Seeing this, Lu Wuyai hurriedly removed the wine bottle from the edge of the cold water pool, breaking out in a cold sweat.
"I didn't expect it to be this cold." Lu Wuyai gasped, but looking at the chilled red wine, he was overjoyed.
Sitting at the dinner table, holding a glass of red wine, Lu Wuyai fell asleep without realizing it.
Inside the tomb, while Gu Yuxin sprayed disinfectant, the women were still sorting through various items. After all, these were cargo unloaded from the ship.
"Will we get infected too?" Su Xi asked with some worry.
The people around looked at each other in confusion. Finally, Gu Yuxin said, "Don't worry, we are all living well now. If we don't come into contact with infected patients, we will generally be fine."
However, Gu Yuxin was also wondering how many ways this virus could be transmitted.
If it's transmitted through the air, it won't be long before they...
He shook his head. If it were truly airborne, they would have encountered people with conjunctivitis long ago, and some had even been scratched, but so far they haven't been infected.
"If it's not airborne transmission, and it's not an infection from a scratch, then what is it?" Gu Yuxin was completely baffled.
She considered taking a patient for research, but the risk was too great, so she thought about it and put the idea out of her mind.
The cellar was full of supplies, and the passageway was crammed with things.
The woman carefully arranged them, because these things would be with them for a long time.
Gu Yuxin went to the lab and found Lu Wuyai sleeping. He felt both annoyed and amused. Everyone else was busy, while he was enjoying some quiet time.
However, Gu Yuxin did not wake Lu Wuyai. She took some disinfectant from the laboratory and returned to the cave.
At dusk, Lu Wuyai woke up and heard noises coming from the tomb. Knowing that the women were still sorting out supplies, he felt a headache coming on.
“Go and take a look around the fence.” Lu Wuyai stood up and walked out of the cave.
At this moment, the setting sun bathed the deserted island in its golden light, making it appear exceptionally beautiful and vibrant.
However, the sweltering heat of this summer always made Lu Wuyai feel suffocated. Compared to the temperature inside the cave, the outside world was like a blazing fire.
Walking towards the cowshed, there were many cows near the fence. At this time of year, many animals choose to come out at dusk. Firstly, the weather is getting cooler, and secondly, they haven't eaten all day and need to fill their stomachs quickly.
Moo
A mournful mooing sound came from the ground, and Lu Wuyai saw a young bull being chased by a pack of wolves on the grassland not far away.
Seeing this, Lu Wuyai did not stop it. The food chain is a natural law, but to his surprise, the calf staggered toward him.
Looking at the young bull and the pack of seven or eight wolves behind him, Lu Wuyai had nothing left to fear.
The cowshed is nearby. The worst-case scenario is that we'll have to hide inside.
Moo
Just as Lu Wuyai was about to leave, the little yellow ox suddenly let out a clear moo. Although the sound was short, Lu Wuyai couldn't help but tremble inwardly.
The calf's legs were scratched by wolves, and the smell of blood filled the air, easily arousing the wolves' wildness.
"never mind."
Lu Wuyai turned around, drew his gun, and killed several wolves. The rest dared not stay any longer and dispersed.
Moo
The calf's mooing was still clear and loud. It walked up to Lu Wuyai, seemingly wanting to lick his body, but Lu Wuyai dodged for a while.
"Come with me." Lu Wuyai opened the fence and let the little yellow calf in. It's safe for now.
Upon arriving at the cowshed, Lu Wuyai promptly cleaned its wounds and then noticed some white lines on its body and very long hair. It didn't look like a cow at all.
"Moo"
Lu Wuyai patted its corpse and created a separate room for it. Clean straw was laid on the floor, which could be used as a mat or food.
"Since I saved you, live well."
When he left the cowshed, the sky outside was completely dark. Lu Wuyai walked on the grass, looking up at the night sky. Dense clouds covered the sky, and a storm was rapidly brewing.
"The weather changes so fast," Lu Wuyai thought to himself. It was sunny at dusk, but in the blink of an eye, there was lightning and thunder in the sky.
