The old woman first took Shen Feng's group to the shack in the woods, and found that almost all of the people present were children, only one adult man, he was leaning on the ground, his face was loveless, and the whole person was obviously lying flat.

The old woman explained to Shen Feng: "Originally, there were dozens of people in our village who survived, and everyone lived here in a group, but as a result, the plague god came, and everyone didn't dare to get close to the river, and they could only catch the rain to drink water, and they didn't dare to drink the river water." The adults are basically dead on the way to find food, and we are the only ones left who are old and weak. ”

Shen Feng saw that the group of children here were all looking at him, and he couldn't help but soften, and said to Cai He: "Take these children to the camp to eat, if you have suitable clothes, remember to find some for them to change into." ”

Now, these dozen people living in the woods are all dirty and torn clothes, obviously they haven't been washed for a long time, but if you think about it, everyone can't even guarantee the water they drink, what kind of clothes do they wash?

Shen Feng took more than 100 people to the village where the old woman was, relied on superior firepower to eliminate the zombies in the village, and finally found the well in the village.

After eliminating the zombies in the village, it was already dark at this time, Shen Feng entered a house, lit a candle, and began to ask about the plague god by the river.

"Old man, what exactly is the plague god you are talking about?" Shen Feng asked first.

Unexpectedly, Ke Yiming interjected at this time: "The plague god, it must be the plague, many ignorant people call infectious diseases such as the plague the plague god, which is a very common thing." ”

"No, no, the plague god I'm talking about is the worm in the river, that's the plague god." The old woman hurriedly explained.

Chu Chaoyan couldn't help but mock Ke Yiming's ignorance: "Don't you know how to pretend to understand, I saw it by the river, there were a lot of insects on the ground at that time, the so-called plague god, it must be some parasites!" It's probably roundworms, tapeworms, or something. Maybe it's a locust! ”

The old woman nodded and explained: "This is true, after being possessed by the plague god, whether it is a human or an animal, all of them will have a bigger belly, and the blood on their bodies will be sucked away, even if they are pregnant in October, their stomachs are not so big, and in a few days, the sick people will go to the river, and finally a big hole will be opened in the stomach, and all the worms in it will come out and go into the water." ”

"Hey, it's disgusting." When Chu Chaoyan heard this description, he couldn't help but feel a little sick to his stomach.

At this time, Shen Feng stared at Chu Chaoyan's stomach and began to look at it, and said as he looked at it: "If this is sick, wouldn't you be able to see your big belly?" ”

"you, you're big-bellied." Chu Chaoyan slapped Shen Feng the shoulder.

The old woman's eyes gradually showed a look of remembrance at this time, and she frowned and said: "Plague God, I remember seeing it when I was a child, when the whole village, regardless of men, women, and children, walked on the street with big bellies, no matter how much they ate, they would never grow fat on their bodies, only their stomachs were getting bigger and bigger. Even cattle and sheep have big bellies, and sometimes you can even see the blood vessels on the belly, and if you poke it with a stick, you may burst it. ”

Shen Feng couldn't help frowning a little when he heard this description, he remembered when he seemed to have heard of this kind of thing.

Ke Yiming was a little curious, and hurriedly asked, "What happened later?" What happened? Aren't you doing it well? ”

The old woman was silent for a long time, frowning and recalling the events of her childhood, because it had been a long time since the incident, and she could not remember it clearly, but she still relied on the events in her memory to say: "Later, everyone went to fill the ditch together, and went to collect snails together, and the plague was eliminated." ”

The old man's memory is obviously not very good, and now he recalls what happened when he was a child, but he can't say a rough idea, which makes everyone present speechless, this is all nonsense that doesn't match the preface, how can the plague god be eliminated by picking up snails?

"Smack!" Shen Feng slapped his thigh and said excitedly: "I remember, I know what is in the river, it's not a locust, it's a schistosome, a parasite on the liver, but it seems that it was eliminated a long time ago." ”

"Oh, yes, yes, that's it, the leader called this thing the plague god at the beginning, so many people called it that." The old woman was reminded by Shen Feng like this, and she also remembered that schistosomiasis was indeed something that was once called a plague god.

