Chapter 170
Qin Huai had always wanted to take Mu Nan for a physical examination, but he never had the chance. When he came back, the sky was full of poisonous fog and he couldn't get out. When the fog dissipated, the weather was extremely hot. At that time, people had not yet adapted to the sudden and severe high temperatures. Every day, there were so many people going to the hospital because of the high temperatures that the hospital was almost overcrowded. The entire hospital had been a disaster area and there were no medical resources for physical examinations.
Many private medical examination centers were closed. He called several times, but no one was available. Then the earthquake happened, so the matter was put on hold.
When Shi Yuanfei got married some time ago, he asked Shi Yuanfei's wife whether the military hospital had the equipment to do physical examinations.
Ordinary hospitals are too messy. Until now, there are still a lot of patients infected with parasites due to mosquito bites. It is said that the hospitals are so crowded every day that there is no place to step. Only military hospitals, which can only be entered by people with special approval from the hospital or special professions, may have medical resources.
As a result, the physical examination originally scheduled for the next two days was suspended. I was told to contact him by phone to make another appointment when it was time.
Qin Huai called Shi Yuanfei and asked if there was any situation. Generally, it was not a big deal and there would not be a sudden shortage of medical resources.
Shi Yuanfei wanted to curse whenever he mentioned this: "It was that batch of fish that caused the trouble! They knew the fish were bad but still picked them up for cheap. They also said that in ancient Western countries, meat was left to rot before eating in order to make it softer and more rotten, so the fish meat that had just gone bad would be fine if it was cooked at a high temperature and grilled over a high fire. Where the hell did these idiots come from? They forgot their ancestors' surnames after reading two marketing articles!"
Qin Huai frowned slightly: "So what happened now? Which batch of fish are sick?"
Shi Yuanfei: "The specific situation is unclear, but there have been many more patients with headaches in the past few days. Mild symptoms are fever and headache, and severe symptoms are encephalitis and epilepsy. There was a patient with mild symptoms two days ago, and it suddenly became serious yesterday. The hospital said there was a bleeding point in the brain. There are no deaths yet, but it is estimated that it will not be long. The main reason is that there are too many people with similar symptoms. There are already more than 20 cases. These are still people who have the conditions to come to the hospital. Many people who don't have the conditions to come to the hospital probably don't think about treatment when they get sick, and simply wait to die at home. These illnesses have one thing in common."
Qin Huai said in a deep voice: "I ate the fish."
Shi Yuanfei: "Yes, but not everyone who eats fish is infected. The hospital has found a few people who also ate fish and are under medical observation, but no similar situation has occurred yet. Because it is not certain whether this inflammation can be transmitted from person to person, or whether it is some unknown parasite with strong reproductive and transmission ability, the hospital has now set up an isolation area, and most of the people in the military hospital have been transferred there to deal with the emergency."
Thinking about the large-scale outbreak of the disease in the residential area that had finally calmed down for a while, Shi Yuanfei was about to pull out his hair: "You should be careful at home during this period. It's better to avoid contact with people. Fortunately, you informed me that day and took away most of the goods in time, otherwise I don't know how many people would eat those fish. How could they eat them when they knew they were bad? They must pay with their lives just for a bite of food!"
Shi Yuanfei was very angry. To put it in a milder way, it was just that whoever was greedy and couldn't control himself would suffer after eating the fish without causing harm to others. To put it in a more serious way, if the disease spread over a large area due to a virus or some kind of contagious parasite, it would be a heavy blow to the residential area that had been rebuilt with great difficulty.
Especially now that the weather is hot and there are many mosquitoes, there are too many ways for the virus to spread. Just thinking about it makes me irritated. And his wife is also on the requisition list. If the infection alert is not lifted, it is unknown how long she will be kept in the quarantine area before she can come out.
Shi Yuanfei didn't have much time to talk to Qin Huai, as he still had to report to the base and dispatch personnel. He reminded Qin Huai not to go out and not to contact anyone, then hung up the phone.
Qin Huai hung up the phone, sat on the sofa for a while, then changed into going-out clothes and went next door.
The three of them were at Song Jia's house. Fortunately, when they first searched the business district here, they found an electronics store. The mobile phones and computers were all brand new and unopened, and the computer was also a high-configuration computer. Although it was a laptop and not a desktop, it was enough for simple editing.
Mu Nan didn't understand much about this. Seeing Song Jia opening one software after another, he was a little curious: "These shouldn't come with the computer, right? Without the Internet, can they be downloaded now?"
Song Jia picked up the chain hanging around his neck and shook it: "The guy who eats is always here."
Jian Chu and Song Jia were both shocked: "You can still do this, you really love this job."