Lu Wuyai quickly returned to the cave, where everyone was still preparing dinner.
As a result, half an hour later, a storm broke out. Just by hearing the howling wind, Lu Wuyai could imagine what the outside world was like.
After finishing their meal, Lu Wuyai took the woman to the orchard. Although the buildings there had been reinforced before, accidents still occurred every time a typhoon hit.
The shed above the orchard had already been reinforced with steel bars, and Lu Wuyai was continuing to reinforce it with more steel bars. This way, although the orchard would be darker during the day, he would no longer be afraid of fierce storms.
"It should be fine." Lu Wuyai clapped his hands, climbed down the ladder, and looked up. The orchard was full of steel bars.
But that night, torrential rain poured down, and fierce winds howled, raging across the deserted island.
The next day, it was still windy and rainy. Everyone gathered in the cave. There was no need to go out today.
During the experiment, most of them gathered here to help Gu Yuxin process the herbs growing on the black stones.
Several machines are running, extracting the finest essence from the herbs.
However, everyone was wearing down jackets, so it felt like winter.
The laboratory was too cold; the cold air in the cold water tank turned the underground space into a cold storage.
"By the way, we still can't get the liquid out of this cold pool."
"Would you like to give it a try?" Gu Yuxin asked Lu Wuyai.
In fact, Lu Wuyai had always had a question: why did the golden cats who had entered the cave before have such different auras and strengths when they came out?
"No matter what, I definitely didn't drink the water from those cold pools." Gu Yuxin said definitively, "If you drank that stuff, you would die. There's no chance of luck."
The water in the cold pool was too cold for any living organism to survive.
“If you don’t believe me, just try it.” Morroy raised his eyebrows.
This time, Lu Wuyai shook his head. He had suffered so much last time and didn't want to experience the feeling of being touched by this liquid again.
Afterwards, everyone immersed themselves in their work, and the laboratory gradually quieted down.
At this moment, a lot of white mist quietly drifted out from the cold pool. Following the air, it was inhaled by the people here without them even realizing it.
"Ugh, I feel a bit cold," Kim Seok-rok shivered.
"It seems a bit cold, should we turn on the heater?"
"Never mind, it's not that I can't bear to part with it."
"Let's save some diesel fuel; we don't know what the temperature will be like this winter."
Everyone was talking to each other, but no one noticed that wisps of white mist were drifting up from the cold pool...
As dusk fell, Lu Wuyai heard the wind and rain outside stop, so he left the laboratory and went outside.
He took the wolfhound to the cowshed and looked at the calf he had brought back the day before. He noticed that the wound on its hind leg had almost completely healed. The speed of healing was unbelievable.
The sky was clear at the moment, but you could see that the sky not far away was still a bit hazy, and the clouds were moving very fast.
"We are now in the eye of the typhoon, and the weather will change drastically."
Lu Wuyai stood outside the cowshed for a while, then took an axe and stuck dozens of steel bars into the ground near the cowshed. He used ropes to connect the roof and the steel bars together, making them as stable as possible.
After doing all this, Lu Wuyai returned to the cave. At this moment, the sky was changing rapidly, and a fierce storm swept across the entire deserted island once again.
......
Cough cough cough.
In the dark cave, the sound of someone coughing could be heard from time to time.
Lu Wuyai opened his eyes and glanced at the watch beside his bed. The time displayed was 2 a.m.
"Perhaps someone has caught a cold." Lu Wuyai closed his eyes again. He didn't know how much time had passed before the coughing sounded again.
After a while, Lu Wuyai simply got out of bed and walked towards the living room.
After searching around, Lu Wuyai found Jin Xilu in the underground cave. She was wearing a mask and looking for medicine in a box.
"Jin Xilu, you have a cold," Lu Wuyai asked.
Jin Xilu was startled, then came to her senses. She glanced at Lu Wuyai and said, "Maybe it's because I felt cold in the lab earlier, and now I have a dry cough."
