Two ambulances bearing the red cross logo drove along the road in the direction of Windhoek.
There was a large off-road jeep following the ambulance at the front and back, responsible for road opening and protection.
Four vehicles were driving on the desert road, approaching the center of the epidemic area. As they got closer to Windhoek, fleeing villagers began to appear on both sides of the road.
These people left their hometowns to stay away from the plague, but they did not understand that when they fled to villages further away, they also brought plague and death to the local areas.
At noon, the convoy stopped at the farthest location where the epidemic broke out - the village of Beglan.
However, the village was already dead at this time. Looking along the road in the village, one could only see pools of pitch-black things dumped on the road, emitting a fishy smell from time to time.
In addition, several villagers were lying in the middle of the road, but they had lost the characteristics of life.
Waves of painful moans could be heard in the rooms on both sides of the road.
Click.
As the door opened, Herbert and a group of colleagues jumped out of the ambulance. He walked to the middle of the road and looked at the scene in the village through a polyethylene mask, feeling his stomach churn.
Bodies, bodies everywhere…
Although they were medical staff dispatched by the Life Sciences City, this was the first time for everyone to see such a tragic scene.
Resisting the visual discomfort, Herbert walked towards the body on the side of the road, and footsteps followed behind him.
Herbert looked back, only to find that two security guards armed with rifles were following him, vaguely looking to protect him.
I heard that these people were the security personnel of the Life Sciences City, and they were also the bodyguards who came to protect the medical staff. However, for some reason, in Herbert's eyes, these people looked like dead people.
His expression was dull, and every movement was full of a mechanical and dull feeling.
Overall, this group of people does not look like humans, but more like a group of robots, or the walking dead.
However, no matter how much Herbert rejected these people, in such a hell-like epidemic area, the protection of the two people still gave Herbert a sense of security.
No longer paying attention to these, Herbert walked to a fallen villager not far away and turned the villager on his side.
Suddenly, a corpse's face covered with blood bubbles and bleeding from seven holes appeared in front of him.
Herbert quickly took a deep breath, suppressed the desire to vomit, and gently touched the villager's pulse. It was obvious that this man had completely lost his life.
Herbert continued to look at the lower body of the corpse, only to find that his lower body was also filthy, with a large amount of blood mixed with unknown body fluids. Even after death, it was still flowing out, as if their internal organs had melted.
Picking up the camera hanging around his neck, Herbert took two photos of this body, and then began to examine the other body.
"Herbert, how are things going here?"
At this moment, Herbert's colleague Karl, who also got out of the car to check, asked aloud.
"The situation is very bad. There are no living villagers."
Herbert shook his head. He once again examined the corpse of a villager who had just died. At the same time, he wondered, "Why didn't he see any living people?"
"It's normal. These villagers either hide in their houses and wait to die, or they run away and carry the infectious disease further away." Karl said helplessly on the side, "The official response here is too slow."
"Huh… "
Just as Karl was speaking, he suddenly heard a voice of surprise, "Herbert, come and take a look, I found a living villager here!"
Upon hearing this, Herbert hurried over and leaned down to check.
Sure enough, the villager on the ground did not seem to be dead, and his chest was still rising and falling weakly.
"what to do?"
Colleague Carl looked at Herbert and asked thoughtfully, "Do we need to put him in the ambulance?"
"Let go, I'll inflate the isolation capsule..." Herbert said, standing up and preparing to walk towards the ambulance.
"unnecessary."
At this moment, Lawrence, the team leader in charge of the operation, stopped the two people. "There is no point in treating patients who are about to die. What we need are patients who have just developed symptoms."
"But… "
Just as Herbert was about to say something, the house next to him suddenly opened. Everyone turned around subconsciously, only to see a frightened black young man sticking his head out.
After seeing the people wearing isolation protective suits, the young man's eyes suddenly burst into light of hope.
ambulance!
The red cross is the most popular symbol in the world, and even these villagers are familiar with it. At this time, the young man immediately rushed out of the house and rushed towards everyone like a life-saving straw.
Herbert subconsciously stepped back.
Just when the other party was about to rush in front of everyone, several rifles were immediately aimed at the black young man. However, the black young man was extremely excited at this time. He continued to move forward and babbled something at the same time. .
