Pollution throughout the territory

"I guess you're not talking about serious travel."

Xia Ren complained.

They followed Niu Changshou to another strange city. It was said to be a city, but in fact there was no one there. It was not far from Esela City, less than 300 kilometers away, and it was right at the Hoover Dam. of the downstream.

The night the Hoover Dam collapsed, the accumulated floodwaters poured out and swept through the cities around the lower river. Many residents were swept up in the floods and disappeared. A large number of residential buildings and urban infrastructure were washed away, and the city they were in now Cities are one of the hardest hit places.

The government organized and relocated residents in the city overnight, so now it is a ghost town.

Xia Ren stood on the roof of the building. The flood had receded. He looked at the empty buildings around him, the streets filled with mud, and all kinds of garbage strewn on the streets. He asked, "So? What do I need to do?"

Niu Changshou took out a small bottle: "Do you recognize this?"

At the bottom of the bottle is a ball of translucent mucus, which looks a bit disgusting in appearance. When it was suddenly exposed to the sun, it immediately reacted violently, exploding into many parts like boiling, scurrying around in the bottle, but always There is no escape.

Of course Xia Ren knows this thing.

"Isn't this a drowning spirit? Where did you get it?"

As soon as he asked the question, he actually already knew the answer.

Niu Changshou put away the bottle and said: "The water in the Hoover Reservoir was severely polluted. After the reservoir collapsed, the pollution spread to the downstream with the flood, causing all water sources to be polluted. Although the government has banned some Areas with severe pollution use local tap water and groundwater, but many people are still contaminated to varying degrees."

After the flood, there is a plague. Water pollution is indeed a big problem, and even if everyone eats and drinks with water transported from other areas, what about daily cleaning such as washing?

Moreover, some of the polluted water will evaporate and flow into the atmosphere, and then fall to other places in the form of rainfall. There is no way to prevent this.

Xia Ren sighed: "What will happen to those who are contaminated? Are there any symptoms?"

Niu Niu Changshou said: "No problems have been found in mildly infected people so far. We are still tracking and observing. People with more serious infections will initially show symptoms of weakness and high fever in their limbs, and then their muscles will relax and unexplained systemic cell traits will occur." changes and the cell membrane begins to dissolve.

At this point, the patient has lost consciousness. As all cell walls dissolve, the patient will begin to melt, and the hair, teeth, and nails all over the body will fall off, turning into an amorphous mass of mucus.

However, until this time, the patient still had life activities and was not completely dead. Because the melted shape resembles slime, this disease is currently tentatively called slime disease. "

Xia Ren rubbed his forehead: "Isn't this the complete process of transforming into a drowning spirit..."

Too bad, drowning spirits are too troublesome to deal with. Their only weakness is the fear of light, but light cannot kill them. It should be said that there is no method that can cause fatal damage to drowning spirits yet.

The thought of aberrations that would run around and infect other people but could not be killed gave me a headache.

"What is a drowning spirit?"

Niu Changshou was not present on the night of the sacrificial ceremony, so he did not know much about it.

Xia Ren briefly told him about the characteristics and reasons for the existence of drowning spirits.

Niu Changshou thought for a while and said, "The slime disease I'm talking about shouldn't be as dangerous as the drowning spirit you're talking about."

Xia Ren said unexpectedly: "How do you say this?"

Niu Changshou said: "Even patients with advanced Slyme disease do not have the ability to move. They just turned into a pool of pus. Although there is indeed no way to cause substantial harm to them, there is nothing they can do. To actively infect other people.”

"Incapable of action?"

Xia Ren's heavy mood suddenly became beautiful, and he suddenly felt that the problem was not that serious.

With the ability of active infection abolished, drowning spirits are no longer so scary.

Niu Changshou continued: "I came here to ask you to help find the victims in the flood. They have all been contaminated and have become Slyme disease patients."

"Are you ready for the sealing equipment to house them?"

"Get ready. The Superman Association and Foundation camps are not far away. All supplies are available there."

"Okay, let's start quickly."

Xia Ren looked at Lily.

Originally, the little guy was the best suited to do this kind of thing, but considering that her vitality was severely damaged in the previous battle, and it had only been two days, he couldn't bear to let the little guy tire himself out with this kind of thing.

Xia Ren looked at Qin Yun and the others and said, "You go to the camp to rest first, and just leave this place to me."

Qin Yun knew that she couldn't help much here, so she nodded in agreement.

"Then be careful."

She gave instructions and then asked for the direction of Niu Changshou's camp. She held Lily in one hand and Lu Yi in the other, and jumped away from the roof.

Niu Changshou looked at Qin Yun's back from a distance and was stunned for a long time. Then he turned to Xia Ren and said, "Are all the people in your family so hard-core?"

"Ahem."

Xia Ren was also a little surprised. She knew that Qin Yun also liked cleanliness and was unwilling to walk down the streets full of garbage and mud, but she didn't expect that she would choose to jump away directly.

But in retrospect, Qin Yun seemed to have learned it from herself.

Xia Ren remembered holding her and dancing like this many times.

"Stop talking nonsense, let's get started."

The tentacles on the back of Xia Ren's head spread out and can be fifty or sixty meters long. They are strong and strong. When stretched, they are as hard as steel. When soft, they can also have the elasticity of a girl's skin. Whether it is a building wall or a rugged and narrow curve. Tao, tentacles can pass through without any hindrance, and digging couldn't be easier.

He took the small bottle from Niu Changshou and started working relying on the characteristics of drowning spirits attracting each other.

While the excavation was going on here, Niu Changshou also quickly contacted others to deliver sealing equipment to facilitate the reception of Slyme disease patients.

Soon, the helicopter hoisted a large cylindrical container and placed it on the nearest street. Both ends of the container were made of metal, but the middle was a transparent glass-like substance, but the texture looked similar to glass. There is a slight difference, the shape of the entire container is similar to an hourglass.

At the same time, a team of staff also came to assist Xia Ren.

Because the tentacle is so convenient, basically after locking the position, inserting the tentacle and pulling it out, a slime disease patient is put into the container, and all the slime disease patients buried in the nearby streets are solved by him. The container was also nearly half full.

Taking into account the subsequent problems, the container will not be completely filled, half of it is already his maximum filling space.

"Sure enough, there is nothing wrong with coming to my dear friend."

Niu Changshou was very satisfied with Xia Ren's efficiency. From the beginning to the present, it only took less than an hour. He originally thought it would take more time.

"Let's go back, the rest is research."

"Don't you want to continue digging?"

Xia Ren asked with a frown.

They only dealt with a few streets, accounting for less than one-tenth of the entire city.

Niu Changshou explained with a relaxed expression: "This is not the only city that has been destroyed by the flood. If you have to dig it out alone, the task would be too big. Even an octopus can do this kind of thing."

The octopus he was referring to was the object that could change its shape at will, used on the night of the atypical entomophobia outbreak in Dongpu City.

Xia Ren thought about it and felt something was wrong.