Song Jia smiled and said, "This is a group of our classmates who went on a trip before. We bought this solar system necklace at a tourist attraction. It's actually a USB flash drive, very small, but we don't have the habit of storing data in USB flash drives, so we decided to install a software package. Some editing software is privately developed, and later when the business went out of business, those with the original installation package can continue to use it, and those without can't be downloaded from the Internet. These are all software that are relatively easy to use, so we thought of keeping an original installation package, just in case. I didn't expect it to come in handy now."
As he said this, Song Jia sighed: "If I had known this would happen, I would have bought 18,000 disks and downloaded all the online resources. Now I can make a fortune just by selling resources."
As soon as Song Jia finished speaking, he heard someone knocking on the door, but the door to the yard outside didn't ring, so it must be someone in the yard. He thought it was the girls coming to talk to them about something, but when he opened the door it was Qin Huai.
When Mu Nan saw that the person following Song Jia was his brother, he immediately raised his head and said, "Brother? Are you here to call me home for dinner?"
Jian Chu glanced at the time: "You haven't eaten yet?"
Their work and rest schedules are relatively uniform now. They go to bed around five or six in the morning, get home from work at four or five, sleep until two or three in the afternoon, get up to eat breakfast, and eat lunch at six or seven in the afternoon. If there are group activities, they usually start after the second meal of the day. Now it's a little after eight and less than nine, so it's late for lunch and early for dinner, so Jian Chu asked this question.
Qin Huai said: "No, I came here to tell you about the fish."
Everyone was stunned. Song Jia asked curiously, "What happened to the fish? Isn't the case still under trial? Is there a result? But this has nothing to do with us, right?"
Qin Huai: "Something went wrong with that batch of fish. We don't know whether the fish became infected with bacteria after they died or whether they were already infected when they were alive. We don't know what the pathogen is, but we do know that people who have eaten the necrotic fish are now experiencing inflammation, with the main symptoms being in the brain, high fever, encephalitis, epilepsy, etc."
As Qin Huai spoke, Jian Chu and Song Jia's faces became paler and paler. Mu Nan was fine, as he knew very well that the fish they had eaten before were fish from before the apocalypse. Those fish were all fine and there was absolutely no way they would be infected with any bacteria or parasites. He just didn't expect that eating fish would cause so many problems. First, there was a fight and someone died, and now there was an unknown disease.
Song Jia tightly grasped the armrest of the chair, his expression a bit dazed after being strongly stimulated: "Then, then we..."
Jian Chu suppressed his panic and said, "High temperature can kill it, we cooked it for so long."
Qin Huai shook his head: "Those who picked up the dead fish knew that the fish were dead, and they ate them with a fluke mentality, and they also deliberately cooked them for a long time at high temperature, so it is hard to say whether the high temperature can kill the fish inside."
If they weren't sitting, their legs would definitely be too weak to stand.
Just when they were scared to death, Qin Huai said, "But not everyone who ate the fish had problems. We didn't eat rotten fish. We were lucky and ate fresh fish. Also, there are people who ate dead fish and didn't have any symptoms, so you don't have to scare yourself. I tell you this to remind you that there may be waves outside during this period. If you can stay at home, don't go out. If you have to go out to work, remember not to come into contact with too many people. We don't know whether those who get sick from eating fish are contagious or not."
Having said that, Jian Chu and Song Jia still couldn't recover from the shocking news. If it hadn't been a few days ago, they would have induced vomiting by now to throw up everything they had eaten.
Song Jia couldn't help crying and kept blaming herself for being greedy.
Mu Nan on the side didn't know how to persuade them, because he knew that there would be no problem with the fish they ate, so he was not as frightened as they were.
Song Jia, however, saw that Mu Nan's expression didn't change much, so he sniffed and looked at him: "Why are you so calm? Aren't you afraid? If we get sick, we will die!"
Mu Nan was silent for a while before speaking: "If you are afraid, you won't get sick? Besides, if there is a problem, there are more than ten people in our yard. What is there to be afraid of? You won't be lonely on the road to the underworld."
This made Jian Chu laugh: "Being generous also has its advantages."
How could they be in the mood to make money at this moment? They all looked like they had lost their parents. All the enthusiasm for getting rich and expecting a good future just a second ago had turned into bubbles and burst into nothingness.
Mu Nan knew that no matter what words of comfort he said now, they would not listen. After all, they did not know that the fish they ate was not bought from someone else's stall. If he did not know this, he would probably be scared to death right now, so he could only wait for things to slowly pass.
Staying together would only make us look at each other in despair, so it would be better for us to calm down. Anyway, Qin Huai had taken Mu Nan back.
