Chapter 62:

This can be regarded as the first serious meal of the new year, and of course it should be refreshing. The two of them went home and washed themselves first. When Jian Chu came over with the wet steam on his body, he sighed: " Next, I don’t need to go out, so I don’t need to take a shower so frequently, and the saved water can finally be opened a little bit to drink.”

Mu Nan also felt the same way, although they didn't lack water, they still felt a little guilty about wasting water resources by taking a bath every day at this time. If they didn't need to go out, then he and Qin Huai only needed to wipe it with a wet towel every day.

Seeing that Mu Nan and his family still had a pumpkin, Jian Chu was shocked: "Thanks to the timely installation of solar energy, otherwise the pumpkin would not be able to hold it due to the high temperature for so many days, why don't you keep it and eat it slowly. Pumpkins are very durable."

Mu Nan said: "Let's do it. For the Chinese New Year, I'll unpack a few packs of the Zihai Pot and cook a big pot. You can watch the pumpkins." Drinking, it's too wasteful, why don't you take out all the contents inside, and then pour water into the pot to cook.

Qin Huai and Yu Zibai are making noodles, and there is no way to make dumplings. According to Jian Chu’s previous idea, the snack beef jerky is wrapped in meat filling. I don’t know what it tastes like. It’s better to make steamed buns or slices of soup. Anyway, it’s also pasta. Just like eating dumplings.

Several people were busy with their own affairs, and chatted a few words from time to time, but most of them were Jian Chu's talking, Mu Nan responded a few words, Yu Zibai pulled back Jian Chu's exaggerated words, Qin Huai was listening, and the atmosphere It was harmonious, if not for the limited ingredients and the piles of corpses outside, with Mu Nan specially finding out the sound backgrounds of some Spring Festival Gala in previous years, it would really have a new year flavor.

After several hours of busy work, although the materials were limited, Jian Chu managed to make a table full of food. The red hot pot in the middle was the most appetizing. Mu Nan poured out the pulp from the canned fruit. The dishes are on the plate, and the juice inside is blended with ice water. It will not be too sweet, but also a little sweet. There is no drink at the moment, so just drink some canned water as a drink.

Several people picked up their cups and clinked glasses.

Qin Huai said: "I hope that in the coming year, everyone will be safe and successful, wishful and healthy."

Yu Zibai: "If everything goes well, I don't ask for it. I just hope that everyone will have the opportunity to sit together and have a meal like this next year."

Jian Chu hurriedly replied: "It's definitely possible, the disaster will pass, and tomorrow will be better!"

Mu Nan said, "Cheers!"

It's been a long time since I've eaten heavy-tasting food. Jian Chu's first chopsticks reached into the cauldron and picked up a piece of meat, but he didn't put it in his own bowl, but put it in Mu Nan's bowl: "You are the youngest, you are the first to eat good things!"

Mu Nan smiled, and gave Jian Chu a piece of meat reciprocally: "You are the second youngest, so you eat second."

Yu Zibo said: "According to my age, I am not the worst, I am the oldest."

Jian Chu picked up a vermicelli for him: "Here you are, your favorite."

Mu Nan put a piece of meat into the Qinhuai bowl: "Brother, Happy New Year."

Qin Huai smiled and looked at him. After several years, he was finally able to say to his children again: "Happy New Year, Nan Nan."

Don't worry about going out, the moment Mu Nan wakes up, Mu Nan seems to have returned to the time before the earthquake when he was trapped at home by the smog and couldn't go out. Once again, try to isolate all the loopholes, Qin Huai is not saving water, after Mu Nan put everything in the living room into the space, he cleaned it inside and out with diluted disinfectant, these two days they came from outside A lot of things brought back were sorted out in his living room, so disinfection is very necessary.

Fortunately, there is no hole in their living room, and the only air-conditioning outlet was blocked before. Mu Nan put another layer on it for peace of mind, and then the gap between the windows and the gap between the two doors, the main plague may be It is transmitted through the air. Although they have a high floor, there is a room with solar panels installed and the windows are open, so the gap in the door must be sealed.

