No.144 The desire to live
At 12 o'clock in the evening, dark clouds piled up over the bustling Shimmer City, and a faint white electric light flickered, and a storm seemed to be coming.....
Located in the heart of the city, the Glimmer Center Hospital is 20 stories tall. The brightly lit scene, which seems to outsiders to be the all-night duty of countless doctors and the suffering of sick patients, is truly awe-inspiring.
Although it is a brightly lit entry, the glass on each floor is made of blue-blue reflective glass, and you can't see the situation inside, you can only see the light inside, and under the filter of blue-blue glass, there is a little weird......
The hospital is a place of gloom because it represents pain, death, but also hope, and it is the only salvation for the sick.
But there weren't many patients in this hospital, not even doctors and nurses. Some only have an eerie emptiness, and there are erratic white lights.
There was a white powder wafting in the air, it was the powder that made the alien manifest, but in the uninhabited area, it seemed to be the ashes of the deceased. They floated through the air at will, and even the smell became indescribable, and even shadows wriggled in the hazy scene.
"Ahh
Han Qixuan was a little uncomfortable inhaling those powders, he felt that his breathing was a little unsmooth, and his entire nasal cavity was full of rotten stench, even stained with the indescribable pale white powder.
This powder is to make the alien appear, he is harmless to the human body, but after inhaling too much, it will inevitably produce some physiological reactions.
Thinking that Han Qixuan wanted to drink saliva to relieve himself, but seeing a faint layer of dust floating on the water glass, he poured the water out in disgust, and then continued to look at the surveillance video on the screen.
This kind of medicine powder that makes the aliens appear is scattered all over the hospital, so even the surveillance video can capture the figures of those aliens, but there is no one in the black and white picture. In addition to the terminally ill patients on the third, fourth, and fifth floors, as well as the high-altitude Fengyun and Du Fei who patrol everywhere.
The three of them were divided into groups and were responsible for taking care of the terminally ill. It's just that there are too many people, even if there are hundreds of wards on the first floor of the Shimmer Central Hospital, it still accommodates three floors! There are even terminally ill patients who have not slept in the ward, so they lie in the aisles......
Han Qixuan didn't expect that there were so many terminally ill patients in Shimmer City. It is obviously the era of scientific and technological development, why have those diseases not been cured? Can they only wait to die in a cold, dark ward, and now face the blasphemy of the infidels?
Cruel, so cruel......
Han Qixuan was a little unbearable, but there was no way to do it. They are members of the Neo-GUTS team, and it is necessary to protect those who are able-bodied, and for those who have no hope of healing, they can only choose to abandon them.......
Walking in the corridor full of patients on the fourth floor of the hospital, there is no bustle of patients and their families, they are all quiet. Perhaps he had already understood the fate of death, so he stared at the sky so blankly that he didn't even blink his eyes.
This is the place where you can best understand the despair of death, even in the face of death, staying here is still very depressing and uncomfortable. Because the death that I once faced was only over in an instant, and I didn't even realize how it happened.
But in this kind of place, knowing that death is coming, but there is nothing to do, you can only quietly experience the passing of life, and then return to the loess......
Death enveloped the white building, and the thunder outside the house added a desperate silence to the hospital.
The night was very long, and in order not to disturb the rest of those patients, the lights in the ward were turned off, and the night vision mode of the helmet was turned on randomly. Even so, he didn't hear any of the patient's sighs, only the ticking of the hanging bottle, and the ups and downs of the electrocardiogram, as if he was counting down the lives of every patient here.
Despair and depression shrouded in the heart of the sky above, he walked in this corridor full of death, and suddenly a pair of wrinkled hands grabbed her and said, "Please help me......"
Gao Feng Feng was stunned for a moment, and she saw that it was a little girl about five or six years old who was pulling her, but she didn't know what strange disease she had, the muscles in her whole body were atrophied, and she seemed to be very stiff even in her movements.