Lu Wuyai stepped forward and found them a bottle of cough syrup. After drinking it, Jin Xilu felt much better.
"I'm going to sleep, I'm so sleepy." Jin Xilu yawned, went back to bed, and soon started snoring.
But in the morning, several women discovered that Jin Xilu had a fever and was not in good spirits.
"Take some cold medicine first," Gu Yuxin said.
During the years they'd been on the deserted island, everyone had caught a cold before, so they didn't take this one too seriously.
But by the afternoon, in addition to Jin Xilu, Yuxin and Su Xi also developed symptoms of dry cough and fever. They were listless and didn't even want to drink water.
“It can’t be the flu.” Lu Wuyai frowned, and everyone else put on masks as well.
Gu Yuxin thought for a while, but still drew blood from the three people with fevers and took it to the laboratory to conduct tests using the only tools available.
As it turned out, she found something similar in the blood of all three people.
Less than an hour before the blood draw, Gu Yuxin called everyone to the laboratory.
“You have no idea what I found in their blood.” Gu Yuxin took a deep breath and turned on the microscope's projector. On it, a dynamic image could be clearly seen.
Those must be human epidermal cells. As Gu Yuxin continued to adjust the resolution, some things quickly became clear.
Outside each cell, there are tiny black dots that are jumping wildly at this moment, constantly approaching the cell. Some even sink into the cell wall and disappear without a trace in the blink of an eye.
Upon seeing this, Lu Wuyai's eyes suddenly widened. He recalled seeing similar scenes before, except they involved the corpse cells of cat-like beasts, not humans.
"Lu Wuyai, do you think they look alike?" Gu Yuxin looked at Lu Wuyai, because he was the only one who had seen a similar scene last time.
Lu Wuyai nodded, but he couldn't understand why such a thing had happened.
"Could it be that Jin Xilu and the others' illnesses are related to these black spots?" Su Xi said from the side.
Gu Yuxin: "That should be the case, but I think, to be precise, it's related to Hantan."
Upon hearing this, everyone turned their attention to Hantan in the corner.
Just then, a few wisps of white mist drifted out of the water, spreading outwards with the air.
Gu Yuxin said, "These fine water droplets should be considered part of the liquid in the cold pool..."
Gazing at the white mist, Lu Wuyai and the others seemed to remember something.
Although they had never directly come into contact with the liquid in the cold water pool, they had been helping out in the lab these past few days and had inhaled some cold air as well.
Thinking about this, Lu Wuyai felt that this was probably how the stains on Jin Xilu and the others came about.
“The most important thing now is to make sure they don’t get into trouble,” Lu Wuyai said.
The felines died in the cave for unknown reasons. If it was indeed due to the cold air, Jin Xilu and his group were in dire straits.
"Regardless, you all need to be careful these days." Gu Yuxin said, "Don't come to the lab unless absolutely necessary."
"Also, if you're wearing a mask, it might just be the common flu."
Lu Wuyai and the others nodded. After leaving the laboratory, they took turns caring for the three sick women.
However, since Lu Wuyai is a man and cannot take care of them for the time being, he is responsible for some follow-up work, such as boiling water and cooking.
For several days in a row, not only did the three women show no improvement, but Jin Xilu and Song Xiaoyou also started to have fevers and coughs, keeping the people in the cave extremely busy.
The only saving grace is that none of these people are in immediate danger; they are just having a bit of a breakdown when they have a fever.
In the laboratory, Lu Wuyai found Gu Yuxin standing by the cold pool of water, trying to capture the white mist floating in the air.
It was a slightly milky white, translucent test tube, into which Gu Yuxin was carefully injecting a wisp of water mist from the air.
She quickly stepped out of the cold pool and placed the test tube into the boiling water. A drop of pale blue liquid appeared at the bottom of the test tube.
Seeing this, Lu Wuyai also walked over. This was the first time in many days that he had seen Gu Yuxin successfully obtain the liquid from the cold water pool.
