"With a few of his pals? Who were they? And where are these guys now? Are they all right?"
"I don't know, they probably went back to their homes."
"Doctor Liu, Doctor Liu, come quick, look at the child; he's running a fever."
As the words fell, another person rushed over with a child in tow.
"Ah, if it isn't Dasheng. Just yesterday, the two of them were playing together. Yes, that's right, both of them went into the mountains at the same time."
Liu Zheng realized that something wasn't quite right, and the symptoms this time were exactly the same as those he had observed the last time he encountered this virus.
The virus had already spread in the village once before, and most people had contracted it, although there were a few children who had not. But this time, it seemed that their luck had finally run out.
Sure enough, two more children showed up, presenting with the same characteristic symptoms after going into the mountain—high fever.