devil's son

Tongcheng is currently cut off from communication, the Internet is cut off, and the TV is still full of singing and dancing. The news that Tongcheng is blocked is only spread in Tongcheng County, and the news has not yet spread to the towns.Residents in the township are still immersed in the joy of the New Year. There are lion dancers, opera singers, and jugglers in the town, which is very lively.Almost all the shops in the town were open for business on the third day of junior high school.

Therefore, when passing by these places, Zheng Yunyao stopped and went with Dongsheng to buy some medicine and food, so as to be prepared.

Zhang Lixin stayed outside and waited. He noticed that many people in the town seemed to have caught a cold. As far as he could see, he could see people coughing and wiping their noses. The door was not opened.Patients gathered outside the clinic, some still had the strength to shout for the doctor to open the door, some went to the pharmacy to buy medicine, some were really sick, or they were driven by their family members, or they went to the waiting point in the town for a ride Passenger car, I plan to go to the city to take a good look.

It is conceivable that when these people came to the city, saw the chaos in the city, heard the news that Tongcheng was blocked, and then came back, I am afraid that the short-term excitement in the small town will no longer exist.

Soon, Dongsheng and Zheng Yunyao came back with big bags and small bags, filling the space inside the SUV to the brim.

Seeing that Dongzai still had a conscience, Ah Huang decided not to bother with Dongzai for the time being because he bought a lot of his favorite spicy dried fish.Fat Miao sat on Dongsheng's lap again, using both mouth and claws, skillfully tore open the package of dried fish, stretched out his tongue and rolled it out, and rolled out small fish full of flavor from the small packaging bag.After a while, there was a layer of plastic bags of dried fish piled up beside Dongsheng's feet.

"Dong Zai, Dong Zai, I want to drink water meow! It's so hot!" Ah Huang hissed and urged Dong Sheng.

Dongsheng unscrewed the cap of the mineral water bottle, Ah Huang hugged his wrist, drank most of the bottle, his chubby belly bulged a little more.After eating and drinking enough, Fat Miao lay sprawled on Dongsheng's lap, and purred heartlessly after a while.

The village road is very narrow, Zheng Yunyao carefully avoided the oncoming cars, and said to Dongsheng: "Dongzai, I am also a little thirsty, help me get a bottle of water."

Dongsheng didn't speak, took a bottle of mineral water and unscrewed it and handed it to Zheng Yunyao. It was obviously tasteless water, but Zheng Yunyao felt sour when he drank it—humans are not as good as cats, and finally, the Fat Meow brand The light bulb fell asleep, and there was a bigger and brighter light bulb in the car!

Zhang Lixin was thinking about the speculation in his heart, and he didn't have the consciousness of being a light bulb at all, "It's not enough for us to buy these food and medicines now, it's better to buy more gasoline. If the situation worsens, gasoline can be used for transportation and Can be used as a weapon."

Zhang Lixin had a feeling that things were not that simple this time.Judging from the current reaction of the state apparatus, his guess is mostly valid, but the measures taken by the state apparatus are blocked but not sparse.The higher-ups dispatched troops to blockade Tongcheng, but kept the truth secret, and did not even make any epidemic prevention arrangements for the people of Tongcheng.

It is not that the country has not experienced the baptism of large-scale infectious viruses, but this time the response of the state apparatus is different from every time before, and it is also different from the established procedures.

All this can only show that the virus that appeared in Tongcheng is very likely to be completely different from the previous ones.

If the initial sign of this virus infection is influenza, they came all the way just now, at least 5.00% of the six people were infected.Generally speaking, antibodies are the most effective means to deal with viruses, but now even the existence of viruses is kept secret, so it can be inferred that antibodies have not yet appeared.In other words, the current fatality rate of this virus is very likely to be as high as [-]%.

The information Zhang Lixin knew was very limited, and the information he deduced was also very limited.

In fact, the situation was worse than he deduced.

