Chapter 112: The Plague
Tongcheng is now cut off from communications, the network has been cut off, there is still a song and dance on TV, the news of Tongcheng being blocked is only spread in Tongcheng County, and the news has not yet reached the township. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoThe residents of the township are still immersed in the joy of the New Year's Festival, and there are lion dancers, singers, and jugglers in the town, which is very lively. By the third day of junior high school, almost all the shops in the town were open.
Therefore, when passing by these places, Zheng Yunyao stopped and went with Dongsheng to buy some medicine and food, ready for anything.
Zhang Lixin stayed outside and waited, he noticed that many people in the town seemed to be suffering from colds, as far as the eye could see, you could see people coughing, wiping their noses, and there were many people outside the town's clinic, but the clinic was not open. Outside the clinic, some of them still had the strength to shout for the doctor to open the door, some went to the pharmacy to buy medicine, and some were really sick and were either carried by their families, or they went to the waiting point in the town to take a passenger bus, intending to go to the city to have a good look.
It is conceivable that when these people arrive in the city, see the chaos in the city, hear the news that Tongcheng is blocked, and come back, I am afraid that this short-lived bustle in the town will no longer exist.
Soon, Dongsheng and Zheng Yunyao came back with large bags and small bags, filling the space in the SUV.
Ah Huang saw that the winter cub still had a little conscience, and bought a lot of his favorite spicy dried fish, so he decided not to worry about the winter cub for the time being. Fat Meow sat on Dongsheng's lap again, used his mouth and paws together, skillfully tore open the package of small dried fish, and rolled his tongue out, and rolled out a small fish full of flavor from the small packaging bag. After a while, a layer of plastic bags of small dried fish was piled up next to Dongsheng's feet.
"Winter cub, winter cub, I want to drink meow! It's spicy! Ah Huang hissed and inhaled the cold air, urging Dongsheng.
Dongsheng unscrewed the cap of the mineral water bottle, Ah Huang hugged his wrist, drank most of the bottle, and his chubby belly bulged a little. Eating and drinking, the fat meow lay on Dongsheng's legs, and after a while, he made a heartless snoring sound.
The village road is very narrow, Zheng Yunyao carefully avoided the oncoming cars, and said to Dongsheng: "Winter cub, I'm also a little thirsty, help me get a bottle of water." ”
Dongsheng didn't speak, took a bottle of mineral water and unscrewed it and handed it to Zheng Yunyao, obviously it was water without any taste, Zheng Yunyao felt sour when he drank it - people are not as good as cats, and finally the fat meow brand light bulb fell asleep, and there was a bigger and brighter light bulb in the car!
Zhang Lixin was worried about the speculation in his heart, and he didn't have any consciousness of being a light bulb, "It's not enough for us to buy these food and medicines now, it's better to buy more gasoline, if the situation worsens, gasoline can be used as a substitute or a weapon." ”
Zhang Lixin had a feeling that his intuition was not so simple this time. Judging from the current reaction of the state apparatus, most of his speculations are valid, but the measures taken by the state apparatus are blocked but not slackened. The army was dispatched to blockade Tongcheng, but the truth was kept secret, and no epidemic prevention arrangements were even made for the people of Tongcheng.
It is not that the country has not experienced the baptism of large-scale infectious diseases, but this time the reaction of the state apparatus is different from every previous time, and it is also different from the established procedures.
All this can only show that the virus that appeared in Tongcheng is very likely to be completely different from the previous viruses.
If the first sign of this virus infection was the flu, they just came all the way, and at least five or six percent of people were infected. Generally speaking, antibodies are the most effective means of dealing with viruses, but now even the existence of the virus is kept secret, so it can be inferred that antibodies have not yet appeared. In other words, the current lethality rate of the virus is very likely to be as high as 100 percent.
Zhang Lixin's knowledge is very limited, and the information he deduces is also very limited.
In fact, the situation was even worse than he had speculated.
