Feast of villains

Chapter 112

The winter snow is flying, and through the leather of the upper, it is cold to the toes.

The road in the town is narrow, 300 meters to the south, there is a small church with a steeple at the top of the ramp.

After Nance got out of the car, someone came out to meet them on the long stone steps.This is the mayor of Nanwan Town, a man in his forties, with a short yellow mustache, tall, a little hunchback, and slender limbs.

He walked down quickly, blew his nose, and said to Li Ting: "Just now, two more people fell ill, sir, please go and see quickly..."

Li Ting didn't say much, he raised his legs and ran to the church.

"Be careful, be careful not to be infected." Nance and Susha said, and looked at the car again, "You don't want to go into the church, do you?"

"Ha~"

Li Qingxian yawned lazily.

Holding the owl in her arms, she closed her eyes and fell asleep directly.

Nance went up the steps and into the church door.

Inside, there is a small ward separated by a simple screen. The light is fairly bright, but the furnishings are simple.

A rope is tied to the chandelier and hangs straight, and the two folding beds below are hung alone by the rope.

On one of the folding beds lay a man, breathing hard, his bloodshot eyes staring at the person coming.Nance stopped in front of the entrance of the ward. He seemed to hear the squeak of a mouse amidst the patient's slight breathing.

He subconsciously glanced at the dark corners of the church.

No trace of rats was found.

Li Ting walked towards the hospital bed.

"Master, please help me..." the patient said in a breathless voice.

"Don't be nervous, tell me how you feel now." Li Ting said patiently and gently.

Just as the patient opened his mouth, he suddenly leaned half of his body out of the bed, pressed his abdomen with one hand, put the other around his neck, and spat out a red liquid into the booty bucket under the bed.

The mayor and the priest, who were still inside, suddenly felt unwell and turned around to leave the ward.

The patient vomited out of breath for a long time before struggling to lie down again.

Li Ting asked a few basic questions and took his temperature for him. He had a high fever of 39.5°C.The lymph nodes on the neck and limbs were swollen, and there were light black spots on both sides of the abdomen, and they were all expanding.

"It's burning badly, I feel something is biting me..." The patient turned his gaze to Li Ting, with tears in his eyes, "Sir, what's wrong with me?"

"Any kind of disease is possible, but we are not sure yet." Li Ting said gently, turning his head to look at the family members beside him, "Leave one person outside to watch, feed and take anti-inflammatory drugs according to the regulations. Drink plenty of water .”

The patient became agitated, and as he stood up from the bed, he asked himself if he was going to die.

"Be quiet and don't move around." Li Ting said patiently, "It's nothing to be afraid of. Please trust me. I'll report it to the mayor."

The patient said "oh".

Then he threw back his body and began to sob.

Li Ting walked out of the ward and asked the mayor who was sweating profusely, "Are there any other cases?"

"not yet."

"Is there any patient who has a fever due to local inflammation recently?"

"Ah, yes, there are two patients with fever in the hospital, and both have symptoms of swollen lymph nodes."

"Is the swelling normal?"

The mayor's face was blank, and he stammered, "Well, the so-called normal is definitely not normal at this time. You also know that in winter, the strange beasts in the mountains can't eat..."

"Take me to see the corpse." Li Ting ordered.

"It's right here, sir, come and have a look."

The mayor turned and led him to the cross in the church.

The two people who died first stood upright in front of the statue, their whole bodies frozen hard.

Li Ting put on rubber gloves and squatted beside the corpse, sometimes picking at the eyelids, and sometimes knocking open the mouth of the corpse to check.The people next to him didn't dare to disturb their origins, and the heavy atmosphere of death weighed on everyone like a mountain.

During this period, Nance scanned the corpse with a destruction engine and got two pieces of data.

Both data sets pinpoint the pathology.

--plague.

After checking the corpse, Li Ting looked at the mayor solemnly: "Arrange someone to burn the corpse."

"Burning is naturally easy." The mayor had no objection to this, but just looked at him uneasily, "But now the people's hearts are uneasy, and rumors about the illness continue to expand. We are so anxious to burn the body, I am afraid that this is true. It's a plague."

