Earth Survival Guide

Chapter 821 Whether to do it or not is a big question
In fact, there is a paradox in the observer regulations.

That is "observers must not interfere with the normal process of the world" and "observers can implement certain means to assist when necessary", these two are actually mutually exclusive regulations, and such an obvious mutual exclusion cannot be a bug, because this regulation The centaur civilization has existed for more than 400 years, and the sages of all ages have followed it. It is impossible that no one has discovered such an obvious loophole.

But it has never been repaired, that's because there is actually a story here.

First of all, those who can be selected as observers must have three very prominent advantages.First: Having a personal moral advantage.Second: It has the advantages of civilization and morality.Third: Possess a relatively complete lawful and kind personality.

Then suppose an observer, when performing an observation task, finds that a certain civilization has a plague or a virus that can destroy its civilization, should he rescue it? This has caused discussions for 300 years, but there has never been Discuss any results.

Because according to the regulations that do not interfere with the process of civilization, rescue would be tantamount to external forces intervening in the development of civilization. This would cause essential changes in the civilization of a planet or a world, which is strictly prohibited.

If no rescue is done, observers with high moral standards and high levels of kindness will have strong negative emotions and stress trauma syndrome, and there will be serious deviations in future exploration and scoring, and even scoring will affect other observers. Comprehensive assessment of civilization.

Theoretically, explorers and observers cannot be replaced by machines and artificial intelligence, because artificial intelligence cannot perform empathic thinking to some extent, so many aspects cannot give comprehensive evaluation scores.

But once there is a problem with the mental health of the observer, if it cannot be found out for some reason, it is likely to lead to the destruction of other civilizations.

Ever since, people from the two camps have been arguing about this for hundreds of years, and in the end no one can convince the other, and finally these two mutually exclusive treaties appeared.

Assuming that the observer finds that a plague has appeared in the civilization of the subject during the execution of the task, he can use mild means to deal with it, and do not "excessively" interfere with the civilization process "as much as possible".

This is why in the history of many civilized planets, there will be those kind of gods and doctors who suddenly appeared. In addition to their solutions that fit the times, they should have been appointed as princes and ministers, but they disappeared quietly. In the long river of history, even the name has not been handed down.

This is the reason why advanced civilizations are advanced, that is, altruism suppresses egoism to a certain extent. When altruism without the premise of lack of resources becomes the main theme of civilization, this civilization can be called an advanced civilization. .

For example, the earth civilization in universe zero is a quasi-advanced civilization among low-level civilizations, because the altruism and self-interest of this civilization have reached a [-]-[-] split, and one more level can enter the ranks of high-level civilizations.

Gu Tao is now encountering such a situation. When they entered the territory of Luzhou, they found that there were a large number of refugees concentrated in many surrounding villages. After the locust plague, but these disasters are obviously not happening now, so Gu Tao doesn't have to ask, it must be the spread of infectious diseases.

"Put it on."

He handed Bi Qing a high-filtration mask, and then a pair of rubber gloves: "Do not take off the mask gloves."

"Master, what is this? What is it for?"

"Did you see the village in front of you?"

There is still about 120 miles away from Luzhou Mansion, but it is already regarded as the boundary of Luzhou. Judging from the current time, Luzhou should be regarded as a large area and a prosperous place.But now it seems... It should be that an acute infectious disease has suddenly broken out in the past few days.

Gu Tao took Bi Qing into the village, and found that almost every household had banners hanging at the door, and there were many corpses on the side of the road that could not be disposed of, covered with straw mats and listed under the eaves, crying faintly. The gates of every house are closed, wild dogs are looking for food everywhere, and the streets are desolate and eerie.

"Master..."

Seeing this scene, Bi Qing tremblingly held Gu Tao by the corner of his clothes. She was not afraid of the living, but after all, she was a little girl who was born in a peaceful era. Suddenly seeing so many corpses with distorted faces, she said she was not afraid of the dead. Possibly, the only thing she can rely on now is the calm-faced master in front of her, so she grabs the corner of the master's clothes as much as possible.

"Remember the three 'no' principles: don't touch, don't drink raw water, and don't eat cold food." Gu Tao carefully reminded: "Don't be curious."