The virus that appeared in Tongcheng this time is a very rare mutant virus. The unmutated version of this virus was cultivated by virologists in country R as a biological and chemical weapon during wartime. Unfortunately, the virus did not have time to be released on the battlefield, and the country of R was defeated and retreated to their small island.
Records of this virus only exist in some top-secret documents, and there are no samples of this virus in China. However, according to the documents, with today's technology, it is not difficult to defeat this virus. The difficulty is that the L virus (tentatively named after the first deceased) that appeared in Tongcheng this time is an upgraded version of this virus mutation.
The virus has a fatality rate of 100 percent, and it is airborne, and the initial symptoms of infected people are very similar to those of influenza, and the whole process from infection to death is about 10 to 20 days. After death, the body decays rapidly, and the L virus multiplies five to ten times faster than before the death of an infected person.
And the most frightening thing is that the L virus continues to mutate.
The first deceased in Tongcheng People's Hospital, Li Kangwei, had mutated twice in just 24 hours after the L virus extracted from his body. The mutated L virus has a higher infection rate, and it can be transmitted through water sources, and the death time of infected people is also shortened.
The experts were helpless against the L virus, not to mention antibodies now, just a few hours after the expert group arrived in Tongcheng, an expert and his assistant had already been infected with the L virus.
Once the relevant news is exposed, not only Tongcheng will get out of control, but the rest of the country will also fall into panic and chaos.
The only way now is to blockade Tongcheng, prevent the L virus from being taken out of Tongcheng as much as possible, and then find antibodies as soon as possible to make a vaccine.
It was not until the afternoon of the same day that the existence of the virus was finally announced, and then it actively reassured the people, publicized the epidemic prevention measures over and over again, asked the residents to stay at home as much as possible, not to visit relatives and friends, and if there were patients at home, they should be immediately sent to the designated place for diagnosis and actively receive treatment, and all the treatment costs should be borne by the state, etc.
The designated medical location is no longer a public hospital in the county, but an infectious disease isolation hospital located on the outskirts of the city, and the patient's family is not allowed to accompany him.
All patients who were already hospitalized in public hospitals were also transferred.
The above means of pacification did not have much effect, and many people fell into panic. Fortunately, the government forcibly controlled prices, and the material demand of Tongcheng was fully guaranteed, and soldiers with loaded guns could be seen on the street three or five steps, and a few people who wanted to make trouble could only temporarily stop in the face of the muzzle of the black hole.
However, the L virus has not stopped because of the high-pressure control.
Anxi Village is a bit remote, Zheng Yunyao started and stopped on the road, and when he found Liu Qiang's grandfather's house, it was already three or four o'clock in the afternoon.
Not only Liu Qiang's grandfather passed away in the village, but several families are also doing white things. Tongcheng is a small county town, the supervision is not strict, Anxi Village is also remote, the village cadres turn a blind eye, many people in the village have passed away and have not been sent to cremation, and they are directly buried in the spirit.
After Liu Qiang arrived at his uncle's house, he inquired in detail about his grandfather's death, and also went to several other homes that did white things. With this question, Liu Qiang realized that something was wrong. Including his grandfather, the six deceased in Anxi village experienced flu, vomiting, diarrhoea, incontinence, coma and finally death before their deaths. From the 'cold' to death, it was about ten days before and after.
Although the deceased were all elderly people, this is definitely not a coincidence.
During the inquiry, Liu Qiang found that many people in the village had caught a cold, including his uncle's family and his aunt's family.
Liu Qiang suspected that the people in the village were infected with some infectious disease, so he proposed to send his grandfather's body to be cremated, just because of this, when Zheng Yunyao and they arrived, Liu Qiang's uncle was arguing with him, and his aunt was also sneering on the side. Liu's father and Liu's mother said a few words next to Liu Qiang, where is Liu Qiang a person who is so easy to change his mind, a big family is in trouble, Liu's father saw Dongsheng and Zhang Lixin coming, and hurriedly said: "Winter cub, Captain Zhang, help me persuade Qiangzi." ”
Zhang Lixin had just listened a few times at the door, and probably knew what was going on, and he said loudly: "Qiangzi is right, not only the body of the old gentleman needs to be sent for cremation, but also the people who have passed away in several other families must also be sent to be cremated. ”
Zhang Lixin's throat was like cold water dripping into a hot oil pot, and the courtyard immediately exploded: "Who are you, why do you say that?" ”
"That's it, that's it."
