Chapter 595: Bound to the Birth System, Becoming a Winner in Life Chapter 596 Infinite Flow Cannon Fodder (43)

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Protagonist:

Shen Yao

She crouched in a corner behind the crematorium's back door; the pitch-black environment combined with such a special place meant no one would foolishly come out running around.

The crematorium at night looked more terrifying than in the daytime; the constant flow of vehicles and transported corpses was enough to make Shen Yao realize something was wrong.

It wasn't that the crematorium couldn't have this many people—after all, Feng City had tens of millions of permanent residents, and the number of births and deaths each day was only more, not less.

But right now, this was indeed too many, and the corpses in the vehicles were pulled out from hospitals or several converted wards; judging from Xiao Ling's tone, the physical conditions of the people at the Old Gymnasium were stable.

The two of them squatted on the crematorium wall for a good while before jumping down.

During this period, because vehicles kept arriving, occasionally several would arrive together at once; Shen Yao silently estimated the death toll in her heart—yes, it had already exceeded the normal crematorium's capacity.

Neither of the two spoke; instead, they quickly left this place and directly drove away the cars from the underground parking lot.

Back at the villa district, the first-floor lobby had no one; they had already returned to their rooms to rest separately.

After simply washing up, the two took out edible food from their space and discussed the secrets hidden in the crematorium while eating.

"It seems this disease is more serious than imagined; the official chose to conceal it, probably fearing that exposure would cause panic among ordinary people."

"And those patients who feel fine but cannot be discharged—it might just be an illusion."

Moreover, that heavy-metal-exceeding rainfall didn't just fall on Feng City; other cities had it too, just with varying degrees of severity.

No wonder people say neighboring Sakura Country is hateful—the whole world has to suffer bad luck with them.

"If there's a chance, find out more; it would be best to get these people's medical records."

Even if the medical records aren't clear, the medicines used daily and the precautions can still infer the patients' true physical conditions.

Shen Yao nodded, deciding to continue caring for Xiao Ling tomorrow, and by the way make a few trips to the hospital to check the situation.

The reason she was so fearless was also because this disease was not contagious; whether at the crematorium or the Old Gymnasium, medical staff were taking normal precautions, and the danger hadn't truly broken out yet.

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"Sister Shen, you kindly came to see me, but unfortunately I can't go out—oh my, how embarrassing..."

The Xiao Ling in the video was both happy and flustered; after all, her relationship with Sister Shen was just normal, just because she sat nearby she had a bit more colleague rapport than others.

Now Sister Shen couldn't come in and even asked staff to deliver daily necessities for her; Xiao Ling's grateful heart couldn't be stopped.

This was more reliable than Xiao Ling's own friends, and it calmed her originally uneasy heart.

Shen Yao:...

Shen Yao specially chose the time, using the video call to chat with Xiao Ling while observing the medicines Xiao Ling took.

From appearance, they were just simple treatment drugs, common medicines hospitals would prescribe, but from the color and shape of the pills, they were a bit different from the boxes outside; inside should be added things outsiders shouldn't know.

Sigh

Still had to sneak into the hospital to learn more; remote video calls alone couldn't quench the thirst.

After saying a few more words telling Xiao Ling to take good care of her body, Shen Yao looked up at her surroundings and headed to Feng City First People's Hospital.

A few days passed; the hospital's lively atmosphere diminished. Although patients would still be rushed in urgently, because there were many newly built wards, there was no longer a situation like before where people slept in the corridors and lobby.

Shen Yao planned to fake an illness; fortunately, she had various pills in her space.

Finding a similar disease, after a simple checkup, Shen Yao quickly extracted some semi-public news.

Those who got caught in the rain with high fever and coughing had cavities in their lungs, which could be clearly shown on X-rays, yet the people could still walk and talk normally.

"This cavity will keep getting bigger, eventually devouring the entire lung."

It's uncertain whether the officials had already verified with cadavers; otherwise, they wouldn't insist on not letting patients be discharged.

Because this lung cavity only appeared after the lung had completely disappeared; people, unable to breathe, would instantly lose consciousness.

With such terrifying progress and situation, how could the officials dare to announce it? Even online public opinion was suppressed as much as possible, fearing that the disease hadn't caused much loss, but ordinary people would scare themselves to death first.

Xu Ningchen came back to settle accounts; the couple were both very calm about it, but the eavesdropping He Jie was confused—no, no, is the progress this fast? Then what do they need to do next? He felt he could just stay put and wait for the Big Shot's instructions to slack off and win without effort.

