Chapter 44 Hailstorms
On the TV screen, the morning news of Liancheng TV was broadcasting the threat of riots at midnight yesterday.
There were many people at the scene, and it was very chaotic. The reporters who rushed to the scene couldn't even walk too far forward. In the picture, three or four people were like crazy, shouting and cursing at a window of a house, holding something in their hands to threaten.
Later, someone suddenly threw something in his hand, and the thing hit the outer wall of the house, and a dazzling fire burst out.
The person filming was shaking, and someone next to him exclaimed, saying it was crazy! It turned out to be a gasoline bomb!
The scene was in chaos, but those people were not afraid. They even threw several petrol bombs at the police. Many people were affected. In the end, the police had to send out armed police to subdue them by force.
Youxi looked at the face of a person who was subdued, which was photographed by the reporter. The white of the person's eyes also showed an abnormal red color. Even after being subdued, he still had distortion and hatred, and no fear or regret.
She frowned slightly.
Liancheng is not a coastal city. As she guessed, the global apocalyptic disaster will not only pose a potential threat in one city.
It will be the same wherever she goes. She may be lucky and go to a city with a better situation, but she may also be unlucky and go to a city with a worse situation.
Youxi turned her head to the side, and the computer screen was still on the data photo she had found more than an hour ago - it was a photo taken at a seaside construction site when someone went to visit the construction workers' fight.
Because of the angle, the mountain behind was also brought into the picture when the photo was taken.
A small path hidden in the woods in front of the mountain was exposed. The direction of the path was winding towards the mountain. At the intersection of the path, there was a small green sign with a drainage outlet sign and the serial number of the drainage outlet painted on it.
The photo was not big to begin with, and the branches and leaves blocked it, plus the color, so even if ordinary people saw this photo, they would not notice the sign behind it.
The fragmented and confusing information was pieced together.
The mountain sewer that had been in disrepair for a long time was actually behind the seaside construction site, and there was a gentle upward slope, which could be reached directly by walking.
The interview was recorded in writing. Someone mentioned the daily life of those construction workers during the reporter's return visit. They said that because the gentle slope upward was more hidden, they always liked to hide there to play cards and gamble during their rest time. However, they were all good-tempered and had good relationships. They didn't know why they suddenly got into such a mess this time.
Youxi's judgment was that those people might have entered the sewer under some circumstances, and perhaps at that time, the same incident as the undersea tunnel occurred.
Sewers are not like subway tunnels. They will spread the news of accidents in the first place. Therefore, when a certain organization sent people to investigate and block and blur the focus, they did not think that the worms had already spread.
The construction workers suddenly behaved abnormally, the girl who lost control of her emotions smelled damp, and in the city where she lived, Liancheng, people lost control of their emotions and started riots at about the same time.
And the noise and arguments she heard yesterday...
Does this mean that they have all been parasitized by black worms?
Normal people suddenly lose control of their emotions because of something, and the anger in their emotions is amplified. They lose their restraint and rationality, become extremely aggressive, and even need external force (stun batons) to calm down.
In short, the human part is weakened, and the primitive part of the animal is strengthened.
This should be the negative change brought about by the black worms parasitizing the human body. By comparing the time of the two news reports, the time when the girl was injured and the time when her emotions lost control, it can be roughly judged that the incubation period is about three days.
Some people do have parasites in their bodies, mostly due to unhygienic eating, and they usually enter the body through the mouth and nose.
The thought of a worm like this that enters the human body through blood and can change emotions is terrifying.
She estimated that this was only an initial change, and it was not clear whether it would worsen or have other changes in the future.
From the attitude and behavior of the police just now, it can be seen that the senior officials of the relevant departments of Hai Ru City have already known about this matter and dealt with it, but because of fear of causing panic or other reasons, all news has been temporarily blocked.
So the problem in Hairu City is not only in the undersea tunnel, but also in the mountain sewers, and perhaps even more. The same is true for other cities. Nowhere is safe.
Youxi looked at the time. There are still 6 hours until the end of the peace period.
The peace period is already like this, what will happen when the peace period ends?
