Natural disaster at the beginning: I will lead the system to build a safe zone

Hearing the voice, the old man opened his eyes, looked at the two people and said, "You two are not from Qinghe County, right?"

"Indeed, it's not. We are both from Guangming Village, Changping Town. We wanted to come to Qinghe County to take a look, but we didn't expect it to become like this. Are you Doctor Sun?" Shi Anan replied.

Doctor Sun nodded: "I am. Since you are not from here, please leave now."

"Doctor Sun, to be honest, I came here because I heard that there was an epidemic in Qinghe County. Can you tell me what the current situation in Qinghe County is like?"

Doctor Sun has been practicing medicine for all these years, but he has never seen anyone rushing to an epidemic area like this.

He sighed, "You have all seen the situation in Qinghe County. Some died, some ran away, and those who are left now don't know where to go, and don't know how many days they have left to live. You should leave now while you can."

"I just saw the little medicine boy and some of the people in the house looking at us very warily. What are you afraid of?" Seeing that Doctor Sun was unwilling to elaborate, Shi Anan asked another question.

Seeing that Shi An'an seemed determined to get out of this matter, Doctor Sun finally compromised: "It's a long story..."

Through Doctor Sun's narration, Shi Anan and Xiao Yi learned what had happened in Qinghe County since the county magistrate ran away.

Let's go back to the night when the granary was burned. The situation at the beginning was just as Chen Huairen said. The people had run out of food and wanted to rob the granary in order to survive, but they accidentally burned the granary in the chaos.

They had to change their target and started robbing the wealthy and powerful. At first, they relied on the private granaries of these wealthy families. The food they robbed was enough to last for a few days, but there were too many people and they soon fell into a new food crisis.

So some people turned their attention to the villages around Qinghe County and formed a group to go to the villages to steal food. However, this group of people never came back, so Doctor Sun didn't know what the situation was like outside the county.

It was only when some villagers came to the county town to look for their relatives there that they realized that this wave of food-grabbing had spread outside the county town.

The remaining people in the county, seeing that they had no food to eat, began to rob each other. Today you rob my house, tomorrow I will bring people to rob your house. It is normal for people to die during the pushing and shoving.

No one cared about the dead, and just left their bodies there. The reason why Doctor Sun's place was well preserved was thanks to his identity as a doctor. Because he saved many people in the past, the people here still had a little gratitude towards him and tried not to steal from him.

In addition, everyone will get sick, and they don’t want to kill the doctors who can save lives, resulting in no one to see a doctor later.

However, the people of Qinghe County did not expect the epidemic to come so quickly. Perhaps due to the hot weather, the bodies decomposed several times faster than usual, and because no one was watching, within two days the county was shrouded in the stench of rotting bodies.

Amid such a bad smell, someone finally stepped forward to collect the bodies of these people, but this person fell ill the next day, suffering from a cough and fever.

At that time, his family brought him to Dr. Sun's clinic. Dr. Sun didn't diagnose anything wrong at the time, so he just prescribed some cough and fever-reducing medicine for him and told him to go home and rest.

As a result, the man died within two days. When he died, his whole body was covered with abscesses, which was very scary.

Doctor Sun felt guilty about this for a long time, wondering if his medical skills were not good enough, that he had made a wrong diagnosis, and that he had prescribed the wrong medicine. Before he could go to the family's home to apologize and make amends, he heard that the man's family also started coughing and having a fever, but within two or three days, they also died.

Not only that, there are many people with the same symptoms as the first man. Once they start coughing and having a fever, they will die within three days at most, and when they die, their bodies will also be covered with pus.

The sudden outbreak of the disease has caused panic among the people of Qinghe County, especially those who had previously come into contact with corpses. 80% of them have been infected. Others who had not had contact thought they were fine, but some began to fall ill for unknown reasons, and they didn’t know where the source of infection was. So now no one dares to go out casually.

Hearing this, Shi Anan's heart sank. It seemed that this was still a highly contagious and highly lethal virus, especially since we still didn't know how it was transmitted, which made it even more difficult to guard against.

Doctor Sun said that people were infected at first because they came into contact with corpses, so the source of transmission must have been those rotting corpses. Later, some people who had not come into contact with the corpses were also infected, which proves that contact is not the only channel of infection.

This matter is a bit tricky. If it is only transmitted through contact, it is easier to carry out isolation and protection. If it is transmitted through the air, then the air must be full of germs.

"Doctor Sun, do you know what happened to the bodies? And where are the people who were infected with the virus?"

Shi Anan did not forget that when Chen Huairen talked about Qinghe County's handling of people suspected of being infected with the disease, it seemed like they had locked people up in a room.

Hearing this question, Doctor Sun showed a trace of pity and sigh in his eyes, and said in a heavy voice: "After discovering the epidemic, everyone has calmed down a lot. The county town was divided into many factions because of the previous grain grabbing incident. Some factions fled the county town when they saw that the situation was not right, and some factions avoided it because it had nothing to do with them."

"The people who handled the bodies were a faction called Juyitang. Their leader was a well-known butcher in the county. His surname was Jiang. Although Butcher Jiang looked ferocious, he was not a bad person. He watched the bodies rot day by day without anyone handling them, and now there is an epidemic. He personally led people to burn the bodies on the spot."

"As for those who are infected, there is nothing they can do. Once they have a cough and fever, there is no cure. They are also afraid that they will spread the disease to other people, so they have to drive those who have the slightest symptom into separate rooms for isolation. It can be said that no one who enters the isolation room can come out."

When Shi Anan heard this, he understood why Doctor Sun had shown such pity just now. These were all living people, but they were being driven into a house full of patients to wait for death. As a doctor, he naturally couldn't bear it, but he had no way to treat these patients.

It cannot be said that Butcher Jiang did anything wrong. Although his approach was too simple and crude, and rather cruel to those who were sick, it is undeniable that this was the best way at the moment, because it was the only way to save the remaining people.

"So you are not vigilant because you are afraid of someone coming to rob you, but because you are worried about the spread of the disease?" Shi Anan continued to ask.

"Yes, now everyone is scared of this disease. They don't even dare to contact outsiders, let alone come out to rob. Those who still have food at home are now saving it, and those who don't have any are probably trying to leave the county."

"We are also afraid that there may be people suspected of being infected walking on the street, so we will not open the door unless it is necessary. I have been practicing medicine for so many years, but I am ashamed to be guarding a clinic but unable to save them."

Doctor Sun shook his head in disappointment and said with a sigh.