Chapter 2404 Some luck
Who is the master of the earth?
is the sun.
??If the sun sneezes, the earth will be doomed.
But sometimes, some people mistakenly think that they are one of the masters of the earth and the soul of all things. Otherwise, why would there be a primate subject? But whenever humans try to stand up and get this title, there will always be something that will teach the arrogant humans a lesson.
??If the history of the earth is condensed into a one-hour film, then human beings are just a species that appears in the last second of the last minute of such an hour-long film...
Then this last-second species can mean that it is the master of the earth?
?Perhaps, it’s like some people always feel that they are smart and can control everything.
Just like the war between Cao and Sun this time, people on both sides thought that they were the masters of the war, but it was not actually them who decided the winner on the battlefield...
That’s right, the plague is coming.
The cause of the plague, or the beginning of the whole event, no one can say for sure.
As the temperature rises, the Guangling people who were originally hiding in the mountains found that the food they carried was exhausted, which meant that they had to find more food...
The hope of returning home was dashed after two or three explorations. Because Jiang Dongjun still didn''t 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 and could eat.
No matter what, food must be guaranteed. These Guangling people hidden in the mountains and forests began to emerge from the caves like prairie dogs in search of food.
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 task for the army general. Collecting food on the spot is naturally the responsibility of the Jiangdong auxiliary soldiers.
All the serious wild vegetables were taken away by Jiangdong soldiers, and what was left for these Guangling people was naturally some not-so-serious food...
A child held a big mouse and ran excitedly to a cave on the mountainside.
The big gray-black mouse swayed in Wa''er''s hand.
Uncle! look! I got it! 』
『Hey, you have some skills...how do you fight? 』
『I saw this guy squatting in the grass, and then I found a stone and banged it! Haha, I got it! 』
"Let me see...well, little guy...it''s already dead...can''t eat..."
"ah? Why? ! I just did it! 』
"This is already dead... When you hit it, it was probably already dead... You can''t eat the dead... This is the rule, I''ll dig a hole for you, come and bury it... You want it alive, alive." Only then can you eat...』
??The little guy was unwilling to give in, but he had no choice but to put the mouse into the hole dug by the adults. He looked at the soil and buried it, "Why can''t we eat the dead ones?" Aren’t the things we eat all beaten to death..."
"Well, you have to eat freshly killed ones... freshly killed ones are soft when pinched and can be eaten. But they have been dead for a long time and are hard when pinched and cannot be eaten..." Uncle Hunter taught the little boy his experience, "Remember Is it gone? 』
The little boy''s emotions came and went quickly. He nodded and stood up, "I''ll look for it again and I''ll definitely find something to eat!" 』
The hunter watched the baby run away with a smile on his face. After a while, it turned into a sad look, and then he became a little more confused, "These days...why are so many rats dying..."
Rats hide in dark corners most of the time and will not appear in the wilderness unless necessary. But for some reason in the past two days, some rats can be seen during the day, even on mountain roads or in the grass. Some rats can also be seen.
And most of them are dead rats.
This makes the hunter a little worried.
??Although the hunter didn''t understand why, he instinctively felt that this was not a good sign...
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"What''s this? I ask you what is this? ! 』
"mouse…"
『I’m just asking you why there are so many rats! 』
‘Aren’t these all dead rats? 』
Dead rat! I know they are dead rats, but why are there so many dead rats in the camp! "In the vanguard camp of Jiangdong Army, Xie Zan glared at the army''s logistics officer.
But the chief officer’s logistics were also helpless.
?A dead rat? It’s normal. Where are there no dead rats?
But the problem is that in the past few days, the number of dead rats has suddenly increased. The number of rats picked up in the camp has continued to increase, and rats have even begun to die outside in batches. These things have disappeared from the corners where they were supposed to be hidden. , crawling out in groups from under the planks of the camp, from the ruins of the city, from the dark ditches, and then staggered to the light, swaying a few times as if going crazy, and then died...
What''s even more strange is that these rats died openly in the middle of the road, on the beds in the camp, and in Xie Zan''s Chinese army tent!
?This was originally a town where residents lived, and later became a military camp for the Jiangdong Army.
Whether it is a town or a military camp, there are always some small animals and bugs.
??In this nameless town where the Jiangdong Army vanguard was stationed, if these rats hadn''t crawled out on their own initiative, no one would have known that there were so many rats in this town and the military camp on the edge of the town!
