Chapter 166: Crematorium
In front of me is a construction site, surrounded by mountains on all sides. There is a simple driveway on the right with deep wheel marks on the ground.
"You guys go down, someone will assign you tasks," the team leader said and left, covering his nose.
Smelling the faint burnt odor in the air and the several large chimneys emitting white smoke, Xiang Yu immediately understood what this place was doing.
There are ten large chimneys in total, and there are also half-built chimneys on the construction site. These are simple versions of crematoriums.
After Xiang Yu and his companions walked down the path, a middle-aged man wearing a safety helmet came over.
"You guys come with me..." Seeing that Xiang Yu was a young woman, the man did not let Xiang Yu do any heavy work.
"You guys go to the construction site over there, and you two go to the big chimney over there."
He immediately assigned tasks to several people. Xiang Yu didn't say anything and directly took out a mask from the space.
The person assigned to work on the same task as her was also a girl. At this moment, a large truck drove in from the mountain road.
The person in charge of the big chimney waved at the two men, signaling them to hurry over to help.
The moment the carriage door opened, the girl was so scared that she immediately covered her mouth.
The carriages were filled with unrecognizable corpses, along with a stench that was unique to rotting corpses.
Xiang Yu silently took off his mask and replaced it with the breathing mask he wore when encountering volcanic ash. He also put on gloves and a raincoat.
The girl turned her head with a bitter face and looked at Xiang Yu, her eyes fixed on Xiang Yu's backpack, "Miss, do you still have the equipment on you? Can you give me a set?"
Xiang Yu shook her head. The capacity of her backpack was not very large, and the equipment she took out alone were all smuggled out from the space just now.
"What are you all standing there for? Come over and help..." the driver shouted at them after getting out of the car.
The people standing behind Xiang Yu at this time were already very familiar with the process. They also wore gloves on their hands and jumped into the car skillfully.
A man pushed a small cart over, and the bodies were taken down and placed on the cart. There were also staff members inside the incinerator.
Outside the incinerator is a black assembly line, and the bodies are placed on the assembly line and sent in.
Xiang Yu and the girl were responsible for lifting the body and placing it on the assembly line. After the body was brought in, the staff inside would immediately put it into the incinerator.
Since the two men were standing very close to the small window and the incinerator was a simple version, the smell of the burning corpse lingered in their nostrils.
With the breathing mask on his face, Xiang Yu felt it was acceptable, but the girl opposite him didn't feel so good after smelling the smell of the burning corpse.
She began to dry heave from time to time, but her hands did not stop moving.
After finishing her work for the whole morning, she cried and asked the person in charge to change her workstation. She would rather move bricks than move corpses here.
When the staff saw that the little girl was crying so sadly, they arranged her to the construction site in the afternoon.
After three days of burning corpses, Xiang Yu was assigned to do odd jobs in the camp.
After all, long-term contact with corpses may cause psychological trauma to the survivors, so they will be assigned to other workstations every once in a while.
Xiang Yu didn't care. Doing odd jobs in the camp was the easiest job. He just had to help the medical staff get things every day.
I just help the patrolmen pass messages, so I have more time to rest.
Counting the days, she has been participating in the rescue mission until today, and ten days have passed, and it is about the time when the third group of rescuers arrived.
One more week.
The last time, the patients who received antibiotics survived, but as time went by, those who were not seriously infected became seriously ill.
The infected parts of their bodies were gradually getting worse. They had no antibiotics to save their lives, and they couldn't wait for the antibiotics to be delivered in a week.
On the 14th day, the death toll of infected people in the camp directly increased to two thousand.
It’s two thousand a day, not two thousand cumulatively.
There was a gloomy look on everyone's face. The medical staff were so busy that they had no time to rest. The crematorium was already overwhelmed.
Xiang Yu was reassigned to help at the crematorium. They were the first batch of rescue workers and their mission was shortened to fifteen days.
When the third group of rescuers arrives, they will be able to go back together in the mission vehicle.
On the 15th day, smiles appeared on everyone's faces, even though they all came from different shelters.
But after being together for more than ten days, everyone became much more familiar with each other.
On the night of the 15th day, everyone packed up their things in advance. In the second half of the night, more than 20 mission vehicles appeared on the trail.
They are new task takers who come to take over their jobs.
Yan Xiuying stood beside Xiang Yu, her face hard to hide her haggardness. She had seen too many dead people in the past ten days, and the smile no longer appeared on her face.
When she saw Xiang Yu, she did not greet him enthusiastically as usual. When she met Xiang Yu's gaze, she just pulled the corners of her mouth forcedly.
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