Volume 1: The Eve of Doom Chapter 49 The Messenger
"Tick", "tick" watch rings non-stop. Qin Tianwu leaned against one of the lathes, staring blankly at the moldy walls, on his right, Wei Yilin was leaning over to look downstairs, the infected people who had packed the entire compound were like fanatical fans, waiting impatiently for their idol to appear, and then rushed up......
Beside Wei Yilin, Bai Yunlian was bending over and standing next to the lathe that had just been cleaned up, holding a scalpel in her right hand and a small pair of scissors in her left glove, busy with the body of the little infected person.
Time passed little by little, but the infected people seemed to have forgotten why they were here, and they all huddled there, motionless. If it weren't for the occasional low, high-pitched roar, the people upstairs would have forgotten that they existed.
"Xiaolian, what's the use of you just dissecting it all, they can't see it."
Bai Yunlian didn't raise her head and said, "Isn't there still a phone?" β
"Are you really not afraid at all?"
Bai Yunlian impatiently stopped what she was doing and looked up at Qin Tianwu: "Qiu Xue can do it, so can I." β
In Qin Tianwu's mind, Lin Qiuxue's poem naturally appeared, but he was quite disdainful: "When I was young, I was so enthusiastic, but now it seems that it is called stupid." β
"Tianwu." Wei Yilin turned his head and glanced at Qin Tianwu dissatisfied.
"We could starve to death here."
"Aren't there still Qiao Wu and Wen Feng?" Bai Yunlian retorted.
"Hey, two." Qin Tianwu raised two fingers on his left hand, and then two fingers on his right hand, "Twenty thousand." He slammed his hands together, and his left hand was naturally pressed underneath his right hand.
"But we died a glorious death."
"Glorious?" Qin Tianwu sneered, "Usually we don't wait to see each other, but when it comes to the end, a word of 'glory' will push us forward, and you can't complain yet." β
"Tianwu!" Wei Yilin walked up to Qin Tianwu with angry eyes, "Enough is enough!" β
"Yun Lian, you go on, don't pay attention to him."
Bai Yunlian nodded, shook her head again, didn't say anything, and continued to do her thing.
"How do you know we're dead? Didn't we get out of danger last time? You can do it this time, too. β
"How many people were infected last time? It's not enough for this fraction! Qin Tianwu stood up straight and looked down at Wei Yilin, who was much shorter than himself, "And last time, they only surrounded three sides of the house. This time, it was like an iron bucket. β
"You calm down first, okay." Wei Yilin raised his hands high and put them on Qin Tianwu's shoulder blades, "At least, they didn't attack, and we still have some food on our hands." We still have time, and when we have time, we have a chance! β
"Actually, this time, they may not really be so decisive." Bai Yunlian extracted a black organ from the skull of the infected, which was like a black crystal. In the dimly lit corridor, it exudes a pure black luster, but it is not as hard as a real black crystal, like a sponge, and when you exert yourself, it will deflat.
"This ...... What is this? Wei Yilin was dumbfounded and pointed at the organ.
"Brainstorming." Bai Yunlian placed the organ on the lathe and carefully photographed it from several different angles.
"The virus is very similar to rabies. Attack muscle cells first. It then attacks nerve endings and finally breaks through the brain barrier and enters the God-protected brain. Bai Yunlian said as she walked along the route of the virus invasion with her fingers, and then she squatted down and fiddled with the patient's mouth for a while.
"What's wrong?" Wei Yilin patiently waited for Bai Yunlian to finish the last knife before asking, at this time, the face of the sick body had been turned beyond recognition by her, and it was about to become a skull.
"See these black spots?" Bai Yunlian took off the small scissors of her left hand, and gently pointed at the slender and slightly flattened organ with her fingers.
Wei Yilin and Qin Tianwu came over to take a look, and they couldn't help but take a deep breath - what kind of black spot is this, this is simply a pure black ink strip, okay!
"It's the sublingual gland." "But it's completely discolored. This black should be the culprit of this terrible illness. β
"These are viruses?" Wei Yilin's face was incredulous.
