18 Wayfinding
"Wu Xiaoqing, round the room." Shen Changwen's voice.
"Got it." Wu Xiaoqing replied in his mouth, and when he opened his eyes, he saw not his own room and familiar curtains, but a porthole and the rising sun in the distance.
It was the first time he had spent the night in this otherworld.
The ward rounds were set by the search and rescue team and Shen Changwen yesterday, which meant to go and see the health status of the rescued natives. The density of people on board is very high, and there is a sudden outbreak of infectious diseases just after the flood. Ward rounds are about isolating patients at risk in the first place, or throwing patients who have died into the sea.
One night last year, Wu Xiaoqing personally commanded the primitive people to throw down seven corpses. According to the search and rescue team, there are definitely quite a few more deaths this morning.
Wu Xiaoqing put on an isolation suit, and after walking out of the door, Wang immediately asked the four warriors to follow him closely. As soon as he walked out of the room, Wu Xiaoqing suddenly felt a little cold on his body, he looked at the few primitive people who came over, two of them had their necks shrunk, and the other two people who looked fine, the cloth wrapped around them seemed to be thicker for a day.
He remembered that when he went to bed last night, he seemed to hear the wind in a daze—it was getting cold.
Wu Xiaoqing went directly down the stairs and came to the original ship's crew dormitory, which is now the intensive isolation room. When he arrived at the door, the warrior in charge of guarding slowly broke eight fingers at Wu Xiaoqing, Wu Xiaoqing nodded, and then motioned for Wang to hurry up and start working.
Most of the causes of death are wound infections that are caused after a fight with a crocodile and because they don't have time to get antibiotic treatment. The most obvious symptoms of these deceased were suppuration of wounds, high fever all over the body, and finally blood poisoning, and death from organ failure throughout the body. Some people with strong resistance survive after taking oral antibiotics, but not everyone has such good luck.
There are also some infectious diseases, Wu Xiaoqing doesn't understand what the specific disease is, and Shen Changwen doesn't understand either, but he can roughly explain - the main infectious disease is a malaria-like disease, viral, antibiotics are ineffective, and they don't have the ability to develop any specific drugs for this disease, so they can only rely on their own immunity.
The onset cycle of this disease is very short, according to the experience of primitive people, usually from the beginning of symptoms, three to five days is enough to kill or cure, and the fatality rate is almost 4 percent. This number can be said to be terrifying for modern people, but for primitive people, it seems to have become accustomed - primitive people are actually very receptive to inexplicable death.
I was bitten by a snake and died of a small wound, I ate a mushroom and my stomach hurt and died, I blew a gust of wind and I caught a cold and fever, I had acne and fever on my body and died, and suddenly my stomach hurt, it hurts, it hurts, I die, I sing and dance......
Death is not a problem, as long as the number of dead does not exceed the number of people alive. Ever since these primitive people were able to eat rice, the most prevalent and frequent activity in their tribe was for men and women to enter the Red Tent area to multiply - Shen Changwen believed that it would not be long before a large number of women with big bellies would appear in the entire tribe.
Before burying these people in the sea, Wu Xiaoqing also took a group photo of these corpses with his mobile phone according to Wu's suggestion - because primitive people believed that as long as they were photographed, it was equivalent to the ownership of the soul belonging to the star god, and even after death, they would be taken into the heavenly realm by the star god.
However, the actual existence of these photos will not exceed 5 minutes, and according to the confidentiality guidelines of the search and rescue team, Wu Xiaoqing cannot keep these photos, and they must be deleted after taking them, so this is just a ritual link to comfort the deceased and the deceased's family.
In the morning they arrived at the third beacon, a strange, nay, a tribe that had been an enemy of Youjin, called the Youjiao, who had fought with Youjin once, and after defeat, they migrated to a distant land, and neither of them expected to meet here.
The Horned Patriarch was willing to surrender - a ceremonial alliance was not required by Bilian. All they wanted was money to give their people a way to live.
