Chapter 33

On New Year's Eve, another death occurred in Jinlan Villa.

He Meiying suddenly fainted at the New Year's Eve dinner and was rushed to the hospital by her two sons. Doctors pronounced her dead after three hours of resuscitation.

The Liang brothers grabbed the doctor in disbelief and asked, "How is it possible? My mother was fine when she was eating. How could she die? Did you make a mistake somewhere?"

The doctor with a solemn expression looked at He Meiying's blackened left index finger. In the past three days, the hospital had received a total of 18 patients with similar symptoms. Only two of them did not die on the same day, but the injured arm was amputated and is still lying on the bed. In the intensive care unit, the situation was very dire and critical.

What these patients have in common is that their skin was punctured by seafood or they washed the seafood when there was a wound. The bacteria living on the seafood entered the bloodstream through the wound, causing septic shock and multi-organ failure.

This patient is most likely infected with marine Vibrio vulnificus, a bacterium known as the 'silent killer in the ocean' with a fatality rate as high as 75%. It's just that in previous years, there may not have been three-digit patients throughout the year, the onset was not so rapid, and the mortality rate was not so high. In the past three days, eighteen cases have suddenly appeared, and it is said that there are many cases in other hospitals.

Everyone is privately discussing whether nuclear radiation caused marine bacteria to mutate, significantly increasing the infection and fatality rates. I was overheard by my boss and was given a good lecture, telling them not to talk nonsense and create panic.

"It is most likely a bacterial infection. For the specific type of bacteria, we have to wait for the test report in 24 hours," the doctor warned. "For safety reasons, you'd better dispose of the same batch of seafood to prevent it from carrying germs as well."

The Liang brothers looked in disbelief. Just because they were pricked by a crab, their mother died. They knew about this wound and no one took it seriously. Being pricked twice while washing fish and shrimps was a normal thing. Who didn't? Stung.

Suddenly, Liang Jiajun's expression changed drastically: "Will eating seafood cause infection by this kind of bacteria?"

One sentence frightened Liang Jiajie, who had also eaten crabs, and turned pale: "Doctor, doctor, please check me quickly. Can I still be saved?"

The dumbfounded doctor explained patiently: "Theoretically, as long as it is cooked thoroughly, it can kill the pathogenic bacteria, and the probability of infection is very small."

The two brothers couldn't listen. The body of their biological mother was right in front of them. They urgently asked the doctor to check them. The probability was small but not impossible. No matter how small the probability of it happening to them, it was 100%.

Since the two were family members of the deceased and had eaten seafood that day, the doctor prescribed blood tests for them.

The two anxious brothers asked: "How long will it take for the report to come out?"

The doctor replied: "At least six hours."

The Liang brothers collapsed and yelled: "Why does it take so long? It wasn't just an hour at most before."

The doctor adjusted his glasses and said helplessly: "How can it be compared with the past? Many high-precision equipment were destroyed by that solar storm."

The Liang brothers begged: "Doctor, can you give us an emergency treatment?"

Doctor Mo Kenaihe said: "Medical resources are really tight at the moment. You really don't need to worry too much about this situation. Sorry, I have other patients. Please take the order and pay for the blood draw. Go early and get it early." Report."

The last sentence worked. The two brothers stopped entangled and looked at He Meiying's body: "What about my mother?"

"After registering the information with a nurse, the body will be temporarily sent to the morgue. Later, your family members will decide whether to take it home or send it directly to the crematorium."

The Liang brothers looked at each other. Their own home had long been destroyed by a thunderstorm. Although the villa at Jinlan Villa was in the name of their sister, Mr. Wang was the one in charge. How could they dare to make decisions without authorization? They could only put it in the hospital temporarily. After returning home, I will discuss with Mr. Wang's sister before deciding the next step.

After the brothers finished drawing blood, they drove back to Jinlan Villa anxiously to inform Liang Lina of the bad news.

Liang Lina, who was taking care of her little son at home and didn't go to the hospital with her, was dumbfounded and in complete disbelief.

Other people who have eaten crabs, like the Liang brothers, are worried about whether they will get infected if they eat crabs and follow in the footsteps of He Meiying.

