Chapter 2404 Some fluke


    Who is the master of the earth?


    is the sun.


    When the sun sneezes, the earth is finished.


    But sometimes, someone will mistakenly think that he is one of the masters of the earth, the primate of all things. How else would there be a primate subject? But whenever human beings try to stand up and want to get this title, there will always be something that will teach the arrogant human beings a lesson.


    If the history of the earth is condensed into a one-hour film, then human beings are just the species that appeared in the last minute and last second of such a one-hour film...


    Then this species at the last second can be said to be the master of the earth?


    Maybe, like some people always think they are smart and in control.


    It’s like the war between Cao and Sun this time. People on both sides think that they are the masters of the war, but it’s not them who decide the winner of the battlefield...


    Yes, the plague is coming.


    The cause of the plague, or the beginning of the whole incident, no one can tell.


    As the temperature rises, the Guangling people who were originally hiding in the mountains found that they had run out of food, which meant that they had to find more food...


    The hope of returning home was shattered after two or three explorations. Because the Jiangdong army still did not leave, they were like hungry ghosts, searching back and forth on the land of Guangling over and over again, looking for any flesh and blood that they had missed before that could be eaten.


    No matter what, the food is always guaranteed. These Guangling people hidden in the mountains began to come out of the caves to look for food like groundhogs.


    But the problem is that Jiangdong soldiers are also looking for food. During their confrontation with Cao Jun, how to reduce the pressure on food and grass in the rear is also a compulsory homework for the army commander. Collecting food on the spot is naturally the duty of the Jiangdong auxiliary soldiers.


    The serious wild vegetables were all taken away by the Jiangdong soldiers, and what was left for these Guangling people was naturally some less "serious" food...


    A baby held a big mouse and ran excitedly towards the cave on the mountainside.


    The gray-black big mouse dangled in Wa''er''s hand.


    "uncle! Look! I hit it! 』


    『Hehe, you have some skills...how did you fight? 』


    『I saw this guy squatting in the grass, and then I found a rock, oh so! Haha, here we go! 』


    『Let me see...well, little one...this is dead...can''t be eaten...』


    "what? Why? ! I just hit it! 』


    "This is already dead... When you hit it, it is probably already dead... If you are dead, you can''t eat it... This is the rule, I will dig a hole for you, come, bury it... If you want it alive, you can eat it to eat..."


    The little guy was not reconciled, but he had some helplessness and put the mouse in the hole dug out by the adults. Seeing that the soil was buried, "Why can''t you eat the dead ones?" Isn’t everything we eat killed…”


    "Well, I want to eat the ones that have just been killed...the ones that have just been killed are soft when pinched, so you can eat them, but they have been dead for a long time, and they are hard when pinched, so you can''t eat them..." Uncle Hunter taught the little boy his experience, "Remember Are you done? 』


    Little Wa’er’s emotions come and go quickly, he nodded, stood up, “I’ll look for it again, I’m sure I’ll find something to eat!” 』


    The hunter watched the baby run away with a smile on his face. After a while, his expression changed to a sad one, and he became a little more puzzled.


    Mice hide in dark corners most of the time, and will not appear in the wilderness unless necessary, but these two days I don’t know why, some mice can be seen during the day, even on mountain roads or in the grass Also saw some mice.


    And most of them are dead mice.


    This made the hunter a little worried.


    Although the hunter doesn''t understand why, he instinctively feels that this is not a good phenomenon...


    …(_)…


    "what is this? I ask you what is this? ! 』


    "mouse…"


    『I just asked you why there are so many rats! 』


    『Aren’t these all dead mice? 』


    "dead mouse! I know it''s dead rats, but why are there so many dead rats in the camp! 』In the vanguard camp of the Jiangdong Army, Xie Zan stared and scolded the logistics officer in the army.


    But the chief officer''s logistics is also very helpless.


    Dead rats? It’s normal. Where are there no dead rats?


    But the problem is that in the past few days, the number of dead mice has suddenly increased. The number of mice picked up in the camp has continued to increase, and even mice have begun to die outside in groups. , Under the wooden boards of the camp, in the ruins of the city, groups crawled out of the dark ditches, then staggered to the light, shook a few times like crazy, and then died...


    What''s even more strange is that these mice died openly in the middle of the road, on the bed in the camp, and in Xie Zan''s big tent of the Chinese army!


    This was originally a residential town, and later became the barracks of the Jiangdong Army.


    Whether it is a town or a military camp, there are always some small animals and bugs.


    In this unnamed town where the vanguard of the Jiangdong Army was stationed, if these rats hadn’t crawled out on their own initiative, no one would have known that there would be so many rats in this town and the military camp on the edge of the town!