"So to speak." Then Bai Yunlian carefully cut out the parotid gland and submandibular gland of the sick corpse, and the two were as black as ink as the former.
"As soon as the skin breaks, they will enter another host in large quantities through the host's saliva and multiply in the new host, and when they invade the new host's brain, they will interfere with or alter the host's original consciousness."
Qin Tianwu's heart was beating wildly, and he saw him pointing to the three pitch-black organs and saying, "But this ...... How many viruses do you have to have? β
"It's on par with the population of Huanzhou."
"What?"
"It's a few tens of nanometers in diameter, but now it's visible to the naked eye." Wei Yilin, who had a little knowledge of biology, explained for Bai Yunlian.
"If you can't see clearly, I can cut a big one for you to see." Bai Yunlian said with a yin smile.
Qin Tianwu looked at the protective gear infected person lying on the ground, and hurriedly said, "It's clear, it's clear." β
Wei Yilin walked to the window again, looked down, although those fanatical fans had calmed down, but still refused to leave, he looked up again, the sky was gradually darkening, it seemed that it would not be long before the night would come, he tried to communicate with Qiao Wu and Zhong Wenfeng, but in the communicator, there was only the sound of "Zizi".
"Old Wei, do you say it's hard to be trapped here, or is it hard to be trapped outside?"
Wei Yilin was amused by Qin Tianwu: "Haha, we can call a helicopter, but we can't go, they can go, but they can't call a helicopter." It's all the same. β
"Hey, Xiaolian, you haven't finished dissecting yet."
Bai Yunlian wiped the chemical protection cap covering her forehead and blinked: "Alas...... Without enough leverage, will they negotiate with us? β
"Oh, when did you become so mature?"
"Just now."
"I still hope you're naΓ―ve." By the window, Wei Yilin muttered subconsciously.
"Actually, they won't talk to us." Qin Tianwu suppressed his voice so low that Bai Yunlian was almost completely inaudible, "Five dead people and five hundred dead people are just a number for them. So, we can only find a way to get out first, and then call for help. β
"I can't reach them." Wei Yilin shook his head, "They are still young and inexperienced. β
"What are we going to do tonight?" Qin Tianwu looked back at the corridor where he couldn't see his fingers, "I don't know if there are any infected people in this building." β
"Yunlian, how long are you left?"
"It's not a matter of time soon." Bai Yunlian played with the scalpel in her right hand and looked at the two sick corpses lying flat on the ground, "I think I should go to the dissection room of the hospital to look for it, if I can find the light microscope and formalin, it would be great." β
"That place...... It's so eerie, right? β
Wei Yilin patted Qin Tianwu's shoulder: "That place is clean, at least it won't be full of rotting corpses." β
Qin Tianwu held his chin, looked at the lathes that filled the two ends of the corridor, and thought about the pictures that might be seen in the dissection room, and slowly agreed with Wei Yilin's statement in his heart.
"But what do we do...... The two of them moved in? β
"Lathe." Bai Yunlian patted the lathe beside her, but she didn't expect that with this shot, a pale yellow lake was revealed under the rotting corpse, and the suffocating smell was even stronger.
Wei Yilin shone the rotting corpse on the lathe lathe with a surgical lamp, its legs were tied to the lathe by a very short iron chain, which was half the thickness of the little finger, and it was not easy to cut it. Wei Yilin bowed deeply at the rotting corpse, and then raised the knife in his hand, and with a "click", he cut off the ankle of the rotting corpse, and the bone loss of the rotting corpse was very serious, so it was cut off without much effort.
The dissection room was located next to the morgue, about sixty square meters in size, as Wei Yilin expected, the inside was very neat, the walls were drier than the rest of the place, and all kinds of tools were quietly in their original positions, and most of them were intact, and they only needed a little cleaning to use.
"I want to eat something and breathe." Wei Yilin sat on the outermost table in the dissection room and shouted like a child.