Fan Qin, the mother of the Wang family's youngest daughter, used to be a nurse and knew some medical science. She hugged her pale-faced daughter and comforted her: "It's okay. It's most likely marine Vibrio vulnificus. This kind of bacteria is not heat-resistant and will die if cooked at high temperatures. The seafood we ate at night was all cooked. If you were infected, you would have vomiting and diarrhea in the morning."

"Really? Then why did Grandma He die?"

Fan Qin: "She was unlucky. She pricked her hand. That is the easiest and most dangerous way to get infected. She is unlucky."

"Who are you saying is unlucky!" Liang Lina suddenly became furious after hearing this, and rushed forward to grab Fan Qin's hair. "If your daughter hadn't shouted that she wanted to eat crabs, how could my mother have done it, how could she have been injured, how could she have died? ! It was your daughter who killed my mother. Why do you have the nerve to say that my mother is unlucky? The most unlucky thing about my mother is that she met you two. Get out of here!"

Not to be outdone, Fan Qin fought back: "Stop putting a poop basin on my daughter's head. Although she was washing her hands injured by crabs, other seafood may be carrying germs. The wounds were infected when she washed them. The bacteria may not be on the crabs. , Besides, your son also eats crabs. She is unlucky. The infection rate is not one among 100,000 people, so she is not lucky. "

Liang Lina gritted her teeth: "Get out, get out of here, this is my house! Get out of here!"

"Your house," Fan Qin sneered, "Don't use chicken feathers as arrows."

Seeing Mr. Wang with a face as dark as the bottom of a pot, and seeing the unabashed ridicule of Fan Qin and others, Liang Lina angrily scolded her brother: "Are you all dead? Just watch her beating me and think about how my mother died. "

The Liang brothers must have wanted to help their sister, but they just prevented Mr. Wang from intervening in the war between women. After being yelled at by Liang Lina, they remembered that He Meiying would be scolded even after she died. They felt angry and rushed to grab her. Fan Qin showed his teeth and claws.

"Let go of my mother. Dad, please speak up. There are many people and they are bullying the few!" The youngest daughter of the Wang family stamped her feet anxiously and pulled Mr. Wang to ask for help.

Mr. Wang was so angry that his chest heaved violently, and he roared: "Stop it, why are you arguing? There is nothing to argue about."

Fan Qin, knowing that she could not take advantage of the Liang brothers, changed her strategy and cried, "Am I trying to make a quarrel? She is clearly bullying our mother and daughter because she has brothers."

"What's wrong with bullying you!" Liang Lina's eyes turned red. "My name is written on the real estate certificate. I have two brothers. I'm just bullying you! Big brother, little brother, get these two bitches out, no , drive the four bitches out together!"

Fan Qin cried even more aggrieved. She cried so hard to Mr. Wang that she couldn't help but feel aggrieved.

The eldest daughter and her daughter, who were watching the show with their arms folded, were also aggrieved. It was none of their business. They were biting people for no apparent reason.

Mr. Wang had a dark face and said: "Okay, okay, everyone should say less. You should be kind to your mouth. And you, don't say anything in anger, pack up and go to the hospital to see your mother for the last time. "

"I'll send them away first, and then I'll send my mother off. My mother definitely wants me to do this. What she wanted most when she was alive was to get rid of these four women." Liang Lina, with a pale face, yelled at the Liang brothers, "You guys What are you doing there? Don't you understand what I say? Drive them out."

Mr. Wang was furious: "For the sake of your mother's death, I won't argue with you, so don't push yourself too far."

"You are the one who takes advantage of me." Liang Lina yelled back at the top of her voice, "Bring these four women into my home, what do you think of me? I have tolerated you for a long time, and today I can't tolerate it anymore. I tell you, either let the four of them go , or you go with them!"

Mr. Wang couldn't believe his ears: "You are giving me an eviction order, but you are doing the opposite. This is my house!"

"My name is on the real estate certificate, so it's mine!" This villa was Liang Lina's reward for giving birth to her eldest son.

Mr. Wang was choked to death.

Liang Lina glared at her two unresponsive brothers: "Are you deaf? This is my house. My surname is Liang. Why should I let others dominate the territory of our Liang family and destroy our mother?" "

The Liang brothers still dare not move, as they say, but Mr. Wang is the breadwinner of the family.

