Chapter 6 Hazards of Gray Fog Gray Fog
The fourth day of the apocalypse.
After exercising as usual, Qiao Qiao sat on the balcony and looked downstairs through a telescope.
As expected, the otaku girl couldn't understand why people outside were still dancing in the square when the visibility was less than 50 meters! Playing basketball! Walking in circles and chatting! Playing mahjong!
These people have been exposed to gray fog for a long time, and their lungs have become diseased unconsciously.
Just when Qiao Qiao was living a peaceful life, the dangers of the gray fog began to emerge.
A company
"Cough cough." Zhao Jia got up at five in the morning and arrived at the office after a two-hour commute. As soon as he sat down, he covered his chest and coughed continuously.
"Jia Jia, what's wrong with you?" Qian Yi, who had just arrived at the workstation, took off her mask and quickly handed over a bottle of mineral water, not forgetting to open it considerately.
"I don't know. It's been like this these past two days." Zhao Jia took the bottle and drank half of it. He answered after feeling a little better.
"Are you sick? Why don't you go to the hospital for a check-up?" Qian Yi was a little worried.
"I don't have the time. I also want this month's perfect attendance award. I bought some cough medicine. It shouldn't be a problem. It will be fine after taking it for a few days." Zhao Jia didn't care.
"Okay." Seeing this, Qian Yi stopped persuading him. As a colleague, she couldn't say anything.
"How is your rhinitis?" Zhao Jia said, looking at the mask on the other person's table.
"That's it. I get sick when I encounter cold air, pollen, and haze." Qian Yi sighed.
When I looked up and saw the boss walking in, I quickly shut up and whispered a reminder.
"The boss is here."
The topic stopped and everyone started a new busy day.
A school
“Ahem.”
“Ahem.”
“Ahem.”
Standing in the corridor, you can hear countless coughs coming from different classes.
"This won't work. Several students have asked for leave." Sun Bing, the head teacher of Class 1, stood at the back door and talked to Li Ding, the head teacher of Class 2.
"It's not just students. I heard that many teachers have started coughing too." Li Ding said as he watched the morning self-study class. He has just been working for two years and does not have enough experience.
"This can't be an infectious disease." Thinking of this, Sun Bing immediately took out his mobile phone and ordered hundreds of masks online.
"Not sure, wait for the Education Bureau to notify..."
"ah!"
Before Li Ding could finish his words, he heard screams from inside the class. He rushed in and walked a few steps to the center of the riot.
"What's wrong?"
"Cough, cough, cough!"
"Teacher, Wang Mo vomited blood!"
A girl cried and reported to Li Ding that her deskmate was acting strangely.
I saw a little boy coughing with his head down, and the snow-white tissue had turned red.
"Ahem, teacher, ahem, I..." Before Wang Mo could finish his words, he felt his eyes go dark and he lost consciousness.
Li Ding knew that something serious was happening, but he didn't dare to move the child without knowing the situation clearly. He could only call the emergency number, the infirmary, the principal and the parents.
"Hello, this is Class 2, Grade 2, Elementary School, Xinxing School. A student has fainted after coughing up blood. Please come as soon as possible. Thank you."
"Doctor Wang, I'm Li Ding. A student in the second grade class one of the elementary school department has fainted due to coughing up blood. Please come quickly."
"Principal Zhang, I'm Li Ding. A student in my class has fainted due to coughing up blood. If it's convenient, please come as soon as possible."
"Hello, Wang Mo's mother, I am his class teacher Li Ding. Wang Mo fainted at school due to coughing up blood. I have called the emergency number. Please come to the school as soon as possible."
After finishing the call, Li Ding squatted on the ground, his hands shaking and his head buzzing.
A hospital
The respiratory department is overcrowded.
"Ahem, doctor, what do you think is wrong with me?" Zhang Wei handed the newly taken CT scan to the doctor.
The doctor's dark circles were almost like eye bags, and he treated the patients in one breath.
