Now, with millions more flooding into Shimizu City, they are about to be exposed to even more serious infectious diseases.
So Lu Yuan quickly finished eating the rice in his bowl and then looked at his family and said.
"Let's all stay home for the time being. I'll take care of anything that needs to be done. If we really have to go out, it's best to wear protective clothing!"
The whole family looked somber.
"Has an epidemic already started happening here?"
Lu Yuan nodded. He knew he couldn't hide this from his family, but it was good to give them some mental preparation.
"Yes, the floating corpses brought by the flood carried a very strong plague, but I have fed them golden fruits, which may alleviate the symptoms!"
"However, we still can't let our guard down. What if people from other places come and we end up mixing with them?"
After discussing everything, everyone returned to their respective rooms.
As the news reports indicated, the northwest region suffered the most severe flooding, and the further inland the region went, the less severe the impact of the floods became.
When Lu Yuan and his group arrived in Qingshui City, the flood area had been reduced to its weakest point, but 80% of the area was still affected by the flood.
In the past few days, many more floating corpses have drifted over from the vicinity. Lu Yuan, wearing protective clothing, piled these corpses together and then sprinkled some lime on them to prevent the spread of plague.
Every day he would encounter many people, drifting across the flood in boats. Some would occasionally reach out to ask for things, and some would even try to rob him, but Lu Yuan always managed to drive them away.
He knew that he and his men could no longer be exposed. If these refugees attacked them again, he didn't know if they could withstand the attack.
The sky was still overcast, but it hadn't rained for a long time, and people's water problem seemed to have been solved.
However, many people are still unaware that the river water has been contaminated by floating corpses, and various pathogenic viruses are mixed in with it, so one can easily get infected if one is not careful.
As Lu Yuan had predicted, half a month after the floodwaters receded, the failure to promptly dispose of the floating corpses in various regions led to a large-scale outbreak of plague.
The plague was first discovered in an office building in Shimizu City.
This office building is home to a large number of refugees who live and eat together. They originally planned to find new places to live after the flood receded.
However, to their surprise, the next morning more than half of the people had persistent high fever, nausea and vomiting, and some were even so bad that they had fallen into a coma and their bodies were covered in sores.
So they went to the local disease control center to report their situation. After several groups of experts came and examined them, they learned that it was an epidemic.
Then, Shimizu City went into martial law and stopped accepting refugees from other places.
The situation far exceeded people's imagination. Although Shimizu had tried his best to control the situation and prevent the refugees from flooding into the city, the city was already rife with plague.
Plague outbreaks began in various places, and many people died from the plague, making the disposal of their bodies a major problem.
Throwing them into the floodwaters would pollute the water source, but if they weren't thrown into the river, where else could their floating corpses slowly decompose, it would also seriously affect their lives.
Therefore, the Shimizu City government began organizing search and rescue boats to collect the bodies of those who died from the disease and to distribute anti-inflammatory drugs.
However, the effects of these drugs were indeed disappointing; they could only provide temporary relief, but had no effect whatsoever on the plague.
However, this action by Qingshui City had a significant impact on Lu Yuan and his group's trip to the New City District No. 3.
On this day, Lu Yuan, as usual, led a few people to deal with the floating corpses. Since they had all taken the golden tubes, they were not worried about the spread of the plague, so they were able to deal with the floating corpses openly. However, everyone was wearing protective suits.
Just as they were preparing to deal with the situation together, Sun Zhe ran over from a distance.
"Sun Zhe, what's wrong? It doesn't seem to be your shift today?"
Lu Yuan was also somewhat surprised to see Sun Zhe looking panicked, so he quickly asked.
"Has something happened?"
The other person looked around and then nodded slightly.
"Yes, I just found several floating corpses in the drainage ditch!"
The other person's voice wasn't loud, but it instantly changed everyone's expression.
"Could it be that someone deliberately dumped a floating corpse in our drainage area?"
Professor Zhu, who was standing nearby, made a guess.
So Lu Yuan asked Sun Zhe to take them to see the place where the floating corpses had occurred.
After arriving at the location, the group looked at the nearby cover plates but found no signs of disturbance.
Professor Zhu's face was grim. He knew that each of these cover plates was extremely heavy, and it would generally take at least four people working together to lift them.
Lu Yuan looked around the area.
Xiao Shan stood beside him, took his arm with some concern, and said to Sun Zhe.
"Could it have come from downstream? There's no change at all here; it doesn't look like anyone's been here!"
This explanation makes sense, but Lu Yuan continued searching in the same spot, sometimes stopping to squat down and look, and sometimes lying on the cover to look down.
Most people had no idea what Lu Yuan was doing, but no one bothered him.
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