Soul echo

Chapter 596 'Virus'
It took Delilah three days to deal with most of the accumulated tasks.

The remaining half, even with her level of knowledge and intelligence, can't solve it, and those tasks are not so much 'difficult', it's better to say that someone is deliberately making things difficult.

As the saying goes, Wenwu comes first, and Wuwu comes second. If it is an entrustment with a clear goal and a single task indicator, it is easy to judge whether the task has been completed. However, the tasks handled by Delilah do not have a clear indicator. It's hard to tell if it's done.

Fortunately, in the past three days, Dai Lila's work has shown some initial results. After receiving the client's feedback, Lady Du of Juyi Pavilion has a new understanding of Dai Lila, and is finally willing to accept Dai Lila's contract application. Sent to the government.

During these three days, Zhong Ye and Lilian also investigated what happened in Bianliang.

This kind of thing is not difficult for them, just go to the game forum to see what happened.

After encountering difficulties, many players will post on the game forum to seek strategies. After all, they are here to play the game rather than be played by the game.

Bianliang is still a big city in this era, and there are many players. Through these players, Zhong Ye and Lilian can know what happened in that city.

However, in order to convince Delilah and deceive the audience in Lilian's live broadcast room, Zhong Ye actually went to investigate.

It turned out that the grain prices in several grain stores in Anyang have risen slightly, but the range is not large, and it is still within the acceptable range of people.

As for why such a thing happened, after Zhong Ye left the city and went to the countryside to investigate, he found that several grain merchants from Bianliang purchased grain directly from farmers, and the grain merchants in Anyang were unwilling to raise the purchase price. This led to a shortage of food in Anyang.

Given the shortage of food, it is natural to increase the selling price, slow down the speed of food sales as much as possible, and then negotiate a new purchase price with farmers within the time gained.

Anyang is not the only city around Bianliang, and the nearest city to Bianliang is not Anyang, but the grain merchants in Bianliang have come to the countryside of Anyang to negotiate with farmers to collect grain. It is conceivable what is going on in Bianliang today .

After knowing these things, Zhong Ye couldn't help but feel heavy.

Whether it's the situation he investigated or the information given by the players, it all shows one thing - Bianliang is plagued by plague.

This kind of plague is not an ordinary plague. It does not make the patient weak. On the contrary, it can make the patient stronger and stronger, and the price of these enhancements is an increase in food intake.

Back then, Zhong Ye also experienced a period of increased food intake, and he knew very well that it was difficult for human beings to resist hunger.

Even with his will and endurance, it is difficult to resist hunger.

Not to mention ordinary people, today's Dongtu has established communication with the earth's Huaxia early, and its productivity has developed by leaps and bounds. Although poverty is still the norm, it has been a long time since the days of hungry and full meals like the past. up.

In a rich area like Bianliang, even if many people don't have much money left, they should still be able to fill their stomachs every day.

Therefore, when it comes to fending off pangs of hunger, they are far less tolerant than their predecessors.

If people's needs can be met, it can even be said that being infected with this plague is a good thing for human beings, but the overall productivity of Dan World is still quite backward, and even the Eastern Land cannot satisfy everyone's needs.

Moreover, after being infected with this plague, people's demand for food is almost unlimited. According to the descriptions of some players who have been infected with this plague, their attributes increased rapidly at the beginning, but as time went by, The growth rate of attributes slowed down, and in contrast, the fat and fat on their bodies began to grow.

If they continue to eat, their bodies will become more and more swollen, and in the end, either their bodies cannot bear the huge weight and disordered physiological system and die, or... they become monsters.

The government of Bianliang noticed this situation a long time ago, but they had nothing to do about it.

Most of the food channels are in the hands of big landlords and businessmen, and some of the food in the official warehouse needs to be reserved for disaster relief. They have already released all the parts that can be released. It is still a drop in the bucket for the spreading epidemic in Bianliang .

They are heading to Bianliang at this time... what can they do?
Dai Lila was a little puzzled by Zhong Ye's decision to 'go to Bianliang', but she was also somewhat interested in the situation in Bianliang, so she didn't object.

When she finished packing her luggage and was about to leave, Lilian suddenly asked, "Teacher, do you have a sense of déjà vu?"

Sensing Delilah's puzzled gaze, Zhong Ye explained: "When we were in Westland, Lilian and I also encountered a similar plague. That kind of virus would also cause a person's appetite to increase greatly, but that kind The virus can also cause people to lose control of their bodies due to excessive hunger and become another kind of creature."

Zhong Ye turned his head, looked at the city gate ahead, and said solemnly: "The current plague is milder, which also means that many people will not take it seriously, and even think it is a good thing, and then let the plague spread... "

The reason why the plague is feared is precisely because of its contagiousness and fatality rate, but once the fatality rate is reduced and only has contagiousness, for many people, the plague is no longer scary.

The earliest list that Dai Lila found was six days ago, that is to say, six days ago, the grain merchants in Anyang began to think about transporting grain to Bianliang and then transporting the money back.

This kind of thing that was supposed to be a secret was sent to Juyi Pavilion as a commission. It can only be said that he went to the doctor in a hurry.

This also shows from the side that it is not the first time they have transported grain to Bianliang, and because of this, they still hope to get a new plan.

The demand in Bianliang continued to rise, but the plague seemed to be confined to Bianliang by something. Even though those grain merchants had traveled to and from Bianliang several times, they were not infected with the plague.

This kind of thing was so strange that Zhong Ye couldn't help but think of what happened at Constantia.

The east land is huge, and Anyang is several hundred miles away from Bianliang. Even if Zhong Ye and the others go there at the fastest speed, it will take several days, not to mention the grain merchants who need to deliver grain.

The grain merchants in Anyang traveled between the two cities more than once, and the grain merchants in Bianliang also came to Anyang to buy grain, all of which showed that the plague in Bianliang had been spreading for some time.

However, when Zhong Ye and the others were in Juyi Pavilion, they seldom heard related news. When the rangers occasionally talked about it, they mostly treated it as a small talk and did not talk in depth.

No one cares about what happened in Bianliang, because after a long period of verification, the plague has been proven not to spread out of Bianliang.

"...It's not like a plague, but it's like a sacrifice."

Delilah didn't know how to ride a horse, so when she was on the horse, Zhong Ye would help her pull the reins and control the horse's walking direction.

The three of them were walking on the solid concrete surface of the national road, and the horseshoes kept stepping down, making noise.

After listening to Zhong Ye's explanation, Dai Lila said with a smile: "Think about it, since those patients infected with the so-called 'plague' knew that there was a problem with Bianliang, why didn't they leave? It's fine that officials can't leave their posts without permission. But what about the people? What about the grain merchants going in and out of Bianliang? Couldn't they escape?
"By the way, it seems that everyone who knows about this incident is indifferent to this incident itself. They only care about how to solve the plague, or how much money they can make from this incident, but they have not discussed the essence of this incident. Any thought—at least from what I've learned so far!"

Lilian was in a daze for a moment, and then she came to her senses.

"That's right! It seems that no one really cares about how this 'plague' appeared. Everyone is concerned about how to solve the plague, or how to make money!"

Not only the officials and common people in Bianliang, but even the players are unaware of this...

Zhong Ye frowned, this might really be a 'virus', but it's a meme virus!
(End of this chapter)