He watched the film carefully for a while before speaking.
"Recently, all patients have symptoms like yours, with white spots on their lungs. The cause is unknown and they need to be hospitalized for observation and treatment."
"It's just a cough, why don't you just prescribe some cough medicine? Why do you want us to be hospitalized? Is it just to collect money? Let me tell you, not only will we not be hospitalized, we will also file a complaint against you, a quack doctor!"
Zhang Shushan exploded like a firecracker.
"That's right. I used to cough often and I just took some cough medicine and didn't need to be hospitalized. If it hadn't taken a long time to get better and I was afraid of disturbing my children's sleep at night, I wouldn't have come to the hospital." Zhang Wei rolled his eyes and thought that doctors were just doing it to make money.
Doctors have seen this kind of reaction from patients many times, not to mention that inpatient beds are already limited.
"Okay, then don't stay in the hospital. I'll prescribe some medicine for you. You can go to the pharmacy to get it."
Zhang Shushan was still not satisfied. "The medicine in the hospital is too expensive. Please write down the name of the medicine and we will buy it somewhere else."
"..." The doctor was speechless. "That's fine. Look at the manufacturer. Different pharmaceutical companies have different efficacy."
"But there have been too many people coughing recently. It might be a new infectious disease. I still suggest that you stay in the hospital for observation for a period of time." Out of medical ethics, the doctor gave the final advice.
"No need, don't try to cheat us out of our money. Let's go!" Zhang Shushan took the prescription and dragged Zhang Wei away.
"Oh, how can you always have paranoid delusions at such a young age?" The doctor sighed as he watched them leave.
"Next."
The fifth day of doomsday.
A research institute
"Dean! The research results are out. Gray fog can cause irreversible damage to human lungs. It looks like white lungs on the surface. No treatment has been found so far."
A researcher in a white coat rushed into the dean's office holding a thick report.
Dean Zhou, who had not been home for three days and had been living in the institute, quickly took it, looked at it for a while, and then put it down with a heavy face.
"Tell the higher-ups, a war without gunpowder is coming..."
The Sixth Day of Doom
Jojo checked the wind direction online.
The doomsday warning post she posted has not been blocked yet. Because she paid for it, it has a lot of views, but no one believes it, and there are a lot of ridicule instead.
“Woo-woo-, woo-woo-!”
A sharp and urgent sirens broke the quiet of the community, and an ambulance drove into the community.
The old men and women who were strolling and chatting in the community quickly surrounded them.
"what happens?"
"I don't know, I just came here."
"I heard that someone seems to be dying again."
A few minutes later, Qiao Qiao stood on the balcony and used a telescope to see medical staff carrying an old man down on a stretcher. His face was blue and purple, and it was obvious that he was only breathing out but not in.
The ambulance then left the community.
As expected, people’s gossip instinct is unavoidable, and the community owners’ group was caught in a heated atmosphere.
"Whose family are you from? What's wrong?"
"An elderly man in Building 2 had been short of breath and coughing for the past few days. Today, his condition suddenly worsened and he vomited blood and fainted."
"Hey, why didn't you go to the hospital earlier?"
"It seems like he wants to wait until the kids are on vacation before going."
"Many elderly people and children have been sick recently. Is there a new flu?"
"I don't know. My daughter is in the hospital and the inpatient department is full now."
Qiao Qiao turned off his phone and thought it was time to go out and experience the situation for himself.
"Shh, Xiao Qiao, be quiet. I'll come back and give you some cat notes." Qiao Qiao stroked the cat that had been following her feet a few times.
While her parents were taking a nap, she put on long sleeves and long pants, secretly took out an R-rated gas mask, and only left after making sure not an inch of skin was exposed.
When we reached the third floor, a few elderly people who had just finished their meal got on the elevator and were preparing to go to the mahjong hall on the first floor to continue their game.
Qiao Qiao's fully armed outfit naturally attracted a lot of attention.
