The guarding soldier heard the noise and walked over quickly to check.
The man with the crew cut turned around immediately, pointed at Li Yuan who was struggling to stand up and said to him:
"Commander! I'm reporting! It's him. He started coughing this afternoon, and it got worse by the evening. He even coughed up blood just now!"
Li Yuan was furious. "Is this bastard trying to call a doctor for him? He's clearly reporting him!"
However, he was now completely powerless, and felt dizzy if he moved a little. Otherwise, he would have to beat the guy with the crew cut to a pulp, to see if he dared to tell tales against him.
Li Yuan felt a little uneasy. Being unwell and coughing was one thing, but what made him even more uneasy was that he couldn't guess how these soldiers would deal with his situation.
When he was young, a small-scale plague broke out in the neighboring village. In order to cover up the incident, the village cadres locked all the sick people in a room.
At the beginning, people were sent to deliver food and medicine every day. Later, the people in the house were cross-infected, and the condition became more and more serious. Every day, he cried and made a fuss to get out of the house, banging on the door and smashing the windows.
The village cadres were afraid that they would cause trouble and infect more people, so they quickly found someone to seal the doors and windows from the outside with stronger wooden bars.
This letter directly blocked the way for delivering food.
The people inside were sick and hungry, crying for their parents day and night.
He still remembered the heart-wrenching cries he heard when he passed by the alley next to the yard, and he would have nightmares when he returned home at night.
It took a week before the yard finally calmed down.
It was winter at that time. One night, after two days of peace in the yard, a raging fire suddenly broke out. He was awakened by the shouts of people outside the house asking for help to put out the fire. He went out to watch the excitement in a daze and was stunned by the flames rising into the sky in front of him.
The entire yard was on fire inside and out, like a hell on earth, with loud crackling noises coming from time to time.
He stood there, staring blankly at the tongues of fire dancing in the night sky, completely forgetting his fear. He just felt warm and comfortable.
It was his mother who discovered that he was missing and hurried over to pull him back into her arms, thus preventing him from being hit by the stones falling from the burned courtyard wall.
The next day, the rumor spread in the village that the family had invited many villagers to their home for dinner and drinks, but a fire broke out in the kitchen and everyone got drunk and couldn't get out.
This matter was passed over with such a ridiculous statement. Only the young Li Yuan himself knew that in the afternoon, he was curious about why there was no movement in the yard, so he climbed over the backyard wall of that house to peek. He happened to see several uncles and grandpas in the village who usually stood on the platform to give speeches, holding large buckets and pouring them along the wall.
He didn't know what they were pouring, but he thought the smell was strange and unpleasant. When he grew up, he found out that on the afternoon the yard caught fire, those people poured kerosene.
Li Yuan was afraid that he had really contracted the disease, and was even more afraid that he would be locked up and burned alive. He struggled to explain, but his anxiety caused him to burst into uncontrollable violent coughing again.
When the young soldier in charge of guarding the isolation area saw this situation, he immediately ran to the communication tent without saying a word.
The man with the buzz cut got anxious and shouted in panic:
"Commander! Please let me out first! Commander! What if I get infected again—"
The young soldier ran into the communication tent without looking back. Lu Zhan was listening to Ma Jun's report on the discovery of Wu Dali's remains with a serious expression.
He gasped for breath and saluted the two of them without stopping:
"Report, report to the battalion commander, someone in the quarantine area is coughing up blood!"
Lu Zhan's face turned grim. He didn't expect that one crisis would come after another. At first, he just wanted to be cautious, but he didn't expect that the worst situation would actually happen.
He knew clearly that with the current shortage of medical care and medicine in the refugee zone, anyone who contracted the disease was essentially sentenced to death.
What is more important is that we cannot allow the epidemic to develop and must not infect more people!
"Ma Jun, please get Doctor Liu over here immediately!"
"Yes! Battalion Commander!"
Ma Jun received the order and hurried to call for help.
Lu Zhan turned around and asked:
"Where are the other people in the quarantine area?"
The little soldier replied:
"Reporting to the battalion commander, the other three have not shown any symptoms."
The absence of symptoms does not mean that he is not infected. Moreover, there is already a suspected case of the epidemic, so he cannot let his guard down.
When Dr. Liu heard someone coughing up blood, he quickly put on his white coat and followed Ma Jun over. As soon as he entered the tent, he asked:
"Where is the person? Quick! Take me to see him!"
For doctors, when a patient coughs up blood, it often means that the disease is severe and extremely dangerous. If timely treatment is not given, the patient may not be able to be saved if more time is wasted.
Lu Zhan looked solemn, and his eyes were complicated as he looked at Dr. Liu:
“In the quarantine area.”
"Quarantine zone?!"
Doctor Liu looked a little flustered for a moment:
"So, the person who ate the mutton really got sick?!"
Lu Zhan nodded heavily. The emergence of this epidemic was like adding insult to injury for the refuge area which was already short of food, medical care and medicine. If one was not careful, the entire army could be wiped out, and the refuge area would be turned into a living hell.
"Doctor Liu, what do you think we should do now to prevent the disease from spreading among the masses?"
"This matter is too serious. I need to discuss it with my colleagues!"
Doctor Liu is just an ordinary doctor at Anfeng Town Hospital. He and several of his colleagues have been taking care of more and more sick patients day and night these days. It is already very hard work, and when he heard that there might be an epidemic in the quarantine area, he immediately panicked.
In his previous medical career, he had never dealt with the prevention and control of infectious diseases that posed a risk to the masses. He had no relevant experience and was inevitably nervous.
In order to prevent the news from spreading and causing panic among the people, Ma Jun called several other doctors and nurses to the communication tent, and Chen Chunyan was also called over.
At first she thought it was Lu Zhan calling her over, and she was very excited. But when she entered the tent, she found that there were already so many people standing inside.
After hearing clearly what Dr. Liu said, Chen Chunyan was the first to change her expression and said hurriedly:
"Cure the plague?! Not to mention that we don't have medicine right now, even if we did, it wouldn't necessarily be able to cure the plague. Furthermore, the plague is so contagious, who would dare to get close enough to give him medicine? If he gets infected, who would be able to take the responsibility? Who among you is willing to go? Go ahead, I'm not going!"
Although Chen Chunyan's words were harsh, they expressed the thoughts of several doctors and nurses present. For a moment, no one spoke up.
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