Volume 1: The Eve of Doom Chapter 42 Revisiting Huanzhou
After lying in the hospital for nearly two weeks, Wei Yilin was allowed to be discharged, and Secretary Liu personally took him back and "escorted" him to Jia Zhongquan's office, which was more cluttered than the previous two times, with folding beds and confiscated bedding covered with a mess of bedding, and the place where the bedding was originally placed was now replaced by a large pile of books.
These colorful books, all of which are hardcover, are dominated by three types: geopolitics, history, and philosophy. Jia Zhongquan is insatiable when he reads books, so people who are familiar with him will always send him a few books under various pretexts. The books, which had been placed on the left-hand side of the office, were now occupied by documents, which were originally placed at the front left end of the desk, and now the front left end of the desk was occupied by three telephones, one red and two black.
"Yilin, how is your recovery?" Jia Zhongquan didn't put down the documents in his hand, and asked while reading.
"Thanks to the teacher's concern, it's all good."
"Then I'll be relieved." Jia Zhongquan nodded, took off his reading glasses with his left hand, closed the folder with one hand with his right hand, and pointed to the small blackboard hanging on the wall behind him with the tip of it. β
Wei Yilin turned his gaze to the tip of the folder to the First Affiliated Hospital of Huanzhou Medical University (the First Affiliated Hospital of Huanzhou Medical University), which is located in Wukou District, the old town of Huanzhou.
"An area of 3,017 square kilometers and a population of 2,170,000." Jia Zhongquan picked up a piece of chalk and wrote two strings of numbers on the blackboard, "Satellites show that the infected people here are different from other places, they act in groups, one group can be less than hundreds, more than 10,000, and the largest group occupies an entire road." β
Wei Yilin could hear that the hairs on his body stood up one by one, of course he knew the horror of the infected people, this mountain of infected people, like a swarm of locusts sweeping over the crops, wherever they went, there would be nothing left, and the most terrifying thing was that the weapons in their hands were not the opponents of this "locust swarm" at all.
"Remember, you have to treat them as people on the outside, and don't think so on the inside." Jia Zhongquan said routinely that he had to say this sentence every few days for the past few weeks, but some people could use the first half of the sentence, while others could no longer use it.
Wei Yilin stood there, motionless, as if he hadn't heard.
"Scared?" Jia Zhongquan raised his head, looked at Wei Yilin's face with both eyes, grabbed a pen in his right hand, and quickly signed his name on a piece of paper, but he was not in a hurry to hand it over to anyone, because he saw that Wei Yilin's eyes did not have the slightest hesitation when he first entered Huanzhou, but had a lot of worries and reluctance. Jia Zhongquan knew that he would encounter this kind of look more and more in the future.
"Don't be afraid." An unwarranted response.
"Go ahead." Jia Zhongquan handed the document to Wei Yilin, "They are all looking at you. β
Building No. 5 is the planning center of the Haoshan base, with antennas erected on the roof, and the largest room on the third floor is the command center, which has a screen as big as a wall, which can project satellite images of the target area on it, and more than 10 computers on both sides can be competent for liaison with various departments, target positioning, tracking, and other work at the same time. The second floor is the dormitory, and the first floor is the conference center and the dormitory for the implementation of the operation. About fifty meters away from it, there is a single-story warehouse with an area of 200 square meters, which is the arsenal of the entire base.
"Due to the need to verify the primary cases of serious illness, the resolution passed by the meeting of the headquarters of the General Bureau of Investigations has agreed by an absolute majority to dispatch helicopters and necessary personnel to Huanzhou. Therefore, I order your ministry to act immediately to eradicate the serious disease as soon as possible and not to disappoint the people. After Wei Yilin finished reading, he handed over the order printed with the seals of the General Administration of Investigation, the Epidemic Prevention Department of the General Administration of Investigation, and the signature of the Chixinan Commissioner's Office of the General Administration of Investigation to the remaining four people to circulate one by one.
"Tomorrow, we will go to Huanzhou again to investigate the First Hospital of Environmental Medicine." Without waiting for Zhong Wenfeng, who was the first to receive the document, to read it, Wei Yilin spoke, "Before eight o'clock in the evening, you can move freely." β
Speaking of this, Wei Yilin turned around and patted the wooden box on the wooden table: "When eight o'clock arrives, put the things you think are important, including all the people you want to say to your family and friends, into this box." Then go to the arsenal and get a spear,"
After the order was checked, Wei Yilin let everyone disperse, and everyone's mood was also different, Qin Tianwu was the person who came out of the rain of bullets, his expression was very calm, and he couldn't see even the slightest wave on his face, Qiao Wu seemed to have a new understanding of life after experiencing the shootout of Yu Kanzha and others, although he couldn't be as calm as Qin Tianwu, but it was much better than when he went to Huanzhou for the first time.
