499. Calamity and Curse
The old man, who was half lying across from him, stared at him with wide eyes, lowered his voice, and put a finger to his lips to signal him to silence.
The old man is the mayor of this town.
A few days ago, some people in the town were infected with a "strange disease", and a nameless cloud soon hung over this remote town.
The disease looks like an infectious disease or a bad cold, and some say it's caused by a virus brought by some animal.
People who are sick will suddenly fall into a state of madness or delirium, some people will have a high fever that does not go away, some people will have ulcers on their skin, some people will have metabolic disorders, they will eat food like crazy, and some people will claim to have voices in their heads......
In short, everyone's reaction is almost different, the physical condition of the sick person is good and bad, and some people even have a high fever for a few days, and then a miracle happens, they are alive and can work in the field again!
Someone had been sick with the disease almost a few months ago, but at that time, people in the town thought it was a cold caused by the colder weather, so not many people took it seriously.
It wasn't until one day that someone died violently because of illness, and more and more patients appeared one after another, that people paid enough attention to it.
The townspeople were so frightened that they sent people overnight to Canned City, more than 300 kilometers away, to look for a doctor.
But to their great disappointment, in the towns and villages near Canned City, they found many bodies that had fallen to the ground and died, and then they realized that the situation there seemed to be worse than in the town.
When they finally arrived in Canned City, they searched for a doctor in the dungeon, only to find that the situation in the underground town seemed to be much better than on the ground. Although there are people who are infected with the virus, they only come from outside, and very few people in the local area suffer from the disease.
They heard from doctors that the disease did not look like it was contagious and very different from infectious diseases such as plague and smallpox.
This disease is an extremely complex process.
Under the interaction between the cause of the disease and the response function of the body, the morphological structure and metabolic function of the relevant parts of the diseased body will undergo various changes, which is an important basis for the study and understanding of this disease.
Moreover, with the current conditions and time, it is not possible to use various methods to study the causes of diseases, and to study the process of disease occurrence and development, the function, metabolism and morphological structure of the body in the course of diseases, and to elucidate their essence.
The doctor also told them that from the current observations, the patient's family members and close contacts were almost non-existent.
It can only be preliminarily concluded that this disease seems to be related to each person's immune function and immunity.
Therefore, until now, the cause of this "strange disease" is completely unclear, and it is a disease that is difficult to understand and grasp, and there is no cure at all.
But the man who sent him begged the doctor for help, and asked him to come to their town to find a solution.
But unexpectedly, the doctor shook his head again and again.
Not to mention him and his small clinic, after the occurrence of this disease, all the doctors in the entire canned food city were strictly guarded by the guards here, and it is said that even the passage will be restricted in a few days.
The townsfolk knew that the doctor was not lying, as they had also seen that barricades had begun to be erected at various intersections, and the number of guards had noticeably increased.
At this time, an order came from above, saying that the local patients should be treated first, so there was no manpower at all.
Moreover, the other party is obviously confused about this disease, and no one knows the cause, mechanism, development law and disease process of the disease, even if the doctor is invited back, it is of little significance.
In this way, the townspeople had to come back with some medicine, and although everyone was very depressed, they had to be treated as a dead horse doctor, and find another way to heal them.
The people of the town gathered all the sick together, took turns to take care of them, and even hired a witch doctor to exorcise evil spirits.
The reason for this is the rumor that a great calamity is about to occur in the land, and this is because people have lost their faith, spit on certain gods, and are sick as a result of the curse released by the gods.
These gods will punish the people of the earth, curse them, turn the sick into demons and monsters, and even send wild beasts to eat everyone.
As a result, some of the townspeople had an idea, and they invited some black-robed witch doctors from nowhere. After a few days of drangulation, there were even people who had recovered themselves from the disease.
The good news spread quickly, and everyone was shocked to think that it was a curse, and after sincere prayers and practices, the gods removed the curse and will continue to favor them in the future.
However, people are not as good as heaven, and the townspeople thought that they would be able to survive this catastrophe by taking good care of the sick, but they never expected that just a few days ago, the number of people who fell ill would be even higher, and the mortality rate would suddenly become extremely high.
What's even more terrifying is that some people say that they really saw a huge monster on the shore of the stormy sea.
Rumors and suspicions suddenly spread wildly.
Everyone fell into a state of panic, and their hearts were extremely frightened.
In the distance, there was a terrifying roar like a sea of mountains, and the earth seemed to tremble in the depths. In addition, a few days ago, the sunlight disappeared completely, and a huge moon appeared in the sky, and this moon was getting bigger and bigger, and it did not even set for dozens of hours.
All of this is a sign of the coming catastrophe in the mouths of the witch doctors.
In order to dispel the fears of the living, everyone began to believe in the doom and the curse, and all had to agree to immediately begin disposing of the remains of their loved ones.
In tears and in terror, they burned the bodies of the dead, praying that the living would survive the terrible calamities in peace.
