Chapter 89: One wave after another
Adult threadworms are thread-like, with males and females being dioecious. They lay eggs near water, where they hatch into larvae that, when ingested, can parasitize the intestines. Once inside the body, they can develop into adults and survive for several years.
Lu Xingtang asked: "Is there any anthelmintic? Just take the anthelmintic!" But if the iron wire worm is parasitic on the tissue, surgery is required to remove the worm.
Min Weihuan said repeatedly: "Yes! There are more!" The anthelmintic medicine they exchanged with Lu Xingtang was divided into several portions, so there were some left over to prevent others from being infected by parasites.
"Give him one!" Lu Xingtang said.
Min Weihuan immediately returned home, brought some anthelmintics, and gave the man a pill. There were two other people whose conditions weren't as severe as his, but who probably also needed anthelmintics, so he simply brought over a whole box of anthelmintics.
After examining the other two, Lu Xingtang confirmed their symptoms were the same as the previous person's. He gave them anthelmintics and some heatstroke. Min Weihuan had already made ice with saltpeter, but because there wasn't enough water, the ice hadn't arrived yet.
Before Lu Xingtang returned home, he heard someone in the apartment building calling Min Weihuan again. Lu Xingtang went to see who was the sixteen-year-old girl. Her skin was hot and dry, and her body temperature had reached 47°. She was even in shock, arrhythmia, and heart failure.
"We found her too late. She's already dying!" Lu Xingtang said helplessly. "Her condition isn't just heatstroke and coma; it's heat stroke. Her internal organs are failing. To put it simply, it's like all her organs have been boiled in boiling water!"
Even before the end of the world, if someone in this situation was sent to the hospital, the chances of survival would be slim.
After returning to the 19th floor, Lu Xingtang did not return home immediately. Instead, he knocked on the door of 1903 and checked on Grandpa Su's health. He confirmed that Grandpa Su was well taken care of by Su Cheng and was in a cool place. The air conditioner in the house was not blowing towards Su Hao, but it was cool all around Su Hao.
"Grandpa Su, you have a great son, so considerate!" Lu Xingtang joked, "If I had such a considerate son, I would wake up laughing in my dreams."
"How come you don't know that I have never been woken up by laughter in my dreams?" Su Hao said with a smile: "He is my pride!" He is more proud of him than his daughter Su Yuan who died tragically.
The water level has dropped again. It was on the 6th floor in the morning, but now it has reached the 5th floor.
Lu Xingtang had almost stockpiled enough water, so she said goodbye to Su Cheng and went out with her speedboat to find water. When she came back in the evening, Ji Yanmo had already returned and nodded at her. Lu Xingtang understood that the matter had been settled.
Then he told Su Cheng in surprise, "I have found water. I'll have to work hard tonight and pack all the empty water tanks and buckets. The water quality is not very good, so I will purify it first and then fill it, so it will take a while. After I finish filling the water, you and Ji Yanmo will come over to help me carry the water!"
But Ji Yanmo looked at Lu Xingtang and said to Su Cheng, "The weather is so hot. If you leave, Su Cheng, your father will get a heat stroke. The old man's health is the most important thing! So you stay on the 19th floor. When we come back, you can come downstairs to help us carry water. If you really can't move it, if the people downstairs are willing to help, we can trade supplies!"
That makes sense! But seeing that Ji Yanmo's eyes were always glued to Lu Xingtang, he understood why Ji Yanmo left him alone.
After cleaning the water tower and buckets and placing them on the assault boat, Lu Xingtang went to the so-called place to fill water overnight. It was the same plastic bucket manufacturer, which Ji Yanmo knew.
When the time was almost up, he drove the speedboat to find Lu Xingtang and said he wanted to check on the progress. If water could be transported, he would call Su Cheng or the people downstairs to go together.
Lu Xingtang took out the water tower he had stored from the reservoir and poured it into the clean water tower and bucket. After it was full, he waited for Ji Yanmo to come over. He also used disinfectant and insecticide to disinfect the water tower and bucket to prevent insects from climbing onto them.
Fortunately, the water tower and the water bucket both have lids, otherwise, the water would have been wasted.
When he took out a chair from the space and sat down next to the water tower to rest, he heard a squeaking sound. Hearing the sound, Lu Xingtang looked in the direction of the sound. After searching for a while, he saw a group of fat rats with shiny fur and blood-red eyes in the dead trees and grass outside the plastic barrel factory.
The rat plague is coming! Only one thought came to Lu Xingtang's mind.
It's really one crisis after another. The survivors are suffering from insect plagues, Vibrio cholerae and protozoan viruses, and now there is a rat plague. It really doesn't give the survivors any chance to survive!
A rat appeared, and then a bunch of rats appeared. Lu Xingtang took out an electric baton and electrocuted them one after another. Worried that the rats had viruses, he piled the dead rats together in an open area, lit a fire, and burned all the dead rats.
Lu Xingtang's stomach growled when he smelled the aroma of roasted rat meat. Insect eggs were also floating in the air in the mountains. Lu Xingtang didn't dare to take off his gas mask to eat. He turned around and went into the space to disinfect and eat.
After Ji Yanmo arrived, he did not return immediately, but waited in the plastic barrel factory with Lu Xingtang to wait for time.
"I saw rats in the mountains. How is it in the city now? Are there a lot of rats?" Lu Xingtang asked.
Ji Yanmo nodded: "A lot, a lot! So densely packed! My assault boat was almost gnawed by rats!"
When he left the community, rats had already appeared. They climbed up the building along the walls and sewer pipes, and then sneaked into the apartment buildings when they found gaps. No one dared to sleep. Even though they knew that Vibrio cholerae and protozoan viruses were at work, they all wore masks and went out to kill the rats. They didn't dare to eat the dead rats and just threw them away.
They are worried that rats may also be infected with Vibrio cholerae or protozoan viruses, and if they eat rat meat, they will only die faster!
"And when a rat bites someone, it's like a stomach that has been hungry for a long time!" Ji Yanmo recalled that the people in other apartment buildings were so hungry that they would beat the rats the moment they saw them!
As a result, he failed to knock down the mouse, but was bitten by it and bled a lot.
"That person?"
"That person is very lucky, nothing will happen to him!"
But he also killed the rat that bit him and took it home to roast and eat. After eating the rat, he shouted in the neighborhood: "I finally filled my stomach! Rat meat is so delicious!"
As a result, many people in the community came out to catch rats. It was so huge that it seemed as if they wanted to wipe out the rats!
Lu Xingtang is not worried about mice breaking into his house because the sewer pipes and kitchen range hood pipes are blocked with cement. No matter how hard the mice's teeth are, it will take some time for them to drill through the cement and enter the house.
"Don't worry about the 19th floor. After Su Cheng saw the rats appear, he and Su Hao increased the strength of the insecticide and sprayed it on the outer walls, including the rooftop, with a spray bottle. The rats are afraid of the insecticide and will not enter our 19th floor for the time being!" It's just that the wall was corroded by the insecticide.
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(End of this chapter)
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