Although the Old World serves as a focus of disease, the vast majority of patients, especially the "independent patients" who are not affiliated with any organization, have no resources and no guidance.
After the defeat of the old world, a large number of rules were blocked and a large number of opportunities were lost, such as being unable to observe the stars, unable to face the sun, and so on.
It is difficult to approach open source by relying solely on yourself or discussing it with your peers.
Coupled with the restrictions of fertility rules, the spread of darkness, the wandering of the dead and other factors, the number of such independent patients can only become smaller and smaller. Eventually, a large number of independent patients die over the long years, and a large number of sick villages and settlements sink in the long river of time.
The remaining villages and towns are either attached to an organization, or are under the jurisdiction of the source epidemic area, or serve as affiliated areas of a neutral city.
However, this decline is slowly turning around.
With the beginning of the "world infection", a large number of infected humans came to the Old World through the channel, which to some extent made up for the problem of "birth restriction" and gradually stabilized the declining total population of the Old World.
When these foreign infected humans first come to the Old World, they are kept in captivity, and many source epidemic areas and organizations even issue "Outsider Protection Orders" specifically for this purpose to ensure the safety of the infected humans.
At present, a fairly stable captive breeding system has been formed.
As long as the infected humans coming from outside pass through the channel, they will be sent to the captive area free of charge by transfer companies such as redundant intestines, transmitters, black roundworms, etc.
The so-called captive areas correspond to those once dilapidated towns, villages or caves. The lifeless ruins gradually become lively as humans move in.
Every once in a while, envoys from various organizations, or even envoys from the source of the epidemic area, would come to look for talent, and if they found a human they liked, they would be taken away.
If there are open-source patients, multiple organizations may even compete for them.
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A small town that was once inhabited by people with ear diseases was no longer inhabited thousands of years ago and was designated as an enclosure area decades ago.
With the arrival of infected humans, the town became brightly lit again. Some humans even brought "technology" into the town. Leaders emerged, and slowly with the efforts of all the people in the town, a town with both material and spiritual satisfaction was built.
Although they are called captive, the infected humans here actually live much better than before. They have long been accustomed to the symptoms in their bodies and can use them reasonably.
Moreover, the town has established a mature public security bureau, and any conflicts will be contained at the first opportunity. The infected humans living in this town can be said to be "living and working in peace and contentment".
There are even many patients who start families here. Even if they are unable to have children, they can adopt young infected people and raise them as their offspring.
Among them, the Andersons and their adopted son Dennis are one of the model families.
Her husband, Yorgos Anderson, who suffers from cervical and shoulder myofasciitis, does physical work in the construction industry in a small town, often responsible for moving various giant timbers and heavy steel materials.
Gisele Anderson, his wife who suffers from psoriasis vulgaris, is a tailor. She uses her own shed skin and local raw materials to make clothes. As the town's population grows, her business is also getting better and better.
My son Dennis is only five years old. He suffers from congenital glaucoma and autism. He stays at home all year round to play alone. Every day he just waits for his parents to come home from get off work and has no desire to leave home at all.
This peaceful life lasted for two years, and during these two years, Dennis never left home.
Tonight.
The Andersons rode their bikes home after get off work as usual. They arrived at the doorstep almost at the same time and hugged each other in the front yard as usual.
However, the careful wife discovered that the mailbox in front of the house seemed to have been opened by someone.
"What is this? A ticket?"
The wife found two strange tickets she had never seen before in the mailbox.
The tickets are painted with various strange elements such as limbs, masks, hair, etc., which make people feel uncomfortable even if they are sick.
They had lived in the small town for many years and had never heard of a circus.
And when the wife tried to grab both tickets out of the mailbox, something weird happened.
No matter how hard he tried, he could only grab one... It seemed that there was some kind of restriction that limited one person to only one ticket.
When the husband also got the ticket, their thoughts were pulled in some way, and they even felt like a thread passing through their brains, trying to lead them out of the town.
The loving couple resisted the temptation to buy tickets and rushed into the house immediately.
"Dennis!"
No matter how they shouted, there was no response.
After searching everywhere in the house for their son, the couple couldn't find any sign of him. They immediately thought of the mailbox that seemed to have been opened and the suspicious circus tickets.
It's very likely that Dennis had already gotten the ticket from the mailbox and was heading to the circus.
What's strange is that they knew very well how serious their son's autism was. Once, they tried to take their son out, but failed no matter how hard they tried to pull him. Dennis even bit off two of his wife's fingers.
Since the missing person must be missing for 24 hours before being reported to the police, the two can only ride their bicycles and follow the traction given by the tickets to the circus to look for their missing son.
It had been a long time since they had been so far away from the small town, but strangely, they saw some small town residents along the way who were also holding tickets to the mysterious circus.
I don't know how long it has been.
In a dark area underground where the sun cannot illuminate, bursts of strange colorful lights light up, and a huge and dark circus tent stands in the deserted area.
There were already quite a few bicycles parked outside the tent fence, and it was obvious that quite a few people had already entered.
The circus has two entrances, corresponding to the "audience" and "applicants" respectively.
The couple believed that Dennis would enter as a spectator. Thinking that their son's stay in such a densely populated area might induce a severe autism attack, they hurriedly walked in without carefully reading the precautions for the audience area.
The circus auditorium, which can accommodate thousands of people, is currently about 1/4 full. With the help of the brighter lights, the couple quickly located Dennis's position and sat upright in the first row.
Contrary to what one might expect from an autism attack, my son did not show any signs of agitation at all.
As his father quickly approached behind him, he said, "Dennis, why did you come to a place like this by yourself? Come home with us!"
Dennis remained indifferent to his father's slightly reproachful words.
This made the father a little excited, and inflammation broke out, causing his shoulder and entire arm to become red, swollen and thick. He grabbed Dennis and tried to take him away from the circus by force.
But when his hand pulled Dennis's shoulder,
Bang!
The head, which had been cut open long ago, slid to the ground, and the eyeballs on the face had been dug out.
What was held in the father's hands was just a headless corpse.
"Dennis!"
Just as the two were exclaiming, a servant holding a pair of scissors flashed past the couple... There were also two complete tongues on the plate in the servant's hand, and the tongue extraction was completed in an instant.
"Hush! Please quietly enjoy the following show. As long as you can hold on long enough and keep your heart, you will be given freedom and generous audience rewards. Please do your best! Currently, no audience has claimed the reward."