Chapter 22 Virus?

After all, the crazy deer are flesh and blood.

There is no room for struggle in the fire of metal bullets.

After consuming more than 300 rounds of bullets, all the deer in front of him fell down, and none of them had a complete body.

Chen Ming immediately stopped the pouring firepower and accurately found a few deer with their last breath among the fallen deer.

Then the machine gun fired again and sent these deer to where they should go.

Chen Ming checked again carefully and confirmed that there were no living things in his sight.

Then he repaired the machine gun, filled it with bullets, sorted out the equipment he was wearing, and got off the spaceship with a pistol.

Chen Ming approached the position of the deer cautiously, and looked at the mess, and suddenly some haze appeared on his face again.

Because in Chen Ming's eyes, the bodies of these deer had already rotted.

The animals that were still active just now rotted in the blink of an eye.

Even if the meat is placed in a humid and hot place, the rot speed should not be so fast.

Chen Ming frowned, opened the terminal, took a photo of a relatively intact corpse on the ground, and started searching.

The terminal quickly gave the answer.

"Purple-tailed deer, herbivorous animals, timid and easily frightened..."

Sure enough, just like the group of empty jellyfish Chen Ming encountered before, their personalities had almost reversed 180 degrees.

Chen Ming couldn't understand what happened to this group of deer and those empty jellyfish at all.

Chen Ming's mind suddenly flashed the scene when he saw the first deer showing its head.

At that time, the deer's eyes were very dull, and saliva kept flowing from the corners of its mouth. It was very wrong at first glance.

And now, Chen Ming's eyes were fixed on the corpse of a deer whose head was overturned by a machine gun.

Its body was still rotten, but its brain had basically turned into a rotten paste.

It was as if its rot started from the brain.

Such behavior... Could it be that some kind of brain-infecting disease caused them to go crazy and caused them to decay rapidly after death?

The more Chen Ming thought about it, the more he felt that this was possible.

So he immediately took advantage of the protective suit on his body and selected two relatively intact and less decayed corpses, dragging them to the river bank on the west side of the spacecraft.

Then he took out a knife and stabbed directly into the abdomen of the purple-tailed deer, slashing it hard.

The next moment, a large pool of more decayed organs leaked out from the cut.

Chen Ming took a look, held back his nausea, and then extended the knife to the position of the deer's head.

The deer's skull was quickly pried open with the help of Chen Ming's pistol.

Sure enough, just like what Chen Ming had seen just now, the deer with a less decayed appearance had a rotten brain.

Chen Ming took a few glances and continued to target the other deer.

As expected by Chen Ming, the brain of the other deer had completely decayed.

This situation forced Chen Ming to think about rabies.

What Chen Ming encountered now was probably not a disease that was unique to the planet and spread among animals, and it was probably not impossible to rule out the possibility of human infection.

Chen Ming's face suddenly changed when he thought of this, and he looked at his left wrist with a stern face.

There were still only three lines of words on it.

Habitable air environment.

No lethal gases.

No pathogenic microorganisms.

Chen Ming's expression relaxed a little, fortunately, the existence of this suspected virus was not transmitted through the air.

But Chen Ming didn't dare to eat these deer, and he didn't even dare to take them to juice like the corpses of insects, and he had to find a way to deal with them.

Otherwise, these rotten corpses would be left here for a few days, and it would be a problem whether he could stay near the spacecraft.

It was just that Chen Ming really couldn't think of a good way to deal with the corpses of these deer.

If you want to dig a pit deep enough to bury all the bodies, you need the right tools and it will probably take several days.

But Chen Ming doesn't have that much time to do this now.

After thinking about it, Chen Ming simply dragged the deer's body along the river to the place where he found the orange fruit before and dumped the body here.

It's better to dump it here than to rot next to the spaceship.

For the rest of the day, Chen Ming can only go back and forth between the spaceship and here.

Even if he doesn't dig a pit, it still took Chen Ming a long time to deal with the bodies.

It wasn't until noon that Chen Ming finally dumped the last deer's body into the woods.

Today's plan was completely disrupted, and it was definitely too late to track the animal's footprints.

It's better to go back and reinforce the fence and make some traps to ensure that his base will not be destroyed by those animals that come to steal food at night.

Chen Ming sighed.

He clapped his hands and patted off the dried dirty blood clots on his protective suit.

After returning to the spaceship, he took the bucket he used to water the fields and returned to the river again.

He cleaned himself and his bloody knife.

Chen Ming was very careful not to let all the sewage flow directly into the river.

But Chen Ming knew that this was only temporary, and the blood that seeped into the soil would sooner or later seep into the river again.

He could only hope that the filtering effect of the soil could filter out the dirt in the blood.

After washing the protective suit, Chen Ming returned to the spaceship.

He took out a kind of disinfectant herb he had collected before, and sprayed himself, the protective suit and the inside with the juice of this herb.

After doing this last thing to wipe the butts of the crazy deer, Chen Ming finally couldn't stand the high-intensity physical activity and lay directly on the bed.

He reached out to take the terminal and recorded what happened just now in the log.

This is what I learned from the doctor. Maybe one day I can remember something I forgot by relying on the log on the terminal.

After lunch and rest, Chen Ming spent the afternoon reinforcing fences and making traps.

At night, Chen Ming noticed that the number of animals spying on his spaceship was significantly reduced.

They should have been scared away by the smell of blood and the gunshots during the day.

Most of the animals that continued to observe Chen Ming did not show any aggression, and would be scared away by even the slightest movement.

It looked very normal, and it was still the best source of meat for Chen Ming to hunt.

But Chen Ming was also very clear about one thing in his heart at this time.

Although these animals looked normal, who could guarantee that they were not infected with the virus, and the virus had no incubation period?

Unless Chen Ming could successfully hunt them and see with his own eyes that their bodies remained intact after death.

Otherwise, there was no way to confirm this problem.