Chapter 707: Slug Crisis

Three staff members of the Ministry of Environmental Sanitation walked together in the underground pipes of Midtown with crystal lights. The mutant creature detectors in their hands emitted a ticking warning sound from time to time.

"A colony of mutant rats was spotted 100 meters ahead." The first person motioned for everyone to stop, "The electronic map has been marked and sent to the sanitation control center." ”

They waited patiently for a few minutes, and after the mutant rat colony had gone, they moved on. The detector sounded again.

"It's a mutant centipede."

"This job of monitoring underground pipelines is really not done by people." Another staff member couldn't help but complain, "For such an important and dangerous job, those strong people didn't come, but they sent us a few fourth-level people to die." ”

"Big brother, can you say something auspicious? Don't keep dying and dying, brother, I'm still a virgin. ”

"I'll go! How dare you, an innocent young man, come and do such a job? ”

"I'm not trying to impress the beautiful doctor Song Chanjuan."

"For the attention of Bo Beauty, you are also hard enough. Here's the thing: even if you get bitten off your penis by a sewer monster, the beautiful doctor won't be able to see it. ”

"Don't worry, I recorded the whole process of our operation and sent it to my office computer in real time."

The three of them chatted and patrolled. Thirty meters in the darkness ahead, there was a sudden shrill cry of mutant creatures.

"It sounds like mutant rats again, and there aren't a lot of them. Brothers, everyone is ready to fire. ”

At the same time, the crowd aimed their special pistols at the front.

There was a sound of animals crawling rapidly, and then a mutant rat shaped like a pre-apocalyptic adult sow burst out of the darkness and pounced on its head.

"Bang bang bang", gunshots rang out. The mutant rat had its head smashed before it could hit the ground.

Immediately afterwards, 3 mutant rats sprang out at the same time, with a vicious appearance and a fierce attack. Although everyone is not a warrior, after all, they all belong to the fourth-level star soul people, and their basic reaction ability is not bad, and after a period of scramble, they can annihilate this small group of rats without danger.

The group leader put on a cool pose and blew the muzzle of the gun and asked, "Virgin, don't forget to record my heroic posture just now and show it to the beautiful doctor to enjoy." ”

The youngest staff member replied "No problem" and suddenly exclaimed, "You both have blood stains on your bodies." ”

"What's so terrible about bloodstains, it's all rats."

"Rat blood is as contagious as zombie blood." Xiao Young took out a device with a needle-shaped probe from his backpack and used the probe to carefully approach the wound of the mutant rat on the ground. A few seconds later, the device emitted a high-pitched whistling sound.

"What's the situation?" The other two's tones were filled with horror.

“omg！” The young man took a few steps back and said in a trembling voice: "Slug virus! ”

The slug virus is by far the most dangerous virus ever discovered by humans. This virus can be transmitted in a variety of ways, can survive in air, water and other media, has many times more powerful than cancer cells amazing self-replication ability and cross-species infection characteristics, has a strong harm to the vast majority of apocalyptic known organisms (including humans, of course).

Higher animals are infected with rapid onset, usually only a few minutes to tens of minutes before being controlled by the virus and undergoing significant changes in structure, shape and pathology. Infected individuals will lose consciousness and become violently aggressive. When higher animals are involuted, they not only become new sources of infection, but also act as hosts to breed new generation infectious organisms in vivo that combine the physical characteristics of this species and slugs. To put it simply: if a mutant rat is infected with a slug, it will grow a large litter of new monsters in its body that resemble both mutant rats and worms or maggots in a short period of time, as if it were pregnant.

If you're infected, for up to 30 minutes, a whole bunch of new generation slugs will rip you open and eat you to the ground. This is the most terrifying thing about slugs.

Since the discovery of the slug virus, Zhongcheng has conducted a series of studies and experiments, and developed technologies such as high-temperature killing, but it is basically still helpless for the individuals who have been infected, unless the individual is a strong person above the late stage of the fifth-level star soul, he (or she) may also kill or expel the virus through his or her ability, or have the ability to restrain the slug virus; Otherwise, you will only have to wait for death, and the death will be extremely horrific and tragic.

