a mess.
Entering the inner room, everyone was taken aback, only to see the corpses of a family of three lying on the bed, covered in blood, black and purple, and very miserable death.
Zhen Zhen wore protective clothing and examined the corpse, there was still a dark black viscous liquid flowing out of the corpse's mouth, nose, eyes, and ear canal, and the skin on the surface of the corpse had large areas of ulcers and decay, and other skin that was not decomposed still retained a trace of body temperature, and it seemed that he had not died for a long time.
After collecting the samples of the deceased, the emergency team went to other homes in the tunzi.
The same situation was found in every household, and all 22 families and 84 people died, with similar circumstances and similar times.
Looking at the supplies in the house, the cooked food has not yet decomposed, but the corpses are severely decomposed, indicating that the villagers' bodies have begun to decompose before they die, which should be a symptom of the new virus.
The entire Songlintun was filled with the horror of death, and the emergency response team of the local disease control team endured the fear in their hearts and began to dispose of the corpse.
Zhen Zhen is looking for the source of the virus in the tunzi, the path outside the house, the path in the tunzi, the grass around the path, and the pile of wood in the grass......
I searched every corner of the tun and found nothing.
New viruses never appear out of thin air, they must have a way to spread and a source.
Zhen Zhen looked up at the sky, the sun was shining, and the mountain wind was blowing, with the smell of pine resin.
Wind and airborne transmission!
Zhen Zhen thought of the second generation of pathogens that could be transmitted through the air, could this Songlintun be the experimental site of the second generation of pathogens?
Yes, definitely!
Zhen Zhen was sure to speculate in her heart, and went to the pine forest at the wind outlet of Tunzi against the direction of the wind.
On a large pine tree at the edge of the pine forest, Vera finds a small yellow jar with a black fire snake mark on the jar and an atomization device at the mouth of the jar.
That's where the virus comes from.
Zhen Zhen speculated about the whole thing: the fire snake organization researched a new virus, and chose the remote and relatively isolated Songlintun as the experimental object, and turned the new virus into an aerosol state through the nebulization device at the upwind outlet of the tunzi, and the aerosol containing the new virus entered Songlintun with the wind, and the villagers of Songlintun breathed into the air containing the virus and died quickly.
Zhen Zhen carefully climbed the tree, picked up the small yellow jar, which was already empty, sealed the yellow jar on the pine tree with a sampling bag, put it into a sampling box, and prepared to take it back to the laboratory of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention for further study.
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Southwest Yager Village.
When Nan Zhiqiao arrived at Yage Village in the southwest, people from the local CDC also arrived at the scene.
Yager Village is located in the depths of a canyon forest in the southwest, where it is a complete vertical natural zone distribution in a typical canyon area, with towering snow-capped mountains, alpine shrub meadow belt below the alpine snow line, and then alpine and subalpine evergreen coniferous forest belt, mountain evergreen and semi-evergreen broad-leaved forest belt, evergreen broad-leaved forest belt, and then down into the monsoon rain forest belt of low mountain river valleys.
The village of Jager is located in the monsoon rainwater forest belt of the river valley.
Alex sent more detailed information about the climate of Yager Village, where the monsoon rainforest is different from the tropical rainforest near the equator, Yager Village is a rainforest ecosystem with obvious seasonal changes formed under the tropical oceanic monsoon conditions, and it is the rainy season, which is very different from the climate of the Northeast Songlintun.
When a group of disease control personnel wearing white protective clothing walked into the village of Yage in the jungle of the river valley, the villagers who were working normally were stunned and curiously came up to see the excitement.
The villagers of Yage village showed no signs of illness, and the disease control personnel did not dare to be careless, so they prepared to search the surrounding area of the village and give the villagers a physical examination.
Just as all the villagers were gathering one after another, Nan Zhiqiao received a picture from Zhen Zhen.
Among the many pictures, there are the natural environment around Songlintun, the various symptoms of the dead villagers in Songlintun, the yellow jar marked by the fire snake, and the atomization device......
Nan Zhiqiao analyzed the current situation, although the villagers of Yage Village have not yet shown symptoms, maybe a new virus is lurking around the village, or maybe the new virus has spread in the air.
The wind blows from the south of the village of Yager, carrying with it the moisture of the valley wetlands.
Nan Zhiqiao divided the emergency response team sent by the local CDC into two teams, one team stayed in Yager Village to check on the villagers, and the other team followed Nan Zhiqiao into the forest south of the village.
To the south of the village of Yager is a large area of low mountain tropical monsoon forest, which is densely wooded.
Nan Zhiqiao led the emergency team to inspect the forest, looking for the yellow jar with the fire snake mark in the picture sent by Zhen Zhen, as well as suspicious people.
The roads in the rainforest are difficult to navigate, and Nan Zhiqiao's entire team is wearing a full set of biosafety protective equipment, which makes it even more inconvenient to move, so the search is slow.
Suddenly, someone in the emergency team shouted: "Director Nan, look, there are footprints here." ”
Following the shouting, Nan Zhiqiao found the footprints, which were embedded in the damp and soft mud, and they were very clear.
Judging by the size and number of footprints, two men had just passed by this place not long ago.
Walking along the footprints, the footprints stayed under a tall tree for a while, the footprints under the tree were messy, it should be that the two of them had sorted something here, and after that, the footprints continued to move forward, extending and disappearing into the depths of the rainforest.
The rest of the emergency team continued to follow the footprints forward, but Nan Zhiqiao stopped, looked up, and saw that on the branches of the tall trees, a small yellow jar was hidden among the branches and leaves, and the top of the small jar had white mist constantly coming out, and the breeze blew, and the white mist drifted out of the rainforest with the mist and drifted in the direction of Yager Village at the downwind outlet.
"A new virus has been found!"