Chapter 524 Is it really a plague?
“Without seeing the person and without blood tests, I can’t be 100% sure. But based on their description of the symptoms, it really looks like this, and I’m not willing to gamble.”
Shi Lang covered his face with his hands, but even his fingertips were trembling slightly.
"This virus is extremely aggressive and highly contagious. Judging from the reports that came back at the time, if the disease got out of control, this place would become a living hell. In Country L, there was once... there was a village with several hundred households. Because they didn't take the disease seriously at first, the epidemic spread rapidly. In the end, the local medical system completely collapsed, and out of those several hundred households, the number of survivors was less than three digits."
The young Taoist priest gasped. In a village of several hundred households, any family with a slightly larger population must have at least a thousand people, right?
Of the thousands of people, only a few dozen survived. This was no longer an extermination of an entire family, but rather the annihilation of a whole village.
“Yu Yan, yes, Yu Yan does testing and genetic research. He has been abroad for so long, he must have some research on this virus. We need to get him out of here as soon as possible.”
As Shi Lang finished speaking, his face paled slightly, and he finally uttered the sentence that Ye Wanxi feared most.
"Plague! It's a plague!"
"Alright, don't worry, we have a way to handle this. Originally, we came out to say goodbye and take care of some related matters, but now it seems that there's no need for that."
Shi Lang was stunned for a moment, not quite understanding what Ye Wanxi meant. Before she could ask, she saw Ye Wanxi pick up Feng Tianyu's phone and send a video call invitation to Xiao Baihui.
It has to be said that Xiao Baihui's side acted very quickly. Even though it was the middle of the night, in less than half an hour, they still managed to find all the people they needed to find.
When Ye Wanxi's video arrived, Xiao Baihui was listening to someone who didn't get along with him righteously accusing him of pretending to be a ghost and spreading alarmist rumors.
As soon as the video call rang, the accusations and arguments in the conference room came to an abrupt halt, and everyone looked at Xiao Baihui... on the phone on the table.
Upon seeing the caller ID on his phone screen, Xiao Baihui, disregarding the fact that he was still in a meeting, quickly answered the call.
Across the desk, the man who was halfway through his tirade realized he was being completely ignored. His face turned as black as the bottom of a pot, and he wanted nothing more than to rush up and smash Xiao Baihui's phone.
It's impossible to smash it. Xiao Jihui, as the deputy minister of the special department, is also present today, sitting right next to that person.
If that person were to make any rash moves at this moment, Xiao Jihui would be the first to stop him.
"Miss Ye, is there anything I can help you with?"
"Mr. Xiao," Ye Wanxi glanced at the background behind Xiao Baihui, "Are you in a meeting?"
"Hmm." Xiao Baihui thought for a moment, then added, "Everything that should be here is here."
Ye Wanxi turned and exchanged a glance with Feng Tianyu. Seeing him nod at her, she took a breath and said seriously, "In that case, just turn on the speakerphone. I have something I want to tell you."
Ye Wanxi was referring to "you all," not "you."
Xiao Baihui was very shrewd and immediately guessed that Ye Wanxi had something important to say. He dared not delay and raised his voice accordingly.
"I'm calling you now because there's been a new development regarding what I told you not long ago."
Xiao Baihui tensed up instantly: "What new situation?"
"About ten minutes ago, we returned to the accommodation they had arranged for us and found a crowd gathered outside. We were forbidden from leaving and had to stay inside."
Xiao Baihui was shocked and furious: "They actually put you under house arrest!"
But then I thought, with these two's abilities, how could those people possibly keep them locked up?
"That's not the point. The point is their reason for placing us under house arrest."
"What reason?"
“Several people in their village have contracted a strange illness, experiencing colds, fevers, vomiting, and even vomiting blood. The two members of the Shi family who came with us are both doctors. One of them is being kept under separate supervision, while the other is with me now. Based on the symptoms of these patients, he believes they are very likely infected with the AIR virus.”
"AIR virus?!"
As soon as Ye Wanxi finished speaking, someone on the other side of the table couldn't help but exclaim in surprise and stood up abruptly.
"Academician Liu? What is this AIR virus?" There were also many big names in the audience who were not in the medical field and did not know much about this virus.
"It is a very terrible virus. It first appeared in the country of L in the east more than a decade ago, causing nearly 100,000 casualties. Because of this virus, many places in this small country, which already had few people, became ghost towns. What is most terrible is that this virus divides and mutates quickly, and is extremely contagious. To this day, there is no specific drug that can take effect at a very fast speed, and we can only adopt conservative adjunctive treatment."
As soon as these few sentences were explained, many people present changed their expressions. It was highly contagious, deadly, and incurable. Wasn't that... a plague?
After explaining, Academician Liu ignored everyone else's reactions and rushed to Xiao Baihui's side, even trying to snatch the phone from his hand: "Can you confirm it's the AIR virus? How many people are infected? Where are they now? They must all be quarantined!"
Ye Wanxi noticed a white coat suddenly appear on the screen, and upon seeing the person's face and the glittering merit marks around him, she quickly realized that this must be an expert who had saved many lives.
After thinking for a moment, he simply pulled Shi Lang over.
At first, Shi Lang couldn't figure out what Ye Wanxi was doing. But when he saw the face on the phone screen, he was completely dumbfounded.
I rubbed my eyes, then rubbed them again, blinking several times before I was sure I wasn't seeing things.
"Academician Liu...?"
"You know me?"
"Of course!" You're my idol! Don't be too shocked to suddenly meet your idol.
Academician Liu quickly realized that this person knew him and was most likely a doctor.
"Is this the AIR virus you discovered?"
"yes."
"Are you sure?"
Seeing his idol did not cloud Shi Lang's judgment. He quickly calmed down and said truthfully, "I'm not sure. We are currently locked up. I haven't seen the patient, and there are no testing tools here. This judgment is based solely on the patient's symptoms as described by the other party."
Academician Liu frowned, but did not deny him directly. Instead, he said in a deep voice, "Describe your symptoms to me."
Shi Lang nodded and quickly gave a brief explanation of what he had learned from Wu Chi and the others.
Xiao Baihui, standing to the side, had just recovered from the shock of Ye Wanxi noticing something amiss before him, and couldn't help but ask, "Academician Liu, do you think this is...?"
"We are too far away and have limited information to make a definite judgment. I think we should act immediately and try to get there as quickly as possible."
(End of this chapter)
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