The sky was filled with dark shadows. They moved madly but they were not stormy clouds.
A group of drones flew across the border and dropped napalm bombs on the ground. However, before the ground could burn into a sea of fire, the locusts that formed the shadows swallowed the drones. The drones exploded in the air. Before they could crash, they were consumed by the locusts.
Drones, helicopters, fighter jets, regardless of their speed and performance, suffered the same fate.
In these attempts, the pilots parachuted out before they entered the mutated area. That was why there were no casualties.
The mutated area was filled with locusts. There were locusts all the way up to 20,000 metres in the air. That was the troposphere and stratosphere.
At that height, flies and insects shouldn't be on it, but they were now.
To fill up a space that was 70 cubic km wide and 20,000 metres high, the number of locusts had reached an unimaginable level.
At higher altitudes, away from the swarm of locusts, the drones flew up to investigate, but the signal was lost immediately. No one saw these aircrafts again. They had probably crashed due to the distortion of space. At higher altitudes, in outer space, the satellites only captured a blurry image of darkness.
The earth continued to rotate and revolve. The corresponding position of the space above the mutated area was constantly changing.
Since there was no synchronous satellite above the mutated area, the command central had no idea where the highest point the mutated area could reach.
They even tried digging. They used a drilling machine to reach 1500 metres underground. However, they still used the border as the boundary. Once they crossed half a step, the soil would be filled with severe radiation. There was another worrisome point, the radar detected something moving underground.
Had the locusts burrowed into the ground? But they should be the ones burrowing out from the ground.
The wriggling thing might be a mature locust, or it might be something else.
After these attempts, the command central launched a low altitude missile attack on the mutated area but it was futile.
Even though they were burned to ashes by the sea of fire, even though they were blasted into smithereens by the missiles, the number of locusts continued to increase. The buzzing from their wings echoed through the sky like a call of death. Insects and birds from Mo Bei City and beyond continued to fly towards the mutated area.
There were so many locusts and they covered such a large area. The power of humanity was so small.
Everyone knew that they had to stop it as soon as possible. They couldn't let this mutated area continue to devour lives and grow stronger …
However, even if they had the time to build a high wall around the entire area and cover it with a dome to completely seal off the mutated area, once the fifth explosion occurred, everything within a radius of several hundred kilometers would suddenly become a part of the mutated area. The gigantic protective shield would become nothing more than a landmark.
Besides, it would take more than a year or two to build such a high wall and dome, and it had only been less than four days since the incident broke out.
On the morning of 14th March, Elder Tian Fuhou called the police, it was now the evening of 17th March.
If they could not find the source of the mutation, if they could not find the locust swarm and the source of the Locust Sickness, none of these would work.
But how to find it? Phecda, on the other hand, was in trouble.
The multi-colored cat appeared and disappeared, Wu Shiyu was still in a daze, Gu Jun was missing and there was no clue as to his whereabouts. Another possible breakthrough was to locate Lee Yuhan, Wong Ka Wai, and the rest. That was what the One was trying to do.
The evacuation of Mo Bei University was being carried out by the various departments.
Early that morning, the citizens of Mo Bei City were shocked to see a sky full of insects and birds flying towards the north. They did not stop.
Not long after that, the citizens received the news. The city's sirens and loudspeakers announced that the 'Super Sandstorm' might sweep through the whole city, the whole city was to be evacuated. Please maintain your order and do not panic, the evacuees will bring you to a safe place.
The announcement was delivered calmly but not many believed it. They just wanted to leave this place as soon as possible, hurry, hurry!
The panicked cries of the adults and the cries of the children could be heard everywhere. There were scenes of nervous evacuations everywhere in the city, and the Internet had exploded.
Amidst the chaos, the doctors continued with their duties.
Since yesterday, Wang Ruoxiang had participated in 3 consecutive autopsies on Headmaster Chui. She had slept for less than 3 hours in the past 24 hours and it was a very light sleep. She was exhausted but she still managed to pull herself together to participate in a diagnostic meeting.
The Locust Sickness epidemic … had finally broken out.
"Ah … I want to eat mud, doctor, please give me some …"
"Doctor, I'm so tired. I can't take it anymore, I can't take it anymore …"
Both sides of the conference table were filled with doctors. They studied the surveillance footage from the sickroom silently.
"Since yesterday 16th at 12: 13 am, Headmaster Chui self-destructed."
The neurosurgeon from the Spell Department, Si Kouxian, was in charge of leading the team. He explained, "The students and teachers were suspected to be infected. It took them 9 to 10 hours to have the urge to eat mud. Then the urge became so strong that it took them 22 to 24 hours. After that, their condition deteriorated rapidly. The patients showed signs of agitation, agitation and mental exhaustion. They begged for food, this is very similar to drug addiction."
It was indeed similar. Wang Ruoxiang saw a female student slamming her head against the sickroom wall. She was stopped by the hospital workers.
There was also the teaching director, Wang Jinbo. He sat on the bed like he was sitting on pins and needles. He moved around restlessly and mumbled something under his breath.
The recording was zoomed in. Everyone could hear Wang Jinbo mumbling, "What is going on, I want to eat mud, what is going on …"
There were currently 1006 patients like this at the quarantine base, they were all students and teachers from Mo Bei High School.
Those who witnessed Headmaster Chui's self-destruction at the field yesterday were all infected.
Since then, for nearly 30 hours, the patients' drinking water was normal, but their appetites were getting worse. At first, they could still eat a little, but when they showed agitated symptoms, they stopped eating and only asked for soil over and over again.
The doctors' faces were more serious than the last. The Locust Sickness was really contagious but they still had no idea how it spread.
He didn't even know if he would show those strange behaviors at this time tomorrow and become another patient.
But if they were infected by the parasite, there were plenty of medical staff and workers who fit the criteria but none of them showed symptoms. If the parasite was inhaled, then Headmaster Chui's self-destruction was not powerful enough to cover the whole field. Furthermore, there were no detectable pathogens in the patients' bodies.
Temporarily, the patients were suffering from neurological problems. They suffered from intense pica. Perhaps after eating the mud, the disease would progress to the next stage.
But why would they be infected? Was it because they witnessed the self-destruction with their own eyes?
Or was Headmaster Chui's speech a spell that could corrode one's mind?
Could it be that every patient had the ability to infect others? Or only specific patients? Wang Ruoxiang thought about it and something seemed to cross her mind …
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