Doomsday Catastrophe

The old woman first took Shen Feng's group to the hut in the woods, and found that almost all the people present were children, and there was only one adult man. Obviously already lying flat.

The old woman explained to Shen Feng: "Originally there were dozens of people who survived in our village, and everyone lived here in a group. As a result, the plague god came, and no one dared to go near the river to drink water. We can only collect rainwater, and we dare not drink river water. The adults basically died on the way to find food, and we are the only ones left."

Shen Feng saw a group of children here looking at him eagerly, couldn't help but soften his heart, and said to Cai He: "Take these children to the camp for dinner. If you have suitable clothes, remember to find some for them. Put it on."

Now, the dozens of people living in the woods are all covered in dirty and torn clothes, obviously because they haven’t been washed for a long time, but when you think about it carefully, everyone can’t even guarantee the water they can drink. What laundry?

Shen Feng took more than a hundred people to the village where the old woman lived, and relied on superior firepower to eliminate the zombies in the village, and finally found the well in the village. Shen Feng observed carefully and confirmed that the well water was not polluted. , Now that there is a water source, the problem of cooking is solved.

After eliminating the zombies in the village, it was already dark at this time. Shen Feng entered a house, lit a candle, and began to ask about the plague god by the river.

"Old man, what exactly is the God of Plague you are talking about?" Shen Feng asked first.

Unexpectedly, Ke Yiming interrupted at this time: "The god of plague, it must be the plague. Many ignorant people call infectious diseases like plague the god of plague. This is very common."

"No, no, the God of Plague I'm talking about is the worm in the river, so that's the God of Plague." The old woman quickly explained.

Chu Chaoyan couldn't help mocking Ke Yiming's ignorance: "Don't pretend to understand. I saw it by the river. There were many insects on the ground at that time. The so-called plague god must be some parasites. It’s probably roundworms, tapeworms or something. Maybe it’s leeches!”

The old woman nodded and explained: "That's right. After being possessed by the God of Plague, no matter whether it is a person or an animal, their stomachs will become bigger, and the blood on their bodies will be sucked away. Pregnant women who are conceived at the end of the month do not have such a big belly, and in a few days, sick people will go to the river, and eventually a big hole will be opened in the belly, and all the bugs in it will come out and go into the water."

"Huh, it's so disgusting." Hearing this description, Chu Chaoyan couldn't help feeling a little nauseous.

At this time, Shen Feng stared at Chu Chaoyan's stomach and began to size it up, and said while looking at it, "If you are sick, wouldn't you be able to see your big belly?"

"Fuck you, you're just pregnant." Chu Chaoyan thumped Shen Feng's shoulder hard.

At this time, the old woman's eyes gradually showed a look of reminiscence, and she frowned and said: "God of plague, I remember seeing it when I was young. At that time, all the people in the village, no matter men, women, old or young, walked on the street with big bellies. No matter how much you eat, you will never gain weight, only your belly will get bigger and bigger. Even cattle and sheep have big bellies, and sometimes you can even see the blood vessels on the belly. If you poke it with a stick, you may poke it break."

Hearing this description, Shen Feng couldn't help frowning a little. He remembered, as if he had heard of such a thing before.

Ke Yiming was a little curious, and hurriedly asked: "What happened later? How did it happen later? Aren't you doing well?"

The old woman was silent for a long time, frowning and remembering the things when she was a child, because it had been a long time, and she couldn't remember clearly, but she still said it based on the events in her memory: "Later, we all went to fill the ditch together , go to pick up snails together, and the plague will be eradicated.”

The memory of the old man is obviously not very good. Now when he recalls the things when he was a child, he can't give a general idea, which makes everyone present speechless. This is all nonsense. of?

"Crack!" Shen Feng slapped his thigh and said excitedly: "I remembered, I know what is in the river, it's not leeches, it's schistosomiasis, parasites that live on the liver, but it seems to be a long time ago was wiped out."

