Chapter 205 Infection
After Hei Mu and the other four came to the headquarters, they were assigned new jobs according to their different abilities. Jian Shou and Xi Yuan passed the fighting test and went to the fighting training room to train children who had just turned sixteen in fighting and fighting.
Hei Mu went to the catering department and repeatedly jumped between Chinese and Western food.
Yan Shang went to the electronic control room in the planting area and was responsible for maintaining indoor crops in a small area.
Because of the preferential treatment of You Xi's relationship, their jobs are all popular and sought-after in the fortress.
In addition, their access control bracelets are also higher than those of ordinary staff, so they can stay in double rooms and enjoy more preferential treatment. There were even 400 working hours stored in the bracelet, which could be exchanged for some items they needed.
Of course, on the day of check-in, Youxi went to their rooms separately and took out their personal belongings. In addition, some food, water, medicine and other supplies were placed in their two rooms. And
10,000 working hours were entered into Youxi's access control bracelet at one time. This was Zhou Yuan's special treatment for her.
With such a large amount of working hours, she naturally wanted to make them play their due role.
This afternoon, Jian Shou and Xi Yuan happened to be on break, so they followed Youxi to Area I to purchase. Although Xi Yuan hoped that there would be as few people around Youxi as possible, he still felt a little uncomfortable when he found that Hei Mu and Yan Shang did not show up.
Although Hei Mu was old-fashioned and strict, he always obeyed You Xi's orders and provided good service. He thought that he would not be able to adapt to other jobs assigned to him, but he focused on the new job for several days and did not look for You Xi once.
Yan Shang lived with Hei Mu and was not as busy as Hei Mu at work, but he had not shown up in the past few days.
Xi Yuan probably knew what Yan Shang was thinking. He took the risk of the people in the supermarket shelter on himself because it was he who suggested finding a shelter to replace the armored vehicle with a low-altitude vehicle, but he did not expect that everyone would be almost wiped out in the end.
In Xi Yuan's view, no one in the team was injured in the whole incident, and in the end they successfully got the car and wiped out a notorious shelter. This was actually a blessing in disguise and a good thing.
But obviously, Yan Shang didn't think so.
He was originally a reserved person, and he talked even less since that day. He had almost no presence in the team. Now that he was assigned other work and lived separately from You Xi, his presence almost dropped to a negative number.
You Xi probably also realized something, or misunderstood something, and asked Xi Yuan and Jian Shou twice whether she needed to end their master-servant relationship. After all, everyone is working to support themselves now. If they want to get together, they can see each other every day, and there is no need to be entangled in this relationship.
"No! You said you wouldn't abandon me! I don't care, I don't want it anyway! As for Hei Mu and Yan Shang, I can ask for you." In response to this, Xi Yuan was as firmly opposed as before.
And Jian Shou told her that it was not the right time yet, and did not completely refuse it.
Xiyuan was very happy. He wished that the other three would all be dismissed, and Youxi would be the only servant left.
There are several supermarkets in Zone I, and bracelets of different levels have the right to enter different supermarkets.
After Youxi took out the items belonging to the four servants, there were more spaces in the Xingwu warehouse. After all, she would have to stay in this world for more than half a year, and the supplies here at the headquarters were more abundant, so she wanted to fill these vacant spaces again.
At present, she is not short of food and water, and she also has a lot of medicines. She mainly focuses on protective equipment, such as full-body protective clothing and air-conditioning clothing made of new materials.
The function of the air-conditioning clothing is equivalent to her [sunscreen spray] in resisting high and low temperatures, but the [sunscreen spray] can only be used for two hours at a time, while such an air-conditioning clothing can be used for twenty-four hours at a time as long as it is fully charged, and as long as it is properly maintained, it can be used for a long time.
Afterwards, a black barrel called a garbage compression processor attracted her attention. According to the introduction, any garbage can be crushed and compressed through this device.
Garbage with a capacity of about 200L can be compressed into a palm-sized piece, and the outside is automatically wrapped with an isolation film for temporary storage and disposal when conditions permit.
