Plague Doctor

Shen Haoxuan's mobile phone was taken away when the disease control expert team came to investigate last night, but even if it was not taken away, he no longer has the energy to play with it.

From the time I was admitted to the hospital last night to tonight, my high fever has not gone down. I have been coughing continuously and cannot sleep well, and my whole body aches.

"Is it a siren..." As he closed his eyes and felt dazed, Shen Haoxuan seemed to hear a siren coming from outside, like an air raid siren...

He opened his eyes and looked around. He was still alone in the huge ward. The plastic basin containing his cough and vomit placed next to the bed exuded a foul smell.

Why hasn't anyone come to clean it up yet? When was the last time a nurse came in? It's been a few hours...

Shen Haoxuan was made even more uncomfortable by the stench, and he was thirsty and wanted to drink water. He reached for the water glass on the bedside table, but he didn't have enough strength to reach it.

He almost used all his strength and trembling hands to press the call bell on the bedside, "Nurse, nurse..."

It's just that after a long time, no nurse or doctor came in.

There were a lot of coughs outside, as well as chaotic shouts and footsteps. It seemed that the hospital was crowded with people, but no one heard his call.

"Did anyone hear you..." Shen Haoxuan wanted to press the call bell again, but his arm was sore that he couldn't lift it for a while.

This exertion caused him to cough suddenly again, his mouth full of fishy stench, and a large ball of stuff flew out and scattered on the hospital clothes on his body.

His whole chest was filled with tightness and severe pain, and he couldn't breathe. He couldn't tell whether it was his lungs or his heart that seemed to be broken by coughing.

Blood, brown phlegm, and rotten organs and tissues were mixed together, just like the lump the uncle coughed up on the bus, and even worse than that.

He could see with his eyes, but he couldn't get up and clean up by himself. He looked around at no one, and his heart was filled with fear.

I, am I going to die... No, I still want to go to college, I don't want to die...

Shen Haoxuan summoned up the strength in a daze and finally pressed the call bell again.

"Nurse, nurse...cough cough...Doctor Huang...is anyone there...cough cough..."

…

After developing cough symptoms in the early morning, Huang Lin was admitted to an isolation ward set up as a general ward.

During the consultation, she never took off her mask. Later, she even wore a triple mask, but she was still suspected of being infected. Three hours later, the "suspect" was removed. She developed symptoms of high fever and her cough became worse.

Wang Guoxin's condition has shown that cephalosporins and aminoglycoside antibiotics used to treat common pneumonia are ineffective against this disease.

Huang Lin took the treatment of Legionnaires' disease on a voluntary basis and gave herself erythromycin and rifampicin, which can cure Legionnaires' disease.

But by this morning, her condition continued to worsen, and she had begun to cough up bloody sputum.

"It takes 6 hours to incubate, and 6-10 hours from onset to exacerbation. The disease progresses too fast... won't erythromycin have any effect?"

Huang Lin's heart felt tangled and her hair was tight. Isn't this Legionnaires' disease? However, the case data of Legionnaires' disease show that erythromycin needs to be injected continuously for 2-3 weeks, and the body temperature gradually drops, and it takes about 1 week to return to normal. It does not take effect so quickly, so don't worry...

However, not long after, she learned the latest news. The PCR result was Legionella pneumophila, but expert He also had cough symptoms, and the level 3 protective clothing did not work.

Huang Lin suddenly understood something in her heart. She was in clinical practice and understood what this meant.

She took out her mobile phone and called her parents again after midnight, and then called her boyfriend, trying to talk as calmly as possible. They were both locals in Shanhai City. She continued her instructions in the early morning, telling them to stay at home and wait for evacuation, close the doors and windows, wear masks, and be sure not to run outside.

The corridor outside was noisy, and more and more infected people were pouring into the hospital.

After making the call, Huang Lin lay half-lying on the hospital bed, holding a ballpoint pen, and while coughing, she wrote a suicide note in her medical record:

[My symptoms are still getting worse. If the condition continues to develop at the same rate as the first patient Wang Guoxin, I will be unconscious by tonight. It will be impossible for me to write a suicide note then, so I have to write it now, and the sooner the better. I plan to write until I can’t write anymore.

I have so much to say but don't know where to start.

If I leave now and the others are still alive, I will be most worried about Doudou. I am the only one in the family who really likes dogs.

It's very unfilial to say that... I originally wanted to be a veterinarian. 】

As she wrote, Huang Lin's tears suddenly fell.

…

That evening, 34 hours after being admitted to the hospital, Wang Guoxin died of acute cardiopulmonary failure.