As a pioneer, Xie Zan wanted to gain merit and not come here to deal with dead rats. These dead rats that appeared inexplicably obviously affected the morale of the Jiangdong Army. Many Jiangdong soldiers began to talk about it, saying that this was God''s warning is retribution for Jiang Dongjun''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 superior leader arrived here, some embarrassing situation would occur, which would lead to his being in this situation. The military operation has lost its original merit!
Although it is said that it belongs to him, his original merits are not many...
Then there can be no negligence at all!
?Seeing that Sun Quan is about to go to the front line in person, such a strange phenomenon occurs around the vanguard camp and inside the town. So what is the reason and problem? If Xie Zan cannot give a satisfactory answer, then Sun Quan will definitely not take the blame for Xie Zan!
"explain! Why is this? ! Xie Zan said angrily, "Why are there so many dead rats?" ! 』
Could it be... the reason for the rain a few days ago? "The military camp logistics officer said, "It rained continuously the past few days, and then these things dug holes in the ground...the rainwater poured into the holes..."
The logistics officer clapped his hands with great certainty, "That must be the case!" Either drowned or suffocated! 』
Xie Zan frowned slightly, then thought for a moment, nodded, and accepted the statement, "Forget it...this matter..."
Before Xie Zan could even finish his words, soldiers came to report, "Report to the captain!" Not good! Someone is sick! 』
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?The disease will not be merciful just because the opponent is weak. On the contrary, it will bully the weak and fear the strong and become more and more cruel to the weak.
?Among this group of Guangling refugees hiding in caves, the first to get sick are the old and the weak.
The child is ill.
At the beginning, these children seemed to just have severe stomachaches, as if they were gluttonous and ruined their stomachs. They did not get any attention from the adults. They just scolded them a few times and ignored them. .
The child''s mother came to take a look, but neither the child''s mother nor the child himself had much decision-making ability, nor the ability to detect any symptoms, so they could only let the child lie down in the hay in the cave to rest. .
Since then, the child''s symptoms became more and more serious, and he started to have a fever. He groaned because of the fever, talked nonsense, and curled up like a shrimp about to be cooked.
At the beginning, these refugees did not realize that this was a plague. The young mother held her child, tried her best to soothe the child''s body twisted in pain, and kept wiping the saliva and tears that flowed out of the child uncontrollably. But soon, these mothers were also infected...
Many people began to suffer from the same symptoms, first stomachache, diarrhea, then pain, fever, and then convulsions in a coma, shaking like a thatched house in a storm, and may be destroyed at any time. Many people died of torture within two or three days.
Immediately, because of pain, fear, or other reasons, someone jumped from the mountain stream at night when they couldn''t bear it anymore. The roaring sound echoed in the valley, like the evil ghosts in **** in the darkness. Howling among them.
Then the already weak order of the refugees in the entire cave began to collapse.
These Guangling refugees began to flee their "shelter", some fled deeper into the mountains, some went to the nearest village, some died on the road, and some were arrested again and became servitude…
A new storm began to form on this piece of land and swept across it, carrying countless creatures and beginning to swallow up one life after another.
Most of the human beings caught in this storm are still in a state of confusion.
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No? 』
‘It can’t be true? 』
Maybe it’s just a few cases and it can’t be a plague? 』
The thought of luck is something that all human beings, no matter in ancient or modern times, at home or abroad, will have.
Under normal circumstances, some luck can only affect a few people at most, but if the person holding the fluke mentality is a leader or a commander, then it will affect more than just one or two people...
The word "plague", from the first time it was mentioned in history to the present day of the Han Dynasty, has been accompanied by a large number of deaths.
Although birth, old age, sickness and death are normal conditions in life, in addition to those that can be directly seen, the enemies faced by human beings also have many opponents that cannot be directly seen. Natural and man-made disasters are also common in human history, but once it falls to oneself, When I saw it on my head, I was still a little stunned and couldn''t believe it.
Not so unlucky?
It’s like war.
When the war has just begun, or before it breaks out, the people are always full of worries, but also blindly confident.
How long can it last? Three or two months at most! 』
『Jiangdong must win! 』
When will this war end? 』
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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 ideas, and it is often not as short-lived as imagined. That''s it. The first ones to be attacked are always those who are careless, those who think they are the greatest and smartest, those who like to judge and point fingers all the time but are defenseless.
??During the three to four hundred years of the Han Dynasty, there were many plagues. How many of these plagues are plagues cannot be determined, but I believe this thing will not be absent.
The gregarious nature of human beings and the lack of effective isolation make the spread and spread of plague possible.
