"If he was bitten by a rat, where is the rat that bit him?" a doctor suddenly asked.
This question was ignored.
"It should still be in the mountain village, right?"
"Will it bite other people or animals?" a doctor asked.
His words woke the people from their dreams.
Soon, a phone call reached the village.
Some people started to take action, but they soon gave up. Looking for a rat in a mountain village was not much different from looking for a needle in the sea.
So, early the next morning, the loudspeaker in the village began to broadcast again. Every household was required to prepare rat traps and rat stickers to carry out a rat extermination operation in the village.
"Why are they shouting so early in the morning?" a villager asked.
"Why are they fighting with rats again?" a villager asked.
"There must be a problem!"
In the herbal field on Nanshan Hill …
The rabbit in the stone cage was still alive, and it was not manic anymore. It was very quiet and had returned to its original sick appearance.
"It works!"
Wang Yao was happy. Although he stayed up all night, he was still in high spirits. This tiredness was nothing to him.
Hmm?
He looked up into the distance.
The loudspeaker in the village was set up at the foot of the west mountain, facing the village.
"Rats, we are in trouble!"
This kind of animal was very common in the countryside, and it was very difficult to kill. It ate almost everything, and its reproduction ability was very strong. Someone once said that the world was prepared for rats.
No one knew where a crazy rat would go.
It never took the usual route, and its size was too small.
Soon, a second person in the village was bitten, but this time it was not a rat that bit people, but a sheep, which was usually very docile.
"Oh no!"
The doctor in the mountain village who first received the patient in the village thought.
There had been one the day before, and there was another one today. This was not a good sign. It was like a cracked dam that was about to burst. It could not be stopped.
Another person was quarantined. However, this woman was not particularly cooperative when she was brought over. She cried and made a fuss like a shrew. Fortunately, the sedative was still effective at this time. After two injections, her whole body became obedient, but it was only temporary.
The people in the village were unusually panicked. If the fear of a few days ago was a little vague, then in the past two days, two people had been quarantined in succession, which made them feel that the threat was around.
There was no such thing as an impermeable wall in the world.
"I heard that this place is going to be under martial law. We can't go out, and people outside can't come in either!"
"What should we do? Will we be infected too?"
"Who knows?"
Panic was like the dark clouds in the sky, getting denser and denser.
"Sis." Chen Zhou looked at the sky outside the courtyard.
"What's wrong? Are you worried?"
"Yes, I'm worried. Have you heard about what happened in the village?"
"Would you like to meet Mr. Wang in the afternoon?"
"Yes."
At noon, Wang Yao came down from the mountain and went home for lunch.
"Two people in the village were infected. They were taken out to be infected. The village is under martial law. There are a lot of armed police outside," Zhang Xiuying said to her son.
"We actually reached this stage so quickly." Wang Yao had already expected things to develop to this stage. However, he hadn't expected things to develop so quickly.
"You two don't have to worry too much. I'll take care of everything," Wang Yao said with a smile.
He couldn't guarantee anything else, but at the very least, he could guarantee that the people closest to him wouldn't be affected by the disease.
"Okay!" Zhang Xiuying responded.
In fact, most people in the village didn't like to go out on weekdays. Occasionally, they would go out to go to the market or go to the city. This short period of martial law actually didn't have much impact on their lives. However, when they thought about the martial law, it was like being locked up. They were like pigs and sheep in a pen without freedom. Just thinking about it made them uncomfortable.
"I don't know when those doctors and experts will be able to develop a treatment for this disease."
It wasn't only Zhang Xiuying who said this. Chen Zhou also said this.
"It's difficult for them," Chen Ying replied.
A brand-new disease, which had never been seen before, had to be started from scratch. From the analysis of the disease pathology to the research of the treatment drug, it required a long process. It was possible that they wouldn't be able to develop an effective drug after a long time.
"Do you want to help them?" Wang Yao said.
