"Please note that the airflow of the plane will be bumpy at that time. Please fasten your seat belts and don't leave your seats. The bathroom is temporarily closed." When Wu Tianlin was thinking about what happened last night, the delicate voice of the flight attendant sounded on the airplane's radio, pulling Wu Tianlin back to reality from his meditation.

The woman's blood sample report was finally infected with this unknown virus, so in order to find a treatment for this unknown virus as soon as possible, Wu Tianlin stayed up all night. During this period, he and Tom and others had conducted countless experiments. In the end, except for finding a vaccine to prevent infection with this virus, he never found a way to find out the disease. So in order to find out the cause of the disease as soon as possible and then prescribe the right medicine, Wu Tianlin asked Tom to stay in the hospital for further research, while he himself took the earliest flight early in the morning and went to southern Hunan Province with William and others.

Wu Tianlin subconsciously reached out and touched his waist. Seeing that the seat belt was tied to his body, he turned his head to look at William sitting beside him. Seeing that William was always burying his head in front of the laptop, thinking about the dan map of the virus, he reached out and patted William on the shoulder, pulling William back to reality from his contemplation, and then said to William: "William! When the plane encounters airflow, quickly tie the seat belt. Before you find out the source of this virus, it is obviously impossible to find a cure for this virus. Although the patient's condition is not very good now, it is not a short time. You should put away the computer!"

William is a typical research maniac. Although he really wanted to find a way to treat this virus at this time, seeing that Wu Tianlin said this, he reluctantly put away his laptop, fastened his seat belt, and said to Wu Tianlin beside him: "Teacher! I have a very bad feeling. I always feel that this virus may cause a major disaster."

When Wu Tianlin heard William's words and remembered the situation introduced by the woman last night, he also had this idea in his mind. He only hoped that the local government would pay attention to this matter before the virus spreads, rather than deliberately avoiding this problem with the mentality of luck.

After a long bumpy period, the plane landed in the capital city of southern Hunan Province at 10:20 in the morning. Since the woman's hometown is a very remote small county town, he specifically asked the woman how to go to her hometown before he planned to come to southern Hunan Province. This city is just Wu Tianlin's first stop in southern Hunan Province. There is still a long journey next, in which he has to take a train, take a ferry, and finally take a bus. If it goes well, he may arrive at the woman's hometown before dark.

Wu Tianlin, William and others walked out of the airport and looked at the strange city in front of them. The sky was gray and there was no trace of blue. It was like a big pot covering everyone's heads, making people feel particularly depressed. William on the side kept shaking his head and said to himself: "The environment here is simply too bad. The pollution is the most serious city I still see in China for a long time."

In many cities in China, local officials often sacrifice the environment to attract foreign capital for their fiscal revenue. As a result, when they wake up, they have to pay a price that is far more than the fiscal revenue of that year to improve the environment. However, it is almost impossible to restore the clear weather of the blue sky and cloudless sky. However, in his position, he did not care about this issue. He looked at the time, stopped a taxi, and said to everyone around him: "Okay! Don't be stuck, hurry up and get on the bus! This is just the first step of the Long March. If we can't catch the last ferry at three o'clock noon, we probably won't be able to arrive in Xiuli County tonight."

As he said that, Wu Tianlin reached out to open the door, got into the car, and asked the taxi driver: "Master! How long does it take to get from here to the South Railway Station?"

When the taxi driver heard Wu Tianlin's words, he drove with a smile and replied: "If there is no traffic jam here, it will take about twenty minutes. These gentlemen! You have accent from Southeast Province! Are you traveling here with a few foreign friends or doing it for business?"

Wu Tianlin didn't expect that the taxi driver could tell in one word that he was from Southeast Province, so he asked with a smile: "Master! You are so amazing. I just said something to you before and after, and you can guess based on my accent that I was from Southeast Province. We were not here to travel or work here. One of our friends is from Xiuli County. I heard something happened at his home. We came here this time to see if we could help."

"That's true. We eat this bowl of rice. We see hundreds of guests every day. If we have too many contacts, we can naturally guess where the guest is by listening. But the Xiuli County you are going to is really far away. It is the poorest place in our province. Because of the deep mountains and the transportation is really inconvenient, you can transfer cars and ships from here to there. If it goes well, it is probably not to arrive tonight. But I advise you not to go there. Not to mention the fatigue of the trains along the way, mainly because I heard that there is a plague there now, and many people have died inexplicably." The taxi driver replied with a proud look when he heard Wu Tianlin's answer.

"Plague! Many people died!" Wu Tianlin immediately showed a gossip when he heard the taxi driver's words and asked the driver curiously: "Master! You are not kidding! What era is this? How could there be a plague? Besides, science is so prosperous now that even if there is a plague, the local health department can easily solve it."

"Sir! Don't believe what I said to you. Although the government has been trying to block the news at the moment, what do we do? We don't know how many guests we have to send every day. A large part of them are from Xiuli County. They are afraid of being infected with the plague and their families fleeing abroad." The taxi driver heard Wu Tianlin's disbelief and showed off his profession again.