Fleeing unknown curses and monsters, they are the only survivors left in the town.
Soon, a huge shadow crossed the young man's cheek.
Through the window, he saw the house on the other side shaking, and half of the wall flew into the air in silence, but it never fell.
It was as if there was a large, invisible hand grasping something indiscriminately.
"Oh my God! There's really something scary out there! The young man muttered quietly and swallowed a mouthful of spit.
He looked at the old man and retreated back into the corner where he had been.
The floor of the house was damp and cold, and rainwater was leaking through the roof, but there were several people lying on the ground. They were willing to endure the torture of the damp and cold floor, but they were unwilling to stand up.
The floor was littered with all kinds of wraps and containers, containing everything from almost moldy bread to rotten fruits and vegetables.
It looked like they hadn't left the room for a long time.
These men and women, all wrapped in rags and heating rags, and even cotton wool could be seen in the torn bedding.
But who would have thought that this was their former home, that they were the inhabitants of this town?
The screams of the thugs before they died still echoed in the ears of the survivors.
At this moment, they didn't even dare to make a sound, everyone's eyes were staring out of the window, cautiously pricking up their ears to listen to the movement outside the house.
"Tick, tick, tick......"
The roof leaked never stopped, and the water on the floor soon pooled into a large pool, flowing down the wall to the crack in the door.
Just as when that huge shadow arrived, it left without making any sound, like an invisible gas, and disappeared out of thin air.
No one knew what it was, and everyone was terrified, thinking in their hearts that it was a terrible demon.
"Is it—is it gone?" Another thin young man asked quietly, craned his neck to look out the window.
"Huh? That's ......" He seemed to see a few small red dots floating in the sky, and his heart was shocked.
"I don't know, it's better to wait."
The emaciated young man began to mumble to himself, and quickly turned his head and asked the person next to him, "Hey! What was that, did you see that? ”
The emaciated young man was almost lying on the floor, pointing his finger and looking at the distant sky.
"What do you see?"
"Little dots? Red, I don't know what it is......"
"Little dots?"
"Well, yes, but maybe I'm wrong."
"What are you talking about, is there something in the sky?"
"I didn't see that thing clearly...... There seemed to be a few small red dots of light flying by, flashing and flashing. The thin young man stammered with a frightened expression.
"Well, I think I heard, a buzzing sound. My ears are better, maybe...... It's a flying machine or something, didn't you hear that sound just now? ”
A man with a broken steel helmet let out a long breath, lowered his voice, and spoke cautiously to the others.
"Flying machines?" The old man suddenly showed a puzzled look.
This chicken doesn't lay eggs, birds don't, and in the middle of nowhere, where did the flying machine come from?
"Hmm...... Water...... Water ......"
At this moment, there was a groan from the corner behind everyone. Recite.
And there was still a man lying in that place.
It was a woman, forty or fifty years old, with a haggard face, and her upper body was wrapped in a yellowed bandage, from which blood was oozing.
There were horrible blisters on her arms, veins jutting out of her skin, and chapped lips opening and closing to make sounds.
"Wife, wife, have you finally woken up?" The old man hurriedly crawled to the corner, with a hint of surprise on his face.
His wife's only remaining patient has been in a coma for two days since the strange illness worsened, with a high fever that has not gone away, and his body has been abnormal, and he has been in a coma for two days.
Although everyone felt that it was inappropriate to take her, because she was the mayor's wife, and the stationmaster was very insistent, she was allowed to stay and take care of her.
Unexpectedly, she woke up at this critical moment.
"Feed her some water, and don't let her make a noise!" A middle-aged man hurriedly said to the old man.
The other man took a kettle from the cupboard and handed it to the old man.
"Okay, thanks."
The old man was cautious, quickly dipped a towel in some water, twisted it with his hand, and slowly dripped it to the woman's lips.
Maybe it was a little bigger, and a stream of water actually flowed into her nostrils and was sucked in by the woman's rapid breathing.
"Ahem—" The water apparently choked on her trachea, and she coughed violently.
The coughing sound startled the old man, and he hurriedly reached out to cover her mouth, and when he reached back again, he saw that his hands were covered with blood.
"She's going to kill us!"
"Oh my God! It's a curse! Look, she's coughing up blood too, and she, she's going to be like that! The emaciated young man covered his mouth and stretched out his fingers, pointing at the woman in horror.
"It's a wraith! She'll turn into a terrifying wraith, too! Someone said with a shudder, shrinking back as far as he could, and his tone was full of unconcealable fear.
Everyone was horrified, fleeing from the woman like frightened birds and beasts, for fear of being infected by an inexplicable curse.
"Don't! Don't make a sound! The old man also panicked, stretched out his arms and waved at everyone, but he also began to panic and retreat.
At this time, the young man sitting by the window glanced sideways at the window as he stepped back, and suddenly felt that something was wrong.