Chapter 25: The Indians Who Died of Plague

When Wang Qiu and the others arrived, the T-virus from another world had obviously spread in Vicha Village. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Ironically, the first patient to fall ill was not Mr. Chandra who had returned from the other world, and it is even possible that this Mr. Chandra was not sick at all in the other world - as a souvenir of this trip to another world, Mr. Chandra's wife, Karina, bought a lot of various knick-knacks when she visited the city of London at the end of the 18th century in the world of Pride and Prejudice...... When he returned to his hometown, Mr. Chandra gave some of his knick-knacks to the servants, and at the same time gave the cats to the servants to take care of.

As a result, the first person to fall ill was a valet who took care of the cats, and while bathing the folded cat, he suddenly began to vomit blood, and the housekeeper thought he was infected with tuberculosis, so he ordered the people to take him home, and later heard that he died the next day - this is not a matter of concern in India, especially in the impoverished state of Bihar, where thousands of people die every year from all kinds of infectious diseases: malaria, cholera, dengue fever, tuberculosis, jaundice, and the flu that must occur every year. Countless lives will be harvested in this magical land of India.

But then the servants of the mansion began to fall ill one by one, and then even the master, Mr. Chandra, had a high fever, and the two folded cats did not know where to go...... The housekeeper, who was so anxious that he jumped to his feet, hurriedly invited a doctor from the local countryside, but whether it was a fever-reducing injection, a fever-reducing tablet, or even a suppository in his buttocks, it had no effect, and in the end even the doctor himself fell ill with a fever. Just when the housekeeper was so anxious that he didn't know what to do, he was naturally overjoyed to see Wang Qiu and them, especially Teacher Shizuka Jukawa coming over with a medical kit with a red cross on his back.

Unfortunately, in the real world where Doraemon magic props can't be used, Wang Qiu and his team have no reliable treatment for the T-virus in "Resident Evil", and their current thoughts are not on the unconscious Mr. Chandra - after indiscriminately giving the patient a fever-reducing injection and hanging glucose saline, Wang Qiu and his party hurriedly began to investigate the spread of the virus. The housekeeper of the Shukla family also realized the seriousness of the situation and was very cooperative with this, in addition to insisting that Dr. Shizuka Jukawa stay to take care of the master, he did everything he could ask Wang Qiu and Li Wei, and also sent a driver to drive a three-wheeled motorcycle to take them around the village to check the epidemic.

The results of on-the-spot observation are very, very not optimistic - not only are half of the servants in the Shukla family mansion sick, but the village is already full of sick numbers: those servants who have taken leave to go home because of illness, and the guys who insist on working despite their illness, have all become mobile sources of infection, and through frequent close contact, before Wang Qiu and the others arrived, the entire Vicha Village was pushed into the abyss of destruction of the biological and chemical weapons T-virus......

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As we all know, India is a densely populated place, and Bihar, located in the essence of the Ganges River basin, with a population of more than 100 million, is one of the most densely populated places in India. So, the village of Vicha, where Mr. Chandra lived, nominally called a village, had a population of 10,000, and was already the size of a small city in sparsely populated places like Russia and Canada.

However, from the perspective of infrastructure, it is clear that this village is not as good as many remote settlements in developed countries, and there are all kinds of strange things full of Indian characteristics everywhere - although the local government has installed telephone poles because of its achievements, it has never been electrified; Although the faucet was installed for the same reason, the water never came out; The only public phone booth in the village is also a decoration, of course, but it miraculously receives a mobile phone signal! Therefore, those who have mobile phones in the village regularly go to the market to recharge, where vendors often pedal tricycles and pull privately modified car batteries and fast chargers (which can be imagined as king-sized power banks) to sell electricity to those who have no electricity at home.

As you can imagine, there is no hospital in Vicha Village, only a vacant lot overgrown with wild grass and three cornerstones of the village hospital. Because there have been three governments in recent years, and before each election, politicians have promised to build hospitals in every major village, so there are three more stones.

Fortunately, in a neighboring village half a kilometre away from Vicha, there is a public hospital that provides free medical care for all with Indian characteristics, and most of the patients in the village are sent there, except for those who lie at home waiting to die.

