#246 - Chapter 246 Give Face
By the pond.
Looking at the countless wriggling tiny creatures in the shallow water, Zhang Tiankai and his team felt their scalps tingle!
How many small creatures are there?
"Everyone be careful, there's a zombie over there! Try not to touch the water here!"
Seeing this, everyone had a premonition about the cause of the survivors' illness.
They probably drank contaminated water or indirectly ate contaminated food!
Zhang Tiankai's protective suit was tightly wrapped except for his head, he carefully took out a bottle, filled it with some water from the pond, and then capped it and put it away.
"Let's go! Let's take a look around and take some samples back to Zhou Qihang and Doctor Zhang for testing!"
The team members didn't want to stay in this foul-smelling place any longer, so naturally they wouldn't refuse.
Everyone slowly retreated, carefully observing whether they or their teammates had accidentally touched the dirty things here.
Next, they will continue to investigate the surrounding area.
In other places, the team members sent by Green Source had also made discoveries one after another.
They saw that many creatures had died for unknown reasons in some water sources outside!
After these creatures rotted, they became a breeding ground for microorganisms!
Many water sources outside have been destroyed!
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Afternoon.
Base leader's office.
Qin Jin looked at the reports submitted by various departments and finally came to a definite conclusion about the incident.
The team members detected abnormalities in some water sources around Mentang Town, which contained a terrifying density of microorganisms!
Most of these microorganisms are highly infectious and parasitic.
Such as roundworms, liver flukes, brain-eating amoeba, horsehair worms...
Everything is available...
The survivors outside basically rely on nearby water sources for drinking water, and it is generally easier to find food near water sources, which naturally attracts many survivors.
Then...
If it is running water, it is better, or if it is heated and boiled after being taken back, most of these creatures can also be killed.
But now it is the end of the world.
Half a year has passed, and most survivors have long abandoned some habits from the previous civilized society.
Take a bath?
Some people may not have taken a bath for half a year.
Drink water?
It's good to have water to drink directly, there is no need to be so particular.
Shit?
If there is no toilet paper, then don't wipe it or find a piece of rag or leaves to solve it hastily.
It turns out that no matter how civilized people are, after entering the end of the world, if there are no conditions, then everything will be simplified.
Qin Jin rubbed his temples and sighed slightly.
This was also his negligence. In his previous life, as a leg evolver, obtaining food and water was relatively easier than most people, and he basically traveled alone in the city, rarely joining some wild survivor teams.
He vaguely remembered someone talking about a disease outbreak in the second year of the apocalypse, but he was not in Guangyuan City at the time, so he had almost no impression of it.
Naturally, there would be no association during this time.
Looking at the reported information, combined with the current state of the outside world, he could more or less piece together the formation process of an event.
It is likely that after this cold wave passed, all things thawed, and the animals that had been frozen to death began to rot, coupled with the ubiquitous D virus (Qin Jin and Zhou Qihang discussed and named the virus on the zombies as the D virus) catalysis, a series of chain reactions caused those small lives to grow wildly.
Maybe after a while, the weather will get hot, or the animal corpses (the probability of mutated animals appearing is very small, so most people have not seen mutated animals) will be completely decayed, and the number of these microorganisms will naturally decrease.
At least he had never seen humans die out because of this in his previous life.
He had already ordered people to check and test the several ponds in his base, and the results were slightly better. Perhaps it was because of their good management that someone took care of the fish ponds every day (Gao Qiangcheng found other people to help take care of the fish ponds after becoming a combat team member, because he often had to travel on business).
Once dead fish or abnormal situations are found, personnel will deal with them immediately.
In addition, the base's water source has special disinfection and filtration, and the drinking water is also strictly controlled, and tap water produced by the base is sent to the branch base and the three residential areas every day, so most of the base personnel have not had any problems.
But if other people outside do not have the habit of boiling water to drink, it will be troublesome.
According to his uncle and others, if this kind of parasitic infection does not involve several fatal types, and the individual's physical immunity is strong, they can directly survive and heal themselves.
But if they are infected with several fatal types, or their own immunity is not strong, then they have to rely on fate.
He can already imagine that the survivors in the city are better, but many survivors who hide in the countryside may have been infected.
Even if they don't directly drink raw water, contact with unclean food and the environment will slowly lead to infection.
Moreover, as far as he knows, for some reason, the number of fish in ponds and rivers has decreased dramatically after the apocalypse, and only a few live fish can be seen occasionally. It is impossible to easily obtain food by hiding by the water source in the countryside.
The same goes for the seaside.
Not only are there fewer marine creatures, but some strange fish that attack humans and other creatures have appeared since some time ago.
It seems that the entire Blue Star is targeting animals on the surface.
It is too difficult for humans to survive.
With a general conclusion, he didn't plan to delay any longer.
Just now Zhao Ling came to him and explained the specific situation outside.
In addition to the 50 to 60 people infected in the Green Source base and residential area, there are also 200 to 300 people with ranks living farther away who are infected!
Not to mention the larger number of unranked personnel!
Roughly estimated, more than 1,500 people are infected!
Even if most people can eventually survive with their immunity, they may have sequelae in the future.
And now some people with poor physique have died one after another, and panic is still spreading.
He didn't summon others to a meeting, but chose to directly pick up the walkie-talkie and instruct on the cadre channel.
"Cure the infected people in our area, let people pay more attention to the situation of the ponds in our base, and also strengthen the attention to the base's water use."
"All external level 1-2 personnel will also be treated."
"As for other unranked personnel..."
He paused here, seeming to think for a while before continuing to speak.
"Unranked personnel who have traded with us more than once can also get medicine."
The cadres naturally would not object to these decisions of the leader.
Thanks to Qin Jin's hoarding of a lot of expiring medicines during the peaceful period, and the emptying of countless pharmacies and hospitals after the apocalypse (a large pharmacy every fifty meters in China), the number of medicines in the base is astonishing!
It is not stressful for Green Source Base to take out insecticidal drugs to treat a thousand people in exchange for the gratitude of the survivors outside.
Although the medicines can still be used after they expire, it is good to consume some insecticidal drugs to exchange for the gratitude of the survivors outside.
Besides.
Zhao Ling also pleaded with him.
He still has to give the face of this life force leader.
(End of this chapter)
