Virus Lockdown 2
The night is the protective color of some people. People with different purposes emerge like bats at night.
Chu Yun is also included in this group of people.
At 11 o'clock in the evening, Chu Yun, who was lying on the folding bed, suddenly opened his eyes and got up quickly.
She needed to go out for her copy shuttle item card.
Destination: epidemic prevention and control command center.
In order to appease the public, the news that can be sent out is likely to be instructed by the higher-ups, and what is obtained here is the most authentic.
Chu Yun stole a bicycle from the roadside and deliberately drove into the dark alleys. She had a strong sense of direction and followed the route she had planned early in the morning. Half an hour later, she arrived at the address she had found before.
Before they even got close, Chu Yun abandoned the car and hid in the shadows of the trees, peering through the dim light at the gates of the control and control center. The sky was pitch black, dotted with only one or two stars. The entire city was slumbering, but here, it was bright as day, and everyone passing by was wearing protective clothing.
Chu Yun was well prepared. He changed into a set of protective clothing that he had picked up at the service station and nimbly followed a team in.
A Xiaobai in front was whispering with his companion, and Chuyun pricked up his ears.
"Have you heard? Our food supply won't last more than a few days?"
"Isn't relief on the way? It will arrive tomorrow."
"But I heard a rumor that the truck delivering the food was intercepted on the road and all the food disappeared. I wonder if it's true?"
"I heard from my aunt's son's colleagues that 17, 18, and 90% of it is true. The criminals haven't been caught yet. I heard it was the country across the sea that was behind this."
"Oh my god, the epidemic here hasn't been brought under control yet and we're already running out of food. Please don't let this be true."
"Stop talking nonsense and go report your work to the commander!" The leader suddenly turned around, stopped them from talking, and saw Chu Yun.
Chu Yun was frightened by his sudden turn and her heart tightened. She lowered her voice and changed the tone, pretending to be mature and said, "You have finished the inspection. Well, you have worked hard. Go back and have a good rest."
"Who are you?" The leader stroked his eyes inside the protective suit, opened his eyes in confusion, and racked his brains. He seemed to have never seen such a young leader.
Chu Yun remained silent, but a drop of cold sweat dripped from the back of his neck. He was thinking about what excuse to use.
"Oh, I remember now. You are the little secretary beside the commander-in-chief, right? Yes, that little secretary has this voice!" The leader said and cast an inquiring look at the people around him.
"Oh, yes, yes, we met once that day." Someone echoed, and the leader became more convinced that Chu Yun was the secretary.
"Hmm..." Chu Yun was still thinking about how to get away with it, but these people helped her out with just a few words. She did not deny standing there steadily as if she was inspecting public opinion.
"Secretary Zhang, please persuade the commander to get more rest. He has been up for several days and nights without closing his eyes because of this epidemic. Look, it's already so late and he's still in a meeting." A young nurse said, pointing to a room in front.
"Well, I will convey your concern. I have something urgent to report now, so I'll leave first!"
To avoid revealing her true identity, Chu Yun quickly walked towards the commander-in-chief's room. Thanks to the protective suit and mask, and thanks to the leader's 800-degree titanium dog eyes, he mistook her for the commander's secretary by chance and told her the commander's address.
*
Two teams of soldiers were patrolling back and forth in front of the Commander-in-Chief's door. Chu Yun seized the few seconds between the two teams to evade the shadows behind the command room. This was a makeshift tin shed. Chu Yun had observed that it had only a single, medium-sized window at the back. Like an assassin slithering through the darkness, Chu Yun silently made his way to the back of the room and, using the tools he had brought with him, gently pried open the locked window.
With a "click", the window opened and closed again, but the subtle sound still alerted the people in the house.
"What's that sound?" The people in the room looked at each other, and one of them, a spirited old man, was about to come over.
Chu Yun suddenly had an idea, turned over and hid in the grass, meowing.
The voice was so lifelike that it successfully fooled everyone.