When Wang Qiu and the others arrived at the public hospital in the twilight, they found that there was not a single glass of glass visible from the windows of the hospital, and the walls were overgrown with weeds, as if they were infested with goats and wild cats, as if they had been abandoned for many years. But inside the hospital, it was full of people moaning and coughing, a kerosene lamp hung on the beams of the room, and all kinds of unpleasant smells wafted out of the open door......

Wang Qiu went in and walked around, and found that all the doors of the ward were missing, as were the hospital beds, medical equipment, doctors and nurses...... With no doctors, no beds to lie on, not even a bench to sit on, the patients had to spread out newspapers on the dirty floor as seats, and while enduring the pain of the disease, they waited for the arrival of the doctor. Seeing Wang Qiu and them coming in, all the patients cast expectant glances together, but after discovering that they were not doctors, they shouted in disappointment.

“…… Ahem! Vomiting blood again! You gave me this disease! Now we're all going to die! ”

“…… Not really! You infect me! Why hasn't the doctor come yet? ”

“…… The only doctor in this area is probably still working part-time at the city's private hospital! Isn't that the case in all public hospitals in the countryside? Except for the annual check-up by government officials, the doctors in public hospitals are never seen! All went to private work! ”

“…… That's too immoral, isn't it? Are they worthy of the government's salary? ”

“…… No way, everybody! And doctors don't necessarily get paid! Our local government officials are so greedy that public hospitals often fail to pay their salaries for several months, and if the doctors don't do their private work, do they want them to starve to death? ”

“…… But you have to ask where the doctor is! I know the doctor's mobile number! Whose phone is borrowing me? ”

“…… Ahem! It's useless, I know where the doctor is! My son just met him yesterday! ”

“…… What the? Where's the doctor? (Throwing up blood while grabbing the other person's collar)

“…… Let it go! You idiot! The doctor has been invited to the Shukla family in Vicha Village! ”

“…… Shukla home? Is it the Shukla family, who owns three villages and has people who are councillors in Delhi? ”

“…… Yes, which Shukla family is there besides them? O noble brahmins who have been passed down for thousands of years! In addition to the land here, even several nearby rivers belong to his family, and the fisherman catches a fish from the river, and the captain has to pay him a share for every person who ferries! ”

“…… What a black heart! ”

“…… Alas, compared to the landlords of our village, they are already quite okay! At least I didn't set up a card on the road out of the village to buy road money......"

“…… The landlords in our village are even more excessive, and whoever wants to go to the city to work has to hand over one-third of their income to him...... Ahem, the only doctor here has already been called away anyway, and it is estimated that the doctor will not come back until that Mr. Shukla recovers or dies......"

――Wang Qiu thought to himself, in fact, even the doctor himself was put down by the T virus, and you can only wait for the zombie doctor to come to see you......

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While the patients were muttering, there was a young man who couldn't hold it anymore. Although the patient's wife was still trying to feed him some water, he immediately vomited out the blood, and then the whole black and thin body began to convulse, and vomited blood in a big gulp, which frightened a little girl next to her into crying...... A moment later, amid his wife's heart-rending cries, the poor man died.

However, despite the terrible cries of the family members, everyone only looked at the corpses on the ground with indifferent eyes, and obviously they were no longer surprised, and they did not even say a word of comfort, but only urged them to carry the dead away quickly, so as to make room for the living.

Of course, before carrying the dead away, the blood he vomited had to be wiped clean so as not to infect others......

Then, there was a sudden shouting and scolding outside the hospital door, Wang Qiu poked his head out to see, it turned out to be a few untouchable untouchables who were sick, and they also wanted to go into the hospital to wait for a doctor, but they were discovered by other villagers, and immediately viciously picked up sticks and drove away these untouchable filthy people.

-- Even in this precarious and uncertain situation, some deep-rooted hierarchical discrimination remains unshaken......