Chu Chaoyan remembered something, and said to himself: "There are thousands of willows in the spring breeze, and there are 600 million Shenzhou Shunyao." ”

Ke Yiming carried Shen Feng's biological illustrated book with him, so he began to flip through it by candlelight, and finally found the knowledge of schistosomiasis on the illustrated book, and couldn't help frowning and asked: "But the illustrated book says that schistosoma is transmitted through cercariae, and adults don't seem to be transmitted, but only produce eggs and are excreted with feces, which doesn't seem right, right?" ”

Shen Feng took the illustrated book and looked at it carefully, frowned and said: "That's true, it stands to reason that as long as the snail is caught, there is no intermediate host, and the schistosomiasis will not cause a large-scale infection." But now that adults are actively attacking humans and animals, doesn't that mean that schistosomes have also mutated? ”

Chu Chaoyan hurriedly asked, "Shall we eliminate these schistosomes?" ”

"Come on, it's impossible, how can it be so easy to get rid of the mutated schistosome?" Shen Feng rejected Chu Chaoyan's proposal at that time, "Let's go, let's go back to the camp and cook, I've been on the road all day, I'm going to starve to death." ”

After finishing speaking, Shen Feng stood up and prepared to leave the village, and the rest of the people hurriedly followed.

When Chu Chaoyan saw Shen Feng's appearance, he couldn't help but say, "I thought that you asked for the information of the plague god to see the punishment of evil and promote good, but I didn't expect you to be so bad." ”

Shen Feng ignored Chu Chaoyan and left the village directly, but Yang Chang began to explain at this time: "Miss Chu, it's not so easy to get rid of schistosomes!" The distribution range of schistosoma is the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, more than a dozen provinces, how many of us are there? At the beginning, it was the mobilization of several southern provinces to eradicate schistosomiasis, and now we have neither the intermediate host nor the distribution range of schistosomiasis, how to eliminate them? ”

But won't schistosomiasis be a danger to the world in the future? Is it really okay for us to sit idly by? Chu Chaoyan still couldn't bear it, she thought of the place where the schistosoma was, all of them were men, women and children with big bellies, and it was not a taste in her heart.

"What then? We still have to go to Yanjing, if it is delayed, Yanjing may be even more dangerous, and there are 10 million people over there! Yang Chang said helplessly.

Actually, Yang Chang wanted to say that it was none of our business, but after thinking about it carefully, this sentence seemed to be a bit excessive, so he decided to use the overall situation as the priority to persuade Chu Chaoyan.

Chu Chaoyan's belief at this time suddenly wavered, she thought that if everyone was united, there was nothing that could not be done, as long as the zombies entrenched on the land were eliminated, then the world would be peaceful in the future, at most, kill a batch of mutant beasts, and there would be no danger in the future. However, at this time, Chu Chaoyan found that she would face an enemy that she could not defeat, and this sense of despair made her wonder, is it the peaceful life before that she will never come back?

"The zombies are eliminated, there are mutant beasts, if the mutant beasts are eliminated, and there is a plague god, is the end of mankind really coming?" Chu Chaoyan's heart was in turmoil.

Previously, Chu Chaoyan firmly believed that the peaceful years would come back no matter when, but after she learned more news, she suddenly had a premonition that the years of peace in the world were actually gone, and in her lifetime, she would never see the time when the world was peaceful.

After returning to the camp, Shen Feng picked up a bowl of rice and began to devour it, he was an alien, he needed more energy every day, and his amount of food was also two or three times that of ordinary people, and he was hungry for a whole day, Shen Feng couldn't hold it anymore.

As for the side dishes, it is a few pieces of braised crocodile meat, and more only sauerkraut, and now everyone can only eat these monotonous foods, but it is no problem to fill your stomach.

