Chapter 53 Chapter 53
Including the 26 people taken away tonight, there are more than a thousand people in the team infected with malaria, and only two people have been successfully cured so far.
After recovering from a serious illness, the two men were so skinny that they gasped for breath after walking a few steps. Even so, it was a blessing compared to losing their lives.
Even though the base distributes mugwort every day, there are always mosquitoes that are not affected and people are still infected every day. In the absence of Western medicine, they have to rely on Chinese herbal medicine. If they can survive it, they will be reborn; if they can't, they will be reincarnated.
Because mosquitoes have a simple DNA structure, they evolve very quickly. In just a few days, many of them have adapted to mugwort.
At this time, researchers at the base began to tinker with high-tech mosquito repellent methods, and they actually made some progress.
A device that uses sound waves to repel mosquitoes was developed and soon put into use. The principle of the machine is to stun the surrounding insects through high-frequency sound waves.
It is not only effective against mosquitoes, but also insects such as moths and flies.
The machine was quickly put into mass production, and the rate of increase in the number of patients in the team was controlled. By the time they left Province Z, there were no new infections. However, almost no one of the previous patients survived, except for a few with particularly good physical fitness.
Zhao Wenjie was one of them. He was a righteous man with many relatives and friends. When someone went to visit him, they secretly stuffed a few anti-inflammatory drugs into his hand, so he was able to survive. Otherwise, his body would have stunk.
Illness comes like a mountain falling and goes like a thread being pulled out. Even a strong man like him would be very weak after a serious illness. He could not lead the patrol team for the time being and could only sit in the car with Chen Guoan and the others.
At this time, they had just entered the territory of J Province. J Province was notoriously bad for its roads, and many rural areas were still dirt roads. On a hot day, the dirt roads were full of dust after drying. Every step would splash a lot of dust, which would be inhaled into the nose with people's breathing, making people choke.
Those who had masks put them on. It was naturally stuffy, but it blocked the dust and made it more bearable. Those who didn't have masks had to cover their noses with their hands the whole time.
This is still a minor problem. The important thing is that when you eat and drink, some of the water will inevitably fall into the bowl, giving you a fishy smell.
With dust flying everywhere and visibility reduced, the team's progress naturally slowed down. It took them only a whole day to travel along a 20-kilometer country road.
Ye Xun and his friends were also worried in the car because the flying dust was too severe. The solar panels on the roof accumulated a thick layer of dust in a short period of time, which greatly affected the conversion of electricity.
As a last resort, they took turns to go down and clean the boards, but as soon as they opened the door, the dust rushed in like a dog seeing buns.
Now we have to clean both inside and outside.
A group of people were lying on the ground, carefully wiping the dust in the corners with wet rags.
At this time, Ye Xun suddenly realized that he had not seen the lamb since the migration began. He couldn't help but feel curious. Where had this ugly bird gone? It usually stuck to Xie Wei, but now there was no trace of the bird.
He dropped the rag in his hand, turned around and asked Xie Wei, "Why haven't you seen the lamb in the past few days? Aren't you afraid that someone will hunt it down and roast it for food?"
Although this bird is ugly, it is quite big. If you pluck its feathers and roast it, it will be enough for a family of three to eat for several days.
Xie Wei was struggling with a crack and said in a nonchalant tone, "Why worry about it? Even though it's ugly, it has a lot of ideas. Instead of worrying about it, why not care about me?"
"Damn it, how can I wipe it inside?"
Seeing that Xie Wei was about to go crazy, Ye Xun handed him a stick in time. Xie Wei took it, wrapped the rag around the top, and easily wiped the innermost part of the gap.
Those who do scientific research just have obsessive-compulsive disorder, Ye Xun thought.
After cleaning, Ye Xun took out a piece of cloth, made it into a curtain and hung it between the driver's seat and the living room, which effectively divided the car into two spaces. There was no need to worry about dust getting in when opening the door.
The impact of dust is also on furniture, which not only affects vision but also health.
Some people who have had influenza have already had damaged lung function, and they inhale large amounts of dust, causing them to cough day and night and cannot stop, even waking up from their sleep due to coughing.
