Rebirth: My Dear Little Wife Is So Scheming

Chapter 1018: Chapter 1018: Dead Person

On the morning when the armed police officers arrived at the village, Mayor Ji Xiang finally breathed a huge sigh of relief.

It would have been difficult to find a reason to keep an entire village from leaving with just a few people.

But as soon as the officers arrived, with weapons and a human wall in place, the villagers, simple and honest as they were, even if someone had doubts or ulterior motives, wouldn’t dare to break the rules easily.

This straightforward village chief never thought of letting his family lead people out.

Once the matter of the blockade was handed over to the armed police officers, Mayor Ji Xiang hurried to the Karst Cave.

As the night had passed, he didn’t know what the situation was now.

When he arrived at the Karst Cave, he saw Bai Xiao and Xiaoyu holding disinfectant spray, diffusing it throughout the cave. The strong smell of disinfectant had already spread everywhere.

The male and female wards had been separated by a curtain.

Now, twenty people were lying in the Karst Cave.

The village numbered only around eighty to ninety people, so on average, almost every household had one person affected.

Bai Xiao saw Mayor Ji Xiang, waved at him, signaling him not to come in and to wait outside the cave entrance.

"Do you have any business, Mayor Ji Xiang?" noveldrama

Xiaoyu came out; she was the only one here who understood the Tuzu common language.

Mayor Ji Xiang looked at the villagers lying on grass mats, groaning in pain, and his heart ached.

"How are things now?"

"Please don’t say anymore, these patients are in serious condition. Dr. Bai and Dr. Zhang have tried some antibiotics, but they don’t seem effective. Except for Yaya, whose condition has stabilized a bit and whose fever has slightly decreased, everyone else is in poor shape.

Also, today we will go door to door to collect blood samples for testing in each household, and we’ll need villagers to assist with this. Please make arrangements, and we’re also running out of masks. At this rate, serious problems will arise."

"Oh my, someone, come quickly!"

Before Xiaoyu could finish speaking, a cry of alarm echoed from within the cave.

Xiaoyu rushed into the cave, and Mayor Ji Xiang, caring little for danger, followed behind her.

He saw Dr. Zhang and Dr. Bai resuscitating a middle-aged woman.

Dr. Bai was vigorously performing CPR on her chest, sweat beading on Bai Xiao’s forehead because her special ability wasn’t working. Even acupuncture was useless, and the woman couldn’t be revived.

With so many people here, if Bai Xiao’s ability was effective, over the past two days at least, people should have been getting better gradually from last night. But according to her experiments since last night, Yaya was the clearest example.

This virus simply couldn’t be cured.

By this morning, Yaya’s fever had spiked again.

Bai Xiao could only continue using her special ability to encase the virus, but she sensed that since last night, the virus had started to exhibit resistance against her ability. The power to encase the virus wasn’t as tight as before. Last night, her special ability could contain the virus for up to eight hours or more.

But this morning she found that after using her special ability to encase the virus, it seemed to start breaching her ability’s defenses within four to five hours.

Under these circumstances, it wouldn’t be long before her special ability was completely useless.

Dr. Zhang shook his head, pulling Bai Xiao away despite her continued efforts, "The heart has completely stopped beating beyond the time limit; it’s hopeless."

Bai Xiao stared blankly at her hands, faced with this situation for the first time, suddenly feeling helpless. Her special ability made her feel like she was the most powerful being in the world, yet for the first time she watched someone die in front of her, and was powerless.

"Xiaoyu, come help. This patient must be carried out."

Bai Xiao shoved Dr. Zhang aside almost hysterically, continuing chest compressions on the woman, then took out silver needles from acupuncture to pierce the woman, activating her special ability. But her ability entered the woman’s body, wandered for a bit, then quietly retreated.

The person indeed couldn’t be saved anymore.

The dead were truly dead.

Xiaoyu held Bai Xiao tightly, while Dr. Zhang and Mayor Ji Xiang carried the woman’s corpse out, placing it on the hillside opposite.

Under the microscope, he had discovered that the virus began weakening significantly at temperatures over 100°, and at 200°, all viruses were incinerated to ashes.

Clearing the virus in this manner was clearly an effective method.

However, this discovery could only help people with everyday home disinfection and protection, whereas for those already ill, a 200° temperature—if applied to live people—would already reduce them to ashes.

And such a high temperature would need to be maintained for over ten minutes to eliminate these viruses.

These findings barely even qualified as fighting poison with poison.

Xiaoyu held Bai Xiao tightly, Bai Xiao’s strength utterly sapped and in despair, acknowledging for the first time that her special ability suddenly felt useless.

No matter how much medical knowledge she had learned, her surgery, her Traditional Chinese Medicine were all ineffective now.

The virus they faced seemed to render everything useless.

She too began to feel helpless.

Why was this happening?

No such thing had happened in her previous life, where her special ability worked perfectly fine, yet now something unexpected occurred.

Her special ability seemed to be regressing.

What was more troubling was the realization that if she now became infected with the virus, her fate might be no different from these people’s.

If her special ability couldn’t heal others, it certainly couldn’t heal herself, unless her ability was exceptionally favorable towards her.

Everyone awake within the Karst Cave had already fallen completely silent.

The continuous moaning from earlier had now vanished altogether.

The sudden advent of death made everyone realize sharply that was the first death; no, to be precise, it was the second.

Since there was a first, there could surely be a second.

They abruptly realized.

The situation was not as simple as they thought; they were here to seek treatment.

They had received injections, taken medicine. Every person was currently hooked up to an IV drip.

But the vomiting persisted, the diarrhea continued, and not a single person’s condition had improved.

In this moment, fear descended upon everyone’s hearts.

"Doctor, doctor, are we all going to die? Aren’t you doctors? Aren’t you supposed to save people? Quickly give us injections and medicine, whatever needs to be done. I don’t want to die. Doctor, I still don’t want to die; I have three children at home, an old mother and father. If I die, how can my wife manage the family alone?"

"Doctor, I don’t want to die either. I have a five-month-old child at home. If I weren’t sick, he probably wouldn’t have been weaned yet."

Bai Xiao suddenly looked up.

This child was also an infected one.