Doesn't Liang Lina know what her brother is thinking: "I have enough money, but in this world, what's the use of having too much money? I'm afraid of what he will do." She had just figured out that she had a house, food, money, and two With a son and two brothers to support him, he could survive even without the one named Wang. Besides, she has two sons here, and the one named Wang is reluctant to fall out with her.

The Liang brothers were stunned, and then they were enlightened. It seemed like this.

Mr. Wang fell back in anger, unable to believe that Liang Lina, who was as gentle and gentle as a white rabbit, could turn into such a tigress.

Liang Lina issued an ultimatum: "I'll give you half an hour to clean up. If you don't leave, I'll call the security guards to drive you away. This isn't the first time they've driven away relatives who refused to leave. You've gone to see the excitement before. If you don't feel embarrassed, just get out of here.

Seeing that Liang Lina was not bluffing but really wanted to drive them away, and Mr. Wang seemed to be caught, the four Fan Qin were completely panicked. Why did they come here if they had somewhere to go? Are they willing to do this awkwardly? Live together.

Four people surrounded Mr. Wang and cried, making him upset and aggrieved. Ever since he became rich, he had never been so humiliated by a woman, but he was choked. This house belonged to Liang Lina, not him. Yes, if you take it seriously, you can really drive them out.

People had to lower their heads under the eaves. Mr. Wang lowered his posture and said nice things. Liang Lina didn't want to do this anymore. She just wanted to drive out all the people who were an eyesore.

The situation was stronger than the situation, and Mr. Wang, who did not want to be further embarrassed, asked the two daughters to take their mother and leave first, and talk about it later.

How could the four mother and daughter be willing? The youngest daughter's house was destroyed by a huge fire in August. The weird neighbor on the ground floor of the eldest daughter's house secretly dug into the basement to build a doomsday fortress. They knocked down the load-bearing walls and turned the whole building into a dangerous building. Several thunderstorms destroyed the house. The building was crumbling and residents of several surrounding buildings were forced to move out. After leaving here, where can they go? To a shelter?

Mr. Wang said, go to Lao San's place.

There are already a lot of people over there, no matter how crowded they are, how can they compare with here? Listening to Mr. Wang's words, the residents over there are not as clear-minded as the residents here, and neither the software nor the hardware can compare.

Anyway, she refused to leave despite all the talk. Liang Lina was determined to drive them away and asked Liang Jiajie to call the security guard.

The security guard was embarrassed when he saw Mr. Wang with a bad expression, but because of their long-standing policy - to protect the interests of the owners, according to the property certificate, Liang Lina was the owner, so even if the patrol team came, they still had to help Liang Lina.

The security guard asked the mother and daughter to leave immediately, otherwise they would be offended.

Such a loud noise alerted the surrounding neighbors. It's not yet twelve o'clock, and many neighbors are watching the New Year's Eve, chatting, and playing cards.

Qiao Xi's family of three were playing Landlords. Their home was far away from Villa No. 36, and the house was well soundproofed, so they didn't hear any movement at first. It was the ocelot that suddenly started patting the window. Qiao Xi, who was attracted to it, went over to check the situation and saw a few flickering flashlights. He opened the window and heard faint cries carried by the night wind.

"You're celebrating the New Year. If you cry like this, will something happen?" Qiao Yuanshan frowned.

Xi Jingyun looked outside. Many people were looking over there with flashlights: "Many people passed by."

Qiao Xi closed the window: "I'll go over and check out the situation."

Qiao Yuanshan nodded: "Pay attention to safety."

When Qiao Xi arrived, the farce on the 36th was coming to an end, ending with Liang Lina's victory. Fan Qin, mother and daughter, took their belongings and drove away in two cars in despair, along with the furious Mr. Wang.

She didn't even need to ask, she understood the whole story from the words of the neighbors, and also learned about the death of He Meiying.

Qiao Xi was a little surprised. He never expected that the other party would die in such a bizarre way. What's more, Liang Lina is also quite surprising, she actually rose to prominence. The big drama of three women fighting for one husband is bloody enough, and it's really disgusting.