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“…… Alas! The feeling of this place...... It's like Raccoon City in the early days of the T virus leak in Resident Evil! ”

Wang Qiu shook his head and sighed, and said to Li Wei, "...... There was a gloomy smell of death and despair everywhere......"

“…… I felt like I was back in Europe from the Black Death...... The dead are already appearing! ”

Levi, the former French paladin, also shook his head, and at the same time stuffed the hidden pistol back into his pocket, "...... Fortunately, he died directly, instead of being mutated and becoming a zombie...... Otherwise, this will go straight to the rhythm of the end of the world......"

“…… I'm afraid it's not a few days before the end of the world! Wang Qiu smiled bitterly, "...... At present, we have seen more than 300 patients. Not only in Vicha Village, but also in several nearby villages. In addition, according to Shizuka-sensei's test, some goats, buffaloes and other animals have also shown signs of infection! What's worse is that I heard that there are a few patients whose families are relatively well-off who have just scraped together money to hire a car to seek medical treatment in the urban area of Bodh Gaya...... It is estimated that the T virus will also spread, and the epidemic will be even more out of control......"

“…… Tsk, in the past, Indians always tried to make headlines. Now it's finally a big death and a big news. ”

Looking at the coughing and vomiting of a group of patients around him, Levi pinched his nose in disgust, "...... Looking at this situation, we are obviously out of line. I don't know what the central government will do after the report? Will you just drop a nuclear bomb to disinfect and wash the floor? ”

“…… It's hard to say! From the standpoint of each major country, no matter how slim the success rate is, no matter how serious the consequences, all countries in the world will do their best to curb the spread of the T virus, and will not hesitate to use all means to do so, even if the last Indian dies......"

Wang Qiu shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands, "...... But even then, I'm afraid it's too late! Don't forget how many foreign tourists there are in Bodh Gaya! ”

“…… Damn it! Levi cursed, "...... Is there no way to do it? I don't want to spend time with zombies! ”

“…… Anyway, I can't think of any countermeasures, didn't the nuclear explosion in the plot world of "Resident Evil" not prevent the destruction of the world? ”

Wang Qiu looked at the moon in the night sky with a vicissitudes of life, "...... Maybe it's time to think about the possibility of immigrating to a certain plot world......"

Just when the two were speechless and infinitely depressed, Wang Qiu's mobile phone suddenly rang. After he answered the phone, he didn't say a few words, and Wang Qiu's face couldn't help but gradually start to become weird, and even showed an expression as if he had seen a ghost.

Then, he hung up the phone, looked back at Levi who was confused for a while, and then said:

“…… It was Shizuka-sensei who called...... Mr. Chandra...... I've actually started to have a fever and woke up?! ”

“…… What the?! How is this possible?!!! Levi couldn't help but exclaim.

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When Wang Qiu and the others returned to the Shukra family mansion in the dark, they happened to see Shizuka Jukawa, who was wearing a white coat, holding a small box and nagging to Mr. Housekeeper: "...... The imported Japanese antipyretic medicine that the doctor injected your master with before, the label has expired for three years, and I don't know if it is because he doesn't understand Japanese, so he was already very lucky not to be poisoned and went to heaven, how can it be that people get sick? ”

“…… This damn bastard! How dare you fool the noble Shukla family! What did he think of his master? ”

As soon as he heard that his master was being treated like this, the butler was so angry that he waved his fist a few times, "...... He must pay the heaviest price! ”

“…… Well, fate has already punished him, and this guy is still very sick, and he doesn't even have a fever at all! ”

“…… But that can't be left at that! I'm going to have this quack thrown back into his hospital! ”

-- Wipe a tear of sympathy from the poor two knives of the Indian village doctor.

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At the same time, Wang Qiu and Levi looked around and were even more surprised to find that not only Chandra, who was the master. Mr. Shukla was already able to sit up and drink some rice porridge, and even the servant, who had fallen ill before, began to get better after being given antibiotics and fever-reducing injections by Shizuka Jukawa.

-- According to Shizuka Jukawa, some of them actually had a cold and then deteriorated into pneumonia, but some of them did get infected with the T virus, but Shizuka Jukawa gradually recovered under the careless treatment that was at best equivalent to a placebo.

