Two ambulances with Red Cross emblazoned on them drove along the road in the direction of Windhoek.
Two large off-road jeeps flanked the front and back of the ambulances, assuming the responsibility of clearing the road and protecting them.
The four vehicles drove along the road of the wasteland, gradually approaching the center of the epidemic area. The closer they got to Windhoek, the more villagers began to appear on both sides of the road.
These people had left their hometown in order to stay away from the plague, but they did not understand that as they fled to further villages, they also brought the plague and death to the local area.
At noon, the convoy stopped at the farthest point of the outbreak — Bergland Village.
However, at this time, the village was already dead silent. Looking along the road in the village, all that could be seen were puddles of black objects dumped on the road, emitting a foul stench from time to time.
Other than that, there were several villagers lying in the middle of the road, but they had lost all signs of life.
From the houses on both sides of the road, one could hear waves of painful moans.
"Click."
As the door opened, Herbert and a group of colleagues jumped out of the ambulance. He walked to the middle of the road and looked at the scene in the village through the polyethylene mask. He only felt his stomach churning.
Corpses, corpses everywhere...
Although they were medical personnel sent by Eco Science City, it was the first time they had seen such a tragic scene.
Resisting the visual discomfort, Herbert walked toward the corpses on the side of the road, followed by the sound of footsteps behind him.
Herbert looked back, only to see two security guards armed with rifles following him, faintly assuming a defensive posture.
It was said that this group of people was the security personnel of Eco Science City, and also the bodyguards who came to protect the medical personnel this time. However, for some reason, to Herbert, this group of people looked like dead people.
Their expressions were wooden, and every movement was full of a mechanical and rigid feeling.
Overall, this group of people did not look like humans, but more like a group of robots, or more accurately, the walking dead.
Nevertheless, no matter how much Herbert hated these people, being in such a hellish epidemic area, the protection of these two people still gave Herbert a sense of security.
Ignoring these things, Herbert walked to the front of a collapsed villager not far away and turned this villager over.
Instantly, a corpse covered in bloody blisters and bleeding from all orifices appeared in front of him.
Herbert hurriedly took a deep breath and suppressed the urge to vomit. He gently felt the villager's pulse. It was obvious that this person had completely lost all signs of life.
Herbert continued to look at the corpse's lower body, only to find that it was also filthy. Large amounts of blood and unknown bodily fluids were mixed together. Even in death, it was still flowing out, as if their internal organs had melted.
Picking up the camera hanging around his neck, Herbert took two pictures of the body and then began to examine the other body.
"Herbert, what's the situation on your side?"
At this moment, Herbert's colleague, Karl, who had also gotten out of the car to check, asked.
"The situation is not good. I don't see any villagers alive."
Herbert shook his head. He once again examined the corpse of a villager who had just died. At the same time, he asked curiously, "Why don't I see anyone alive?"
"That's normal. These villagers are either hiding in their houses and waiting to die, or running away and spreading the disease further," Karl said helplessly. "The officials here are too slow to react."
"Eh …"
Just as Karl was speaking, he suddenly exclaimed, "Herbert, come over and take a look. I found a living villager here!"
Hearing that, Herbert hurried over and bent down to check.
Sure enough, the villager on the ground did not seem to be dead. His chest was still rising and falling faintly.
"What should we do?"
His colleague Karl looked at Herbert and asked, "Do we need to put him in the ambulance?"
"Yes, I'll go inflate the isolation chamber …" Herbert said as he stood up and was about to walk toward the ambulance.
"There's no need."
At this moment, the team leader in charge of this operation, Lawrence, stopped the two of them. "There's no point in treating patients who are about to die. We need patients who have just shown symptoms."
"But …"
Just as Herbert was about to say something, the door of the house on the side suddenly opened. Everyone turned around subconsciously and saw a young black man with a horrified expression poking his head out.
After seeing the people in isolation suits, the young man's eyes immediately lit up with hope.
Ambulance!
The Red Cross could be said to be the most common symbol in the world. Even the villagers were familiar with it. At this moment, the young man immediately rushed out of the house, rushing toward the crowd like a life-saving straw.
Herbert instinctively took a few steps back.
Just as the young man was about to reach the crowd, a few rifles on the side immediately aimed at the young black man. However, at this time, the young black man was extremely agitated. He kept moving forward while mumbling something.
