Chapter 189 No one is spared
Shen Yanming felt his young wife's trust and dependence on him, and he unconsciously curled the corners of his lips, and his pace became slower and slower.
When they reached their own fields, Shen Yanming raised his gloved right hand and poked Bi Qiaoan's little face through the veil, "Here we are, it's time to open your eyes!"
Bi Qiaoan opened his eyes and raised his gloved left hand to touch his nose, "Hey, hey, I just woke up!"
Shen Yanming smiled and opened the wire mesh gate, then pulled Bi Qiaoan to the chicken coop, took out water and millet from his bag, and filled the trough in the chicken coop.
Before leaving, Shen Yanming pulled a handful of sweet potato leaves, shredded them and covered the millet with them for the chicks to eat.
On the way back, Shen Yanming said to Bi Qiaoan, "There are grasshoppers in the cornfield."
Bi Qiaoan paused, "A lot?"
"Can there be more locust plagues than there are? Forget it. You can't avoid what's coming!"
Bi Qiaoan nodded, and followed Shen Yanming back home with heavy steps.
For the next two days, the two of them stayed at home and waited for news. However, there was no news on the Internet or on TV. It couldn't be more normal.
It wasn’t until Sunday evening that the Youth and Peace Alliance released details of the outbreak.
It turned out that the Qinghe Alliance Guard was infected with a virus called HZ when they were going abroad to deliver special medicine (this is just nonsense, please don't take it seriously).
Because the incubation period of this virus is relatively long, the guard who had just returned did not notice anything unusual in his body.
It was not until long after they had completed their mission and returned home that several of the guards began to have fevers.
Because these guards were from different teams, they didn't communicate with each other and just thought they had caught a cold and had a fever because they hadn't noticed.
But what they didn’t expect was that even after they took medicine, had injections, and received intravenous drips, the high fever didn’t go away.
After the captains of each team reported their situation, they found that almost all the guards who were going abroad had a fever.
This is no trivial matter!
The head of the Imperial Capital Guard quickly reported the situation to the Qinghe Alliance and the Research Institute, and the originally promised interview was urgently cancelled.
That’s right, it was the day when Bi Qiaoan was watching the live broadcast and felt that something was wrong with the female reporter.
After the Qinghe Alliance and the Research Institute learned the news, they immediately sent people to pick up the guard with a fever and isolate him. The Research Institute also sent people to draw blood for tests.
Moreover, the Qinghe Alliance has temporarily blocked the news.
It’s not that we don’t want the outside world to know, but before the definite results come out, groundless speculation from the outside world can only cause panic among the people.
The research institute worked overtime to conduct tests, but before they found the cause of the disease, someone else was infected.
This time, there were not only the guards of the Imperial Guard, including those who had been abroad and those who had not, but also the ordinary people who lived around the Imperial Guard.
The research institute was overwhelmed and could only take these fever patients to designated hospitals for isolation.
Things did not end there, because more and more hospitals reported that they had received many patients with fever but were unable to confirm the cause of the disease. They tried many medicines but none of them could reduce the patients' fever.
Hospitals in various places requested support, but the research institute had not yet produced any results. The Qinghe Alliance could only ask hospitals to admit the patients first and would inform them as soon as a treatment plan was available.
Li Cheng, the chief alliance officer, was always paying attention to the situation in various hospitals and the progress of the research institute. He anxiously called Dean Xu and asked, "Old Xu, is this disease contagious?"
Dean Xu wiped the sweat off his forehead and said, "Chief Alliance Officer Li, I haven't gotten any results yet. Can you wait a little longer?"
"The number of patients with fever has been increasing. How can we wait? At least you have to give us some direction. Did the new cases get infected by eating something, or were they spread by guards who have been abroad?"
"I, I..." Dean Xu was about to cry. The pressure he faced this time was even greater than the time he faced Unknown No. 1. Dean Xu had a premonition that his reputation would be ruined.
Seeing that President Xu couldn't explain clearly, General Alliance Officer Li sighed and said, "Speed up the research. The people can't wait for you to procrastinate!"
“Yes, yes!”
The bigwigs in the Imperial Capital were terrified every day when they saw the number of fever cases reported by hospitals across the country. Chief Alliance Officer Li called President Xu every day, but he always got the same answer, "No progress!"
It wasn't until one day when an ordinary infected person began to have ulcers on his hands that gave Dean Xu a clue.
Dean Xu had a vague feeling that this was some kind of virus that had been forgotten by humans, but he was not sure.
So, Director Xu went to the hospital in person and drew some blood and ulcerated tissue from the patient.
Dean Xu locked himself in the laboratory for three days and three nights. After leaving the laboratory, he went straight to the library to look up information.
Dean Xu was eager to confirm whether the evildoer was who he thought, so he did not pay attention to the outside situation in the past few days.
When he finally confirmed the identity of the "evildoer", he learned that in the past few days there have been hundreds of cases of fever patients in Qinghua country who have died of body ulcers and organ failure.
But Dean Xu knew that this was just the beginning...
Dean Xu quickly called Chief Alliance Officer Li Cheng, "Chief Alliance Officer Li..."
This was the first time that President Xu had called him in such a long time. Chief Alliance Officer Li asked anxiously, "Any progress?"
Dean Xu tried hard to hold back his tears, not knowing how to start the conversation on the other end of the phone.
"Hurry up and tell me, you have to give me an explanation whether it's good or bad!"
"It has been confirmed that it is the HZ virus that has disappeared for more than three hundred years!"
Chief Alliance Officer Li had never heard of the HZ virus, so he was not sure of its power. "HZ? From three hundred years ago? How could it appear again?"
Dean Xu shook his head, "I don't know either. The HZ virus came and went quickly back then. No one knew where it came from, and no one knew how it disappeared.
Moreover, because the HZ virus broke out in Moyou Country that year, the consequences were very serious. Before humans could fully study it, it disappeared without a trace.
Therefore, there are very few videos and documentary materials left from that time.
If that patient's body hadn't started to fester, I probably wouldn't have thought that the cause of this disaster was the once famous HZ virus!"
"Old Xu, let's not talk about that. I just want to ask you, how to cure this disease?" Chief Alliance Officer Li Cheng was extremely anxious and no longer wanted to discuss how powerful this virus was. He just wanted to know how to solve the problem.
But after hearing the question from Chief Alliance Officer Li Cheng, Dean Xu burst into tears, "Wow, there is no cure, it's over, they are all finished, all the infected people in Moyou Country three hundred years ago died, no one was spared!
Chief of the Alliance, what should we do? "
After hearing this, Chief Alliance Officer Li collapsed in his office chair, his mind went blank, "How is this possible? How is this possible? Our Qinghua Nation is blessed by God, there must be a way, there must be a way!"
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Did you notice that my third update is more than an hour later than the previous two? That's because when I was revising the text, I actually overturned and rewrote it...
Oh, let’s not talk about it. I can still code some more in the remaining time today, save it and publish it regularly later, hehe!
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