Chapter 155 Where will the stray dog base go?
The navigation location was very remote. After driving out of the southern end of the city, we drove through several farmlands and passed a stray animal shelter before reaching our destination.
This is a group of makeshift houses, and the blue and white shells reveal a sense of haste.
Wang Qiang, a student of Mr. Lu, was waiting for them at the door. Without him, Shen Jiang and the others wouldn't have been able to get in. Even if they did, they would have to surrender their phones and other electronic devices. Shen Jiang frowned, then looked at the guards and realized something was amiss.
Although these people weren't wearing uniforms, their stance was completely different from that of ordinary people. Even if ordinary security guards stood straight, they wouldn't have such energy and spirit.
Wang Qiang led them in, and said with lingering fear as he walked in, "Let me give you a heads-up first. Don't be scared by the patient's appearance later."
Shen Jiang realized that the situation might be more serious than she thought.
Wang Qiang explained to Shen Anlian, "According to the surveillance footage, the animals at the stray animal center mutated and bit other dogs. Then, the keepers and the owner of the center were bitten by dogs while feeding them. As a result, many sick dogs escaped the center. In short, many people were injured. In addition to our Chinese medicine practitioners, many Western doctors also came in."
Shen Anlian frowned: "A sick dog escaped?" Wouldn't there be chaos outside?
Wang Qiang said worriedly, "Yes, because the situation is very critical, the government has urgently mobilized the army to capture them everywhere. I heard that there is still a sick dog that has not been found."
Shen Jiang's nerves twitched, a bad feeling welling up in her. She quietly pleaded with Godwin, "Grandma is old and just had a serious illness. Can you help me protect her?" She worried that she'd be too busy to care for her, and even more worried that she'd be so busy treating patients that she'd forget about her own safety.
Godwin felt a little excited when she looked at him with such anticipation, but his face remained expressionless. He just said coldly, "No problem, leave it to me."
Shen Jiang felt a little relieved. She knew that it wasn't her that Elder Lu was looking for, but her grandmother. After all, her grandmother's medical skills were superior to theirs, and if she didn't possess healing magic, she probably wouldn't be able to cure the difficult and complicated illnesses they couldn't treat. However, her light magic made up for this shortcoming, and she might be better than anyone else here.
Wang Qiang had already talked about how his master, Mr. Lu, and Mr. Jin and others had different opinions and no conclusion could be reached. Everyone was waiting for her to come over and take a look.
Shen Anlian looked solemn: "Tell me about the patient's symptoms and pulse condition?"
Wang Qiang hurried to keep up with her. "This is truly bizarre. Within an hour to a day after being bitten, these people lose consciousness and become extremely beastly, a bit like the zombies on TV. You might not know this, but even without vital signs, they can still move like humans. However, they have no rationality or reasoning, and they'll bite anything they see, with incredible strength."
Shen Anlian frowned: "Losing vital signs?"
Wang Qiang: "I'm just giving an example. If you go and see it, you'll understand what I mean."
Shen Jiang: "What does Mr. Lu think?"
Wang Qiang: "The teacher said that this is prematurely overdrawing the Yang Qi in their bodies. Once the overdrawn energy is exhausted, the patients will die. But Mr. Zhao and his colleagues don't think so. They believe that it is the heat and toxins caused by external evil entering the body that cause the patients to go crazy."
He hesitated before continuing, "We gave both groups of patients the medicine according to their prescription, but it was ineffective. Now their condition has become even worse."
Shen Jiang frowned. The two diagnoses were so different, and neither of them was effective.
As they were talking, they arrived at the door of a room. Shen Jiang and others only opened the door after Wang Qiang took out a magnetic card and swiped it against the wall.
Grandma thought the patient was in the room Wang Qiang took them to, so she told her granddaughter, "Xiao Gu, follow me."
Shen Jiang frowned as she saw the dark energy pouring out of the next room. Clearly, that was the patient's room. Godwin had seen it too, so he had no problem with the old lady's order and followed her leisurely.
After entering, as Shen Jiang expected, the patient was not there.
There is a glass window between this room and the next room. Standing in this room, you can clearly observe the situation in the next room.
In this room, besides people they knew, such as Mr. Lu and Mr. Zhao, there were also many people in white coats and uniformed soldiers they did not know. Obviously, the seriousness of the situation here had indeed alarmed the troops.
The white-coated doctors were engaged in a heated discussion, while Elder Lu and his companions were completely silent. In the room separated from theirs by a single pane of glass, the patients resembled demons escaped from hell—each with a horrible expression, their spirits utterly agitated, their bloodshot eyes devoid of any trace of rationality. In a short moment, their teeth had already ripped the bedding before them beyond recognition.
There was also a man who struggled violently and tried to jump up from the bed. Although his limbs were fixed to the bed, he seemed to be completely unaware of all this and was still trying again and again to leave this prison bed. His hands were fixed with shackles, so they were already bloody and his bones were exposed.
Shen Anlian frowned: "Why don't you use a cloth strip? If you keep going like this, your hand will be useless in no time."
Mr. Lu walked over quickly and said with a wry smile, "They are too strong. The cloth strips can't trap them at all."
Godwin watched with interest for a moment before losing interest. The mad humans inside were no different from wild beasts, perhaps even more insane. This was exactly how he imagined this cursed land should be. But why did these people imprison these cursed humans instead of burning them to death?
Godwin's light golden eyes were filled with confusion.
A military official said with a serious expression, "In addition to the people at the stray animal base, nearby villagers have also been attacked by mad animals. Our people are already hunting down the last stray dog that escaped. I hope you can come up with a treatment plan as soon as possible."
Shen Anlian's brows jumped. "I can't see anything wrong with this observation. I have to go in and check their pulses. Old Lu, take me in quickly."