It's just a pity about the Territory Token; it seems I have no competitiveness at all.

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Xiao Ling's condition took a sudden turn for the worse on the third day of their video calls.

Perhaps because this sudden situation was too dangerous, Xiao Ling increased her call time with Shen Yao, probably wanting to draw energy from it.

Unfortunately, the effect of doing this wasn't very obvious; on the fourth day she hastily hung up the video, and on the fifth day she simply didn't come for the video call.

By the time Shen Yao learned of Xiao Ling's news, it was from the Leader speaking in the group—she was already gone.

Shen Yao:...

Public opinion had already been stirred up online; it had existed before but was suppressed, but later there were more and more; the officials couldn't silence everyone.

After all, doctors and nurses are human too; watching patients' lungs slowly disappear every day while they could do nothing—sooner or later there would be an emotional breakdown.

All the stacked buffs finally stirred up a huge wave online.

Not just Feng City, but other cities across the country and many abroad as well; panic kept spreading. Compared to the previous mild requirement to work from home, now everyone automatically dared not go out.

Dangerous, truly dangerous!

Shen Yao, Xu Ningchen, and the others all stayed in the villa district and didn't go out.

Because they were together, and the city's order was still very stable, with no malicious harm or such things occurring.

Two more days passed; the Official Road issued a notification, explained the disease again, and stated it wouldn't be contagious. Although quite a few people had died, as long as one didn't get caught in the rain, there wouldn't be big problems.

This storm eventually passed; although some pain couldn't be avoided, people's lives still had to move forward. For some things, forgetting was the best way to handle it.

Shen Yao returned to the company to work again; the people were still those people, but things were no longer as they were.

Xiao Ling's workstation was cleaned out; soon a newly graduated young person was hired, surnamed Ye. Little Ye replaced Xiao Ling's work and quickly got along with Shen Yao.

Daily commuting to and from work, just as Shen Yao thought life would calm down, the temperature in the sky suddenly rose; the day before she could still wear long sleeves and long pants, but the next day she had to wear shorts and short sleeves. The most terrifying part was that it wasn't yet time to turn on the air conditioner, and the entire office building had no air conditioning available.

The room was stuffy, so Shen Yao took out a small fan to constantly blow air and cool down. The company's HR bought plenty of cold drinks to deliver to everyone to beat the heat.

There was no way around it; this sudden rise in outside temperature caught everyone off guard.

Including the authorities, everyone was somewhat flustered. That day, many outdoor workers were hospitalized because their bodies couldn't bear the excessively high temperature, and some even suffered severe, untreatable heatstroke and were rushed to the ICU for rescue.

This was only a beginning. Next came something like just starting to get rained on and running a high fever, including white-collar workers in office buildings who came down with fevers, vomiting and diarrhea, loss of consciousness, and had to be hospitalized for treatment.

Although most recovered quite well, Shen Yao still smelled a stinky, meaty odor on them.

Shen Yao:...

An ominous premonition arose in her heart, and Shen Yao and Xu Ningchen quickly told their discovery to the people in the villa district, so that everyone could make some preparations.

"In other words, these people who came down with fevers, their final outcome is the same as those who got fevers from being rained on?"

"Doesn't that mean there's no chance of survival? The aftermath of getting a fever from being rained on is that the lungs disappear, and because they can't breathe, they just drop dead."

"The plagues mentioned in the instance couldn't be these constantly spreading diseases, could they?"

Every time it's different, everyone gets a surprise. As the diseases strike, the population is consumed bit by bit, finally achieving the "No One Survives" achievement.

Shen Yao and Xu Ningchen didn't continue the conversation. Having learned from the precedent, neither of them needed to say anything for everyone to figure out the key point.

Shen Yao stocked up on heat-prevention items and took her work very seriously every day. While others fell ill due to this or that negligence and needed hospital treatment, she was still working hard in good health.

The company's personnel dropped sharply again, and they had to choose to work from home.

The young newcomer originally hired, Xiao Ye, followed in Xiao Ling's footsteps, was hospitalized, and still hasn't been discharged to this day.

After the fever passed, the weather turned cool. Just as everyone was speculating whether there would be a snowfall to completely disrupt the temperature, the temperature rose again, accompanied by pitiful ants and mosquitoes everywhere, making the citizens of Feng City suffer terribly.

"Ahhh, there are bugs!"

