Chapter 62: Epidemic Diseases, Day 7 of the Borer Season
Yu Luowei woke up in the morning, before eight o'clock, and arrived at the base gate. After the city was built, the scenery outside changed from the surroundings to the city facilities. Only the back window could barely see a few tall trees outside the city wall.
The sky above the city was also pitch black. Yu Luowei thought for a moment, took out a manual, flipped through it in the points mall, bought a street light blueprint, and installed two rows on both sides of the main road in the city.
She set the street light intervals to 50 meters, with 41 lights in a row, so the road is 4 kilometers long.
If it weren't for the space compression function, such a small "city" wouldn't be able to accommodate a hundred bases. However, being so small also has its advantages, that is, it doesn't take long to travel around the entire city.
Yu Luowei went out to take a look. With the street lights, the city outside became brighter. She came back and set the time to 6pm to 12am and 6am to 8am, and then continued to deal with other things.
Her points have been depleted over the past few days. The city hasn't officially started yet, so she's left with a huge deficit. She was busy with city matters yesterday and didn't go for the boss fight she'd agreed to. This afternoon, once everyone from the second-tier cities has gathered, she feels compelled to go.
A lot of things happened last night, and it was already eight o'clock. Su Tang had already gone to the restaurant to take up his post, and he must have prepared breakfast by now. Yu Luowei saw many people walking towards the restaurant, so she decided to go there for breakfast too.
Today's breakfast included eight-treasure porridge, preserved egg and lean pork porridge, and various buns, which Su Tang had made last night. Everyone was excited because they could trade the ingredients first and couldn't wait to buy one.
The restaurant was large, and most people chose to eat there directly, discussing what to do later. Yu Luowei took the opportunity to mention the map and various tasks in the processing center, recommending that everyone check it out. There was also the equipment store and pharmacy that had been built last night, where they could buy some equipment and other things.
After breakfast, Yu Luowei, Fang Min, and Lin Zhixia returned to the processing center. A number of people had already gathered there to check the map, so Fang Min and Lin Zhixia immediately got to work, helping answer some questions.
Yu Luowei checked the manual and continued to welcome new citizens.
After the city's population had finally grown to 89, something big happened on the channel: many people reported that they had headaches and hot bodies, some had constant diarrhea, and some people in serious cases fainted on the ground.
Because these people were generally members of organizations or cities, a growing consensus emerged in the channel: gathering with others was a trap in the game, and that simply seeing others could lead to contracting an infectious disease. This immediately stalled all recruitment plans for cities or organizations within the game.
Yu Luowei was also shocked and had no time to continue recruiting new citizens. She immediately posted a message on the city’s internal channel, telling everyone the current situation in detail and asking about other people’s situations.
Fortunately, all the new arrivals today are currently staying in the city to pack up their things, including the staff who just took office today, and none of them feel any discomfort yet.
But Zhao Linlang came to see Yu Luowei. It turned out that Zhao Linlang studied infectious diseases in college. However, her family was relatively wealthy and she had always lived in the city center, where infectious diseases were almost non-existent. Infectious diseases occurred in the city's periphery, close to polluted areas.
Her family was unwilling to let Zhao Linlang go to such a dangerous place. She originally chose this major just to get a degree, but Zhao Linlang fell in love with this major during her later studies and a campus practice. Therefore, Zhao Linlang has always wanted to be a doctor, but has been suffering from a lack of opportunities.
Seeing the description on the chat channel and considering the previous insect attacks, Zhao Linlang concluded that it was likely malaria, dysentery, typhoid, and, in severe cases, cholera. However, because she had never actually dealt with an illness before, she lacked practical experience and could not be certain. She also did not know the difference between in-game illnesses and real-life ones.
It is not easy to find a suitable doctor at this time. Yu Luowei quickly consulted Zhao Linlang for advice and bought some corresponding medicines. Now Yu Luowei is extremely grateful that his VIP level is high enough, and he also earned some points from the restaurant, equipment store and pharmacy today, so he can buy enough of any medicine.
He left the medicine at the pharmacy and asked Zhao Linlang to temporarily manage it. He then compiled a list of diseases, corresponding symptoms, and corresponding medications, and posted them on both the communication channel and the city's internal channel, reminding citizens with corresponding symptoms to get checked out as soon as possible.
The wailing and conspiracy theories in the channel stopped after seeing this detailed summary, and people began to identify which category they belonged to. Some people were even asking Yu Luowei to provide some corresponding medication.
But Yu Luowei didn't have time to care about them at the moment. Compared to other infectious diseases, she was most worried about someone here getting cholera. She vaguely remembered that before the zombie outbreak, cholera was one of the only two Class A infectious diseases in their country.
Yu Luowei first confirmed that he had no abnormal condition and was very healthy. The same was true for his friends, who had no headaches, stomachaches, diarrhea, or shock.
After confirming that everyone was healthy, Yu Luowei immediately gathered everyone together and had them put on protective clothing. Then, she had Zhao Linlang post a summary of typical cholera symptoms, such as severe diarrhea, projectile vomiting, and dehydration, on the city's internal communication channel, encouraging everyone to check their condition at all times.
