Chapter 25, The Indians Who Will Not Die
When Wang Qiu and the others arrived, it was obvious that the T virus from another world had spread in Weicha Village.
Ironically, the first patient who fell ill was not Mr. Chandra who had returned from another world. It was even possible that Mr. Chandra had not contracted the disease in the other world at all - as this time... Souvenirs from world travels, Mr. Chandra’s wife Karina is shopping “Pride and Prejudice” 》At the end of the 18th century in London, he bought many kinds of gadgets, including two authentic Scottish fold cats... After returning to his hometown, Mr. The toys were freely rewarded to the servants, and the cat was also given to the servants to take care of.
As a result, the first person to fall ill was a male servant who was responsible for taking care of the cats. He suddenly started to vomit blood while bathing the folded-eared cat. The housekeeper thought he had contracted tuberculosis and ordered everyone to take him home disapprovingly. , and later I heard that he died the next day - this is in India, Especially in the impoverished state of Bihar, it is not something worth taking seriously. Thousands of people die every year from various infectious diseases: malaria, cholera, dengue fever, tuberculosis, jaundice, and the inevitable Influenza will kill countless lives in this magical land of India.
But then, the servants in the mansion began to fall ill one after another, and then even the owner, Mr. Chandra, had a high fever, and the two fold-eared cats ran away to nowhere... They were jumping anxiously. The housekeeper hurriedly invited a local doctor from the countryside, but no matter whether he gave antipyretic injections, took antipyretic tablets, or even inserted suppositories into his buttocks, they had no effect. In the end, even the doctor himself fell ill with a fever. Just when the housekeeper was so anxious that he didn't know what to do, he was naturally overjoyed when he saw Wang Qiu and the others, especially teacher Shizuka Marikawa, carrying a medical kit with a red cross on it.
Unfortunately, in the real world where Doraemon's magical props cannot be used, Wang Qiu and the others have no reliable treatment for the T virus in "Resident Evil", and their current thoughts are not at all on coma. On the unconscious Mr. Chandra—after giving the patient a dose of antipyretic injection and attaching glucose saline at the same time, Wang Qiu and his team hurriedly began to investigate the spread of the virus. The housekeeper of the Shukla family also realized the seriousness of the situation and was very cooperative. In addition to insisting that Dr. Marikawa Shizuka stay to take care of the owner, he responded to Wang Qiu and Li Wei's requests and even sent a driver to drive. On a three-wheeled motorcycle, they took them to various parts of the village to check the epidemic situation.
The results of on-the-spot observation are very, very not optimistic - not only half of the servants in the Shukla family mansion have fallen ill, but the village is also full of sick people: those servants who have asked for leave to go home because of illness, and some who persist despite illness The working guys have all become mobile sources of infection. Through frequent close contact, before Wang Qiu and the others arrived, the entire Weicha Village was pushed into the abyss of destruction of the biochemical weapon T virus...
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As we all know, India is a densely populated place, and Bihar, which is located in the essence of the Ganges River Basin, has a population of more than 100 million, is crisscrossed by water networks, and has one of the highest population densities even in India. Therefore, the village of Vicha, where Mr. Chandra lives, is nominally called a village, but actually has a population of 10,000. In places with vast land and sparsely populated areas like Russia and Canada, it is already the size of a small city.
However, from the perspective of infrastructure, this village is obviously not as good as many remote settlements in developed countries, and there are all kinds of weird features full of Indian characteristics everywhere - although the local government installed telegraph poles because of political achievements, But there was never electricity; although faucets were installed for the same reason, water never came out; the only public telephone booth in the village was naturally a decoration, but miraculously it could receive mobile phone signals! Therefore, those who have mobile phones in the village regularly go to the market to charge them. There are often vendors riding tricycles with privately modified car batteries and fast chargers (can be imagined as extra-large power banks). Those country folk who don’t have electricity at home sell electricity.
As you can imagine, there is no hospital in Weicha Village. There is only an open space covered with grass and three foundation stones of the village hospital. Because there have been three governments in recent years, and before each election, politicians promised to build hospitals in every major village, so there were three more stones.
Fortunately, there is a public hospital in the neighboring village half a kilometer away from Vicha Village, which provides universal free medical care with Indian characteristics. Most of the patients in the village are sent there, except for those who lie at home waiting to die.
When Wang Qiu and the others arrived at the public hospital in the dusk, they found that there was no complete piece of glass on the windows of the hospital, and the walls were covered with weeds and goats and wild cats, as if it had been abandoned for many years. of. But the hospital was bustling with people, filled with moaning and coughing patients. A kerosene lamp hung on the beam flickered on and off, and various unpleasant odors wafted out from the open door...
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Wang Qiu went in and took a look around, and found that all the ward doors were missing. Also missing were hospital beds, medical equipment, doctors and nurses... Since there were no doctors to treat the patients, there were no beds to lie on, and there were not even any beds. There were no benches to sit on, so the patients could only spread newspapers on the dirty floor to serve as seats. They endured the pain while waiting for the doctor to arrive, and the screams of all kinds were really overwhelming. When they saw Wang Qiu and the others coming in, all the patients looked at them expectantly, but when they found out that they were not doctors, they started shouting in disappointment.
