Chapter 266 Freeze

Wang An was slightly startled when he saw what was in the photo.

  You can vaguely see a person in the photo, but this person's body is very weird. On the surface, it looks like cooked pig skin, but it is covered with raised blood vessels. There was a weird large sarcoma on the chest and abdomen.

 “Is this a living person?”

“Yes, a living person, extremely fast and powerful, the bullets hit him as if nothing happened.” Lu Xiangyi responded. .

 “That’s interesting.” Wang An said with a smile, “Have you been caught?”

“No, he jumped into the river and disappeared.”

While they were talking, several more vehicles from the epidemic prevention department drove into the mountain village.

 Then everyone in the village was asked to stay at home and not come out. At the same time, blood tests were taken to determine whether they were infected by pathogenic bacteria.

“Sir, do you need a blood test?”

“No need, that pathogenic bacteria cannot infect me.” Wang And said.

Lu Xiangyi nodded silently after hearing this.

 The results of the examination came out soon. Two more people in the village were infected. They and the people they had come into contact with were taken away and then isolated. Suddenly the whole mountain village was in panic.

 “This is a plague, God is going to take away people.” While eating, Wang An’s grandfather said worriedly.

"It's okay, you'll be fine soon. You and my grandma don't have to worry too much." Wang An comforted.

In view of the seriousness of the situation, relevant personnel isolated the mountain village after seeking Wang An's advice.

 All villagers are required to stay at home and not go out unless necessary. All food is purchased and distributed from outside. This made the people in the village even more scared.

“What’s going on? Why aren’t you allowed out?”

“Don’t all the people in our village have strange diseases?”

 “I’m still pregnant!”

Everyone in the village was in a panic, but Lu Xiangyi was at ease here.

"You should leave. It's dangerous to stay here." Wang An said to Lu Xiangyi who stayed.

“The latest research shows that this bacteria can survive for a short time under sunlight and cannot survive in the air for a long time. Besides, I am also under quarantine when I go out.”

 “Go out, I see your hall is darkened.” Wang And said.

Hmm, Lu Xiangyi was stunned after hearing this, and his expression immediately changed.

He naturally knows very well what the words "Yintang is black" mean. If this word comes from other people's mouth, he will definitely sneer and dismiss it. But if these words come out of Wang An's mouth, he must treat them carefully.

 No one is not afraid of death, and he is no exception.

 “What do you mean sir?”

"You have been feeling bad since you entered the mountain village, and there are signs of getting worse, so I suggest you leave here." Wang An said matter-of-factly.

He didn't scare Lu Xiangyi. He really saw the change in Lu Xiangyi's complexion in the short time after entering the village, and vaguely felt that something might really happen if he continued to stay here.

 “Sir, do you still know how to read physiognomy?”

“It’s not fortune-telling, it’s a premonition. There are signs of something happening before it happens.”

Lu Xiangyi didn't dare to trust him, so he took the initiative to go out and isolate himself.

  Panic and uncertainty enveloped the mountain villages.

Relevant researchers outside are studying this bacteria day and night.

At the same time, infections have been found in two other cities. Lu Quan had briefly stayed in these two places and had close contact with the infected people.

 The environments in which contacts in these two places are not as closed as in the countryside, and relevant departments have launched large-scale investigations in these two places.

Thousands of miles away in the Beiyi Mountains, a team went underground and came to the ancient ruins.

 The two bronze doors opened a gap, allowing only one person to pass through. Several people stood in front of the gate, wearing special isolation suits. They felt the cold breath coming from inside and shuddered.

“One group will come in with me, and the other group will stay. Keep in touch.”

 A group of four people entered behind the bronze door through the gap.

Once you enter it, the inside and outside are simply two different worlds. Behind the bronze door is a passage, which is semicircular, more than three meters high and almost as wide as the door.

　　After walking a few meters away, I saw white frost appearing on the rocks.

“Why is there frost on the rock walls here?”

“Maybe it’s an ice cave inside?”

 “An underground ice cave?”

"Be careful."

A few people moved forward cautiously. The further inward, the thicker the frost on the stone walls on both sides became, and there were many strange carvings and patterns on the rocks.

 “Strange, isn’t there any mechanism here?”

 “Organization?”

 “Yes, we are going very smoothly.”

 “It’s so cold!” A person on the side shivered.

 “Wait, there’s someone in front.”

 “Is there someone there?!”

Several people hurriedly raised their guns and were on guard.

 “It’s right in front, right there, don’t you see it?” A person pointed to the front and said.

 “Where is there?” The companion looked in the direction of his finger.

 “It’s right there, alas, it’s gone again.”

 “Have you seen it?”

"No."

"No."

 “Xiao Lei, you retreat along the original road.”

"Yes." The young man who saw the stranger in the cave immediately obeyed the order and retreated along the original route.

 In the process of retreating, his steps became heavier and heavier, and he suddenly fell down at the entrance of the cave, his whole body stiff.

“Xiao Lei!” Several people who heard the voice turned around and saw their companions lying on the ground. They hurriedly stepped forward and found that the other party was actually frozen.

“Carry him out, let’s retreat first.” The remaining people hurriedly carried their stiff and unconscious companion toward the exit.

“Captain!” Several people outside the exit saw them coming out, shouted and stepped forward to help them.

 “Don’t come in.” The captain shouted.

The people outside watched as several teammates arrived no more than five meters away from the bronze gate, and then stood there one after another, motionless, as if their whole bodies were frozen.

 “Captain!” A person is about to rush in.

"Don't go in!" The companions on the side stretched out their hands to stop him.

 “What are you doing, we have to go in and save them?”

 “If we go in, we might not be able to get out.”

"This is less than six meters away. How long will it take to rush in and carry them out? It's less than five seconds. What can happen in five seconds?"

