Chapter 425 - Locust Illness (1/1)
Chapter 425: Locust Illness
Translator: Lonelytree
Dark shadows pressed down on the sky, but they were far from innocent black clouds A fleet of drones flew past the border line and dropped incendiary boround could burn in a sea of fire, the locust swarulfed the fleet The drones exploded in the air Before their parts could careen to the ground, there was already nothing left of them Drones, helicopters, tactical planes, no h the saed to escape through an airdrop before the planes entered the mutated area That was how Phecda kept an impressive zero injury The mutated area was completely stuffed with locusts They covered up to 20000 metres into the air That was already in the troposphere and stratosphere Insect should not have survived at such heights, but there they were To have to completely fill up a space that is 70 cubic km wide and 20000 metres tall, the number of this locust must have reached an astronoher than 2000 nal was instantly lost and no one saw the drone again They probably were brought down by a spatial distortion; if they went higher into space, the satellite i could only capture a blob of black blurriness Earth revolves on its own axis, so the ‘space’ above thethe locusts h, Phecda tried going low They used an excavator to dig to 1500 ain, the border came in useful The soil on either side was completely different Once one crossed the line, there would be intense radiation in the ground To add to their worry, the radar picked up signs of life squir underground? But shouldn’t they have burst through the earth already? Or could these wiggling things be young locusts? Or so else completely?
After these trials, the command central decided to launch a low altitude missile bombardment but it was to no avail Even after they were burned into crisp or vaporized, the nus echoed through the skies It sounded like a fatal summon as more insects and birds froantic swarth appeared so miniscule Everyone knew this had to be stopped, they row…
However, ere the plausible solutions to this probleested a wall to zone in the mutated area and cover it up with a dome But with the fifth explosion, the ould beco would reot to them Furthermore, a construction of such a wall required more than several years
In comparison, it had only been 4 days since the start of this incident On theof 14th March, Tian Fuhou called the police, and today it was only 17th March If they could not discern the source behind the sudden appearance of this mutated area, the Locust Illness and the swar to be useful However, hoas Phecda supposed to do that?
Theauto was to find people like Lee Yuhan and wang Jia Er That hat The One had been doing On the other hand, the evacuation of the entire Mo Bei City was underway Early thissight of insects and birds flying towards the north Their numbers had not ceased
Soon the citizens received the news The speakers and sirens rang around the city ‘An extra large sandstorht sweep the entire city so they needed to evacuate immediately The citizens were advised to not panic and follow the agents ould lead them to a safer location The announcement tried to minimize the impact but not many believed it They just wanted to leave this place as soon as possible!
The panicked yelling of adults and crying of children could be heard everywhere Throngs of people waded through the city streets to look for the exit The internet was a mess Amidst this chaos, the doctors continued their work Since yesterday, wang Ruoxiang had participated in 3 autopsies on Headmaster Chui She had accumulated less than 3 hours of sleep in the past 24 hours The sleep that she got was barely enough She was incredibly tired but she tried to focus as she sat in this diagnosisThe epidemic of Locust Sickness… finally arrived
“Ah… I need to eat soil Doctor, please give me some…” “Doctor, I can’t do this anymore I need it I need it…” Ts of doctors lined down the table They watched silently the videos that were taken from inside the sickrooms
“Headmaster Chui self-imploded at 12:13 on the 16th, which was yesterday” Si Kouxian, the neurosurgical expert from the Spell Department explained, “The other students and teachers present during the man’s explosion appear to have been infected They showcase syy, specifically the desire to consuy to form After 22 to 24 hours, the desire becaitation, desperation, listlessness and verbal pleading for soil This is very si saw a feainst the sickroom wall She was held back by the nurses There was a video of the discipline teacher, wang Jinbo fidgeting on the bed or pacing around the roo The audio was a, “What is happening to me? Why the sudden wish to eat soil…”
The base had 1006 such patients in quarantine, they were all students and staff froh School Basically, everyone as present during Headmaster Chui’s demise was infected From then until noithin these 30 hours, the patients could still drink normally but their appetite drastically decreased Initially they’d eat so but after around the 20th hourbut soil
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The doctors looked severe This Locust Sickness was now confirious but they still had no idea as its method of trans and found the for soil
If witnessing a patient or the parasite would cause infection, then a large number of Phecda members and medical workers fitted that bill but thankfully so far none of them had shown any symptoms of Locust Sickness If the transmission required one to inhale the parasite for infection, then Headh to cover the entire field Furthermore, the doctors found no anomaly in the patient’s physical and they could not detect any pathogen
The patients temporarily only suffered froesting the soil, their sickness would progress to the next stage But how did they get infected? Was it because they bore witness to Headmaster Chui’s explosion? Or Headmaster Chui’s last speech possessed some kind of curse-like effect?
Was every patient contagious or the ability to spread the epide pondered and so came to her…