As soon as she saw this thing, she thought of her mother. Although the Star House has an automatic cleaning function, it is for dust on the floor windows and simulated furniture. Their kitchen garbage and bathroom garbage still have to be collected and discarded manually.
Sometimes it is not convenient to leave the Star House, and the garbage can only be tied up and placed indoors. With this compression processor, it is much more convenient, it does not take up space and has no smell.
This thing is not a necessity, and basically no one buys it. She directly bought ten according to the maximum quota, and planned to buy another ten in two days.
In addition, the vacuum rice bags in this world are much more delicious than those in her native world. Even the most simple conditions can be made in one or two minutes. There are many flavors in the supermarket that she has never tried, such as curry chicken, cumin lamb, original barbecued pork, pepper and salt shrimp...
She took a box of each flavor, forty bags in each box.
It's not that she can't afford more, but that she can't buy more. The current quantity is also the combined wristband quota of her, Xiyuan, and Jianshou.
When the quota is not enough, she thought of Xing Min. She went to find him before going out today, but he was not in the room. He has been quite mysterious these two days. He goes out alone every day. I don't know what he is busy with.
After moving several boxes of vacuum rice bags, she went to the fresh produce section and bought a lot of fresh vegetables and fruits.
Although she had bought a lot of fresh vegetables and fruits when she stocked up on fish and meat before, it was obvious that Xing Min's consumption rate was quite gratifying. It was not that her warehouse was short of stock now, but she just wanted to be prepared and have as much as possible.
In addition, she also replenished all the eggs and milk according to the maximum amount.
Just when the work was completed and the three of them were about to rent an electric car to transport these things back to Area G, Youxi's bracelet rang. The caller was Yinyin's father. The other party changed his usual calm appearance and asked her for help in a panic.
"Don't worry! Tell me which medical center in which district you are in, and Yinyin's current condition. I will help you contact the doctor on the way here!"
**
Yinyin's family of three separated from them temporarily after arriving at the headquarters.
Along the way, she was responsible for their food and drink expenses. His father was very embarrassed and didn't want to trouble her and others anymore. In his opinion, it was a blessing in disguise that their family of three could come to such a good safe zone and pass the inspection smoothly. How could they continue to rely on others?
He and Yinyin's mother were reassigned to work and moved into an ordinary 16-person room, but it was strong and safe here, with no shortage of water, which made them very motivated.
During the day, when they went to work, Yin Yin would be sent to the children's activity room not far from where they lived.
At present, there is a shortage of staff in all positions at the headquarters, and the children cannot continue to receive education for the time being. Such a children's activity room is equivalent to a commissioned class, where there are children of different ages, big and small, and there will be a caregiver. Children can play games, read books, take naps here, and a meal will be provided at noon.
Yinyin's parents are very satisfied with the activity room. What they don't know is that even among children, there will be small groups and hostile emotions.
The one who had a conflict with Yinyin was an 11-year-old child. The other party heard from somewhere that the scar on Yinyin's father's face was scratched by an ice blade. He led other children to exclude Yinyin, saying that her father was injured by an ice blade and was a mutant, and she was a mutant's child.
Yinyin is timid and has been hiding from the other party. The more she hides, the more aggressive the other party becomes, from exclusion, isolation and insults to physical abuse.
Today, the other party took advantage of the caregiver's inattention and dragged Yinyin to the bathroom nearby and pushed her hard against the wall. She hit the wall and fell to the ground, with a cut on her forehead and blood flowing.
The 11-year-old girl who did it and the other children were all frightened and ran away without telling the caregiver.
By the time the caregiver finished his work and realized that a child was missing and went to find her, Yinyin had been lying on the ground for a long time, bleeding all over the floor.
Yinyin's father's bracelet level does not have any special privileges. Now the temperature outside is constantly high and medical resources are very tight. He looked at his daughter who was unconscious and bloody, and he was anxious. He couldn't continue to wait in line. Finally, he thought of Youxi, so he shamelessly asked her for help.