As soon as he got home, Mu Nan asked, "Brother, why did you scare them? Look how scared they were. Song Jia even cried."
Qin Huai: "How could I scare them? This is how it is. They will know it sooner or later. They will be frightened first, and then when they see the news online, they won't scare themselves to death. Anyway, they are fine. They can just be frightened to exercise their heart to resist stress."
Mu Nan looked at Qin Huai suspiciously: "Is that so?"
"What else?"
Mu Nan couldn't think of any other reason, so he could only believe it.
Qin Huai asked him to collect eggs from the chicken coop, and he went to the rooftop to cut some grass. The alfalfa planted on the rooftop grew better than the one below because of sufficient sunlight, so it could be harvested faster.
How nice it is this. There are so many things to do at home, with chickens and rabbits. When there is nothing to do, wouldn’t it be nice to accompany him to take a nap or watch a movie? You can learn video editing without feeling tired.
This incident had a great impact on the people who attended the dinner that day. They were trembling with fear every day and searched for various related news on the Internet. At first, there was no news. Later, I don’t know whether it was seen by people who went to the hospital for treatment or by some medical staff, but the incident was exposed anyway. The person had a serious brain disease due to eating dead fish. Below the news were photos of a diaphragm isolation in a certain campus of the hospital.
The campus originally designated as a traditional Chinese medicine hospital in the photo was fenced off and covered with layers of thick transparent membrane cloth. People going in and out were all wearing very tight protective clothing. If you didn't know, you would think some kind of biochemical experiment was being conducted inside.
If this scene had appeared in a hospital in the past, it would have caused great panic. But now, people no longer have the energy to panic. They are physically and mentally exhausted every day, struggling to make ends meet, and suffering from illness and death in the hospital. How can they have the energy to care about things that seem to have nothing to do with them at the moment?
Many people even became numb when they saw the news. They had experienced too much, so such things could not scare them anymore. The most important thing was that they had no money to eat whether the fish were dead or alive, so they were not afraid at all.
Many people even gloated over the incident in the comments.
[That's good. The gap between the rich and the poor is so big. Let's kill some rich people to narrow the gap.]
[I can say without any pain in my back, you deserve it! ]
【Catch and lock up those who ate the fish, and control the source of infection from the source. 】
[Some people were showing off that they bought fish and meat before. Yes, you guys should eat more! ]
[The comments are so disgusting. This is a human life. ]
[What a joke! A human life is probably not worth as much as a piece of pork these days.]
[I hope everyone is safe and sound. I hope there won’t be any more infectious diseases this time. I really can’t stand any more trouble. ]
[You only see all kinds of hatred towards the rich. People earn their money through their own abilities, but you are jealous. What the hell.]
Although Mu Nan knew that the fish they ate was fine, the incident had caused quite a stir. Even if one did not want to pay attention to it, some forums and community groups were basically talking about it, so it was inevitable to see some comments from netizens.
"Everyone is so angry, but that's normal. The weather is hot, and people are irritated even when nothing happens. Now they have an outlet to vent, so they're just going to vent without paying."
Qin Huai poured the water drawn from the well into the container in the bathroom. Even though Mu Nan took advantage of the space to transport the water to the third floor to avoid them having to carry it up and down, pouring the water bucket by bucket still made them sweat.
After pouring the last bucket of water in, Qin Huai lifted the hem of his clothes and wiped the sweat off his face.
He stayed at home to avoid the sun all day long, and he didn't see the sun for days. Qin Huai himself had fair skin. Although not as white as Mu Nan, his skin was lighter than that of ordinary people. Since he stopped going out to work, Qin Huai was worried that he would be lazy at home, so he increased the time he spent on fitness every day, and his muscles became so tight.
The action of bending down slightly and lifting up the hem of his clothes directly highlighted the lines of his abdominal muscles. Among the tight lines, there were condensed beads of sweat, which slid down all the way, closely connected, accumulating more and more, and finally sliding into the waistband of his pants, forming a dark mark.
Mu Nan looked away with great difficulty, and even swallowed his saliva. From the corner of his eye he saw Qin Huai wipe the sweat off his face, then turned around to put disinfectant tablets into the container without paying any attention to him. So he knew that Qin Huai's action just now was definitely not meant to tease him.
Mu Nan took out a can of ice cola from the space, opened the pull ring with a snap, and took a big gulp. A burst of carbonic acid stimulation and sourness immediately rushed to his head, relieving the heat and suppressing the restlessness. He finally felt a little more relaxed.
It turns out that natural flirting is more exciting than deliberate flirting.
Hearing the sound of the can, Qin Huai in the bathroom said without turning his head: "You can only drink half, the remaining half is mine, do you hear me?"
Mu Nan said with a tut: "You said drinking Coke is bad, but you still drink it."
