197 - Case collected
Two ambulances with the Red Cross logo followed the road in the direction of Windhoek.
In the front and rear of the ambulance, a large off-road jeep followed, which was responsible for opening the road and protecting.
Four vehicles drove along the wasteland road, approaching the heart of the outbreak area, and the closer they got to Windhoek, villagers began to flee on both sides of the road.
These people left their homeland to escape the plague, but they did not understand that as they fled to distant villages, they also brought plague and death to the local area.
At noon, the convoy stopped at the farthest point of the outbreak - the village of Begeland.
However, at this time, the village was already dead silent, and looking along the village road, you could only see pools of black things dumping on the road, emitting a fishy smell from time to time.
In addition, several villagers were lying in the middle of the road, but they had lost the signs of life.
In the rooms on both sides of the road, moans of pain could be heard.
Click.
As the door opened, Herbert and his colleagues jumped out of the ambulance, walked to the middle of the road, and looked at the scene in the village through a polyethylene mask, only to feel a little churning in his stomach.
Corpses, corpses everywhere......
Although it was a medical worker dispatched by the Life Science City, it was the first time for everyone to see such a tragic scene.
Resisting visual discomfort, Herbert walked to the corpse on the side of the road, followed by footsteps behind him.
Herbert looked back, only to find that two security guards armed with rifles had followed, faintly protecting themselves.
I heard that these people are the security personnel of Life Science City, and they are also the bodyguards who came to protect the medical staff this time, but for some reason, in Herbert's opinion, this group of people looks like dead people.
The expression is blank, and every movement is full of mechanical and rigid feeling.
Overall, this group of people does not look like humans, but more like a group of robots, or the walking dead.
However, no matter how Herbert rejected these people, in such a hellish epidemic area, the protection of the two still brought Herbert a sense of security.
Ignoring this, Herbert walked over to a fallen villager not far away and turned the villager over to his side.
Suddenly, a dead corpse face covered with blood blisters and bleeding from seven holes appeared in front of him.
Herbert quickly took a deep breath, suppressed the desire to vomit, and gently touched the pulse of the villager, it was obvious that this person had completely lost his life.
Herbert continued to look at the corpse's lower body, only to find that his lower body was also filthy, with a large amount of blood mixed with unknown bodily fluids, and even though he died, he continued to flow out, as if their internal organs had melted.
Picking up the camera around his neck, Herbert took two pictures of the corpse before proceeding to examine another corpse.
"Herbert, what's going on on your side?"
At this moment, Herbert's colleague Karl, who also got out of the car to check, asked out loud.
"The situation is very bad, there are no living villagers."
Herbert shook his head, and he checked the corpse of a villager who had just died, and wondered, "Why didn't you see anyone alive?" ”
"It's normal that these villagers either hide in their houses and wait for death, or they just run away and carry the epidemic farther away." Carl on the side said helplessly, "The official response here is too slow. ”
"Huh......"
Just as Carl was speaking, he suddenly wondered, "Herbert, come and take a look, I found a living villager here!" ”
Hearing this, Herbert hurried over and leaned down to check.
Sure enough, the villager on the ground did not seem to be dead, and there was a faint heaving of his chest.
"What should I do?"
Colleague Carl looked at Herbert and asked, "Do we need to put him in the ambulance?" ”
"Come on, I'll go inflate the isolation pod......" Herbert said, standing up and preparing to walk towards the ambulance.
"No, I don't."
At this moment, Lawrence, the team leader in charge of the operation, stopped the two, "There is no point in treating this kind of patient who is about to die, what we need is a patient who has just developed symptoms." ”
"But ......"
Herbert was just about to say something, when the house on the side suddenly opened, and everyone subconsciously turned around, only to see a young black man with a frightened look poking his head out.
After seeing the people wearing isolation protective clothing, the young man's eyes suddenly burst into a ray of hope.
Ambulance!
The Red Cross is arguably the most common symbol in the world, and even this group of villagers is familiar with it, when the young man immediately rushed out of the house and rushed towards everyone like a life-saving straw.
Herbert subconsciously stepped back.
Just as the other party was about to rush in front of everyone, several rifles on the side immediately aimed at the black young man, but at this time, the black young man's emotions were extremely excited, and he still kept moving forward, while talking about something.