After the kitchen door was sealed with tape, Qin Huai also sealed the floor drain of the bathroom sewer. It is easy to breed some crawlers in it, because the bathroom still needs to be used, so there is no way to seal it with tape, so the window can only be pasted to death , The floor drains are also sealed.

Seeing Qin Huai sealing the toilet, Mu Nan couldn't help but said, "So we're going to start using cat litter?"

Qin Huai: "Although we don't lack water, we need to prevent viruses. I don't know if there will be sick people coming back, and the outside has collapsed like this, and the sewer has long been blocked. Before that, we were the only ones still using it. The floors are high, so there is no problem for the time being, but when there are too many people, the problem will explode, so use cat litter."

In his previous life, although Mu Nan had prepared some water in advance with a sense of prevention, he didn't know what would happen in the future, so he didn't dare to use it too much. Therefore, during that period of time later, he didn't even have water to flush the toilet. As for how to solve it Personal needs, this is an embarrassing process, but fortunately, he survived, otherwise he would not be reborn. When he wanted to stockpile supplies, the first thing he thought of was cat litter. So he didn't actually use the toilet much later, and he didn't pay attention to the situation of the sewer.

Hearing what Qin Huai said now, let's use it. It might feel a little awkward at first, but it should be fine once you get used to it.

Qin Huai said: "Isn't your space upgraded?"

Mu Nan was puzzled: "Upgrade?"

Qin Huai: "You said that now you can see what's inside without opening the box."

Mu Nan said twice: "Yes, what's wrong?"

Qin Huai smiled: "Don't put household garbage in the space, seal it with plastic bags, throw it next door, and wait for the elevator to resume operation, I will throw it away again."

Mu Nan blushed, and said, "Okay, alas, why do you say people have to eat and drink, it's really troublesome."

Qin Huai laughed and said, "If you don't eat and drink, you won't be a god. There's nothing to be ashamed of. When you were a child, you pulled your pants down and I cleaned them up for you."

At that time, Nan Nan was less than three years old and was sent to the kindergarten class. At that time, he was more than five years old and was in the big class. Mu Nan just went to the kindergarten because he was afraid of strangers and timid. He wanted to go to the bathroom but didn't dare to tell the teacher, so he couldn't hold back his pants and ran to the big class to look for him. He thought something was wrong. I was always worried about whether Nan Nan would be bullied by other children, and when I saw Nan Nan coming to him crying, I panicked, but after asking, I realized that it was just pulling his pants.

Mu Nan quickly covered his mouth: "I know you have a good memory, can we turn over the story before the age of three, we have to eat later!"

After an afternoon of tossing around, all the potential safety hazards in the house were eliminated, everything that could be sealed was sealed, and the things that were disinfected were also eliminated, so Mu Nan rearranged the bed and the small coffee table, and the rest of the things were slowly relocated. Take it out, now it's time to start eating.

Because of the busy work just now, even in the air-conditioned room, they were still covered in sweat, so the two of them simply took a shower. Mu Nan took out a dining table from the space, filled it with food, and gave it to Qin Huai After drinking the beer, he took his own drink. Seeing Qin Huai coming out of the shower, Mu Nan smiled and said, "Brother, come quickly, it's our turn to eat the New Year's dinner!"

There are fish and meat, shrimp and wine, and there is a pot of white and fat dumplings in the middle. At this moment, the computer is emitting the sound of collective New Year greetings during the Spring Festival Gala. The festive music adds to the year when there are only two people. A trace of excitement.

Because of Qin Huai's generous donation, all the medical staff in their camp are now wearing masks. Although they had them before, not many were dug out from the ruins, so they can only be provided to the resettlement that is responsible for concentrating infectious disease patients. It is used by the medical staff in the tent, not to mention how much it is now, but it is still possible to barely reach one medical staff. However, after only one night, the number of sick people obviously increased exponentially.

Xu Ming is just a veterinarian, so it’s okay to deal with trauma or emergency treatment, but he hasn’t studied systematically about infectious diseases, and it would be too wasteful to use him as a paramedic, so he is still Stay in the wounded tents in front, and mainly deal with some sutures, or amputation.

