Chapter 49: The Diary (I)
Seeing that the whole person was about to fall into the corpse, two hands grabbed me.
Xiao Rou and Xiao Jiu grabbed my hand tightly and pulled me up.
Kneeling on smallpox, I broke out in a cold sweat. The zombies below had already knocked down the iron ladder, and it was like a duck that was unwilling to cook it and flew away.
"Good thing you caught up!" Xiao Jiu let out a long breath. By the light, I could see that behind her was a long ventilation passage, large enough for a person to pass through on her stomach.
"How's Lu Feng?" I asked nervously.
Her expression looked very gloomy in the light: "I used the knife just now, but I couldn't successfully remove the ammunition, now wait for him to rest before performing a second operation." ”
She looked at Xiao Rou: "I've been waiting for you for a long time, come with me quickly!" ”
So we followed Xiao Jiu and crawled through the dark ventilation tunnel.
Along the way, she was explaining the details of the operation to Xiaorou: "...... After the surgery, he has developed adhesions in his abdomen, and the situation is not optimistic, you have to ...... Such...... Do you understand? ”
There were a lot of terms in their words, but Xiao Rou seemed to understand them and nodded frequently.
After climbing for a while, Xiao Jiu suddenly picked up a piece of ceiling from under his knee as if by magic, and then a faint light came through.
She climbed down gently. We followed her down a ladder. A large space suddenly opened up.
"It's the operating room......," Xiao Jiu said.
When I looked, there were a lot of surgical equipment, but I didn't see the operating table. There is also a door in the room, which is probably the place where the actual operation is performed. A low "buzzing" sound was heard from nowhere.
"It's the emergency power supply in the operating room, I don't know how long it can last, so be fast!" Xiao Jiu said, and then opened the door vigorously and walked into the inner room.
A soft light shone out, and I saw a lone iron-framed bed in the center of the inner room, and two shadowless lamps stretched out from the cantilevered arms illuminated the bloodless boy lying on the bed.
"Li Chen!" Guan Fei's rough voice came from the side, he hugged me, and said excitedly like a child: "I knew you were all fine!" ”
"Okay, okay, you guys go out to talk, just me and Xiaorou here!" Xiao Jiu pushed us out. The door was shut, and the "operating" light on the door was on. Only me, Guan Fei and Ye Lao were left outside.
The old man's back injury was in urgent need of rest, so we put him on the bed in the outer room. Soon after, he fell into a deep sleep.
After we also found a place to sit down, I couldn't help but ask: "Guan Fei, how did you know we were coming?" And so well prepared? Ladders were prepared under the ventilation ducts in that office and here. ”
Guan Fei said: "A large number of zombies were originally gathered at the door of the operating room, but the screams of the corpses just now suddenly left into the distance, and we thought it was you who came." When the ventilation duct came in, it had already squeezed me enough, so Xiao Jiu went out to pick you up. As for why the ladder was placed, the ladder was not the ...... we put it."
Guan Fei took a pocket diary from the desktop not far away: "Read it, the cause and effect of the incident are all in it......"
I read the unusual nature of this diary from Guan Fei's eyebrows, and when I opened it, the neat lines of handwriting came into view, and I saw that it was a doctor's account of what happened here after the outbreak:
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"August 19th. It's been a month since the pandemic broke out in full swing. We finally recovered from the shock, fear, horror and despair, and everything was recovering, and the forest court directed us to strengthen the gate and clean up the infected in the compound. Hospitals are now much safer. The habit of keeping a diary that I had cultivated for more than ten years can finally continue. The old book was already full, so I had to open a new one. ”
On August 19th, it should be Lu Feng and they appeared before and after the balcony of the commissary, and I continued to watch:
"August 20th. The Forestry Institute organized all of us to discuss the causes and treatment of the virus, and assigned the task: a core doctor to take the lead in studying the drug resistance of the virus. Due to the previous handling of some infected people, the strain is not difficult to obtain. The doctor who went out to look for food today is back, and it's a good harvest! Xing Dong, who has never had anything to do with him, actually brought me Midori's notebook, how did he know that I was collecting this brand of notebook? (Needs to be fixed, that's not the real Midori!) )”
"August 21. The drug resistance test has come out, and there is a mixture of joy and sorrow! The strain is usually blocked with a small dose of interferon, but it has not been effective in the treatment of infected people before. No human experiments can be done, and no vaccine can be extracted. Everyone generally believes that this road will not work, and it is necessary to wait for professional virology experts to solve it. The Forestry Academy announced that it would abandon research and focus all its energy on how to survive.
