Plague Doctor

There was a dark shadow in the sky, moving crazily, but it was not a dark cloud.

A group of drones flew across the dividing line at high speed and dropped incendiary bombs on the ground. But before the shadows on the ground burned into a sea of ​​​​fire, the countless locusts that made up the shadows swamped these drones, leaving no one in sight. The planes exploded in the air and were eaten away by locusts before they crashed.

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

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

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

At that height, flies and insects shouldn't be up there, but they are 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, after leaving the locust swarm, drones flew up to explore, but they all lost their signals immediately, and no one saw these aircraft again. They had probably crashed due to the force of space distortion; higher up , in space, the satellite only captured a blur of darkness.

The earth is constantly rotating and revolving, and the corresponding position of the "above" the abnormal area in space is constantly changing.

Since there are no geostationary satellites over the area, the command center does not yet know where the highest point of influence in the area ends.

They also tried digging, using a drill to reach 1,500 meters underground, but they still used the dividing line as the boundary. The two sides were completely different. Once they passed half a step, there was serious nuclear radiation in the soil. Another worrying point was that the radar detected something crawling underground.

Did those locusts burrow into the ground? But they are supposed to be the ones that break out of the ground.

The squirming thing may be a mature locust, or it may be something else.

After the command center made these attempts, direct low-altitude missile strikes on the mutated areas were only a drop in the bucket.

Even if they are burned to ashes by the sea of ​​​​fire, even if they are blown to pieces by missiles, the number of locusts continues to increase. The buzzing sound of their flapping wings resounds throughout the world, and it seems to be a call for death, in Mobei City and even beyond. Local insects and birds are still flying away.

So many in number, so vast in scope, so insignificant in human power.

Everyone knows that it must be stopped as soon as possible, and this mutated area cannot be allowed to continue to swallow up lives and continue to grow...

However, even if they have time to build high walls around the entire area, and then put up a dome to completely seal the abnormality area, once the fifth explosion occurs, hundreds of kilometers around may suddenly become an abnormality area. Part of it, the super giant protective shield has become nothing more than a landmark.

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

In the early morning of March 14th, Mr. Tian Fuhou called the police. It is now the evening of March 17th.

If we can't find the source of this mutated area to stop it, and we can't find the root cause of the locusts and locust disease, it will be difficult for them to be effective.

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

The mottled cat appeared and disappeared, and Wu Shiyu was still in a lost state; Gu Jun was missing, and there was no clue about his whereabouts; another possible breakthrough was to find Li Yuhao, Wang Jiawei and others, which is what the Tongxinzhe team is currently working on things.

As for the evacuation of Mobei, various departments are already carrying out the work.

As early as this morning, people in Mobei City were shocked to see swarms of insects and birds flying north in panic, and they continued.

Soon after, people received notifications and heard the city sounding alarms and loudspeakers. A "severe sandstorm" might sweep across the city, so the entire city was required to evacuate. Please maintain normal order and do not panic. Evacuees will take everyone to a safe place.

The announcement was made calmly, but few people believed it. They just wanted to leave here quickly, faster, faster!

The panic of adults and the cries of children could be heard everywhere. The city was full of scenes of nervous evacuation, and the Internet was also exploding.

Amid the chaos, doctors continued their duties.

Since yesterday, Wang Ruoxiang has participated in three rounds of dissections on Principal Cui. She has only slept for less than three hours in the last 24 hours, and she slept very lightly. She was in a state of exhaustion, but at this time she was still energetic and participated in a diagnostic meeting.

The locust epidemic... still broke out.

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

"Doctor, I'm really having a hard time. I can't bear it anymore. I can't bear it anymore..."

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

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

Si Kouxian, a neurosurgery expert from the Curse Department, was in charge of leading the team this time. He described the situation: "The teachers and students were suspected of being infected, and it took 9-10 hours until they had the urge to eat dirt, and then the urge became stronger. It was uncontrollable for 22-24 hours; after that, the condition deteriorated rapidly, and the patient showed agitation, restlessness, lethargy, and constantly begged for food, which is very similar to drug addiction."

It was indeed very similar. From the video, Wang Ruoxiang saw a female student patient banging her head against the wall of the ward and being stopped by a nurse.

There is also Wang Jinbo, the dean of teaching, who is on pins and needles when sitting on the hospital bed. He is also restless when he gets up and moves around, muttering something on his lips.

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

There are currently 1,006 such patients 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-destruction in the playground yesterday were infected.

From then until now, for nearly 30 hours, the patients have been drinking normally, but their appetite has decreased. They could eat a little at first, but after agitation symptoms appeared, they stopped eating and just asked for dirt over and over again.

The doctors' faces became more solemn one by one. Locust disease can really be transmitted from person to person, but they still don't understand the transmission mechanism of this disease.

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

But if you are infected by seeing a patient or that kind of parasite, then there are a large number of medical staff and staff who meet the conditions, but no one has become sick so far. If parasites are to be inhaled, then Principal Cui's self-destruction is not powerful enough to cover the entire playground, and there are no abnormalities in the patients' bodies, and no pathogens have been detected.

The patients have temporary mental and neurological problems and strong pica. Perhaps after eating dirt, the disease will progress to the next stage.

Why do they get infected? Just because I witnessed the self-destruction scene with my own eyes?

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

Is it possible that every patient is contagious? Only for specific patients? Wang Ruoxiang was thinking, vaguely thinking of something...

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