Hear Qizhou's "hmm" sound.
He placed a kiss on Chi Yue's eyelashes and, as usual, held her in an absolutely possessive posture for a while.
When I woke up again, the warm sun was even stronger.
Xie Changxiao, who had returned from eating fish and shrimp, was standing on the treadmill in the living room exercising when he heard their footsteps approaching. He wiped the sweat from his head and talked about the news he had learned.
"The patrol team started arresting people last Wednesday for the same reason as Yan Shuo said. Now we only know the direction in which they were taken to the medical room. It is not clear where they are being held."
"Approximately how many were caught?"
"Twenty or thirty."
Chi Yue brewed a pot of rose tea: "Did they wear protective clothing when they arrested people?"
"Nothing to wear." Xie Changxiao turned off the treadmill and sat down across from them: "Should we find a chance to follow you?"
"It's too risky." Wen Qizhou picked up the medical book and turned to the page about infectious diseases: "I'm worried it's a Class A infectious disease."
"Category A?"
"Cholera and Plague."
As soon as he read out the symptoms of both, there was a burst of noise outside the security door, as if someone was quarreling.
Xie Changxiao walked towards the entrance. As soon as he saw the patrol team wearing the same clothes through the peephole, he immediately called them over.
He pressed down on the door handle to expose the gap, allowing the sound to reach his ears more clearly.
"What do you mean?" The uncle, who was in his early fifties, was protecting his son and staring angrily at the patrol members: "My son is a civil servant! How could he steal something? You can arrest him as long as you want. Is there any law? "
"You misunderstood." The patrolman on the left said angrily: "We just want to ask your son to go back and investigate."
"Don't do this! You think I don't know how many people have you arrested recently?" The uncle decided that the patrol team had no good intentions and refused to hand over his son to them no matter what. "Unless I die, you can't even think about it." Don’t even think about it!”
His wife and son are not easy to fool either.
The wife was responsible for the mischief, trying to call out the neighbors in the whole building at the top of her voice, telling them to see how the patrol team bullied people; the son asked the patrol team for evidence in a reasonable and well-founded manner, asking them questions one after another that left them speechless.
Two team members had no choice but to give up.
Watching them go downstairs, the uncle immediately took his wife and children back to the next door and closed the door tightly to prevent them from firing back.
Chi Yue returned to the window and picked up the telescope to observe the movements of the two team members. She saw them enter the small building next door and arrest three "suspects" who seemed to be very healthy. They walked all the way towards the infirmary. Doubts filled her heart. Even more so.
She suppressed her curiosity for the time being, turned her head and looked at Wen Qizhou, who frowned slightly, for two seconds, and sighed silently.
They just hope that the truth is not what they worry about.
*
The patrol team members handed the "suspect" they captured to a doctor wearing protective clothing, who then led them to the second basement floor and swiped their cards to enter the fully enclosed research room.
The cold atmosphere of the research room has many compartments, and you can vaguely see figures passing by through the frosted doors.
The doctor stopped at the end of the corridor and motioned to the nurse waiting outside the door to arrange for them to enter the cubicle and then into the conference room.
He found a seat and sat down, listening to the old professor sitting at the front asking the young man on his left: "How is the situation of No. 2?"
No. 2 was the first person they invited.
Last Wednesday, a patient with persistent high fever came to the medical room for treatment. The doctor found that he had multiple swollen lymph nodes and coughed up a large amount of pink bloody sputum. They suspected that he was carrying an infectious virus and sent him to the research room for observation for a period of time.
Later, it was determined that he was carrying Yersinia pestis, and they asked the patrol team to invite No. 2, who had been in close contact with him, and then No. 2 provided his contact list, and checked down in order.
In order to prevent people from being upset, they did not dare to say that they had the plague virus, so they invited those people to come to the laboratory for isolation on the grounds of carrying rabies virus and being thieves.
The young man replied: "No. 2 had a high fever of 39 degrees, shortness of breath, severe chest pain, reduced fibrinogen concentration, and a significantly prolonged partial thromboplastin time."
"Where's No. 3?"
"No. 3 has blood in his urine and a high fever of 40 degrees..."
He gave a detailed report. Listening to the increasingly serious condition, the person on the lower left of the old professor said: "Their incubation period is getting shorter and shorter, and our medical conditions cannot keep up."
"No medicine left?"
"Well, there's only enough for a dozen people left."
The doctor who came in later mentioned the people's reluctance to cooperate: "Judging from the current situation, it will be a matter of time before Ningtong becomes an epidemic area, so I suggest that we evacuate immediately."
"Evacuate?" The young man who reported the situation earlier looked at the other person in disbelief: "You mean, leave the entire base alone? Let them fend for themselves?"
The doctor asked, "Without medicine, what effect will you have if you stay? Can you just treat others with your mouth?"
"But……"
"I remember your daughter just turned three years old?" He interrupted the young man and looked at him deeply: "What is the survival rate of young children in the epidemic area? You must know better than me."
The young man was speechless.
Medical ethics and selfishness are like weights on a scale, each occupying one end and tilting back and forth in his heart.
He looked up at the professors in front of him and saw that none of them responded. The hands on his knees tightened and unclenched.
In the end, selfishness prevails.
*
The medical team left all the medicines and evacuated Ning Tong with the base's senior officials late one night.
The helicopter flew over the small blue brick building, and the sound of the propeller was clearly captured by Wen Qizhou who was up at night.
He walked to the window with frowning eyebrows and found that the vehicles originally parked under the office building were driving outside the base one after another. An ominous premonition suddenly struck his mind.
"Yueyue, get up quickly." He woke up Chi Yue, frowning and talking about the situation outside: "The top management of the base has evacuated."
"all?"
"It should be." He lowered his eyes and speculated in the worst direction: "I guess the infectious disease cannot be controlled."
Chi Yue woke up instantly.
She walked to the window and happened to see the rear of the car. She immediately decided: "Then let's go too."
"Okay." He put on his coat.
They woke up Xie Changxiao, packed up the things in the room together, and Chi Yue put them into the space. Then they carried their backpacks to the small building where Wen Yaxian lived, and knocked on the door.
It was Yan Shuo who came to open the door. Seeing them dressed neatly and with serious faces, his sleepiness suddenly disappeared.
After learning that all the senior officials had evacuated, he quickly returned to the bedroom and asked Yaxian to get up and pack her things.
"There are precautions about infectious diseases posted on the door of the medical room." Xie Changxiao, who went to check the situation, ran back to the small building out of breath and recited the infection symptoms written on it.
Without missing a word: "Coughing up blood, high fever, shortness of breath, central vomiting... Qi Zhou, what disease is this?"
"plague."
Wen Qizhou and Chi Yue spoke at the same time.
(End of chapter)