Gao Shui Fengyun was a little surprised, did such a young child also have an incurable disease? Why, she still has a good year to enjoy, so she is deprived of her life, is it so unfair to God?
Gao Shui squatted down, held the little girl's hand and said gently, "Little sister, do you need any help?" ”
Because it was deathly dark, the little girl couldn't see the face of Fengyun in the sky, but when she heard this voice so gently, she thought it was a nurse in the hospital and said, "Sister, please help me, I want to go home......"
Go home...... No matter how you think about it, you can't go back, right? Because there is no possibility of cure, you can only wait for the end of your life in a cold hospital bed. It's just that the sky can't bear it, she can't bear to see a little girl in the prime of life pass away like this......
"Little sister, don't worry, you can go home tomorrow morning, you can rest first. After all, I want to go home and see my mother in the most beautiful way. He couldn't bear to see the little girl's painful appearance, and Gao Gao Fengyun could only deceive her with white lies, but the pain of powerlessness made him feel very uncomfortable.
In the dark night, the eyes of the clouds in the sky were moist. It's just that in this death-like darkness, the little girl didn't see the tearful expression of the wind and clouds in the sky.
"Sister, don't lie to me...... I knew I couldn't go back, so could I ask my mother to come to the hospital to accompany me? I haven't, it's been a long time since I've seen my mother......"
The little girl said indistinctly, and because of the pain, she began to convulse after saying this. Gao Gao Fengyun could only hold her hand, and even though the little girl's words were optimistic, she still felt the fear of death in the little girl's body.
Wondering what kind of illness the little girl had, Gao Qi Fengyun removed the information sheet attached to the bedside, and through the night vision function, she finally saw the reason why the little girl was so desperate.
"Si Yu, female, age 5 years old, advanced ...... amyotrophic lateral sclerosis"
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS. Presents with weakness of the limbs, muscle atrophy, and dysphagia. People with this condition do not have their brains and hearts affected, so they can clearly feel that they are losing the ability to move little by little, and they are gradually approaching death......
This was too cruel for a child who was only five years old, and Gao Feng Feng couldn't help it, and her hands trembling with the information sheet. I could see the information sheet that had been corroded by the potion, and there were tears dripping from it.
She also saw that the information sheet said that the little girl's parents had not come to the hospital to see her for a long time because of work, and they only paid the nursing fee, but they did not tell the doctor for treatment.
There may be no cure, so her parents have already given up on her, right? Maybe he didn't want to see the little girl die because of a nervous breakdown, so he deliberately chose to escape. Isn't it too cruel to this little girl just to do this? She's just a child, she just wants company......
"Sister, why don't you speak? It's so dark here, I'm so cold......"
The little girl trembled and said, and the sky finally couldn't help but hug the little girl and sobbed: "Be good, don't be afraid." The night passed quickly, and my sister was here, and my sister was here......"
At this time, Gao Tianyun finally understood how great that caretaker was. Faced with such a cruel scene every day, she has seen many life and death, but she can't do anything. The only thing that can be done is to accompany the patients, and see those patients fail, and finally die in pain and loneliness......
In the face of death and despair, the caregiver persevered, and even used cosplay to confirm the wonderfulness of life. But why does such a kind person have to face such an end and do things that desecrate the sick?
"Sister, why didn't my parents come to see me, was it because I wasn't obedient enough?"
The little girl asked again, and Gao Qi Fengyun stroked her back and said, "No, Yuyu is already very obedient." So don't worry, my sister will definitely bring her parents over to accompany you tomorrow. ”
said so, but she couldn't fulfill the little girl's wish at all. Because this is the Shimmer Central Hospital, it is a battlefield for infidels. This little girl, and the other equally miserable patients, are just bait to attract the infidels, and it is hard to say whether they will survive tonight......
"Sister..... I don't want to die, I want to live......"
As if aware of her end, the little girl grabbed the arm of Fengyun in the sky and clung tightly, like grasping the last straw in her life.