Compared with Qiao Wu, Zhong Wenfeng's performance is much worse, he and Qiao Wu both graduated from the training class shortly before the outbreak of the severe disease in Huanzhou, and the last time they went to Huanzhou was the first mission for the two of them, but compared with Qiao Wu, he lacked the real test of guns and bullets, so his eyes were very sloppy, his Adam's apple was also turning up and down unevenly, and his lips kept opening and closing. Wei Yilin knew that he was comforting himself and emboldening himself.
"Yunlian." Wei Yilin stopped the last person who passed by him, "Do you think there is any point in verifying this primary case?" Wei Yilin's voice was very low, and he didn't turn to look at Bai Yunlian, who was almost walking to the door, when he spokeβhe was avoiding her gaze.
"Hmm......" Bai Yunlian was stunned, for a while, she didn't understand the meaning of Wei Yilin's words.
"Does it make sense?" Wei Yilin repeated, his tone still gloomy.
"Yes." Bai Yunlian nodded, she understood what Wei Yilin meant, "It's not big, but it's meaningful." β
"It's good to have." Wei Yilin finally turned around, exposing his face to the sunlight shining in from the window, his face a healthy bronz.
"What's wrong? Something isn't quite right with your appearance. β
"They sent a lot of people to Huanzhou." Wei Yilin half sat on the table, supporting the corner of the table with his right hand, "Half of the people didn't come back." β
The best age for a soldier is eighteen to twenty-two years old, because a person of this age does not hesitate to die, and his blood is surging to his brain, even if there is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of him, he will dare to give you a break. But the special agents are different, most of them have graduated from colleges and universities, or from the military powerhouse, and then they have to go through two to three years of study, and by the time they come out, many of them are already in their twenties, and they have already learned to spare their lives.
Of course, this is not to say that they will bargain with their superiors, but they will think about whether the order is reasonable, and if the order is unreasonable, for example, the search for the primary case is now dispensable for the development of anti-disease drugs, then the person who gave the order to find the primary case will be held accountable for his careless disregard for human life.
"They're all waiting for our medicine." These words seem to have been instilled in Bai Yunlian by others.
"Recently, Song Jasmine's words have always come to my mind, and I have been disturbed by it." Wei Yilin didn't plan to "let go" Bai Yunlian just like that.
"Which one?" Bai Yunlian's right eye flashed a light slightly, a beam of surprise.
"When our ancestors and Australopithecus were separated for the first time, do you think the Australopithecus also thought that these guys were unbelievable and unhealthy?" After finishing speaking, Wei Yilin hurriedly explained with his hands and feet, "I know that this is wrong, but I just don't know what is wrong with it." β
Bai Yunlian rolled her sly eyes: "I asked Professor Zheng, and he said that real science must go through countless experiments and have a rigorous proof process. Pseudoscience, on the other hand, is not experimental, without a rigorous proof process, even though it looks like science. If you compare both to a high platform, then real science, you can go up step by step through its steps, but if it is pseudoscience, it has no steps for you to climb, because everything about it comes from imagination. β
"Understood, thank you." Wei Yilin was relieved and let out a long breath.
"Then, I'll go first."
"Remember to get antibiotics."
"Got it."
After a night of silence, in the early hours of the next morning, the night guard knocked on the doors of the two dormitories, reminding them that it was time to prepare. Everyone got up with a grunt, sorted out their housekeeping, and packed their bags. Sometimes, experience is not necessarily a good thing, for example, everyone is worried about their fate, for example, the face shields issued to them have been replaced with ordinary masks, and the texture of the chemical protective suits seems to be a level lower than last time.
"This ......" Zhong Wenfeng held up a blue disposable mask, and stopped talking.
"It has been confirmed that it will not spread in the air." Wei Yilin helped Zhong Wenfeng straighten out the one-piece chemical protective suit, "This is enough." β
Zhong Wenfeng didn't say anything, put on a mask, hung up the headphones, and Wei Yilin helped him put on the hat, tightened the elastic adjustment band of the hat, and then helped him press the goggles tightly, and pulled the elastic band to death. In fact, in addition to masks, they also have an option - a hood, but the disadvantage of the hood is also obvious, it leaves the eyes and mouth parts, although both parts are unlikely to come into contact with the blood of the infected person, but as the saying goes, be careful to make a ship of ten thousand years. Then there is the wearing of carrying equipment, which can be done by one person on weekdays, but now because of the constraints of chemical protective clothing, two people need to help them.
Bai Yunlian took off the elastic bands that helped her hair, smoothed her hair, and then pulled on the chemical protection suit, the chemical protection suit had just been pulled to her neck, and she grabbed the shoulders of the chemical protection suit from behind with a pair of hands, Bai Yunlian looked back and saw that it was Wei Yilin.