Before Wu Tianlin came, he had already vaguely guessed that the local government officials must have been afraid of taking responsibility and deliberately used concealment to try to cover up the continuous spread of this unknown virus. As a result, because of this behavior of the government, various rumors were flying everywhere, which made the local people panic and began to flee Xiuli County with their families. However, this situation was exactly what Wu Tianlin wanted to see the least, because through research experiments last night, they had confirmed that this unknown virus was strongly contagious, and generally lurking in the human body for eight to fourteen days. Among the people who left Xiuli County in order to escape the virus disaster, it is likely that a large number of these people who left Xiuli County to escape the virus disaster were infected with this unknown virus. This undoubtedly means expanding the unknown virus. If no timely measures are taken, it may lead to another virus disaster.

Thinking of this, Wu Tianlin's brows frowned involuntarily. He wanted to call his father immediately and tell his father about the situation here. However, thinking that he had not arrived in Xiuli County yet, he had no idea about the situation there. Except for hearing some of the middle-aged woman yesterday and the current taxi driver, he didn't know anything about the other situations. So before he investigated it clearly, he immediately contacted his father, obviously too hasty. Thinking of this, Wu Tianlin resisted the idea of ​​making a call, wishing he could grow a pair of wings and fly there immediately to see how serious the situation there was.

But imagination is imagination, and it will never become a reality. Wu Tianlin and William first took the train, then the ferry, and then the Chaishan Machine. After several hours of hard work, the bumpy people seemed to be dispersed. In the end, it took more than nine hours to finally arrive in Xiuli County at around 7 o'clock in the evening.

Since it was already very late, although I got here, I still had to take a car for more than two hours to arrive at the village where the middle-aged woman was. However, it was already very late. It was obviously impossible to get to the village where the woman's home was at this time, so Wu Tianlin could only give up the idea of ​​rushing there immediately and planned to find a hotel in the county town for a temporary stay for one night, and wait until the next morning to go to the village.

Wu Tianlin and William respectively took two human tricycles along the only road in the county town, heading towards the best hotel mentioned by the tricycle master. Although night had already fallen when Wu Tianlin arrived here, the narrow and muddy roads in the county town and the dilapidated and lifeless houses under the dark street lights, it can be seen how barren county town it is.

With the sound of creaking, Wu Tianlin's mood was as gloomy as this county town. He sat on a tricycle and looked at the scene around him. For some reason, he always felt that something seemed to be missing in this county town, but he couldn't say what was missing. At this time, William beside him suddenly said: "Teacher! It's only what time, why can't there be anyone on the street?"

After hearing William's words, Wu Tianlin understood why he felt that something was missing in this county just now. It turned out that since they arrived at Xiuli County Station, they had never met anyone except for some tricycle drivers who had just left the station. Thinking of this, he asked the tricycle driver curiously: "Master! What time is it? Why didn't they meet a local citizen along the way?"

Hearing Wu Tianlin's inquiry, the coachman sighed, "Oh! It's hard to say! Although our county town is very poor, it was not like this. Just talk about the banyan tree head in front. At this time, a large group of old people always like to gather there to listen to small songs, chat about family matters, play cards, and the small park over there. It is usually the place where children like to play the most, but now when it gets dark, there is no ghost on the street, and no one dares to take a walk."

When Wu Tianlin heard the coachman's words, he immediately guessed the specific reason, but in order to confirm his inner thoughts, he immediately pretended to be curious and asked, "Master! No? It's not the seventh month of the lunar calendar now, why would such a strange thing happen?"

"Oh! It wouldn't be like this if it was the Ghost Festival in the seventh month of the lunar calendar. I don't know why, during this period, we always died inexplicably, and all kinds of rumors followed the sky. Some people said it was a ghost immortal, some people said it was a ghost evil spirit, and some people said it was a ghost evil spirit in our county. Some time ago, my next door went to the mountain to chop firewood. After I came back, I felt cold all over and over forty degrees. I went to the hospital to see a doctor to deal with the cold and gave him an infusion. As a result, he started talking nonsense because of the high fever, claiming that he saw gods and ghosts. His wife invited the "big immortal" to exorcise evil spirits, but she went that night.

Later, the woman next door also followed her. The couple died inexplicably. Not long after, someone died with her. As a result, in the past few days, almost all of our county towns had the conditions to leave, and almost all those who had family members left here. Those who were incapable but had a skill also left here and found ways to work in other places. The remaining people who were old and young, but had no skill had no skill, could only live here every day with fear. "When the tricycle driver heard Wu Tianlin's inquiry, he thought of his family's current situation, and sighed subconsciously, looking discouraged, and replied dejectedly.

Hearing the coachman's words, Wu Tianlin immediately answered the conversation and asked the coachman: "Master! So many people have died, and now there are rumors everywhere. Do you still care about it?"

"Constrain! Those officials who sing and dancing every day, and who are drunk and dreaming, how can they care about the lives and deaths of us ordinary people? There are many diseases that have been wrongly diagnosed during this period. During the treatment, many patients were diagnosed with colds, meningitis, and even mental illness. Many people went to the hospital and the county government to argue, but they were all suppressed by the county government. Now the county government does not let us discuss this matter." The coachman immediately showed an angry expression on his face when he heard Wu Tianlin mention the local government, and replied shamelessly.
Chapter completed!