Chapter 187, the aftermath of the catastrophe
In addition to the fact that we have been in and out of the epidemic area and have been in contact with zombies for a long time, we must have proper isolation and disinfection, and another important reason is Ling Yuan's mutation. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Ling Yuan's kid, some teenagers are precocious, but no matter how early he goes to bed, he is a sixteen-year-old boy after all. I used to think that many of us might not be able to survive this disaster, but if only a few people can survive, I hope Ling Yuan can be among the people who live. Compared with him, I am also old, and a teenager like him is a truly promising generation.
But we, the "old men", survived, but Ling Yuan mutated.
We don't know where Ling Yuan went wrong, he and we have always been together.
But the incubation period of the virus is very long, and it cannot be ruled out that when we were still at the base of Cedar Villa, he was bitten or scratched by a zombie during a search mission. This possibility exists, because when we were in Cedar Villa, we didn't have a strict quarantine on people who came back from going out every time, in fact, even if they came back every time they came back, men and women took a separate group bath, which was not only a kind of comfort, but also to check if anyone had been bitten and scratched. But after all, we are not so professional, and some injuries may be very small and hidden, and they cannot be seen at a glance.
In addition to this possibility that has been lurking for a long time, the most recent one was on the elevated tram in Xingqing City, where he was pounced on by the zombie who later turned around and fled, and we also examined him at the time and found no injuries. But it was much easier at the time, and we didn't even strip him naked. We take it for granted that there is no wound on his back, and there must be no other wounds.
Although, this is just our guess.
The mutated Ling Yuan has been caught by the military, and there will be an answer to what link went wrong in the end. But until this answer comes out, we all have to continue to stay in the isolation ward of the Fourth Field Hospital of the 11th War Zone, which is the hospital where we are now converted from an abandoned factory.
Liang Zhengzheng told me that we were in a mountain nest, surrounded by mountains, and the mountains looked like rocks at a glance, and there were few trees, and the most plants were those tenacious vines. There is a river flowing through the mountain nest, the river is very shallow, and the isolation ward where we are located is southeast of the hospital, located downstream of the river, which was originally the living area of the factory, which is roughly a rectangle and not a large area, and she calculates by herself that it is about 300 meters from east to west and about 400 meters from north to south. The area is fenced off by a 5-metre-high fence with sentries patrolling the fence. Except for a small patch of old-fashioned buildings next to each other in the corner, most of the area was wasteland, which the field hospital kept for the wounded to wander around and exercise.
We weren't the only ones in the isolation ward, there were about 200 people in the isolation ward, including the doctors and nurses, and there was also a platoon of guards. The isolation ward is also divided into different isolation wards, among which the patients in the high-risk ward are not only not allowed to leave the ward, but the ward itself is also reinforced. The wards we live in are basically the lowest level of alert and the greatest degree of freedom, because in essence, the injuries we suffer are gunshot wounds, which are not much different from the wounded treated in ordinary field hospital wards outside the quarantine area. As for the size of the field hospital outside the quarantine zone, we do not know, because it is not visible.
Of course, living in an isolation ward is risky, and since there is a high-risk ward, it is difficult to guarantee that a mutant will not pop out. Not only are the sick and wounded reluctant to come in, but even the medical staff are reluctant to come in, and of course the medical staff here are all soldiers, and it is their duty to obey orders, but it is also a fact that the medical staff in the isolation ward are understaffed. Therefore, a person like Lin Lu who took the initiative to ask to be a nurse in the isolation ward is not available in the field hospital.
The good thing is that the accommodation conditions in the isolation ward are relatively good, and compared to the 200 or so wounded and sick people in it, this area is actually quite large, such as me, a militia major, there is also a separate ward here. And the food of the medical staff here is very good, even the food with us is also good.
As for the limited space for activities, we have been used to this since the disaster broke out.
