City's Best Divine Doctor-Chapter 1530 - 1529: Fear from the Heart

Liu Lingxiu didn’t expect that she was still late; Ye Qiu might have already driven away.

"Lingshow, have you had breakfast?" Ye Xue asked.

Actually, Liu Lingxiu hadn’t eaten yet.

Moreover, she looked somewhat unwell now.

"Lingshow, are you feeling unwell?" Chen Fang asked curiously.

"Auntie, I didn’t sleep well last night. When did Ye Qiu leave?"

"He just drove away, said he had to leave Jinling for a week or two," Ye Weidong said.

Liu Lingxiu clenched her fists, wanting to say something, but in the end, she held back. It seemed Ye Qiu was genuinely afraid of worrying his parents and sister and didn’t tell them.

Now she didn’t dare to say anything either, she could only go back to rest first.

Watching Liu Lingxiu leave, Ye Weidong and his wife, along with Ye Xue, felt that Liu Lingxiu seemed a bit strange just now.

What was Ye Qiu going to do out there? Didn’t he tell Liu Lingxiu?

The three of them couldn’t figure it out.

Li Zhiguo, after seeing Ye Qiu board a bus to leave, returned to his office feeling a bit worried. After all, even Li Qianqian wasn’t informed by Ye Qiu this time, which certainly meant he was worried about his daughter’s concern.

Li Zhiguo, being a man of major responsibilities, soon stopped pondering over it.

Ye Qiu sat on the plane, supposedly flying to the Tongren Airport near Fenghuang Ancient City, about three hours’ flight, according to a stewardess who had just brought drinks. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

Ye Qiu seemed no different than usual, but the other supporting medical staff appeared very worried. It was obvious many hadn’t slept well the night before, looking extremely tired.

In contrast, Zhou Wenting and Wen Xin looked spirited, mainly because Ye Qiu was accompanying them.

Ye Qiu held Zhou Wenting and Wen Xin’s hands, and when they didn’t pull away, he became bolder and quietly placed his hand on Zhou Wenting’s waist.

Zhou Wenting gave Ye Qiu a glare while Ye Qiu maintained his poise; at this moment sat Han Dexi and another team leader, a deputy director from Jinling People’s Hospital, Pang Xinhua.

Pang Xinhua knew Ye Qiu and was aware of Ye Qiu’s feats of treating many difficult cases at People’s Hospital, though he didn’t frequent the Affiliated Hospital as often.

Besides the bureau chief from the health department, the other two leaders were Pang Xinhua and Han Dexi, each leading teams of Western and Chinese medicine practitioners.

According to Ye Qiu, he belonged to the team of Chinese medicine under Han Dexi.

These two distributed information about the Southwest plague to the medical staff, preparing them mentally in advance.

"Dr. Ye, this is for you, have a look," Han Dexi said.

Ye Qiu took the documents and learned from them that the epidemic was as yet unidentified, with its origin reportedly a farmer displaying symptoms after returning from cattle herding—fever and malaise—leading to a local quack, given the area’s poverty and remoteness lacking even a village clinic.

Even after taking common Western fever-reducing medicine, the condition worsened.

Soon, family members in contact with the farmer, including the quack, began showing similar symptoms.

After about a week, village officials realized the severity, with more villagers becoming infected, promptly notifying the township.

The township soon suspected it might be a contagious disease.

When township health clinic doctors examined the situation, they found initial flu-like symptoms potentially escalating to heart failure and further complications leading to death.

The disease had been present for over a month and a half, but both township and county authorities had concealed the outbreak until the municipal level found out, making further cover-ups impossible. Over thirty infected had died, with more showing various degrees of infection.

Provincial and Yanjing authorities have dispatched more doctors to treat patients and swiftly identify the epidemic’s nature.

The village is now completely isolated; neither medical staff nor villagers can leave.

This is the most effective way to prevent a massive spread until the exact disease is identified.

Moreover, to prevent panic, experienced Chinese and Western doctors are being gathered, and the twenty-plus medical personnel from Jinling are just part of the team.

After reading the document, Ye Qiu realized that over thirty people had already died, indicating the seriousness.

And from his Soul Consciousness, he recalled similar plagues, like the Black Death, raging through Europe in the Middle Ages, killing millions, the true embodiment of terror.

However, over thirty deaths with hundreds infected now constituted a very serious situation.

Therefore, identifying the transmission source and causation is urgent.

Ye Qiu had no visible reaction upon reading the documents.

In contrast, Zhou Wenting looked somewhat worried and asked, "Ye Qiu, is this really an infectious disease or a plague?"

Some infectious diseases aren’t plagues.

But plagues generally transmit between animals and humans.

Thus, if confirmed as a plague, the scenario would be quite severe.

With spring and summer merging, it’s the optimal season for microorganisms to thrive.

"I feel it’s likely a plague. If it’s an infectious disease, it’s not a regular one either."

Compared to some infectious diseases, the fear of a plague is indeed greater.

Wen Xin, an ordinary nurse and now head nurse, is not very aware of these details. Still, she vividly remembers the nation-wide outbreak years ago.

"I remember the outbreak back then was much more terrifying, with a far greater spread," Wen Xin remarked.

However, Zhou Wenting didn’t know about it because, since high school, she had been studying in Europe, unaffected by the domestic pandemic.

Upon hearing Wen Xin’s mention of it, she only remembered reading many reports on it and later studying the case along with other internal medicine students, surmising it as a zoonotic virus resulting in a pandemic.

Now, based on the documents, it seemed different, but without seeing the patients, she couldn’t determine if it was zoonotic or contracted by the villager first.

Overall, everything remains unclear now.

Ye Qiu’s expression stayed regular, but Han Dexi and Pang Xinhua seemed fearful and anxious about confronting death and disease.