Chapter 266 Leprosy, Smallpox, Black Death, Cholera
Boom!
The entire pentagonal dining table was overturned by Gu Jun, and all the dishes and food on the table fell to the ground.
There was silence in the secret room for a few moments before everyone let out another startled cry. Zu Ge hurriedly jumped on Gu Jun's head. Jin Zhu picked up Feng Wei who was on the ground. Gu Jun and Lou Xiaoning both held pistols and pointed them at the surroundings.
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As soon as the food that was still fresh and fragrant just fell to the ground, it quickly changed into something else, as if the illusion was shattered.
The plump and tender chicken leg turned into a puddle of yellow pus, the other apple-like fruit turned into bloody white pus, and others were brown, black... sticky, like just now
It looked like it was squeezed out from a suppurating wound and flowed all over the floor.
The unspeakable stench filled the secret room first, polluting every bit of the air.
"Oh my god, it stinks so bad." Catherine cried out almost instantly. If Peacock hadn't held back, she would have vomited everywhere.
Not to mention Catherine, even Gu Jun, who was no stranger to the smell of formalin and corpse odor, and had the highest mental power here, almost vomited out at once, purely due to physiological reactions and general...
A feeling of disgust in my heart.
Everyone around was having a hard time enduring it. There was no fresh air coming in here, and the smell suddenly became more and more stinky. It wouldn't take long before they would definitely vomit.
"Stinks worse than cat feces!" Zu Ge said bitterly, slapping Gu Jun on the head. He really couldn't imagine if he had just eaten these pus foods, whether he would still be alive now.
"What the hell is going on..." Lou Xiaoning said angrily through gritted teeth. She was already impatient, but now she was so angry that she was about to explode. "You bastard from Laisheng Company, come out!" Suddenly, rationality appeared on her wrist.
The monitoring stone reacted, and her spirit was being eroded.
"Calm down!" Gu Jun immediately drew an old spiritual seal and punched it, letting Lou Xiaoning clear his mind.
"Fuck..." Lou Xiaoning was beaten back a few steps before she regained her composure. The light of the rational monitoring stone went out, and she came back to her senses, "These odors can also affect the spirit..."
"I think it's not the smell, it's the environment." Gu Jun said solemnly, his spirit swaying slightly due to severe exhaustion.
This room is full of malice, and the pus that gradually turns the floor into a stinking swamp is just one of the things they can see.
And those purple wall coverings and carpets... Gu Jun suddenly remembered a little knowledge about color. He checked the relevant information just a few days ago because he was monitoring the color of the stone. Purple has a noble meaning in both Eastern and Western civilizations, representing the emperor.
Sages, gods...
He glanced around and realized that the people setting up the place might be those evil believers from the earth world.
However, Zu Ge said that those people were spiritually dreaming, so everything here is both real and illusory.
This hall is not equal to the Worm House. He has this feeling. This is just one of the rooms in the Worm House, the room where the evil believers carry out their activities.
"We have to find an exit quickly." Zu Ge slapped Gu Jun's forehead in distress, "otherwise we will suffocate to death here."
"So please hurry up and look for it." Peacock said, "You ancestors are better at finding those cracks and gaps than us." Lou Xiaoning also shouted: "There are passages above the five fireplaces, you can climb up one by one to see
Let’s see what happens.”
"This..." Zu Ge couldn't say anything. He stared at the dark fireplace mouth with his sneaky little eyes, trembling all over, as if he was looking at the gate of hell.
But a sudden change made it impossible for anyone to blame Zu Ge for being timid. Maybe it had sensed something before.
After all the food on the ground turned into pus, a human corpse was hung upside down from each of the five fireplaces, tied with thick hemp ropes.
When they checked just now, there were no such corpses.
For a moment, Gu Jun's heart ached. He was angry at this scene, but also afraid that it would be Uncle Dan and the others.
Catherine, Tom and others all exclaimed, but that was not Uncle Egg and the others. It couldn't be, because the five corpses were all children, all of them were as six or seven years old as the braided little girl in the mist. As for them
face...
"Ah." Catherine was about to vomit, and Peacock covered her mouth tightly, "Think of something else, think of something else!"
"It's so fucking pitiful." Lou Xiaoning murmured through gritted teeth, and the rational monitoring stone flashed slightly again, "It's so damn miserable..."
"Are they looking like that because of some kind of disease?" Mo Qing asked coldly.
"It should be..." Gu Junlian looked at the corpse of a child in one of the fireplaces, "The deceased seems to be a leper."
He has never seen a leprosy patient with his own eyes. After entering modern times, leprosy has been gradually and basically eliminated, and it is in a low epidemic state, with very few new cases every year. But leprosy has plagued mankind for thousands of years, and even now
, there are still some leprosy villages in the country that were established decades ago to isolate patients.
Leprosy is caused by Mycobacterium leprae and can cause lesions on the patient's skin and peripheral nerves, resulting in deformities and limb disability.
The corpse in the fireplace was like this, with its face hanging upside down and twisted into a ball, and there were lumps of pustules on its neck and hands...
Gu Jun suddenly thought of something and turned to look at the corpse in the other fireplace. Smallpox... that one was a smallpox patient.
The facial skin of the corpse was covered with densely packed small blisters, some of which were still white film-like, and some had turned black. The exposed skin that could be seen was full of fine blisters, as if they had been scalded by boiling water.
Typical symptoms of smallpox.
He looked at another fireplace. The corpse's eyes were purulent, and there were herpes and pustules on the skin. The difference was that there were patches of black scab underneath.
Is that a plague patient? Plague is the so-called Black Death.
His heart was turbulent, and Huo Di looked to the other side. The corpse was as skinny as a stick, with traces of feces on it. It was cholera, a cholera patient.
Leprosy, smallpox, bubonic plague, cholera
These are all...plagues that have had a huge impact on mankind, and cholera still attacks some countries with backward sanitary conditions every year.
There was also a fireplace and a corpse. Gu Jun looked over and felt a sense of familiarity, a familiarity he got from the patients at Jiangxing Town Hospital... The skin was cyanotic, the lips were dehydrated, and the face and body were covered with blood and phlegm.
It's Legionnaires' disease, I don't know if it's old or new.
"This is an altar." Gu Jun understood something, and his heart was trembling with rage. "Those corpses are the decoration of the ceremony."
Five different diseases, five plagues.
What is the purpose of this ritual? Are the corpses of patients a tribute to the House of Worms...
"Ritual? So those foods are not for us to eat," Zu Ge said anxiously, "They are also sacrifices for the ceremony."
It's one thing to think about the ritual sacrifices that were smashed like this, but it's another thing to think about the unknown beings who accepted the sacrifices.
Everyone looked around, standing back to back in the middle of the pentagonal hall, feeling an increasingly thick stench and danger coming.
It was as if there were countless eyes watching them.