Volume 2 The Return of the Stars Chapter 55 Quarantine
As the saying goes, watching the mountains run dead horses, it wasn't until this moment that Jiang Luo really realized the pitfalls.
He and the captain dragged their tired bodies up and down, and it took him nearly two days to climb the mountain. With what happened before, they became more cautious. The captain also understood that his abilities were not omnipotent, such as the Glowing Worm, and he didn't sense it until he flew in front of them, and although the sacrifice of the team members had little to do with him, he was still very depressed.
Jiang Luo can also understand, after all, anyone who witnesses the death of the people around him again and again and then survives will have a change in their mentality.
Fortunately, except for some slightly larger mutated small animals, such as rabbits that are more than one meter long, there are no more strange creatures like glowing insects in this mountain.
On the way, Jiang Luo found that although he was also a mutant, the speed at which the captain absorbed the external elements was obviously much slower, no, to be precise, Jiang Luo's rate of transforming external energy was too high, and it could not be quantitatively described because there was no systematic analysis, but according to what the captain said, Jiang Luo could roughly compare that his rate was twice that of ordinary mutants. And his anomaly seems to be in terms of recovery, if he can continuously absorb elements from the outside world and provide energy replenishment, can he achieve infinite recovery of himself?
If it can really be done, Jiang Luo's anomaly is definitely a very powerful existence!
Jiang Luo's abnormality should have originated from the flesh cone in his body, and so far, the meat cone has not brought any harm (the body deficiency caused by the closure of external energy before is not counted), and the abnormality that gives him is not only the ability to recover, but also the extraordinary reaction speed.
As night fell, Jiang Luo and the captain finally climbed out of the mountain and followed the road a few hundred meters further to the entrance of the town. According to the captain, this is the outermost defensive circle in the Jiangnan Theater, and it was a small county town before the end.
But at this moment, through the afterglow of daylight, Jiang Luo could clearly see the towering watchtower and the stone wall more than three meters high, as well as the layers of barbed wire outside the city, everything was completely in a state of combat readiness.
When Jiang Luo got closer, he found that there was a trench more than a meter deep between the barbed wire, with many sandbags on it, and there were blood stains all around, and he didn't know if it was a human or some monster.
The vigilant sentinels found them as early as five hundred meters away, there are too many people fleeing from all over the world these days, most of them are in groups, and it is really rare to see two people like them, unless they are the only two survivors in a large group, then what this team has experienced can be imagined, outside the defensive circle of the war zone, there are too many monsters that can swallow hundreds of people at once, and there will be new monsters coming from above every day.
Because of the fact that he was covered in mud before, it was difficult to distinguish the color of the clothes on his body at this time. The captain took Jiang Luo along the planks on the trench and walked outside the city gate, and heard a voice of orders sounding from the city tower:
"You, I will enter through Gate 3, cooperate with the security check and registration, and then I will settle you."
Jiang Luo realized that the big iron gate was divided into three passages.
"I'm the captain of the 741st Regiment Detective Team 6, and he's the survivor I brought back." The captain explained.
"Then please show your ID."
None of the entire reconnaissance team went out on a mission with documents, and the best proof is the people themselves! In today's environment, paper certificates are the least effective and can be easily lost. However, the outermost circle was originally a small county town, and even though the fortifications were built under the instructions of Jinling, there was still no machine capable of fingerprint verification.
"If you can't get the documents, please follow the procedure!"
There is no way, if nothing else, the captain should take them directly back to the main city of Jinling, instead of coming to these satellite cities. The outermost counties of these defensive rings are generally housed by ordinary people who have fled. This ordinary is ordinary in two senses, one is that it doesn't matter if you have no money, no power, and the second is congenital insufficiency, and it can't be mutated, if it's a mutant, you can directly enter the main city.
Entering through Gate No. 3, there was a long passage, and when they walked in, there were two soldiers with guns, monitoring Jiang Luo and the captain as they entered the inspection room on the side.
The first thing to check is whether a dangerous weapon is carried, which is an external check. This is followed by an internal examination of the body, and the war zone is to ensure that none of the survivors entering the war zone are carrying the contagious virus.
"When the war zone was first set up, it was still a quarantine zone. Those who have not been quarantined are gathered here, because at the beginning of the day, countless people poured into the theater defense circle every day, and they did not have time to check...... I was still a soldier on duty at the time, and I didn't expect it to become a safe zone so quickly. The captain sighed.
"What about those who are sick?" Jiang Luo was a little worried that the things in his body were detected and then treated as a monster. After all, he knew in his heart that he wasn't a normal mutant.
"I don't know, when the quarantine area was established, those who carried infectious diseases were all in it, and later it seems that some of the serious ones were placed in another place...... You can rest assured, we are mutants, and according to the theories of those experts, ordinary viruses cannot be transmitted to us, so we cannot be virus carriers. I'm in, see you later. The captain said hello and was led into the infirmary by a soldier.