"...Ahem! I'm vomiting blood again! It's you who gave me this disease! Now we are all going to die!"
"...No way! It was obviously you who infected me! Why hasn't the doctor come yet?"
"...The only doctor here is probably still working part-time in a private hospital in the city! Isn't this the case in public hospitals in the countryside? Except when government officials come for inspections every year, doctors from public hospitals are never seen! Everyone goes to work Private life! ”
"...Isn't this too immoral? Are they worthy of the salary paid by the government?"
"...There is no way, everyone is like this! And doctors may not get paid! The government officials here are really greedy. Public hospitals often fail to pay wages for several months. If the doctors don't do private work, , Do you want them to starve to death? ”
"...But we have to find out where the doctor is! I know the doctor's mobile phone number! Whose mobile phone can I lend me?"
"...Ahem! It's no use. I know where the doctor is! My son just saw him yesterday!"
"...What? Tell me, where has the doctor gone?" (He vomited blood while violently grabbing the other person's collar)
"...Let go! You idiot! The doctor has been invited by Shukla's family in Vicha Village!"
"...The Shukla family? Is that the Shukla family that owns land with three villages and someone is a member of Parliament in Delhi?"
"...Yes, besides them, which other Shukla family is there? A noble Brahmin who has been passed down for thousands of years! In addition to the land here, even the several rivers nearby belong to his family. A fisherman catches a fish from the river, Every time the boatman ferries a person, he has to pay him a share of money!”
"...What a black heart!"
"...Sigh, compared to the landlords in our village, they are pretty good at it! At least they didn't set up cards on the road out of the village to pay for the road..."
"...The landlord in our village is even more outrageous. Anyone who wants to work in the city has to hand over one-third of his income to him...Ahem, anyway, the only doctor here has been called away. I guess he will have to wait until the next one. The doctor will come back only after Mr. Shukla recovers or dies..."
——Wang Qiu secretly thought, in fact, even the doctor himself has been knocked down by the T virus. You may have to wait for the zombie doctor to come to see you...
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While these patients were muttering, there was a young man who could no longer hold on. Although the patient's wife still tried hard to feed him some water, he immediately vomited it out mixed with blood. Then his whole dark and thin body began to twitch, vomiting blood in large mouthfuls, which frightened a little girl next to him and started crying... ...A moment later, amid his wife's heart-wrenching cries, the poor man died.
However, despite the miserable cries of the family members, everyone just looked at the still warm body on the ground with indifferent eyes. Apparently they were used to it. They didn't even say a word of comfort, they just kept urging them to hurry up. Carry away the dead to make room for the living.
Of course, before carrying the dead person away, the blood he spit out must be wiped clean to avoid infecting other people...
Next, there was a sudden burst of yelling and cursing outside the hospital door. Wang Qiu poked his head out and saw that it was a few sick untouchables who also wanted to get into the hospital to wait for medical treatment, but were discovered by other villagers. He immediately picked up the stick and drove away these untouchable and filthy people.
——Even in this time of precariousness and constant panic, some deep-rooted caste discrimination remains completely unshakable...
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"...Alas! This place feels... just like Raccoon City in the early stages of the T-Virus leak in Resident Evil!"
Wang Qiu shook his head and sighed, and said to Li Wei, "...There is a dark atmosphere of death and despair everywhere..."
"...I feel like I'm back in Europe during the Black Death...The dead are already starting to appear now!"
Levi, the former French Paladin, also shook his head and stuffed the hidden pistol back into his pocket, "...Fortunately, he died directly instead of transforming into a zombie... Otherwise, this place would have directly entered the rhythm of the end of the world. …”
"...I'm afraid we are only a few days away from the end!" Wang Qiu said with a bitter smile, "...Currently, the number of patients we have seen alone has exceeded 300. Not only in Weicha Village, but also in several nearby villages Infected people have appeared in the village. In addition, according to teacher Shizuka’s tests, some animals such as goats and buffaloes have been infected. There are also signs of infection on the body! What’s even worse is that I heard that there are a few patients whose families are relatively well-off. They just pooled their money and hired a car to seek medical treatment in the city of Bodh Gaya... It is estimated that the T virus will also spread there. , then the epidemic will be even more out of control..."
"...Tsk, tsk, in the past Indians always tried their best to make headlines. Now they finally committed a big death and made big news."
Seeing a group of patients around him coughing and vomiting, Levi pinched his nose in disgust, "...Looking at this situation, we are obviously at our wits end. I wonder how the central government will deal with it after reporting it? Will it? Will you just drop a nuclear bomb to disinfect and clean the floor?”
"...It's hard to say! From the standpoint of each major country, no matter how slim the success rate is, no matter how serious the consequences, countries around the world will do their best to curb the spread of the T virus, and they will not hesitate to use all means, even if they die. Drop the last Indian..."
Wang Qiu shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands, "...But even so, I'm afraid it's too late! Don't forget how many foreign tourists there are in Bodh Gaya!"
