The night wind was bitter, Zhou Haorui walked quickly on the concrete road outside the dormitory building, chasing the crow flying in the sky, his neck and shoulders were stretched and hurt, and the hot breath he exhaled turned into fog in the dark night.
He didn't know what was happening now, even if it was a dream.
Just now he asked the crow what was going on and how this "petrified disease" could be cured, and the crow asked him to follow.
Although it was under the night, and the crow was completely black, it seemed to have a strange luster, and the darkness could not hide its figure.
At this time, it gradually flew low from a high altitude, and flew into the woods behind the dormitory building.
Zhou Haorui ran for a while, stood in front of the woods, and stopped. The cold wind blew by, and the old telephone poles pulled the messy wires and shook slightly. There were many shadows in the woods, and there were rustling wind sounds, and the sound of tree branches and leaves being blown.
Maybe every university has its own urban legend, and there is an urban legend at UHUA that says that the woods behind the dormitory buildings have killed people.
A couple had a conflict, and the woman committed suicide here.
In the past, Zhou Haorui did not believe in this legend. The reason is very simple. It is very difficult to find a girl in Dahua Institute of Technology. There is only one female student in their class. In other schools, she is an ordinary girl, but here she is a goddess. How could she be willing to commit suicide after being held up by so many boys
But now, Zhou Haorui was covered in goose bumps from the night wind, and the grove in front of him seemed to be the desolate land in a dream.
What that crow was, he had no idea...
While hesitating, there was a flash of pain in the back shoulders on both sides, and the adhesion of the shoulder bones became more severe, and the raised bone seemed to be still growing.
Zhou Haorui thought of some skeletal anatomy pictures of progressive muscular ossification. The back shoulders and back are not a frame, but a whole piece of bone... He didn't want to become like that. He got angry and walked into the woods.
The rustling, the sound of the wind and the swaying of the leaves became louder, but the not very tall and old trees felt a chill.
Zhou Haorui's heart was beating very fast, and suddenly there was a gloomy and cold feeling. He suddenly turned his head to look, and saw a big pine tree over there, and the crow was perched on a branch. The claws landed steadily, and the bird's eyes were calm and sharp.
"You... hello." Zhou Haorui didn't know what to say.
A crow can talk, which is supernatural... But is it really just a crow, or something else...
The crow said calmly: "In progressive muscular ossification, the acvr1 gene is mutated, resulting in the replacement of the 206th codon in the acvr1 protein from arginine to histidine, thus transforming the connective tissue and muscle tissue into ectopic bone. , also converts endothelial cells into mesenchymal stem cells and then into bone."
Although Zhou Haorui didn't understand it very well, the physiology was based on existing medical research, and he had seen it when he checked the information.
"But petrochemical disease is not progressive muscle ossification, or fibrous dysplasia, or McCune-Albright syndrome."
The crow talked about two other diseases. Zhou Haorui didn't understand this time. It said: "Petrochemical disease is built on their foundation. If it is allowed to spread and break out, it will cause tens of thousands of diseases around the world. Hundreds of millions of people will be turned into dead stones, life would be better than death, and this world will enter the end of the era.”
Hundreds of millions? If Zhou Haorui heard Li Hui and his like say that, he would definitely scoff.
But now the words of this crow seemed to have a kind of prophetic power, and the calm voice was full of certainty, which made him feel chills.
"This, this..." he said blankly, "is it like Legionnaires' disease?"
Until now, the shadow of Legionnaires' disease on the world has not completely dissipated.
For a person like him who has not experienced the mysterious Mobei super sandstorm, has no newborn children, and is not a public figure, even though he has read all kinds of occultism, leaked information and conspiracy theories, he suddenly felt panicked. Remember, Legionnaires' disease.
Moreover, Zhou Haorui's hometown is Derao City, which is not far from Shanhai City - that is one of the main epidemic areas of Legionnaires' disease, and Derao City also had an epidemic at that time.
He had heard the blockade alert and seen the Tianji vehicles, and there was a saying afterwards that if the epidemic situation at that time continued for a few more days, Derao City would be completely wiped out.
"It's more difficult to deal with than Legionnaires' disease." Crow said, "The spread of Legionnaires' disease is fast, and the death rate is also very fast. It will quickly destroy an area, but other areas that have not been affected by the epidemic can be completely unaffected. A bit like Ebola. When the dark force behind Legionella neoformans is undone, it becomes a disease that is only slightly more difficult to treat than ordinary Legionnaires' disease, but still treatable. Petrified disease is different.
It is a genetic disease that alters the physiology itself and has no cure. Moreover, it will not kill quickly, and patients can still live in pain for several years, but it needs to consume medical resources and family members' energy and time to take care of it. It's not just one patient, it's not just eight hundred or a thousand, it's an epidemic, once it breaks out, there can be tens of millions of patients within a few months, they can't live normally, they can't move, they can't do anything . The petrified disease will drag down the cities in the infected area, drag down the countries in the infected area, and it will turn this world into a more sick world until it completely collapses. "
Zhou Haorui was startled when he heard this, and his heart was even colder...
If nine out of ten people in a society suffer from "petrification disease" and cannot live well or die, it will be... a terrible situation that cannot be imagined.
No place can withstand that kind of pressure and all order will crumble...
"How do you know?" he asked hesitantly.
The answer to this question is very important. For what purpose and what position is the crow serving
Could it be a dark force... Crows always seem to mean ominous...
Zhou Haorui took a step back unconsciously, and the idea of turning around and fleeing outside the woods flashed in his mind...
He wanted to call the Tianji hotline. He should have dialed the Tianji hotline when he was in the dormitory. To deal with it... Then I might still be saved, that's right...
Oops, I ran out in a hurry just now and didn't bring my phone...
"Tianji Bureau can't save you." Crow said, as if he could read his inner thoughts, "I can."
The dim light of those bird eyes caught people, Zhou Haorui stopped in his tracks, and asked in a daze, "What are you?"
"Crows," it said again, "crows hate sickness."