Chapter 252: Community 'Poisoning'
The epidemic was as fierce as a tiger. In less than half a month, patients with pneumonia appeared in cities surrounding Yunhai City.
The surrounding cities hated Yunhai City, but they could not disobey the central government's order and drive the pneumonia patients back to Yunhai City. If they wanted to build an underground city, they still needed help from the central government.
Fortunately, Yunhai City still had some conscience and made its research report on the plague public to all cities without reservation, so that they would not have to deal with the plague in the dark.
Xia Xiaoman knew nothing about the situation outside and stayed at home every day studying how to grow mushrooms.
Mushrooms are different from vegetables in that they grow slowly from fungus. She placed the purchased mushrooms in sawdust, hoping that the fungus on the mushrooms would fall on the sawdust and grow mushrooms.
After wasting a whole pound of mushrooms without success, Xia Xiaoman had to give up. This job should be handed over to professionals. She was not even an amateur, so it was difficult for her to grow mushrooms, let alone cultivate the strains.
Xia Xiaoman gave up picking mushrooms and went to the yard to pick pumpkin seedlings. Recently, pumpkins and winter melons have been growing well, especially pumpkin seedlings. After picking one, another one grows. But now the pumpkins have borne fruit, and if I pick them this time, they will be gone.
After picking a handful of pumpkin seedlings and some Chinese cabbage, Xia Xiaoman stood up and prepared to go back to the living room when someone knocked on the gate of the yard.
Xia Xiaoman patted the dirt off his trouser legs, put the vegetables away, went up to the second-floor balcony and looked out. Seeing two people wearing protective clothing and masks outside, he asked, "Who are you looking for?"
The two men looked up when they heard the voice. "Pneumonia test, please come down so we can extract your saliva."
Xia Xiaoman frowned when he heard this, went back to the house, found the protective suit from the space and put it on, then put on the gas mask, then carried the stepladder to the courtyard wall.
Standing on the stepladder, Xia Xiaoman looked at the two people outside the door and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't receive any information about the test. What are your names and which unit are you from?"
It seemed that this was not the first time that the two people were questioned. They had already prepared their work permits and ID cards hanging around their necks. One of them picked up his work permit and said, "We are nurses from the military hospital. We were sent by the higher-ups to do lung epidemic tests in your community. Please cooperate."
Xia Xiaoman squinted at the work ID. There was nothing wrong with the ID. The other person was wearing a mask, but the exposed eyes looked exactly like the photo. It must be him.
After thinking about it, she was still a little worried, so she pretended to be curious and asked, "Why do you suddenly want to test? I haven't heard of this before."
The nurse patiently explained, "There is someone in your community who has been infected with pneumonia. That person has some mental problems. After being infected with pneumonia, he secretly 'poisoned' people everywhere in the community, causing many people to be infected."
After the lung plague patient knew that he was infected, he was in a state of panic every day, fearing that he would die of the disease. Living in fear all day long, he urgently needed an outlet to release his inner panic.
So he blamed everyone in the community for his infection with the disease, thinking that it was the people in the community who walked around freely and brought the virus back to the community, which led to his infection with the plague. So he decided to take revenge on the community and everyone before he died.
Knowing that there was an infectious disease, people living in the community usually stayed indoors unless they had anything to do, which created a good opportunity for the plague patient to "poison".
He poured mouthwash into the bucket that he usually threw into the well to fetch water, dumped feces and urine at every intersection in the community, and deliberately spitted everywhere without wearing a mask when queuing for water...
In just one week, nearly half of the residents in the community were infected.
It was discovered that a large number of pneumonia patients suddenly appeared in Shuiyue Bay. They came to investigate and spent two days to find out what was going on.
Coincidentally, thanks to the fake news about fertilizer collection that was released some time ago, every household stopped dumping feces outside, and some places where feces were frequently dumped were shoveled up to make fertilizer, and the streets are clean everywhere.
Suddenly, they found feces at every intersection in the community, and the investigators immediately felt that something was wrong. They followed this clue and found out who dumped the feces.
"Someone saw the plague patient walking around the neighborhood carrying a feces bucket, so the investigators were able to catch him so quickly."
The nurse said with some relief: "It's a good thing that he was caught, otherwise the victims would not only be in your community, but also people outside the community would suffer."
I heard that when the investigators went to arrest people, the plague patient who poisoned the community was about to carry a feces bucket out of the community. It was obvious that this bastard was preparing to poison again.
Xia Xiaoman's mouth twitched. Some time ago, she saw a group of lunatics smashing things and poisoning people everywhere. She didn't expect that there were such lunatics in their community...
The nurse explained the whole story. Xia Xiaoman basically believed that the two people outside the door were not liars, so she asked, "How do you do the pneumonia test you mentioned?"
The nurse took out a sealed cotton swab and said, "We need to use a cotton swab to extract the fluid in your mouth."
Xia Xiaoman frowned. "Should I take off my mask? I don't know if there's any poisoning near my yard. What if I take off my mask and get infected with the disease?"
The nurse didn't expect this. She was stunned for a moment and said, "I brought disinfectant. If you are really worried, I will spray some disinfectant around here first."
Xia Xiaoman still felt unsafe. "Well, one of you can come in and help me do the test! It's safer in the yard."
The nurse responded kindly, "Okay, I'll go in then!"
Seeing this, Xia Xiaoman climbed down the ladder, went into the house and got a bottle of disinfectant. When the nurse came in, she sprayed the disinfectant on the nurse, then sprayed herself again, and then took the nurse to the door of the living room, away from the courtyard wall, and took off her mask to let the nurse help her collect saliva.
After seeing the nurse off, Xia Xiaoman took the disinfectant and sprayed it at the door again.
The nurse who hadn't walked far could smell the strong smell of disinfectant through her mask and shook her head in a funny way. What a life-saving girl, she was still not at ease after spraying disinfectant so many times.
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Time flies, and Xia Xiaoman has stayed at home for more than two months. The winter melons and pumpkins in the yard have matured, and the medicine for treating lung plague has finally come to light.
In the past two months, a nurse has come to do lung epidemic tests every seven days. After spending time together many times, Xia Xiaoman and the patient nurse have become more and more familiar with each other.
The nurse's name is Zhao Anqi, who is 5 years older than Xia Xiaoman and is 28 years old this year. Before the natural disaster, she had only been working in the military hospital for half a month, and before she was officially converted to a full-time position, the natural disaster came.
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