Someone next to me said: "It doesn't matter if you leave, it will ruin the atmosphere of our community, and so will Boss Wang. Fortunately for him to do it, he is really bullying people too much. Even the clay figures are angry."

"Brother, don't laugh at the second brother. They are both mistresses. No one is more noble than the other. That is to say, Liang Lina is trying to live up to her ambitions. She relies on her son to get a lot of things from Lao Wang. Haha, you didn't see Lao Wang's look just now. He was so angry. It's dark. He probably never dreamed that he would be kicked out of the house by a woman. He deserves it. If the situation continues to get worse, the house in his name will be destroyed. Now he can live in it. It's just my wife and my second child, but his name is not on the property certificates of these three houses. If they all fall out, they won't even have a place to stay."

"His wife has not divorced him, so her name is different."

"My Lao Jiang told me that her wife had long ago forced Lao Wang to transfer the villa to her daughter, and that daughter was not close to him. Such a patriarchal dad, if it wasn't for money, who would My daughter hates him."

The corners of Qiao Xi's lips curled up. She wanted to witness the scumbag's misfortune more than the mistresses fighting each other's hair.

When she returned home, she focused on the cause of He Meiying's death. At this juncture of the end of the world, she was highly vigilant against any unnatural death.

Xi Jingyun frowned: "I once treated a five- or six-year-old child who was infected with marine Vibrio vulnificus after eating raw oysters. He had to change his blood several times and still couldn't save it. The probability of Vibrio infection is very low. One in 100,000, but the fatality and disability rate is very high."

Qiao Yuanshan was worried: "Our restaurant has been selling seafood for so many years, and neither employees nor diners have encountered a single case, but we have encountered it at this moment. Has nuclear radiation increased the infection rate?"

Xi Jingyun frowned. If this were the case, most people in their community would have bought seafood, and even the free canteen would provide seafood.

Qiao Xikuan's parents said: "We can all relate to this, and the higher-ups must have thought of it too. It is estimated that a large group of medical experts are studying it at the moment."

Xi Jingyun and Qiao Yuanshan looked at each other. Yes, it was useless for them to worry about this kind of thing. All they could do was keep their mouths shut.

At this moment, there are still many people who are worried about this. Until the blood test report of the Liang brothers came out, it showed that the two people were very healthy and had not contracted germs from eating seafood.

Not only the Liang brothers were relieved, but the others were also relieved. If the Liang family is fine, then they must be fine too. Some people who were particularly careful went to the hospital for a checkup and found out that everything was normal and they were completely relieved. It seemed that He Meiying was unlucky and encountered the smallest of the smallest odds.

The Liang brothers, who only felt that they had narrowly escaped death, did not care about the money and threw the remaining seafood into the public trash can in the community. While other families could continue to eat seafood as if nothing had happened, their family did not dare to do so. It left a psychological shadow. Even if they wanted to eat, they would not dare to eat this batch of seafood bought together.

The fishy smell attracts many stray cats. The towering walls and cold anti-climbing spikes of Jinlan Villa can deter humans, but they cannot deter these wall-climbing masters. Relying on the leftovers of the residents, there are more and more stray cats. Following complaints from the owners, the property management has evicted them several times, but with little effect.

The cats finished eating here, and after a while they smelled the scent of food again and moved to another trash can. The Liang brothers and sisters are not the only ones who are cautious or timid. The endless disasters have slowly turned some people into frightened birds, and the slightest disturbance can frighten them.

"Woof woof woof." The dog raised by the property owner yelled and rushed up. The stray cats that were enjoying their meal dispersed in a hurry. The big dogs that chased for dozens of meters came back and sniffed and licked the seafood on the ground. , eat slowly.

After the big dogs left, a group of mice came out of the hole and divided up the food scraps on the ground.

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People at the time did not know that this group of people who were directly infected due to injuries was just the beginning of the disaster. I just thought that they were unlucky, they happened to encounter seafood carrying germs, and they were so unlucky to be injured. Except for her relatives who are sincerely sad for her, to others it is just a topic of conversation after dinner. The biggest impact is that people will be extra careful when cleaning seafood to prevent themselves from being injured.