 “No, there must be something wrong here.”

 “If there’s any problem, you’re afraid, I’ll go!”

 “Calm down!”

 Finally, a man rushed in with a rope tied to his waist and rescued all his teammates four times in a row.

 “I just said it’ll be okay! Hiss.” After speaking, he shuddered.

"so cold!"

"He Rui, what's wrong with you?" The team leader next to him was keenly aware of the abnormality in his body.

"Cold, chilly all over." The young man who rushed in to save people couldn't stop trembling as he spoke.

 “Withdraw, withdraw immediately!”

 Outside the crack, there is a temporary camp, with a group of four people guarding the outside.

"It's already time, why haven't you come out yet? Will they have any accidents inside?"

“If they don’t come out after another five minutes, we’ll go in.”

 Five minutes later, the person they were waiting for had not yet come out.

“Base, base, the team that entered the rift hasn’t come out yet. We must go in. Please reply when you receive it.”

 “Received, please stay where you are.”

 Soon another team arrived at the entrance of the crack, then put on isolation suits and entered the underground crack with weapons and equipment.

They continued to move forward along the underground cracks below. After walking for a certain distance, they found the small team in the cracks. Some of them fell to the ground, some leaned against the wall, and some were still standing. They were all walking forward, with pale faces and stiff bodies.

 “This, what’s going on?”

 “Take them back!”

 The few people guarding outside looked at the time.

 “Hiss, why haven’t you come out yet?”

Just when they were about to call the nearby headquarters, another small team hurried over. They first adjusted the signal transmission device near the cave entrance, then put on isolation suits and entered the underground cracks.

 “What’s going on?” Several people standing guard outside were stunned.

"There must be something wrong with the team that went in just now. One team went in and the other team got stuck, just like a meat bun beating a dog. What are you going in for?"

"Go ahead to dangers."

The third team entered the underground, and after walking less than 200 meters, they met the team that went in before them. Each of them was carrying a companion on their back, either leaning on the rock wall, or lying upside down. On the ground, or half squatting.

 They did not move forward rashly, but took videos using the video equipment they carried with them.

 “Base, can you hear me?”

 “hear.”

 “Prepare for video transmission here.”

 “It’s time to start.”

Several people who entered the underground began to use the equipment they carried to take videos of the other two teams under the cracks and transmit them to the base not far away.

 Those in the base saw the situation under the cracks through video.

“Seeing that their bodies were very stiff and their faces were very pale, I thought so.”

 “Frozen?”

 “That’s right, it’s like being frozen.”

"Look inside." A person pointed to a place on the video. After zooming in, it was a person's lips, with frost condensation faintly on them.

 “Frost?”

"What is the temperature of the underground crack now?" The communication system of the people in the base communicates with the people in the crack.

“5 degrees Celsius.”

 Those in the base used cameras to get a general understanding of the situation of the two teams that had previously gone underground.

“You must retreat a certain distance and wait for the next order. Be careful not to come into contact with the people who remain above. Once you enter the base, you must be isolated immediately.”

"clear!"

 The personnel in the base have disconnected voice communication, leaving only the video communication screen.

“Dr. Jiang, what do you think is going on?”

"It's hard to say, but judging from the picture, these people seem to be frozen. But to make a person freeze, he must be exposed to low temperature conditions for a period of time, and the underground temperature just shown does not meet this requirement. condition.

I thought that since they have all lost their vital signs, it would be possible to take some tissue from them for laboratory analysis to determine the real cause of their death. "

 “Okay, let’s arrange for them to do it.”

After the underground team received the order, one person removed part of the body tissue from the frozen members of the two teams and brought it back to the base for research.

 After returning to the base, these people also underwent quarantine observation. The body tissues they brought back were analyzed by scientific researchers immediately.

"What is this?"

 Scientific researchers discovered a unique microorganism in the tissues of these people.

“It looks like some kind of mold? This kind of mold does not exist in a normal human body.”

“Could the way they were frozen have something to do with this microorganism?”

“It’s best to find a way to get a complete corpse for further dissection.”

In mountain villages thousands of miles away, no new villagers have been found to be infected with that bacteria.

In the yard, Wang An looked at his fingers. There was a transparent thread in his field of vision. His true energy, the true energy leaving the body, was trying to imitate and change his true energy.

Different from the restraints of meridians in the body, there are no restraints outside the body, so the true energy can only go straight and it is difficult to turn around.

Wang An was wondering whether this true energy, after being condensed to a certain level, could be directly transformed into various forms, such as the sword energy of the Six Meridians Divine Sword, the flying dragon of the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, could these be all possible? It is transformed through true energy.

While he was busy researching in the yard, he suddenly heard the phone ringing in the house. The old man in the house received a strange call and chatted for a few words.

“Xiao An, I’m looking for you.” The old man shouted outside.

 “Are you looking for me?” Wang An entered the room and answered the phone, “Hello, hello.”

“Hello, is this Wang An?” A man’s voice came from the other end of the phone, and he sounded faintly trembling.

 “It’s me, you?”

 “I, my name is Su Anming.”

 “Su Anming?” Wang An had never heard of this name.

“I am not far outside your village now. I heard that your village has been quarantined. Is it serious?”

"There is an infectious disease here. Why do you ask? And how did you know this phone number?"

“I’m asking, are the two old men in good health?”

“Very good, who are you?” Wang An felt wary when he heard the other party asking the two old people.

The other party did not answer directly, but left a series of numbers and then hung up the phone.

After hanging up the phone, Wang An immediately called and asked Lu Xiangyi to check the person who just called at the phone number, while thinking about the series of numbers the other party said.

 “Birthday? This string of numbers is someone’s birthday.”

 (End of this chapter)