Sweet May-December Marriage novel Chapter 190

Chapter 190 I'm Really a Mortal

"What are they talking about?" Charlotte stared at the screen and asked, "Why do they call me fairy? I'm really a mortal!"

Eloise was amused and almost spat out what she was chewing, but because of her good manners, she swallowed it. She stared at Charlotte and burst into laughter, saying, "Char, why are you so funny?"

Cecilia and Nicholas were also amused and Cecilia couldn't help but pat Charlotte's head, saying, "Are you an ancient person?"

Charlotte asked, "What's going on?"

Nicholas coughed and explained, "It doesn't mean you're not a mortal. They call you 'fairy' because they think you're beautiful and adorable."

Charlotte blushed and said, "Oh, I understand."

Eloise pinched her cheeks and laughed more loudly, saying, "What did you eat to grow up? I wonder what makes you such a cute girl."

Charlotte pulled down her hands and replied, "Just normal meals."

"OMG!" Eloise laughed more wildly and said, "You're so funny!"

Charlotte was rendered speechless and retorted inwardly, "No, I'm not funny."

When school was almost over in the afternoon, there was suddenly a commotion in the class and someone even yelled out loud.

Charlotte asked curiously, "What happened?"

The boy across the aisle from Charlotte immediately blushed for some reason and coughed. He explained in a soft voice, "There's an infectious disease in Prodon."

Charlotte was a bit stunned and repeated, "Infectious disease?"

The boy continued, "It seems to be a new virus. People are talking about it heatedly on the Internet."

Charlotte thanked him. It happened that Eloise also searched the news. She said, "This was reported a few minutes ago."

Charlotte took her phone and read the report.

Prodon had been prone to floods and the locals were used to it. This time there was heavy rain, but the meteorological station had issued flood prevention instructions early on, so people evacuated in an orderly manner and there were no casualties.

However, the problem was that an outbreak of swine fever occurred in a pig farm. The people from the pig farm evacuated, but the pigs were still there. All the pigs in the farm were drowned and their bodies were rotted by the water. For some reason, a few bacteria were bred.

The virus, temporarily named Virus-7602, could only be transmitted through blood, saliva, and food. At first, some rescuers were injured and had so high fevers that they even became unconscious. Later, the doctors finally found the source of the infection -water contamination.

The water carried the source of Virus-7602 and those rescuers were directly infected as their wounds were soaked in water.

Measures had already been taken to cut off the source, that was, to immediately seal off all water flowing out of Prodon to prevent the spread of the virus. However, there were already many infected people in Prodon.

The mortality rate of Virus-7602 was astonishing. Infected individuals could only survive for one to seven days and eventually, they would die.

People in Poville were all panicked. Seyso, which was adjacent to Poville, was also shrouded in the shadow of the epidemic. Although the government announced that they'd control the epidemic within the territory of Prodon, people were still worried, guessing maybe the water from some small rivers had flowed out. What was worse, there were many underground rivers in the region!

Charlotte said with a frown, "We don't have to worry about this. The government must have disinfected the water as soon as they found out about the epidemic. The water source should not be a big problem now and what matters is the people."

Although the virus carried by the flood was a headache, it was not a big problem for the country. All that was needed was to use helicopters to spray specially formulated disinfectants in the sky. The real trouble was the people.

Although Prodon was just a town, it had more than a dozen villages under its jurisdiction and each village had about one hundred villagers. These people might not realize that they'd been infected with the virus and were still living with their families, so they might have infected their families.

Or perhaps they knew they were infected, but they refused to be quarantined and therefore hid here and there. This kind was the biggest headache.

Eloise sighed and said, "How did the epidemic break out? People in Prodon must be scared now."