There is no way to do any tests now. The doctor just gave me a brief and rough consultation and diagnosed it as aspiration pneumonia, and gave me some things to pay attention to.
"We don't have any special medicine in our team. Go to the medical team and get some prescriptions for clearing the lungs. Don't prescribe cough suppressants. You need to cough out the dust in your lungs. If there is no effect after drinking it for two days, then just leave it to fate."
After that, he went to see the next patient.
In order to treat these people, the team paused, but fortunately, there were not many people with a history of influenza. They were all from the wealthy area, and some of them stayed in the base, so the team was only delayed for half a day before starting to move again.
These people obediently went to get medicine. Of course, the medicine was not free. It was exchanged for the usual working hours. If there were no working hours, food would also be fine. Neither of them? Then find a cool place to lie down.
Most people followed the doctor's advice and took some Chinese medicine to clear the lungs. But there were always some people with strange ideas who thought that coughing affected their sleep too much, so they took some cough suppressants home.
Three days later, the condition of the obedient patients improved significantly, while those who took cough suppressants developed pulmonary edema, and the sputum they coughed up contained blood, just like tuberculosis in ancient times.
The fate of pulmonary edema is the same as that of malaria, find a good place to dig a hole and lie down. Even the Golden Immortal is too lazy to save those who are seeking death.
When the news of the death reached Ye Xun's ears, he was chewing spicy dried rabbit meat. The spiciness made his lips look like they were injected with hyaluronic acid, red and swollen, but it did not affect his complaints at all.
"Tell me, is this like the idiot who told the doctor not to eat or drink anything before the operation, but secretly ate steamed buns because he was worried about being hungry, choked himself to death during anesthesia, and then went to the hospital to make trouble?"
He bumped his shoulder against Qin Wei's, signaling him to answer.
Today it was Xu Feng's turn to drive, so Qin Wei was naturally free.
He tore the rabbit meat into pieces, spread the sauce on it, tasted it himself first, and then gave it to Ye Xun if there was any problem.
He expressed his opinion on the matter in a calm tone: "Rather than being an idiot, he thought he was smart. He thought the doctor didn't let him buy cough medicine because he wanted to take advantage of the little food he had. As a result, he secretly drank a few packets of medicine and got drunk."
“People who do this are usually older.”
Very insightful! Ye Xun gave him a thumbs up.
He was also curious about the way these people think. First of all, doctors have a fixed salary. Unless they work overtime, they only get that little salary a month.
Secondly, the previous wave of people who did not listen to the doctor's advice contracted malaria and died before them. If their speed was fast enough, they would have been transformed into embryonic sacs. Why haven't they learned their lesson yet?
Now, we can go to make embryos together, so we don’t have to be afraid of being alone on the road to the underworld.
There was another person who was just as confused as he was, and that was Chen Guoan.
He is on the verge of going crazy every day. He insists on committing suicide and even asks his family for compensation. Is he a despicable person?
Isn't it just about seeing how easy it is for him to say?
Not disturbed by this, for a long time afterwards, whenever he had a break, Chen Guoan would run to find Ye Xun.
In Liu Qin's incident, Ye Xun became famous. Everyone was impressed by him. He looked expressionless and cold while holding the chainsaw, like a handsome killer.
Some younger people secretly called him the Chainsaw Killer, which led to Qin Wei and others mocking him with this title during the migration.
Now Ye Xun doesn’t know his non-mainstream title yet, and he happily invites Chen Guoan to have dinner with him every day.
"Base Commander, when we get to Province Y, how will we allocate housing? Should the base be built for us, or should we build our own?"
In fact, Ye Xun prefers to build his own house. When the time comes, he will enclose a larger piece of land, build a four-story house, and then enclose a yard to raise some chickens, ducks, cows, and sheep, and grow some vegetables to be self-sufficient.
However, this requires Chen Guoan's consent, after all, he is the person in charge of the base.
Otherwise, why did he go to so much trouble to invite Chen Guoan to dinner these days? It's not like he was just bored.
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