Chapter 123 Sickness

Yu Duoduo glanced outside and went back to the house indifferently.

She naturally understood these people's desperate desire to survive, but how could she feel pity for them when their wish was to eat alive the people on the 12th floor?

"It's all settled, so come over and take your medicine. I'll deliver the medicine to the others."

Seeing Yu Duoduo come back with her normal expression, Xie Yun didn't ask any more questions and handed her a small glass bowl filled with brown transparent Chinese medicine.

Yu Duoduo held his breath and drank it in one gulp. It did not taste bitter as he had imagined, but sweet instead!

Can medicine be sweet? Don’t old people always say that good medicine tastes bitter?

Tong Zi and Min Nan drank the Chinese medicine specially prepared by Xie Yun, and finally the symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea stopped slowly, but they were still weak.

Xie Yun said that this is an uncommon case of bacterial and viral infection at the same time, so it is difficult to stop the symptoms with Western antibiotics alone, and it is best to combine Chinese and Western medicine.

Now, the benefits of learning Chinese medicine are highlighted, and Xie Yun~ the benefits of having a photographic memory are also highlighted!

Minan was in good health. He stayed in bed for two days. When he got up on the third morning, he was full of energy again and ran around cleaning the building.

Tong Zi was in much worse condition. He had to lie in bed for five full days before he could barely get out of bed and walk. He still remembers the feeling of his legs going weak from stretching the first day.

Tong Zi looked at Wei Dong, who was helping her get out of bed and looking refreshed, and couldn't help asking, "Why are you fine?"

Wei Dong raised his eyebrows, "Do you remember the white pills Xie Yun gave us when we came back because we were injured?

That medicine has anti-inflammatory and bactericidal effects, and those viruses and bacteria may be eliminated before they even get out.”

During the days that Tong Zi and Min Nan were lying in bed, Yu Duoduo and Xie Yun were not idle either.

Xie Yun was busy reading books, treating illnesses, and researching various Chinese medicinal materials, quickly replenishing the medical knowledge in his mind.

Yu Duoduo was thinking about the benefits of traditional Chinese medicine. He took out a bag of each of the herbal seeds from the several large cabinets that he had collected from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences and scattered them evenly on the two mountains standing on one side of the space with his consciousness.

These include tonic medicines such as ginseng, dendrobium officinale, Morinda officinalis, Cuscuta australis, etc.

I was thinking that someday I would learn how to prescribe Chinese medicine from Xie Yun. Maybe it would be of some use in the long years to come!

It was not until a whole week had passed since Tong Zi recovered from his illness that the 12th floor finally recovered its vitality.

But except for the 12th floor, the rest of the apartment building was littered with corpses and it was a living hell.

They stayed upstairs, and the sour stench that came up from downstairs, mixed with the stench of corpses, was so uncomfortable that it stung their eyes.

This disease must have killed many people in the building, and it would have dragged them into extreme pain before it was fatal.

During the first two days, the two alarms on the stairs kept ringing all night, as if they were broken.

But everyone knew that there were people in the building who kept trying to break into the 12th floor.

Later, there were fewer and fewer people coming, until on the seventh day, no one went upstairs the whole day.

"We have to clean up the bodies in the building. The weather is hot. If we continue to leave it like this, new epidemics will breed sooner or later." Xie Yun proposed solemnly.

After the cholera incident, Xie Yun had become the epidemic command expert on the 12th floor. No one disobeyed his instructions on what to pay attention to.

So, the five people on the 12th floor formed a cleaning team. On the evening of the seventh day, they turned on the lights and started cleaning each floor.

The first thing to do was to clean up the bodies. Everyone wore masks, long-sleeved shirts and long pants, and double-layer latex gloves, taking full protective measures.

This was of course Xie Yun's request. Many corpses had already begun to rot and breed maggots, which were stuck together with the vomit and excrement scattered on the stairs. It was hard not to feel nauseous!

The best thing to do would have been to start a fire and burn the bodies, but it was raining heavily outside and there was no condition to start a big enough fire.

If it happens inside a building and the building catches fire, the consequences will outweigh the gains.

Everyone chose to throw the bodies into the water downstairs for fear of contracting cholera. At worst, they would stay at home and wait for official action.

After counting the stored food, except for the rice, which was not enough, the mutton, snake meat, canned fish and canned seafood were enough for them to eat for more than half a year.

With water and electricity, what are they afraid of!

Five people went downstairs and dumped the bodies one floor at a time. One had to sigh that the epidemic was too strong. There were 22 bodies on the stairs from the 11th to the 12th floor alone.

All the way down to the 8th floor, there were 65 bodies in total.

After throwing the body away, the second step was to clean the ground with water. Yu Duoduo took out a hose that was several dozen meters long from her home. She originally bought it for washing the car, and now it was just right for washing the stairs!

Blood, vomit and excrement can only be carried away by running water.

There is a convertible water nozzle at the end of the water pipe. Yu Duoduo used a high-pressure water line to clean the stairs.

After Yu Duoduo finished the cleaning work, Xie Yun followed closely behind, using a sprinkler for watering vegetables, filled with water from 84 disinfectant effervescent tablets, and sprinkled them evenly on the stairs to eliminate the risk of residual disease.

After this treatment, the building finally regained its original brightness.

The next day, early in the morning, several people on the 12th floor went downstairs and knocked on doors every day to check. They wanted to know how many people were still in the building.

After all, there are 20 households on each floor, and the average number of people in each household is two people. There are only 40 people on the first floor at most, and no more than 120 people on the third floor. The death toll is already more than half.

What's more, the building will never be completely full. So, by this calculation, the number of people left in the building may be less than 20 or 30.

The sick person died suddenly, and the food that had been distributed in the building earlier must have been left over in someone's home.

Yu Duoduo and Xie Yun were both people who had no taboos. After all, they had died once before. When they proposed to search the victim's home, the others hesitated...

But he soon gave up struggling. The natural disaster had already started for so long, and it was almost two months. He had gone through so many things, and each time was dangerous.

They have to rely on themselves to survive every time. As long as the natural disaster does not end, they have to continue to survive, and who knows how long it will last.

It's obvious that even if they don't take the food, someone else who moves in from outside will take it later. Why should they let others get it for free?

After some ideological struggle, the five people went downstairs together. Yu Duoduo was responsible for knocking on the door with a small hammer. After five knocks, still no one answered, Wei Dong took the lead in prying the door lock.

They knocked on the doors of all 60 households on the three floors downstairs, and just as Yu Duoduo and the others had guessed, there were only 13 households with people left, and they estimated that there were no more than 30 people.

But the harvest of this trip was not small, as 2,500 kilograms of unopened rice were recovered!