"All passengers, please pay attention, due to the occasional flow of the plane, there will be this turbulence, fasten your seat belts, do not leave your seat, the toilet is temporarily closed, when Wu Tianlin was thinking about last night's events, the plane's radio sounded the flight attendant's delicate voice, pulling Wu Tianlin back to reality from his contemplation.

The woman's blood sample was reported to have turned out to be infected with the unknown virus, so in order to find a cure for the unknown virus as soon as possible. Wu Tianlin stayed up all night, during which he and Tom did countless experiments together, and finally in addition to finding out the fatigue to prevent infection with this virus, they were never able to find a way to deal with this disease, so in order to find out the cause as soon as possible. Then, Wu Tianlin, who was in the right situation, asked Tom to stay in the hospital to continue his research, while he himself took the earliest flight early in the morning to go to Shonan Province with William and them.

Wu Tianlin subconsciously reached out and touched his waist when he heard the sound of the broadcast, and when he saw that the seat belt was being fastened on his body, he turned his head to look at William, who was sitting next to him, and saw that William was always buried in front of his laptop, pondering the virus. He reached out and patted William on the shoulder. Pull William back to reality from his contemplation before he says to William, "William! The plane encountered the turbulence and quickly fastened the seat belt, and at present, it is obviously impossible for you to find a cure for this virus until the source of the virus is found, although the patient is not in a very good condition. But it's not bad for a while, you should put the computer away! ”

William is a typical research freak, although he really wants to find a way to treat this virus at this time, but Wu Tianlin said so. So he reluctantly put away the laptop and fastened his seat belt, and said to Wu Tianlin on the side: "Teacher! I had a very bad feeling. It is always felt that this virus is likely to cause a catastrophe. ”

Hearing William's words, remembering the situation introduced by the woman last night, Wu Tianlin also had this idea in his heart, but he hoped that the government would pay attention to this matter before the virus spread, instead of holding on to luck. Deliberately evade the problem.

After a long period of turbulence, at 10:20 in the morning, the plane landed in the capital city of Shonan Province without danger, because the woman's hometown is a very remote and small county town, yesterday he specifically asked the woman how to go to her hometown before he planned to come to Shonan Province, so this city is only Wu Tianlin's first stop under Shonan Province this time, and there is still a long journey ahead. He had to take a train, then a ferry, and finally a train. If all goes well, we may arrive at the woman's hometown before dark.

Wu Tianlin, William and others walked out of the airport, looking at the strange city in front of them, the sky was gray, and there was no trace of blue. It was like a cauldron over the heads of the people. It made people feel particularly depressed, and William, who was on the side, kept shaking his head and said to himself: "The environment here is simply too bad, and pollution is the most serious city I have seen in China for a long time." ”

In many cities in China, local officials often sacrifice the environment to attract foreign investment for the sake of fiscal revenue, and when they wake up, they wake up. It is necessary to pay a price far greater than several times the fiscal revenue of the year to improve the environment, but it is almost impossible to restore the clear sky and cloudless weather of the year, but as a politician in his position, Wu Tianlin does not care about this issue. He looked at the time, stopped a taxi, and said to the people around him, "Okay! Don't be stunned, let's get in the car! This is only the first step in a long march, if you don't catch the last ferry at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. I guess we won't be able to get to Xiuli County tonight

Saying that, Wu Tianlin stretched out the car door and sat in the car and asked the taxi driver, "Master!" How long does it take to get from here to South Railway Station?

The taxi driver heard Wu Tianlin's words. While driving, he replied with a smile: "If there is no traffic jam from here to the South Railway Station." It will take about twenty minutes for these gentlemen! Listen to your accent from the Southeastern Province! Are you and a few foreign friends visiting us for tourism or on business?

Wu Tianlin didn't expect this taxi driver to be able to tell in one sentence that he was from Southeast Province; So he smiled and asked, "Master!" You are really amazing, I just said a word to you before and after, you can actually guess by my accent that I am actually from Southeast Province, we are not here for tourism, nor here for business, one of our friends is from Xiuli County, I heard that there is something in his family, we came here this time to see if there is anything we can do to help.

"Of course, we eat this bowl of rice. I see hundreds of customers every day, and I have more contact. Naturally, you can guess where this guest is from by bad sound, but sir, the Xiuli County you are going to is really far enough, it is the poorest place in our province, because of the deep mountains, and the traffic is really inconvenient, you go from here to there, and then transfer the car and the boat, if it goes well, it is estimated that you will be able to arrive tonight, but I advise you not to go there, not to mention that this road is tired, mainly because I heard that there is now a plague and thinness, and many people have died inexplicably. The taxi driver replied proudly when he heard Wu Tianlin's answer.

"Plague! A lot of people died! When Wu Tianlin heard the taxi driver's words, he immediately showed a gossipy look and asked the driver curiously: "Master! You're not kidding, are you? What age is this, how can there still be plague? Besides, science is so good now. Even if there is a plague, the local health department can easily solve it. ”

"This gentleman! Don't believe what I told you, although the government has been trying to block the news, but what do we do, every day we don't know how many customers to send, a large part of them are from Xiuli County, they are because of the plague there, they are afraid of contracting the plague, and the whole family fled out, and the taxi driver heard Wu Tianlin's disbelief and showed off his profession again. Before Wu Tianlin came, he had already vaguely guessed through the woman's introduction that the local government officials must have been afraid of taking responsibility. Concealment is deliberately used in an attempt to conceal the ongoing spread of this unknown virus. As a result, because of the government's behavior, all kinds of rumors flew everywhere, which made the local people feel sorry and began to flee Xiuli County with their families. The situation of the heart shark is exactly what Wu Tianlin wants to see the last thing he wants. Because of the research experiments of Tongru Lou Guanwang, they have confirmed that this unknown virus is highly contagious, and it will generally be incubated in the human body for eight to 14 days, and it is likely that a large part of the people who left Xiuli County in order to escape the virus disaster are infected with this unknown virus, which is undoubtedly equivalent to the expansion of the unknown virus, if measures are not taken in time. There could be another viral catastrophe.