"I want to go to school, I want to play with other kids. I also want to dance ballet on stage like a dancer on TV...... Sister, I don't want to die, I don't want to die......" The girl with muscular atrophy on the hospital bed numbly told her broken dreams. There were a few silent tears, quietly sliding down in the darkness.
The girl has a desire to live, but it is all a distant dream. There was no cure for ALS in the late stages, and her motor nerves had been damaged, and she would eventually die of respiratory failure.
Gao Shui Fengyun couldn't accept this ending, and after seeing such a miserable scene again, she didn't want to do this task.
Why did this happen? This little girl just wants to live simply, why use her as bait and deprive her of the right to live? Why sacrifice her to save those who have no humanity?
They can't even make a simple visit, so why would they sacrifice these people to protect their lives with peace of mind? Is there a life qualification? Is it because I was lucky that I was not chosen by death, or because those terminally ill patients have no possibility of being cured, and they deserve to be abandoned?
They are all lives, they all have their own ideals, goals, and longing for happiness and fulfillment. Why keep them here as bait and usher in the end of being assimilated by the infidels?
The sky couldn't help it, her sensibility triumphed over reason. She is going to give up this task and take the little girl away to meet her parents and fulfill the dream she did not fulfill in her life.
Even if it is death, it must die without regrets!
Just as the sky was firm on this idea, suddenly the report sheet in her hand ignited a flame, and finally took on a new look, turning into a tattered piece of parchment.
Gao Shui Fengyun was shocked, and she felt a strange flow of power in this ward. The icy air, even with the protection of a GUTS uniform, could penetrate her body. She saw that the parchment was twisted and full of the same incantation!
Y'AI'NG'NGAH,YOG-SOTHOTH! H'EE-L'GEB,F'AITHRODOG,UAAAHH!!!
At the same time as this incantation, the patients in the ward all howled in pain! Then it writhed violently, and those tracheas and infusion belts were torn off, and blood sprayed in the air along those pipes, and soon stained the hospital floor.
The patients wept loudly, and the only thing left on their distorted faces seemed to be the fear of death and the desire to live.
Y'AI'NG'NGAH,YOG-SOTHOTH! H'EE-L'GEB,F'AITHRODOG,UAAAHH......
There was a murmur that sounded along the dark and eerie breeze, and the air here became eerie, as if there was an evil smell surging.
"Ahh Yes.....! ”
Not only the patients, but even the little girl in the arms of the high sky Fengyun convulsed painfully. Gao Tianyun was shocked, she hugged the little girl tightly and sobbed: "Yuyu, you hold on!" I will be able to see my parents tomorrow and I will be able to go home tomorrow......"
Despite the call of the wind and clouds in the sky, she could still feel the small body in her arms losing its temperature, and the sound of breathing became quieter and quieter, and then there was a sudden convulsion, and finally there was no sign of activity.
The little girl died......
Gao Kong Fengyun knew this very well, she was dying painfully in her arms. The promises she had made before, and the little girl's desire to survive, all came to naught at this moment......
The strange wind flowed, and the wind and clouds in the sky hugged the little girl's body tightly and cried bitterly. obviously promised to take her to see her parents, but this small wish was not fulfilled after all, and the person died so suddenly, or died with pain and despair.
There seemed to be a cold wind howling, and the wind and clouds in the sky looked towards the corridor at the end of the hospital. There was a window, but it wasn't closed, and a cold wind was blowing in from inside, sending the dust in the air to dance.
Suddenly, an electric flash flashed outside the window, illuminating the hallway. Fengyun saw a huge shadow in the sky, but before he could see it clearly, the electric light disappeared......
But suddenly, there was a miserable white electric light that pierced the sky, accompanied by the roar of thunder! This time I finally saw the sky storm, and there was a person standing at the end of the hospital!
He was dressed in a yellow robe, and the cloak on his head was large, covering his eyes and face, but revealing a pale and colorless mouth. He was standing at the end of the corridor, and when he was seen in the sky, the yellow-robed man showed a strange smile......