Chapter Seventy-Three: The Invisible Enemy
On the way from Shanghekou to Werewolf Grassland, Huangmao Andy asked Wang Xijia about motorcycle knowledge as soon as he found an opportunity.
Why don't motorcycles get tired?
Why don't motorcycles eat grass?
How are motorcycles made?
Do motorcycles die?
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Wang Xijia knew everything, and popularized some motorcycle manufacturing principles, maintenance and repair to Andy. Andy said that he has learned a lot and hopes to have the opportunity to learn motorcycle manufacturing technology from Wang Xijia.
"If you want to learn, I'll come back and teach you after the battle. ”
Wang Xika said with a smile. Looking into Andy's eyes hungry for knowledge, he knew that at least until Andy learned how to build motorcycles, he wouldn't make any moths on the road.
Wang Xijia didn't want to hide any skills, hide a unique skill or something. The more people understand technology, the closer the level of technology in this era will be to modern times. He was eager to force everyone to learn science.
It's just that now that there is going to be a war, he must focus his mind on the war that will be fought.
This is Wang Xijia's third expedition after crossing.
He has fought with craftsmen and werewolves, and has had some small conflicts with Huang Mao, and he can be regarded as experienced in a hundred battles.
In previous battles, you will gain territory and resources after each battle. So, what do you get after fighting the vampire Dracula? This vampire doesn't seem to have a territory, only a castle, can't it be used as a haunted house after the fight?
But it's not bad to have a castle, there are too many territories of your own. When you own a certain amount of land, no matter how much you have, it's just a number. It is worth more to get a castle with architectural features than to get a piece of land with nothing.
Of course, Wang Xijia is not 100% sure that he can win this time. No one can say for sure that they can win a war 100 percent. Napoleon, a genius of war, won numerous wars in his lifetime, and he lost only once. In percentage terms, he has a 99% chance of winning a war, with only a 1% chance of losing. But it was this 1% that ultimately cost him his life.
The weak defeat the strong, and the backward defeat the advanced. These seemingly ridiculous things are not impossible. Afghanistan is a very backward country, but the most advanced country on the planet will not be able to conquer it on Afghan soil.
As long as there is a war, there will be risks. In the battle with the craftsman and the werewolf, although he has scientific and technological knowledge, he still almost hangs. If he didn't have the "halo of the protagonist", how could he escape from the fires made by the craftsmen, and how could he survive the lightning-fast attack of Sessions? But what if he was not the "protagonist", but just a transitional little person at the beginning, what if this battle would have been hung up?
Garrincha, who came to report the news, obviously didn't have that many ideas, and he rode a big yellow motorcycle with a displacement of 500cc, and he and Langnado rushed to the front of the line. For Garrincha, he invited the Wolf King, and the task was completed. All that's left is to go back home and defeat which vampires. As for Lang Naduo, he has not returned to his homeland for a long time, and he has no other thoughts in his heart at the moment, but he is like an arrow.
Wang Xijia looked at the backs of the two werewolves in the distance, and his heart was much more relaxed. The most important thing in fighting a war is the stability of morale and morale. Garrincha and Lang Nado can give themselves confidence.
What is the saying?
"My life is up to me, not to God!"
If you are really the protagonist, then you will be the king all the way.
If you are not the protagonist, then you must complete your own performance, strive for as many scenes as possible, and leave no regrets.
Between the upper estuary and the werewolf grassland, there is also a desert. Wang Xijia once guessed that perhaps the werewolf steppe was the Mongolian Plateau, and this desert was the Gobi Desert in the Qaidam Basin.
Wang Xijia once thought that the desert was caused by human beings destroying the ecological environment, but in this era, human beings did not destroy the ecological environment much, and there are still deserts here.
Perhaps, the desert is also a part of nature, and has nothing to do with humans.
The last time he passed through this desert, Wang Xika just wanted to save his wife and children, and he didn't feel much. This time, I have some different feelings:
The desert, which is the least living place on Earth, should reasonably give people a sense of desolation.
But Wang Xijia always felt that the desert was full of life.
Maybe it's because one of his favorite movies "New Dragon Gate Inn" was filmed in the desert, and his favorite song "Desert Camel" also tells the story of the desert.
Maybe it's because when he used a nuclear bomb to cross the catastrophe before he crossed over, he also chose a desert, and the desert brought him a new life.
In short, every time he goes to the desert, Wang Xika feels full of vitality and energy, and he likes the desert as much as he likes the sea.
The yellow sand is all over the sky, and the remnant sun is like blood.
In the distance of the desert, puffs of black smoke rose, long and straight, connecting the sky and the earth.
The desert is lonely, and the sun sets over the long river.
The artistic conception is good, but Wang Xika can't help but wonder:
Why is there "lonely smoke" in this desert? Could it be that someone is cooking?
Wang Xijia sent a pair of people to check, and the scene in front of him couldn't help but surprise people.