"Oh, that's right, that's the thing. At the beginning, the leader called this thing the God of Plague, so many people called it that." The old woman was reminded by Shen Feng, and she also remembered that schistosomiasis was indeed once called the God of Plague. thing.

Chu Chaoyan thought of something, and said to himself: "There are thousands of willows in the spring breeze, and the 600 million Shenzhou is full of shunyao."

Ke Yiming carried Shen Feng's biological illustrated book with him, and began to browse through it by candlelight, and finally found the knowledge of schistosomiasis in the illustrated book, and couldn't help frowning and asked: "But the illustrated book says that schistosomiasis is transmitted through cercariae, and adults seem to be It won’t spread, it will only produce eggs and excrete with feces, doesn’t that seem wrong?”

Shen Feng took a look at the illustration book and said with a frown: "That's true. It stands to reason that as long as the snails are caught, there will be no intermediate hosts, and the schistosomiasis will not cause widespread infection. But now the adult worms are actively attacking humans and animals. , doesn’t it mean that the schistosomiasis has also mutated?”

Chu Chaoyan quickly asked, "Should we wipe out these schistosomiasis?"

"Come on, it's impossible. How can it be so easy to eliminate the mutated schistosomiasis?" Shen Feng rejected Chu Chaoyan's proposal at that time, "Let's go back to the camp to cook dinner, and hurry up for a while." I've been starving to death all day."

After finishing speaking, Shen Feng stood up and was about to leave the village, and the rest of the people quickly followed.

Seeing Shen Feng like this, Chu Chaoyan couldn't help but said: "I thought you asked the God of Plague for the purpose of punishing evil and promoting good, but I didn't expect you to be so bad."

Shen Feng ignored Chu Chaoyan and left the village straight away, but Yang Chang began to explain at this time: "Miss Chu, it is not so easy to eliminate schistosomiasis! The distribution range of schistosomiasis is the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, more than a dozen provinces." How many people do we have? Back then, several provinces in the south mobilized together to eradicate schistosomiasis. Now we don’t know the intermediate host of schistosomiasis, nor the distribution range of schistosomiasis. How to eliminate it?”

"But, won't the schistosomiasis harm the world in the future? Is it okay for us to just sit back and ignore it?" Chu Chaoyan still couldn't bear it. She thought of the place where the schistosomiasis was, and it was full of men, women and children with big bellies. .

"Then what should we do? We still have to go to Yanjing. If we are delayed, Yanjing may be more dangerous. There are 10 million people there!" Yang Chang said helplessly.

In fact, Yang Chang really wanted to say that it was none of our business, but after thinking about it, this sentence seemed a little too much, so he decided to persuade Chu Chaoyan with the overall situation in mind.

Chu Chaoyan's faith suddenly wavered at this moment. She thought that there would be nothing impossible for everyone to unite as one. As long as the zombies entrenched on the land were wiped out, the world would be peaceful in the future. At most, they would kill a batch of mutant beasts , there will be no more danger in the future. However, at this moment, Chu Chaoyan realized that she would face an enemy she could not defeat. This sense of despair made her wonder whether the peaceful life before would never come back again?

"The zombies are gone, there are mutated beasts, if the mutated beasts are gone, there will still be plague gods, is it true that the end of mankind has really come?" Chu Chaoyan was in a state of confusion.

Previously, no matter what time it was, Chu Chaoyan firmly believed that the peaceful years would come back again, but after she learned more news, she suddenly had a premonition that the peaceful years had actually gone forever In my lifetime, I will never see the time when the world is peaceful again.

After returning to the camp, Shen Feng picked up a bowl of glutinous rice and began to gobble it up. He is a supernatural person, and he needs a lot of energy every day. His appetite is two or three times that of ordinary people, and he has been hungry for a whole day. , Shen Feng couldn't hold it anymore.

As for the side dishes, there are a few pieces of braised crocodile meat, and more sauerkraut. Nowadays, everyone can only eat these monotonous foods, but it is no problem to fill their stomachs.

