Quicksand turned into a flood?
The convoy moved through the desert, and the new clue brought by Deng Ximei got everyone thinking.
"Ximei, you're saying that petrification appeared in ancient Egypt …" Lou Xiaoning was still sorting out the information. "Now it's happening again. The second stage is different, and the overall progression is faster. Is it because it didn't work in ancient Egypt? Otherwise, the world now would be the Black Goat World. "
Since it didn't work last time, they changed the method this time. That made sense.
Wang Ruoxiang pondered and said, "In terms of epidemiology, acute infectious diseases, chronic infectious diseases, and chronic non-infectious diseases are different in terms of preventive measures, emergency mechanisms, and management methods. That's because the intensity of their epidemics are different.
Even if they are all acute infectious diseases, their levels are different.
Take the Ebola virus for example. It was very scary, but its speed of death and the lack of other avenues of transmission limited its spread. Therefore, even if there had been regional outbreaks, it had not become a worldwide pandemic. On the other hand, due to the diversity and uncontrollable transmission routes of the petrification disease, the patients would fall ill like a flood. The entire epidemic would be like a flood, breaking out all over the world in an instant. There would be no history of contact between the affected areas, which was scarier than the Ebola virus.
If it's like quicksand, could it be a chronic disease? For example, patients with Progressive Muscular Ossification will get sick from a young age, but the median survival is 40 years old.
Think about it, if petrification develops like rheumatoid arthritis, the patients won't even know it at the beginning, they'll just feel some chronic soreness in their joints. After some time, there will be more and more patients like this — there are hundreds of millions of people with various chronic diseases, and they make up a large proportion of the population. Almost no one is completely 'healthy'. These patients with petrification will accumulate over time, and they will finally be exposed due to the worsening of their condition. By then, they will have lost the ability to work, and it will consume a large amount of medical and social resources … "
At this point, Wang Ruoxiang paused and sighed. "Quicksand petrification and flood petrification are both scary and difficult to deal with. But chronic diseases and acute diseases have different methods. One is death by exhaustion, and the other is sudden death."
"I feel …" At that moment, Deng Ximei spoke again. After hearing all that, she had a deeper understanding of the illusion. Her voice was still soft. "The patients that I saw were like mummies. They were lifeless. Not only did they not consume the ritual energy, they were generating it.
During the Mutated Scale Disease, the people of Afterlife Cult borrowed Dagon's power to summon the Conqueror Worm into the world. Every victim of the Mutated Scale Disease consumed the energy of the ritual. That's what happens to the flood victims. Although there are more of them and the torrent is bigger, it seems that it's only because the ritual behind them is more complete. They only consume energy and do not produce energy because they are struggling and resisting. Their minds are not petrified yet. It's the source of the torrent that takes them away. "
"This is a big difference." Lou Xiaoning's left eye widened as she realized that this difference was very important.
Wang Ruoxiang, Uncle Dan, and the rest started to think about it.
The quicksand petrification disease was a slow process of ingestion. The more patients there were, the more unbreakable the ritual would be.
The flood-type petrification disease was a torrent, and the torrent was summoned by the ritual. The more patients there were, the greater the drain on the ritual's power. Collapse on its own? How many lives would this world have to sacrifice before the ritual's energy was depleted? Was there really a chance of exhaustion? When the scarlet pyramid was completed, what kind of changes would there be?
However, if the enemy was dealing with the quicksand petrification disease, a ritual that kept strengthening would be more difficult to deal with.
If there was a choice, why did the enemy choose the flood-type?
"Either those b * stards can't do it, or they can't wait any longer." Lou Xiaoning spat.
This was a simple and crude speculation, but the group did not think it was that simple.
"No, our enemy has enough patience …" Chang Qianhang shook his head and said hoarsely, "Professor Sun Lun, Professor Liu Jiecheng, Professor Zhang Zhang … Without patience, archaeologists would not be able to reach their level. The Little Ram Church is a group of people who are extremely patient and have a plan … "
Chang Qianhang's face was pale. Ever since he stepped on this piece of land, his face looked more like a skeleton. "If these people have a choice, they will definitely choose the quicksand petrification disease. For archaeologists, decades or centuries are nothing, even thousands of years is not that long … "
On the other side, Feng Peiqian sighed sadly. She seemed to have heard something like this before.
Xiao Xu agreed with Chang Qianhang's statement. "The average age of the Little Ram Cult members whose identities are known is 76 years old."
"Could it be because they're dying, so they can't wait?" Lou Xiaoning asked again.
"I don't think so. The Egyptians and the Kushites believe that they can be resurrected after death. They don't mind waiting in their graves … There must be some other reason that made them choose the flood-type petrification disease … Also, the Ten Disasters of Egypt were too high profile and exposed them, as if they were going to fight a decisive battle …"
"The Ten Disasters of Egypt may be part of the process of creating the flood-type petrification disease," Deng Ximei said. "The quicksand appears suddenly and silently, but the flood is different."
Chang Qianhang rubbed his head. The more he thought about it, the more his head hurt. "They could have chosen to take it slow, and then we wouldn't have been able to do anything. Why did they have to fight a decisive battle right from the start …"
"Unless," Wang Ruoxiang said thoughtfully, "the Little Ram Cult's enemy is not just us."
As she said this, everyone suddenly understood.
Wasn't there another unknown existence? That unknown power of protection?
"Let's assume …" Wang Ruoxiang speculated. "There is another force/another organization/another force that is also fighting against the Little Ram Cult for some reason, hindering their action of summoning the real Sun God. During this period of time, even before the Ten Disasters of Egypt, the Little Ram Cult's actions were attacked, causing them to be unable to achieve their goal. They changed their plan and implemented the Ten Disasters of Egypt, creating the flood-type petrification disease. They can't wait, not because they have no patience, but because if they don't act now, they won't have the chance to act again, so they can only fight that force. "
Everyone was silent, looking at the endless yellow sand outside the window. Under the scorching sun, there were more layers of fog.
Why only the Tianji Kingdom was blessed? Was it because they tried their best, or was there another reason?
Or did the petrification of the ritual itself not include the Tianji Kingdom?
What kind of existence would that be? An organization like the City of Dusk? Another dark force organization?
The recently active abnormal forces, other than the Little Ram Cult, were Wu Shiyu, and … that crow.
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