    As a vanguard, Xie Zan wanted to make meritorious service, he didn''t come here to deal with the dead rats, and these inexplicable dead rats obviously affected the morale of the Jiangdong Army. The warning from heaven is the retribution for Jiangdong Army''s crimes during this period.


    Xie Zan didn''t believe in retribution at all, and it wasn''t something he was worried about. What he was worried about was that when Sun Quan or some higher-level leader came here, there would be an embarrassing situation of one kind or another, which would cause him to be in this situation. The military action has lost its original merit!


    Although it belongs to him, the original merits are not many...


    Then there must be no negligence!


    Seeing that Sun Quan is about to come to the front line in person, and such strange phenomena have appeared around the vanguard camp and inside the town, what is the reason and what is the problem? If Xie Zan can''t give a satisfactory answer, then Sun Quan will definitely not take the blame for Xie Zan!


    "Say! What exactly is this for? ! Xie Zan said angrily, "Why are there so many dead rats?" ! 』


    『Could it be...the reason for the rain a few days ago? ’ said the military logistics officer, ‘A few days ago, it rained continuously, and then these things were all made holes in the ground...the rainwater poured into the holes...」


    The chief logistics officer clapped his hands with certainty, "It must be so!" Either drowned or suffocated! 』


    Xie Zan frowned slightly, then thought for a while, nodded, and accepted the statement, "Forget it... this matter..."


    Before Xie Zan’s words fell, soldiers hurriedly came to report, “Report to the captain! Oh no! Someone is sick! 』


    …(￣□￣)｜｜…


    The disease will not be merciful because the opponent is weak, and even bully the weak and fear the hard, and become more and more fierce towards the weak.


    Among the Guangling refugees hiding in the caves, the first to get sick were the old and the weak.


    Mr. Kid is sick.


    At the beginning, these children seemed to have severe stomach pains, as if they were greedy for something and then ate their stomachs badly. They didn''t get much attention from the adults. They just scolded them a few times and then ignored them. up.


    The child''s mother came to take a look, but neither the child''s mother nor the child had any decisiveness, nor did he have the ability to check and identify any symptoms, so he could only let the child lie on the dry grass in the cave to rest. .


    As a result, the child''s illness became more and more serious, and he started to have a fever. He also groaned because of the fever, talked nonsense, and curled up, like a shrimp that was about to be cooked.


    At the beginning, these refugees did not realize that it was a plague. The young mother hugged the child, trying to comfort the child''s distorted body due to pain as much as possible, and kept wiping the child''s uncontrollable saliva and tears. But soon, these mothers were also infected...


    Many people began to have the same symptoms, first stomach pain, diarrhea, then pain, fever, and then convulsions in a coma, shaking like a thatched cottage in a storm, and may be destroyed at any time.


    Many people were tortured and died within two or three days.


    Immediately, because of pain, or fear, or some other reason, someone jumped from the mountain stream at night when they couldn''t bear it. howling.


    Then the refugees in the entire cave, the already weak order began to collapse.


    These Guangling refugees began to escape from their "shelter", some fled deeper into the mountains, some went to the nearest village, some died on the road, and some were captured and became prisoners. labor...


    A new storm began to form on this piece of land, and swept across, engulfing countless creatures, and began to devour lives one after another.


    The majority of human beings in this storm are still in a dazed state.


    …(*Д*)…


    "No way? 』


    『Could it be true? 』


    『Maybe it’s just an individual, it can’t be a plague? 』


    The idea of ??luck, no matter whether it is ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign, as long as it is a human being, it will be there.


    Under normal circumstances, certain flukes will only affect a few people at most, but if it is a leader or a commander who has the fluke mentality, then not only one or two people will be affected by it...


    The word "plague" has been accompanied by a large number of deaths from the first time it was mentioned in history until the present day of the Han Dynasty.


    Although birth, old age, sickness and death are the normal state of life, in addition to the opponents that can be seen directly, there are many opponents that cannot be seen directly. When it was on the head, I was still a little bit surprised and couldn''t believe it.


    Isn''t it so unlucky?


    It''s like war.


    When the war has just started, or has not yet broken out, the people are always full of worries, but they are also blindly confident.


    『How long can you play? Three or two months at most! 』


    『Jiangdong must win! 』


    『When will this war end? 』


    『Soon, soon...』


    The plague is like this kind of war, like a nightmare, everyone hopes that this nightmare will end soon, but the problem is that this nightmare does not operate according to human thinking, and it is often not as short as imagined it''s over. The first to be attacked are always the careless ones who think that they are the greatest and most shrewd, those who always like to criticize and point fingers but are defenseless.


    During the three or four hundred years of the Han Dynasty, plagues occurred frequently. How many of these plagues are plague is uncertain, but I believe this thing will not be absent.


    The gregarious nature of human beings, because there is no effective isolation, makes the spread and spread of the plague possible.