Mr. Lu understood and whispered, "Come over here with me."
Shen Jiang turned his head and signaled to Godwin to stop daydreaming and follow him quickly.
They passed through a transparent glass room where doctors in white coats were busy analyzing and testing the patient's blood and urine, their faces extremely serious.
Elder Lu: "Two soldiers were bitten while trying to capture a patient who had escaped from the bandages, but they are still conscious. You can go over and give them a consultation first."
Shen Anlian's face was gloomy, and she nodded. She would first look at the early stage of the disease, and then compare it with the later stage, so she would be more confident.
Shen Jiang and Godwin exchanged a glance, one guarding the old lady on either side. Entering another room, they saw the two soldiers, though not yet ill, already secured to the hospital bed. Both were extremely young, their eyes still shone with a hint of innocence. They clearly hadn't grasped the severity of the situation and were still chatting and laughing.
"It's finally time for a long vacation."
"Who knows, I might even get a first-class merit, haha."
Shen Jiang heard their laughter and pushed the door open.
Shen Anlian walked over to take the pulse of one of them. While Shen Jiang was taking care of her grandmother, she took the soldier's other hand to take his pulse.
Godwin stood behind Shen Anlian like a guardian, but he was looking at Shen Jiang. He judged in his heart: these two people are still human beings, and there is still some need to save them. However, this disease is very suitable for the believer's magical ability. His light magic can dispel the dark elements in the two people.
Shen Anlian took a long time to take the pulse, but before Shen Anlian could confirm the result, the soldier became ill first. His movements were so swift and completely instinctive that he aimed directly at Shen Anlian's face and intended to bite her.
Godwin's reaction was faster than his. Before he touched Shen Anlian, he took action - dragging the chair Shen Anlian was sitting on a few meters away. Shen Jiang's heart suddenly relaxed, and he looked at Godwin with gratitude: You are worthy of it!
Godwin fully understood the admiration in her eyes. He raised his chin slightly without making a sound and began to savor his lightning-fast reaction.
The other soldier was so shocked by the sudden change that he was almost speechless. The comrade who had just been chatting and laughing with him was now roaring like a wild beast, and the heavy shackles that they had just regarded as decorations were now hitting the iron bed with a bang.
Feeling the cold touch on his wrist, he regained consciousness and looked at the old man in front of him with a start: "What are you doing?"
Shen Anlian's hands were cold but powerful: "Hurry up, let me check your pulse!"
Shen Jiang quickly moved aside, his fingers moving in a corner invisible to everyone. Godwin observed that after the energy of light magic flowed into the body of the human boy in front of him, the speed at which the dark energy on the bed overflowed slowed down.
Shen Jiang's forehead was covered in sweat. She placed her right fingers on the patient's other wrist, pouring her light magic more directly into the patient's body. However, the magic seemed to have no effect, unable to dispel the dark elements within him. The silver dragon Perrin had almost completely siphoned off the magic crystals in her storage space. She hadn't restocked them in the past few days, and now only half a bag was left. Shen Jiang thought to herself, this was bad. At most, she could hold out until Grandma finished examining the patient's pulse, but it wouldn't completely dispel the dark elements within the patient's body.
Godwin's eyes suddenly turned complicated when he saw the half-pack of Philosopher's Stones in the believer's hand. He remembered that he had tried to use the Philosopher's Stones to quickly restore his strength, but the believer said that the people in this world did not know magic, and the Philosopher's Stone was extremely difficult to find.
Could these be the ones she had just found? Perhaps she was trying to fill up her bag of offerings?
Godwin's eyes were a little heavy, and he felt his throat was dry.
After waiting for a quarter of an hour, the soldier still hadn't gotten sick, so he secretly breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Why am I fine?"
Shen Anlian didn't say anything. Elder Lu took Shen Jiang's hand and felt his pulse. "Strange, he's in better condition than this morning."
At this time, a doctor in a white coat burst in. Seeing that the soldier had not yet fallen ill, he was very surprised: "Could it be that you have developed antibodies? Nurse! Nurse! Come quickly and draw blood for testing!"
The room was suddenly in chaos, and the influx of white coats pushed several people aside. Mr. Lu asked Shen Anlian, "How is it? Have you made a diagnosis?"
Shen Anlian turned her head to look at the bed next to hers. The manic patient had been wheeled away. She said, "I want to check the pulse of the other patient who's having a seizure."
Shen Jiang was originally rushing to a nearby crystal shop to urgently purchase some crystals. When she heard this, she immediately became anxious. She was not at all confident in leaving her grandmother in such a dangerous place! Fortunately, at this time, Mr. Lu shook his head and said, "For patients who have been ill for more than three hours, the pulse is always hot, with cold hands and feet. The pulse is weak but not weak."
Shen Jiang was stunned. This was a sign of a dying pulse. Did Mr. Lu mean that these people were beyond saving?
Shen Anlian: "How is the animal that first became ill?"
Old Lu shook his head. He wasn't too sure about that either. A young man in a white coat heard the old lady's question and couldn't help but sneered, "It's already this late, and you're still thinking about those beasts."
Godwin glanced at him, his eyes as cold as if he were looking at a dead object: "Can you speak?"
The young man in the white coat was intimidated by his terrifying, cold gaze. He suddenly became sensible and spoke respectfully, "I heard that the stray animals that fell ill were shot on the spot by the military because they attacked people. The remaining ones are still in the base, but without anyone to feed them, they will probably starve to death soon."
After he finished speaking, the crowd in the room pushed the person on the bed out of the room, and the room became quiet again.
Yes, those people who love and care for stray animals and give them a home are now hanging by a thread in their lives. Even if the government is willing to let go of those animals that are not sick, do they have a way to survive?
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