Qin Huai then put away the empty bucket and came out of the bathroom, shaking his wet hands: "If you don't drink it, I promise I won't touch it at all."
Seeing that his entire face was red, Qin Huai reached out and used the back of his fingers to feel the heat of his cheek: "So hot?"
Mu Nan looked away, hummed, and took another sip of Coke.
But before he could take two more sips, most of the remaining was taken by Qin Huaishun. He only drank three sips in total!
Very good, now there is no romantic thoughts at all, only the irreconcilable hatred of snatching Coke!
After filling the house with water, Qin Huai took a roll of plastic pipe and went downstairs to work on the well. They used a push-pull method to draw water in the yard, so the water would spray everywhere. So Qin Huai wanted to install a plastic pipe, which could be put accurately into the bucket to avoid waste, and also to avoid getting clothes and shoes wet when drawing water.
While I was installing the hose and cleaning the sink, I heard the sound of a car driving outside the yard, and soon someone pushed the door open.
As Xu Ming dragged a bunch of stuff into the yard, he saw Qin Huai working on the well and smiled: "Are you doing renovations?"
Qin Huai: "Well, it would be more convenient to install a tube. Why are you here so early today?"
Xu Ming sighed and said, "It has to be early. We have left a few people there. Two veterinarians who live on the farm are on duty. The others are going home to rest for the time being."
Qin Huai frowned slightly: "Something happened again?"
Xu Ming said helplessly, "It's still about the fish. When the rotten fish was discovered, a fight broke out. One person was seriously injured and couldn't be rescued. That person was the only son of a private farm. Later, the farm owner seemed to want to find the person who beat his son to death, but it was too chaotic at the time and there were no cameras, so he simply counted all the troublemakers. This is no secret. I heard that the people the boss found did smash and destroy several of the troublemakers at the time. As a result, the fish has now been exposed for problems. Although the cause is not clear, it is indeed caused by eating the fish. Several people have died."
After thinking about this, Qin Huai guessed, "So someone attacked the farm?"
Xu Ming nodded. "The farm of that private owner has been robbed. A group of people came to cause trouble, claiming that someone in their family had eaten their food and died as a result. Some people were dissatisfied with these rich people for not treating them as human beings, so they made unabashed threats to pay for their lives in revenge. In the end, the incident escalated and the farm was smashed. A swarm of people rushed in and robbed everything they saw. The farmer was also beaten to death. This incident affected some other farms. Once there is one, there will be two. Their purpose is food, not revenge. It's just an excuse."
Thinking of several other innocent farms, Xu Ming sighed, "This way of getting food easily has made many people taste the sweetness, and more and more people have gathered together. It's no longer just a matter of staring at those dead fish, but the other farmers are also innocent. They grow crops and raise pigs peacefully, and they don't do anything else. Just because they contracted the farm, they encountered such a thing that could cost them their lives or even their money. It's so unfair. Now the army has arranged people to take over, but they are worried about the safety of the farm workers. Those who can stay on the farm will continue to work, and those who need to go home will take a temporary rest and vacation to avoid any accidents on the way to and from get off work."
Xu Ming could have stayed on the farm, but he was not that dedicated to his job. Today's veterinarians don't sit in an office and call you over to take a look, prescribe medicine or perform treatment when something happens. Now veterinarians are similar to farm workers. They have to always check the living environment of farm animals, the proportion of food, etc. When people are busy, even the pig sty has to be cleaned by the veterinarians on a shift, saying that they can observe the feces of pigs, cattle and sheep. If there is any problem with the animal, checking the feces is the most direct way.
So he would rather go home and rest than stay on the farm to clean the pigsty every day. If it weren't for the high salary of veterinarians, which is higher than that of farm workers, and the high salary means that there is one position for each person, and someone will immediately fill it, he would have quit long ago.
After briefly explaining the situation on the farm, Xu Ming picked up the things he brought back from the farm and headed home: "This time it depends on how the higher-ups can suppress it. If they can suppress it, it's fine. If they can't, then it's going to be a real mess."
Qin Huai looked at the plastic tube that had been put on the water well nozzle with a serious look in his eyes. He stood in the yard for a while before going upstairs.
How to suppress this matter? The army's style is indeed much more iron-blooded and tough now, but they are soldiers after all, not bandits. They can point their guns at the evil people who are causing trouble, but not at the hungry people. They can't shoot indiscriminately when more and more people gather to rob farms, and those people are sure of this, so they will act in this way after seizing an opportunity and excuse.
If we can't suppress it, there will be chaos. If we want to suppress it, we have to provide at least enough food for most people to eat. This time we really have no way to retreat and no way to advance.
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