"Don't shoot. The other person is speaking Swahili. He just wants us to save his mother."
Herbert explained quickly, and at the same time he walked up directly and began to comfort the other person in Swahili.
After the young man's mood gradually stabilized, Herbert glanced at the team leader Lawrence.
The team leader nodded to him, "Karl, isolate this patient."
Upon hearing this, Carter immediately returned to the ambulance and rolled out a stretcher. On the stretcher was a transparent negative pressure isolation cabin, a device that can seal the source of infection and effectively completely isolate the patient from the general population.
While communicating with the young man, Herbert walked into the young man's house and immediately saw the young man's mother dying on the bed.
Not far from the corpse outside, the young man's mother was also covered in blood and vomit, and was already in a critical condition.
"Team leader, this..."
Seeing the young man's eager expression, Herbert looked at the team leader in embarrassment.
Lawrence nodded, and Karl and another medical staff immediately pushed a negative pressure isolation cabin in and carried the black youth's mother in.
"Tell him that he must go inside too." Team leader Lawrence ordered.
Fortunately, the young man was very cooperative with this and got into the isolation cabin obediently. However, to be safe, Herbert still injected sedatives into the two of them before sending them to the ambulance.
"Okay, there are still two spots left."
Team leader Lawrence said, "Go and take a look at the front and try to select patients with milder symptoms."
"clear."
Just when everyone was about to move on, a house in the distance suddenly opened. When a villager covered in blood saw everyone, he immediately yelled and ran towards here crazily.
"Dammit, shut him up!"
The team leader's expression changed and he quickly said, "If a large number of villagers are disturbed, we won't be able to leave!"
But it was already too late. As the villager kept shouting, the houses on the roadside opened one after another, and a group of villagers with blood on their faces came towards everyone like a tide, crying and howling!
"what to do?"
Herbert and others suddenly felt chills all over. If they were surrounded by this group of people and had their protective clothing ripped off, they would be dead!
Just when everyone was at a loss, the security guards who had been silent walked up. One of them raised the Czech CZ805 rifle in his hand and pulled the trigger directly into the sky without thinking!
Bang bang bang bang bang!
A burst of violent gunshots was heard, and the smoke and cold and chilling atmosphere finally made the villagers calm down and looked at Herbert and the others in fear.
Seeing this, team leader Lawrence finally breathed a sigh of relief. He pointed to two children in the village and asked them to get into the negative pressure isolation cabin by themselves, and then worked with others to lift the isolation cabin into another ambulance.
"Okay, let's get out of here before these people come up!"
After all four infected people were transported to the ambulance, everyone quickly got into the car and closed the door before the villagers could continue to beg.
After all the medical staff got on the bus, the security personnel also retreated to the jeep one by one.
Seeing that the ambulance was about to leave, the group of villagers finally couldn't bear it anymore. They rushed forward crying and beating the car body with their bloody hands, making a cry that was not like a human voice.
"Let us go up!"
"Don't go, please, save us!"
"I don't want to die..."
These villagers blocked the car and blocked it, preventing it from moving.
"What, what should I do?" Everyone in the ambulance suddenly panicked. There were too many people around the ambulance. If it were to move directly, at least several of them would be crushed to death.
Just when everyone broke out in a cold sweat, a burst of gunfire suddenly erupted from the two jeeps in front and behind. This time, instead of firing into the sky, they shot directly at the group of villagers!
Herbert only saw a security guard leaning out from the skylight, aiming at the villagers and pulling the trigger. In an instant, a dense mist of blood burst out from the villagers surrounding the jeep. The villagers screamed and shot towards Get back!
"Are they crazy? They shot at civilians!" Team leader Lawrence exclaimed.
However, this method was indeed very effective. The villagers surrounding the vehicle finally dispersed. With the roar of the engine, the four vehicles started quickly and completely left the village after crushing several villagers...
Until the vehicle drove out of the village, everyone could still see the chasing villagers in the rearview mirror.
There was despair in the eyes of these villagers. They were crying and chasing the rear of the vehicle, farther and farther, until they were completely invisible...