The children in the woods were all eating like they were gobbling up, and they had changed into some loose clothes, and they looked much cleaner, and the faces of these children were smiling.

Among them, the most ugly appearance is the adult man lying in the woods, he looks like he is in his thirties, he eats like a starving ghost reincarnated, opens his mouth and begins to pick up rice, completely ignoring a little image, his cheeks are bulging, and it is difficult to swallow, which makes people wonder if he will choke to death in the process of eating.

Shen Feng couldn't help but say to the old woman, "Brother over there, why don't you go and persuade her?" Don't be so fierce when eating, there is enough to eat. ”

"This guy, leave him alone, a quack, it's better to choke to death than to starve to death." The old woman replied nonchalantly, she didn't seem to have a good impression of the only surviving young man in the village, and called him a quack, and her face didn't have a good color.

The quack doctor seemed to hear Shen Feng's conversation here, swallowed the rice in his mouth with great difficulty, and said: "What kind of politeness is pretending, only what you eat in your stomach is real, it is rare to be able to eat a full meal, next time you may not have this opportunity, once you are full, it is counted once." ”

As someone once said, everything is fake, eat the pancake roll sauce meat in the stomach, it is true, even if it is dead, there is a little oil and water in the stomach, not like a starving rat.

"Why? It seems that there is no time to eat in the future, isn't it too exaggerated? Shen Feng was a little puzzled and asked directly.

While eating at this time, the quack doctor replied lazily: "You must be leaving, I heard that you are going to war, and we can't go with it, so it will be difficult for us to survive in the future, and it will be impossible for a group of children to work, so in the long run, there will be no chance to eat well!" ”

When Shen Feng heard this, he immediately felt a little ridiculous, and couldn't help but say, "You are healthy, and you are young and strong, even if you work by yourself, you can support yourself, right?" Now it seems that you are just lazy to eat, and the rest of the adults in the village have died in search of food and water, and as for you, you have lived until now because you are greedy for life and afraid of death. ”

The quack doctor was not angry, even if he was ridiculed by Shen Feng so much, he still insisted on his opinion: "Actually, it is useless to work hard, and the current generation is not as good as the generation, just like me, no matter how hard I try, it is impossible to surpass my predecessors, in this case, hard work is just a futile struggle, it is better to lie flat." ”

At this time, the old woman persuaded Shen Feng, "Young man, don't care about this wasted man, even if he surpasses his predecessors, he is still a quack, if you don't believe it, I'll tell you." ”

Shen Feng saw that he was idle now, so he said, "I want to hear about it." ”

The old woman then began to tell the story, which is a long story, quackery itself is a family tradition, and as a result, one generation is not as good as the next.

The first generation of quack doctors is a headache doctor, a foot pain doctor, although it cannot be cured, but it has a little effect.

The second generation of quacks is a headache doctor and a foot pain doctor, as long as there is no disease to be seen, then everything will be fine.

The third generation of quacks has chosen the path of headache and foot pain, as long as the patient can't speak, then he can also whitewash the façade.

As for the quack doctor who is now gobbling up rice dumplings, he is the fourth generation, and he can't get a doctor's certificate, so he can only wander around the village.

"Looking at him like this, I think there will be no next generation in the future, quacks are quacks!" The old woman finally said so.

When Shen Feng heard this, he frowned and didn't know what to say, because this matter seemed to be beyond his imagination, and he had been quacks for generations, which was also a strange news.

However, Chu Chaoyan, who was on the side, seemed to have heard something strange, took out his notebook and began to record, obviously preparing to spread this matter, because it was too ironic.

Shen Feng thought about it, now there are only a dozen people here, and he definitely can't take them away, so he said directly: "Old man, thank you for reminding you before, when we set off tomorrow, we will leave you three hundred catties of cornmeal, enough for you to eat for a while, in the future, you will either farm in the village, or find a way to go to the city, in short, you find a way to live." ”

"Thank you so much, lad." The old woman hurriedly thanked Shen Feng, and at this time, Shen Feng was able to leave them some rations, which was already a life-saving act.