The old man walked to the window and relaxed when he saw no sign of anyone. It seemed that he really needed to rest. He was not as strong as before after staying up for several days and nights.
"It turned out to be a cat. Spring is indeed approaching. I heard that there were many wild cats before this place was built!" said a younger man.
"Alas, if it weren't for this epidemic, they wouldn't be displaced," the old man lamented.
"Okay, let's report the business!" The old man sat upright and his voice became majestic.
Here comes the point! If Chu Yun wasn't afraid of being discovered, his ears would almost be pressed against the window.
"The relief supplies were indeed intercepted. The person who intercepted them is unknown, but it is certain that they are in the same group as those people."
"Is there any news about those people?" asked the old man.
"Not yet, sir," the young man replied.
"What's the Ministry of Public Security doing? We've been searching for so long but still have no news. We can't find the accomplices of the crime, nor the first generation of infected people. We can't find the transmission route, and we can't develop an effective medicine." The old man was furious.
"But teacher, there is news that their traces have been found near District 8." The young man hurried forward to comfort him.
The old man calmed down a bit. "Go to the Ministry of Public Security tomorrow and ask them to speed up the process. If you can't find this job, you can give up."
"Be careful not to alert the enemy or cause panic among the public, and investigate privately."
*
After returning home, Chu Yun lay on the camp bed, staring at the ceiling.
The first generation of infected? Those people? These words echoed in Chu Yun's mind. For her prop card, she would not live in peace.
District 8—wasn't that the neighborhood she served? The danger lurked right next to her, and she knew it. Her thoughts clicked. She delivered groceries to every household, and every one seemed normal. She hadn't noticed anything unusual. So where were these criminals hiding?
Food distribution was done every two days. As community volunteers, Chu Yun and Xiao Xin were assigned to the main service station to provide logistics support when not distributing food. Sometimes they worked on sorting out the required quantities for each community according to the distribution list, and sometimes they accompanied nurses on community patrols, promptly reporting suspected cases and close contacts.
She is extremely careful every time she goes out on a mission. She wraps herself tightly throughout the whole process and disinfects her entire body strictly according to the procedures when she comes back. Even the nurses who work with her on the mission praise her professionalism and ask her if she has studied medicine.
Xiaoxin is her partner, and they follow her example. In addition, with the advice of their mother who is a doctor, the two of them have always protected themselves well even though all their colleagues around them have been infected.
Chu Yun worked during the day and went out at night to investigate, but after several days, there was no progress. Where could this group of people be hiding? The lockdown had lasted so long that the stockpiles had long been used up, and everyone was relying on government aid. She had delivered supplies to every household in the community over the past few days, so it was reasonable to expect suspicious individuals to appear, but why hadn't she found any signs?
Today is another bi-day food delivery day. The two men loaded the side dishes and drove the tricycle on the road.
Along the way, they had seen two ambulances. The sick people had high fevers on their foreheads and their faces were liver-colored. They coughed violently like consumptive patients, and the listeners felt that their lungs were about to be coughed out. Their legs and feet were twitching, and their eye whites were rolled up, which looked like both epilepsy and a cold.
Among them was a fat man who looked familiar, as if he was the fat landlord who kicked her out. Chu Yun couldn't help but sigh. The fat landlord had taken such strict precautions, but he still got infected.
The doctors and nurses in the emergency department raced against death, carrying stretchers and providing emergency services as they ran. The patient's family members cried and ran after them, and onlookers from above watched from afar, occasionally sighing and exchanging a few words. Xiaoxin hurried by on his tricycle. Compared to the patient's relatives, friends, and neighbors, they were like passing strangers, forgotten in a flash, and it would be a matter of luck if they even became a topic of conversation in the future.
From a God's perspective, this scene would seem normal and even comical. There's no such thing as empathy, simply because you haven't experienced it yourself. You can't feel someone else's pain, and likewise, they can't understand your suffering.