When I went to the dining hall to eat, I accidentally knocked over the ration, Xing Dong gave his ration to me, and he picked up the food on the ground and ate it. He smiled at me, and for the first time I found this taciturn man quite attractive. Does he like me? ”
The next few pages are all brushed aside, and nothing special.
"August 27th. Today is my brother's birthday, but my brother's life and death are uncertain. I hope his parents can accompany him somewhere, after all, he has just turned 16. My mind is full of images of him, and I watched him when he was born, a croaking little devil, but so cute.
I came to the balcony of the hospital, curled up in a corner, not wanting to go anywhere. At this time, a hand patted me on the shoulder, it was Xing Dong. I realized I was crying when he handed me the tissue, and it was crying very much. He scratched his head in embarrassment, then stretched out his shoulders. This fool! I leaned on his shoulder and cried, and he put his arms around me gently. What happened after that...... I won't write it for the time being. ”
"August 28th. We're in love. The mood is finally getting better. Today, the Forestry Institute announced that it had received a radio frequency band from the military, and technicians were trying to contact it. Everything is moving in a good direction. Xing Dong took me to his office, then brought a ladder, lifted the ceiling, and let me climb in.
We climbed through the dark ventilation duct to the operating room. Xing Dong told me that he had nailed the door to the operating room and that no one was using it anyway. He said that this is our last refuge in the future, and that if anything happens, we can survive if we finally escape here. I laughed at him for being unfounded, and soon an army would come to our rescue. Xing Dong smiled and disagreed. To be honest, his behavior is a bit childish, but I like it! ”
When I saw this, I couldn't help but suddenly realize that this is the origin of the ventilation duct. I looked at Guan Fei, who nodded solemnly, and then flipped through several blank pages for me, landing on a page of paper with messy, rather scribbled handwriting. Although the handwriting is still the same person, it can be seen that it was written in a hurry, and it seems to be full of fear, because the strokes are all trembling.
"September 8 (?) )。 I can't remember what day it was? My tears have dried up...... Oh, my God...... I want to die...... What happens here can't be made to go away, so I'm going to record it......
We built walls and strengthened gates to ward off the enemy from outside the gate, but we could not stop the enemy from the ground......
No one knows where they came from, and suddenly they just appeared in the hospital lobby one day. Lao Xu was stabbed in the chest with a machete by them and died on the spot. By the time Xing Dong and I rushed down, everyone had already surrendered. What else can I do? They had weapons in their hands and a gun in their heads. They looked like a bunch of hooligans, but I noticed that they all had tattoos on the backs of their hands, and the pattern looked like a rotten rose.
We knelt in front of them like everyone else. There were only about a dozen of them, but we couldn't deal with them at all. Lao Xu's body was still bleeding on the ground......"
"The leader asked, "Who is the head here?"
Although we all lowered our heads, all of us reflexively turned our gaze to the forest courtyard. A man with an iron pickaxe walked around us, and I shivered with fear. Xing Dong grabbed my hand tightly.
I ask again, who is the head? The man shouted, and everyone shuddered. He said that if no one is a head, then all are heads, and they are going to cut off all their heads.
There were already people trembling and wanting to point their fingers at the forest courtyard. I silently prayed in my heart for Lin Yuan, who was a decent and responsible person, and a great leader.
Oh? Are you the head of here? The man asked.
I saw Lin Yuan slowly raise his hand, and I couldn't bear to close my eyes.
…… It's him!
I opened my eyes suddenly, and Lin Yuan was pointing at someone else, it was Xing Dong next to me! ”