Plague Doctor

Quicksand turns into flood?

As the convoy traveled in the desert, the new clues brought by Deng Ximei made everyone think.

"Ximei, you are saying that petrification disease appeared in ancient Egypt..." Lou Xiaoning was still sorting out, "Now it has appeared again. The symptoms in the second stage are different, and the overall disease develops faster. It's because of ancient times. Didn’t Egypt succeed that time? Otherwise, the current world should be a black goat world."

It didn't work last time, so I changed my approach this time, which makes sense logically.

Wang Ruoxiang pondered and said: "In terms of epidemiology, sudden acute infectious diseases, chronic infectious diseases, and chronic non-communicable diseases all have different management methods in terms of preventive measures and emergency mechanisms, because their own The intensity of popularity is different.

And even if they are all sudden acute infectious diseases, they are still different in level.

The Ebola virus is very scary, but its inherent characteristics, such as its rapid death rate and lack of more transmission routes, limit its spread. Therefore, even if there are regional outbreaks, they have not formed a global pandemic. As for petrochemical disease, due to the diversity and uncontrollable transmission routes, patients become ill like a flood, and the entire epidemic is like a flood. It breaks out all over the world at once, and there is no history of contact between the affected areas. This is much worse than the epidemic. Bola virus is scary.

If it's like quicksand, is it possible that it's a chronic disease? For example, patients with musculoskeletal ossification progressing have symptoms since childhood, but the median survival time is 40 years.

Just imagine, if petrochemical disease develops at the same rate as rheumatoid arthritis, patients will not even know it at first. They will just feel some chronic pain in some joints. After a period of time, there will be more and more hidden patients like this - you know There are hundreds of millions of people suffering from various chronic diseases, accounting for a large proportion of the population. Almost no one is completely 'healthy' - these patients with petrochemical diseases accumulated over time and were finally exposed due to their worsening condition. At that time They have all lost the ability to work and need to consume a lot of medical and social resources..."

Speaking of this, Wang Ruoxiang paused and sighed: "Quicksand-type petrochemical disease and flood-type petrochemical disease are both terrible and difficult to deal with, but chronic diseases and acute diseases have different methods. One is death by consumption, and the other is violent. shoot."

"I feel..." Deng Ximei said again at this time. After listening to this, she had more feelings about the fragments of the illusion just now, and her voice was still very soft: "Those quicksand patients I saw, they are like mummies, they have no trace of them. Inanimate, not only are they not consuming ritual energy, they are still producing it.

During the time of the alien scale disease, the people of the Laisheng Society borrowed the power of Dagon to call the conqueror worms into the world. Every alien scale patient consumed the energy of the ritual. This is the case with flood-type patients. Although the greater their number, the greater the torrent, it seems to be just because the completion of the ritual behind it is greater. They only consume but do not produce energy, because they are struggling and resisting, and their spirits have not yet been petrified. It was the source of the torrent that swept them away. "

"This is a big difference." Lou Xiaoning glared with his left eye, realizing that this difference was very important.

Wang Ruoxiang and Uncle Dan suddenly thought more.

The quicksand-type petrification disease eats away slowly. The more patients there are, the more unbreakable the ritual becomes.

Flood petrification is a torrent, and the torrent is called by ritual. The more patients there are, the greater the power consumption of the ritual. Self-destruction without attack? How many lives will this world have to pay before exhausting the opponent's energy? Is it really possible to run out? What changes will happen when the bloody pyramid is built?

However, if the enemy is engaged in quicksand-type petrification disease, an ever-increasing ritual always seems to be more difficult to deal with.

If there is a choice, why did the other party choose the flood type?

"Either those pieces of shit can't be produced, or they just can't wait any longer." Lou Xiaoning spat.

This is a simple and crude guess, and everyone feels that it is not that simple.

"No, our enemies have enough patience..." Chang Qianhang shook his head and whispered, "Professor Sun Lun, Professor Liu Jiecheng, Professor Zhang Zhang... people who do archaeology cannot reach their heights without patience. Xiao The Gongyang Order is a group of extremely patient and well-planned people..."

Chang Qianhang's complexion was very bad. From the moment he set foot in this land of Egypt, his skinny face looked more like a skeleton. "If these people had a choice, they would definitely choose quicksand-type petrification. For archaeologists, decades of , A hundred years is nothing, and thousands of years are not a long time..."

On the other side, Feng Peiqian sighed sadly, as if she had heard such words before.

Xiaoxu also agreed with Chang Qianhang's statement, "The average age of the members of the Little Ram Cult whose identities are now known is 76 years old."

"Is it because they are about to die that they can't wait?" Lou Xiaoning asked again.

"Probably not. The Egyptians and Kushites believe that they can be resurrected after death. They don't mind waiting in the tomb... There must be some other reasons that made them choose flood-type petrification... and the previous ones. The Ten Plagues of Egypt were too high-profile and exposed them, as if they were going to a decisive battle..."

"Egypt's ten plagues may be part of the creation of flood-type petrochemical diseases." Deng Ximei said, "Quicksand appears quietly and suddenly, and floods are different."

Chang Qianhang pressed his head, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt a headache. "They could obviously choose to take it slow, but then we would have no choice. Why was there a decisive battle at the beginning..."

"Unless," Wang Ruoxiang took over the words thoughtfully, "the enemies of the Little Ram Cult are not just us."

When she said this, everyone suddenly understood.

Isn't there another unknown existence, that unknown power of protection?

"Let's assume..." Wang Ruoxiang speculated,

"There is another force, another organization, another force. For some reason, they are also fighting against the Little Ram Cult, hindering their actions to call for the 'real sun god'. During this time, even in the Ten Plagues of Egypt, Before this happened, the Little Ram Order's actions were sniped, which prevented them from achieving their goals. They changed their plans to implement the Ten Plagues of Egypt and created a flood-type petrified disease. They couldn't wait, not because they were impatient, but because if they didn't take action, they would be gone. If we have the opportunity to act again, we can only engage in a decisive battle with that force.”

Everyone was silent, looking at the boundless yellow sand outside the car window. Under the scorching sun, there were more layers of fog.

Why only protect the border of Tianji? Is it because of your best efforts, or for some other reason?

Or does the petrification scope of the ceremony itself not include the Tianji Kingdom?

What kind of existence could that be? An organization like Sunset City? Another dark force organization?

The abnormal forces that have been active recently, besides the Little Ram Cult, are Wu Shiyu, and...that crow.

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