The so-called horned tribe is actually the main means of subsistence by raising animals, this tribe used to be very powerful, raising countless cattle, sheep and horses, and they even had the most primitive cavalry - but they did not yet know what this combination of men and horses meant in the field of warfare.
But these once-short-lived advantages are now a thing of the past. During the flood, most of the cattle and sheep they raised became a good meal for the big fish, and the few that survived had to become the food of the tribe in the following time.
When the Noah arrived, there were still more than 400 people left in the tribe, and in terms of numbers, there were even more people than the previous Youjin. It can be seen that they have not experienced the big battle with the crocodile, and the tribe as a whole is in good shape.
However, when the entire horned clan is on the ship, a very real problem begins to arise - the space on the ship is close to saturation.
According to Shen Changwen's previous planning and estimates, the entire ship should be able to accommodate nearly 2,000 people at most, but now there are only more than 1,500 people on board, and it seems that there is still some space. But the reality is that there really isn't one – it's all about isolation, which takes up more space.
Originally, they planned to go to at least three beacon points today, but now it seems that the Noah has lost more rescue capabilities. No, there are still some of them, they can go and deliver food to the people on these islands, but, that's all.
Before, Shen Changwen and Wu Xiaoqing were still familiar with the operation of the ship, as well as arranging the primitive people to eat, drink and Lazar on the ship, so they were very busy with this, so they didn't have time to discuss what to do after the ship was full, but now, this problem was suddenly imminent, to the point where it had to be solved.
Wu Xiaoqing naturally tended to go to those beacon fire points, his idea was very simple, those people were in a very dangerous situation, and they were full of expectations for rescue, even if they couldn't save people on the boat, at least they could give them some food to maintain.
But Shen Changwen felt that there was no need to save people, and their top priority was to sail in the northwest direction as soon as possible according to the original plan, and after finding a foothold, put down a boatload of people, and then turn back to pick up people. Delivering food or something can certainly make those people live longer, but it also increases the risk of survival for the people on board. In the end, Shen Changwen raised a question: What if they saved people to the end and found that there were more and more beacon fires? What then?
Maybe in this world, the tribes that are now trapped in various highlands are more than tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands? Do they still insist on using this method to save them? Not to mention the question of how much money is needed to buy such a large amount of grain, I am afraid that when the time comes, I will not be able to save it at all by relying on this one ship. It is better to save a group of people, and first transport these more than 1,500 people to a safe place in a down-to-earth manner.
As a result of the meeting, of course, Wu Xiaoqing's ideas were ignored as a matter of course.
However, the search and rescue team also had a supplementary plan, and he felt that it was necessary for Wu Xiaoqing to drive a motorboat alone and explore the way in the predetermined course first—not for reconnaissance, but to reach the landing site first.
Because one possibility must be considered - what if the landing site is less livable than these small islands? If this is the case, then they must use some means to make appropriate modifications to the destination in advance before the Noah arrives, at least to ensure that the people they are transporting can survive, and not transport from one disaster point to another.
If the worst happens, that is, Wu Xiaoqing has been driving forward and has not found the mainland, then they must consider finding one or several areas in the existing unsubmerged areas to operate as disaster relief centers, and the so-called problem of course will naturally not be a problem.
This supplementary plan was naturally supported by Wu Xiaoqing, and this task was obviously more suitable for Wu Xiaoqing's usual romantic thinking than the regimental transfer that was supported in the engine room of the Noah, and it was a task that was tailor-made for Wu Xiaoqing.
However, Wu Xiaoqing was still a little concerned about the problem of crocodiles, although he had a gun on him, but when he was bitten by a crocodile, Wu Xiaoqing did not dare to guarantee that he would still have a chance to take a gun out and resist.
"Crocodiles are amphibians, they only move in waters close to land, their main predator is still land creatures, as long as you don't dock, there is not much danger, besides, even if you are bitten, you can still teleport back."
Wu Xiaoqing looked at the search and rescue team, and the search and rescue team recognized Shen Changwen's explanation.
"Then what are you waiting for, let's go right away." Anyway, Wu Xiaoqing doesn't want to go to the engine room anymore.