"Quick, insecticide, insecticide, we absolutely cannot let them escape!"

Early one morning, before Shen Yao and Xu Ningchen had even woken up, they heard the entire villa become noisy.

Rubbing her eyes open, Shen Yao put on slippers and went downstairs to check, and noticed a swarm of flies buzzing at the corner of the first floor.

Huh?

Why are there flies in the villa?

"It's the kitchen, crawling up from the kitchen drain!" The drains in the entire villa district were not all independent, and rising temperatures would breed bugs and mosquitoes.

The one speaking was a male student living in the corner room on the first floor, named Xu Yang.

Because of his hobby, he liked the orientation and view of the first-floor rooms, but as soon as he got up today and went to the kitchen, he almost got slapped hard.

Ouch

Such huge green flies!

Every one of them was an ugly fly as big as a fingernail, buzzing annoyingly.

The other two people living on the first floor came out, and several people grabbed electric fly swatters, frantically swatting until they dealt with all these flies.

Because of this, no one ate much breakfast; they simply had no appetite.

For an entire morning, everyone was busy cleaning the villa until they couldn't see a single flying insect anymore.

However, there being none inside the villa didn't mean there weren't these annoying mosquitoes outside.

The simplest thing was that in everyone's chat groups, people were constantly being hospitalized due to inflammation from mosquito bites.

Among them, those who hadn't had the fever before had lighter inflammation; taking some medicine would make them normal again. But those who had previously had the fever had very severe inflammation symptoms, and if not treated in time, it would endanger their lives.

The most direct example was Shen Yao's new colleague Xiao Ye. Unlucky people are just unlucky; she was bitten on the arm by a mosquito and, due to an allergic reaction, swelled up and was rushed to the ICU. She was even worse off than Xiao Ling before; she went to the hospital today, and by the next day, she was gone.

This time, the organ affected in people bitten by mosquitoes was the heart; it stopped beating and supplying blood, and there was no clean way out.

As expected, the internet was once again stirred up with a bloody storm.

Such things kept happening one after another, and no matter how much the authorities tried to soothe people, they couldn't change the number of deaths.

Even healthy citizens would panic; what if the next one was them?

Since it concerned survival, who wasn't afraid? The terror between life and death was not something ordinary people could comprehend.

Shen Yao and Xu Ningchen stayed in the villa. Besides working, they checked various news every day to infer what diseases might appear next.

Pandora's Box had already been opened. Now all they could do was protect themselves.

"Little Shen, the company's situation is not optimistic. You're an old-timer at the company. Now that the company is poorly managed, it definitely can't continue to support so many people..."

The HR supervisor had a talk with Shen Yao, the implication being that they hoped she would resign.

Of course, the compensation would definitely be in place, and her ties with the company would end hereafter.

Shen Yao:...

Fine, resignation works too. She had thought she and this job were somewhat mutually destructive; otherwise, how could her colleagues all die unnatural deaths?

After receiving the compensation from the company, Shen Yao turned and left gracefully. On the way back, she also bought some daily necessities at the supermarket.

Most of it was spent on food and clothing, and another part was various tools. Two waves of fierce diseases had already come; presumably, the third was also brewing.

Shen Yao's inference was correct. The third disease to sweep in was allergies.

The weather turned warm, alternating between cold and hot, causing the trees around Feng City to lose track of the usual solar terms and bloom early.

When certain types of ornamental trees bloomed at the same time, large amounts of pollen would fill the entire Feng City.

Some weak adults, or elderly people and children, were prone to allergies because of this.

There were very many patients with concentrated allergy outbreaks this time, and the masks Shen Yao and the others had prepared were put to use.

In the villa, sneezing sounds rose and fell without end. Everyone had red eyes and red nose tips, and they used roll after roll of toilet paper.

Even people who had enhanced their bodies couldn't withstand this wave of pollen allergy attacks, let alone the other ordinary citizens of Feng City.

"If this is fatal, the entire Feng City won't escape."

He Jie said while wiping away tears. It wasn't that he wanted to cry, but he couldn't control his tears.

"No, it's just a catalyst; there are other problems behind it."

Shen Yao thinks that compared to giving someone a quick end, this kind of slow knife stewing meat is more likely to cause a breakdown.

It's hard to imagine the mood of ordinary NPCs in an instance; even they, these battle-hardened Taskers, occasionally feel a trace of fragility, let alone this kind of disaster where the road ahead cannot be seen—when exactly will it end?