"Isn't this a plague?" Li Ting asked back.

The mayor's expression froze for a moment, and after a while, he smiled wryly: "Understood."

"Send the two patients to the church for isolation, and contact the mercenaries and the old Orion, and prepare to go into the mountains." Li Ting said seriously, it seems that he has experience in dealing with it.

"I'll go right away."

The mayor didn't dare to neglect, and ran out immediately.

Two patients with abnormally swollen lymph nodes were quickly transferred from the only hospital in the town. Nan Si was afraid that Ms. Su would also be infected, and asked her to take Li Qingxian back to Li's house.And he himself put on a full set of protective clothing to help Li Ting record some data.

Lethargy, respiratory failure, red eyes, foul mouth, headache, bubo, talking nonsense, spots on the body... When these symptoms almost all appear on the same body, a person's life is like a hanging thread, and the slightest movement of the body will cause death. Sudden loss of breath is possible.

At noon, a few more cases arrived.

Among them was a woman with a weak physique. As soon as it was delivered, she pressed her abdomen tightly with her hands, talked nonsense, and vomited at the same time.The lymph nodes on her neck were shockingly large. She said that yesterday they were just pus, but today they festered like rotten fruit.

Li Ting drew a cross on it with a scalpel.

Lymph nodes overflow with bloody pus.

By this time, the patient was bleeding, with sprawled limbs, and spots appeared on the abdomen and legs.

When the lymph nodes stopped pus, her body temperature was as high as 40°C, and she began to talk nonsense and howl, "Ah! Those beasts!"

——Curse the mouse.

The originally deflated lymph nodes quickly swelled up again, and the swelling was even bigger, and it felt as hard as a block of wood.

Her husband was insane.

"You stay here and watch over her," Li Ting said to him, "If anything happens, let me know as soon as possible."

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the patient's body temperature dropped to 38°C.

Seeing that the situation has improved a lot, she regained her energy and was lying on the bed smiling.

Her husband pulled Li Ting back and asked anxiously, "Sir, she is much better, isn't she?"

"Let's see later." Li Ting's face did not relax at all.

Nance noticed that the patient's eyes were abnormally bright.

Those are the eyes of a dying person, a brief flashback after burning life, and if you use some banal clichés to describe it, then it can be said that what she sees at this moment is a "dream moment" or a "fairyland". like lights" and so on.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the patient's body temperature suddenly soared to 40°C.

She kept saying words that no one could understand, and she vomited again, her lymph nodes were so swollen that her neck would burst at any moment.Her husband knelt by the bed, put his hands on the quilt, and looked at Li Ting helplessly.

Li Ting said calmly, "I'll give her some sedatives."

Sedatives, of course, could not cure the plague, they could only make the patient more comfortable.

But at this moment, a few words came out of the patient's mouth intermittently, "mouse", "fly", and so on.With sallow lips and weak breathing, she curled up in the crib.

It was as if some voice from the ground was calling her.

The husband burst into tears: "Sir, is there no hope?"

"She's dead." Li Ting said.

The moment his voice fell, the patient stopped breathing.

In Shin-Yokohama, scattered patients began to die without warning.

Many physicians start out with only a mild sense of unease.

When there are only a few cases, it cannot be called a plague.

Such a thing is just an exception at the beginning, but in a very short period of time, it will turn into a disaster.

For ordinary people, just do some preventive work.

Night gradually fell.

Looking down at the city from the window, it is still so prosperous, a super metropolis full of luxury.

But the word "plague" began to circulate in the streets and alleys.

The word not only has a medical meaning, but also carries a series of heavy and dark images, which are very incongruous with the mood of Shin-Yokohama.

The megalopolis, which had just come on neon lights at this moment, could only be described as the beginning of a lavish nightlife; It is joy for the rich.

Only some medical practitioners recalled the disasters in history when they heard the news.

In Athens, which was hit by the plague, nearly 1/2 of the population died, and the whole Athens was almost destroyed, even the birds flew without a trace; in the ancient city of Guangzhou, the streets and lanes were full of silent dying patients, and there were hundreds of thousands Dead bodies of rats; Marseilles erected a plague wall to drive out condemned prisoners and push bloody corpses into caves; hospitals in Constantinople, wet and rotting beds on hard mud floors, patients were dragged out with hooks and burned; Milan The piles of the dying in the cemetery; the carload after carload of dead bodies in the city of London...

