Versatile Mage: Undying Fire

Chapter 235 Disease
At Croatia's international airport, Zhang Xiaohou is applying for a visa on arrival with a travel bag on his back.

Looking at the empty visa area, Zhang Xiaohou couldn't help but feel a little suspicious.

"That's the truth. Aren't there a lot of people traveling to Europe? Why are there so few people on the plane from China to Croatia, and so few people entering the country?"

It was fine that there were not many people, but why was the inspection so strict at the beginning? Zhang Xiaohou was still confused after walking out of the airport. Why did the visa officer look at him like an idiot when he said he was traveling in Croatia? ?
“And these people, why are they all wearing masks? Is there a special custom here? Come to think of it, in the Arab region, girls will still wrap themselves up tightly with only their eyes showing.” Zhang Xiaohou muttered to himself while looking for Mo Fan.

After a while, Zhang Xiaohou met Mo Fan in the underground garage of the airport.

What surprised Zhang Xiaohou was that Ye Xinxia was also here.

He hadn't seen Xinxia for a long time. Now Zhang Xiaohou almost didn't recognize her. He felt that Xinxia was like a different person. She was more beautiful, elegant and charming than before!
Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk, she is worthy of being someone who walked out of the Parthenon. A delicate girl like Xinxia exudes an aura of holiness and nobility.

"Brother Fan, where are we going to play? By the way, where is Lin Ran?" Zhang Xiaohou said.

"Wait a moment, Lin Ran will be here soon. Let's go to the Plague Station first." Mo Fan said.

"Oh, why do we have to go to the Plague Station?" Zhang Xiaohou was confused.

Xinxia noticed Zhang Xiaohou's clueless look and couldn't help but roll her eyes at Mo Fan.

As expected, Zhang Xiaohou was tricked by Mo Fan!

"You are so uninformed. You don't even know about such a serious infectious disease? This is a plague-stricken area right now! You are amazing. You didn't take any protective measures. You just carried a travel bag, but the customs here let you enter the country. You look really harmless!" Fen, the girl who came with Xinxia, ​​couldn't help but say.

"Fuck, Brother Fan, didn't you say you would take me out to have fun?" Zhang Xiaohou was extremely miserable.

"That's right, there's an epidemic here, and it's all over the city, isn't it exciting?"

"But isn't this a bit too much, and I just got a holiday..."

"Don't be so long-winded!"

Zhang Xiaohou was really feeling miserable.

In fact, only Zhang Xiaohou would fall for Mo Fan's trick. He had been in the army before and was not very well-informed. Moreover, he had just dealt with a major incident not long ago. He had barely even caught his breath when he was tricked by Mo Fan into this even more terrifying place!

Having a big brother like Mo Fan, life is really full of surprises!!

"Eh..." Zhang Xiaohou said helplessly.

"It should be coming."

"Are you still waiting for someone? Don't come with another one like this who doesn't understand the situation and is confused." The girl Fen'ai said unhappily.

Zhang Xiaohou looked around and found that the door of the elevator entrance was slowly opening. A little girl who was beautiful and childish walked out. Her big watery eyes were sparkling and she seemed full of fresh and unworldly spirituality. If you look closely, you will find that the light in her eyes is not the innocent light of an ordinary little girl.

Then a young man came out and followed the little Lolita with a suitcase.

“Everyone is here now.” Mo Fan waved to Lingling and Lin Ran.

Fen Ai, who was standing by, couldn't help but slapped herself on the forehead and shouted: "Oh my god!"

……

Several people arrived at the epidemic concentration camp and walked past the quarantined patients.

The symptoms of these people seem somewhat normal, because they just have a runny nose. You should know that many of the global influenza epidemics now have such symptoms. When it is not clear that this is an epidemic, no one will take this kind of illness, which is similar to a cold, seriously, and many people don't even find it strange that they have such symptoms.

It is estimated that the initial symptoms of this disease are similar to those of a cold, which led to local officials and medical staff failing to detect the danger in time, resulting in more Croatians being infected.

No one knows exactly how the disease is spread, so doctors now have to be fully armed when they come into contact with patients. As more and more patients appear and are quarantined, the city of Kakaka, where the disease rate is the most serious, has fallen into panic.

The officials of Kakka did not take timely measures when faced with the epidemic, nor did they have the determination to seal off the city, which led to the infection of several cities around Kakka. This situation occurred in several cities in succession for a time, making people even more uneasy.

The officials now have no way to deal with the disease. Even the Magic Association is helpless, so they can only seek help from the staff of the Parthenon Temple. However, a maid sent here by the Parthenon was also infected by the disease, which made the situation worse.

The whole city is now filled with plague, and the authorities and the media are all tied together. Although the international community also wants to send rescue workers, they have not yet found out how the disease is transmitted, so sending people here will mostly be of the same consequence.

Honestly speaking, the task Xinxia took on was actually quite dangerous. If she herself was infected and there was no effective treatment, she would have no choice but to slowly wait for death like those people who were quarantined.

Fortunately, even if you get the disease, the symptoms spread relatively slowly. Except for some people with weak constitutions who could not resist it, most people who contracted the disease have not died.

"Although there haven't been a large number of deaths yet, judging from the weakness of these people, this will happen sooner or later. If such a large number of people die, it will be really difficult to save the situation, and even the isolation zone may be affected!" Lingling said.

If the plague kills people and the government cannot find a cure, people will panic. Under the epidemic, ordinary people are really powerless.
“I really don’t understand. Things have become so serious, why is there no big reaction from the Parthenon? Do they want these people to die?” Mo Fan said angrily.

"That's not the case. Before coming here, they also need to find out the source of infection, otherwise they will be infected by coming here." Xinxia explained.