"Thank you." As she spoke, Bai Yunlian shrank and put her hands into the sleeves of her chemical protective suit.
"Did you cut your hair?"
"Well, it won't be ugly, will it?"
Wei Yilin smiled slightly, and helped Bai Yunlian pull up the chemical protection suit: "It's good if it's not bald." β
"Hey, they're not in this form yet." Bai Yunlian smiled, put on her mask, and adjusted the goggles to the place where she was most comfortable.
"Don't hesitate." Before helping Bai Yunlian put on her hat, Wei Yilin bit the root of Bai Yunlian's ear and said, "This thing will break as soon as you grab it." β
"What? Then you just said to Wen Feng......" Bai Yunlian's words were interrupted by the sudden chemical protection cap.
"Those who don't know are not afraid." Wei Yilin sighed, "Protect yourself." β
"Are you being treated differently?" Bai Yunlian's tone did not blame, but seemed to have a trace of indescribable excitement.
Wei Yilin helped Bai Yunlian buckle the carrying gear: "You can put the things by yourself, don't mess up." β
"Sudden Sudden Sudden Sudden
As soon as the previous helicopter full of boxes stopped roaring, the latter began to roar, and this helicopter was overhauled only yesterday and was in the best condition of the several. Its tail is painted with a string of white numbers 6103-81200106, and the only thing on the fuselage is that the awe-inspiring national emblem is not black.
"No one is coming to see us off?" Zhong Wenfeng looked at the hurried people on the tarmac and couldn't help but say.
"The same thing, if you do too much, you will get tired of it." Qin Tianwu patted him, "Let's go." β
Among the five people, Qin Tianwu, Qiao Wu, and Zhong Wenfeng were holding assault rifles, Bai Yunlian and Wei Yilin were carrying submachine guns, and tactical lights were hung under the five guns. According to Liu Shimeng, this kind of projectile is very useful and can easily divert the group of infected people.
"6103-81200106 call the tower and request to take off. 6103-81200106 Call the tower and request to take off. β
"The tower calls 6103-81200106 and is allowed to take off. The tower calls 6103-81200106 and is allowed to take off. β
"Seat belts are fastened, right?" The pilot in the front row turned around and asked a few people sitting on the ground that all the seats in the helicopter's crew compartment had been removed, because it could hold more cargo and people.
"Buckle it up."
The roar of the engine suddenly became deafening, and the air wave born from under the propeller tore at everything within a certain radius with the helicopter as the center, and the heavy fuselage was slowly lifted by an invisible hand in this air wave.
"Let's sleep, there's still an hour of silence." Wei Yilin said and leaned on the rear bulkhead of the helicopter, and the others also found a place to lean, and the machine gunner in the crew compartment seemed to be a veteran of several missions, and he may have seen life and death many times, and his heart was numb, and he didn't take the initiative to tease any of them.
Wei Yilin and Qin Tianwu are both people who say they can sleep, but the other three are not so lucky, the bumps of the helicopter, the roar of the propeller, and the worry about the future are all like a snake, turning over and over in their hearts. It made them restless and restless, and they couldn't sleep. It's funny to say, in the barracks, sleeping is also a science, it can also be divided into sleeping in the field, sleeping in a bumpy and noisy vehicle, sleeping in the foot army and so on. By this standard, Wei Yilin and Qin Tianwu were in the second realm, and the other three were just getting started.
If you can't sleep, you have to have fun to pass the time, and Zhong Wenfeng's method is to chat with the machine gunner - the latter is boring anyway. But while chatting, Zhong Wenfeng found that he couldn't talk about it that day, because the topic he talked about with the machine gunner really shook the morale of the army.
"Once, as soon as we put people down, a large group of infected people came up from all sides, and my trigger was about to break." The Heavy clutched his knees, his eyes glazed, and he retold the story for the first time, "There are too many, too many." β
"If it weren't for Feila's speed, we would have died."
The power of a machine gun is terrifying to any individual individual, but it is a different matter if it is directed at a population that is pouring in from all directions like a tidal wave.
"Or maybe I'd be glad that if the plane was fully armed, I'd have even more trouble sleeping."
Zhong Wenfeng was taken aback, raised his head and looked at the machine gunner who was leaning behind the driver's seat: "Why?" β
"You are brothers, and below you are compatriots." The machine gunner glanced at Zhong Wenfeng and smiled self-deprecatingly, "The palm of the hand and the back of the hand hurt anywhere." β
"How nice would it be if they were poisoners, enemies, separations, or something? It's neither. β
Zhong Wenfeng let out a long sigh and shook his head, no matter what they were, his heart had already been pierced by the sword.