"What did you say?" Zhang Xiuying heard her son talking to himself and asked.
"Ah, nothing. Mom, can you find a way to get me a few more rabbits?"
"You want rabbits again? OK, I'll get a few for you."
After a while, Zhang Xiuying came back with a few rabbits.
"Here you are."
Wang Yao took the rabbits up the hill again.
On the way up the hill, he dug up wild dandelions and bristle grass on the road as he walked. These things were almost everywhere on the hill. It didn't take long for him to collect a lot of them. He wanted to experiment again to see if these common dandelions and bristle grass had the same effect as the medicine.
Outside the clinic.
"Dr. Wang is not here."
"Shall we go up the hill to have a look?"
"No, let's wait for a while," Chen Ying said. "Dr. Wang should be busy." She vaguely guessed something.
On the hill, San Xian went out to patrol the hill. Goshawk also went out to hunt. On the hill, Wang Yao boiled the medicine alone in the cottage. Soon, it was done.
"The color and taste are similar."
He looked at the medicine, dipped a little, and put it into his mouth to taste.
"It seems to be similar. Let's try it."
He infected a small white rabbit with pathogenic bacteria and put it in a stone cage.
At this time, San Xian came back from outside.
Woof! Woof! Woof! It circled around the small rabbit in the cage a few times. It was very happy as if it had seen a new partner.
"San Xian, they can't play with you, and they can't be eaten."
Woof!
San Xian came to Wang Yao and looked at the small white rabbit in the stone cage.
"Another one."
A man and a dog sat quietly in the herbal field. In another stone cage, the small rabbit that had just escaped death was still sick and listless.
In the People's Hospital in Lianshan County, in the isolation ward.
The first patient.
"Multiple organ failure. He has completely lost his consciousness."
"All the medicine has no effect."
Phew!
They were still at their wits' end. The speed of the deterioration of the disease was beyond their imagination. They couldn't even stop it.
"Another patient has begun to have an attack!"
The problem they were worried about now was whether people in the mountain village would have an attack one after another.
"I suggest that the people in the mountain village are forbidden to go out!"
The advice of more than one expert had to be adopted.
The governor of Lianshan County quickly made a decision.
The mountain village was completely under martial law.
Many people came this time, including the armed police and the public security.
There was only one way to enter and exit the mountain village. It was surrounded by mountains.
The road was blocked. Of course, there was no way to completely encircle the mountain. To block such a mountain, hundreds of people couldn't do it. Obviously, a county didn't have the ability to rush thousands of armed police forces to encircle the mountain. It would only make the mountain village more panic.
"What? We can't even go out!"
"Why?"
After the martial law, the people in the village were completely panicked.
They could only enter and not go out. The mountain village was equivalent to a bigger cage.
"Hey, why don't we escape?"
"Are you crazy? Where do you want to go? The whole village has registered. Do you want to be wanted by the whole country?"
"What national arrest warrant? Nonsense. We're not criminals."
"Just stay here obediently!"
On the mountain, the little rabbit in the stone cage was very irritable.
"I have already given it two bowls of medicine. Why don't I feel it has any effect?" Wang Yao said. In the last experiment, two bowls of medicine began to have an effect.
He decisively took the third bowl.
Wang Yao stayed on the mountain for another day.
This time, the experiment failed. The little gray rabbit in the stone cage was crazy for the whole afternoon. It couldn't be suppressed at all.
Wang Yao decisively chose to give up. Then, he grasped the air and ended the little rabbit's life. He burned it and buried it under a tree as fertilizer.
He tried again.
In the evening, Wang Yao carried out the third experiment. The result was still a failure.
Two experiments, both failed.
Ordinary dandelions and bristle grass shouldn't work. Wang Yao basically came to a conclusion.
The next day, another person had an attack. He had an attack at home. His wife saw the problem and asked him to go to the hospital. He didn't go. Then, he went crazy at home, which scared the whole family.
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