Lianhai City, Dongcheng District, Golden Bay Hotel.

In the wedding hall on the second floor, a wedding is being held.

A couple walks through the wedding process under the auspices of the wedding celebrant.

The wedding banquet began, and the dishes were served one after another.

There are more than 20 tables of guests in the hall, and the bride and groom toast from table to table.

The atmosphere of the wedding banquet is very lively, and the guests who come are relatives and friends of the bride and groom.

While admiring the beauty of the bride and groom, the guests discussed the dishes of the wedding banquet.

"The wedding banquet in this hotel is really good, and the seafood is very good."

"Yes, I heard from the groom's father that this time they set a price of 2,800 per table."

"No wonder, it's all high-standard seafood, you see how big this shrimp and crab are, and this conch meat, it's fat and tender."

As the wedding feast draws to a close, the guests leave one after another, and the bride and groom stand at the door of the banquet hall to see off the guests, and only after the guests are almost gone do they have time to eat.

In the empty banquet hall, only the bride and groom and their parents were left with close relatives.

The groom's mother prepared meals for the two, all reserved from the various wedding tables, with a few hot dishes and a few cold dishes, mixed together.

Groom: "Mom, we're going to catch a plane soon, and we can't eat enough food." ”

The groom's mother: "It's not so long, how long does it take to eat?" It's good in a few minutes, I've packed all the rice for you, and the soup, eat it quickly, and ask your dad to drive you to the airport after eating, and you will go abroad for your honeymoon for more than 20 days, and you must eat it before you leave. ”

Unable to resist his mother, the groom hurriedly ate a few bites of rice, picked up half a plate of cold vegetables, drank two mouthfuls of soup, and then put down the bowl, "Eat well." ”

The bride ate less, ate two bites of rice, a mouthful of hot dishes, and a bowl of soup, and put down the dishes and chopsticks at the same time as the groom.

The groom's mother told the two of them to talk a lot, put the luggage packed in advance before the wedding banquet into their car, and was about to ask the groom's father to send the two to the airport, when they met the hotel manager at the door.

The hotel manager, a middle-aged man in his 40s, greeted the groom with a smile when he saw him, "Mr. Li, are you still satisfied with the dishes and drinks for today's wedding banquet?" ”

Groom: "The food and drinks are very good, hard work." ”

The groom responds as he takes out a small box of delicately packaged candy from his luggage and hands it to the hotel manager.

The manager took the candy with a smile, "Thank you, I wish you two a happy honeymoon." ”

Seeing the newlyweds' car leave, the hotel manager breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly, a hotel employee behind him ran over in a hurry.

"Manager, manager...... Lao Wang, who was in the back kitchen, called again, and he said that the conference buffet on the third floor was missing several important ingredients tonight. ”

The manager was impatient, "Lack of ingredients? Didn't you just get in yesterday? Just follow the previous plan, use that batch of tops! Don't always ask me about this kind of thing, he is a chef, does he have some brains? Will it be flexible? ”

The manager angrily reprimanded the employee behind him, and the man went back to pass the word in a dismay.

More than 20 days later.

The honeymoon of the bride and groom is over, and we return to Lianhai City.

The groom Li Yiguo returned to his home, tired, he already felt uncomfortable during the journey, uncomfortable, he thought it was a cold and fever, bought some cold medicine locally, took it for a few days and did not get better, and then lay on the bed after coming back, and asked for leave from the company and did not go to work.

The bride was also a little tired after more than 20 days of honeymoon trip, but her condition was much better than that of the groom, at least there were no symptoms of body aches, colds and fevers, and the bride also asked for leave from the company to take care of her sick husband at home.

That night, at 2 a.m.

The groom, Li Yiguo, couldn't sleep in discomfort, tossed and turned on the bed, and finally began to moan in pain.

The bride who was sleeping next to her was woken up.

"Yiguo, where do you hurt?"

"The pain all over my body, especially in my chest and back, hurts like a pinprick and ...... like an electric shock"

Li Yiguo rolled on the bed in pain.

The bride began to panic, if it was just a cold, the symptoms would not be so severe.

Like a pinprick or an electric shock, what kind of strange disease is this?

The bride grabbed her husband who was rolling on the bed, "Yiguo, don't scare me, what's wrong with you?" ”

"Don't touch me!"

As soon as the bride touched her husband, he shouted louder, "When you touch me, I hurt more!" ”

The bride hurriedly withdrew her hand, "Okay, okay, I won't touch you, don't move you, I'll call 120, let's go to the hospital." ”

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3 a.m.

Lianhai First People's Hospital, emergency room.

Li Yiguo was taken to the emergency room by 120 ambulance, accompanied by Li Yiguo's wife.

The emergency doctor examined Li Yiguo.

"Does it hurt here?" The emergency doctor gently pressed on Li Yiguo's ribs.

"It hurts! But it didn't hurt before, before I came to the hospital I thought I would die of pain, my whole body was like a pinprick, especially my chest and back, it hurt like an electric shock, and it took a few minutes to go away, and now it doesn't hurt so much, but it still hurts when I press it! ”

The emergency doctor frowned slightly, this is the Nth patient with similar pain symptoms recently received, it looks like radicular pain, but the cause has not been found.

The emergency doctor opened a list and instructed Li Yiguo's wife, who was accompanying her, "You go and pay the money to go through the formalities and prepare for hospitalization." ”

"Huh? Hospitalization! Doctor, what's wrong with my husband? Li Yiguo's wife asked in shock.

"From the symptom, it is radicular pain, but the specific cause needs to be examined in detail, first arrange for him to be admitted to the neurology department, and wait for the doctor to arrange various examinations, and then the attending doctor will talk to you in detail."

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Day 2 at 9 a.m.

The First People's Hospital of Lianhai City, large conference room.

Specialist consultation.

The hospital has recently admitted more than 20 patients with intermittent pain in multiple parts of the body, most of whom have fever, psychiatric symptoms and meningitis.

On examination, the number of white blood cells in the patient's blood is increased, especially the number of eosinophils.

Doctors initially named this strange disease "eosinophilic meningitis".

After naming the strange disease, the cause of the strange disease was still not found, so a consultation with experts from the whole hospital was organized.

Gu Jiashu has also heard of this strange disease, and now he is participating in the expert consultation, and first carefully listened to the report of the neurologist who first diagnosed.

Neurologist: "Based on the patient's symptoms, we suspected a viral infection of the nervous system, but the laboratory tested all kinds of viruses and was negative. ”

Gu Jiashu: "What about parasitic infections? ”

Neurologist: "I asked the laboratory department to do relevant tests, and the scrub typhus, trichinella, toxoplasmosis, lung flukes, and jaw nematodes were all negative. ”

Psychiatrist: "With so many people getting sick before and after, could it be hysteria?" ”

The neurlogist who first saw him: "Although the more than 20 patients who have been hospitalized are all citizens of Lianhai City, their residences are scattered in various parts of the city, and some of them have no contact with each other, and their living environment is different, so the possibility of hysteria is very small. ”

Psychiatrist: "You didn't take into account the role of the Internet, now the Internet is full of rumors about this strange disease, what 'strange disease attacked Lianhai City', 'inexplicable pain all over the body, suspected of being Gu'......"

"But this time the patients all have substantial organ damage, how to explain meningitis and encephalomyelitis?"

The expert group debated the cause when suddenly, the door to the conference room was pushed open and a young doctor entered.

"The new patient who came in last night died!"