Shen Haoxuan's phone was confiscated when the disease control team arrived last night but even so, he had no energy left to play with it.
Since he was admitted to the hospital, his fever had not subsided. The constant coughing caused him to have trouble sleeping. His whole body ached.
"Is that the alarm …" In his drowsy state, Shen Haoxuan thought he heard a siren coming from outside, it sounded like an air raid alarm …
He opened his eyes to look around. He was still alone in the large room. The plastic basin next to his bed reeked of his vomit.
Why hasn't anyone come to clean it up yet? When was the last time the nurse came in? It should have been several hours already …
The stench made Shen Haoxuan feel even worse. His mouth was thirsty. He reached for the glass of water on the bedside table but he did not have the strength to reach for it.
He used all the strength in his body and his trembling hand to press the call bell on the bedside table. "Nurse, nurse …"
But no nurse or doctor came in for a long time.
There was a lot of coughing outside. There were chaotic shouts and footsteps. It sounded like the hospital was packed but no one heard him.
"Can anyone hear me …" Shen Haoxuan wanted to press the call bell again but his arm was too weak to move.
The effort made him cough again. His mouth reeked of blood. A large blob of something flew out and landed on his hospital gown.
His chest was constricted and he had difficulty breathing. It was hard to tell whether it was his heart or lungs.
Blood, brown phlegm and decomposing organs mixed together. It was like the blob of vomit the uncle coughed on the bus but it was worse.
He could see but he could not get up to clean it. Looking around, fear gripped his heart.
'Am … am I going to die … No, I still need to go to university, I don't want to die … '
Shen Haoxuan gathered his strength and pressed the call bell again.
"Nurse, nurse … cough cough … Doctor Huang … Is anyone there … Cough cough …"
…
After the coughing started in the early morning, Huang Lin was transferred to a normal sickroom.
She did not take off her mask during the consultation. She even put on a triple mask but she was still suspected to be infected. Three hours later, the word "suspected" was removed. She had a high fever, and her cough was getting worse.
Huang Guoxin's condition had already shown that the cephalosporins and aminoglycosides used to treat common pneumonia had no effect on this disease.
On a voluntary basis, Huang Lin used the medication for legionella pneumonia. She injected herself with erythromycin and rifampicin, these drugs could cure legionella pneumonia.
But that morning, her condition continued to worsen, and she began to cough up bloody sputum.
"Incubation for six hours, onset and worsening for six to ten hours. This disease is developing too fast … Even erythromycin is ineffective?"
Huang Lin's heart tightened. Was this not legionella pneumonia? However, according to the medical records of legionella pneumonia, erythromycin needs to be injected continuously for 2 to 3 weeks. The body temperature will gradually drop, and it will take about 1 week for the body to return to normal.
However, not long after that, she received the latest news. The PCR result showed Legionella pneumophila. However, Specialist He was also showing symptoms of coughing. The level 3 protective suit did not work.
Huang Lin suddenly understood something. She was in the clinical field, so she understood what this meant.
She took out her phone and called her parents again in the wee hours of the morning. Then she called her boyfriend. She tried to be as calm as she could. They were all locals of San Hai City. She repeated the reminder she gave them earlier in the morning. She told them to stay at home and wait for the evacuation. She told them to close the doors and windows, put on masks and not to wander outside.
The corridor outside was noisy. More and more infected people were rushing into the hospital.
After the call, Huang Lin half lay on the bed. Holding a ballpoint pen, she coughed and started to write her will.
"My symptoms are still worsening. If Huang Guoxin's condition continues, I will not be in my right mind by tonight. Then I will not be able to write my will anymore so I have to do it now, as soon as possible. I plan to write until I can't continue.
I have many things to say but I don't know where to start.
If I leave now and the others are still alive, the one I worry the most is Dou Dou. I am the only one in the family who truly loves dogs.
That's very unfilial of me … I originally wanted to be a vet. "
As she wrote, tears suddenly fell from Huang Lin's eyes.
…
That evening, 34 hours after he was admitted to the hospital, Wang Guoxin died of acute heart failure.
The medical staff who worked on Wang Guoxin … all of them started to show symptoms of fever and coughing.