Hearing the young man shouting about the slug virus, the expressions of the two older staff members changed dramatically at the same time. Both of them were splattered with the blood of mutant rats, and they could clearly feel that something in the blood seemed to be burrowing into their skin and veins.

One of the staff members yelled: "Impossible, you are talking nonsense!" There's no way I'm slugging! As he spoke, something seemed to be moving in the corpses of several mutant rats, causing the flesh and skin in the abdomen and other places to rise and fall.

The leader of the squad for this operation sighed, "Old man, you have to face reality. ”

The staff member who refused to admit that he was infected with slugs continued to yell wildly: "What is reality? The reality is that you guys are talking nonsense! Lao Tzu is in good health, and he has not been infected with the slug virus at all! He roared as he strode closer to the young man.

"Don't come here, you'll pass the slugs to me."

"I'm going to bite you right now. If you get infected with the slug, don't fucking try to live. The man pounced on the young man, opening his mouth to bite, and the latter struggled to stretch him away with his gloved arms. The two are entangled together, and Xiao Young is in critical condition.

After repeated attempts to persuade him, the team leader grabbed the staff member who refused to admit that he was infected, threw him aside, and then decisively shot him in the head, shattering his brain.

At this time, hundreds of snot larvae the size of normal rats broke through the flesh of the mutant rats and rushed out with blood juice all over them, and rushed to the two who were still alive with strange screams.

"Brother, hurry up and get out!" The team leader shouted and pulled out a special incendiary grenade designed to kill the environmental slug.

Xiao Young ran out of dozens of meters, heard a roar behind him, and looked back to see that the raging fire engulfed the team leader and the corpses on the ground, and swept away the snot larvae crawling all over the ground.

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In Room 206 of the main building of Zhongcheng Environmental Sanitation Department and Zhongcheng Hospital, Song Chanjuan is conducting a physical examination for a female patient. In addition to her powerful self-healing abilities, she has also developed a primary claircopy ability and an ultrasound-like "palpation" ability when she arrives in Midtown. The so-called clairvoyance ability, as the name suggests, is the ability to see through obstacles and the human body, and its effect does not need to be explained too much; And the "palpation" ability is also quite magical, as long as Song Chanjuan touches and scans other people's bodies with her hands, she can explore their tissues and cell structures clearly.

Due to the emergence of new abilities and changes in her status, Song Chanjuan was listed as one of the key protection objects by the Zhongcheng authorities, and was only allowed to diagnose and treat some VIPs or participate in major medical research; The general practitioner's work as a general practitioner and her original emergency work were restricted.

The female patient asked, "Dr. Song, what is wrong with me?" ”

"Ms. Yang Xiumei, I want to congratulate you. You're pregnant. ”

"Huh? Really? Yang Xiumei was surprised and delighted, "But you don't seem to have done a pregnancy test for me." ”

"You could think that I have some kind of healing ability."

"Is everything okay with the fetus?"

"There are so few days that I can't see it. You're going to have to come back for regular checkups every week, and you're the first registered pregnant woman in Midtown. We want to keep track of you and take care of you. ”

"Thank you so much!" Yang Xiumei showed a happy smile on her face, she was originally the proprietress of Guicheng food shop, and was later rescued by Lin Zaishan and others to Shencheng, because she felt that there was a lack of future in business, she moved to Zhongcheng with Wang Chengba and others, and continued to open her food shop under the protection of Brother Hong and others. She and Brother Hong have been in love for a long time, and the two have been together and have the crystallization of love.

"But Doctor Song, there is no marriage registration system in Zhongcheng until now, what kind of identity do I have after giving birth?"

"It's not up to me to have the final say, and if I have the chance, I will advise the Midtown authorities to improve the system." Song Chanjuan helped Yang Xiumei up, and was about to tell her a few words of precautions, when suddenly the siren hanging on the wall made a loud noise.

"Please Dr. Song Chanjuan immediately rush to 603 to attend the emergency meeting!"

Song Chanjuan hurriedly said to Yang Xiumei: "I still have something to tell you, let's talk about it later." ”

"It's okay, I can wait downstairs. I'm not busy today anyway. ”

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Song Chanjuan hurriedly left the office for an emergency meeting. The main content of the meeting was to discuss countermeasures to the latest reported slug outbreaks in various units. At the meeting, the reaction of a young worker who had just escaped from an underground pipe system infected with slugs caused widespread attention and heated discussions. Many of the responses were proposed, but none of them were ideal.

