ushernet Chapter 152 I Became a Fishman in Modern Times (Part 3)
Chapter 152 I Became a Fishman in Modern Times (Part 3)
Three months passed quickly.
Perhaps to match everyone's gloomy mood, most parts of Xia Kingdom have been gloomy lately.
Tong Dadan held his daughter Tong Yong's hand with his left hand, and in his right hand was a pink shopping cart filled with his father's homemade bamboo shoot stew and braised pig's trotters.
This is to deliver vegetables to my aunt, Tong Yuping.
While keeping an eye on the road, Tong Dadan also had to answer his daughter's endless questions.
"Dad, why isn't it raining today?"
"Dad, why doesn't your great-aunt live with us?"
"Dad, do you think Grandma had a barbecue at home today?"
"Dad, @￥%&*"
Tong Dadan felt like his brain had been turned into mush by Tong Yong. He wished he had just left the person at home to watch TV.
He must have been bewitched when he went out.
When the two arrived at the location, Tong Yuping had already opened the door, where two pairs of slippers were placed. They could simply change their shoes and go inside.
Tong Yong stopped letting Tong Dadan lead her, changed into slippers and went inside. The person she was chanting sutras for became her great-aunt Tong Yuping.
"Grandma, I don't need to go back to the provincial capital anymore~ The school said all classes will be online from now on~"
"Grandma, can you help me with my homework?"
"Grandma,..."
Tong Yuping pretended to be hard of hearing, took a deep breath, and then brought out a plate of chicken wings, a plate of grilled shrimp, and a few grilled sweet potatoes from the kitchen.
Finally, I managed to divert the little chatterbox's attention.
I wonder if my child will be devastated when the tail grows and their language skills deteriorate.
...
After the official announcement of the glacier virus, people were quite excited for a while, queuing up every day to buy medicine and food.
It probably takes time for the virus to spread globally, and there aren't too many cases around us yet.
A few ordinary infected individuals and super-infected individuals in the country have already moved into luxury single rooms at the research base.
Subsequent patients will likely not receive this treatment.
However, the evolution speed of super-infected individuals both domestically and internationally is roughly the same.
The reason they moved into the research base was that the energy required for the evolution of super-infected individuals could not be obtained at a sufficiently fast pace simply by eating.
Ordinary infected individuals are used as a control group, so their quotas also require political vetting and assessment.
There was a foreigner who loved the mysterious Eastern culture. He couldn't get enough to eat even eight meals a day. He was convinced that he needed an Eastern mystical sorcerer to exorcise evil spirits. In the end, he and his family successfully smuggled themselves to the border of Xia Country.
His foreign parents are currently using a translator to negotiate with the stationed soldiers...
Even Tongzi would have to say that this family is truly blessed by fate, managing to escape with a super-infected person.
These things are far beyond the reach of ordinary people.
In addition to being brainwashed by the radio every day, people also have to listen to community video conferences from time to time.
The community sent out many messages in the group chat and went door-to-door to register the information of residents in the area, reminding them to prepare their household supplies.
People who are returning to their hometown from elsewhere also need to register.
There is no need to panic if you are indeed infected with the glacier virus.
After reporting to the community, you can choose to stay at home, and staff will come to your door.
If you are really scared, staff can send you to a quarantine facility.
Outside of Xia Kingdom, several other countries have experienced large-scale infections.
The timeline is the same as in the previous life, but the difference this time is that the system helped to expose it.
The patient was sent to the hospital, where the doctors were helpless, and the patient also infected all the ordinary people in the hospital.
Seeing that the research institute had remained silent, Tongzi helped them release a statement online, acknowledging their mistake.
As for how to make amends or escape later.
That's a matter for the research institute itself.
The fact that netizens were watching other people's lively events actually improved the atmosphere in Xia Kingdom a little.
*
The main street of Hedukou Town is brightly lit.
As the number of infections increases in various places, communities, police stations, supermarkets, factories and other places have begun to implement two work schedules, with day shifts and night shifts.
Uninfected individuals work during the day shift, while those with mild symptoms work during the night shift, continuing until their language abilities decline before taking leave.
Nighttime is now a time for those infected with the glacier virus to relax.
People wore their own light jackets and trousers, and put on masks to go out, trying to cover their faces, which were smudged and powdered due to infection.
However, due to toe deformities, they could only make do with the bathhouse slippers purchased from the general public.
The sight of a group of people wandering around the street without saying a word is a bit eerie, isn't it?
However, when he speaks, he tends to make strange syllables and tones, and if he is recognized, he will definitely be laughed at by the neighbors for a whole year.
Fortunately, they can use gestures or type on their phones to buy things. They just can't speak, which they can tolerate.
Tong Yuping hasn't been infected yet, but she can't sleep at night and plays on her phone.
She just tossed and turned on the bed, twisting and turning like a pretzel.
It was Rongrong who reminded her from the side, "Pingping, it's time for your third midnight snack."
She then realized that she hadn't eaten enough...
The little pig Tongzi was lying on the sofa watching TV.
Beside it was a plate of spicy meat jerky from the Beast World, which had been eaten down to the last crumbs. When it heard the host getting up to eat, it just instinctively sniffed.
Being a pig must be really inconvenient.
And the neighbors always like to joke about it, saying that it would definitely taste better if they grilled it themselves.
That's incredibly disrespectful to pigs.
You might think they're bad, but they even feed imported fruit to pigs.
Ah, forget it.
I won't stoop to their level.
Including mocking its ordinariness.
...
The quarantine facilities for the glacier virus in China are almost full of patients.
Under Pei Shi's protagonist halo, the first generation of nutrient solution, "Dongfanghong No. 1", was finally put into production.
There are hardly any people on the streets now, which makes people who go to work during the day feel a little uneasy.
I often feel lonely when I wake up and the world is all over me.
But why does this virus need a nutrient solution?
No one has explained this yet.
In any case, ordinary patients who have used nutrient solutions have been able to overcome their photophobia to some extent.
This can be considered a kind of progress, can't it?
Moreover, because their toes are so severely deformed, they now walk in a way that resembles emperor penguins dressed as humans.
This actually dispelled the eeriness of the silence, and the overall atmosphere became rather comical...
The foreign super-infected man, Andrei, had already successfully moved into the base's luxury suite with his parents.
The base is located a great distance from another super-spreader in the country.
Andrei didn't care; he was happy with things as they were. He even changed his name to Hao Jianguo.
There are no slices, instruments, free shopping, street chaos, or gunshots all night long here, as brought by the Ice Age virus.
Every day, he also has teachers instructing him in Eastern mysticism, including a general introduction to the *I Ching*, the *Huangdi Neijing*, and an illustrated guide to *Ma Yi Shen Xiang*...
It's so hard to learn, but he really likes it.
Hao Jianguo couldn't get enough to eat and thought he was possessed by a starving evil spirit from the Xia Kingdom's legends.
Little did he know he was a superinfectious glacier virus carrier...
Is this the guidance of fate...?
Ah, no.
It must be a case of fate bringing people together from afar.