“…… It should be said...... Sure enough, the Indian people nourished by the Ganges River, who grew up drinking the floating corpse water of the Ganges River, which is rich in bacteria and pollutants, have the body's immune system been trained to be invulnerable? My God! I can even withstand the T virus!! ”

Looking at a patient who was huddled in the corner of the wall and vomiting blood a few hours ago, his complexion is actually much better now, Wang Qiu couldn't help but say in a daze.

“…… In fact, if it were you, you would be able to bear it too! We've all imagined the T-virus to be terrible! But I didn't think that the T virus that left the plot world could still cause the zombie frenzy in "Resident Evil"? ”

Shizuka Jukawa took off her thick mask, wiped a handful of sweat, and gasped and said, "...... In fact, it's like the black technology props in the Doraemon world, which can't be used at all in this world. The Resident Evil T-virus is obviously extremely limited in its harmfulness in this world. According to my observation and judgment, at best, it is equivalent to a slightly more powerful new influenza virus with a relatively high mortality rate.

In fact, if the world's T-virus infected people were properly treated, the mortality rate should be kept at a fairly low level...... By the way, Political Commissar Guo just called, and there is also new progress in his research on the T virus......"

-- A moment later, after talking to Political Commissar Guo, Wang Qiu sat down with a look of loss and let out a long sigh......

The imaginary end of the world is estimated to not come, because the T-virus that comes to the real world is far less terrible than in the plot world - just like Shizuka Jukawa just said, its lethality is only equivalent to the more severe influenza.

Relying on the T-virus antibody test tubes brought back by Wang Qiu and the samples collected in another world, under the tremendous pressure of Zhongnanhai, several secret research institutes in China have even researched vaccines. Of course, it is inevitable that some people will die because of the T virus, and the death toll may be a bit high, but it doesn't matter, in which year did countries around the world not die because of the flu?

In the eyes of Wang Qiu, who has witnessed the end of the world many times, as long as it is not the disaster of civilization subversion and human extinction, it is not a big deal.

From this point of view, the tolerance of this trip to India has been successfully completed, and the next round of play can be returned...... Wang Qiu thought.

However, it will soon prove that Wang Qiu really relaxed too early.

- First of all, although a global zombie crisis will not occur, a global influenza outbreak is still inevitable. Secondly, as a traverser, an infinite space reincarnation who shuttles through countless worlds, Wang Qiu himself has the attributes of a plague god and a bad luck generator......

A cataclysm that will shake the holy land of Buddhism, Bodh Gaya, and even the whole of India, has quietly entered the countdown...... The rate should be controlled at a fairly low level...... By the way, Political Commissar Guo just called, and there is also new progress in his research on the T virus......"

-- A moment later, after talking to Political Commissar Guo, Wang Qiu sat down with a look of loss and let out a long sigh......

The imaginary end of the world is estimated to not come, because the T-virus that comes to the real world is far less terrible than in the plot world - just like Shizuka Jukawa just said, its lethality is only equivalent to the more severe influenza.

Relying on the T-virus antibody test tubes brought back by Wang Qiu and the samples collected in another world, under the tremendous pressure of Zhongnanhai, several secret research institutes in China have even researched vaccines. Of course, it is inevitable that some people will die because of the T virus, and the death toll may be a bit high, but it doesn't matter, in which year did countries around the world not die because of the flu?

In the eyes of Wang Qiu, who has witnessed the end of the world many times, as long as it is not the disaster of civilization subversion and human extinction, it is not a big deal.

From this point of view, the tolerance of this trip to India has been successfully completed, and the next round of play can be returned...... Wang Qiu thought.

However, it will soon prove that Wang Qiu really relaxed too early.

- First of all, although a global zombie crisis will not occur, a global influenza outbreak is still inevitable. Secondly, as a traverser, an infinite space reincarnation who shuttles through countless worlds, Wang Qiu himself has the attributes of a plague god and a bad luck generator......

A cataclysm that will shake the holy land of Buddhism, Bodh Gaya, and even the whole of India, has quietly entered the countdown......