Thinking of this, Wu Tianlin's brows couldn't help frowning, he really wanted to call his father immediately and tell him about the situation here, but he thought that he hadn't arrived in Xiuli County yet. For how serious the situation there really is. He had heard some from the middle-aged woman yesterday and now from the taxi driver. He didn't know anything else, so it was obviously a bit too hasty for him to contact his father before he could investigate. Thinking of this? Wu Tianlin couldn't resist the thought of making a phone call, he was stunned, he was able to grow a pair of wings, and he could fly there immediately to see how serious the quiet situation there was at present.

But imagination is imagination. It will never become a reality, Wu Tianlin and William took the train first, then the ferry, and then the Shibayama machine, and after several hours of driving and bumping, several of them seemed to fall apart. In the end, it took more than nine hours to finally arrive in Xiuli County at more than 7 o'clock in the evening.

Because it was already very late, although he arrived here, he still needed to take a car for more than two hours to reach the village where the middle-aged woman was located, but it was already very late, and it was obviously impossible to get to the village where the woman's home was located at this time, so Wu Tianlin could only give up the idea of rushing there immediately, and was ready to find a hotel in the county seat to stay for a night temporarily, and wait until the next morning before going to that village.

Wu Tianlin and William each took two rickshaws along the only road in the county towards the best hotel that the tricycle master said, although night had fallen when Wu Tianlin arrived here, but from the narrow and muddy roads of the county and the dilapidated houses on both sides of the road, which looked lifeless under the gray street lamps, it can be seen how poor the county town is.

With the sound of squeaking, Wu Tianlin's mood was as gloomy as this county. He sat on the tricycle and looked at the surrounding scene, not knowing why, he always felt that something seemed to be missing in this county, but he couldn't say what was missing, when William beside him suddenly burst into words: "Teacher! What time is it, why can't you see a person on the street? ”

Hearing William's words, Wu Tianlin understood why he felt that there seemed to be something missing in this county just now, it turned out that they had not met anyone else at all from the time they arrived at the Xiuli County Station to now, except for some drivers who pedaled tricycles when they went out of the station, thinking of this, he asked curiously to the drivers who pedaled the tricycles: "Master! What time is it? Why didn't I meet one along the way? Local people? ”

Hearing Wu Tianlin's inquiry, the coachman sighed lightly: "Alas! It's hard to put into words! Although our county is very poor, it was not like this originally, just say that the trough tree in front of it, usually at this time, a large group of old people always like to gather there to listen to small songs, chatter, play cards at home, and the small park over there. Usually it is the favorite place for children to play, but now, as soon as it gets dark, there is no ghost on the street, and no one dares to go to the street to wander around. ”

Hearing the coachman's words, Wu Tianlin immediately guessed the specific reason, but in order to confirm what he thought in his heart, he immediately pretended to be curious and asked, "Master!" No way? It's not the seventh month of the lunar calendar, how can such a strange thing happen? ”

"Alas! If it was the Ghost Festival in the seventh month of the lunar calendar, it wouldn't be like this, I don't know why. During this time, we are always inexplicably dead here, and as a result, all kinds of rumors have followed the sky full of hair, some people say that it is ghosts and fairies, and some people say that it is ghosts and ghosts, and some people say that it is our county town that is too evil, so they say that some time ago, my next door went to the mountains to chop wood, and when he came back, he was cold and had a high fever of more than 40 degrees, and went to the hospital to see a doctor to give him an infusion according to the cold treatment, but before a day, because of the high fever, he began to talk nonsense, claiming to see gods and ghosts, and his mother-in-law invited "Daxian" As a result, I went that night, and then the mother-in-law next door also followed not long after, and the husband and wife died inexplicably, and then someone died not long after, and as a result, in these days, almost all of us in this county have the conditions to leave, and those who have no ability, but have a skill, have also left here, trying to find a way to work in other places, leaving us who are old and have no skills, and can only survive here every day in fear. The tricycle driver heard Wu Tianlin's inquiry, and thought of his family's current situation, and subconsciously sighed again. He replied with a look of discouragement and a dejected look.

Hear the words of the coachman. Wu Tianlin immediately answered the call and asked the coachman, "Master! So many people have died, and now there are rumors flying all over the place, don't you local county government care? ”

"Tube! The group of officials sang and danced every day. Where will those who are drunk and dreaming of death care about the life and death of us ordinary people? During this period, many diseases were misdiagnosed, and during the treatment, many patients were diagnosed with colds, meningitis, and even mental illness, and many people went to the hospital and the county government to theorize, but they were all suppressed by the county government, and now the county government does not let us talk about this matter. When the driver heard Wu Tianlin mention the local government, he immediately showed an angry expression on his face and replied shamelessly.

Hearing the situation introduced by the coachman, Wu Tianlin also has a general understanding of the situation here, and there is not much way out of the results he guessed before, but he still doesn't know how serious the situation here is. So he still chose to keep silent, and at this time, just as he was thinking about tomorrow morning's itinerary, the coachman suddenly said to Wu Tianlin: "This gentleman! If you look at the previous one, if you say that the whole county wants to see people now, it is the only place there. ”