Liang Zhengzheng chatted with me for a while, and I felt sleepy again, it is said that my injuries are relatively serious, and I have just undergone surgery, and the whole person is still relatively weak. Zheng Zheng found that I was tired, so he stopped talking, but helped me tidy up the quilt and rested on the side of the bed. In fact, she was also injured.
Gradually, I fell asleep again, and when I woke up again, it seemed to be dark outside, and the room was lit with electric strips, which looked old-fashioned. I called "Zheng Zheng", but I didn't see her, I saw a military doctor in a white lab coat. This is a man who looks about the same age as me, or even slightly younger than me, with a tall and healthy figure, with a very capable and simple cut, wheat-colored skin, which looks like a sunny feeling, a square face, and a resolute silhouette, but not stiff and handsome, but very friendly when smiling. Moreover, he has a colonel's collar badge hanging on his collar, although it is not a high rank, but it is still very awesome for his age.
In addition to this male doctor, there are two military doctors in their twenties next to him, a man and a woman, who seem to be his assistants, and the ranks of captain and lieutenant are also hung on the collars, I have always paid more attention to women than men, but seeing that Lin Lu was also there, I didn't take a closer look at the appearance of the female military doctor.
"Looks like you're recovering pretty well." The colonel's male military doctor saw that I was awake, and looked at the instruments and data beside the bed, he seemed to be more satisfied, and said to me with a pleasant face: "I am the chief doctor of the isolation ward, and also your attending doctor, my name is Chai Xiaofan, and I am fully responsible for the isolation ward. Don't worry, I'll do my best to get you back up quickly, and I can't say that you're better than before, but at least I can guarantee that there will be no sequelae. ”
I remembered Lisso.
Liang Zhengzheng said that Li Suo's second condition for the female major general was to hope that the other party would make proper arrangements for us, and now it seems that the female major general Li Enhui has fulfilled her promise to Li Suo. I didn't expect any better treatment from us, because in Zheng Zheng's retelling, Major General Lee Eun-hui said that we had made a contribution to the incident of the virus sample, but I knew that it was just an accident, and my original intention was to take a team to carry out my private operation, and I met Li Suo on the way and promised to help her find the plane, and I did not want to hand over the virus sample to the military at that time. Of course, Li Di seems to have calculated it from the beginning, and she mentioned to me that I didn't take it too seriously at the time.
At this time, I thought of Li Suo, I don't know what will happen to her after she hands over the virus sample to Major General Li Enhui, I hope she can live with a different identity in the future, after all, whether it is an agent of the Intelligence Bureau, Interpol, or a commercial spy, for a girl in her twenties, these identities are too heavy and tiring. In fact, if it was in the past, it would be difficult for her to change her fate, but now it is different, now the whole world has collapsed, and even if it can be rebuilt, many things are buried in the ruins, including identity. She could have started all over again.
I still felt weak, so after a while, Dr. Chai and his assistant had a routine check-up on me, and it wasn't long before I went back to sleep.
After a few days like this, my physical condition gradually improved, and I was able to get out of bed and walk around with the help of others. Liang Zhengzheng accompanies me in the ward every day, and she builds a marching bed next to my hospital bed, which she puts away when she is not sleeping, just like a little wife who accompanies her husband in the hospital. We don't always have so much to say, we don't talk much about the past, it's all about the pain, we don't know about the future, and the things of the present, the things of the present don't have much to say.
But the two of us don't have to say anything together, sometimes she sits on the edge of my bed and falls asleep before I know it, and I see her curled up beside me like a kitten, and I feel content when I look at her long eyelashes after closing her eyes.
I saw Zhao Mo the day after I woke up in the field hospital, to be precise, he came to my ward to see me. In fact, his injuries are not light, the broken arm can't be picked up, and the massive blood loss makes him look weak, but his physique is very good, and he recovers much faster than others. There was also Lin Zhuoran who came with Zhao Mo, he was basically not injured, I saw him, my mind was full of problems, just like when he first saw me, it was full of problems, but a few days ago, my body was still relatively weak, and we didn't do much communication.