"...Damn it!" Levi cursed, "...Is there no other way out? I don't want to live with zombies day and night!"
"...Anyway, I can't think of any countermeasures. Didn't the nuclear explosion in the "Resident Evil" plot world not prevent the destruction of the world?"
Wang Qiu looked at the moon in the night sky with a vicissitudes of life, "...Maybe we should consider the possibility of immigrating to a certain plot world..."
Just as the two of them were speechless and frustrated, Wang Qiu's cell phone suddenly rang. After he answered the phone and said a few words, Wang Qiu's face gradually began to look strange, and he even showed an expression as if he had seen a ghost.
Then, he hung up the phone, looked back at the confused Li Wei for a while, and then said hesitantly:
"...it was Mr. Shizuka who called just now...that Mr. Chandra...has actually started to reduce his fever and woke up?!"
"...What?! How is this possible?!!!" Levi couldn't help but exclaimed.
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When Wang Qiu and the others returned to the Shukla family mansion in the dark, they happened to see Marikawa Shizuka in a white coat holding a small box and chattering to the housekeeper: "...The doctor gave it to you before The imported Japanese fever-reducing medicine the owner injected showed that the label had expired for three years. It was unclear whether it was because he didn’t understand Japanese, so he was lucky enough not to be poisoned and go to heaven. How could it make someone recover? ”
"...This hateful bastard! How dare he fool the noble Shukla family! What does he think of his master?"
When he heard that his master was treated like this, the housekeeper was so angry that he waved his fists several times, "... He must pay the heaviest price!"
"...Well, in fact, fate has punished him. This guy is still very sick, and his fever has not even gone away!"
"...But we can't just let it go! I'll have this quack thrown back to his shabby hospital!"
——Here I shed a few tears of sympathy for the poor Indian village doctor with two knives.
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At the same time, Wang Qiu and Li Wei looked around and were even more surprised to find that not only the master, Mr. Chandra Shukla, could sit up and drink some rice porridge, but even the servant who had fallen ill before was able to sit up and drink some rice porridge. After Marikawa Shizuka received antibiotics and antipyretic injections, she gradually began to improve.
——According to Marikawa Shizuka, some of them actually contracted a cold and then worsened into pneumonia, but some people were indeed infected with the T virus. However, for Marikawa Shizuka, it was nothing more than a placebo. After treatment, he gradually recovered.
"...It should be said...As expected, the Indian people are indeed nourished by the Ganges River. They grew up drinking the Ganges River floating corpse water that is rich in bacteria and pollutants. Has the body's immune system been trained to be invulnerable to all poisons? God? Ah! Even the T virus can be tolerated! ”
Seeing that a certain patient who was huddled in the corner vomiting blood a few hours ago looked much better now, Wang Qiu couldn't help but exclaimed.
"...Actually, if it were you, you would be able to handle it too! We all imagined the T-virus to be too scary! But we never thought that the T-virus outside the plot world could still cause the consequences of "Resident Evil" Zombie craze? ”
Marikawa Shizuka took off her thick mask, wiped her sweat, and gasped, "...Actually, just like the black technology props in the Doraemon world, they are completely useless in this world. Resident Evil's The T virus's harmfulness in this world is obviously greatly limited. According to my observation and judgment, it is at best equivalent to a new type of influenza virus that is slightly more powerful and has a higher mortality rate.
In fact, if people infected with the T virus in this world can be properly treated, the mortality rate should be controlled at a very low level... By the way, Political Commissar Guo just called, and he has research on the T virus over there. New progress..."
——A moment later, after talking to Political Commissar Guo, Wang Qiu sat down with a disappointed look on his face and let out a long sigh. He felt relieved, melancholy about a false alarm, and running for nothing. The tangle of trip...
The imagined end of the world will probably not come, because the T virus that comes to the real world is far less terrifying than in the plot world - as Marikawa Shizuka just said, its lethality is only comparable to Severe influenza.
Relying on the T-virus antibody test tubes brought back by Wang Qiu and the samples collected in another world, several secret research institutes in the country even developed vaccines under the tremendous pressure from Zhongnanhai. Of course, it is inevitable that some people will die due to the T virus, and the number of deaths may be a bit high, but this does not matter. In which year in the world did no people die from influenza?
In the view of Wang Qiu, who has witnessed the end of the world many times with his own eyes, it is not a big deal as long as it is not a disaster that subverts civilization and annihilates mankind.
From this point of view, this business trip to India has ended successfully, and then we can go back after having fun... Wang Qiu thought.
However, facts will soon prove that Wang Qiu relaxed too early.
——First of all, although the global zombie crisis will no longer occur, a global influenza outbreak is still inevitable; secondly, as a time traveler, an infinite space reincarnation who travels through countless worlds, Wang Qiu himself is It has the properties of bringing disaster to the god of plague and being a generator of bad luck. Whether in the plot world of infinite space or in the real world "outside the box", wherever you go, you bring disaster... A catastrophe that will shake the Buddhist holy land of Bodhgaya, and even the entire India, The countdown has quietly entered...