To say that the most frightening symbol is the "bird beak doctor" that can be seen everywhere on the streets when the Black Death was rampant.

These brave rebels, just because the plague was too terrible, became terrifying messengers of death in people's hearts.

"Spots, oh, rosy spots

pocket full of flowers
Ah sneeze!Ah sneeze!
We are all screwed. "

Rose refers to the rose-shaped rash at the onset of the Black Death, and the fragrance of flowers is everywhere in the streets. From this folk song, you can get a glimpse of the horror of European society at that time.

But right now, Shin-Yokohama is still in the middle of a frenzy.

In front of the church of the monastery, Tokisaki looked at the brightly lit city in the distance, while thinking of the picture about the plague described in the book: Muscovites set up firewood piles by the Moskva River and burned the diseased corpses.

There is not enough space for the firewood pile. In order to compete for the position to place the corpses of their relatives, the living people held torches and fought with each other.

The lifeless river water reflects the firelight of the burning pyre, the torches splashed by sparks illuminate the living who beat the dead to death, and the foul-smelling smoke rises slowly into the sky of the night... such a picture will make you think. feel terrible.

"Chairman, come on..."

Whispering to himself, Tokisaki felt a little hope in his heart.

In the afternoon, she summarized the situation with Sister Marlene's wounds, and listed some possible effective materials and methods.She sent all these to the head of the class, and the head of the class replied, saying that Li Ting had a relatively unorthodox prescription, and he was learning about the effectiveness of the prescription...

If the plague really spread, the number of deaths may be in the tens of millions...

At this moment, the adjutant lady wished she could grow a pair of wings and fly to the boss's side to assist her.

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South Bay Town.

From the window of the church, Nance looked out at the cliffs of the mountains in the distance.

The sun was already low at this time, but there was still a little sunset glow in the west, and the sky was blood red.

The sunset glow slanted into the church, seeming to stain the deserted building with blood, and the face of the God statue was stained scarlet.On the weather-beaten window sill behind the statue, a crow was singing a hideous hoarse cry with all its might.

A patient by the window seemed to be stunned, opened his mouth wide, and was terrified when he heard it.

With his last breath, the sun disappeared with his life.

Sunset is also closed.

The color of the sky is dim, and as night falls, it gradually disappears, and the surrounding scenery gradually dims.

"Go back, come back tomorrow." Li Ting came over with a gas lamp and handed it to him, "Tomorrow I will go into the mountains with Orion to look for strange beasts infected with gluttonous magic essence. If you want free time, you can come together." .”

Because of the dim light, he was much older than when he first saw him.

The skin is flabby, the hair is a mess like a plant that has been planted in the wrong place, and there are brown spots all over the face. He is an out-and-out tired old man.People are going to age and die, and no genius seed expert can avoid it.

"Do you need any help?" Nance asked him, "If you need people or equipment, I can help."

After a moment of silence, Li Ting said: "I am not a doctor, but from my own non-professional perspective, this plague bacteria can enlarge the spleen four times in three days, and make the mesenteric ganglion grow to the size of an orange. And it has a paste-like texture. Current medicine is powerless to do anything about it. In less than two months, tens of millions of people will die in California. If you can’t bear to see such a scene, please use yourself To the best of our ability, gather as many potion masters as possible in California, and let them prepare standard alchemists."

Nance nodded solemnly: "Do my best."

"Another best thing is that you can get a potion master to come over tonight," Li Ting said, "We will go into the mountain tomorrow, and it will take a week to go back and forth. With a potion master by your side, you can save money." A lot of testing time."

"I am."

"……Ha ha."

Nance walked out of the church and walked back to Lee's house.

The gas lamp illuminated the snow under his feet. As he walked, he suddenly smiled helplessly.

Miss Su has been clamoring to go into the mountains to fight strange beasts, and now she finally got her wish, and I don't know if she can fulfill her promise...

(End of this chapter)