what's in the depths

"What's the matter with you, prickly heat?" Zhu Yuhan asked curiously.

Chu Rong pulled up his collar and said absently, "Maybe".

"Do you have prickly heat powder at home? I'll help you apply some. It's been hot recently, and you've caught a cold. You can't turn on the air conditioner, so you'll get prickly heat. Why don't you sleep with a quilt now?"

"I...do you sleep on a summer mat in winter?" Chu Rong waved his hand, "It's fine, you don't have to worry about it."

"I'll help you go down to buy prickly heat powder, you wait for me to come back."

Involuntarily speaking, Zhu Yuhan got up and walked out, but just as he reached the door, he fell back and asked, "What are you having for lunch?"

Chu Rong was stunned and didn't answer him.

Zhu Yuhan walked into the kitchen and opened the door of the refrigerator. It was really empty, only a few boxes of medicines and no food at all. I really don't know how Chu Rong lives every day. Wonderful life?By absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon, drinking morning dew and eating fallen flowers?

"I'll be right back, remember to open the door for me later." Throwing such a sentence, Zhu Yuhan hurried downstairs.

I hurried to the pharmacy to buy prickly heat powder, and asked how adults can get prickly heat. The doctor said that generally obese or frail adults are prone to get prickly heat.

According to Zhu Yuhan's calculations, Chu Rong and obesity are not related, that is, physical weakness.

He went to the supermarket and asked someone to butcher a crucian carp, bought a few pieces of tofu, and brought a large bag of meat and vegetables, "huh huh huh" to Chu Rong's house.

After all, he had saved his life, so he had nothing to repay him. He could only do his best to be a little more comfortable when he needed someone.

As soon as Zhu Yuhan raised his hand with a lot of things in his arms, the door opened by itself before he touched the door.

"How do you know I'm back?" Zhu Yuhan was shocked.

"I heard the sound of the elevator." Chu Rong stepped aside and invited him into the room, "Why did you buy so many things?"

Zhu Yuhan walked to the kitchen, stuffed food into the refrigerator and said, "I don't know what you live on all day long, but you've lost weight recently, so it won't work, buy some things, many of them are ready-to-eat, don't bother You do it again, and you can eat it as soon as it is warmed up."

Zhu Yuhan took out the dying crucian carp from the plastic bag again, scraped the scales skilfully, pulled out the gills with ghostly hands, cleaned the internal organs, washed the blood, and did everything in an orderly manner.

Chu Rong stood outside the door, watching him quietly. After a long time, he sighed softly and closed the door.

When the hot crucian carp soup was served, Chu Rong was already waiting at the table with chopsticks.

Zhu Yuhan gave him a bowl of rice and handed it over. Chu Rong took the rice, thanked him softly, and then began to eat in small bites.

Zhu Yuhan looked at him and asked again: "Where is the medicine you take? I'll get it for you. After eating and taking the medicine, go to bed and lie down. I asked the doctor, because your body is too weak, so It will cause prickly heat.”

Chu Rong nodded casually.

After eating, Zhu Yuhan cleaned up the bowls and chopsticks like an old nanny, washed them, wiped them and put them away, then picked up the can of prickly heat powder and asked Chu Rong to sit on the bed and said to help him wipe the prickly heat powder.

It may be due to physical reasons or work reasons, Chu Rong's body is very white, almost transparent white, and he looks sick.

He sat on the bed with his back to Zhu Yuhan, took off his pajamas, revealing his back covered with little red spots.

"Why is it so serious, have you seen a doctor?"

"Not yet." Chu Rong closed his eyes and replied weakly.

"Then check it out in a few days. If it's not good, you'll have to go to the hospital. Recently, there seems to be some kind of skin infection that's been raging. Don't delay. Take the time to see it, you know?"

Chu Rong nodded.

"Then you rest first, and I'll come back at night."

Chu Rong responded softly, leaning against the door with his "delicate" body, watching Zhu Yuhan's leaving back anxiously.

After a long, long time, he finally walked back to the bed reluctantly, took a deep breath, and lay down slowly.

When Zhu Yuhan returned to the police station, Tong Si and the others had already been waiting there. As soon as they saw Zhu Yuhan, they rushed up to report the completion of the task in the morning.

Xiao Liu said that now the number of patients in the hospital has reached more than 300 million, the city's hospitals are overcrowded, and many citizens have been waiting at the entrance of the hospital facing the scorching sun.

Xiao Liu also said that the owner of the Buick car sent to the hospital yesterday, his wife died of a sudden hemorrhage at three o'clock in the morning this morning. Recently, the death toll in the hospital has reached more than 100, and the morbidity and death toll are still unknown. Increase in fire rate.

"Has the scientific research institute given the results yet?" Zhu Yuhan looked at the death reports, and felt anger rushing upwards, straight to his forehead.

"The result has not been confirmed yet. It is only said that the parasites may be caused by foreign insects. The insects themselves carry viruses and infect living bodies, starting from stray dogs and then to people. Now the scientific research institute is investigating the water quality in the area. Find the exact source of the eggs."

Xiao Liu handed over a stack of reports: "But fortunately, the infection is only spreading in this area temporarily, and has not yet involved the rest of the urban area, and now we only have regional water supply, so I suspect that it may be caused by water sources. dye."

Zhu Yuhan nodded, and casually opened one of the death files.

