Chapter 269 Spread
Yu Duoduo and Xie Yun put on masks, put their hair into hats, and went out to work in the basement studio as usual.
Delivering supplies during the day would be too conspicuous, so the two agreed to wait until dark to deliver them. This disaster was still long, and the official base had already begun to deal with the matter, so they did not need to rush.
As soon as I walked out of the courtyard, I saw a man lying unconscious on the side of the road.
The area from the chin to the shoulders was covered with translucent red and black blisters of varying sizes, making the neck swell.
The man was wearing a vest and shorts, with his skin exposed from head to legs, and it was abnormally red...
It is not known whether he fainted due to the high fever or because bacteria invaded the trachea in his neck, causing suffocation and fainting.
The two men carefully walked around the man and headed towards Building 180 opposite.
As soon as I entered the basement, Tong Zi and the others had not come down yet, and Guan Qing was the only one left in the room.
She was already painting the bed frame, and there were several finished beddings next to it, and it was obvious that she had been working on it for a long time.
"Xiao Yu, why did you all come so late today? Did something happen?" Guan Qing asked Yu Duoduo while continuing to paint.
Yu Duoduo was stunned. That’s right. There are no windows in the basement, and Guan Qing would not know what is happening outside if she didn’t go out.
"Well, the poisonous fog that was rumored before appeared this morning. It was a bit chaotic outside. You should not have gone out today, right?" Yu Duoduo asked while wiping his hands with hand sanitizer.
"Well, it's too hot outside, so I didn't go out...Are you all okay?" Guan Qing put down the brush in her hand, stood up and walked towards Yu Duoduo and the others.
"Don't come over yet. Wait until we finish disinfecting. I'm afraid you might bring bacteria in." Yu Duoduo stopped Guan Qing from coming over.
"Maybe we can discuss with Wei Dong and build an automatic spray disinfection device on the stairs to ensure everyone's safety." Xie Yun suggested.
"Well, it is indeed safer to enter and exit this way." Yu Duoduo agreed.
The three of them got straight to work without waiting for anyone else.
After a long time, Tong Zi and his four companions finally arrived, including Le Yan who did not go to work in the research department.
All four of them wore masks, covering their heads and bodies tightly. Each of them carried a large bag of luggage on their shoulders and held a large spray bottle in their hands. They quickly entered the door and locked it.
This time, the three people in the room couldn't see it.
"Zizi, what are you doing?" Yu Duoduo asked in confusion.
"Duoduo, it's over, it's completely over. There is an infection in the building where we live!" Tong Zi said with a slight breath.
"Is there one in the building too?" Yu Duoduo frowned.
“Yes, you notified us in the morning, so we quickly got up and put on our masks and other things. We didn’t dare to touch anything and waited for the white fog outside to dissipate.
Not long after, they heard someone knocking on the door loudly, saying that they had a fever and were in severe pain. They went from house to house asking if there were any antipyretics and were willing to exchange them for food.
Of course we didn't dare open the door, not to mention we didn't have any medicine, so we waited until there was no sound outside the corridor before we opened the door and went downstairs.
As a result, as a result... the middle-aged couple who lived across from the staircase were found lying in the hallway. They, they... were covered in pus and blood, and their faces were covered in scratches and blood. It was so horrible!"
When Tong Zi recalled the horrifying scene in his mind, he felt his whole body trembling. The densely packed bursting blisters were much more heartbreaking than watching a murder.
"You shouldn't have reached out to touch it, right?" Xie Yun asked softly.
"How dare we! Isn't it said that the thing is highly contagious? We immediately discussed moving to the basement and went back to pack our belongings.
When I was leaving the house, I saw that the door of Tang Jun's house across the street was half-closed. I wanted to go over and remind him to be more careful, but I didn't know...
He, he just lay down by the door...his face and body were the same as that couple..."
After Tong Zi finished speaking, her face turned even paler. After all, this person had just eaten and talked with them a few days ago.
"Tang Jun is... dead?" Yu Duoduo asked.
Tong Zi nodded silently.
"Come in first. Everything exposed to the air must be disinfected." Xie Yun instructed.
"Okay, I know. We sprayed disinfectant all the way down the stairs. Those appeared on almost every floor of the building..." Tong Zi said while disinfecting.
Xie Yun's heart skipped a beat as he listened to this. A large number of people staying at home were infected? This was probably unusual.
After all, the authorities sent helicopters to disperse the fog in a timely manner. It was still dark at that time and there should not be many people up, so the fog would not have entered the room in large quantities. But why?
He suddenly thought of something, "Tong Zi, did you wash your face with water from the tap this morning?"
This question is... a bit embarrassing.
Wei Dong answered for Tong Zi, "No, when you informed us in the morning, we put on the masks in bed without washing or touching anything."
"That's it."
Everyone was puzzled, "What is it?"
"There are only a few ways for bacteria to spread. People in the building can still be infected even if they stay in their homes. It is most likely caused by water pollution. It seems that those super bacteria have invaded the water body of the base." Xie Yun said confidently.
Everyone looked at each other with complicated thoughts in their minds. This was a big problem. The residential buildings on the first and second rings of the base could use their own water...
"Zizi, you guys pack your luggage first, I'm going to go out for a while and do something.
By the way, Le Yan, you should take a day off today and don’t go to the research department for now. It may be a mess outside.”
Yu Duoduo said this and walked straight out. It seemed that she had underestimated the power of this natural disaster.
The population density of the base is much greater than that outside, so it is hard to say how many people will die at this rate of spread and destruction.
It seems that the delivery of medical supplies will not wait until the evening.
"Wait for me, let's go together." Xie Yun called out from behind Yu Duoduo, and then the two of them went out without looking back.
After closing the basement door and climbing the stairs to the ground floor, Yu Duoduo took Xie Yun into the space without opening the door.
The medical supplies were placed separately by Yu Duoduo in the outer earth building, occupying the entire two floors of about 16,000 square meters of space.
Yu Duoduo used his mind to move out boxes of 5,000 sets of protective clothing, 8,000 masks, 10,000 pairs of latex gloves and 200 bottles of disinfectant tablets, and stacked them neatly.
He then took out two sets of protective clothing and handed one to Xie Yun. The two of them put on their full body equipment silently and tacitly, leaving no skin exposed. Even someone who was familiar with them would not recognize who they were.
Then the two of them came to the teleportation mirror of the space earth building.
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