After the war, as long as a large number of corpses are not disposed of in time, it is easy for the plague to break out. What's more, the two sides of this war are gangsters and militias, and it is impossible to worry about this, so it is strange that the corpses can be disposed of in time. In addition, after such a long period of turmoil, a large amount of garbage and human and animal carcasses remain in the city, so the outbreak of plague is a high probability event. We have also taken some precautions against this, stored dozens of tons of salt, built a large electrolytic cell, and used the electrolytic salt generated by solar energy to produce chlorine and liquid alkali, and then passed chlorine gas into liquid alkali to make 84 disinfectant. If there is a real plague, we who go out wear protective clothing and come back with strict disinfection.

Because of the plan, we didn't pay much attention to the news that the plague wasn't too scared. All was concerned at the time that the captives confessed that the militia was short of supplies and that many of them were preparing to leave the city. This means that it is impossible for the militia to attack us with all their might.

It was of little use for us to keep these militiamen, so we put them back as usual. In the days that followed, we reverted to the practice of sending a team out every day to search for supplies. This is because our food is not enough to last long, and through this team we can reconnoiter the situation of the militia.

It turned out that the captives were not lying, not only was the gunfire in the city gradually weakening, but the militia they encountered had no intention of fighting. On the 8th, we encountered a militia in a community, and they fired a few shots and retreated. After the militia withdrew, the community found that they had dropped a lot of ammunition and clothing, but there was no food, water, and gasoline. In that neighborhood there was also an old Stryker armored car with empty fuel tanks. The bodies of the militiamen were also disposed of haphazardly, digging several pits in the backyard of a house and erecting a cross. This shows that there is indeed a problem with their logistics, and they lack food and fuel and cannot stay in the city for a long time.

These signs relieved everyone, so our search team began to go further, as long as we could identify which of the more affluent neighborhoods did not have militias, we went to see, even if there was no food and grass, we got all kinds of useful things back, especially the solar panels had to be removed, and the electric cars were also driven back. It's all about saving fuel.

Don't look at the few of us who have the list of supplies, it looks like we have everything under control, but in reality we are all discussing where to get food next every day. The city must have been looted, so the only way to go out of the city was to find food in the agricultural areas of the central valley. Not to mention whether you can get food or not, even if you can easily get food, it will take a lot of fuel to get there and transport it back. And the fuel we store is with one drop less than one drop. Now we have started to drive electric cars as much as possible when we go out, and the precious gasoline is only used by trucks.

By 29 May, the gunfire in the city had suddenly fallen silent, and it appeared that the militia had largely left the city. It's a bit strange, something must have happened to cause the militia to cease fire overnight. Television news also reported that the militia had largely withdrawn from Lavona, but the reason given was that the militia would continue to pursue the rebels who had fled into Mexico, and that there was no mention of the militia's fire. Could it really be that the militia has reached an agreement again and is ready to unite with the outside world?

Big Eyes volunteered to go out to reconnoiter and reconnoitre, but within two hours, he hurriedly called the command center with a walkie-talkie. I picked up the walkie-talkie and asked, "Is something wrong?" ”

"I'm not sure," said Big-Eyed. You should send a couple of doctors to take a look. It's like hell here. ”

I hurriedly asked, "Tell me more about it." ”

"We found a couple of half-dead militiamen on Green Hill Street. I suspect they have a plague, and their accomplices have abandoned them. Their condition was so frightening that I immediately took them away. But we also found dozens of militiamen on Lude Road, who were in the same situation as the militia on Green Hill Street, and were also left behind by their accomplices to die. So I think it's almost certain that the plague is going to happen. ”

Pestilence? This is no joke. I immediately said, "Take them out of there at once, and I'll bring them over to meet you." ”

As soon as I left the phone, I called the infirmary to find Jassim and asked them to take the emergency control team to carry the decontamination materials. Jassim was involved in epidemiology, so he was appointed head of the disease control team. In order to deal with the plague, we did everything we could.

An hour later, more than 50 people from the disease control team and security personnel drove more than 20 cars to a single-family house on Lude Road to find Big Eyes. It's embarrassing that our disinfectant is very irritating and makes them bark like wolves.