The children in the woods were all devouring their meals. They had already put on some loose clothes, and they looked much cleaner, and smiles appeared on the faces of these children.

Among them, the one with the ugliest eating appearance is the adult man lying in the woods. He looks to be in his thirties. When he eats, he looks like a starved ghost reincarnated. , with bulging cheeks, it was very difficult to swallow, making one wonder if he would choke to death while eating.

Shen Feng couldn't help but said to the old woman: "Brother over there, why don't you go and persuade him? Don't be so fierce about eating, there is enough food to eat."

"This guy, leave him alone, a quack doctor, choking to death is better than being starved to death." The old woman replied indifferently, she didn't seem to have any affection for the only surviving young man in the village, and directly called him a quack doctor , There is no good color on the face.

The quack doctor seemed to have heard Shen Feng's conversation here, swallowed the grain rice in his mouth with difficulty, and said, "Why are you pretending to be polite? It's true only when you eat it in your stomach. It's rare to have a full meal. There may not be such an opportunity once, and once you are full, it counts as one."

As someone once said, everything is fake. If you eat pancake roll sauce meat in your stomach, it is true. Even if you are dead, your stomach will be a little oily, so you won’t look like a starved mouse.

"Why do you say that? It seems that there will be no time to eat in the future, isn't it too exaggerated?" Shen Feng was a little puzzled, and asked directly.

The quack doctor replied lazily while eating at this time: "You must be leaving. I heard that you are going to fight, and we can't go with you. So, it will be difficult for us people to survive in the future." , a group of children can’t work, so in the long run, there will be no chance of getting enough to eat!”

When Shen Feng heard this, he immediately felt a little ridiculous, and couldn't help but said: "You are healthy and young and strong, even if you work by yourself, you can support yourself, right? Now it seems that you are nothing more than laziness. The rest of the adults died looking for food and water, as for you, you have lived to this day out of greed for life and fear of death."

The quack doctor is not angry, even if he is ridiculed by Shen Feng, he still insists on his opinion: "Actually, hard work is useless, people nowadays are not as good as the next generation, just like me, no matter how hard I try, It is impossible to surpass the predecessors, in this case, hard work is just a futile struggle, it is better to lie flat."

At this time, the old woman persuaded Shen Feng, "Young man, don't worry about this useless person. Even if he surpassed his previous generation, he is still a quack doctor. If you don't believe me, let me tell you."

Shen Feng saw that he was idle now, so he said, "I would like to hear more about it."

The old woman then began to tell the story. This is a long-standing story. The quack doctor itself is a skill handed down in the family, and the result is not as good as the next generation.

The first generation of quack doctors treated the head for headaches and the feet for foot pains. Although they could not cure them completely, they had some effect at least.

The second generation of quack doctors treat their faces with headaches, and their faces with foot pains. As long as there is no disease, everything will be fine.

The third generation of quack doctors chose the road of treating the mouth for headaches and treating the mouth for foot pain. As long as the patient can't speak, he can also whitewash the appearance.

As for the quack doctor who is now gorging on rice, he is the fourth generation. He couldn't get a doctor's qualification certificate, so he can only wander around in the village.

"Looking at his appearance, there will be no next generation. A quack doctor is a quack doctor!" the old woman finally said.

Hearing this, Shen Feng frowned and didn't know what to say, because this incident seemed to be beyond his imagination, and it was an anecdote that there were quack doctors for generations.

However, Chu Chaoyan at the side seemed to have heard something anecdotal, took out his notebook and began to record, apparently planning to spread the matter because it was too ironic.

Shen Feng thought for a while, and now there are only a dozen people here, so he definitely can't take them away, so he said directly: "Old man, thank you for your reminder before, when we set off tomorrow, we will leave you three hundred A catty of corn flour is enough for you to eat for a while, in the future you will either farm in the village, or find a way to go to the city, in short, you should find a way to survive."

"Thank you so much, young man." The old woman quickly thanked Shen Feng. At this time, Shen Feng could leave some rations for them, which was already a life-saving act.