If it weren't for the fact that there was a soldier with a gun standing behind him, Jiang Luo really wanted to run away directly. But at this moment, you can only bite the bullet, otherwise the slightest change is estimated to be treated as a special case.
The doctor in the quarantine room is younger than Jiang Luo imagined, a beautiful doctor in her twenties, with beautiful short hair, a good figure, and delicate facial features, the only pity is that she has been losing her face.
After rudely opening Jiang Luo's eyelids and shining a lamp through her eyes, she took out the syringe with an expressionless face.
I don't know if it's because Jiang Luo is too thin, he didn't draw enough blood after several draws, so Jiang Luo's arm socket had several more pinholes, and this iceberg doctor pricked it very hard every time, for fear that he wouldn't be able to pierce people, and it hurt Jiang Luo's teeth.
"Okay, hold it down yourself to stop the bleeding." The iceberg beauty doctor showed a disdainful expression, thinking that she was still a man, she was so thin and weak, she could still escape here, and she didn't know how much virtue she had accumulated in her previous life.
After the blood was drawn, he began to do a full-body CT scan, and here Jiang Luo began to get nervous, and his breathing became short.
Doctor Bingshan also seemed to feel Jiang Luo's nervousness, and looked at him puzzled: "What are you doing?" Take it easy, it's just a routine check. ”
Call! I hope I don't show my feet, otherwise I might really be sliced as a monster! Jiang Luo lay on the scanning bed and took a deep breath and prayed secretly.
It took about half an hour, and his whole body was examined inside and out, except for the private parts*, and then the soldier from before took him to a small cell-like room, where there was nothing but a few simple tables and chairs, and the captain was inside. They all have to wait here until the results of the blood draw are in.
Fortunately, since there were not many survivors who entered today, their test results came out quickly, except for the red blood cell oxygen content was a little higher, everything else was normal, and the reason for the high red blood cell oxygen content may be because of the mutant.
"You can go in, but don't make trouble, or you'll be kicked out. How you lived before, how you live now. The soldier sent the two out of the cordon near the city gate, and gave them a pack of tents for each of them, meaning that they should keep their minds in the state of mind before the end of the day, and not to make up their minds.
After all, the end is coming, many people are thinking about dying and happy, all kinds of violations of law and discipline are repeatedly prohibited, and in this case, only high-pressure policies can maintain a balance.
As far as the eye can see, the interior of this small county town is not much different from the pre-apocalyptic period, the only difference may be that the streets are filled with strange smells and a bleak atmosphere.
Almost every house has closed doors and windows, and there are shanty houses in the streets and alleys that can be seen to the naked eye.
The captain said that there was a gap even in the area of survivors where ordinary people gathered at the outermost part of the defensive circle. The military is only responsible for security and law and order, but it does not manage the internal affairs of the survivors, as long as they do not destroy the general environment, even if there is a secret fight, they will not care, or have no time to take care of it. And once someone makes trouble, it is often that both sides are swept away, so there will be such a "peaceful" atmosphere in the last days.
"We'll just go tonight, and tomorrow I'll go to them and make a call to Jinling to confirm my identity, and then we'll get a car and go back to Jinling directly."
Jiang Luo nodded, what he was thinking about at the moment was not the problem of sleeping on the road, but the previous quarantine, whether the thing in his body had been checked out, and if the answer was yes, how could it be released safely? Maybe that thing is only visible to you? But he vividly remembers being cut open in the chest by a clown in Lake City...... Maybe that's just an illusion too?
Jiang Luo was lying in the tent, his mind stirred into a mess. When I was about to fall asleep, I felt the sky shake for a while.
The place where their tents were set up was very close to the defense line of the city gate guard area, and the violent tremors came from outside the guard area.
The captain lifted his tent: "Hurry up, there's an accident outside!" ”
"What?"
......
And in the security area inside the city gate, the iceberg beauty doctor was rushing into the quarantine room in a hurry, and she was not relieved until she took out a document from the filing cabinet.
"Sister Yuan, let's go, it's too dangerous here!" The soldiers outside the door urged.
"Okay." Relieved to get the important research materials, she was about to leave, only to find some CT scans on the floor.
The top one is the thin young man before, she will only take a cursory look, after all, the quarantine is mainly blood tests, this kind of CT scan is just a formality, but at this moment she happened to see the abnormality on the CT scan.
In the part of the young man's heart, there was something about the size of a heart, but it was definitely not a heart, because it is impossible for a human heart to grow into a cone.
"Sister Yuan!"
"Here we are." She didn't have time to take a closer look, the situation outside was worse than she had imagined, and there was going to be an unprecedented crisis here.