"Don't shoot, the guy speaks Swahili, he just wants us to save his mother."
Herbert hurriedly explained, and at the same time he walked directly forward and began to reassure the other party in Swahili.
It was only after the youth's mood gradually stabilized that Herbert glanced at Lawrence, the leader of the group.
The team leader nodded at him, "Carl, isolate this patient." ”
Hearing this, Carter immediately returned to the ambulance and pushed out a stretcher, which was equipped with a transparent negative pressure isolation chamber, a device that can seal off the source of infection and effectively isolate the patient from the general population.
Herbert, while communicating with the young man, walked into the young man's house, and immediately saw the young man's mother who was already dying on the bed.
Not far from the corpse outside, the young man's mother was also covered in blood and vomit, and she was already dying.
"Team leader, this ......"
Looking at the young man's eager expression, Herbert looked at the group leader in embarrassment.
Lawrence nodded, and Carl and another paramedic immediately pushed a negative pressure isolation chamber in, carrying the mother of the black youth inside.
"Tell him that he must go inside too." Team leader Lawrence instructed.
Fortunately, the young man was very cooperative with these and obediently got into the isolation cabin, but for the sake of insurance, Herbert still injected the two of them with tranquilizers before putting them in the ambulance.
"Okay, two more spots."
Lawrence, the team leader, said, "You go to the front and try to pick patients with milder symptoms. ”
"Understood."
Just as everyone was about to move on, a house in the distance suddenly opened, and a villager covered in blood saw everyone, immediately screamed, and ran madly towards here.
"Damn, shut him up!"
The team leader's expression changed, and he hurriedly said, "If we alarm a large number of villagers, we won't be able to leave!" ”
But it was too late, and as the villagers kept shouting, the houses on the side of the road also opened, and a group of villagers with bloody faces cried and poured towards everyone like a tide!
"What should I do?"
Herbert and the others suddenly felt chills all over their bodies, if they were surrounded by this group of people and their protective clothing was torn off, it would be equivalent to death!
Just when everyone was at a loss, the security guards who had not made a sound on the side walked up, and one of them raised the Czech CZ805 rifle in his hand and pulled the trigger directly into the sky without thinking!
Bang bang!
A violent gunfire rang out, and the smoke and icy atmosphere finally calmed down the group of villagers, and they looked at Herbert and the others in fear.
Seeing this, the team leader Lawrence finally breathed a sigh of relief, he pointed to the two children in the village, and asked them to get into the negative pressure isolation chamber by themselves, and then they worked with everyone to carry the isolation cabin to another ambulance.
"Okay, while this group of people didn't come up, let's get out of here quickly!"
After all four infected people were loaded into the ambulance, everyone quickly got into the car and closed the door without waiting for the villagers to continue begging.
After all the medical staff got into the car, the security personnel also retreated to the jeep one by one.
Seeing that the ambulance was about to leave, the group of villagers finally couldn't help it, and they rushed up crying, constantly slapping the car with bloody hands, and letting out a cry that was not like a human voice.
"Let's go up!"
"Don't go, please, save us!"
"I don't want to die......"
The villagers stopped around the car and held it back, preventing it from moving.
"How, what to do?" The people in the ambulance immediately panicked, there were too many people around the ambulance, and if they started directly, at least several would be crushed to death.
Just when everyone was shocked into a cold sweat, a burst of gunfire suddenly broke out again on the two jeeps in front and behind, but this time instead of firing into the sky, they shot directly at this group of villagers!
Herbert only saw a security guard leaning out of the skylight, aiming at the villagers and pulling the trigger directly, and in an instant, the villagers around the jeep burst into a dense blood mist, and the villagers retreated while screaming!
"Are they crazy to shoot at civilians!" Team leader Lawrence exclaimed.
However, this method did work, and the villagers gathered in front of the vehicles finally dispersed, and with the roar of the engines, the four vehicles quickly started, and left the village completely after running over several villagers......
Until the car drove out of the village, everyone could still see the chasing villagers in the rearview mirror.
With a look of despair in their eyes, the villagers cried and chased after the rear of the vehicle, farther and farther away, until they were completely out of sight......