Who wants to be curious!These are all dead!
But before Bi Qing could slow down, Gu Tao must have squatted in front of a dead body, lifted the straw mat covering it, and began to identify it.

"Master...you..."

"Oh, I'm fine."

Of course, Gu Tao is fine and will be fine. He has already done experiments with himself. His cells and DNA are almost free from any interference from external factors. Except for toxins, even those terrible viruses and bacteria are ineffective. cause any harm to him.Of course.Not only is it impossible to infringe, but it is also impossible to strengthen, and the special protein on the practitioner is also ineffective against him.

"You stand by."

"Well... Master, be careful."

Gu Tao nodded, and squatted in front of the corpse to examine it carefully. He found that the corpse had obvious symptoms such as rash, subcutaneous hemorrhage, and swollen lymph nodes. There was also yellow-brown pus from the ear, and obvious gangrene tissue on the lower body.

He frowned and stood up, then tilted his head in thought for a moment.

"Master... what's the matter? What's the matter?"

"Stay away from me, and away from the corpse." Gu Tao raised his hand to stop Bi Qing from coming forward: "Typhus."

Typhus, although this thing is not as terrible as the Black Death, it was actually a highly contagious plague that killed millions of people. Even in modern times after the "October Revolution", it caused almost 300 million people die.

In the plague, it can probably be ranked fourth or fifth.

Typhus mainly occurs in spring and summer. Its incubation period to onset period is not as fast as that of the Black Death, but it is very easy to be misdiagnosed as common typhus in the early stage and delay the timing of treatment.

Like many plagues, its cause is spread by small insects such as fleas. It is a highly contagious disease with a very high degree of infectivity.

Gu Tao took out the disinfectant that he carried with him from his pocket and sprayed it on his hands and body, then sprayed Bi Qing's head and face, then turned his head and looked at the place where there were voices not far away: "The epidemic is probably happening. It's been a month, otherwise it wouldn't have caused such a large-scale infection, it seems... a group of people are going to lose their heads."

After speaking, he waved: "Speed ​​up your pace and go to Luzhou Mansion quickly."

"Then master...doesn't matter here?"

"Do you have a solution?"

"No……"

"Then I don't have either." Gu Tao spread his hands: "Once the plague starts to spread, it can't be controlled by a few pills and a few people. Go find the local parent officer."

Along the way, Bi Qing no longer had the usual happy look. The further he walked in, the more serious the situation became. In some villages, there was not even a single person left, and the corpses were piled up in a mess, which was shocking to see.

But Gu Tao didn't think there was any problem at all, because according to the speed of the spread of the plague, it is naturally more terrifying as it gets closer to the center. Fortunately, the population mobility in this era is not so large, and it seems that the officials of the Luzhou government know that They are also trying to solve these things, but they are obviously not trying to solve the plague, they are trying to solve people.

The mountain road that Gu Tao and the others had been walking before was something normal people wouldn’t walk on, but when they got close to the official road, they discovered that this place had three steps, one sentry post, and five steps, one post. Although everything seemed normal, it was obviously It's not normal, because none of the villages near the official road had an epidemic, but it was a remote place, which was very tragic.

"They are controlling population flow." Gu Tao laughed: "It seems that they have known it for a long time."

"It's disgusting!" Bi Qing said viciously, "How could they do this!"

"Otherwise, what should they do?" Gu Tao asked back: "This year is the first year that your little emperor succeeded to the throne, and this month is less than four months old. If it is really rumored that there is a large-scale plague, What do people in the world think of him? Is it because his reputation as the emperor is not right? Is it because the Song Dynasty has exhausted its vitality? Compared with the plague and the country, which one is more important? At least if I were the emperor, I would also feel that the country more important."

"But so many people..."

"People can regenerate." Gu Tao said with a smile: "But I don't think your little emperor knows about it."

"Ah? That stupid gentleman! I'm going to kick his ass when I get back!"

Gu Tao didn't beep any more, just quickened his pace, carrying his bag, and went all the way to Luzhou Mansion along the official road.

The two arrived at the gate of Luzhou City in the evening. The city gate that should not have been closed at this moment was tightly closed. There were heavy guards around. Everyone who passed by needed to be carefully checked, and Gu Tao and the others were no exception.