When Youxi arrived at the treatment room of the L District Medical Center, the doctor had already come and was finishing the stitches.
Yinyin's injury seemed serious, but it was just a broken forehead, with a lot of blood flowing, and some mild concussion. For
such a concussion, normally the doctor would let the other party return to their residence to observe on their own. If they have headaches and frequent vomiting, they can come back for a re-examination.
However, now that Youxi, who was holding an S-level bracelet, was here, the other party still reserved a bed for them so that they could be observed in the medical center for one night.
Yinyin had four stitches on her forehead. She had been given a local anesthetic before. Now that the anesthetic has worn off, the wound should start to hurt. But she seemed to be too frightened. She just lay there in a daze without making a sound. Her parents looked at her pale little face, and they felt pain and discomfort in their hearts.
But parents all over the world have pitiful hearts. Every parent who loves their children hopes that the injuries of their children can be transferred to themselves.
So far, they have been anxious to treat the wounds and have no idea who hurt Yinyin.
Yinyin's mother tried to ask, but she didn't say a word. She just stared at the ceiling with her eyes open - until Youxi came back with dinner.
In addition to Yinyin's parents' dinner, she also brought Yinyin a bowl of vegetable and chicken porridge, which was made by Hei Mu. The chicken and rice were stewed soft and tasty, and the green vegetables were chopped very finely. When the porridge was almost done, they were sprinkled in, stirred, and then drizzled with sesame oil.
Yinyin's mother was very grateful. She carefully picked up her daughter and let her lean against the cushion. When she wanted to feed her porridge, Yinyin suddenly spoke.
She looked at Youxi standing beside her. A pair of dark eyes on her palm-sized face looked straight at her: "Sister, feed me."
Youxi:?
Although it was a bit strange, Youxi subconsciously took the bowl of porridge and sat on the edge of the bed to start feeding. The other party ate quietly and obediently, but his eyes never left her, with full trust and attachment in his eyes.
Although the little girl liked her before, she would never look at her with such a nostalgic look as she did now.
You Xi could feel the kindness in that look, and she reached out to stroke her hair: "Be good."
With just this one word, for some reason, her eyes became watery, as if she was so moved that she was about to cry.
You Xi: ...
Yin Yin's mother thanked her in a slightly awkward tone, saying that she was really embarrassed that she had asked someone to help her and was now troubling her.
"You're welcome." You Xi was not a bad person, but when she looked at Yin Yin's parents, she thought of Fan Qi and You Feng.
If she had not been tied to the Star House, if her native world had faced the many disasters of this world, would they also be like this young couple, begging others for their daughter, repeatedly saying thank you in a low voice, and willing to do anything as long as their daughter was fine.
When the porridge was almost finished, a patient who was originally unconscious in the bed diagonally opposite woke up slowly.
She had heard about the situation of this person with two ears before. It seemed that he had just been transferred to the headquarters in the afternoon. During the transfer process, he fainted because of the high temperature outdoors, so he was already unconscious before coming in, and had a high fever.
The doctor gave him medicine, but the high fever subsided and came back again, and it never got better, and the person remained unconscious.
Such a high fever would have a great impact on the patient's body, but this person was just in a coma, and all other conditions were fine.
The medical center had already arranged to give him an in-depth and comprehensive examination, and the equipment would be available in one or two hours, but he woke up unexpectedly.
In the few seconds that You Xi was thinking, something unexpected happened.
The patient who had just woken up suddenly sat up from the bed, his open eyes were full of bright red bloodshot, and he ignored the caring family members who came forward, and pinched his neck with his backhand, looking as if something was blocking his throat and making it difficult to breathe, and even let out a hoarse and low roar from his throat.
The doctor at the door rushed over in a few steps, wanting to go forward to examine him, but was suddenly grabbed by his arm.
The man was so strong that the doctor cried out. His family members hurried forward to stop him, comforting him and pulling his arm.