"Chu Yun, we're here!" With a brake, Chu Yun, who was not prepared at all, couldn't help but lean forward.
"Chu Yun, what are you thinking about?" Xiao Xin stepped off the tricycle and saw that Chu Yun didn't seem to react. He came back and waved in front of her.
"It's okay, let's go." She came to her senses and went to the back of the tricycle with Xiaoxin to unload the goods.
"Xiao Xin, the epidemic has been going on for more than two months!" They started chatting while unloading.
"2 months and 7 days!" This was the first time his partner took the initiative to chat with him, and he was a little flattered.
"What was the infection originally?" Chu Yun asked casually.
"The news reports at the time said that a group of people gathered together to eat wild animals and then got a fever and became infected when they returned home. They ate bats, snakes, toads and the like. They were really perverted and dared to eat anything." Xiaoxin curled his lips.
After looking around, he whispered like a thief, "But my mother in my hospital discovered when she was doing epidemiological research on infectious diseases that the primary source of infection was not these people who ate wild animals. She guessed it was a harmful thing created by a foreign research institute." He gritted his teeth at the end.
Chu Yun couldn't help but think of the zombie world before his rebirth, which was also a scourge created by a certain crazy research institute abroad. Those colorless people thought they were superior to others and above all life, but in the end they suffered the consequences and became the first place to disappear after the end of the world.
The community they are responsible for has a mix of urban village buildings and single-family two-story houses.
The urban villages are concentrated, so delivering to this area completes 95% of the mission. The remaining areas are scattered residential buildings. One of these is quite remote. District 8 is already close to the suburbs, and this building is adjacent to a small park. With over a dozen people living there, we always need to prepare supplies for more than a dozen people. Usually, a middle-aged man with glasses opens the door, quickly grabs the items, and then goes in, never seeing the other people in the room.
The staff had conducted a population survey before. The head of the household here is a local teacher. People nearby call him Teacher Zhou. He has lived here since his grandfather's generation. He said that in addition to him and his son who just started elementary school, there are also a large group of friends visiting their home, so the supplies are always quite generous.
"We are all neighbors and have known each other for decades. Although they are a bit rigid, they are honest and loyal and will go out of their way to help their friends. I have checked the IDs of those friends and there is no problem." This is how the investigator introduced them to her during the docking work.
But now it seems that there is no problem! Chu Yun narrowed his eyes slightly. Anyone familiar with him would know that this is the rhythm of trouble.
"You're here! Give it to me!" The man before him leaned halfway against the slightly open door, speaking weakly and submissively. His cheeks were thin, his lips pale, and in just a few days, his round face had shrunk to a triangular shape.
?
Aren't the supplies prepared per person? Although the food portions have certainly been reduced over the past few days, they're still enough to keep you full, so you shouldn't be so hungry that you're not noticeably hungry. He looked like he'd been starving for a long time, and had been abused. Looking closely at his face, the mask covered it tightly, but it couldn't hide the bruises.
Something happened!
Chu Yun remained calm and said, "The community asked us to pay a return visit. May I ask if this householder has any suggestions for our volunteer work? Are the supplies we provided to your liking? Do you need any other assistance?"
Chu Yun emphasized the last sentence, hinting at something.
Xiao Xin glanced at Chu Yun in confusion. When did he get this mission? How come he didn't know about it? Chu Yun still looked serious. Xiao Xin felt that the person in charge must have given Chu Yun the mission because he thought Chu Yun was capable.
Teacher Zhou raised his head immediately after hearing this: "I need beef for children. My son is in the growth stage. If he doesn't supplement protein for a long time, he will not grow tall." When talking about his son, his cloudy and weak eyes exuded a maternal light.
Chu Yun: "Okay, we have received your suggestion. We will report it to our superiors when we return. Please be patient."
"Old Yu, what are you talking about outside?" Perhaps the two of them had been chatting for too long, which attracted the attention of other people in the room. A strong voice gradually approached.
Oops, we've been discovered.
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