"Don't shoot, he's speaking Swahili. He just wants us to save his mother."
Herbert hurriedly explained. At the same time, he walked forward and began to comfort the young man in Swahili.
When the young man's emotions gradually stabilized, Herbert glanced at the team leader Lawrence.
The team leader nodded at him. "Karl, isolate this patient."
Hearing that, Carter immediately returned to the ambulance and pushed out a stretcher. On the stretcher was a transparent negative pressure isolation chamber. This was a device that could seal the source of infection and effectively isolate the patient from the general population.
While Herbert communicated with the young man, he walked into the young man's house and immediately saw the young man's mother on the bed who was already on the verge of death.
Not much different from the corpses outside, the young man's mother was also covered in blood and vomit. She was already at the point of death.
"Team leader, this …"
Looking at the young man's earnest expression, Herbert looked at the team leader awkwardly.
Lawrence nodded. Karl and another medical staff immediately pushed a negative pressure isolation chamber in and carried the young black man's mother inside.
"Tell him that he has to go inside as well," the team leader Lawrence ordered.
Fortunately, the young man was very cooperative and obediently went into the isolation chamber. However, just to be safe, Herbert still injected both of them with tranquilizers before sending them into the ambulance.
"Alright, there are two more places left."
The team leader Lawrence said, "You guys go ahead and take a look. Try to choose the patients with the milder symptoms."
"Understood."
Just as the crowd was about to move forward, the door of a house in the distance suddenly opened. A villager covered in blood saw the crowd and immediately screamed as he ran toward them.
"D * mn it, make him shut up!"
The team leader's expression changed and he quickly said, "If a large number of villagers are alarmed, we won't be able to leave!"
However, it was all too late. As the villager continued to scream, the doors of the houses on the side of the road also opened. A group of villagers with blood all over their faces cried and surged toward the crowd like a tidal wave!
"What should we do?"
Herbert and the others suddenly felt a chill run down their spines. If they were surrounded by this group of people and their protective suits were torn apart, they would be dead meat!
Just as the crowd was at a loss for what to do, the security guards who had been silent all this while stepped forward. One of them raised a Czech CZ805 rifle in his hand and pulled the trigger at the sky without hesitation!
"Bang bang bang bang bang!"
A series of violent gunshots rang out. The smoke and cold murderous atmosphere finally calmed the group of villagers down as they looked at Herbert and the others in fear.
Seeing this, the team leader Lawrence finally breathed a sigh of relief. He pointed at the two children among the villagers and asked them to crawl into the negative pressure isolation chamber on their own. Then, he and the others worked together to carry the isolation chamber to another ambulance.
"Alright, before these people come up, let's get out of here quickly!"
After the four infected people had been transported to the ambulance, the crowd quickly got into the car as well. Without waiting for the villagers to continue begging, they closed the door.
After all the medical staff had boarded the ambulance, the security guards also retreated to the Jeep one by one.
Seeing that the ambulance was about to leave, the group of villagers finally could not hold it in any longer. They cried and rushed forward, slapping the car with their bloody hands and letting out inhuman cries.
"Let us in!"
"Don't go, I beg you, please save us!"
"I don't want to die..."
The villagers blocked the four sides of the car, blocking it with all their might, refusing to let the car move.
"What, what do we do?" The people in the ambulance instantly panicked. There were too many people around the ambulance. If the car moved right away, it would run over at least a few of them.
Just as the crowd was drenched in cold sweat, a series of gunshots suddenly erupted from the two Jeeps in front and behind them. This time, it was not fired into the sky but directly at the group of villagers!
Herbert only saw a security guard poking his body out of the sunroof, aiming at the villagers and pulling the trigger. In an instant, the villagers surrounding the Jeep exploded into a dense mist of blood. The group of villagers screamed as they retreated!
"Are they crazy? They're actually shooting at civilians!" The team leader Lawrence exclaimed.
However, this method was indeed very effective. The villagers surrounding the vehicles finally dispersed. With the roar of the engines, the four vehicles quickly started up and left the village after running over a few villagers...
Even as the vehicles drove out of the village, the crowd could still see the villagers chasing after them from the rearview mirror.
The villagers' eyes were filled with despair. They cried and screamed as they chased after the vehicles, getting further and further away until they could no longer be seen...
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