Chapter 107 An Yue City 5
How can a deceived public possibly care about volunteers?
What everyone is concerned about is whether they have been infected, and what they can eat and drink during quarantine.
Within a day, the city was in complete chaos.
In the end, it was only after the police were dispatched that the people who had gone on a looting spree were able to return home.
The group chat was unusually lively today:
[b7Liu Huanhuan]: Luckily, I was quick enough to grab a bag of rice before the police arrived, otherwise I don't know what I would eat while quarantined at home.
[A8 Toast]: Did anyone manage to snag any medicine? Could you share some? I'll pay double the price.
[c5SeeYouOnly]: Who knows how long the quarantine will last? We're working from home, what about the kids going to school?
[c3元宝团子]: I want to know what we'll do when we need to buy things? We're short of food and clothing at home, how will we survive?
Just then, the group admin added another person, saying that he was the community's purchasing agent, and that if anyone needed anything, they could add this person on WeChat to order privately.
The group chat immediately fell silent; everyone was probably placing orders.
Within ten minutes, someone started swearing and cursing in the group chat.
The purchasing agent said that the medicine could not be ordered at the moment.
Shi Jinwei glanced at it and then stopped paying attention, instead browsing news online.
On the sixth day of the game, the official team stopped concealing the news, and the game was finally interconnected across the country.
It was only then that everyone realized that several cities had already been locked down a week earlier.
Fearing panic, the authorities blocked all information, and the internet blockade was only lifted today.
The internet is filled with criticism, but what people are more concerned about is whether there is any way to cure this disease.
The official response was positive.
This indicates that researchers are working to overcome the virus, and they believe the research results will be published soon.
However, Shi Jinwei learned from the members' forum that more than 20 days had passed and there had been no progress at all.
On the seventh day of the game, the death toll among those quarantined at home surged.
The sirens of ambulances echoed through the streets, causing widespread panic.
Shi Jinwei launched the drone to check the situation outside.
In the residential community, volunteers wearing protective suits are spraying disinfectant with spray bottles.
The streets were deserted except for ambulances, police cars, supply trucks, and water trucks spraying disinfectant.
I took the drone to the central hospital, only to find the hospital gates tightly closed.
Ambulances lined up in a long queue at the hospital entrance, and medical staff in protective suits were carrying patients in and out.
The people on the stretchers were either convulsing or vomiting blood; it was a horrific scene.
What's truly terrifying is that many of the people carried off stretchers had their faces covered with white cloths.
This indicates that the person is dead, and the number of dead accounts for two-thirds of all the stretchers.
In addition to the hospital, she also went to the research center.
The research center was also closed, and there were many police cars at the entrance.
Carefully controlling the drone, I approached the office building window and saw many people dressed in white coats and wearing masks, busily working inside.
On the eighth day of the game, the situation in the city seemed to be under control due to the quarantine.
On the ninth day of the game, another unexpected event occurred.
Among those infected at home, there are many patients in the incubation period.
After several days of fermentation, these people finally showed symptoms today.
They dialed 120 directly, but couldn't get through.
Some people got through, only to be told that the hospital was full and patients should isolate at home.
The person who made the call was dumbfounded. In disbelief, they dialed again, only to receive the same notification.
Then the second and third people who received the same account posted the story online, which garnered widespread condemnation from netizens.
The doctor-patient conflict erupted at this moment, and netizens vented their fear and anger online.
But soon, hospital staff spoke out.
Instead of posting a text comment, they released a short video.
The medical staff in the video were wearing thick protective suits and were so exhausted that they fell asleep right on the ground...
The hospital corridors were packed with beds, and the cries of patients echoed in every corner...
Some of the frenzied patients attacked the doctor directly, catching the doctor off guard and causing him to have his mask pulled down, at which point he began coughing...
The video ends with the text: This doctor died two days later!
When Shi Jinwei saw the video, she felt suffocated.
Online, family members of medical staff also spoke out: "My husband is a doctor. He had already been working overtime at the hospital for several days before the city was locked down, and he hasn't been home for more than ten days now."
Netizens were speechless, and also deeply moved.
But in the face of death, nothing else matters.
On the ninth day of the game and the third day of the lockdown, someone in the group broke down.
The man's wife, who was pregnant, developed symptoms.
However, the hospital's phone number was unreachable, and the police (110) number was also unreachable.
My wife passed away this morning, leaving behind two lives.
Upon seeing this message, no one in the group said anything, and no one knew how to comfort them.
Immediately afterwards, the drone controlled by Shi Jinwei saw a car drive out of the underground parking garage of A4 and crash directly into the gate.
The guards at the entrance were so frightened that they hid in the guardhouse and dared not come out.
Seeing the roadblock at the entrance being knocked away, the car drove straight out, attracting the attention of patrol cars.
The police car chased after the vehicle, but it crashed directly into a parked car on the side of the road, followed by a deafening explosion!
The man who spoke just now has the nickname [A4 full of expectations] in the group.
Just as Shi Jinwei was about to call the drone back, she heard a knock on the door.
She calmly parked the drone on a rooftop and switched the remote control interface to the monitoring interface.
A woman wearing a mask was found standing at the security door.
The woman in the surveillance footage was coughing incessantly, her arms supporting her against the wall, looking weak and listless.
Perhaps noticing the camera panning, the woman called out directly to it, "Hello, I'm your downstairs neighbor. Do you have any cold medicine? I'm willing to pay for it."
Shi Jinwei didn't respond, watching the woman's expression change from pleading to resentment, and finally she walked away cursing.
On the tenth day of the game, the situation outside deteriorated further.
Because hospitals were overcrowded and unable to accept patients, many patients died at home.
More and more people are breaking down, and more and more accidents are happening.
Some people, like the man in A4, drove off.
Some committed suicide by jumping off buildings.
The most terrifying thing is filling a house with gas and then detonating it.
Not only did he die, but he also implicated his neighbors.
Police and firefighters arrived to provide assistance, only to be surrounded by angry residents demanding an explanation.
However, the police and firefighters simply handled the scene in silence, without uttering a single word.
In the middle of the night, Shi Jinwei was awakened from her sleep by the alarm sound from her cell phone.
It's a monitoring alarm.
In the night vision footage, two people were standing furtively outside the security door, seemingly looking at something.
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