Chen Xin and the others were not too slow in returning home. Although the mobile base could only travel about thirty kilometers per hour, they could travel more than seven hundred kilometers in a day without stopping.
Even though the place they started from was thousands of kilometers away from the Yan Kingdom, after more than a week on the road, the two mobile bases were able to successfully enter the Yan Kingdom. After entering the Mongolian Province, they continued southward.
Because they have entered the country, communications have naturally been restored, and senior officials have contacted Chen Xin and the others immediately.
After a simple exchange, Chen Xin also understood the current situation.
Although the train that sent Chen Xin and the others to Siberia took a longer detour, it was much faster, so they returned home much earlier than Chen Xin and the others, and now they have arrived at their destination.
In addition, Haizhu also returned to the country, informed the top management of the situation, and is currently under quarantine and observation.
Another ship, the Dog, stayed in the capital of Lucia, where the plague had broken out, even though some crew members were infected, in order not to bring the virus back into the country.
Senior officials are currently discussing whether to provide support to Lucia.
As for the earthquake in the southwest, the aftershocks have subsided and post-disaster reconstruction work is also underway in an orderly manner.
Although the entire southwest region was severely affected by the disaster, and the large number of casualties and material losses put the southwest region into a very difficult stage, but with the deployment and full support of high-level officials, the situation has improved.
The most severely affected city where Chen Xin was previously was able to rebuild the fastest with the help of Titan.
Although other disaster-stricken cities did not rebuild as fast, they have also started reconstruction work in an orderly manner, and the situation in the disaster-stricken areas is also improving step by step.
This reassured Chen Xin a lot, but while he put down his worries about the disaster area, he was also concerned about what decisions the senior officials would make regarding Lucia's matter.
To this point, the senior management did not give a reply, but asked Chen Xin to return as soon as possible.
Regarding the two mobile bases, the senior management also did not give clear instructions. They just asked the two mobile bases to send Chen Xin back first.
Faced with such instructions from the top management, the commanders of the two mobile bases and the leading officers naturally did not disobey or discount, and drove the two mobile bases and continued southward without stopping.
However, senior officials also learned that the two mobile bases were running out of supplies, and specially sent two helicopters to deliver supplies.
"What do you mean by the top management? Don't you plan to support Lucia?" Standing in the hangar, facing the cold wind pouring in from outside, watching the two helicopters land on the extended apron, Chen Xin asked the person next to him the officer asked.
Ever since he received the instructions from the top management, he never let Chen Xin leave his sight. He followed Chen Xin everywhere except when he was eating and sleeping.
Now hearing Chen Xin's question, the officer thought for a while and then returned: "Perhaps the top management has considerations. To be honest, we don't actually have much power to rescue Lucia. Now is not before the disaster. At most, we can send A medical team will go over, study the situation of the virus, and then bring back the Xugou stuck there. There is only so much that can be done."
Chen Xin had no other opinions about the officer's answer.
Indeed, as the officer said, the help Yan Guo can provide to Lucia is extremely limited.
Not to mention the shortage of domestic supplies and medical resources. Although it is not impossible to squeeze them out, being able to provide a medical team to help Lucia may be the limit of what the top management can do.
As for the Xugou, although the loss of an ark is very heartbreaking, and the compatriots trapped in Lucia who were infected with the epidemic are also very worthy of saving, but if saving the Xugou means exposing the entire Yan Kingdom to the Admiral's disease If the risk spreads to the country, Chen Xin feels that the top management will make the right decision.
Perhaps cruel, perhaps cruel, but in the face of the safety of the entire country, individuals are sometimes insignificant.
Of course, Chen Xin felt that things were far from this point.
After all, according to reports from high-level officials, although there has been a large-scale epidemic spread in Lucia, the fatality rate of this disease is not too high.
In the absence of medical treatment, the mortality rate of infected people in Lucia remained at a low level, not even higher than that of influenza.
Therefore, under the premise that the situation is relatively safe, the country is likely to send a medical team to Lucia, on the one hand to provide support to Lucia, and on the other hand to bring the Xugou back.
However, although the fatality rate of the disease caused by the ancient virus that broke out in Lucia was not high, this does not mean that this virus is not dangerous.
On the contrary, for viruses, a high fatality rate is not as scary as imagined. What is really scary is a virus that has both high contagiousness and high fatality rate.
A virus has a high fatality rate, which only shows that the human body, as a host, is extremely incompatible with this virus and can easily cause the rapid death of infected people.
The virus needs to replicate and spread by itself. If the infected person dies quickly, even faster than the spread speed, it is very likely that the infected person will die before the epidemic spreads widely.
In this case, although the infected person will die quickly, resulting in a very high mortality rate, the scope of infection will not be very large.
A "perfect" virus should actually have a low fatality rate and extremely high infectivity, just like the influenza we are familiar with. This virus spreads around the world every year with high infectivity and relatively low infectivity. The fatality rate is so high that humans have almost no good way to eradicate it.
Therefore, it is not terrible for a virus to have a high fatality rate, because it does not even have enough time to mutate, and it can easily arouse vigilance. Although it is very destructive, the scope of its impact is relatively small.
But highly transmissible viruses are dangerous. They are likely to spread rapidly in a short period of time and then start to mutate because there are enough infected individuals.
With enough infected individuals, you can't even imagine how many variants a virus can mutate into.
Just like the epidemic before the disaster, the populous country to the south of us reported the discovery of 7,684 variants of the same virus.
Under such a large-scale mutation, only God knows what the virus will become. Maybe it will be like winning a lottery ticket and mutating into a highly pathogenic, lethal, and easily transmissible super virus. The virus is coming.
Regarding the ancient virus that broke out in Lucia, perhaps Yanguo could ignore its impact by relying on its long distance and cold weather, but what if a similar situation happened in China?
Therefore, it is always good to send a medical team to Lucia to accumulate relevant experience in dealing with the spread of ancient viruses.