"In the affairs of our Sun family, it is not your turn for an outsider to intervene!" Liu Qiang's uncle Sun Dahai said sharply.
Zhang Lixin sneered: "Last night, dozens of people died in Tongcheng People's Hospital overnight, and the cause of their death was also caused by a 'cold'. Now all the intersections in and out of Tongcheng are closed, and the county is in chaos, why do you think it is? ”
Zhang Lixin's meaning was already obvious, and Liu Qiang's face changed drastically.
The others also looked at each other, and Sun Dahai said with a fierce expression: "You, you don't scare us!" Sun Dahai also contracted the flu, and his symptoms were almost exactly the same as the old man's initial cold. The reason why he strongly objected to sending the old man to be cremated was because Liu Qiang said that the cause of the old man's death was probably an infectious disease caused by a certain virus. The old man had already gone, and the old lady was also so sick that she was unconscious, and the symptoms were exactly the same as the old man's, he, his mother-in-law, his son, daughter-in-law, and grandson all had a cold.
How dare Sun Dahai believe Liu Qiang's words? Believing Liu Qiang's rhetoric means that several members of their family may be the same as the old man......
But now, it seems that there is no room for him not to believe it.
"You guys, come and watch TV!" At this time, someone suddenly exclaimed.
In the living room, what is being broadcast on TV is the 'official statement' of the government.
"Winter cub, what's wrong?" Zheng Yunyao saw Dongsheng's solemn face and couldn't help asking.
Dong Sheng looked at a place in the southwest of Anxi Village and said in a low voice, "Something is wrong with the evil qi in that place. ”
Zheng Yunyao didn't see any evil energy, only saw the dark clouds covering the sky. What Dongsheng saw was the yin qi that rushed straight to Xiao Han like thick smoke under the dark clouds, and these yin qi was filled with a heavy fishy green, exactly the same color as those plague ghosts.
Ah Huang tilted his head and thought about it, and muttered: "That direction, it seems to be Lijiacun Meow." ”
Ah Huang looked at Dong Sheng with a little worry, after Dong Sheng was taken out of Lijia Village by Li Jiu, he cried a few times at the beginning and wanted to go home. Later, Dongsheng never mentioned going home again, and Li Jiu once thought that he was young and forgot about those unpleasant things. It wasn't until later, by chance, that Li Jiu knew that Dongsheng not only remembered all the things he had lived in Lijia Village, but he figured out the real cause of Lao Li's death.
Ah Huang still remembers that the winter cub, who was only ten years old at the time, stared at the crazy thunderstorm in the sky with dark eyes and said expressionlessly: "Good people are rewarded for evil, and heaven is unfair." ”
His immature and cold voice still echoes in Ah Huang's ears. At this moment, Dong Sheng couldn't even restrain the yin qi in his body, and wisps of black qi continued to overflow from his body, violently surrounding him.
"In a moment, let's go take a look." Dongsheng said to Zheng Yunyao.
Although Dong Sheng's expression was no different from usual, Zheng Yunyao always felt that Dong Sheng's expression was extremely complicated when he stared in that direction. There must be something in this that he doesn't know.
Zheng Yunyao held Dong Sheng's cold hand hard, nodded and said, "Okay." Dongsheng, no matter what happens, I will always be with you. ”
"Hmm." Dongsheng's heart warmed and nodded slightly.
Ah Huang's eyes widened in surprise - the yin aura around Dong Sheng's body disappeared completely in a moment, as if it had never appeared.
I always feel as if I have been stuffed with dog food again.