    Plague, as the name suggests, was originally only aimed at rodents such as mice, including but not limited to mice, such as flat-headed brothers and marmots, which may have plague bacteria. Like those stupid guys in the later generations, driving the live broadcast or something, running to get close to the wild flat-headed brother, it is very likely that they will be infected with the plague because of this moment of intimacy...


    During this battle, the people of Guangling County suffered numerous casualties. The corpses of these dead Guangling people, the Jiangdong army must have not thought much about it and dealt with them properly. The massacred villages were at most just set on fire. Who would go to the trouble of burying them?


    In these villages, there are not only humans, but also various small animals, microorganisms, bacteria and fungi. In winter, the temperature is low, and the speed of these transmissions can be suppressed in the wild, but when the temperature rises, these animals begin to spread. Looking for food everywhere, a large number of germs carried by the rotting corpses infected the water source, and when they began to spread around, the plague was naturally inevitable.


    Jiangdong Army had encountered the plague more than once before, even when they conquered South Vietnam, but this did not mean that Jiangdong Army could resist the plague for a few more rounds.


    Knowing and doing, there is always a huge and ditch. It''s like those in later generations who obviously have ready-made homework to copy, but when something goes wrong, they still copy it like a pile of shit.


    Xie Zan copied it like a piece of shit.


    Hasn’t Jiangdong ever encountered a plague?


    Obviously not.


    Then no one summed it up?


    Obviously not.


    But the day after the first case was discovered, Xie Zan still felt that the problem was not serious.


    Isn’t it the individual problem of individual people?


    Not necessarily all plagues?


    What if it was just the wind and cold, wouldn''t the fuss alarm the Lord of Jiangdong? If he couldn''t do it, could he still wear his hat?


    The next day, some more people got sick, and the single digits soared to double digits.


    Xie Zan was a little flustered, but he managed to maintain his composure. He didn''t take any action in the barracks and towns. He just gave some hints to the logistics officer, asking him to move these seriously ill soldiers to remote areas. Some corners to go.


    The third day.


    The condition of the seriously ill **** deteriorated, and he became mad because of the pain, and even attacked other pawns nearby.


    The soldiers who believed in ghosts and gods began to claim that these people were possessed by "evil ghosts", and then began to sell some of their homemade amulets, which were said to be immune to "evil ghosts"...


    Xie Zan was sweating, fine sweat kept breaking out on his forehead, and then trickled down his face. Logically speaking, he should have made a decision, indicating that a plague may have appeared here, and closed off the soldiers who had come into contact with the sick, isolating the entire town, but the correct action could not be in the direction of the greatest benefit.


    Promoted!


    Get rich!


    Glorious door lintel!


    One wife, two concubines, three lovers, ten or twenty small courtyards, thirty or forty shops, this is the life Xie Zan wants! Instead of becoming a monkey locked in a cage, and then carrying the cauldron of plague!


    Xie Zan knew the horror of the plague, but he felt that the plague "should not" continue to spread...


    If the plague is reported, it means that Xie Zan will not only bear most of the crimes here, but also be controlled and closed. Even Xie Zan has to be with the soldiers of these plagues to ensure that the soldiers'' morale will not be affected by this. resulting in mutiny and wavering.


    This is an uncontrollable fear of the future, and once the plague is reported, it means that the Jiangdong Army, including Xie Zan, cannot go home for at least a long time!


    There is not only one person in the family of these Jiangdong soldiers. There are old and young in their families. They thought they could go home after the war is over, but if the plague is reported now, even if the war is over, they will still be here. Stay until the plague is determined to be completely over!


    Xie Zan believes that when the time comes, the angry and desperate Jiangdong soldiers will tear themselves into pieces!


    so…


    Maybe it will be fine in two days?


    tenth day.


    The situation has completely gotten out of control.


    At least Xie Zan has lost control of the situation...


    The fear of the unknown hangs over the town and the barracks, and there are various rumors among the soldiers. Those corpses that have not had time to be buried are described as creepy in the barracks.


    The Han Dynasty also paid great attention to funerals. Such a crude or even hasty burial would naturally have a moderate impact on the Jiangdong soldiers. Even if everything is kept simple in the army, and the customs of the Han Dynasty are not discussed, in the process of burying soldiers who died of illness, new soldiers came into contact with pathogens, and then inevitably became infected...


    The plague germs will mutate the flea''s stomach, and then make these fleas feel that they will never be full, so they eat like crazy, biting from one body to another, and because the flea''s stomach is twisted and knotted, the flea **** The human blood will not be digested by the fleas at all, but injected into the second body, thus completing the infection of the germs.


    More and more patients were born, and the area where the original patients were received could not be accommodated, so these new patients had to stay in the original place, and then new infections occurred...


    (end of this chapter)