When Hu Chong arrived after receiving the notification, there were already seven or eight people writhing on the ground in pain, screaming in agony, or even reaching out for help from those around them. However, there was no visible problem on their bodies; instead, their pained expressions were rather unsettling, making onlookers hesitant to approach.
Hu Chong ordered his men to go up and hold the men down, gag them, and tie them up temporarily. After understanding the situation, he told the others to go to work first and temporarily sealed off the rest area, telling the resting people to find another place.
After loading these people, whose cause of pain was unknown, onto the truck, Hu Chong led his men to the medical clinic. Upon arrival, the doctor removed the gag from one of the patients. This person appeared to be in better condition, and the pain on his face was less pronounced than the others.
"Can you speak?" the doctor asked the patient.
After the doctor asked the question again, the man nodded and painfully uttered the word "yes." The sweat pouring down his face and the veins bulging under his clenched teeth were enough to convey the pain and difficulty he had endured to utter that one word.
The doctor then asked, "Can you tell me where the pain is and how it feels?"
The patient shook his head and replied intermittently, "I don't know, it feels like my whole body is in pain, all my nerves are being pulled apart, it's so painful..."
The doctor instructed someone to spread the patient's limbs out and fix them to the bed. His hands groped over the patient's body: "If I touch your sore spot, just say it hurts. If you can describe to me how it hurts, that would be even better."
The patient gave a slight response, and the doctor began to explore the patient's chest cavity. As the doctor pressed, the patient's condition seemed to improve, the facial expression seemed less painful, and the patient even seemed to be falling asleep.
The doctor asked him, "Does anything feel strange there?"
The patient's eyes were slightly open. He was still in pain and very tired, but the pressure was somewhat comfortable. He said weakly, "It's like being swept along by waves... both painful and comfortable, don't stop..."
The doctor frowned slightly; he had never seen anything like this before. He instructed the others to be laid out and secured on the bed, and then ordered several medical staff to apply pressure to their bodies. Except for the three who had fainted from the pain, the symptoms of the others did indeed ease somewhat.
Hu Chong waited for a while, and seeing the doctor give up his seat to others and stand aside in deep thought, he finally stepped forward and asked, "Doctor, can you figure out what's going on with them?"
The doctor shook his head: "We can't even find the pain point. At present, we can only relieve some pain by pressing. This is the first time I've encountered a case like this. The medicines and instruments here are the most basic, mainly used to treat heatstroke patients. In their case, we need to use sophisticated instruments to examine them."
Hu Chong listened to the doctor's words and didn't say anything more. Only the boss had access to such sophisticated equipment; ordinary people couldn't possibly have access to it now.
Since taking over the job, Hu Chong has encountered setbacks at every turn. Now that work has finally started, several patients with unknown causes have appeared, and the compensation for each death is only five catties of mixed grains.
Even if he reported such a trivial matter, it wouldn't reach the boss's desk; instead, it would only make him look more incompetent. Hu Chong looked at the patients and hardened his heart, saying, "Think of another way to treat them. If pressing can make them feel more comfortable, press them more and see how things go."
The doctor was about to say something, but after meeting Hu Chong's gaze, he nodded and replied, "Okay, I'll see how it goes."
His makeshift clinic was only set up at Qiu Feng's request. To be honest, for the higher-ups, spending money on medicine to treat these people was less worthwhile than letting them die quickly. They would have received compensation and at least a corpse.
Therefore, Hu Chong did not try to get these people to undergo further examinations, and the doctor ultimately acquiesced.
When Li Ke arrived, she saw Hu Chong arranging for people to carry the patients away. She hid in the distance and observed the patients' condition. It seemed to be the early stage of the zombie virus outbreak.
Many things are different now. In her previous life, she had never even heard of the divine medicine. Li Ke didn't know when the first case of the zombie virus appeared, but it broke out in the apocalypse two years later. According to her previous memories, it shouldn't have appeared so early.
Li Ke didn't know the cause of the zombie virus either. She was just an ordinary person struggling to survive, and much of the information she had was just a collection of fragments, the source of which and its accuracy were unknown.
The initial period of human infection with the zombie virus is extremely painful. Later, they will gradually become numb. The brain will still have a faint consciousness, but the body will become more and more sluggish and stiff, and then lividity and putrefaction will appear.
Even now, when Li Ke recalls that experience, his consciousness is still alive, but his body is slowly dying. It sends chills down his spine.
Those infected with the zombie virus are doomed to die, and those who have been in contact with patients with the zombie virus have a very high chance of becoming infected, although it is not certain that they will be infected.
Li Ke once lived among the zombie virus population for several days before finally managing to escape with all her might. She hid in a small house for several days until she confirmed that she was not infected before she started going out again.
It's strange to think about it now. At that time, although ordinary people didn't know how the zombie virus came about, they roughly knew some ways to deal with it, such as avoiding staying outdoors and avoiding close contact with infected people.
Later, a rumor spread from who knows where that sealing infected people or their bodies with lime or lime water could isolate the virus, so some people started using lime to deal with infected people.
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