Upon hearing this, Doctor Liu hurried over to check, and sure enough, he saw that Lu Zhan's eyes, which had been closed on the camp bed, blinked, and then he slowly opened his eyes.
Chen Chunyan burst into tears of joy, and Liu Jincai excitedly rushed to the bedside and shouted:
"Commander, you're awake, Commander!"
Lu Zhan, who had been in a coma for three days and three nights, slowly opened his eyes. It took him a long time to barely see the scene in front of him - a doctor in a white coat was holding a stethoscope on his chest for examination with a look of joy on his face, a strange girl was looking at him and crying with her hands covering her mouth, and only a familiar face was the third company commander Liu Jincai who was leaning next to him, shouting with his mouth open.
He frowned slightly, looked at Liu Jincai, and nodded slightly at him.
Seeing Lu Zhan's reaction, Liu Jincai became even more excited, pulling Doctor Liu's sleeve and shouting:
"Doctor Liu, did you see that? Our battalion commander nodded at me! He's really awake!"
Liu Jincai was ecstatic. Doctor Liu had said before that Captain Lu might not be able to hold on, but he didn't believe it at all. He knew that Captain Lu would definitely be able to make it!
Doctor Liu was both pleasantly surprised and astonished. He had never expected that Captain Lu, despite being out of medicine and weak, could actually wake up by his own will. Moreover, his breathing sounded much steadier now, and the thermometer showed that his body temperature had dropped a lot, indicating a clear trend of improvement.
Lu Zhan moved his lips, but no sound came out as he expected. Instead, he felt a burning pain in his throat.
Chen Chunyan saw that he wanted to speak, and quickly brought a glass of water and a cotton swab from the side. She carefully dipped the cotton swab in water and applied it to his dry and chapped lips, and said softly:
"Captain Lu, you've had a high fever for three consecutive days and are severely dehydrated. Don't rush to speak. Let me help you moisturize first."
Chen Chunyan was very close. This was the first time she saw Lu Zhan's eyes, which were like a deep pool of water. The moment his eyes opened, she felt like she was drowning, and her heart stopped for a beat.
Lu Zhan was her savior, and after she had taken care of him day and night for the past few days, she had already felt a little moved by his handsome face. However, she did not expect that the moment he woke up and opened his eyes, it was as if his soul had been taken away from her, and her heart was filled with amorous feelings.
The cotton swab gently wiped his lips bit by bit, but Chen Chunyan's cheeks couldn't help but turn red.
After a while, Lu Zhan's voice was hoarse, but he finally managed to utter a weak sound:
"Thanks."
Although the voice was small, it made Chen Chunyan's heart fall into a honey pot.
She shook her head shyly, her voice very gentle:
"You're welcome. Captain Lu was seriously injured in order to save me. I should do this."
After hearing her say this, Lu Zhan realized that this girl was the one he and Liu Jincai had found on the hillside.
I'm glad that everyone is okay.
Lu Zhan nodded slightly with relief.
He turned his head and looked at Liu Jincai, who was standing by his bed with tears in his eyes. Seeing him looking at him, he hurriedly said:
"Captain, don't worry. Ma Jun and I are here. All the people and soldiers are fine. There are no more accidents."
Lu Zhan's eyes showed a trace of relief, and then he spoke with difficulty:
"Just now I heard someone say that fellow villagers fished sheep out of the water..."
Seeing that the battalion commander was concerned about these things just after waking up, Liu Jincai was so moved that he wiped away tears:
"That's right. We've almost eaten all the food we brought up the mountain these past few days. I guess one of the quick-witted villagers saw a lot of animals washed down from upstream in the flood and came up with this idea."
"But don't worry, Captain. I will organize the soldiers to carry out the salvage operation. I will not allow the people to violate discipline and go down the mountain without permission, so as to avoid unnecessary danger."
Lu Zhan frowned slightly, and his hoarse voice sounded a bit urgent:
"No, you can't salvage animals from the water."
Unexpectedly, Lu Zhan would object. Liu Jincai was a little surprised and asked with wide eyes:
"Why? Those animals didn't die of disease, they just drowned. It's okay to eat them."
Lu Zhan closed his eyes and shook his head. These were all lessons learned through blood.
I remember that after the mountain flood in Xiushan County, most of the houses were destroyed by mudslides, and the property and food in the houses were buried in thick mud and sand. For a time, food became the most urgent problem to be solved.
Due to the damaged roads, the grain trucks mobilized by the central government from the surrounding areas were unable to enter the disaster area. After the people in the disaster area had been hungry for many days, some people dug out some pigs, sheep, chickens and other livestock that had drowned or suffocated from the mud and sand. Unexpectedly, they suffered from vomiting and diarrhea after eating them. The food was also contagious and soon spread among a large number of innocent people. Within a very short time, a wave of horrific plague infections occurred in the disaster area.
So when the road was finally cleared, the rescue team that first entered the disaster area was completely stunned by the shocking scene before them - the road was full of broken walls and ruins, and the bodies of people and animals lying on the ground were everywhere on both sides. The living people were pale and emaciated, leaning against the damaged walls like zombies, and they were listless. The air was filled with an indescribable stench.
The central government immediately sent an epidemic prevention medical team into the disaster area, and took those infected with the plague into the newly designated isolation area for treatment. They also sent in troops wearing strict epidemic prevention uniforms to gather the human and animal corpses exposed on the road in one place for incineration, and then sprayed them with various disinfectants for disinfection.
After final statistics, the number of people who died from the plague after the disaster was more than twice the number of people who died from mountain torrents!
"Animal carcasses that have been soaking in floodwaters for days can breed pathogenic microorganisms. If people eat them, they can become infected and spread the disease from person to person. The consequences are disastrous."
Lu Zhan, who had just recovered from a high fever, gathered his strength for a while before he managed to say these words with great effort. These were all the experiences he had gained from his past cruel experiences.
Liu Jincai looked bewildered when he heard this, but Doctor Liu beside him nodded vigorously as if waking from a dream:
"Captain Lu is right. We can't eat it. If we get infected with a virus, we won't be able to treat it with our current conditions! If it turns into a plague and spreads among the population, it will be even more terrifying!"
Liu Jincai nodded, seeming to understand, and in his heart he admired his battalion commander for knowing so much:
"Alright! I'm going to inform everyone right now. No more salvaging animals from the floodwaters, let alone eating them!"
Lu Zhan nodded and added:
"What has been fished out, dig a pit, burn it, and then bury it."
The good news that Captain Lu had woken up quickly spread throughout the refuge area, and Li Yuan and his companions also quickly learned the results of their treatment:
Because of their violation of management discipline and dangerous behavior of going down the mountain without permission, the camp decided to criticize Li Yuan and the other four people, and to strengthen management of the four people. They also confiscated the lambs retrieved from the flood and burned and buried them on the spot. They hoped that everyone would take this as a warning, and also issued a clear ban on eating animal carcasses retrieved from the flood.
The result of this handling was announced several times in the refuge area, firstly to serve as a criticism and education, and secondly to publicize that animals fished out of the flood should not be eaten.
Li Yuan and others, who were criticized for the first time in their lives, were so embarrassed that they could not even raise their heads.
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