Although there are no humanitarian organizations like the International Red Cross in this era, the profession of doctor itself has a certain flavor of international praise. Any country will respect doctors. The request of the Chinese medical team to go ashore, of course, the local government Will not stop.
Fourteen sampans carried 70 Marines and 60 medical staff. Under the leadership of Buck and Doctor Huang, they were getting closer and closer to the dock. Gradually, the city full of Middle Eastern desert style began to become clearer.
There are khaki-colored houses everywhere, with roofs covered with wood and dry coconut grass, and walls made of pitted mud. When the hot wind blows, you can see the sand peeling off the walls with your own eyes.
Port Suez is not a large-scale city. It is just a small town attached to the canal. Looking at the scale of this building, a town with two thousand people would be considered a top.
Dirty houses and streets, lazy wild dogs searching for everything to eat on the streets, and scattered coconut trees are the only vitality in the city. Without this bit of green, maybe everyone really thinks that this is A dead city.
Ma Hui scratched his nose, "It's too weird here? Where are the people? Where are all the people?"
"Captain Ma Hui, please wear a mask!" Huang Xiyi said seriously, "From now on we have entered the epidemic area, everyone must obey our orders. The first is to wear a mask, and the second is not to eat or drink in this place. Any food and water in the city, if the Third Collective Action encounters corpses or patients, do not touch them without permission."
The scary tone made everyone present dare not neglect. Everyone put on a mask and checked the water bottles and compressed biscuits they carried with them. The soldiers checked the rifles and ammunition. The doctors opened the wooden boxes they carried and checked the equipment and equipment according to the numbers. drug.
The sampan slowly rushed onto the beach. The soldiers jumped into the water first and dragged the sampan to the diving beach area with their hands. Then the doctors began to go ashore. At this time, the magistrate of Suez Port, a big man in a robe The bearded man came over and welcomed him in broken English.
"Welcome, friends from afar, I hope Allah bless you!"
Buck looked at the bearded magistrate with a look of confusion in his eyes, but that was fleeting. Then he smiled and hugged the magistrate and asked tentatively, "Where are the officials of the Canal Authority? Are they indifferent to this plague?" "
The magistrate's face changed and he smiled and did not answer, "Dear guests, we have all gathered the plague patients in the empty house to the west of the pier. If you want to see me, I will take you there." After saying this, he led four people in tattered clothes. The soldiers were leading the way.
Buck, Evil Doctor Huang, and Mahiluo Monkey gathered together and whispered, "It seems that the French have made it clear that they are going to confront us. Egypt is nominally a province of the Ottoman Empire, but everyone knows about the canal." It’s the French who run it!”
"The judiciary, taxation, and garrison are all managed by the French. Have you seen the European-style building at the dock? That's the French Canal Authority, and that's where the real owner of this city is!"
"The real master doesn't show up and lets these puppet-like officials come forward. I really don't know what evil they are holding back! Everyone, please be careful."
Ma Hui sneered and looked at the building in the distance, "It's okay, they are just disgusting people at best. They don't dare to actually use so many cannons on the sea to support us. It scares them to death!"
"Brothers, spread the alert"
Soldiers with guns protected the medical team, but the team, which was obviously here to treat illnesses and save lives, became murderous.
Along the way, everyone discovered that the city had become extremely scary due to the plague. There were very few people in the streets and alleys, and even those who were there were in a hurry and did not dare to stop.
Especially when they saw these murderous outsiders, the local people were frightened and fled into the alleys. Ma Hui and the others even felt that there were many pairs of eyes secretly observing them behind the countless wooden doors.
In this era, the Chinese are very unfamiliar to the peoples of the Middle East, but they are no strangers to the weapons and equipment in the hands of soldiers, and they are no strangers to the powerful murderous intent. These indigenous people vaguely feel that this group of people is even better than the French garrison at the dock. Even more terrifying.
The local official who led the way could feel the murderous aura behind him more personally. He did not dare to say anything along the way and just kept wiping his sweat. Soon the group came to the edge of the city, and a huge mud-walled courtyard appeared in front of people. It seems to be a resting place for the desert caravan camel team.
"This is it. Now there are more than 200 sick patients concentrated here. There are still many people in the city who are not feeling well. God bless you."
When the courtyard door was opened, almost everyone subconsciously covered their mouths and noses, and everyone could smell the stench through the thick masks.
"Oh my God! Is this a slaughterhouse?"
The yard was full of patients lying in various directions. Some were groaning, some were unconscious, and some were obviously dead, with flies crawling on them. There are layers of men in the yard, but women's clothes are exposed in the house.
There was fresh and dried vomit everywhere on the ground, as well as excrement and excrement under people's bodies. The magistrate jumped on his feet and covered his nose and ran away, "These are the cursed people. They are here. You can do whatever you like! God bless you!"
"Damn, you are so unloyal! These are all your fellow villagers, you should run away first when the time comes." Luo Houhou cursed and wanted to shoot him in the back.
In this kind of situation, the doctor's psychological quality must be good. Buck and Doctor Huang have never seen any disgusting scenes. They have studied thousands of corpses. These two hundred plague patients are definitely a small scene. .
"Prepare the testing teams to operate separately. The first group will test feces and urine, and the second group will test vomitus."
"Xiao Luo, you start to identify the dead patients and ask the soldiers to help separate the living from the dead. The dead will be gathered in the sand dunes outside first."
"Prepare blood samples. I suspect this is a plague caused by dysentery. In addition, send some soldiers to collect water samples from wells throughout the harbor! Take action immediately."
There is really no money in the world. Xiao Letian's high investment in medical care has directly cultivated a group of well-trained medical staff. Doctor Huang and Buck did not need to talk nonsense at all, and all the teams immediately took action.
Medical wooden boxes were opened, and precision laboratory supplies such as microscopes, petri dishes, and alcohol stoves were arranged in a row, and each team began careful inspection work.
But they didn't know that just near the dilapidated courtyard, a few pairs of eyes were staring at the Chinese actions from the windows of another room.
