Plague Doctor

The invasion of the migratory locust team plunged Mobei City, which had not been completely evacuated, into chaos.

On the morning of March 19, one day after the migratory locust team appeared, a total of 100 first batch of patients came from the wasteland area riding alien birds. All of them either self-destructed successfully or were shot down by air defense. Mobei withstood this wave of aliens. invasion, but the losses were so heavy that evacuation work in some areas had to be suspended.

An area in the city has been designated as the No. 1 isolation area, with tens of thousands of people suspected of being acutely infected.

When the carriers blew themselves up, they were all within the radiation range - based on the approximately 8,000 square meters caused by Principal Cui.

There were Tianji personnel, officers and soldiers, and a large number of civilians, some with families, including the elderly and children.

Some related contacts outside the scope are also temporarily listed as suspected patients, and they are in the No. 2 isolation area.

After this day, there were no more suspected cases in the No. 1 isolation area, and everyone was diagnosed and developed symptoms of pica; in the No. 2 isolation area, more than 3,000 people were also diagnosed.

These more than 13,000 new patients have greatly tested the manpower allocated. Whether it is isolation, guarding, treatment, pain relief... they all require manpower, otherwise there will be a more terrible situation. Under the dispatch of the state, convoys of convoys came to Mobei from other places with a large number of people who had written suicide notes.

In the isolation base, the conditions of the second batch of patients continued to deteriorate.

After the appearance of the migratory locust team, the mental problems of the patients obviously accelerated and worsened. Most of the thousands of teachers and students of Mobei Senior High School already had symptoms of mental disorder. However, the medical team could also use sedation and artificial coma to treat this. .

However, the patients' physiological symptoms were helpless. Even though they were given nutritional solutions, their bodies still experienced changes similar to dehydration and hunger. Their blood pressure was decreasing. Examination found that the patients' cerebral blood flow was also declining, and it seemed that they were going to decline. developing towards cerebral ischemia.

The normal human body is complex enough, and the comparative DNA test results of these locust disease patients confirmed Wang Ruoxiang's hypothesis.

Compared with their own DNA before they were infected, which was extracted from hair and other things collected at home, there were significant differences, and the related gene mutation sites showed the same distribution and frequency. As long as there is a mutation at one site, the human body can mutate. However, it is not yet known how many site mutations are responsible for the so-called locustization. What is certain is that the genes of the patients have indeed mutated, and a large number of them have mutated.

Including Wang Ruoxiang himself, the medical staff hope that this hypothesis is wrong, because they have no choice in the current situation.

Just like the human body needs vitamin C, this is a physiological need at the DNA level.

They know what the patients' bodies need, that kind of abnormal soil, but once given, it will only lead to death sooner.

If given enough time and global scientific research efforts are gathered, corresponding gene correction therapies may be available.

But now some time is not decades, not even a month, not even a week.

Si Kouxian, Wang Ruoxiang, Cai Zixuan and others were all at a loss.

The earliest clinical trial has long since ended, and some of the six patients who participated in the trial went to the front lines of the wasteland area to measure the dividing line with the death squads.

Patients can use their bodies to tell where the soil is normal and where the soil is abnormal. In the action plan, patients do not need to eat dirt, and the death squads will not let them eat it. They can know it by tasting it with their tongue. Because the boundary line could be long and time was urgent, 100 patients were recruited.

They are all willing, even competing.

That way you can at least eat a little bit of abnormal dirt.

"I want to do something..." Zhou Kewen, a senior high school student, said when he applied for the job, "I know I'm finished, so at least my death will have some value..." Thinking that he will die, he is very painful, and he only has one wish, to be physically killed Wish caused by strong influence: "Can you please let me eat a good meal of that dirt before I die, and then kill me again, please..."

"I can't just let my students go." Wang Jinbo, the dean of students, is also one of the candidates, and he also wants to eat a full meal of dirt before he dies.

It is in this complex emotion, mixed with fear, decadence, wanting to die worthily, and twisted greed for the soil,

100 mentally stable patients participated in this operation.

Among them, 63 people suddenly went crazy during the measurement process. They broke away from the supervision of the death squads and ran towards the dividing line. However, they did not intend to go anywhere. Instead, they threw themselves on the ground, dug up the soil with their hands and stuffed it into their mouths. , some people are completely crazy, and some people are crying and gagging at the same time.

They can't resist that hunger. When a person is hungry to the limit, madness is the norm.

Hungry, extreme hunger, most modern people don't know what it feels like, but blood-stained history books say it must be very cruel.

That would make people no longer human beings, and turn them into beasts that feed on hair and drink blood. The morality, dignity, and will that humans have finally had will be shattered. They will eat mud, eat plants, and change their bodies to eat each other... As long as that hunger can be eliminated , not caring about anything.

Bang, bang, bang, bang...

As promised before the operation, the death squad snipers humanely killed these out-of-control patients. Director Wang and Zhou Kewen... were all shot in the head with one shot.

Minimize pain and try to preserve the dignity of patients.

The bodies of these patients were cremated by incendiary bombs shortly after they fell in the wasteland area.

The other 37 patients were more seriously ill because they received greater radiation in the wasteland area.

After the operation, most of them underwent euthanasia.

These one hundred patients chose to make a valuable sacrifice, and if this civilization had not been defeated by this event, they would be remembered.

But right now, everyone in the command center and various departments cannot let their emotions sink in. The boundary line of the wasteland area was measured, covering an area of ​​about 2 square kilometers. The operation to establish a life circle was carried out immediately, and now it has reached a large scale.

As a doctor, Wang Ruoxiang watched the frontline actions, observed and analyzed them in front of the screen.

The gunshots shattered her heart and tore every nerve in her body.

"Are we doctors or body collectors?" she asked herself in her mind.

What can they, clinicians, do at this time?

When I was still in medical school, my teachers once said that a doctor’s major responsibility is to try his best to alleviate the pain of patients. He is not a doctor only if he can save people. If he can’t save people, forget about it. No, many diseases cannot be cured for the time being. There are many cancers... What doctors have to do is to relieve the patient's pain...

She hadn't slept for a long time, and even if she had some rest time, she would wake up suddenly just as she was about to fall asleep.

But it was in this state that Wang Ruoxiang participated in the diagnosis and euthanasia of those returning patients.

The locust transformation changed their bodies and eroded their will, but they were still able to leave this world peacefully.

It must have been another long day. It was still nine o'clock in the morning when a sudden change occurred.

Wang Ruoxiang was woken up in a haze and hurried to the command room of the isolation base. Everyone here was looking at the big screen. It was the situation in the wasteland area. A group of drones appeared in the sky, and remote-controlled vehicles appeared on the ground. From the dividing line, from another space, they suddenly entered the wasteland area.

The equipment was not from their camp, and the logos on it were also very unfamiliar, and there were two Chinese words, "mysterious".

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