In the past two days, no new survivors have been sent. He has not asked the personnel statistics of this camp. It seems that there are quite a few people, but it includes dozens of nearby communities. Has the number of survivors been counted? Wan doesn't know.

It is said that the situation in other areas is even worse. Because there is a central hospital here, some medical staff were rescued in time, so many survivors who were rescued were treated and survived. Far away, when rushing to the rescue, the best golden period has been missed. There is a lack of medical treatment and medicine. Even if some people who have been pulled out of the ruins still have a breath, they can only watch them slowly struggle to death in the end.

Xu Ming thinks that his mind is very strong, but his empathy ability is actually very poor. The grief in pet hospitals is actually no less than that in human hospitals. When pets that have been fed for more than ten years leave, the pet owners sometimes collapse. The expression is more direct than the grief of the loss of his relatives, but he has never been moved by it. He seems to be born to hold a scalpel, but because of the lack of awe for life, he is afraid that he will go to a road of no return , so I chose a veterinarian.

On weekdays, he relies on gentleness and humility to hide himself. After hiding for a long time, it seems to have become an instinct. When he sees someone who needs help, he will instinctively step forward, and he will instinctively sympathize with the young, but in fact, those are just some manifestations. Things on the outside rarely really touch his heart.

But now, for the first time, he couldn't bear to look at the devastated state outside.

After drinking two sips of water and calming down his emotions, Xu Ming left the residence and walked towards the tent of the injured. There was a man whose leg showed signs of necrosis yesterday, but at that time there was no condition for him to undergo an operation. Go and have a look, if it really doesn't work, you have to amputate, but there is no operating room, no sophisticated instruments, everything depends on your own experience, such a harsh environment, that person may not be able to survive.

I was thinking about the treatment plan over and over in my mind, when I suddenly heard a weak voice of a child crying for a stomachache.

Xu Ming's footsteps paused, and she followed the sound to find the past, and saw a dirty woman with disheveled hair sitting in an unoccupied corner, holding a six or seven-year-old girl in her arms. Even though the girl's face was dirty, she could still see the abnormal paleness, and there was no blood on her lips. Her whole body was held by her mother on her lap, and what she was wearing could no longer be regarded as clothes, but rags. Tiao Zi, although the exposed skin is dirty and dark, but it can also be seen that the body is abnormal, the abdominal cavity is sunken, the lymph nodes are heavy, the child is already in a semi-comatose state, his eyes are distracted, and he is instinctively looking towards himself mother crying pain.

Xu Ming walked over, and the woman held the child warily to resist his approach.

Xu Ming had no choice but to stop far away and said, "Your daughter is sick and needs treatment."

The woman looked at him numbly: "Can it be cured? Can it be cured?"

Her daughter became ill two days ago. At first she just had vomiting and diarrhea, but she could still drink water and eat food. After being sent to the tent behind, she couldn’t feed anything except crying for pain. From diarrhea to It took less than a day to draw blood, and it was accompanied by a high fever. She saw that the people in that tent all had similar symptoms, and several of them had been dragged out of the serious ones. The so-called treatment was just waiting to die.

It is said that a catastrophe will lead to a catastrophe. There is no rescue. There are ruins where countless dead people are buried everywhere. They cannot leave or escape. There is no hospital and no medicine. Antibiotics work on their own.

The woman knew that she was also sick, and she also had vomiting and abdominal pain, and her body also started to have a fever. It was cold and hot, and it could not be cured. In the past, it might be cured by an injection, but now it is fatal. It's just waiting to die in pain, it's better to die outside, at least there aren't too many groans of despair and pain in my ears. The child's father was buried below. After so many days, he must be gone. Only their mother and daughter are left. They got sick again. What else is there to treat? Two more days of pain are two more painful days. It's better to die relief.

Xu Ming knew that there was indeed no cure, there was no cure for the disease, and he had to rely on his own immunity to survive.

Xu Ming backed away and didn't try to persuade him anymore. I don't know if the woman can save him, but that little girl can't stand it any longer. The swollen lymph nodes can't be cured now. Looking at it like that, I'm afraid it's too late. It only took a few hours, and the child was gone, but he asked a mother who had lost her husband and child to live strong. On the contrary, he felt that this was the cruelest thing.