"Who is this?"
"I don't know. I can't tell."
"Child, who are you from? Where are you going?" a white-haired old lady asked in a familiar manner.
If it was someone else, she might have answered, but this person was a well-known rogue in the entire community, nicknamed "Old Liu Mang".
My family lives on the first floor and used to raise chickens in the yard, which caused a terrible stench.
As a result, the windows on the second and third floors could not be opened, and we went to the door several times to look for them.
But the old lady relied on her age and seniority to bully others, and no one could do anything about her. Even the property management’s repeated warnings were useless.
In the end, it was only after the city A issued an official order for a thorough overhaul in order to select the most beautiful city that forced Mrs. Liu to give up raising chickens.
She didn't dare reveal her identity too much to her.
"Grandma, I'm going to go shopping. I'm in a hurry so I'll leave first."
Just at this moment, the elevator door opened. Qiao Qiao made up a lie and rushed out, taking the stairs to the underground parking lot.
"Whose child is this? She is so rude. If I find out, I will ask her parents to teach her a lesson." "Old Liu the Rogue" continued to act like a rogue.
"Forget it, forget it. He didn't say he was in a hurry." Others tried to smooth things over.
"Let's go."
Qiao Qiao found the garage at home, opened the door and got in the car.
I don't have any special purpose for coming out this time. I just want to go around and find out the situation.
When visibility is less than 50 meters, driving is still very dangerous even if the fog lights and low beam lights are turned on at the same time.
For safety reasons, Jojo maintained a speed of 10 miles per hour and crawled slowly in the slow lane on the side of the road, not caring even if the cars behind him honked their horns to urge him.
She had already moved to the far right, leaving room for all anxious cars to overtake.
“Ding ding!”
"What are you hesitating for? If you can't drive, don't come out. Women just can't do that." A Porsche came out from the left.
The owner of the car was a young man who looked quite old and was swearing a lot. After cursing a few times, he accelerated.
Before Qiao Qiao could react, a loud noise was heard.
“Sizzle—clang!”
A traffic accident happened in front of her.
The young Porsche owner was so busy turning back and cursing that he didn't notice the traffic light in front of him had turned red. In addition, he was driving too fast and was hit by a large truck that was driving normally on the left.
The expensive luxury car was smashed to pieces, and the left driver's seat of the Porsche was completely dented.
There is no need to look. Unless a miracle happens, the young car owner will definitely die.
"What the hell! What happened?"
"There was a car accident!"
"Call the police!"
"Call the emergency number!"
A man got off the truck, with a hideous scar running across his entire face.
The crowd that was originally watching the excitement quickly retreated, and the noisy sounds instantly decreased, leaving only some low murmurs.
The man glanced at the surveillance cameras at the intersection, calmly took out his cell phone to call the police, and then took photos around the accident to preserve evidence.
He looks so organized that one can't help but doubt his profession.
Qiao Qiao was not interested in the accident and turned right to leave the intersection that was about to be blocked.
The truck driver was driving normally and did not violate any traffic regulations. There were surveillance cameras and passers-by to testify that nothing would happen.
As for the Porsche owner, he was impolite and did not obey traffic rules. His life or death had nothing to do with her. It was good enough that she did not gloat over his misfortune.
"How could I think like that? Knock the wooden fish, knock the wooden fish." Qiao Qiao felt mixed emotions about the thought of hoping that he would have a car accident.
The other party did offend her, and she did want to retaliate, but the price of a life was too high.
"You can't think like that. The fog was so thick, yet he dared to drive so fast in the city. His lawless habit will eventually lead to an accident. Besides, it wasn't me who hit him." Qiao Qiao comforted herself.
My mind was full of changes, and before I knew it, the car had arrived at the entrance of a park.
Due to the influence of the gray fog, the newly built park in the new district was even less crowded.
As Qiao Qiao was about to leave, he saw the changes taking place in the park out of the corner of his eye.
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