Name: Wang Xudong

Age: 28 years old

Delivery date: July 7

Date of death: July 7

Clinical symptoms: In the early stage of admission to the hospital, the symptoms were chest tightness, shortness of breath, high fever, and a large number of red rashes on the abdomen and back (July 7-10); in the middle stage, the rash was enlarged, translucent herpes, and there were worms in the herpes The eggs hatched, accompanied by internal bleeding (July 13-7); in the late stage, herpes ruptured, causing skin ulceration, foul smell, and severe hemoptysis. The patient finally passed away at nine o'clock in the evening on the 14th.

Looking through the rest of the basic death files, they all have similar initial symptoms, and the date of death is also around 20 days.

Early symptoms.

Red dot?

Zhu Yuhan's eyes widened immediately, and he looked back at Xiao Liu in disbelief.

Xiao Liu looked innocent, and they didn't know why Zhu Dui had suddenly gone crazy. He pushed him away and ran out at a very fast speed.

There was a thin layer of mist around the cold moon, and only a few stars were still blinking tirelessly in the night sky.

Downstairs, Chu Rong was wearing pajamas and slippers, standing there motionless, as if waiting for someone to arrive.

The white car drove into the community, and the high beams shot over from a distance domineeringly, hitting Chu Rong's body, reflecting his pale face.

Seeing the familiar license plate number, Chu Rong couldn't help pursing his lips and smiling, looking shy, like a big girl waiting to get married.

Before the car was completely parked, Zhu Yuhan couldn't wait to get out of the car, grabbed Chu Rong's pajamas, and asked:

"Why are you here."

"Waiting for you." Chu Rong's answer was very concise.

"Have you been to the doctor yet?"

"I've seen it." Chu Rong smiled.

"what did the doctor say."

"Red chestnut rash."

When Zhu Yuhan heard this, he was anxious: "What is that?"

"Commonly known as prickly heat." As he said, Chu Rong raised his hand and scratched his shoulder.

Only then did Zhu Yuhan let out a long sigh of relief: "You are too scary, I thought you were also infected with that bug virus."

"What bug virus?"

"There has been a lot of trouble recently." Zhu Yuhan pulled Chu Rong to lead him upstairs, "In the early stage, it was also this kind of rash that looked like prickly heat, and in the middle stage it turned into herpes. In the later stage, the herpes broke and festered, and people couldn't live anymore. .”

Zhu Yuhan looked up at the dark corridor, then turned around suddenly: "You can move to my house."

Chu Rong was taken aback for a moment: "Why?"

"The infected area is within this range. My house has not been infected yet. You have seen the situation in the hospital recently. Don't trouble other doctors. Move to my place. My place is safe.

Zhu Yuhan paused: "The important thing is that you don't have anything to do."

"What about Fu Huaiyu?"

"He's out on the job, and he's not at home recently. His little nephew also went home with his elder brother and sister-in-law. Now it's just me...and a dog."

Chu Rong smiled, and his deep eyes were water-stained: "Forget it, don't worry about me, and you know that Fu Huaiyu is sensitive and suspicious. Don't quarrel because of me, it won't be worth it."

Zhu Yuhan scratched his cheeks, thought about it, and said, "Then I'll find you a house from us, and you move there first, it's really not safe here."

Saying that, Zhu Yuhan ran downstairs again, took out a box of mineral water from the trunk, and went to Chu Rong's side: "Just bear with it for the next few days, don't take a bath, and drink water until you find a new house." drink these."

Chu Rong looked at the box of mineral water in Zhu Yuhan's hand, and chuckled lightly: "It's not mine, even if I like it no matter how much I don't think about it, I know myself."

"It's just a box of water, why are you so hypocritical?"

Zhu Yuhan pursed his lips and signaled Chu Rong to open the door quickly.

When I opened the door, there was still the smell of disinfectant, revealing a raw and cold smell.

This house, perhaps because it is too rigidly furnished, does not look popular at all, and it is easily reminiscent of a cold morgue.

"Did you sprinkle disinfectant?" Zhu Yuhan sniffed.

"Yes, I'm afraid I'll infect you with a cold." When Chu Rong spoke, his voice was muffled, just like the last time he had pneumonia, his panting was full of murmurs.

"You're so considerate, I don't mind, I'm in good health." Zhu Yuhan put the water in the porch, took out a bottle and handed it to Chu Rong.

"Have you had dinner yet?"

"No."

"Then what do you want to eat?"

"You can do whatever you want."

This sentence is a bit familiar, as if I have heard it somewhere.

Zhu Yuhan didn't have time to think about it too much. He opened the refrigerator, pulled out a piece of frozen beef that had been put in at noon, poured two bottles of mineral water into it, and defrosted it first. While waiting for the beef to thaw, he leaned on the kitchen doorframe to read the news. Listening to the sound of the news broadcast from the living room, and Chu Rong's suppressed cough.

The recent infection incidents have repeatedly expanded, and the country attaches great importance to it, sending a large number of scientific researchers to work overtime to find the source of infection.

But from the description of the scientific research institute, it can be heard that besides the regional water supply, all the patients have taken anti-inflammatory drugs, including cephalosporins, macrolides, and sulfonamides. They are some relatively common anti-inflammatory drugs. Drug testing is still in progress, and everyone is eagerly waiting for a result.

"Chu Rong, did you take any medicine at noon?"

"have eaten."

"What medicine did you take?"

"aspirin."

"Then don't take it for now, just carry it. I hear it. There are problems with these medicines?"

In the darkness, the blue light of the TV flickered to reflect Chu Rong's pale face. For a long time, he seemed to have thought about it a lot, but in the end he only had a perfunctory "hmm".