Even the above only calls on the public to wash it carefully and cook it thoroughly. Various studies have shown that although the prevalence of seafood pathogens has increased, overall, it is still only a very small number. They will increase random inspections and call on the public to be more vigilant. In view of the current food shortage, completely abandoning marine food is tantamount to giving up eating due to choking.

Seven days later, another death occurred at Jinlan Villa. This time it was A Feng, the nanny of Yu Xinlian's family. The cause of death was exactly the same as that of He Meiying. She pricked her finger while washing seafood.

Yu Xinlian poured out her bitterness to Xi Jingyun, feeling extremely wronged: "I specifically told her to wear gloves, but she didn't wear them because she didn't want the trouble, and she didn't tell us when she was injured. If she wanted to, she would definitely let her wear gloves. If she goes to the hospital, she might be fine if caught early and treated early, don't you think?"

Qiao Xi, who was standing in the corridor on the second floor with the ocelot in his arms, thought to himself that some people always take chances.

After hearing about what happened to He Meiying, their family still doesn't dare to cook seafood, and they don't even touch river seafood. They have a psychological shadow. But Yu Xinlian's family has no shortage of food. If the family doesn't have enough food, they have no choice but to bite the bullet and eat. However, their family's stockpile is enough to last for several years, so they insist on eating that fresh bite because they think it is impossible for their family to encounter such a small probability accident.

Similarly, the nanny Ah Feng also felt that the accident could not happen to her, so she did not treat the wound in time without wearing gloves.

The disapproval added up one after another eventually led to the disappearance of a life.

Xi Jingyun asked Yu Xinlian: "Has your family ever gone to the hospital for a physical checkup?"

Yu Xinlian nodded: "I checked, otherwise I would be fine even if I couldn't sleep. It's fine. I regret it when I say it. I should have listened to your advice at that time. Don't bother with that bite. It's not like you don't have anything to eat, so why bother? Greedy, now he's fine, he got into big trouble."

Xi Jingyun explained: "No one wants it, but there is nothing you can do if it happens. Look forward and try to deal with it properly so as not to leave any regrets or hidden dangers."

There is a reason for this advice. Ah Feng's husband came to make trouble and demanded compensation. The thief who had climbed over the wall died unexpectedly, and the family's request for compensation is nonsense. This time, they were right. Ah Feng had an accident while working at the Yu family, so she should be compensated both emotionally and rationally.

Yu Xinlian sighed: "After all, what happened to my family, I should be compensated, but three million is blackmail. How can our family have so much cash? My Lao Liu asked a lawyer, and eight hundred thousand is about the same. It's eight hundred thousand, we I can't get it out of my house, so I have to sell some jewelry."

Xi Jingyun said: "We still have two hundred thousand cash at home. If you want it, take it for emergencies first."

Yu Xinlian felt a little more comfortable in her heart: "That's not necessary, my old Liu has already collected the money. What do you think this is? Washing seafood to wash away people, the key is not just one or two, there are many in the hospital People are dying because of this. How come there are so many seafoods carrying germs? Some people say it's because of nuclear radiation, some say it's because of melting glaciers, but there's no clear explanation."

"It's only been a few days, and the investigation will take time. All we can do is stay away from seafood during this period."

Yu Xinlian smiled bitterly: "How can I dare to eat it? The seafood was taken away by people from the community, saying they were taking it away for testing. When the accident happened on the 36th, no one came to collect the seafood. I guess the situation was a bit bad. Those people selling seafood They still swore they were fine, but in the end, they made us miserable. Why didn't the government arrest them and shoot them?"

Xi Jingyun frowned, not sure whether those people were aware of it or not. If there is a problem with all seafood, it is impossible for the country not to discover it and still let it circulate on the market. I think there's just something wrong with some seafood, and you may not be able to spot it personally. Of course, it is not ruled out that some people are unscrupulous and deliberately sell bad things. Residents in the community have bought bad food several times before. The worse the world is, the worse people's hearts are.

