As dinner ti approached, Ye Qiu, Zhou Wenting, and the newly awakened Wen Xin went to the restaurant to have dinner together.
After dinner, Ye Qiu took a shower and then returned to his tent to rest. Due to the excessive consumption of Spiritual Energy, he felt sowhat exhausted.
Judging by the weather, the moonlight was excellent tonight, allowing Ye Qiu to continue his cultivation.
A little past nine o’clock in the evening, moonlight shone down from overhead. Ye Qiu began absorbing the Moonlight Essence, which steadily flowed into his body and transford into a stream of Spiritual Energy circulating through his ridians.
anwhile, in another isolated tent, Luo Wenfeng had just finished examining a patient. As he returned to his tent and sat down to rest, he suddenly felt a wave of fatigue.
He had already heard that Ye Qiu had completely cured more than a dozen patients. However, how exactly Ye Qiu treated them remained a mystery to others.
Moreover, it was rumored that Ye Qiu had also healed Professor Zhang Yilin, who was bitten by a venomous snake.
Thus, Luo Wenfeng found it strange. What kind of dical Skills did this young man possess that allowed him to cure the patients so quickly? Why hadn’t he helped with the remaining patients infected with the virus?
Luo Wenfeng couldn’t understand. After pouring himself a cup of hot water and drinking half of it, he knew that he had been there for nearly a month but had achieved no results, nor had he discovered what kind of virus it was or which dication would be best for treatnt.
Feeling rather fatigued, Luo Wenfeng assud it was due to the continuous work days. He lay down and quickly fell asleep.
Early the next morning, a male doctor from his team ca looking for Luo Wenfeng. Not seeing him up, he called from outside the tent and quickly went in, noticing sothing was wrong with Luo Wenfeng.
"Director Luo, are you alright?" He touched Luo Wenfeng’s face and found it burning with a high fever.
Could he have been infected with the disease as well?
The doctor hurriedly called other dical staff over. Upon a simple assessnt of Luo Wenfeng’s condition, it was confird that Director Luo had indeed contracted the epidemic. He was in the incubation period, but his symptoms had already begun to manifest.
Luo Wenfeng woke up, coughing incessantly, his whole body in extre pain, especially feeling heaviness in the head and lightness in the legs, much more severe than a high fever cold. Opening his eyes, he asked, "Do I have a cold?"
"Director Luo, it’s not a cold; it’s this disease you’ve caught."
What?
Luo Wenfeng couldn’t believe it.
However, he realized that working in such a dangerous environnt—performing daily examinations and treatnts for other patients—could have surely exposed him to the virus from others.
Moreover, with poor rest these days, his body’s weakened resistance made him even more susceptible to the epidemic.
"I’ll go find Dr. Ye to take a look at you," a female doctor said.
Before Luo Wenfeng could reply, the female doctor had already left.
Ye Qiu had been cultivating in his tent all night, and around eight in the morning, he suddenly slled sothing foul.
Following the unpleasant odor, he discovered a dead rat, already infested with maggots.
This dead rat was likely killed by the infectious disease.
However, the rat might only be one of the transmitting animals of the epidemic virus. The true source of transmission was still unknown.
Ye Qiu realized he might have to find it himself. Otherwise, there could be countless infections, and given his current condition, he couldn’t heal all the patients at once. He couldn’t spend too much ti in this isolated village.
When Ye Qiu called soone to dispose of the dead rat, it was being taken to a place for incineration and burial to prevent contamination and secondary virus transmission.
At that mont, a female doctor hurriedly approached.
"Dr. Ye, Director Luo has also contracted the disease; please co and see him quickly!"
The female doctor said.
"Who is Director Luo?" Ye Qiu asked, puzzled.
"He’s the one you slapped," the female doctor replied awkwardly.
Ye Qiu thought for a mont and realized it was that young doctor.
He couldn’t be bothered to pay attention.
"Didn’t he question my dical Skills? Then I have no interest in helping. Whether he lives or dies has nothing to do with ," Ye Qiu said dismissively.
After washing up, he prepared to have breakfast.
The female doctor watched Ye Qiu leave, surprised at his indifference.
When Zhou Wenting and Wen Xin joined him, Ye Qiu said after breakfast, "Wait, I need to ask the old lady a few more questions, then personally go search for the source of the epidemic virus."
"What about us?"
"If you’re not afraid of venomous snakes, you can co with , but I think the mountain path will be difficult, and those arms and thighs of yours might get scratched by the underbrush."
"I’m not afraid," Wen Xin said.
Zhou Wenting had never faced such hardship, but since Ye Qiu was going, she decided to accompany him.
After finishing breakfast, the three headed to see the old lady.
Upon reaching the old lady’s old house, they saw her cooking porridge and eating it with pickled vegetables.
Recognizing Ye Qiu and his companions, whom she had grown familiar with, the old lady offered them breakfast.
"Old lady, we’ve already eaten. I just ca to ask you so questions. We didn’t get a clear understanding yesterday," Ye Qiu said.
"What do you want to know?"
"In our village, who was the first to exhibit the signs of this fever causing disease, and where did it first appear? Who was the second to get infected?"
"The first was Ma Sanpao, who was herding cattle on the mountain. He fell ill shortly after coming back. The second was Liu Langzhong, who treated him."
Ma Sanpao?
Ye Qiu rembered seeing that na in the data before taking the flight. The surna Ma was indeed common here. This village had many different surnas, which was not unusual, considering that Miao people also lived here.
"He talks big and frequently herds cattle, so the villagers call him Ma Sanpao. He’s in his fifties, and I heard his family and children were infected and all died. Liu Langzhong died at the town’s clinic," the old lady added.
"Old lady, where exactly is this area on the mountain?"
"There’s a adow on the mountain where the villagers graze cattle and sheep. You’ll see it when you go up. But you ntioned a professor got bitten by a venomous snake yesterday; he must have been bitten there on the mountain," she replied.
User Comments
0 comments from readers