The medical staff who rescued Wang Guoxin and all the medical staff at Jiangxing Town Hospital... all had symptoms such as high fever and cough.

This town-level hospital did not have enough wards and staff to support it, and everything was in chaos.

He Feng was still in a separate isolation ward at first, but this soon lost its meaning. He didn't know whether all these disease control measures were meaningful. His understanding of disease control just took away his hope. 34 hours from onset of illness to death? All kinds of medicines are ineffective?

How to control the epidemic? He thought, the more he was engulfed by a huge feeling of powerlessness.

He Feng even had a gloomy thought: blockade the epidemic area, abandon the epidemic area, and destroy the epidemic area.

Don't let people go out, and don't send people in...

But how can this work? When He Feng thought about his seven-year-old daughter, his heart felt like a knife. Daughter and wife, and

My parents are all in the epidemic area.

So he still wanted to hold on to any glimmer of hope. The boss told him on the phone that someone from the state secret department was here, and the people in this department could handle anything.

About the time the martial law alarm sounded, He Feng saw these people wearing special protective clothing in the medical room.

"Team Leader He, please put your hand on this stone and use your mind to think about the mark on it to see if there is any effect."

Dr. Luo, who was called Uncle Egg, asked him to do this, and He Feng did the same, but it was useless and nothing happened.

Uncle Dan and the others made some other attempts, and tried some other patients with different disease stages, but all of them were useless.

He Feng never understood what he was doing, but when he saw Uncle Egg's gloomy face, he knew that the people sent from above had no emergency measures...

"I want to make a phone call." He Feng walked aside, and while he still had some energy and strength, he called home again to talk to his family.

"Dad, the sirens are so loud outside." Niu Niu's childish voice came from the mobile phone, "Is it an earthquake? I didn't feel it."

"It's not an earthquake, don't be afraid, it's just a drill..." He Feng said warmly, holding back from coughing, "Mom is with you, don't be afraid..."

"Dad, cough..." Niuniu suddenly coughed a few times, which made her feel uncomfortable. "Then when will you come back?"

When He Feng heard the cough, his face turned pale for a moment.

…

The sound of coughing that seemed to knock out the lungs kept ringing in the office.

Li Mingqiu, Wei Xiaoru, Zhang Dawei and others were waiting anxiously in the corridor, and the suspected patient Lin Mingda was locked in the office by them.

They had already called the helpline, but waited for more than half an hour before a disease control officer wearing heavy protective clothing finally came.

"It's right there!" Zhang Dawei pointed to the office and said quickly, taking the mask handed by the disease control staff and quickly putting it on. Wei Xiaoru also hurriedly said: "When we heard him cough, we came out here as soon as possible. The air conditioner was turned off very early. Is everything okay?"

"I'm sorry, you are all suspected patients now." The disease control officer said solemnly, "Follow me."

"No, us!" Zhang Dawei shouted in panic, "We didn't contact him."

"This germ is airborne." The disease control personnel added, "If you have breathed it, you may have been infected."

Li Mingqiu had already figured this out and did not engage in useless arguments with disease control personnel like others. But the others finally withered away and followed the disease control personnel away.

When they walked out of the building, they found that not only their office and company, but also everyone else in the building were being taken away by disease control personnel.

Under the gloomy night, there were many transportation vehicles parked on the street. Not all of them were professional isolation vehicles. Even civilian buses were used.

Li Mingqiu was taken onto a yellow medium-sized bus. He saw that the bus was full of people wearing masks, all of whom were silent and confused.

"Please keep quiet, don't talk, and don't panic," the disease control personnel said.

Li Mingqiu sat down in an empty seat. Soon after, the bus started moving towards an unknown place in the dark night.

He suddenly heard sobbing in the car, and then more sobbing.

…

The sea wind was howling, the sea was dark, and the light of the white lighthouse was weak.

This is not an abandoned lighthouse, it is usually managed by someone. But before entering the lighthouse, Gu Jun had already called for reinforcements and made full preparations. Following a team of operators, he and Peacock, who had received preliminary military training, rushed into the lighthouse using room-rushing tactics.

The bottom floor of the lighthouse, which was less than ten square meters, was dark, and the light of the automatic rifle quickly swept around.

There was no one there, not even any debris. It was empty, with only a stone spiral staircase extending up.

But Gu Jun's eyes suddenly narrowed...

On the wall just at the entrance of the stairs, the dilapidated wall was painted with a line of dazzling brown and red words in different languages, as if they were painted with blood sputum, and they also extended up the stairs:

[The fruit of darkness grows from the eternal abyss, and the worm of death will last forever with heaven and earth]

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