The biggest problem is that it's hard to kill slugs without damaging the underground plumbing system. The most feasible method proposed by the meeting was to send a team composed of strong people above the fifth level to carry special equipment and control small mechs to conduct a comprehensive inspection and cleaning of the underground pipeline system in the middle city. But the Ministry of Sanitation alone cannot concentrate such a powerful force, nor does it have this authority. Therefore, this plan can only wait until the next morning to be submitted to the town hall assembly for deliberation and approval.

At present, the Ministry of Sanitation can do two main things: first, strengthen the supervision and random inspection of the catering, catering and other departments, various institutions and the consul's office, etc., to ensure the safety of key personnel in the middle city; Second, speed up the research and development of antibodies, antidotes or killing methods for slugs. Zhongcheng has also developed and produced some drugs to carry the slug virus, but the slug virus is too fast to be replaced, and these drugs have become obsolete before they can be promoted. At present, it is widely accepted by the medical community in Midtown that drugs are not the fundamental solution to the problem of slugs.

The meeting ended more than an hour, and when Song Chanjuan returned to her consultation room, it was already evening, and she remembered that she hadn't eaten dinner yet, so she washed her hands and took the elevator to the restaurant on the first floor.

She saw Yang Xiumei who was still waiting for her in the small garden of the hospital. The latter hurriedly greeted him and asked, "Doctor Song, are you still busy?" Is there anything you need to tell me or how I can help? ”

Song Chanjuan looked left and right, convinced that there was no one nearby, and whispered: "There are very few pregnant people after the end of the world, and there must be an inexplicable reason for this." For safety reasons, you must not easily disclose the news of your pregnancy to outsiders. Also, try not to eat mutant beast meat, and try not to use abilities or enter powerful ability energy fields, and don't be infected by post-apocalyptic creatures. In addition, in the future, I can only find a doctor for prenatal check-ups, and I must not say that it is a prenatal check-up to outsiders. When your belly is too big to hide, you will shut the door and I will come to serve you. ”

"Okay, I remember. I'm going to bother you. "Yang Xiumei runs a gourmet restaurant, and it is indeed a bit difficult for her not to eat the meat of mutant beasts at all and not to show her face, but for the healthy growth of the fetus in her womb, no matter how much inconvenience she has, she has to overcome it.

Yang Xiumei looked at Song Chanjuan's frowning and couldn't help asking, "Does Doctor Song have something on his mind?" Don't know if I can help? ”

Song Chanjuan stopped talking, and asked rhetorically: "Has Ms. Yang ever seen a slug?" "Sluggs are a terrifying topic to talk about in the post-apocalyptic midtown, and ordinary women are already scared when they hear it.

Yang Xiumei replied calmly: "Not only have I seen it, but I almost drank it." When she was about to be in Guicheng, others told her about mixing the slug virus into the root juice in order to frame Lin Zaishan.

"Oh? Captain Lin actually drank a lot of root juice containing slugs and was unharmed? ”

"Yes, I've seen it with my own eyes."

"Could it be that the root juice inhibits the activity of slugs?"

"Definitely not. One of my buddies stole that rooting juice and died quickly. ”

"There is only one answer: Captain Lin knows how to treat slugs!" Song Chanjuan's tone suddenly became excited, but then her expression was gloomy.

"Doctor Song, don't the authorities in Midtown have any news of Captain Lin?"

Song Chanjuan shook her head, "If Captain Lin is here, I bet we will be able to effectively deal with slugs and even all bugs and apocalyptic threats!" Recalling Lin Zaishan, Song Chanjuan couldn't help but fall into reverie, and said to herself: "He is full of tenacious and unyielding vitality and fighting spirit, and can withstand unimaginable hardships and blows while still maintaining the brilliance of kindness and humanity." He is like a shining and dangerous mystery, and like an endless treasure, he is a savior and priceless treasure that God has given to mankind in the last days. We didn't cherish him when he was there, and we realized how much we needed him when he wasn't there. It would be nice if he were in Midtown right now. ”