??As the name suggests, plague originally only targeted rodents such as rats, including but not limited to rats, such as flatheads, marmots, etc., which may have plague bacteria. For example, those stupid guys in later generations, running live broadcasts or something, ran to get close to the wild flat-headed brother, and it was very likely that they were infected with the plague because of this moment of intimacy...
During this battle, the people of Guangling County suffered numerous casualties. Jiangdong''s army certainly didn''t have much thought to deal with the corpses of the dead Guangling people. The villages that had been massacred could only be set on fire, so who would bother to bury them?
In these villages, there are not only humans, but also various small animals, microorganisms, bacteria and fungi. In winter, when the temperature is low, the speed of these transmissions can be suppressed in the wild. However, when the temperature rises, these animals begin to Looking for food everywhere, a large number of germs carried by the rotting corpses infected the water sources and began to spread, and the plague inevitably occurred.
??Jiangdong Army has encountered the plague more than once before, and they even encountered such a situation when they conquered South Vietnam, but this does not mean that Jiangdong Army can resist the plague for a few more rounds.
Know and do it, there is always a huge trench. Just like those in later generations who clearly have ready-made homework to copy, but when problems arise, they still copy like shit.
Xie Zan copied it like a piece of shit.
?Has Jiangdong never encountered a plague?
Apparently not.
And then no one summarized it?
Apparently not either.
But the day after the first case of illness was discovered, Xie Zan still felt that the problem was not big.
Isn’t it just an individual problem of individual people?
It may not all be a plague?
In case it is just cold, wouldn''t it be a surprise to the master of Jiangdong. Can you continue to wear it if you can''t get your hat?
The next day, a few more people got sick, and the number soared from single digits to double digits.
Xie Zan was a little panicked, but managed to maintain his composure. He did not take any measures in the military camp or town. He only gave some hints to the logistics officer and asked him to move these seriously ill soldiers to remote areas. Some corners to go.
The third day.
The seriously ill soldier''s condition worsened, he went crazy because of the pain, and even attacked other soldiers nearby.
Soldiers who believed in ghosts and gods began to claim that these people were possessed by "evil ghosts", and then began to sell some self-made amulets that were said to be immune to being harmed by "evil ghosts"...
Xie Zan was sweating, and a small amount of sweat kept appearing on his forehead, and then flowed down his face. Logically speaking, he should make a decision, indicating that there may be a plague here, and seal off the soldiers who come into contact with the patients, and isolate the entire town. However, the correct measures are not in the direction of the best interests.
Promotion!
Get rich!
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One wife, two concubines, three lovers, a small courtyard with ten or twenty apartments, and thirty or forty shops. This is the life Xie Zan wants! Instead of becoming a monkey in a cage, and then having to bear the cauldron of plague!
??Xie Zan knew how terrible the plague was, but he felt in his heart that the plague "should not" continue to spread...
If the plague is reported, it means that Xie Zan not only has to bear most of the blame, but also has to be controlled and closed. Xie Zan even has to be with these soldiers of the plague to ensure that the morale of these soldiers will not be affected. This led to mutiny and wavering.
This is an uncontrollable fear about the future, and once the plague is reported, it means that these Jiangdong troops, including Xie Zan, will not be able to go home for at least a long time!
These Jiangdong Army soldiers are not alone in their families. There are seniors and juniors in their families. They originally thought they could go home after the war is over. But now if the plague is reported, they will still be here even after the war is over. 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…
?Perhaps it will be fine on its own in two days?
The tenth day.
The situation has completely gotten out of control.
At least Xie Zan has lost control of the situation...
?Unknown fear hangs over the towns and barracks, and the soldiers are also spreading rumors among themselves. The shapes of the corpses that were not buried in time are described in the barracks in a creepy way.
The Han Dynasty paid great attention to funerals. Such crude and even hasty burials naturally had a moderate impact on the soldiers in Jiangdong. Even if everything in the army is kept simple and the customs and habits of the Han Dynasty are not discussed, in the process of burying the soldiers who died of illness, new soldiers will be exposed to the pathogen, and then they will inevitably be infected...
The plague germs mutate the fleas'' stomachs, making them feel that they are never full, so they eat like crazy, biting from one body to another. Because the flea''s stomach is twisted and knotted, the flea feeds The blood will not be digested by the flea at all, but is injected into the second body, thereby completing the infection of the bacteria.
More and more patients were born, and the area that originally housed the patients could not accommodate them. These new patients had to be kept in their original places, and then new infections occurred...
(End of this chapter)