These black smoke turned out to be real "wolf smoke", because this is the smoke produced by burning werewolves.
Piles of werewolf corpses were neatly placed together and burned, which was simply miserable.
Garrincha jumped off the motorcycle and turned into a wolf, ran a few steps and grabbed a little werewolf who was lighting a fire and asked, "What the hell is going on?"
"Dead, all dead......" The little werewolf didn't seem to be in his right mind, and could only mumble monotonous sentences in his mouth.
It turned out that after Garrincha left, a plague broke out within the werewolf group, and more than a thousand people died in seven days.
At the beginning, Dracula released a group of rabid dogs carrying the rabies virus to bite people as usual, rabies is certainly a disease that will kill after infection, but werewolves are agile, and it is difficult for mad dogs who have lost their minds to bite werewolves.
After the mad dog tactics failed, the plague came. Werewolves with this plague will have high fevers, cracked soles, dry noses, and watery secretions. This is followed by drowsiness, loss of energy, refusal to eat and drink, and some werewolves will have coughing, difficulty breathing, swollen lymph nodes, and bleeding from the ears, nose and mouth.
The werewolf who contracted this disease died within a few days, and at first everyone buried their dead compatriots in the bones. The burial ground is the sacred place of the wolf clan, and it is the grave where werewolves of the past generations are buried. When werewolves are old and decrepit, and they feel that their time is short, they will go to the burial ground and wait for the end of their lives, and the previous generation of wolf king Sessions is also buried here.
As more and more werewolves died, the burial ground could no longer handle so many corpses. And the werewolves who buried their comrades themselves would also fall ill and die, and the great elder of the wolf clan, Garlow, ordered the dead werewolves to be burned in a centralized manner, and no longer entered the burial ground to bury them. This little werewolf is the one responsible for burning the corpses.
After listening to the description of the little werewolf, Wang Xijia suddenly shouted: "No one is allowed to approach this little werewolf and Garincha who touches him, and those who violate the order will be shot immediately." ”
It turned out that Wang Xijia suspected that the werewolf was infected with a high-severity infectious disease, which was somewhat like canine distemper in terms of symptoms, and some like the "Black Death" that once claimed the lives of 25 million people in Europe. Regardless of the disease, it is a highly intense infectious disease. It would be bad if the soldiers he brought with him contracted this disease.
Canine distemper is a viral infection, and bubonic plague "Black Death" is a bacterial infection. To distinguish which disease it is, modern medical testing is required. The treatment of the two diseases is also different, canine distemper is mainly treated with interferon and antivirals, while bubonic plague needs to be treated with antimicrobial drugs such as streptomycin, sulfonamides, etc.
Whether it is testing or medication, Wang Xijia has no way to do it, the only thing he can do is to isolate and observe. Wang Xijia made two masks out of cloth, threw them far away to Garrincha and the little werewolf who was in charge of disposing of the corpse, asked them to bring them, and threw each of them a motorcycle helmet, telling them not to take off their masks and helmets except for eating and drinking. He also instructed the two men to wash their hands with liquor after burning the corpses.
The little werewolf's name is Cerezo, and he is inexplicable by Wang Xijia's request, but Wang Xijia is the new wolf king. Since the wolf king let him do this, then just do it. And Wang Xijia does this with reason:
Generally speaking, canine distemper and the Black Death are transmitted by contact, but the possibility of droplet transmission is not ruled out.
As a time-traveler, to be honest, Wang Xika does not take the so-called "enemy" of this era in his eyes. Whether it's a craftsman, a hairy man, a vampire, or a werewolf, no matter how cunning you are, no matter how good your fighting skills are, the modern technology you encounter with Wang Xika is all scum.
But there is one enemy that Wang Xika is helpless against, and that is disease. "Birth, old age, sickness, and death" are natural laws that human beings cannot avoid, and they are also known as the four major sufferings of life. This "disease" is particularly painful.
In the history of mankind, many heroes of great talent and strategy finally fell on the word "disease". Unified Greece and conquered Egypt, Alexander of Persia died of illness at the age of 33. Guo Jia, who had no last resort, did not calculate that he had a serious illness when he was 38 years old and died.
There have been countless great plagues in the history of mankind, and there are ten rooms and nine empty rooms at every turn, and corpses are everywhere. Even in the era when medical technology was highly developed before Wang Xijia crossed over, human beings had never defeated disease. Every now and then, one or two major plagues occur that bring the global economy to a standstill.
And in ancient times, when medical technology was not so developed, the plague was only worse, and there were no antibiotics in this era, but there were smallpox, cholera, leprosy - no matter which disease was encountered, it can be said that the whole person will be confessed.
Sickness is an enemy that you can't deal with with a single shot from a blue-burning Gatling. In a sense, the enemy that kills humanity the most is disease, and this patient is invisible.