Plague Doctor

Wow, the door of the bus opened, and a group of people who had been waiting at the bus shelter for a long time rushed to get on the bus.

It's early August, and the weather is stiflingly hot in the middle of summer. It's still early in the morning, and the scorching sun has turned this seaside town into an oven, making everyone outdoors extremely miserable. The air conditioning on the bus is very attractive, and you can grab a seat on the bus in the morning and rest your feet.

"Phew, it's so hot."

"Master, turn up the air conditioner."

Passengers rushed onto the bus one after another. After a round of fighting for seats, a wealthy aunt who sat next to the car in front shouted to the driver.

"It's big enough." The middle-aged driver didn't even look at her, closed the door and drove forward.

Shen Haoxuan got on the bus late, and being a teenager, he couldn't compete with the aunts and uncles for seats, so he just stood and held on to the armrest.

He is a college entrance examination graduate and is taking his summer vacation. He did well in the college entrance examination and passed the first line. He was admitted to the university he expected. His parents were happy to let him take the driver's license test. I haven’t finished studying yet, and I have a driver’s license but no car, so I still have to take the bus.

Today there is a rare comic exhibition event in this small town. Although it is not large in scale, it is a blessing to these young people.

Shen Haoxuan had already made an appointment with his friends to meet at the comic exhibition venue, and he was on his way there now.

Thinking of what he was going to do today, he became very excited. He heard that several Internet celebrities would be there, so he couldn't wait.

"Cough... cough cough..."

Suddenly, a series of uncomfortable coughs sounded in the bus. The coughs were so sudden that everyone frowned.

Shen Haoxuan couldn't help but turn around and saw an uncle sitting not far to the left.

The uncle was in his forties, dressed in ordinary casual clothes, and looked like an ordinary passerby. But what was noticeable was that the uncle's complexion was very poor. He was a passenger in the car. He sat with the air conditioner on for at least one stop, but he still had a big head. He was so sweaty that even the white shirt on his upper body had large sweat stains.

"Ahem...well..." The uncle's cough finally subsided. It took a long time to adjust his rapid and difficult breathing before he could breathe smoothly.

But suddenly, another series of violent coughs broke out. The uncle coughed so hard that his whole body was shaking, his face was red, and his cough sounded like thick phlegm.

Several passengers who were standing around the uncle immediately pushed to move away from him. Passengers sitting next to him and in the row in front also quickly got up and walked away.

There were three empty seats around the uncle, but no one dared to sit on them.

"What are you doing?" The aunt next to the car in front looked back. There were only two seats separated, and one was still empty. The aunt complained: "Wear a mask when taking the bus if you are sick." The uncle still couldn't stop coughing. , the aunt complained even louder: "Can you bear it a little longer? Can you put your hand on it?"

"Ah, I'm sorry..." The middle-aged uncle didn't argue with her, and his coughing voice became more and more uncomfortable, "I have a fever and a bit of a cough."

"A bit coughy?" The aunt complained, "Are you saying you have a bit of a cough? You're a consumption devil." She finally muttered.

Normally, no one would stand by such an aggressive aunt, but this time they felt uncomfortable.

It wasn't the first time Shen Haoxuan encountered someone coughing on the bus, but this was the first time he had such a serious cough.

The bus continued to move forward on the road with little traffic in the town, and the atmosphere inside the bus became increasingly depressing. The uncle was already trying his best to hold it in and covered it with his hands, but he still kept coughing, getting louder and more violent.

Seeing his spittle flying everywhere, it was hard for the passengers around him to feel at ease, and they were so crowded that they couldn't squeeze into other seats.

"Brother driver, can you stop?" someone asked, wanting to get out of the car first.

"You can't park here." The driver said, with a strange tone that you rarely see: "He doesn't wear a mask, you can wear it yourself."

"Sorry... I mean..." The uncle wanted to say something, but before he could say it, he could only cough like an explosion. He clutched his chest in pain and shivered a little. "...When I went out, I still It’s not… so… so serious…”

"Wow, you better stop talking!" The aunt's angry voice started again, "I beg you, don't get in the car if you are sick."

Shen Haoxuan couldn't help but say, "When people are sick, they have to go to the hospital by car. Uncle, do you want me to call an ambulance for you?"

Many passengers feel that it is really necessary, otherwise the bus may have to go all the way to the hospital emergency building.

Because this uncle's face was so scary. He was almost dying of coughing. When he didn't cough, he was wheezing. His whole body was shaking and almost convulsing.

"Uh, uh!" Suddenly, the uncle's eyes widened, his chest spasmed, he turned his head and coughed violently to the side, and the sound seemed to break.

Everyone's eyes became stunned, and Shen Haoxuan and the aunt were also stunned. The uncle coughed up a large ball of blood, which fell on the bus floor.

But it's not just blood, there's also some bright red, sticky erosion, and there's phlegm, but it's not just phlegm...

It was like something in the lungs, inflamed and rotten into small pieces, mixed with bloody phlegm.

An unpleasant smell spread quickly.

"Ah!" a young female passenger not far away screamed, and some of the bloody sputum coughed up by the uncle splashed on her feet and skirt.

"Tuberculosis ghost!" The aunt also shouted in fright and anger.

At the same time, another young male passenger next to the female passenger was overwhelmed by the smell, his face changed, and he suddenly couldn't help vomiting, and a large amount of

The undigested breakfast remnants spurted out from his mouth, covering the surrounding floor and splattering the clothes of the surrounding passengers.

Suddenly, the stench that filled the car became stronger and more pungent, and the whole car suddenly turned into a hell, causing everyone to scream in panic.

"Open the window, open the window!"

"Why don't you open the window? Stop the car, stop the car!"

At this moment, Shen Haoxuan was completely blinded. He saw the aunt getting up and rushing to grab the driver's steering wheel and force the car to stop. He almost instinctively reacted and rushed to stop the aunt with the other two male passengers at the same time. Everything became chaotic.

On the other side, the uncle was still slumped in his seat, his face full of pain and fear, and his red eyes were looking at the puddle of stuff he had coughed up on the ground.

What it is……

"Ahem..."

He coughed more violently, and bloody saliva splattered everywhere.

Tiny bacteria floated in the air, some drifted into the air conditioner with the air, some drifted to the respiratory tracts of the chaotic crowd, and drifted to the lungs...

The driver's seat was a mess, and the fully loaded bus was lurching along the road.

Love the Plague Doctor.