Chapter 20 Sure enough, it's him.

  Outside the temple, the storm was still raging, like ghosts crying and wolves howling, but inside the temple it was so quiet that the sound of a falling pin could be heard. Zhao Qiang and the others were still late in arriving at the temple, and I wondered if they had seen the words Uncle Li left on the table.   At this time, Uncle Lai suddenly turned his head and asked the middle-aged man, "How long have you been in this ancient city?"   The middle-aged man first froze, and then said with some confusion, "I can't remember exactly, it should have been a few days."   Uncle Lai pressed again, "Then do you know what day is today? Who is the current president of the country?"   The middle-aged man still didn't answer him right away, but took out a notebook from the satchel he had with him and rummaged through it, then pushed the black-framed glasses on his face and said, "I got lost on my way to look for water, and that day was June 17th. I've been here for a couple days at most, and I think it's only the twentieth or so now. As for who the president of the country is I can't say, I don't have the right to say who is the president and who isn't."   I was a bit baffled by the middle-aged man's words, but I saw Uncle Lai, as if he had understood, interface and then asked him, "Are you President Huang?"   The middle-aged man's expression was even more surprised, he looked at Uncle Li half a day did not say anything. Uncle Lai saw his expression should be in all probability, so he said to him, "In fact, our group of people came here specifically to search for clues about your disappearance."   Unexpectedly, this Dean Huang suddenly grunted coldly after hearing this, "Specially come here to look for me? I don't think so, are you people here specifically to look for me? Or did you come specifically to find that virus sample?"   When I heard that, I was stunned, and turned my head to ask Uncle Lai with my eyes, what virus sample? But looking at his reaction, he should not know anything more than me, and was also stunned.   Uncle Lai saw Dean Huang's face full of hostility, so he had to show him the cards and said: "Dean Huang, I can honestly tell you, we do not know what the virus samples you are talking about, and now the time is not 1980, but 2010. We people were hired to come to the place where you once wandered off to look for your remains, but we didn't expect you to be standing so alive in front of us, and your appearance doesn't look like it's changed much ......"   "Impossible!" Dean Huang suddenly interrupted Uncle Lai, "What 2010? I shouldn't have been trapped here for more than a week, you guys must have been sent by a secret service organization outside the country, right? Don't even think about taking the virus sample from me!"   Seeing that there was no point in arguing like this anymore, I pulled out the pocket watch that I had on me.   "This is yours, right?"   I knew in my heart that it had the remnants of his soul on it, and that he was definitely dead, I just didn't know yet what had caused him to be imprisoned in this weird ancient city.   Dean Huang saw the pocket watch in my hand and stepped forward to snatch it, then placed it in his hand and caressed it gently, his mouth still muttering to himself, "How did this come to be here with you? How could she give it to you?"   The three of us were dumbfounded for a moment, looking at the tears in the eyes of this yellow dean slowly sliding down, I can see that he should be thinking of what important people, otherwise it would not be so emotional.   Just when the three of us were facing the tearful Dean Huang and didn't know what to do, the door of the temple was suddenly blown open by a gust of wind, and a few figures covered in dirt walked in. I knew at a glance that it was Zhao Qiang and a few of them, but when they approached I realized ...... that something was wrong!   Only see Luo Hai and Ye Zhiqiu respectively holding Liu Zi Ping and Zhao Qiang strenuous towards us, I and Ding Yi busy to go forward to check, the results of a look found, just broke up when still good Zhao Qiang and Liu Zi Ping, this moment but the body is full of red packets, and some parts of the skin has begun to ulcerate.   "What's wrong with this?" Uncle Lai asked in surprise.   The pale Ye Zhiqiu said with a panicked face, "I don't know what happened to them, they were fine when we separated from you guys, and then the wind started to pick up outside when we returned to the adobe house. We saw a few words on the table just ready to come to you, Zhao and Liu, the two of them suddenly felt very itchy, desperately scratching with their hands on the face! The symptoms on their bodies came on so quickly that I simply didn't know what caused it and could only help them come to you guys first."   At this time I remembered that moment when we were all in the adobe house, I had noticed that Zhao Qiang's hand had grown a red bag just like it, at that time I had mistakenly thought that he had been bitten by mosquitoes and insects, but now it seemed that things weren't that simple.   Dean Huang, who had just been immersed in his own memories, immediately exclaimed in horror when he saw the disease on the two of them, "They ...... they are infected with the YN-12 virus, you guys hurry up and stay away from them, the transmission route of this virus is still unclear! I don't know if it will spread from person to person!"   When Ye Zhiqiu and Luo Hai heard this, they also both looked at Uncle Lai with ugly faces, but Uncle Lai didn't know what was going on with this YN-12 virus, but for insurance purposes, he still let Luo Hai and the two of them help Zhao Qiang and Liu Zi Ping to a corner of the temple's main hall, so that they could temporarily sit there and rest for the time being.   While Liu Ziping was a little better and was still conscious, Zhao Qiang had started to appear semi-conscious. Ye Zhiqiu immediately ran over after settling them down and asked Dean Huang, "What is this YN-12 virus you said? How come I've never heard of it before? Is it deadly? Will it kill people?"   Dean Huang's face and for the ugly, he pulled us to Zhao Qiang and Liu Ziping relatively far from the place to sit down, and then told us the reason why he would come to Xinjiang scientific research the real purpose ......   It turned out that back then, Dean Huang was completing a scientific research project in Urumqi, and just as the project was nearing its end, he suddenly received instructions from the top to come here with several biological and pathology experts to investigate a local outbreak of a large-scale infection.   They arrived at the infected area and found that the first to be infected were several soldiers, their first symptoms were red rashes all over their bodies, the situation was very much like being caused by some kind of mosquito bite, but with the aggravation of the infection, there would be different degrees of skin ulcers, and finally because they couldn't find the cause of the disease, these soldiers died of wound infections a week later.   At first, the army doctors thought that this is just a few individual cases, but the next development of the epidemic is far more serious than imagined! Not only in the army, even some local people also began to be infected, which caused the leadership of the army to pay attention.   Because this area is the experimental area after the explosion of the first atomic bomb in China, it is difficult to say whether there will not be any mutated virus produced by nuclear radiation. After the incident was reported, the Party Central Committee instructed Dean Huang, a few of them formed a group of experts, deep into the desert hinterland to investigate the incident, and will be the source of infection to find, completely control the epidemic, but Dean Huang did not expect that this scientific research work original than he imagined to be more difficult ......