The invasion of the migratory locust team plunged Mobei City, which had not been completely evacuated, into chaos.
On the morning of March 19th, one day after the migratory locust team appeared, a total of 100 first batch of patients came from the wasteland area on different birds. All of them either self-destructed successfully or were shot down by air defense. Mobei resisted this wave of aliens. Invasion, but the losses were so heavy that the evacuation of some areas had to be suspended.
An area in the urban area was designated as the No. 1 isolation zone, which contained tens of thousands of suspected acute infections.
When the worm carriers exploded, they were all within the radiation range—based on the 8,000 square meters caused by Principal Cui.
There are secret personnel, officers and soldiers, a large number of civilians, some with families, old people, and children.
And some related contacts outside the scope are also temporarily listed as suspected patients, and they are in the No. 2 quarantine area.
After this day, there were no suspicions in the No. 1 quarantine area, and all people were diagnosed with symptoms of abnormal eating needs; over 3,000 people were also diagnosed in the No. 2 quarantine area.
These more than 13,000 new patients have greatly tested the relevant manpower allocation. Whether it is isolation, guarding, treatment, pain relief...all need manpower, otherwise there will be a more terrible situation. Under the national dispatch, a convoy brought a large number of people who had written a suicide note to Mobei from other places.
In the isolation base, the condition of the second batch of patients continued to deteriorate.
After the appearance of the migratory locust team, the mental problems of the patients were obviously accelerated and aggravated. Most of the thousands of teachers and students of Mobei Senior High School have symptoms of mental disorder, but the medical team can still use sedation and artificial coma for treatment. .
However, the physiological symptoms of the patients were helpless, and the nutrient solution was applied, but the body still showed changes similar to dehydration and hunger, and the blood pressure was decreasing. The examination found that the blood flow in the brain of the patients was also declining. development towards cerebral ischemia.
A normal human body is already complicated enough, and the comparative results of the DNA tests of these locust disease patients confirmed Wang Ruoxiang's hypothesis.
Compared with their own dna before infection, which was extracted from hair and other things collected at home, there was a significant difference, and the related gene mutation sites showed the same distribution and frequency. As long as there is a mutation at one point, the human body can also mutate. However, the so-called locustization is not known to be composed of several mutations. What can be determined is that the genes of the patients are indeed mutated, and a large number of mutations have occurred.
It's just that including Wang Ruoxiang herself, the medical staff all hope that this hypothesis is wrong, because there is nothing they can do about the current situation.
Just like the human body needs vitamin C, this is a physiological need at the dna level.
They knew what the patients' bodies needed, that kind of abnormal soil, but once given, it would only lead to death earlier.
If there is enough time and global scientific research forces are gathered, there may be a corresponding gene correction therapy.
But now there are times that are not decades, not even a month, or even less than a week.
Si Kouxian, Wang Ruoxiang, Cai Zixuan and others were all at a loss.
The earliest clinical trials have long since ended, and some of the six patients who participated in the trials went to the front line in the wasteland area to determine the dividing line with the death squads.
The patient can tell where the soil is normal and where the soil is abnormal. In the action plan, the patients don't need to eat the soil, and the Death Squad won't let them eat it, just taste it with your tongue. Because the border line may be very long and the time is urgent, 100 patients were recruited.
They are all willing, even competing.
That way at least a little bit of abnormal soil can be eaten.
"I want to do something..." Zhou Kewen, a senior high school student, said when he applied for the job, "I know I'm done, so at least death is worth something..." Thinking of his own death, he was very painful, and he only had one wish, which was strongly affected by his physiology The resulting wish: "Can you let me have a good meal of that kind of soil before I die, and then kill me, please..."
"I can't just let my students go." Wang Jinbo, the teaching director, is also one of the applicants, and he is also eager to eat a full meal of abnormal soil before he dies.
It is in this complex emotion, mixed with fear, depression, wanting to die worthwhile, and greed for the twisted soil,
100 mentally stable patients participated in this operation.
Among them, 63 people suddenly went crazy during the measurement process, broke free from the guards of the death squads, and ran towards the dividing line, but they didn't want to go anywhere, but threw themselves on the ground, digging soil with both hands and stuffing it into their mouths , Some people are completely crazy, some people are crying and stuffing.
They can't fight the hunger and thirst, and when a person is hungry to the limit, madness is the norm.
Hungry, extremely hungry, most modern people don't know what it feels like, but the blood-stained history books say that it must be very cruel.
That will make people no longer human beings, but turn them back into beasts that drink blood, and the morality, dignity, and will that human beings have so hard to have will be smashed, eat mud, eat plants, and eat each other... As long as that kind of hunger can be eliminated, Can't care about anything.
bang, bang, bang, bang...
As agreed before the operation, the death squad snipers killed these out-of-control patients humanely. Director Wang, Zhou Kewen... all shot to the head.
Minimize the pain and try to preserve the dignity of the patients.
The bodies of these patients were cremated by Molotov cocktails shortly after falling in the wasteland area.
The other 37 patients were more seriously ill due to the greater radiation exposure in the wasteland area. Most of them were euthanized after the operation ended.
These one hundred patients chose worthy sacrifices, and if this civilization is not defeated by this event, they will be remembered.
But right now, everyone in the command center and various departments can't soak their emotions in it. The demarcation line of the wasteland area has been determined, and it has an area of about 2 square kilometers. The action of establishing the life circle has been carried out immediately, and it has now reached a large scale.
As a doctor, Wang Ruoxiang watched, observed and analyzed the frontline actions in front of the screen.
Those gunshots shattered her heart and tore every nerve in her.
"Are we doctors or corpse collectors?" She murmured to herself.
What can these clinicians do at this time
When I was still in medical school, the teachers said that one of the responsibilities of doctors is to try their best to alleviate the suffering of patients. It is not only when people are saved that they are doctors. Cancer, many... What doctors have to do is to alleviate the suffering of patients...
She hadn't slept for a long time, even if she had time to rest, she would wake up suddenly when 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.
Locustization changed their bodies and eroded their wills, but they were able to leave this world peacefully.
This day must be another long day, and at nine o'clock in the morning, 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, which was the situation in the wasteland area. A fleet 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 that is not from their camp has strange logos, and there are two Chinese characters, "Xuan Mi".