However, during the interrogation, his fake identity was very realistic, and since he was rich, he spread the money along the way, and the two of them entered the city smoothly.But it was different from what was expected. The city of Luzhou was now desolate. Pedestrians on the road were walking in a hurry, with their heads lowered. From time to time, a group of soldiers patrolled by.

"I remembered, Luzhou Shouchen is my father's old department, I will take you to find him!"

"Then you can go back to Lin'an obediently, okay?"

"Ah?" Bi Qing shrank his neck: "It's no big deal, it's only up to Master's arrangement."

"Why don't you want to go back? You live and sleep outside, you are a girl, and you are still following a big man like me. You are not ashamed."

"Master, master, as a teacher and a father, follow the master to go around the world, who can say anything."

Gu Tao chuckled, carried a small bag all the way to the Governor's Mansion, and then slammed the door without saying a word.After a while, a servant-like person poked his head out, glanced at Gu Tao, and said impatiently, "Who is it? What are you knocking on? Can you knock on this door casually?"

Bi Qing stared: "You..."

Before she could finish her sentence, Gu Tao pressed her head and pushed her to the back, and Gu Tao didn't talk nonsense: "Please go and report, and say that if the plague is not contained, the governor of Luzhou may die soon."

The servant was stunned for a moment. After all, what Gu Tao said was too straightforward, so disrespectful, to be honest...it is okay to make him disrespectful and beat him to death, but now this matter is considered to be of great importance. Not daring to be negligent, he had to report with a strange expression and asked Gu Tao to wait at the door.

"Master, you are really rude. He doesn't know where you came from, and I'm afraid you will scare him to death. And if the governor doesn't open his eyes and punish you for being disrespectful, it will be troublesome."

Gu Tao smiled and said nothing, punishing the crime of an observer, that's really awesome.Anyway, let's see his attitude. If he has a good attitude, he will make a move. If he has a bad attitude, he will come here in a hurry at eight hundred miles from the capital tomorrow.

Soon, the same servant came out. He looked Gu Tao up and down, and then whispered: "Your Excellency, please."

Gu Tao smiled, squeezed some broken silver and put it in his hand: "It will be difficult for you when the report is made."

Yo... this scholar, as expected of what I just told him, he knows how to be a man, not bad!

Watching this arrogant scholar go in, the servant sighed.I thought that this scholar is good, but if someone else dared to talk like that, I'm afraid he would be beaten to death with a board.

And Gu Tao, led by the maid, came to the side hall very quickly, and soon a man with a sallow complexion and a haggard face came out. He looked very handsome, but he always felt like he was about to die.

Seeing him coming out, Gu Tao cupped his hands, but he just nodded slightly, and then sat down in the middle seat: "Just now you said what happened to the plague?"

"I came here on a study tour from Lin'an Prefecture. Along the way, I saw that there were many refugees on the road, and many villages were full of empty houses. The governor must have known about it, right?"

The governor frowned, "He's from Lin'an Mansion?"
"My lord, don't be too busy killing people to silence the truth." Gu Tao smiled and waved his hand, then pointed to the maid not far away: "How about a cup of tea?"

Being poked by the governor, his brows frowned even tighter, but his face was still pretending to be calm: "My lord should be the official's confidant, for the sake of the official's name, I concealed it with my own strength, and I didn't say anything. wrong?"

The governor said nothing, but at this moment he was really murderous.

"Don't panic, my lord." Gu Tao pointed at Bi Qing behind him: "Do you recognize this little girl?"

Bi Qing was taken aback, and quickly pulled Gu Tao's clothes, but Gu Tao didn't care about her at all, and just continued: "The queen of the future official family, you have to weigh your own weight in silence."

The governor was stunned, looked around carefully, and found that it was Bi Qing, he stood up with a bang: "Miss..."

"Uncle Cao..." Bi Qing lowered his head: "It's me..."

"You, you, you... why did you come here, ouch..." The governor turned around anxiously: "How can I explain this to the general..."
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And oh...is this "and" your nightmare?Hahaha, but it won’t be too late this time. I feel good these days and I should be able to write quickly.

(End of this chapter)