After complaining, Yu Xinlian left feeling much better. Two days later, he told Xi Jingyun that the total compensation was one million: "Afeng's son is only seven years old. It would be better if the money was used on her son. But her husband is nothing, why do you think she is letting her son go?" She didn't take care of her and went out to work because her husband was idle in the shelter and became addicted to gambling. He lost a lot of money. It won't take long for him to lose all the million. Hey, the starting point of the country is to protect the people. Basic life, but the result is a group of lazy people who are just waiting to die. "

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With repeated warnings from radio stations and an increase in deaths, people are becoming more and more careful, and more and more people are giving up seafood as a delicacy. Slowly, fewer and fewer people are dying from infection.

Because casualties were limited, it did not cause widespread panic.

People are even more panicked by the rising temperature. It's only April and the temperature has already exceeded 50 degrees. How high will it rise again in July and August, the hottest months?

The panic hail is getting bigger and bigger. Can the battered security windows stop the next round of hail?

Panic for wells where the water level is getting lower and lower. What if the well water dries up?

…

Until large numbers of people collapsed, first with vomiting and diarrhea, then abdominal pain, which led to organ failure within 24 hours. All current drugs cannot cure the disease, they can only relieve the patient's pain and allow them to walk a little more decently. Only 10% of patients can survive by chance, but they will leave serious sequelae.

Liang Lina stared blankly at her eldest son's cold body. She couldn't understand it. She couldn't understand it at all. She threw away all the seafood she bought later. Since her mother passed away, her family has never eaten seafood. How could her baby be infected with the same marine bacteria as her mother? The previous examinations were all normal!

There are many people who are confused like her. They have clearly never touched seafood, how could they be infected with marine germs?

Soon after, various experts spoke out on the radio.

The bacterium that killed a large number of people was a new type of bacterium that was highly similar to marine Vibrio vulnificus. It was more resistant to high temperatures, more toxic, and more cunning.

There are two main infection routes for new marine Vibrio, one is skin wound infection, and the other is through eating.

After infection through the first route, the disease progresses rapidly, with the wound becoming swollen and black, high fever and chills, and organ failure within a day or two.

After infection through the second route, it will lurk in the human body asymptomatically. The shortest incubation period currently found is 12 days, and the longest incubation period is 67 days. After the onset of the disease, patients will experience symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhea, which may eventually lead to organ failure.

The scary thing is that this kind of bacteria is resistant to high temperatures and can survive at 300 degrees for half an hour. Ordinary cooking cannot kill them.

What's even more frightening is that in addition to infecting humans, this bacteria can also infect most mammals. Some animals can coexist with this kind of bacteria. They will not get sick or die, but they will become the source of new bacterial infections. If they are scratched or bitten by them or eat their meat, there is a high probability of being infected with the new marine Vibrio. Among them are pigs, cattle and sheep that people often eat, as well as cats, dogs and rats that are most common in life.

This is also the reason why so many people have never eaten or touched seafood and are still infected. They may have eaten infected pork, beef, and mutton, or they may have been scratched and bitten by cats, dogs, and rats.

At this time, everyone became frightened, feeling that this deadly vibrio was lurking in their bodies. People keep coming to the hospital to ask for physical examinations, but until they don't get sick, they can't be found out at all. This is the cunning or scary thing about this new type of Vibrio. If it could be detected early, why would so many people be infected?

The current inspections are in vain. The hospitals are overcrowded, medical staff are nervous, and medicines and equipment are in short supply. There is no spare manpower and material resources to conduct such unnecessary inspections.

This group of people who came to the hospital were already very nervous, and when they heard that the hospital was unwilling to check them, some of them suddenly found an outlet for their emotions when they acted in extreme ways. They grabbed the medical staff and beat them: "I don't believe you don't check yourself." , I pay so much tax to provide you with good food and drink, why don't you give me a check, why!"

"What use are you doctors living for? If you told us we would get sick if we ate it, why would we eat it? My son is dead. He is dead because of you!"

Some people swarmed up and kicked and punched the medical staff, as if the medical staff had infected them and put them in danger: "I will die sooner or later anyway, so I will use you as my support before I die."

In the end, hundreds of soldiers were dispatched to subdue the nearly 100 medical troublemakers. Two doctors and three nurses died of serious injuries, and dozens of medical staff suffered varying degrees of injuries.

The atrocities in the hospital are just the beginning of this chaos. You can never imagine the evil of human nature.

People blame the free cafeteria, □□ in the cafeteria.