But he held the doctor tightly without loosening his grip. Suddenly, he opened his mouth and spat out a large mouthful of blood at the other party. The bright red liquid splashed everywhere, and the doctor who was closest to him was sprayed all over his head and face. Even the relatives of the man next to him were splashed by the liquid.
The next moment, the doctor wailed, and the part sprayed with the liquid felt like burning pain. The severe pain made him struggle subconsciously, trying to shake off the patient, but the other party's hand held him tightly.
He was shocked and horrified. He reached out his hand and grabbed the stunned nurse nearby, and pushed her hard onto the bleeding patient, trying to break free and escape.
But he soon discovered that the patient who was holding him had incredible strength. He seemed to have a clear target, and his bloodshot eyes stared at him.
Then, amid the nurse's screams, the man dragged him back again, then opened his mouth, which was still dripping with blood, and spit out thick blood-red liquid on his head, face and body again.
This time, the liquid seemed to contain fragments of something, like dirt, or some kind of software...
**
The other people in the ward finally reacted. Some were completely frightened and forgot about their family and friends lying on the hospital bed. They used their hands and feet to crawl out of the door. Some dragged their family members who could not move. They were obviously trembling with fear, but they refused to leave them.
Youxi lifted the thin blanket on Yinyin's bed, shook it gently, wrapped Yinyin up, and then lifted it over his shoulder. While taking a step, he grabbed Yinyin's mother and said, "Don't be stunned! Hurry up!"
The door of the ward was already in chaos. Everyone rushed in, pushing and crowding. The more anxious everyone was, the harder it was to squeeze out.
This was a rectangular ward for ten people. The mutated patient was close to the window on one side of the rectangle, and the ward door was in the middle of the other side of the rectangle.
The entrance and exit were originally double doors, but because it was already night and it was almost time for a break, the nurse locked half of the door, leaving only the other half.
At this moment, more than a dozen people were crowded there, some fell to the ground, some stepped on others, and some dragged the person they stepped on. For a while, they could not get out at all.
You Xi led Yin Yin's parents around the crowd to the wall next to the entrance and exit, stuffed Yin Yin on her shoulders into her father's arms, let them hide in the corner, and at the same time picked up a stainless steel chair for accompanying and smashed it directly against the wall.
Outside the wall is the corridor. Such inner walls are separated and do not use tough new materials like the outer walls of the cylinder. But she still didn't hold back, she released her strength, and the first hit broke through the wall, and after the second and third hits, a big hole appeared in the wall.
She threw away the chair, took a few steps forward, and pushed the wall to a size that a normal person could pass through. She turned around and pulled Yin Yin's mother over, pushing her out first.
Next, Yin Yin was passed out, followed by Yin Yin's father and herself.
She didn't stop, and rushed to the door of the ward in a few steps, grabbed the locked half of the door and pulled it hard, opening it completely. The patients and their families who were originally squeezed in the half of the door fell out.
Everyone ran out crying, and some people were too weak to run, so they crawled with their hands and feet. Others who had already gone out also helped to pull everyone in the door out.
Many people crowded around the doors of other wards in the corridor. They were attracted by the screams and howling. They didn't understand what was going on. They stretched their necks to watch and talk. Seeing the wall destroyed, people in the ward rushed out. Some people walked forward curiously to find out what was going on.
"Don't come over!" You Xi shouted, "Quickly notify the patrol team! Everyone stay away! Leave this floor and go to other floors!"
In the ward, the doctor who was entangled by the mutated patient had gradually stopped struggling. His body was covered with bright red liquid, mixed with unrecognizable fragments. He collapsed on the bed, wailing weakly. All the parts of his body that came into contact with the liquid were changing rapidly.
Cheeks, neck, arms, backs of hands... decayed at a speed visible to the naked eye. His skin became like rotten cotton wool, as if a layer of the epidermis had been burned off, revealing the still throbbing flesh underneath. The flesh squirmed and squeezed each other as if to give birth to something.