After Xu Ming reported the situation of the mother and daughter, she didn't care about it anymore. This is not an isolated case. Some people are afraid of death and struggle to live, while others are afraid of living and wait for death naturally. For Xu Ming, these are all different. people choose.

In the end, the person who needed to be amputated couldn't make it through. Amputation is a major operation. Even if there was no shortage of medicine in the past, this kind of operation would have a fatal risk. Several doctors and nursing staff who performed the operation let the body be dragged away calmly, although this calmness may only be superficial.

Xu Ming took off his surgical gown. Of course he is not the chief surgeon. Even if he has done this kind of operation on many pets, unless there are no doctors available in the camp, it is impossible for him to be the chief surgeon. So in terms of mentality, he is probably the one among all the surgeons. Truly the most peaceful ever.

It's just that when they left the operating tent after cleaning and disinfecting, there was another noise from outside. Xu Ming heard the noise and saw that it was a nurse who had just helped, who was sitting on the ground, collapsed and cried loudly. The nurse was young, only twenty years old. I heard that she had not graduated from the medical school for a few years. After being assigned to the hospital, she has been a contract worker. She chose to stay in the hospital during the smog epidemic last time, because the hospital told her that as long as Those who participate in the rescue can be transferred to the official establishment. As a result, not long after the girl became a regular, she encountered extreme heat and then an earthquake.

It can be said that from the beginning of the smog to the present, the tense nerves have not been relaxed at all, and the dead people may have had more contact with them than some old nurses who have worked all their lives, and the one who needed amputation just now Suffering's death might be the last straw that broke the camel's back. The girl collapsed and couldn't bear it anymore.

Xu Ming felt that this girl was actually quite strong and brave. There were many doctors and nurses who collapsed in the smog, and then the death toll from the heat wave continued to rise. It is really strong to be able to persist until now before collapsing. After all, she was only twenty next year. But what can I do if I collapse, I can escape this job, but I can't escape the current desperate environment.

The rescue work is over. After so many days, the possibility of survivors is almost zero, so now it is time to remove the corpses. I found some protective clothing in the hospital before. Except for the doctors in the infectious disease tent, The soldiers in charge of the clearing are also wearing protective clothing. As for other people who participated in the clearing for a ration, they can be assigned a mask and gloves. They only need to clean up the collapsed ruins. If they find a dead body, they should wear protective clothing. People with protective clothing should handle it, and try to avoid direct contact with the corpse without protective clothing.

But even so, this job also has a high risk of infection, so not many people are willing to do it, so the progress of cleaning up the corpses has been very slow, but the place where the corpses are circled and burned, except for a short break during the day , From the time it was just dark to when it was lighted up again, the thick black smoke never broke.

The whole city was shrouded in black smoke from burning corpses and the ubiquitous smell of corpses. When the sun was setting, Mu Nan raised the cover outside to take a look. Now the situation outside is getting closer and closer to the last life, which was the worst for him. In the dark period, when people gradually recovered from the great earthquake, the hopelessness that could never go back was more terrifying than the outbreak of the epidemic, even if he hid upstairs and looked outside, even if he could not see Everyone seems to be able to feel the breath of despair.

Qin Huai sat next to him, because the sun was going down soon and the sunlight was not so glaring, so he opened the outer layer of cover a little more, and looked outside with him.

Mu Nan leaned on Qin Huai's body: "Brother, I never thought that the world we live in would become like this."

Qin Huai touched his face with his hand: "It's okay, don't be afraid, I'm here."

Mu Nan smiled and said, "I'm not afraid." With Qin Huai here this time, he wasn't afraid at all.

Until it was completely dark outside, and a few fires could be seen in the distance from upstairs, Mu Nan knew that they were burning corpses, so he stopped looking, put down the covering cloth outside, and turned the fire inside the house The thermal curtain was put down: "What shall we eat later?"

Seeing that Mu Nan didn't care about the situation outside, at least the desolation outside didn't affect his appetite, Qin Huai was relieved: "You can eat whatever you want."