Will the people in Hairu City who are now parasitized but still in the latent period break out at the same time?
The blood-loving nature of the black nematode is its terrifying feature, but it is also a limitation of its parasitic conditions. Only people who carry black worms (eggs) and have bleeding wounds on their bodies are likely to be parasitized.
So the number of this group of people should not be too large, but once they break out at the same time, it will be enough to cause panic.
It's just... it doesn't seem to reach the difficulty of the intermediate world.
At this time, You Xi did not know that this disaster would roar in a way that she could not have expected at all.
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Today is a cloudy day, and the sky over the entire Hairu City is covered with dark clouds. The gray-black clouds are stacked in the air, and there is a heavy feeling of oppression.
The temperature dropped from 15 or 16 degrees yesterday to 7 or 8 degrees, and it seems that a heavy rain is coming.
At noon, the rain did not come, but the wind came.
The strong wind made people unable to open their eyes, and the pedestrians on the road were shivering from the cold. Some people really couldn't stand it, and saw a small coffee shop in front of them, so they hurriedly walked a few steps to avoid the wind.
However, the man had just opened the door of the coffee shop, but suddenly there was a thump and he fell to the ground.
The waiter in the coffee shop happened to see this scene, and he ran out without knowing why, trying to help the man up.
But as soon as he turned the man's head, he found that his face was covered in blood. His forehead was broken by something and blood was still pouring out.
The waiter was frightened and his reaction was a little slow. He noticed something beside the other person. It was not until he reached out and picked up the egg-sized object that he found that this cold and hard object was actually a hailstone! ?
Hail! ?
He raised his head tremblingly and saw a hailstone bigger than the one in his hand falling on his head.
With a thud, the waiter fell to the ground without even a wail. Blood flowed out from his cheeks as he lay on the ground, spreading to the road where hailstones kept falling...
The same thing happened in every corner of Hairu City.
During lunch time, even in windy weather, there are still many people outdoors.
Employees who go to eat near the company, students who run out of the classroom to the cafeteria, elementary school students who are picked up by their grandparents to go home for lunch, and part-time workers who are ready to find a place to sit during lunch break...
When the first hailstone fell at their feet, almost no one reacted.
What is this - glass beads?
Hairu City is like spring all year round, with frequent rain and typhoons, but it has never snowed or hailed, let alone hailstones this big.
"Hail?" A boy picked up hailstones as big as glass beads and played with them on his fingertips with a curious look on his face. "Fuck, they are so big and so cold——"
However, when he looked up to show the hailstones to his friend, he found that his friend was staring at him with blood all over his head, and then fell to the ground silently.
"Help, help, help——" The boy was speechless and screamed in panic, but when he looked up and looked around, he was horrified to find that people around him were constantly hit by hailstones. Some people were able to scream and escape, while others fell to the ground without even screaming.
He forced his weak legs to move and rushed to the bottom of the nearest staircase. He looked at everything in front of him tremblingly, thinking that he was in a nightmare.
Many of the hailstones that fell on the ground were immersed in blood, and the strong smell of blood filled the air. The smell was so strong and so close that some creatures that were originally in a dormant state woke up early...
In the Internet cafe's private room, Youxi had just finished lunch.
Before lunch, she used the [Instant Cleansing Oil] again, wondering if the black bugs would spread outwards when she had no wounds and was in the same room with the girls.
Fortunately, no abnormalities were found after using it, which further verified the characteristic of black bugs tending to blood.
After lunch, she felt the temperature drop. Because of her improved physical condition, she didn't feel very cold. When she was considering whether to take a light short down jacket from the Star House warehouse, she suddenly heard a slight knock on the glass window.
She turned her head to look at the window. The two glass sliding windows in the private room were closed and the blinds were also down. Because of the dim light, the desk lamp on the computer desk was on.
Her first reaction was that the group who had been looking for her before had found her?
But soon, she shook her head. If they really found her, they would have been breaking the door by now, and they would not have thrown stones at the glass window of her room.
"Pah--" There was another crisp sound on the glass window, and then the crackling sound became denser. At first glance, it sounded like someone threw countless pebbles at her glass window at the same time.
