The night was dark but the headlights were bright. The rumbling of the vehicles echoed through the deserted land.
The people of Ma Er Wan had been safely evacuated. There were no longer any residents or animals inside the quarantine circle. The plants here were a thing of the past. At Mo Bei, even in the cities, trees were rare but it was for that reason that every single tree here was precious.
The trucks that participated in the quarantine circle mission such as tree choppers, excavators and bulldozers were moving towards the trees inside the circle.
At Mo Bei command central, the commander of the mission, Zhou Dajun, had a dark expression on his face. He was a native of Mo Bei. Over the years, the environment here had been getting better and better … "Move!" With Zhou Dajun's order, the trucks from different locations moved towards the trees.
There was the creaking of saws and clanking of wood …
One by one, the trees fell and were carted away by the trucks. Not a single sapling was left behind.
At the same time, fire started to burn everywhere. It burned away the wild grass, the original color of spring and all signs of life.
In the dark night, everything turned into smoke and ashes.
The quarantine circle, the death zone, slowly but swiftly appeared. It surrounded the 30 cubic km mutated area.
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At Mo Bei Phecda Medical Department, there were 2 surgeries being carried out at the surgical building.
The two patients were Elder Tian Fuhou and Officer Bian Yi. Both had their upper right arm amputation.
Both of them had reached their hands into the locust tree and suffered light burns below their elbows. That was caused by intense radiation exposure.
For the radiation absorbed by the human body, 1 Gy was approximately equivalent to 1 Sv. Sv (Sivot) was a unit of dose equivalence. It was the product of the absorbed dose at a certain point in the studied tissue, the quality factor, and all other correction factors.
The dose equivalence of the two patients' whole body was about 6.2 Sv and 4.5 Sv respectively but the highest dose of their right arm was 1723 Sv and 1871 Sv respectively.
The other two patients, Elder Mai Dong and Officer Ma Zhenxing, their whole body dose equivalence was about 5.6 Sv and 4.2 Sv respectively.
On the day of the incident, all 4 of them suffered from acute radiation sickness. They suffered from frequent nausea and headache. After confirming that it was radiation sickness, the medical team gave them sedatives, anti-vomiting and anti-radiation drugs. Zhang Mai Dong and Ma Zhenxing's condition was temporarily under control.
But for Tian Fuhou and Bian Yi, since noon, they felt intense pain from the burns on their right arm.
1723 Sv and 1871 Sv were right there, the disease was spreading rapidly. The burned skin turned redder and then ulcerated. Then the ulcers rotted and the blood vessels ruptured. The damaged cells were decomposed and the hand was beyond recognition.
Tian Fuhou rolled on the bed in pain. He had been through so many hardships in his life. Even during the days of starvation, the old man did not shed a single tear.
But now, the old, the old man was crying and wailing. it was because of the pain.
He was already a 79-year-old man, and the intense pain caused his blood pressure to soar, making it difficult for him to breathe. All of his bodily functions were being damaged, and he was also in danger of cerebral hemorrhage and heart and lung failure. The medical team immediately injected a sufficient amount of morphine into the old man, but it had little effect on the pain caused by the nuclear radiation. There was no specific medicine for radiation sickness in the first place.
His cries of pain echoed in the isolation ward, it sounded like the cries of a man being tortured in hell.
His condition worsened to the point where amputation was necessary. The patient could not stand the pain and the radiation was spreading through his body.
If not for the fact that they had more data to support their hypothesis, the two surgeries would have been done in the morning.
If it were not for the fact that there were some problems that needed to be clarified, or at least there was more data to support it, these two surgeries would have been carried out during the day. The most important question was, was the nuclear radiation in the mutated area really just nuclear radiation? Could they be anesthetized during the surgery? Could they be anesthetized during the surgery? Could they even perform the surgery?
The Surgical Block was busy. The medical team from the Spell Department arrived that afternoon. Wang Ruoxiang and Cai Zixuan were among them.
They would be participating in one surgery each as the third assistant.
Faced with this situation, they were naturally reminded of Gu Jun. But in the pre-surgery meeting, they were all focused.
The doctors for the two surgeries were gathered in the meeting room. There were also many specialists and professors.
"Based on the current situation." A middle-aged man with a kind face stood before the screen to give his opinion. He was Prof Zhang Bohai.
Prof Zhang was the first clinical department director of the National Emergency Centre for Nuclear Accidents, he was also the director of the Institute of Radiological Medicine and the Society for Radiological Protection. This authoritative figure would lead the normal medical staff to cooperate with Phecda to deal with this incident, such as hygiene, nuclear and radiation emergency treatment and other medical work.
"The symptoms of the two patients are no different from normal acute radiation injury, there are no signs of any supernatural abnormalities. We believe the surgery can be carried out according to the standard procedure, we will use general anesthesia. "Prof Zhang said," The sooner the surgery, the better. "
The group nodded. Without anesthesia, Mr. Tian Fuhou might not survive. No matter how tenacious his will was, his blood pressure would not be able to take it.
Wang Ruoxiang nodded as well. This was her first mission since she returned to the Spell Department.
She did not expect it to be such a serious disaster.
One of the difficulties of these two surgeries was that the doctors and nurses had to wear bulky radiation protection suits to carry out the surgery.
Prof Zhang was not directly responsible for the surgery, the main surgeons, Yang Rongzhong and Tan Bo, were the best orthopedic doctors at Mo Bei Medical Department. With the help from the Spell Department, everyone was ready to deal with any possible abnormalities.
After the surgery was carried out according to the standard procedure, the two main surgeons discussed the surgery plan with their own team.
After the meeting ended, the doctors stood up and headed to the surgery room.
"Aiz." Cai Zixuan lagged behind. He was still staring at the picture of the patient's hand on the screen and sighed.
Mr. Tian Fuhou's right hand, the hand that was about to be amputated, planted several hundred mu of trees on the barren land.
"Zixuan, don't worry." Wang Ruoxiang patted her old classmate on his shoulder. "After all, even without radiation, you won't have any hair left."
Over the past 2 years, she had changed a lot, the only thing that remained the same was her hair.
"That's true." Cai Zixuan scratched his bald head with a smile, he knew his monitor was trying to lighten the atmosphere.
The two chatted as they chased after the group outside the meeting room. It was midnight but they still had 2 more surgery rooms to go.
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