Plague Doctor

Chapter 425: Locust disease [ask for a monthly ticket, ask for a subscription]

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A black shadow in the sky, frantically squeezed, but not a cloud.

A group of drones flew quickly across the dividing line and dropped incendiary bombs on the ground, but before the ground crowded by the same shadows burned into a sea of flames, the countless locusts that made up the shadows drowned these drones, and no one was there. The planes exploded in the air, and before they crashed, they were already eaten up by locusts.

Drones, helicopters, fighter jets, regardless of speed and performance, all suffer the same fate.

In these attempts, the pilots parachuted out in time before entering the mutation area, and did not enter the area, so no casualties were caused.

The mutation area has been completely filled with locusts, and there are still locusts at an altitude of 20,000 meters, which is already in the troposphere and stratosphere.

Fly things shouldn't be up there at that height, but they are up there now.

To fill such a space of 70 square kilometers and 20,000 meters high, the number of these locusts has reached an unimaginable level.

At a higher position, away from the locust swarm, the drones flew up to explore, but they all lost their signal immediately, and no one saw these planes again. They probably crashed due to the force of space distortion; , In space, the satellite only photographed a blur of darkness.

The earth is constantly rotating and revolving, so the corresponding position in the space of the "upper sky" of the variable area is constantly changing.

Since there are no geostationary satellites over the area, the command center does not yet know where the highest point that the area can affect ends.

They also tried to dig the ground, and used a drilling machine to drill 1,500 meters underground, but they still took the dividing line as the boundary, and the two sides were completely different. Once half a step was passed, the soil had serious nuclear radiation. Another worrying thing is that the radar detected something moving underground.

Are those locusts burrowing into the ground? But they were supposed to be the ones that came out of the ground.

The wriggling thing might be a mature locust, or it might be something else.

After the command center made these attempts, direct low-altitude missile strikes on the mutation area were just a drop in the bucket.

Even if they were burned to ashes by the sea of fire, even if they were blown to pieces by missiles, the number of locusts continued unabated, and the buzzing sound of their wings resounded throughout the world, it seemed to be a call for death, Mobei City and beyond Local insects and birds are still flying away.

So many, so vast, so little human power.

Everyone knows that it must be stopped as soon as possible, and this mutation area cannot continue to swallow life and continue to grow...

However, even if they have time to build a high wall covering the entire area, and then cover the dome to completely seal the mutation area, once the fifth explosion occurs, it may suddenly become a mutation area with a radius of several hundred kilometers Part of it, the super-giant shield became nothing more than a landmark.

Besides, it takes more than a year or two to build such a high wall and dome, and it has been less than four days since the incident broke out.

In the early morning of March 14, the old man Tian Fuhou called the police, and now it is the evening of March 17.

If we can't find the source of this mutation area to stop it, and can't find the root of those locusts and locust disease, these will hardly be effective.

But how to find it? The Astronomy Bureau is in trouble.

The variegated cat appeared and disappeared, and Wu Shiyu was still in a lost state; Gu Jun disappeared, and there was no clue of his whereabouts; another possible breakthrough is to find Li Yuhao, Wang Jiawei and others, which is what the Concentric Team is currently doing. things.

As for the evacuation of Mobei University, various departments are already in progress.

As early as the early morning of this day, the people of Mobei City were amazed to see the swarms of insects and birds flying northward in a panic, and it continued continuously.

Not long after that, the people received notifications and heard the city's sirens and high-pitched broadcasts saying that the "extraordinary sandstorm" might sweep across the city, so the whole city had to be evacuated. Please maintain normal order and do not panic, the evacuees will take everyone to a safe place.

The announcement was calm, but few people believed it. They just wanted to get out of here quickly, quickly, and quickly!

The panic of adults and the cries of children resounded everywhere. The city was full of scenes of tense evacuation, and the Internet was already fried.

In the midst of all this chaos, doctors went about their duties.

Since yesterday, Wang Ruoxiang has participated in three consecutive rounds of the autopsy on Principal Cui. She only slept for less than three hours in the last 24 hours, and she slept very lightly. She was exhausted, but she pulled herself together for a diagnostic session.

The outbreak of locust disease... still broke out.

"Ah... I want to eat mud, doctor, give me some..."

"Doctor, I'm really working hard, I can't help it, I can't help it..."

Both sides of the conference table were filled with white coats, and everyone silently watched several ward surveillance videos played on the conference screen.

"Principal Cui blew himself up in public at 12:13 noon on the 16th yesterday."

Si Kouxian, a neurosurgery expert from the Department of Magic, is in charge of leading the team this time. He talked about the situation: "The teachers and students are suspected of being infected, until they have an urge to eat soil, 9-10 hours, and then the urge is strong. After 22-24 hours, the condition deteriorated rapidly, and the patient showed agitation, anxiety, and listlessness, and kept begging for strange food, which is very similar to drug addiction.”

Indeed, Wang Ruoxiang saw from the video a female student patient slamming her head against the wall of the ward, and was stopped by the nurse.

There was also Wang Jinbo, the dean of teaching, who felt like he was sitting on pins and needles when he was sitting on the hospital bed, and he was restless when he got up and walked around, muttering something.

The recording was amplified, and everyone heard Director Wang muttering: "What happened, I really want to eat mud, what happened..."

There are 1,006 such patients currently admitted to the isolation base, all of whom are teachers and students of Mobei Senior High School.

All those who witnessed Principal Cui's self-explosion on the playground yesterday were infected.

From then to now, for nearly 30 hours, the patients drank water normally, but their appetite decreased.

The faces of the doctors became more and more dignified. The locust disease is really transmitted from person to person, but they still don't understand the transmission mechanism of the disease.

I don't even know if I will show those weird behaviors at this time tomorrow and become another patient.

But if you see a patient or that kind of parasite, you will be infected. There are a large number of medical staff and staff who are eligible, but no one has fallen ill so far. If it is to inhale parasites, then Principal Cui's self-destruct is not powerful enough to cover the entire playground, and there is no abnormality in the body of the patients, and no pathogens have been detected.

The patients have mental and neurological problems for the time being, and they have strong pica. Maybe after eating dirt, the disease will develop to the next stage.

Why do they get infected? Is it because you witnessed the scene of self-explosion

Or is Principal Cui's speech similar to a spell, which has the effect of eroding the spirit

Could it be that every patient is contagious? specific patient? Wang Ruoxiang thought about it, and vaguely seemed to think of something...