The virus that appeared in Tongcheng this time is a very rare mutant virus.The unmutated version of this virus was cultivated by the virologists of country R as a biochemical weapon during the war.It's a pity that this virus didn't have time to be released on the battlefield, and country R was defeated and retreated to their small island.

The records about this virus only exist in some top-secret documents, and there are no samples of this virus in China.However, according to the records in the document, with today's technology, it is not difficult to overcome this virus.The difficulty is that the L virus (temporarily named after the initials of the first deceased) that appeared in Tongcheng this time is a mutated and upgraded version of this virus.

The lethality rate of L virus is as high as 20%. It is transmitted through the air. The initial symptoms of infected people are very similar to those of influenza. The whole process from infection to death takes about [-] to [-] days.After the patient dies, the body decays rapidly, and the reproduction speed of the L virus is five to ten times that of the infected person before death.

And the most frightening thing is that the L virus continues to mutate.

Li Kangwei, the first deceased in Tongcheng People's Hospital, the L virus extracted from his body had mutated twice in just 24 hours.The mutated L virus has a higher infection rate, and can be transmitted through water sources, and the death time of infected people is also shortened.

The experts were helpless against the L virus, not to mention antibodies now, just a few hours after the expert team arrived in Tongcheng, one expert and his assistant were already infected with the L virus.

Once the relevant information is exposed, not only will Tongcheng be out of control, but other parts of the country will also fall into panic and chaos.

The only way now is to blockade Tongcheng, try to prevent the L virus from being taken out of Tongcheng, and then find antibodies as soon as possible to make a vaccine.

It was not until the afternoon of that day that the higher authorities finally announced the existence of the virus, and then actively reassured the public, publicizing the epidemic prevention measures over and over again, asking residents to stay at home as much as possible, and not to visit relatives and friends. Actively accept treatment, all treatment costs are borne by the state and so on.

The designated medical location above is no longer a public hospital in the county, but an infectious disease isolation hospital located on the outskirts of the city, and the patient's family members are prohibited from accompanying him.

All patients who have been hospitalized in public hospitals have also been transferred there.

The appeasement methods above did not have much effect, and many people fell into panic.Fortunately, the government has compelled to control the prices, and the material needs of Tongcheng are fully guaranteed. Soldiers with live ammunition can be seen in three or five steps on the street, and the few people who want to make trouble can only stop temporarily in the face of the black hole. down.

However, the L virus did not stop because of high-pressure control.

Anxi Village is a bit remote, Zheng Yunyao was driving on the road, and when he found Grandpa Liu Qiang's house, it was already three or four o'clock in the afternoon.

In the village, not only Liu Qiang's grandfather passed away, but several other families were also doing funeral affairs.Tongcheng is a small county with lax supervision. Anxi Village is also remote. The village cadres turned a blind eye. Many people in the village were not sent to cremation when they passed away, and they were buried directly.

After Liu Qiang arrived at his uncle's house, he inquired in detail about the process of his grandfather's death, and also went to several other houses where funerals were held.With this question, Liu Qiang realized that something was wrong.Including his grandfather, the six deceased in Anxi Village experienced influenza, vomiting, diarrhea, incontinence, coma, and finally died before they passed away.From 'cold' to death, it took about ten days.

Although the deceased were all elderly people, this is definitely not a coincidence.

During the inquiry, Liu Qiang found that many people in the village had caught a cold, including his uncle's family and his aunt's family.

Liu Qiang suspected that the people in the village were infected with some infectious disease, so he proposed to send his grandfather's body to be cremated. For this reason, when Zheng Yunyao and the others arrived, Liu Qiang's uncle was arguing with him, and his aunt was also sarcastic .Liu's father and Liu's mother were next to him and Quan Liu Qiang didn't say a few words. Liu Qiang is not such a person who changes his mind easily. The whole family is in a turmoil. When Liu's father saw Dong Sheng and Zhang Lixin coming, he hurriedly said: "Dong cub, Captain Zhang, please help me persuade Qiangzi."