"I need to conduct an experiment. You can leave now." Gu Yuxin pushed Lu Wuyai out and closed the laboratory door.
In the small cubicle, Su Xi and others were still taking care of patients. Although they were busy, they were doing their jobs diligently.
"Lu Wuyai, it's time to boil water."
"Get me a few clean towels."
"Take these quilts outside to dry."
When Lu Wuyai heard these sounds, his head felt heavy. He was more exhausted than if he had harvested rice that day. He truly didn't know when Su Xi and the others would recover.
After the typhoon, the deserted island enjoyed seven consecutive days of clear skies and rising temperatures day by day.
That night, Lu Wuyai was grazing on the fence outside the cowshed. A calf was nearby, constantly mooing softly, seemingly very approachable.
On a wooden rack not far away, several quilts were drying in the sun. A faint fragrance wafted from them as you approached. These were the blankets used by the sick women living in the cave.
The weather has been great lately, so I take it out to bask in the sun every day.
it hurts.
On the lush green hills, the howls of wolves echoed intermittently. Lately, the number of carnivores near the enclosure had increased significantly. There were also many more cattle and sheep than before. There was ample food for predators. Plenty of opportunities.
Of course, if there are people inside, the danger involved is self-evident.
"Don't even think about getting out," Lu Wuyai said to the little yellow ox beside him.
Moo
Not sure if the other party truly understood, Lu Wuyai smiled and rubbed his calf. The other party always had a scent different from other cows. It might be a strange smell, but it was probably something like that.
"Let's go back." Lu Wuyai whistled, and seven wolfhounds suddenly rushed out from near the fence. Their strong bodies were no different from ordinary calves.
During this period, the wolfhound's growth seemed to have entered a period of rapid increase, and its size doubled, which gave Lu Wuyai a vague sense of illusion.
"If only the general and the marshal were still with us."
In the blink of an eye, the cattle and sheep were driven back to the barn, and the last rays of twilight became extremely dim.
Lu Wuyai tidied up the things in the cowshed, folded the quilts, and put them into an iron box with casters. He then slowly drove his balance bike towards the rocky mountain.
By the time we returned to the cave, it was completely dark.
"Come and get the blankets." Lu Wuyai came down from the cave and shouted at the top of his lungs.
Soon, Su Xi and the others came over, washed their hands, put on masks, took the blankets, and handed the sheets they had changed that day to Lu Wuyai.
There was no washing machine on the deserted island, so Lu Wuyai could only run to a puddle and wash the bed sheet before dinner using night vision goggles.
Several female patients break out in cold sweats every day, and sometimes the sheets and blankets look like they've been washed.
Fortunately, it's summer now, so if you let it dry overnight, it will be dry by the next day.
Finally, it was time to finish eating. Everyone was too tired to move, but the hunger in their stomachs forced them to eat.
Since I haven't had time to hunt, I haven't been eating meat lately. It's mostly vegetables and marching rations, and I'm getting a little tired of it.
After dinner, Lu Wuyai went to the lab because Gu Yuxin had drawn blood from several people that day and found that the black spots were still highly active.
“Lu Wuyai, I want to draw your blood too,” Gu Yuxin said.
Lu Wuyai did not struggle and was finally sucked out of a tube of blood.
While drawing blood, Gu Yuxin asked Lu Wuyai if he had been feeling unwell recently.
Lu Wuyai thought about it and found that apart from occasional dizziness, there was nothing particularly unusual.
Gu Yuxin nodded, and after the blood was drawn, he asked Lu Wuyai to wait aside.
At this moment, Lu Wuyai looked at Hantan and found that there was a white cover in the original position, completely isolating Hantan.
However, the oppressive chill still lingered.
In addition, there is a tube on the white lid. The tube is also made of a special material. It is a white cloth that is wrapped into a tube shape.
Place it at the other end of the tube and insert it into a glass container.
At this point, you can see a few drops of light blue liquid in the transparent container, which are formed by the condensation of mist rising from the cold pool.
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