Thousands of people rioted in the shelter, and many military police and volunteers died in the chaos.

People who realized that their time was running out deliberately set fires during thunderstorms, hoping to kill tens of thousands of people in the summer resort with them.

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Although the mortality rate is 90%, the incidence rate is less than 10%. However, under the deliberate guidance of some people, those who are so frightened that they lose their minds equate the mortality rate with the incidence rate. They only feel that their lives are not long. Go crazy before you die.

Supermarkets, shops, houses, summer resorts, shelters and even government agencies have become the targets of their madness. Vicious cases such as robbery, rape, murder, arson and so on emerge one after another. Even if the superiors resorted to thunderbolt measures and shot batch after batch of criminals, it was difficult to stop the situation from deteriorating from a cliff.

An owner of Jinlan Villa sent his sick family member to the hospital. On the way, he encountered a group of thugs, three people in a car, and no one survived.

In the past two months, many people have died in the community, and almost half of the families have suffered misfortune. Most of the people who died of illness were old people and children. The most tragic one was in Villa No. 45, where a family of four plus five relatives who came to seek refuge. All of them were infected with the new type of Vibrio, and not one of them survived.

When Qiao Xi came to the balcony, he heard the heart-rending crying again. He pursed his lips and moved faster, finishing his work and going back to the house early. She checked the doors and windows to make sure there were no gaps, sprayed disinfectant alcohol again, and added some mouse trap repellent powder.

Misfortunes never come singly. Rats and mosquitoes that disappeared last year became a problem overnight. All the time, what they ate was what was in the space. Just water. In order not to arouse suspicion, she would go to the well house to fetch water, but never used it, so she was not worried about food safety. She was only worried about snakes, insects, rats, and ants that were hard to prevent.

"Isn't it just sprayed? It hasn't been there for three hours, so why did it spray again?" Xi Jingyun felt that her daughter was a little too nervous. The smell of disinfectant filled the room, and there were insect repellent kits everywhere.

Qiao Xi pushed Xi Jingyun into the house: "Idle time is idle, Mom, don't come to the balcony." There is an extra door in the house than on the balcony, which means there is an extra layer of protection.

Looking at Qiao Xi closing the sliding door of the balcony, Xi Jingyun sighed silently. She knew that her daughter was afraid that she and Lao Qiao would get sick. High temperature thunderstorms and fires are easy to prevent, but plagues are difficult to prevent.

The disaster was becoming more and more deadly. She and Lao Qiao privately said that they might not be able to stay with their daughter forever. She was afraid of death, and even more afraid of her daughter living alone. This child is very wary. The world is not good and he is even more wary. He has no one to talk to, how lonely it must be to be alone.

After finishing the protective work, Qiao Xi was about to go back to the house when he heard a shrill meow.

It is the heavily armed property security guards who are killing stray cats in the community. Since the bad news came that cats and dogs may carry new types of Vibrio, some frightened residents immediately asked the security guards to kill all stray cats in the community as well as their dogs. .

After a resident was scratched by his cat and became infected with a new type of Vibrio, he began asking residents with cats and dogs to beat their pets to death.

No one has any objection to the former. Some people have seen stray cats and dogs raised by property owners eating seafood thrown into the trash can.

It is impossible for everyone to agree with the latter. Some residents know that they have fed seafood and can reluctantly part with it for the safety of their families. Another part of the residents couldn't bear it and yelled back angrily, "People may carry Vibrio, why don't you kill yourself."

Even the authorities only cull stray cats and dogs, and then call on the public to deal with suspicious pets. There is no mandatory requirement to kill all pets, and in the end they can only let it go.

The ocelot sneaked onto the balcony while the door was opening, and the fur all over its body exploded in shock, and its ears stood up.

Qiao Xi quickly picked up the cat and returned to the house.

Just at this moment, a panicked and urgent voice came from the loudspeaker: "All owners have closed the door tightly, a large group of thugs have rushed in, be careful - ah!"

The blood-curdling wailing reached the ears of every resident through the radio, and the next moment there was the sound of a sharp weapon piercing the flesh, accompanied by a wild and proud laugh.

"Big dog owner, your grandfathers are here, wash your necks and wait."