Zhang Lixin had just listened a few times at the door, and probably knew what was going on, he said loudly: "Qiangzi is right, not only the body of the old man needs to be cremated, but also all the dead people from other families must be sent Cremation."

Zhang Lixin's voice was like cold water dripping into a hot oil pan, and the yard immediately exploded: "Who are you, why do you say that?"

"Yes, yes."

"It's not up to you, an outsider, to intervene in our Sun family's affairs!" Liu Qiang's uncle, Sun Dahai, snapped.

Zhang Lixin sneered: "Last night, dozens of people died in Tongcheng People's Hospital overnight, and their cause of death was also caused by 'cold'. Now all the intersections in and out of Tongcheng are closed, and the county is in chaos. Why do you think it is?"

Zhang Lixin's meaning was already obvious, and Liu Qiang's complexion changed drastically.

The others also looked at each other, and Sun Dahai said sternly, "You, don't scare us!" Sun Dahai also caught the flu, and his symptoms were almost exactly the same as those of the old man's first cold.The reason why he strongly opposed sending the old man to be cremated was because Liu Qiang said that the cause of the old man's death was probably an infectious disease caused by some kind of virus.The old man has already gone, and the old lady is also sick and unconscious. The symptoms are exactly the same as the old man. He, his wife, his son, daughter-in-law, and grandson all have a cold.

How dare Sun Dahai believe Liu Qiang's words?Believe Liu Qiang's words, it means that the whole family may be like the old man...

But now, it seemed that he could no longer believe it.

"You guys, come and watch TV!" At this moment, someone suddenly exclaimed.

In the living room, what is being broadcast on TV is the government's 'official statement'.

"Dongzai, what's the matter?" Zheng Yunyao couldn't help asking seeing Dongsheng's solemn expression.

Dong Sheng looked at a place southwest of Anxi Village, and said in a low voice, "There's something wrong with the evil spirit in that place."

Zheng Yunyao didn't see any evil spirit, only the dark clouds covering the sky and the sun in the sky.What Dongsheng saw was the sinister aura rushing towards Xiao Han like thick smoke under the dark clouds. This evil aura was filled with a thick fishy green color, which was exactly the same color as those plague ghosts.

Ah Huang tilted his head and thought for a while, then muttered, "That direction seems to be Li Family Village Meow."

Ah Huang looked at Dong Sheng with a little worry. After Dong Sheng was taken out of Lijia Village by Li Jiu, he cried a few times at the beginning and wanted to go home.Afterwards, Dongsheng never mentioned the matter of going home again. Li Jiu once thought that he was young and forgot about those unpleasant things.It wasn't until later, by chance, that Li Jiu learned that Dongsheng not only remembered everything he had lived in Lijia Village, but also figured out the real cause of old Li's death by himself.

Ah Huang still remembered that Dongzai, who was only in his teens at the time, stared at the crazy thunderstorm in the sky with dark eyes and said expressionlessly: "Good people will be rewarded with evil, and the law of heaven is not fair."

His immature and cold voice still echoed in Ah Huang's ears.At this moment, Dong Sheng couldn't even restrain the evil spirit in his body, strands of black energy kept overflowing from his body, surrounding him violently.

"In a while, let's go and have a look." Dongsheng said to Zheng Yunyao.

Although Dongsheng's expression was the same as usual, but Zheng Yunyao always felt that when Dongsheng stared in that direction, his expression was extraordinarily complicated.There must be something in it that he doesn't know.

Zheng Yunyao firmly held Dongsheng's cold hand, nodded and said: "Okay. Dongsheng, no matter what happens, I will always be with you."

"En." Dong Sheng felt warm and nodded slightly.

Ah Huang's eyes widened in surprise—the evil spirit around Dongsheng disappeared completely in an instant, as if it had never appeared before.

I always feel that I have been stuffed with dog food again.