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Chapter 547 The Plague
Cang Xiuxuan's entire attention was now on Song Chen.

Hearing Song Chen's cry, Cang Xiuxuan quickly raised his head and looked in the direction she was pointing. There was a blazing fire not far ahead, and many people with indifferent expressions stood around the fire.

Both of them have very good eyesight, so they can clearly see the situation in front of them.

What was missing under the blazing fire was nothing but a corpse! !
The people standing around must be their family members. Seeing their indifferent expressions, Song Chen felt quite uncomfortable.

But it seems that this is not the time to think about this. People in ancient times would never allow corpses to be burned. This is their way of dealing with monsters. She does not believe that everyone who is being burned over there now is a monster. .

Especially because of her super good hearing, she could still hear a few wailing sounds coming from the fire from time to time.

"Those people are still alive."

Cang Xiuxuan naturally heard these voices, and his face suddenly became ugly.

"Are these people crazy?"

If they were dead people, it was understandable that they couldn't be sent up the mountain to be burned because they didn't have enough to eat, but why were the people who were not dead also burned together?
Is that human being?
Even Cang Xiuxuan, a man who had killed many people with his own hands, couldn't help but feel it was too outrageous when he saw this scene.

"Go and have a look first."

Song Chen nodded, and while he was still far away, he took out a few masks from Song Space, turned around and helped Cang Xiuxuan put them on, "The smell is unpleasant, wear two more layers."

These masks are all medical masks. Wearing them can indeed block some outside smells, but breathing becomes difficult.

Cang Xiuxuan was already used to these things and knew their uses, so he did not show any rejection.

Song Chen also quickly put on a few layers for himself, and then the two of them continued to move forward.

The horse stopped not far from them, and even with a mask on, he could still smell the burning smell. Song Chen really didn't know how those people could stand beside them so blankly and motionless.

"wrong."

Cang Xiuxuan was about to turn over and dismount, but Song Chen quickly stopped him and said, "There is something wrong with these people."

Song Chen didn't notice it before, but now that she was in front of her, she could see that their expressions and faces were wrong. She even saw several people who seemed to be eager to give it a try.

Naturally, he was eager to try and planned to jump into the fire.

If it's just hunger, that's not the reaction.

People are often selfish and will do anything to survive. There have been reports of cannibalism in some places before.

Cang Xiuxuan was not as sensitive as Song Chen in this aspect, but he had no doubt about Song Chen's words.

"Look at their faces, are they all dark?"

Song Chen pointed at the few people under the firelight. Even under the orange-yellow firelight, they could still see that their faces were very pale, and under this pale background, they could still vaguely see some... Black and blue.

Cang Xiu Xuan Farewell and Song Chen had reminded him like this, and he really found that the expressions on these people's faces were very wrong.

Song Chen was also quickly searching in his mind for the consequences of a severe drought. Under normal circumstances, droughts are followed by locust plagues. It is not like floods, where plagues will inevitably occur after floods and earthquakes, but droughts are not. few.

Just less, not none...

Song Chen's face suddenly became solemn, "We need to avoid them for the time being and try not to have any contact with them before entering the city." When the situation is unclear, Song Chen will not take Cang Xiuxuan on an adventure of.

So the two of them quickly changed directions and chose a longer road.

The people beside the fire were not very interested in the two of them. They had noticed them when they came over before. Apart from having one more horse than them, these two people were not much better. There wasn't even a baggage on it.

If there was food, they would not let them go.

There is no use in leaving them without food.

The two people who changed paths were still thinking about the previous incident. Song Chen seemed to have some ideas in his head and turned to look at Cang Xiuxuan.

Cang Xiuxuan also wanted to understand.

Both of them saw solemnity in each other's eyes, and they said two words in unison, "Plague!"

Song Chen didn't expect that Cang Xiuxuan, a layman, could think of this so quickly, "I just thought about it. This drought has nothing to do with the plague. But when I thought about it carefully, if someone died of hunger, , it is extremely possible that the body was eaten by rats or something."

What she doesn't say explicitly is that this time it might not be the plague, but the plague.

This is a highly contagious disease with a very high mortality rate. If it is not well controlled and intervened, it may end up becoming a ghost town, and it is very likely to spread across the country. .

This was the first time that Cang Xiuxuan heard that rats biting people could cause such a situation, and he was very puzzled.

"Why rats?"

"This kind of animal itself carries the virus. If they eat the corpse, it will amplify the virus to a large extent, and then bite other people or other animals. This is another infectious agent... "

Song Chen didn't know how to explain this matter to Cang Xiuxuan. Viruses were very troublesome.

"Then how to solve it? Is it enough to kill the mice?"

Cang Xiuxuan intuitively felt that the plague must be related to rats.

Song Chen shook his head, "This is only one aspect. It can only solve direct contact, but it will not have any effect on those who have been infected. The saliva sprayed by those who have been infected is harmful. Viral.”

Song Chen was now extremely grateful that he had asked both of them to wear masks in order not to be affected by the smell.

Cang Xiuxuan only knew about the plague, but he didn't know how he was infected. Now that he heard Song Chen say this, he seemed to understand why the plague would be a disaster as soon as it happened.

"Do you have anyone available right now?"

They came out in two people this time. Song Chen was not sure if Cang Xiuxuan had anyone else nearby who could be mobilized at any time.

"There are still people in Yangzhou County."

These people had been in the city before, and he originally stayed there to help the Yangzhou County Sheriff when necessary.

Song Chen breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this.

"Then you contact them quickly, and they must send the news to the Yangzhou County Sheriff, and also send the news to several surrounding states and counties as well as ourselves. From now on, the city gates will be blocked and no one will be allowed to do so. People from this state and county are allowed to enter the city, or in other words, no one is allowed to enter the city!"

(End of this chapter)