Chapter 15: The Forest Hunter
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Irus would set traps in the forest to catch live monkeys, and sometimes hunt with guns, and the dead monkeys would be sent to the town's farmers' market, where the locals would eat monkey meat, which was cheap compared to other meats and was very popular with the poor.
For the monkeys that are alive, Elous will sell them to a monkey breeding farm in the town.
The monkey breeding farm in the small town of Keith is near the North Eagle Lumber Mill, and the owner is the same person, belonging to a local family named Kay.
The so-called monkey breeding farm is nothing more than a row of wooden houses with dense cages, where the owner buys wild monkeys from the locals, gathers them in batches, and sells them together to the next level of monkey buyers, and finally most of these monkeys are shipped abroad for medical research or sold to zoo pet stores.
The monkey breeding farm run by the Kay family is a transit point for reselling wild monkeys.
Since Elous often sells monkeys to monkey breeding farms, he is familiar with Kay, the owner of the monkey farm, and Elous often hears Kay complain that another lumber mill in Case Town, "South Valley Lumber Mill", has stolen his business, because the "South Valley Lumber Mill" has high wages and benefits, and the locals have gone there, and he has a shortage of manpower here.
Kay also threatened in front of Ellus that he would find fault with the South Valley Lumber Mill to look good.
These are all things that Dr. Sky learned from a friend of Ellus' life.
A week before his death, Elous began to have headaches and fevers, and a week before that, about half a month before Elous's death, Elous went into the forest for the last time to hunt, this time he spent a longer time in the forest, two days.
When Elous came out of the forest, he brought back two live monkeys.
After selling the monkeys to the Kay family's monkey breeding farm and receiving a payment, Elous went back to work at the South Valley Lumber Mills.
A week later, on the seventh day after Arous returned from hunting in the forest, Elous began to have a headache, and when he went to work, he complained to his colleagues that he felt so tired that his back hurt all day.
The next day, Ellus came to the South Valley Lumber Mill with red eyes to continue working, at this time Ellus did not speak much, his face was stiff, and he looked unrefreshed.
Colleagues noticed the change in Elous and suggested that Elous go to the small clinic in town.
Irus also felt really unwell, so he took a leave of absence at noon and went to the only private clinic in town.
The doctor in the clinic took Aelus's temperature, and he had a fever of 38 degrees Celsius, and then looked at Aelus's red eyes, and asked if he felt nauseous, sometimes cold, sometimes sweaty, and Aelus felt that the doctor said that he had all the symptoms.
Based on the body temperature of the fever and the content of the consultation, the doctor determined that Elous was infected with malaria and prescribed a packet of malaria medicine for Elous.
Returning from the clinic to his cabin, Elous took his medicine and slept for the night.
When he woke up the next morning, Elous felt even more uncomfortable.
Eros struggled to get out of bed, feeling a little nauseous, and after drinking a glass of water, feeling a little better, Elous looked at himself in front of the mirror and found that his face was like a mask, blank and expressionless.
Elous tugged at the corners of his mouth at himself in the mirror, feeling that he was a little sick.
Seeing that his eyes were bloodshot in the mirror again than they were yesterday, Elous decided to go back to bed and sleep, and just as he was about to turn back to bed, he caught a glimpse of a leaflet on the table out of the corner of his eye.
It was a leaflet about a clinical trial of the Ebola vaccine at the Kenema government hospital, and it said that as long as people who were physically fit to get vaccinated, they could get a certain amount of money to get vaccinated.
Aelous thinks this is a good thing, because he can get the Ebola vaccine for free, and he can get the money, all he has to pay is to register his information and give feedback on the situation after vaccination.
Instead of sleeping, he decided to take advantage of his sick leave today to get the Ebola vaccine in Kenema and get the money back.
Dressed for the outing, Irus took a bus from the town of Keith to Kenema and arrived at Kenema Government Hospital by noon.
At the hospital, workers from the Ebola vaccine clinical trial are registering people who come to get vaccinated.
Elous waited in line for more than twenty minutes, and finally it was his turn, and Elous reported his information according to the request of the staff.
After filling in the registration information, the staff conducted a simple physical examination of Aelous.
Fever, red eyes, these obvious symptoms of the disease, the staff said that Aelus's current physical condition is not suitable for participating in the vaccination trial, and asked Aeloth to go home first and wait until he is well to come back for vaccination.
Irus was very disappointed, but he didn't expect to run in vain, the vaccine was not vaccinated, the subsidy money was not received, and the bus ticket money was posted.
Thinking of this, Elous, who had planned to be vaccinated and then see a doctor at the Kenema Government Hospital, felt that there was only enough money in his pocket for the return ticket, and looked at the dense crowd in the waiting hall of the government hospital, Elous walked out of the hospital gate in disappointment and impatience, and took the car back to the town of Keis.
Back in his cabin in the town of Keith, Elous took the medicine he had bought from the town clinic yesterday to treat malaria, lay down on the bed, and went back to sleep.
On the third day, Elous felt that he was too sore to get out of bed and had no appetite, so his kind neighbor, Mrs. Fili, brought a plate of fried chicken and some fruit, and Elous ate a little of the fried chicken, but not long after he ate it, he vomited.
Feeling that he was not in a good position to go to work at the South Valley Lumber Mill, Irus took a leave of absence and continued to rest at home.
Two days later, six days after Elous returned from his last hunt in the forest, Arous's colleagues at the South Valley Lumber Mill noticed that Irus, who had always been punctual in and out of work, had not come to work for four days in a row.
On the morning of the sixth day, a few colleagues who are usually better with Ellus, before going to work, found the cabin where Ellus lived alone, and when they entered the house, they found that the ground was full of black and red vomit, and flies were flying in the house, and when they saw Elous lying on the bed, the corners of his mouth were bloody, and his colleagues thought he was dead, so they approached the bed, stretched out their hands and tried to breathe, and there was breathing, it turned out that Elous was just asleep.
Colleagues woke up Elous and fed him a glass of water, and Elous came to his senses.
One of his colleagues, a middle-aged man with an Asian appearance, was a senior leader of the Nangu lumber mill, named Li Gang, who was sent from China by the Nanmu Group, and he suggested that Elous go to the government hospital in Kenema, where the treatment conditions were much better than in the small town of Keys.
Elous got out of bed and stood up, took two steps, felt okay, wiped the blood from his face, put on his clothes for going out, and tidied up in front of the mirror, and finally went out to the bus station in the town.