The town hospital did not have enough sickrooms and staff to support it, the place was in chaos.
Initially, He Feng was kept in an isolated room but that soon lost its purpose. He had no idea if the disease control measures were still useful or not. His understanding of the disease control system robbed him of his hope. 34 hours from the onset of the disease to death? None of the drugs worked?
How was he going to control the epidemic? The more he thought about it, the more powerless he felt.
He Feng even had a dark thought. Lock down the epidemic area, abandon it and destroy it.
Don't let anyone out and don't send anyone in …
But how could he do that? Once He Feng thought about his 7 year old daughter, his heart felt like it was being sliced by a knife. His daughter, his wife and his parents were all in the epidemic area.
Therefore, he clung to the last shred of hope. His superior told him on the phone that a national secret agency had sent people over, they could handle anything.
When the alarm went off, He Feng saw these people in special protective gear in the sickroom.
"Leader He, please place your hand on this rock and use your mind to think about the mark on it. See if it works."
Doctor Luo, who was called Uncle Dan, told him to do so. He Feng did as he was told but nothing happened.
Uncle Dan and the rest tried other methods. They tried other patients with different stages of illness but none of them worked.
He Feng had no idea what was going on but when he saw Uncle Dan's pale face, he knew that the people sent by the superior could not come up with a solution …
"I need to make a phone call." He Feng walked to the side. While he still had some energy left, he called home to talk to his family.
"Daddy, the alarm outside is so loud." Niu Niu's childish voice came from the phone, "Is it an earthquake? I don't feel anything. "
"It's not an earthquake, don't be afraid, it's just a drill …" He Feng said gently as he tried to stop himself from coughing, "Mommy is here with you, don't be afraid …"
"Daddy, cough cough …" Niu Niu suddenly coughed. It sounded like she was having a hard time. "Then when are you coming back?"
When He Feng heard this cough, his face blanched.
…
The coughing that sounded like lungs were going to be ripped out echoed in the office.
Lee Mingqiu, Wei Xiaoru and Zhang Dawei waited anxiously in the corridor. The suspected patient, Lin Mingda, was locked inside the office.
They had already called the helpline but they waited for more than half an hour before a member of the disease control center in heavy protective gear arrived.
"He's in there!" Zhang Dawei pointed at the office. He accepted the mask the member handed him and put it on. Wei Xiaoru added, "We heard him coughing so we came here immediately. The air conditioner has been switched off for quite some time, it should be fine, right?"
"I'm sorry but you're all suspected patients." The member said darkly, "Come with me."
"No, we!" Zhang Dawei gasped, "We didn't come into contact with him."
"This virus is airborne." The member added, "If you've breathed it, you might have been infected."
Lee Mingqiu understood that from the start so he did not argue with the member like the others. But in the end, the rest gave up and followed the member.
When they exited the building, they realized it was not only their office and company, everyone else in the building was being escorted away by the members of the disease control center.
Under the gloomy night, there were many transport vehicles parked on the street. Not all of them were professional quarantine vehicles, even the public buses were being used.
Li Mingqiu was brought onto a medium-sized yellow bus. He saw that the bus was already full of people wearing masks. All of them were silent and at a loss.
"Please keep quiet, do not speak, do not panic." The member said.
Lee Mingqiu found an empty seat and soon the bus started moving. It was heading somewhere in the dark.
Suddenly he heard sobbing coming from the bus. Then came more sobbing.
…
The sea breeze howled. The sea was dark and the light from the white lighthouse was weak.
This was not an abandoned lighthouse. Normally, there would be people looking after it. But before Gu Jun walked into the lighthouse, he had already called for backup. Following behind him was a team of Operatives. Together with Peacock and the rest who had received basic military training, they rushed into the lighthouse using storming tactics.
The lower floor of the lighthouse was shrouded in darkness. The bullets from the automatic rifles scanned the surroundings.
There was no one there, not even a litter. It was empty except for a stone spiral staircase that led up.
But Gu Jun's eyes narrowed …
On the wall at the top of the staircase, there was a row of glaring brownish-red foreign words. It looked like it was painted with blood and it extended up the staircase.
"The fruit of darkness grows from the abyss, the worm of death will live with the world forever."
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