Youxi walked to the window and opened the blinds. She was more cautious and afraid of being seen, so she did not stand directly in front of the glass, but stood sideways in front of the wall next to the glass window.
Outside the glass was a gloomy sky, and transparent beads of different sizes hit the glass window from time to time, making a crisp sound.
Hail?
Just as Youxi had this thought, she heard a heavy "bang". A big hole was smashed in the glass in front of her, and a hailstone the size of a tennis ball hit the room and rolled on the ground.
She looked at the hailstone with her eyes wide open in shock, and she was terrified. If she had not been careful and stood by the wall just now, she would have been hit by the hailstone.
With the acceleration of gravity, even she would have been injured by the hailstone!
She immediately looked down at the street, and sure enough, there was chaos down there, and people on the street were fleeing in all directions.
However, the more panicked, the more chaotic it became. Some people hid under the cloth awnings of shops along the street, but they were knocked down by the hailstones that penetrated the awnings in a few moments.
Some people accidentally bumped into each other and fell down. One of them was hit in the eye by the hailstones. Blood flowed out of the hole. He was in so much pain that his limbs twitched. The people around him screamed in a distorted voice, but they were so frightened by the tragic scene that they could not stand up. They could only crawl and roll to move their bodies in panic.
Some people protected their children and hid under the cars parked on the side of the road on a sudden inspiration, avoiding the disaster...
Of course, more people hid in the buildings in time, panting and trembling as they watched the hailstones still falling outside, and were glad that they had saved their lives.
But they didn't know that everything had just begun.
Many years later, some people recalled that the hailstorm was the beginning of the end of the world.
At the same time on that day, several coastal cities in the country were hit by the same giant hailstones, killing some people and injuring many others.
The shortest hailstorm lasted more than 20 minutes, and the longest lasted nearly an hour. A large number of houses, cars, and farmland were destroyed.
All hospitals were filled with wailing and crying patients, and urban traffic was almost paralyzed. The sounds of police cars, fire trucks, and ambulances rang throughout the day and night.
Television news, radio stations, and online websites were full of follow-up reports about this giant hailstorm.
Cities that were not affected by the disaster immediately mobilized various materials and personnel to launch emergency assistance to cities affected by the hailstorm.
Open any radio news and you will see the host speaking encouraging words with vigor and confidence, hoping that the people will work together to overcome this disaster.
But no one knows that underneath all this, changes are quietly happening everywhere.
Time goes back to noon.
You Xi looked at the hail outside the window in doubt, and suddenly smelled the familiar damp fishy smell at the tip of her nose.
She turned her head abruptly to look at the hail that fell on the floor of the box. Because the indoor temperature was high, the hail fell on the dry ground and had melted at this moment.
The damp fishy smell came from the melted hail.
She took out the rubber gloves from the Xingwu warehouse, put them on, and then walked over, squatted down, and picked up the hail.
She held up the hailstones and turned on the flashlight. With the strong light and excellent vision, she clearly saw tiny black dots dripping down with the melted water on the hailstones. Some dripped onto the ground, and some fell onto her rubber gloves. She
gasped.
What was inside? Insect eggs! ?
This... was not ordinary hailstones, this was insect egg hailstones!
The damp smell became stronger, and the small black dots moved, slowly changing from a "dot" to a thin and long "stripe".
The black worms had hatched!
Slowly, the "stripe" became more and more, like a bunch of curls stuck together, entangled and twisted with each other. Although it was extremely thin and almost impossible to distinguish the head and tail with the naked eye, it was still disgusting.
Youxi threw down hailstones, took off her rubber gloves stained with black bugs and threw them together, then took out the [high temperature perfume] with an expressionless face and burned everything stained with insect eggs and bugs into ashes.
Outside the window, the hail was still falling, and two bigger hailstones broke the glass and fell into the box.
Youxi quickly melted and burned the two hailstones again, but she knew in her heart that no matter how many bottles of [high temperature perfume] she had, it would be impossible to burn all the eggs.
After this hailstorm, black bugs will be everywhere.
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