Until one afternoon a week later, Zheng Zheng fed me a little rice porridge and went out, the ward was empty, and I looked out the window in a daze. The sky outside the window was a little gloomy, and before I knew it, it was already early winter. I don't know exactly where this nest we are located is, but I feel that the winter here is going to be very cold, and it is only early winter, and the wind outside is a little harsh. There is no air conditioning or heating in this ward, but I feel that the humidity is heavy, and I guess it will be sad in winter. I don't know how long we're going to be in the isolation ward and where we're going to go, but even if I'm healed, it's not easy to go back to my hometown to find my parents.
Just when I was looking at the gloomy sky outside and thinking about the problem for a while, Lin Zhuoran gently pushed the door open and came in. He was wearing an autumn military uniform, with the rank of captain hanging on his shoulders, and for a moment I was in a trance, and I almost forgot that we were all soldiers, even though we were out-and-out ragtags.
"Looks good." Lin Zhuoran is holding a teacup in his hand, the teacup has no lid, and the heat inside is rising, this season, do you need to hold a hot water cup to warm your hands? He saw my question and said, "No, I mixed a bag of good tea from Dr. Chai, and it smelled fragrant, and I was reluctant to drink it." ”
I sat up in bed, it was time for us to have a good chat, but unfortunately there was no cigarette, and the conversation between men felt like something was worse without cigarettes. But there was no way, I could only signal Lin Zhuoran to sit down on the chair where Zheng Zheng usually sits, and said, "You and Dr. Chai should be familiar by now, right?" Did you ask us how long we would be in this isolation ward? ”
In the past few days, I have learned about everyone's situation one after another. I am not the most seriously injured, although I have undergone major surgery, but the most seriously injured is the little white-faced sniper Li Shuming, I heard that there are dozens of shrapnel dug up from the body, and now I live in another ward two rooms away from me, saying that it is inevitable to leave a scar on the face, but life is better than anything else. The big guy Monza is such a terrible person, and he is dead when he says he is dead. The little reporter almost died, he was shot twice and had major surgery, Zheng Zheng said very gossiply, Mr. Lin is also stationed in the little reporter's ward these days.
Zhao Jialin, Wang Zhicheng, and Zhao Yingluo are not big problems, they can all move freely now, and they have all come to see me, the one who survived the twin little girls is called Qingqing, and now it is taken by Zhao Yingluo, it is difficult to imagine what it is like for a killer to raise a child, but now in this situation, if she takes care of Xiao Cheng Qingqing, it will be a good thing for the child, at least it is safer than Lin Lu.
Now I know everyone's situation, so naturally I am more concerned about the issue of isolation. At the end of the day, it's not a question of how long we're going to stay here, it's why we're quarantined and whether we can get out of it.
Lin Zhuoran understood what I meant, he said: "Our blood samples have been sent to the military's scientific research department, and if there is no problem, we can be released from quarantine soon." In other words, although we are now living in the isolation ward, the virus is no longer contagious except for the transmission of body fluids, and as for the high-risk wards you are worried about, they are all vacant now, so there is nothing to worry about in this regard. The conditions in the isolation ward are better, if you are in the ordinary ward of the field hospital, only the rank of colonel or above can enjoy the treatment of an independent ward, and there are too many people outside and too messy, but there is no safety in the isolation ward. In addition, the food in the isolation ward is also better than outside, although it doesn't sound good, but in fact, it is a kind of care. ”
I smiled wryly, this kind of care is really special and intimate. I'm still wondering if there's some other reason for staying in the isolation ward, it seems that I'm too nervous. If you come here, you will be safe, so let's take care of your injuries first.
"One more thing." I couldn't help but ask, "Didn't that Zong Ti be knocked down by Ling Yuan?" You are one of the few people on the presidium of the International Alliance of Homeland Medicine, what if he is infected? ”
Lin Zhuoran thought for a while, shrugged his shoulders and said, "God knows." (To be continued.) )