God's Gift

Until the projections of Weixi and Su Yun disappeared from the villa, Xiaoou glanced at the place where Su Yun was originally, then lowered his head and continued to do the puzzle.

Yu Youyou thought about it, picked up one of the puzzle pieces, and said bluntly:

"I am coming too."

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Under the three rings, in the damp and dark underground, a ray of light flickered on and off.

Anthony patted the dead flashlight, a look of regret appeared on his rugged face, and he said in annoyance, "It's dead."

After the flashlight went out, a rustling sound was heard in the dark tunnel, which came and went, like sharp claws scratching the wall.

Anthony lay on the wet soil and listened attentively. The sound came and went, as if it came from the other end of the tunnel.

"Fang Ziang, be careful, those rats seem to be coming." Anthony turned his head and reminded Fang Ziang behind him.

But Fang Ziang, who had been complaining all the way, fell silent and hid in the darkness.

Anthony's expression changed, and he shouted anxiously: "Fang Ziang, Fang Ziang, where are you!"

In the empty tunnel, only Anthony's voice echoed. The voice spread out like waves, responding to Anthony at the end of the darkness.

Anthony's heart gradually grew cold as he thought that Fang Ziang might have been captured by those man-eating rats.

Thinking of the horrifying scene of Fang Ziang being eaten by those rats, Anthony felt more and more guilty and began to regret that he did not pay attention to Fang Ziang when he complained that the tunnel was damp and difficult to walk in.

Otherwise, Fang Ziang would not have stopped talking, and would not have been taken away silently.

A "bang" sound rang out in the tunnel, and Anthony slapped himself hard.

After Anthony slapped himself, Fang Ziang's weak voice came from his tunnel: "An... Dong... cough cough..."

Anthony's expression lit up with joy, and he ran towards the sound, and finally saw Fang Ziang's vague figure in the darkness.

He was sitting on the ground, coughing violently.

Anthony walked up to Fang Ziang and examined him carefully, but did not find any obvious wounds on his body.

"Fang Ziang, what's wrong with you?"

"I seem to have a fever." Fang Ziang answered Anthony in a weak and powerless voice.

"It's a fever again." Anthony placed the back of his hand on Fang Ziang's forehead and indeed felt a burning sensation.

He thought of Odin who died of encephalitis from being stung by a firefly, and his expression was not very good.

"Have you ever been bitten by a firefly?"

Fang Ziang rolled his eyes at Anthony and said, "Where did the fireflies come from in this cave?"

"What is that?" Anthony didn't figure it out. He decisively turned on his smart brain and prepared to report to Lu Keming.

The call was quickly connected and Lu Keming's voice was heard.

"Anthony, what's going on?"

Anthony quickly reported: "Master, Fang Ziang is in trouble."

"What happened to Fang Ziang?" Yu Youyou, who was originally doing a puzzle with Xiaoou, stood up suddenly when she heard Anthony's words, and ran to Lu Keming in two or three steps.

"He's running a fever, the same one Odin had before he died."

"Aren't you in the tunnel?" Compared to Anthony and Yu Youyou's anxiety, Lu Keming answered calmly and slowly:

"The top-secret files record that fireflies feed on sunlight, so they can't possibly appear in tunnels."

After Lu Keming's reminder, Anthony finally remembered the top-secret file. He slapped his head and thought, it must be the young master!

"I'm sorry, Master. I forgot in my haste."

Yu Youyou came close to Lu Keming's intelligent brain and shouted, "Fang Ziang, are you okay? Are you feeling unwell anywhere else?"

"Cold." Fang Ziang's brain was already dizzy from the fever. He shuddered and shivered. "It's very cold."

After saying just two sentences, Fang Ziang started coughing violently again. Anthony searched around in the storage space and finally found two batteries.

He installed the batteries, turned on the flashlight, and saw Fang Ziang coughing up blood.

"Master, he's coughing up blood!"

Yu Youyou grabbed her hair anxiously: "Why is he coughing up blood again?"

Xiaoou, who had just completed half of the puzzle, stopped what he was doing and suddenly interrupted, "He's in the tunnel?"

When Yu Youyou heard Xiaoou's voice, she immediately turned to look at Xiaoou: "Yes."

Xiaoou put away a puzzle piece in his hand and said without looking up, "There should be rats in the tunnel."

Yu Youyou's eyes lit up and she gestured to Xiaoou, "You already know this, there are really a lot of mice in there!"

"The Black Death." Xiaoou said calmly and quickly came to the conclusion.

"Also known as plague, it is a serious infectious disease caused by Yersinia pestis. Humans can be infected with the disease after coming into contact with sick rats infected with Yersinia pestis."

After hearing what Xiaoou said, Yu Youyou quickly remembered that when Fang Ziang was on the train, his face was covered in blood from the food stored by the rats on the wall of the cave, and it seemed that he accidentally swallowed the blood into his mouth.

It turns out that I got the infection at that time.

When talking about these diseases, Xiaoou finally became more talkative: "The typical symptoms are sudden onset, chills, high fever, severe headache, low blood pressure, bleeding tendency, etc."

"Plague is highly contagious and can be spread through flea bites, direct contact, and droplets."

"The mortality rate of the Black Death was extremely high, and patients usually died within 24 hours of onset. If it was septicemic Black Death, the mortality rate could be as high as percent."

Xiaoou paused, glanced at Lu Keming's intelligence brain, and said to Anthony over there in a calm voice without a trace of ripples:

"And there are no antibiotics that can cure the Black Death in Desperate City. You can give up on him."

"He's hopeless."