"Some tomb robbers used to carry a duck with them, and put the duck in before entering the tomb to test whether there is oxygen and poison inside. Now you are the duck for others to test for poison!" Mo Fan couldn't help but say. "Xinxia is now standing in the center of the storm. If she is not careful, she will fall into the abyss, so we have to be careful." Lin Ran said.

Mo Fan nodded.

Now that he's here, Lin Ran naturally hopes to resolve the matter properly.

He looked at Lingling, wanting to know if Lingling had any clues.

"I had already done some research before I came here, and asked the local Hunter Union to sort out the relevant information and hand it over to me. I did some simple processing on the plane because the symptoms are similar to those of a cold, so it's a little difficult to know who the first patient was. However, I think people with a cold will generally buy cold medicine if they find that their noses are running non-stop, so I asked the Magic Association to help compile a list of people who have purchased the medicine. I'm really glad that most people in this country use medical cards to buy medicine." Lingling said.

“Oh my god, with such big data, how can you find the first group of people?” Mo Fan said.

Lin Ran listened silently. Ling Ling could naturally think of what he could think of, so he just had to listen obediently.

"This Kakaka city must be the source, and there aren't many pharmacies. Then we can narrow the scope based on the severity of the symptoms... There are actually not as many people buying medicine as we imagined." Lingling said.

"But what's the point of checking this data! Time doesn't allow us to waste on such things." Fen Ai said somewhat unhappily.

"Feni, don't be anxious. Most of our treatments can only be carried out after we know the pathogen. The flower water we brought to Croatia is effective. It seems that it can delay the deterioration of symptoms, so it can buy us some time." Xinxia said to Feni patiently.

Lingling didn't want to pay attention to this straightforward girl. She glanced at a figure not far away that was speeding towards them.

"It's Zhang Xiaohou who's back." Mo Fan only took a glance and realized that Zhang Xiaohou was back. Previously, Zhang Xiaohou was being used by Lingling.

Zhang Xiaohou's cultivation had improved a lot during this period. He was a thousand meters away just now, but in the next second he had stopped in front of everyone. With a somewhat happy smile on his face, he said, "Lingling, I have visited all the places you asked me to visit before!"

"What did you find?" Lingling asked.

"Just like you said, one of the places is a prison!" Zhang Xiaohou said.

"What's there to be happy about in a prison? I can find out by just checking the map." Fen Ai said.

"But we didn't check beforehand. Lingling just asked me to see if there was a prison, and it turned out there really was one." Zhang Xiaohou said with great admiration.

"In order to completely eradicate the plague, we must find the people who were infected first. Only after finding them will we have a chance to find the source of infection. The officials here have not found it for so long. Do you think we can find it now? I think we should report it to the Parthenon and ask them to send more people over." Fen Ai said.

"We've found it." Lingling said.

"Found it?" Xinxia looked at Lingling in surprise. She had been looking at Lingling from time to time. Lingling didn't seem to have done anything, so how could she have found it?

Lin Ran and Mo Fan trusted Lingling very much. Since Lingling said she had found it, then she must have found it. All they had to do next was wait for Lingling to tell them.

"The reason why I asked Brother Xiao Hou to see if there were any prisons is because I found that most of the people who bought medicine first were prison guards. So I thought that the local government officials had not found the first batch of infected people and established the source of the disease from these suspected infected people. It is very likely because the first batch of infected people were not them. The first batch of infected people were prisoners in prison. The prisoners were collectively locked up in prison, which was equivalent to being isolated. They were not in the disease concentration camp originally set up by the government, and naturally they were not on the list of sources to be investigated. At most, the young prison guard would be investigated, but with so much workload, who would specifically investigate him?" Lingling said.

"So that's why you asked Zhang Xiaohou to check if there is a prison? Otherwise, why don't we notify the government now and ask them to send someone to check, otherwise the workload will be very heavy." Mo Fan said.

"No need. The government is looking for the source of the first batch of infected people. So they have to expand the search circle quite a lot and send a lot of people to find this prison. Now we have found this prison, and it will be much easier to search with this prison as the center. The activity area of ​​these prisoners is very narrow. Of course, all of this is just my inference. It doesn't make much sense to call the government here before it is confirmed." Lingling said.

"Then let's go to this prison." Mo Fan said.

"As long as I find the source, I will have the confidence to find a cure! Lingling is really amazing." Xinxia showed joy on her face.

“Of course, we handled major incidents like the Drowning Curse!” said Mo Fan.

"What are you looking at?" Lingling couldn't help but ask when she found Lin Ran looking at her.

"Why do you, little monkey, call me brother? Isn't this unfair? We obviously knew each other earlier, right?" Lin Ran couldn't help but say.

"Get out." Lingling couldn't help but say, "Is this guy a child?"

……

The prison is located on the edge of a sea cliff. The cliff is very high, steep and towering. Since ordinary prisoners are imprisoned here, there are no restrictions. However, the steep cliffs can also make them desperate to escape from prison. After all, there are reefs below. If they jump down, they will die.

The prison was a very unlucky place. Considering that everyone might be infected with the plague, Xinxia recited a blessing to them before they entered the prison. She let the blessing seals penetrate into everyone's skin. Once poison, dark, or evil spirits invaded, these seals would quickly condense into a defensive barrier.

The prison was now completely closed, and even the prison guards were locked inside. It seemed that the prison had enough food and water, but the government was already overwhelmed and had no time to take care of the prison affairs.

“Oh my god, why is it bright now?” Mo Fan suddenly muttered to himself.

Lin Ran took a quick glance and said, "It's obvious that there is something here that can be absorbed by the evil bead."

Mo Fan would feel more at ease knowing that he could use the power of demons, because this way he would have a good helper.

(End of this chapter)