Rinse them clean with water and put them on the clothes we brought. Their clothes were burned by a fire, and their weapons were thoroughly disinfected with disinfectant water.

We must see with our own eyes what type of plague it is so that we can prevent it. While Big Eyes was howling in the inflatable pool, Jassim, a doctor named Lee, and Tony and I put on our coveralls and walked to a rather luxurious house in the direction Big Eyes had pointed out.

Big Eyes said that there was a dying militiaman lying on the side of the road outside the courtyard. As we approached, we saw that the militia was no longer in focus, his eyes barely focused, lying on his side on the ground, just trying to inhale and cough desperately. It's just that his strength is running out, and even his cough is weak. The phlegm that he couldn't cough up blocked his airways, causing him to writhe in pain, and his face had turned purple.

Examining such a dying patient is a challenging thing to do. But Jassim and Dr. Lee squatted down to examine the militia member closely, not only taking his temperature, opening his eyelids, and examining his mouth, but also using a cotton swab to pick up the bloodshot sputum hanging from the militiaman's mouth and the feces flowing down his trouser tube. Although I also studied medicine, I couldn't stand it, so I had to look away with a gun and pretend to be vigilant. Tony was even more unbearable, running far away, not coming at all.

Dr. Li looked at the readings with a thermometer in his hand and said, "The body temperature has reached 40 degrees Celsius, and the lungs are severely damaged, accompanied by heart rhythm disorders. ”

"It looks more like a respiratory infection than something we're worried about," Jassim said. But there was something strange about it, and although I couldn't do a full examination of him, I thought the symptoms were a little strange, and they were different from the respiratory diseases I had seen. ”

Dr. Lee said, "Unfortunately, even if we brought him back, we wouldn't be able to do a full test. ”

"Let's go inside and see if all the people inside are like this," Jassim said. ”

I walked into the courtyard in front and saw a militiaman lying on his stomach outside the door. Although he was face down, I judged that he was dead because he was motionless. There was nothing to say in the room, two of the five militiamen still had weak vital signs, and the other three were already out of breath.

After Dr. Lee and Jassim examined all the dead and alive and asked a militiaman who could still speak about the illness, Dr. Lee asked Jassim: "I think some kind of microbial infection is destroying their lung function." It's like a severe form of influenza. ”

Jassim had been in a daze, and only said for a long time: "The man just said that these people will die in a day or two after the onset of the disease. It's so cool that it doesn't look like a naturally mutated pathogen. It reminds me of a biological weapon. ”

Dr. Lee and I were both surprised and asked, "Biological weapons?" ”

"Yes, I hear about it occasionally, too," Jassim said. Because this biological weapon may be related to a virus that we are studying in our lab. May the brahmins have mercy and not allow this weapon of destruction to come into the world. ”

Dr. Lee hesitated and said, "It can't be a biological weapon, right?" Who would be so mad? ”

Jassim sighed: "Who knows how many research institutes' laboratories have been destroyed in such chaos?" You probably don't remember that when the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States paid for the Soviets to destroy nuclear weapons, biological and chemical weapons. Why? It is because these things create unexpected dangers when the country is in chaos. But who will help us now? With that, he hung his head and went out the door.

Dr. Lee looked at me, "Is Jassim alarmist?" ”

I immediately reminded him: "Don't tell anyone what Jassim said, it will frighten everyone." ”

He looked at the two militiamen who were still puffing down and asked, "What are they going to do?" ”

We don't have much to do about known infectious diseases, let alone unknown ones. We must not bring these people back for treatment, we can only leave them to fend for themselves. I said, "Leave it to me." ”

Dr. Lee was surprised and asked, "What can you do?" As soon as the words came out, he understood, and immediately turned to follow Jassim.

I pulled out my pistol and relieved the dying militiamen of their suffering, then dragged the bodies outside the door into the room and lit the house with the lighters dropped by the militia before going back to wash them. This time it was very serious, and in the end even the protective clothing was burned.

On the way back, Jassim whispered to me, "We need to pay attention to the TV news." If it is really a biological weapon, then it will definitely spread quickly, and it is possible that Mexico will not be immune. ”