Soon, strange-shaped blood-colored soft tissues grew out of his flesh, like a deformed hyperplasia, with clumps here and there, in strange shapes and without any regularity.
He looked at his arm, screaming in pain with extreme fear...
The nurse didn't know if she was scared or what, she lay on the ground beside the bed motionless, her clothes were also stained with blood, but there seemed to be no blood on her skin.
The family of the mutant didn't know if it was because the liquid wasn't too much, but now they were sitting paralyzed under the window sill, holding their arms that were splashed with liquid with a painful look on their faces, looking at their son who was walking towards them step by step, calling his name, trying to wake him up.
The other party obviously couldn't recognize her anymore, and his bloodshot eyes were almost popping out of their sockets. After he approached her, he stepped forward and sniffed her scent, paused for a moment with a strange expression, and didn't spray blood at her.
In an instant, he felt something, turned his head and looked behind him, and he saw You Xi standing in the corridor.
Before the patrol team arrived, You Xi pushed Yin Yin's parents who were stunned: "Before the patrol team arrived, go to Room 7 on the 32nd floor of Area G to find Xi Yuan. Don't leave there before I come back. There may be such abnormal people in other places. Don't go to the fixed floors to take the public shuttle bus. Take the small shuttle bus directly!"
Yin Yin's father nodded seriously. He knew her ability and understood that only if they left at this time would they not hold her back.
"You must be careful!" He took his daughter from his wife's arms.
The thin blanket wrapped around Yinyin was lifted up, and she stretched out her little hand to tug at Youxi's clothes. When she looked at her, she said softly, "Sister, be careful."
**
Youxi smashed the fire cabinet, took out the fire axe inside, and after walking into the ward and sensing that there was no surveillance, she quickly wrapped herself with an extremely thin and tough ice shield.
The mutant patient had already rushed over, and she raised her axe to block it, but the opponent's strength was actually comparable to hers.
He stretched out his arms, trying to grab her and pull her over, his speed was only slightly faster than that of an ordinary person, and he was almost able to reach her several times, but was avoided by the other party.
He seemed to be getting impatient, roared and opened his mouth, and a mouthful of bright red liquid spurted out.
You Xi dodged to the side, and suddenly, she had the illusion of returning to the zombie world to deal with zombies. At that time, she could not be bitten by zombies, and now she could not touch the opponent's vomited liquid.
After several battles, she had roughly figured out the strength of this mutant. She didn't want to drag it on, so she threw away the fire axe, took out a small pistol from her pocket, and aimed it directly at the mutant patient.
"No!" The opponent's mother, who was originally paralyzed on the ground, didn't know where she got the strength from, and rushed over to hug You Xi's legs.
The ice shield blocked the opponent's contact, but because the opponent hugged her legs, You Xi's pistol mouth deviated a little, and the pistol that was supposed to hit the opponent's forehead knocked off the opponent's ear.
He roared, obviously shocked by the force of the robbery.
He dragged a chair and hit the window repeatedly, breaking the double-layer glass with amazing force. The hot wind rolled in from the gap, and he jumped directly out of the window.
"Son——" The mother screamed, let go of Youxi's legs and rushed to the window, as if she wanted to catch him, but she was tripped by the chair thrown under the windowsill and fell straight out.
This was the 30th floor. You Xi walked to the window in two steps and heard two loud bangs. The mother and son fell to the ground one after another. With the dim street lights, she saw one of them twisting her body and seemed to want to get up, but because her hands and feet were broken, she struggled for a while and then weakened. You
Xi added another judgment: she has intelligence after the mutation, but it is very low.
She heard hurried footsteps in the corridor. It should be the patrol team. She put away her gun, removed the ice shield, pulled a clean thin blanket from the bed next to her, quickly wrapped the unconscious nurse, and then dragged her out of the ward.
**
That night, several similar incidents occurred in medical centers in different areas of the headquarters.
