Plague Doctor

Night breeze, Zhou Hao Rui quickly walked on the cement road outside the dormitory building, chased the crow over the sky, his neck and shoulders pulled pain, the exhaled heat fogged in the night.

He doesn't know what's going on, he doesn't even know if it's a dream.

He just asked the crow what was going on and how he could cure this “petrochemical disease”, and the crow asked him to follow.

Though it was beneath the night and the crow was all dark, it seemed to have a slightly different glow and the darkness could not conceal its figure.

At this point, it gradually flew from high altitude into the woods behind the dormitory building.

Zhou Hao Rui made another run. He stood in front of the woods and stopped. The cold wind blew through. The old pole involved messy wires and swayed slightly. The shadows were heavy in the woods, and the wind of the sand was heard, and the leaves of the trees were blown.

Perhaps every university has its own urban legend, and Dahua Technologies has an urban legend that this forest behind the dormitory building has died.

A couple make a fuss, the woman kills herself here.

In the past, Zhou Hao Rui didn't really believe the legend. The reason was simple. It was difficult to find a woman at all in Dahua Technologies. They had a female classmate in their class. Placing her in another school was just an ordinary girl. But here is the goddess. How many boys are holding her? How could she want to kill herself?

But now, Zhou Hao Rui is covered in goose bumps by the night breeze. The forest in front of him is like that desolate place in a dream.

What was that crow? He had no idea...

When hesitating, the back shoulders flashed again, the adhesion of the shoulder felt heavier, and the bulging bone seemed to be expanding.

Zhou Hao Rui remembered some autopsy images of progressive musculoskeletal disease. The back shoulder and back were not a shelf, but a whole piece of bone... he didn't want to be like that. He was furious and walked up into the woods.

Sand, wind, leaves swinging louder, not very tall and old trees weave a cold.

Zhou Hao Rui's heart jumped quickly and suddenly a cold appeared. He turned his head and saw only a large pine tree over there. The crow dwelt on a branch. It held its wings, and his claws settled steadily. The birds' eyes were calm and sharp.

“You… hello.” Zhou Hao Rui doesn't know what to say.

A crow can talk, it belongs to a supernatural force... but is that really just a crow or something...

“Progressive musculoskeletosis, mutations in the ACVR1 gene, results in the replacement of the 206 codon in the ACVR1 protein from arginine to histidine, transforming connective tissue and muscle tissue into ectopic bone, as well as endothelial cells into mesenchymal stem cells, and then into bone," the crow said firmly. ”

Zhou Hao Rui listened, although not very well understood, these physiologies are existing medical research, I saw them when I checked the data.

“Petrochemical disease, however, is not progressive musculoskeletosis, it is not osteofibrosis, and it is not Machun-Albright syndrome. ”

The crow spoke of two other conditions, which Zhou Hao Rui did not understand this time, and said: "Petrochemical diseases are based on them. If we let it spread, if we let it erupt, it will cause hundreds of millions of people around the world to turn into stones, to live rather than die, and the world will enter an era of doom. ”

Hundreds of millions? Zhou Hao Rui would have snorted if he had listened to Li Huiyu.

But now this crow's words are like a prophetic power, and that calm voice carries certainty and makes his mind cold.

“This, this...” he blankly said, "like the New Legion disease? ”

Until now, the shadow of the New Legion disease on the world has not fully dissipated.

For someone like him who had not experienced the mysterious Sandstorm, had no newborn children, and was not a public figure, despite all the mysteries, information revelations and conspiracy theories he had usually seen, the New Legion disease came to mind in panic.

Moreover, Zhou Hao Rui's home is De Lao City, not far from Shanhai City - that is one of the main epidemic areas of the New Legion disease, when De Lao City also had an epidemic.

He heard the siege alarm, saw the skyscraper, and then there was a constant claim that if the epidemic lasted for a few more days, the city of Darrow would be completely destroyed.

“It's harder to deal with than the New Legion disease.” The Forces nouvelles disease is spreading fast and lethal fast, "the crow said," and it will rapidly destroy an area, but other areas not affected by the epidemic can be completely unaffected, much like Ebola. When the dark forces behind the fungus of the new Legion are lifted, it becomes a disease that is only slightly more intractable than ordinary Legion disease, but can still be cured. Petrochemical diseases are different.

It is a genetic disease that alters the physiology of the human body itself and is incurable. And it doesn't kill quickly, and patients can live in pain for years, but it takes medical resources and family energy and time to care for them. There's not just one patient, there's not just 800, there's not a thousand, it's an epidemic, and if it breaks out, there's tens of millions of patients in a few months, and they can't live, they can't move, they can't do anything. Petrochemical disease can drag down epidemic cities, drag down epidemic countries, and it can turn the world into a more morbid world until it collapses completely. ”

Zhou Hao Rui listened, his heart was colder...

If 89 out of 10 people in a society suffer from “petrochemical disease”, live poorly, and die undead, that would be a terrible situation… unimaginable.

No place can bear that pressure and all order will collapse...

“How do you know that?” He asked wanderingly.

The answer to this question is important. For what purpose and position is this crow?

Will it be a dark force... the crow seems to have always meant ominous...

Zhou Hao Rui took an unconscious step back. He flashed his mind and turned to escape outside the woods...

He wanted to call the SkyMachine Hotline. He should have called the SkyMachine Hotline when he was in the dorm, but then he lost his mind. He had to call the SkyMachine Bureau and tell them about his situation, crows, petrochemical diseases, and let Captain Gu take care of them... so that he might still be saved, yes...

Shit, I ran out in a hurry and didn't bring my phone...

“The station can't save you.” The crow said, as if he could see through his heart, "I can. ”

The bird-eyed photographer, Zhou Hao Rui stopped and asked suddenly, “What are you? ”

“Crow. It also said," Crow hates pain. ”