"Why don't we go to the Hanging Garden?" Qin Tianwu suggested. The Sky Garden, located on the mezzanine level on the twelfth floor, is part of the hospital's rehabilitation center, and is an open-air platform where you can breathe in and have a bite to eat.
"Not bad." Wei Yilin nodded listlessly, "I'm so dizzy." β
"Stinky boy, you just ate half a bar of chocolate!"
"It's already consumed, and it's hand-to-hand combat and lifting." Wei Yilin only felt that his salivary glands had stopped working, his throat was dry and about to crack, and his tongue, which was as dry as sandpaper, was poking around the wound uncontrollably, trying to make the wound bleed again, so that he could taste the dove wine like nectar.
"Let me lean on it." Wei Yilin said, his heavy head smashed on Qin Tianwu's chest without saying anything.
"Old Wei, Old Wei! Oops, don't make a fuss. Qin Tianwu patted Wei Yilin's back, but Wei Yilin grabbed his wrist and told him not to move.
Qin Tianwu gave up the idea of pushing Wei Yilin away, and whispered in his ear: "What if we are really infected?" β
"Send her out." Wei Yilin didn't raise his head, but the volume was a little louder, because he was now sticking to Qin Tianwu's chest, and if he didn't make a loud noise, the sound waves couldn't be transmitted.
"I'm talking about us."
"I'm going to kill myself, you...... I'm not reluctant. β
"Suicide?" Qin Tianwu's tone showed that Wei Yilin's statement surprised him, for a veteran who had experienced countless lives and deaths, suicide might have long been deleted from his dictionary.
"Mingjun can do it, and so can I." Wei Yilin took two deep breaths, "I can't be the Poison King...... Can't ......"
"Don't worry, they won't tear through."
"Xiaolian, have you studied psychology?" After "hypnotizing" Wei Yilin, Qin Tianwu came to Bai Yunlian, who had been busy, who had not stopped since the moment she entered the door, and she really didn't know how to store so much energy in her thin body.
"I've learned a little fur, what's wrong?" Bai Yunlian habitually brushed the hat of her chemical protection suit, where was once the hair of her shawl.
"Lao Wei is under a lot of psychological pressure." Qin Tianwu consciously retreated to another operating table, so that he would not disrupt Bai Yunlian's rhythm, "The lives of the five people are all on his shoulders. I'm afraid he won't be able to hold on. β
"You want me to talk to him?" Bai Yunlian rarely took off the equipment in her hands, raised her head, turned around, and walked in front of Qin Tianwu, her bloodshot eyes behind the goggles unconsciously aimed at Wei Yilin, who was lying on an operating table and was asleep.
"There are 20,000 infected people out there. There are only three of us, and no one can cross it. Qin Tianwu sighed, and even the mask on his face was blown up by him, "I'm a reckless man, I don't know anything but fight." β
"My psychological pressure is also great~" Is this Xiaolian really unhappy, or is she playing a little trick?
"I know, but ......" Qin Tianwu scratched his head awkwardly, racking his brains to spell out a simple sentence that could express the meaning clearly.
Bai Yunlian was amused by his stupidity, so she directly said the reason: "He is the superior of the superior, how can I talk to him?" β
"Hey, your thinking is not right, you are outside!" Qin Tianwu immediately put on a preachy face, "There is no distinction between high and low, why can't you?" β
"What's more." Qin Tianwu got a little closer, his was more than a head taller than Bai Yunlian, if he hadn't deliberately lowered his waist and bent his feet, it would really be like Mount Tai pressing the top, "You are not a system." Where is the difference between high and low? β
"Hey." Bai Yunlian covered her mouth and smiled, "You can really speak." β
"How's it going, Xiaolian?" No matter how Qin Tianwu heard this, it was awkward.
"Okay, I'll go when he wakes up." Bai Yunlian said and glanced at Wei Yilin, who was sleeping soundly, "Hmph, what's the matter?" Sleep like a pig. Then he went back to the console.
Behind Bai Yunlian, Qin Tianwu almost jumped up with joy: Old Wei, why do you have to invite me to a drink for this matchmaking, right? Ha ha.