It took Su Keke and Grandma Qiao almost ten minutes to squeeze out of the crowd.

The quarreling and wailing sounds inside made one's scalp tingle.

Those people at the door who didn't know what was going on were still trying to squeeze in.

"Bang!" Su Keke heard a gunshot.

"Everyone, get down, if anyone tries to squeeze in, don't blame me for being blind!"

The scene suddenly became quiet. Except for those who were stepped on, who would groan from time to time, everyone else squatted down in silence.

Su Keke and Grandma Qiao took the opportunity to slip away quickly, otherwise they would meet the patrol team rushing over, and they would definitely be stopped and questioned as they were dressed so conspicuously.

After leaving the rescue station, Su Keke took Grandma Qiao into the space capsule house. She had previously stockpiled a lot of protective clothing, and she and Grandma Qiao would not need so many.

So she wanted to send a batch of protective clothing to Lingcheng's Municipal Office. Only when the patrol teams responsible for isolation and the medical staff responsible for treatment were properly protected could they better prevent the spread of the rash.

The stampede at the rescue station was quickly quelled after the patrol team arrived.

As more and more people came for consultation at night, all the dermatologists felt an unprecedented sense of pressure.

This rash looks ordinary. At first it may seem like a mosquito bite, with just a few small red dots.

At this time, people tend to ignore it. Who hasn’t been bitten by a mosquito? It will heal in a few days!

But as time goes by, the small red dot will slowly swell into a big lump, and finally the abscess will burst, the breathing will become rapid, and the person will die before he can even catch his breath.

"Xiao Yan, drive the seven-seater van at the station to the municipal office to find Mayor Chen and report the situation here to him. It would be best if he specially approves some protective clothing. The medical staff on the front line must protect themselves well and not get infected."

The stationmaster Lu Yuan suspected that the rash was highly contagious and that the citizens who came to see a doctor must be immediately separated according to their physical conditions.

"Okay, Station Master! I'll go right away!"

Xiaoyan was a food delivery rider before the natural disaster. His family did not live in a residential building, and was unfortunately submerged during the flood. He was the only one who swam out with all his might.

Swimming in the flood was extremely tiring, but he was lucky enough to be found by the rescue soldiers, who took him to a relief station.

After Xiaoyan arrived at the shelter, he was autistic for a long time. It was Station Master Lu who constantly counseled him and helped him slowly untie the knot in his heart.

Now he is helping out at the rescue station. Wherever people are needed, he will appear. The doctors and nurses here like him very much.

After Xiaoyan left, Lu Yuan immediately called medical staff from various departments to a meeting in the conference room, especially the dermatologists, as they were about to fight a tough battle without the smoke of gunpowder.

…

Municipal Office, Office of Mayor Chen Guodong.

The heads of various departments have already arrived. They are curious as to why the mayor is so anxious to ask them to come for the meeting. Has something big happened?

“Is it the acid rain that the anonymous email said is coming?”

"No way? The meteorological department didn't find anything unusual? In the past few days, except for the temperature dropping a little, there's no other change."

"Why do you think this happened? Mayor Chen looks unhappy, his eyebrows are knitted together!"

A few people who were sitting close to each other had already started whispering to each other, speculating about all kinds of things that might happen.

They had held such an emergency meeting since the extreme heat began. After that, whichever department encountered a problem would go to the mayor for a separate meeting to discuss solutions.

"Everyone, please be quiet. The reason why you are so anxious to come to the meeting today is that something unexpected has happened in Lingcheng."

Mayor Chen Guodong suddenly spoke, and everyone who was talking at the scene immediately stopped talking. They looked up and stared at Chen Guodong intently, eager to know what big thing had happened.

Ten minutes ago, Chen Guodong was shocked when he heard Xiaoyan's report from the rescue station. Rash epidemic? That anonymous email didn't mention this?

He first asked Xiaoyan to go back and said that he knew about this matter and would immediately send a patrol team to assist Lu Yuan in isolating these patients. As for protective clothing, he would also try his best to find it.

Looking at the dozen or so pairs of inquiring eyes in the conference room, Chen Guodong narrowed his gaze and simply told everyone what Xiaoyan had just reported.

"Ah! The rash? What kind of infectious disease is this?"

"We have no medical equipment and are in very short supply of medicine. What should we do if an infectious disease suddenly breaks out?"

"Could this red rash on my hand be caused by a mosquito bite? It's a little itchy when I scratch it. But I don't feel anything else!"

Qian Fei, the logistics chief in charge of the breeding bases and various scientific breeding areas of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, rolled up his sleeves amid the discussion.

He usually wears short-sleeved shirts to work, but these two days he wore a long-sleeved shirt because he had a lot of rashes on his arms.

Qian Fei himself felt that these red rashes were nothing serious. There were many mosquitoes in the hot weather, and he had been bitten by mosquitoes before. They would usually heal in three or four days.

"Ah... so many rashes? Seeing these rashes makes me have trypophobia."

"Old Qian, these aren't mosquito bites, are they? Your entire arm is almost covered in these red spots."

Several people sitting next to Qian Fei suddenly seemed to realize something and left their seats, fearing that they would be infected as soon as they saw it.

Didn’t Mayor Chen just say that there are already many patients with these rashes at the shelter?

"How...how did it grow so much? I...I only saw about a dozen red spots this morning. How come my whole arm is covered with them now?"

Qian Fei looked at his arm, sweat pouring down his face. It was spreading so fast, it must not be caused by mosquito bites!

"Didn't the mayor just say that this rash will get worse and worse, and eventually spread throughout the body and cause death from respiratory failure?"

Qian Fei was so frightened that he slumped in his chair, his eyes dull, as if his soul had been suddenly taken away.

"Xiao Liu, please go find some masks and gloves and have the patrol officers on duty wear them.

Then send two more people to drive Lao Qian to the rescue station after taking proper protective measures.

After seeing the red rash on Qian Fei's arm, Chen Guodong's face turned even uglier. After listening to Xiaoyan's report on the situation at the rescue station, he had not yet faced the virus head-on and was still relatively calm.

To be honest, he is feeling a bit scared now. The most terrible thing during a natural disaster is the occurrence of such a large-scale infectious disease. Moreover, according to Lu Yuan, the director of the rescue station, there is currently no good treatment.

Everyone else in the meeting room consciously stood one meter away from Qian Fei and lifted up their clothes and sleeves.

Without caring about his image, he went to the mayor's office to check if he had been unlucky enough to be infected.

"Ah! Chief Lu, it seems that you have...a few red rashes on your back!"