The incident in Youxi was the first one. Because of her presence, the number of casualties was minimal. After that, the entire headquarters was mobilized to screen all patients with fever, but the time was too short and it was inevitable that there would be omissions. From the second half of the night until dawn, mutations occurred
frequently. All mutants had their attacks at about the same time, that is, about 36 hours after they fainted from high fever and fell into a high fever coma.
Fortunately, the headquarters had sufficient manpower and weapons resources, and under strict discipline, the situation was quickly brought under control.
Fever patients, mutant patients, people who were sprayed with blood, and people who had abnormal blood-red soft tissues were all isolated separately.
You Xi was not immune because she had direct contact with the virus. After being questioned and examined in the isolation room, she stayed there alone until dawn.
But she was not worried because Xing Min told her that he would come and take her away after dawn.
Now it's just a routine matter, just cooperate.
You Xi was bored and couldn't take out anything under surveillance, so she spent the whole night asking Xing Min about the situation outside.
[…The mutants with fever should be infected by a certain virus. This virus exists in the air after high temperature, but it doesn't work on everyone. Do you remember the patients who were cut during the Ice Blade disaster? Some of the injured will have reactions, and the injured parts will be assimilated by cell remnants, while some people have not had an attack yet. Youxi: So
, the people who reacted to the virus this time were those who had been injured before and did not have an attack?
According to the current analysis, this is roughly the case, but it is not 100% certain. This virus uses the human body as a breeding ground, and transforms the human body into an infectious body after 36 hours. The sprayed blood-red liquid will contain spores, which will develop into new individuals once they come into contact with the human body...
Youxi remembered that after the mutant patient sprayed the liquid, not all people who came into contact with the liquid would produce spores, and he seemed to be selective when spreading the spores.
For example, the nurse was obviously closer when she was pulled over by the doctor, but the mutant patient did not target her.
Another example is his mother, he gave up spreading it directly.
The reasons for this must be analyzed and studied by a professional scientific research team before a conclusion can be drawn.
The next morning, Xing Min came to the quarantine room with relevant documents to pick her up, and then took her back to Area G, but not the 35th floor where her room was, but the 52nd floor.
This floor is full of large aircraft parking rooms, and in one of them, there is a brand new silver-white high-altitude airship.
"Six single rooms, one suite, two bathrooms, a large living room and an island kitchen, with a maximum capacity of twelve people. White interior, dark brown floors, panoramic windows, and a salon area with a glass floor.
Automatic driving, in addition to driftwood, the hull is made of a new material for building fortresses, which can withstand extremely high and low temperatures, three layers of explosion-proof glass, four generators, and four air filters. , two central temperature control systems, two 500L water tanks, and two 300L fully automatic garbage compression processors.
In addition, heavy machine guns, small missile launchers, and missile interceptors are still being installed... I'm trying to stock up on crystal fuel in large quantities..." Xing Min finished speaking one by one, turned around and asked her, "Do you have anything else that needs to be installed or modified?"
You Xi:...
**
Within a day or two, the headquarters released the relevant news of the high fever mutation, and it quickly spread to every refugee area in Huaguo. For a time, in addition to dealing with human rebellion and extreme heat, humans also had to be vigilant about emergencies from patients.
In the past few days, the temperature of the planet is still rising. Although there are differences in different regions, the lowest area has reached 40 degrees, most areas are around 55 degrees, and some areas have reached 70 degrees.
Many people near the poles of the planet have begun to evacuate to the North and South Poles, where there are fresh water resources and the temperature is below 40.
It is said that some people have arrived successfully.
But many people have died on the way before reaching their destination due to high temperatures, lack of water, human disasters, and mutations...
Youxi knows that such high temperatures will soon cause the melting of polar icebergs and rising sea levels. Just as she was wondering whether the next major disaster would be a flood on the entire planet, a live news video was broadcast on the few fixed channels that were still working.
This is a picture taken by a high temperature resistant drone, about seven city blocks away from the fortress where the headquarters is located.
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