Zhao Linlang and Jiang Nian'an were asked to go to the pharmacy to be on duty together. Yu Luowei brought the others, including Yu Fan. Although his profession was not related to the subject, he was at least a doctor. They set up a simple disinfection room at the entrance of the city. People who went out could only enter the city after undergoing detailed questioning and examination here. If it was really cholera, they would have to be isolated quickly.
I can't go to fight the boss again today, but Yu Luowei has no regrets in his heart. He is just filled with worry.
As five o'clock approached, those who had been out began to return. They were startled to see several figures wrapped tightly in protective suits sitting at the entrance. But after understanding the source of the incident, they readily submitted to the inspection.
They actually encountered a few people with fever, headache, and muscle aches, which scared Yu Luowei and the others. Fortunately, after confirmation by Yu Fan and Zhao Linlang, it was found that it was not cholera, but malaria.
For safety reasons, they were temporarily taken to the hospital for isolation. The hospital's facilities were quite complete, including thermometers and other items. After detailed questioning, they discovered they had all been bitten by flies and mosquitoes during the insect trial, and it was likely that they had been infected at that time.
Zhao Linlang prescribed them some medicine and asked them to take it first. Yu Fan volunteered to stay and continue observing. Yu Luowei left her two sets of protective clothing, two bottles of alcohol, a bottle of disinfectant, and a bottle of high-grade insecticide.
Yu Luowei first brought the others to his base, sprayed them with several layers of alcohol and insecticide, then took off his protective clothing and threw them directly into the blazing bonfire, where they were instantly burned to ashes.
Mainly because she was still worried about burning Yu Luowei with other fires, and her bonfire was more powerful. Her friends were also tired after a day, so Yu Luowei invited them to have a meal here.
This was the first time for the others to enter a level six base and shelter, and they were all amazed from the moment they entered. However, they were very tactful and stayed in the first-floor living room instead of wandering around. This was also one of the important reasons why Yu Luowei dared to bring her friends in: she understood their personalities.
After dinner, everyone was in a low mood. Yu Luowei knew that everyone was worried about their relatives, so she offered some words of comfort, but at this moment, no amount of comfort would be of any use.
Thinking of the prop cards Lu Zhi had contacted her about, Yu Luowei decided to ask him tonight if he had any extra prop cards. After all, he had said before that their district was buying them, so there should be quite a few. But she decided not to ask him now. If he couldn't find them, the feeling of having his hopes dashed would be even worse.
After seeing her friends off, Yu Luowei couldn't wait to open the manual and send a message to Lu Zhi. While waiting for a reply, she checked the status of the channel again.
After Yu Luowei sent her message, because she hadn't responded to the information about the medicine, the pleas in the channel gradually turned into abuse. Finally, Fu Xiangming appeared and announced that he could distribute some of the corresponding medicine, and the tone in the channel immediately turned to praise and admiration for Fu Xiangming.
It seemed he didn't have much medicine, though, because soon, someone who hadn't received any started calling him stingy in the chat. Then, Bobby appeared, claiming that joining his city would allow him to receive treatment. So, everyone in the chat went to privately chat with Bobby.
It's a truly complex and volatile situation. Because today was the first day of symptoms, the most severe condition currently is shock, so the number of people on the channel hasn't dropped much. But looking at the number of people on the channel who don't have medicine yet, Bobby's city is only at level 2, accommodating a maximum of 100 people. Even if it were upgraded to level 3, it wouldn't be able to accommodate that many. I expect there will be a significant drop tomorrow.
Yu Luowei didn't have many points left, and she still had to save them for the development of her city, not to mention that the people in the channel had just been scolding her. Therefore, Yu Luowei didn't do anything else, but just didn't add insult to injury by buying the few drugs in the market.
Coincidentally, Lu Zhi's message also arrived at this time:
Lu Zhi: Do you want to contact someone? I have eight cards left. I can give you six cross-district communication cards and six search cards. You can only contact the person you want to contact once you've searched their district. Search cards can only search one hundred districts a day. I've been trying to contact my parents, but I haven't found their district yet.
No wonder Lu Zhi contacted me first. Whether it was the number one list or the message board, they all had their own area codes.
Yu Luowei: I see. It doesn't matter, as long as it's usable. Senior, is there anything you urgently need? I'd like to trade with you.
Lu Zhi: Well, if you really want to exchange, then I'll use the food you cooked. I remember your cooking was delicious. We ate it the day we first established the company, and I've always remembered it.
As he spoke, he had already handed over 12 cards.
【Lu Zhi: I'll give you the card first, you can have dinner anytime.】
Yu Luowei: Thank you so much, Senior!
It was too late, so Yu Luowei could only temporarily give Lu Zhi some buns and dumplings, as well as some basic wood, and wait until tomorrow to make some delicious food to express her gratitude.
Now, Yu Luowei quickly contacted other people. There were six sets of cards, just enough for each person.
As soon as this message was posted in the group chat, it caused an uproar. Some expressed gratitude, some expressed drama, and some even said they wanted to marry Yu Luowei. In the end, it was Lin Zhixia who stopped the chat and started discussing how to exchange.
After all, they finally used points. After all, points are what the city needs most for its development, and they all have positions in the city, so it is very convenient to hand over the points directly to Yu Luowei (the city lord).
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