Mu Nan thought for a while: "Eating barbecue?"

Qin Huai nodded: "Yes."

Although I can't feel the joy of eating skewers in a lively night market, it is still very comfortable to revisit thousands of episodes of anime, leaning on the bed with Qin Huai, drinking wine and eating skewers, but Mu Nan looked at With a mature and sharp face, Qin Huai looked at the anime on the computer and couldn't help but said, "Brother, do you think it's boring to watch this with me? You can watch movies if you want."

Qin Huai didn't care: "Fortunately, this washing machine is okay, even though I've been working for so many years, it's not easy for him to be a primary school student."

Mu Nan laughed loudly and dumped it on the ground: "What washing machine, I still have a drum machine."

Qin Huai supported him, lest he kick over the small coffee table.

After eating and drinking enough, Mu Nan and Qin Huai went back to bed, but Mu Nan continued to look at his washing machine, while Qin Huai was holding his own computer and typing something. Character: "Brother, what are you doing?"

Qin Huai: "I'll try to make some small games for you, but there's nothing else to do anyway."

Mu Nan said: "Then do you want to make a greedy snake, but the things you eat are no longer squares, but made into what I have in the recipe."

Qin Huai turned to look at him: "It's a bit difficult." After all, the Internet is disconnected now, so I can't find materials directly from the Internet, so I have to do it myself. But looking at Mu Nan's bright eyes, Qin Huai said, "Let me try."

Mu Nan watched the anime for a while, and then dug out some beauty makeup videos that he had saved before. He thought that in winter, when the water resources were not so scarce, he should learn to put on makeup. Forget it now, there is not so much water to wash his face. : "In the future, I will try to make my face look sallow and sallow, and make it look a little haggard."

Qin Huai: "Just rub it on the ground twice to get some dirt on your face."

Mu Nan: "Look, it might come in handy someday." When he and Qin Huai went shopping in City B, he bought a full set of cosmetics, and bought all the ones recommended by the lady at the counter. Be prepared just in case.

When Mu Nan was about to take out the cosmetics from the space and compare them with the beauty bloggers one by one to see what they were, there was a knock on the iron door outside, but the distance was a bit far, it seemed that it was installed on Yu Zibai and the others. The anti-theft iron door on the other side of the house was knocked.

Mu Nan quickly closed the computer, turned to look at Qin Huai, Qin Huai said: "It may be the army sweeping the building, I'll go and have a look."

Mu Nan got up and said, "Brother, be careful."

Qin Huai nodded. After putting on the mask, he took a small crossbow and carefully opened the door to go out. Just as Qin Huai opened the door, Yu Zibai who was next door was also opening the door to check. Look inside.

Seeing that the people behind were all wearing military uniforms, but the two of them were not careless, they stood a little further away and said, "Is there something wrong?"

The person with the flashlight knocked on the anti-theft door blocking the stairs: "Your safety factor is quite high. Everyone on your floor has returned? Is anyone sick?"

Because Yu Zibai didn't wear a mask, he realized what time it was when he saw Qin Huai wearing a mask, so he didn't approach, Qin Huai said, "Can I trouble you to show me your ID?"

That person didn't expect Qin Huai to be so vigilant, didn't their clothes clearly indicate their identities, but they still showed their military IDs, thinking that luckily they were extra careful when they came to sweep the building.

After looking at the ID of the other party, Qin Huai finally said: "Only the members of the No. 3 family came back two days ago, they should have packed up their things and left and are not at home, and the No. 7 family is a doctor. Did you join the medical team?" Come back, the other three are here."

Someone behind was making records, and did not ask them to open the iron door, but said: "First register the house number and the name of the head of the household, and we will make a statistics."

Qin Huai reported the house numbers and names of himself and Mu Nan, and Yu Zibai stepped forward to report his family and Jian Chu's, and the man said: "If anyone in the family is sick, send them to the camp's medical station as soon as possible, there are doctors and nurses there , don’t carry it at home.”

Seeing them nodding, a few soldiers said: "Go into the house, and don't go out unless you can." Being in the center of the epidemic area, no matter whether you can survive or not, you can live at home if you stay at home.