Chapter 21: The Yellow Mist

On the outskirts of Lianhai City, 80 kilometers away, there is a primeval forest in Qingcheng Mountain.

The scorching summer sun scorched the earth, and although Lianhai City is a coastal city, people can still feel the summer heat wave.

Qingcheng Mountain, which is more than 80 kilometers away from the center of Lianhai City, is also shrouded in the scorching summer sun, and the primeval forest of Qingcheng Mountain is filled with fog.

The scorching sun and the fog in the forest meet to create a sultry climate.

In the forest that is usually inaccessible, there are figures swaying.

A team of five people braved the scorching sun and walked through the mist of the primeval forest.

All five were young men in their twenties and thirties, dressed in uniform clothing, and in the forest where there was no road, they pushed through the grass and avoided the bushes and went deep into the forest.

Their clothes are in the style of emergency clothing, which can be waterproof and prevent mosquito bites, and there is a logo on them "Lianhai Binhai Tourism Development Company".

The five people walked around the forest and recorded data at each location.

They are staff members sent by the Coastal Tourism Development Corporation to survey the forest.

Qingcheng Mountain Range is located by the sea, only more than 80 kilometers away from Lianhai City, the mountain is a dense primeval forest, the scenery is beautiful, is an excellent location for tourism development.

The Binhai Tourism Development Company has signed a contract with the local government to develop tourism in Qingcheng Mountain, and these five people are the personnel who came to Qingcheng Mountain to survey in the early stage.

Entering the depths of the forest, the road becomes more and more difficult, but the scenery is very good, with high mountains and flowing water, large trees, and wet ground covered with moss and rocks.

The five of them picked a spot and began to measure the data again.

Captain Li, who was the leader of the group, looked around and said happily: "The scenery here is very good, and you can develop a separate attraction with the waterfall and stream here." ”

A young man in his twenties who followed Captain Li was holding an instrument to record data.

Suddenly, the young man coughed violently.

Captain Li patted the young man's back casually, and when his coughing stopped, he asked, "Xiao Zhang, why are you coughing so badly?" Sick? ”

Xiao Zhang stroked his chest, calming himself down, and shook his head at the same time, "It was fine just now, but I smelled a strange smell and felt uncomfortable in my throat." ”

"What's the smell?"

"Uh...... It's a bit like the taste of round-headed mustard greens that I grew at home when I was a child. ”

"Mustard greens? Are there wild mustard greens in this forest? I didn't see it all the way just now. ”

Someone else of the five chimed in, "I smell mustard too, but I don't see it either." ”

"I smell it, it's wasabi, like the wasabi smell when you eat sushi."

"I smell it too, but I smell more like stinky garlic."

From time to time, some of the five people began to cough twice, and some began to complain, "Captain Li, my eyes hurt, it's stinging, and I feel very uncomfortable." ”

Captain Li, who is a little older, has a lot of experience in field surveys, and there are often toxic miasma in undeveloped primeval forests like this.

Captain Li looked up, and the five of them were in a valley at this time, and there was a cliff on one side of the hillside, and a waterfall flowed down from it, and the waterhole converged into a pool, and the water in the pool meandered outward along the low depression of the valley.

Waterholes and small streams are hidden by the surrounding tall trees, and the forest is covered with a layer of mist.

The fog around here is very strange, the fog around the road was white before, and the fog in the valley here is slightly yellow.

Captain Li was vigilant in his heart, could this slightly yellow mist be a miasma with toxins?

Xiao Zhang rubbed his eyes, coughed and complained: "I have only been in the company for less than a month, and the company has not given me insurance and medical insurance. ”

Some uncomfortable symptoms appeared one after another among the five people, and the captain Li also felt a stinging pain in his eyes.

Safety first, Captain Lao Li immediately ordered: "Return the same way immediately!" ”

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Lianhai Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Emergency Office.

Gu Yanan, as usual, read the epidemic report in the big epidemic network on the office computer.

All five people in the emergency response office are in the office.

Zhou Jie is sorting out the information of the last time he went to a suburban kindergarten to investigate the norovirus outbreak.

Gao Fei is researching the literature of a scientific paper he has just written.

Wang Xiaoxiao was on the phone, proofreading the results with colleagues in the CDC lab.

Lu Li had just finished sorting out the report on the outbreak of West African trypanosomiasis in Lianhai City, and took advantage of the break to open the web to browse the news.

A piece of news on the Internet caught Lu Li's attention.

Lu Li seemed to be talking to himself, but his voice could be heard by the entire emergency office, "Qingcheng Mountain is about to be developed into a tourist area." ”

Wang Xiaoxiao hung up the phone, heard the voice, leaned over to Lu Li's desk, and poked his head to look at the news page on the Internet.

A beautiful picture of Qingcheng Mountain, accompanied by a striking caption "Qingcheng County and the Binhai Tourism Development Company have reached an agreement to develop the coastal Qingcheng Mountains for tourism, which will be officially opened to tourists in August next year".

Wang Xiaoxiao finished reading the news on the webpage and smiled, "It's good news, I grew up at the foot of Qingcheng Mountain, and the economy there can't be compared with Lianhai City, but when it is developed into a tourist area, the economic conditions of the residents there will also improve." ”

Lu Li asked Wang Xiaoxiao, "I remember that you are from Qingcheng County, right?" ”

Wang Xiaoxiao: "Well, my family has lived in Qingcheng County for generations, and after I went to university, I was admitted to the Lianhai City Center for Disease Control and Prevention before moving to the city to work, my parents, grandparents, uncles, and several cousins, all of them live in Qingcheng County." ”

Speaking of his hometown, Wang Xiaoxiao began to gush, "Our Qingcheng County is located at the foot of the Qingcheng Mountains, the population of the county is only thirty or forty thousand, it is a small town, but our scenery there is really good, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, the folk customs are simple, there are many ancient buildings in the town for hundreds of years, if this time plus the development and protection of the tourism company, I believe it will be famous all over the world." ”

Gao Fei put down the documents in hand and accosted: "I went to the Qingcheng County CDC once, and their CDC is located in an old house, which looks antique on the outside, but the interior is very modern and distinctive, and I am very impressed by it." ”

Lu Li: "I also went to the Qingcheng County Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and I went with Zhou Lao at that time, and I remember going to them to guide the field to catch wild mice. ”

Zhou Jie raised his head, looked at Lu Li, and said, "I am going to guide the county CDC to complete the insect-borne disease surveillance tasks determined by the national disease control, one of which includes investigating the density of wild mice. ”

"Yes, yes," Lu Li echoed, "That's it, I still remember the lunch I had at the Qingcheng County Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and there was a dish in it, which was a local specialty wild vegetable, what was it called?" It's a wild vegetable, and suddenly I can't remember the name of the dish. ”

"One is fried shredded pork with wormwood, and the other is cold wormwood."

"Yes, it's wormwood, a smell of herbs, the locals say it's a wild vegetable, you can eat it, it's also a herb."