The lightness of the world of mortals

The problem is that it has been more than three weeks since the winter swimming of the first confirmed patient. During these three weeks, it is hard to imagine how many people in Haicheng had indirect contact with him. What is even more frightening is that it is unknown how many people came and went in and out of Haicheng before the city was closed. and carry the virus.

Birnitis-7 is too contagious. Among the currently confirmed patients, only two had direct contact with the deceased patient. They were his wife and colleagues, while the others were strangers in the city.Maybe the theory of six degrees of separation is right. In this world, any two strangers can be connected by adding no more than six people. If the two strangers live in the same city, they may be connected. Reduced to four, three...

The trouble is that there is a confirmed patient who works as a guide at the train station. It is not known whether someone who has left the city has infected her with the virus, and it is not known whether she has passed the virus to someone who left the city.

Ming Yu has calmed down from the initial shock and anxiety. Since Chen Xilin enters and exits the building through the back elevator and a separate passage, her risk is relatively small, so she was allowed to self-isolate at home after the initial test. , Ming Yue spent time on the phone with her.

"It really doesn't matter to me. It's the same when working from home. It's a coincidence that the factory in the new area has finished product testing." Chen Xilin comforted her.

"I'm not worried about your work, but what about your life? You can't go to the nanny, can you take care of yourself?"

Chen Xilin laughed, "Am I a giant baby in your eyes?"

Ming Yue ignored her resistance, "From the perspective of the length of the incubation period, the next week is very important. If the data is stable, it means that there will be no large-scale outbreak, but once the unfortunate outbreak occurs, Haicheng will be paralyzed, and all the necessities of life will be lost. Supply will be a problem, in fact, fates Haicheng has temporarily closed, the dispatch industry is bound to be the first wave of impact, and further down, the paralysis of the logistics industry is the first step of the city's paralysis."

"Well," Chen Xilin also became serious, "I believe that the accumulation of this city should be enough to support it for a period of time. Even if the supplies are really exhausted one day, foreign aid will be mobilized in time. Haicheng is not an isolated island. It is located in a developed In the center of the urban agglomeration, I am not worried about the supply of materials. In fact, I am more worried about whether the public health system here is sound and mature. The wartime epidemic prevention mechanism is very important."

"Lynn, I don't even know if this disease can be cured. Even if it is cured, it will cause irreversible damage to the body. You see, the first patient has died, and the remaining few cases have no good news. , Do you think they can find out the medicine to kill the virus?"

"I can't find it. There is no medicine that kills the virus itself. The so-called medicines treat diseases caused by the virus, such as pneumonia and meningitis."

"Okay...do you have enough dry food at home? Is Haicheng's express delivery still in operation?"

"Auntie stored food for about two weeks before she left. Don't worry, by the way, she even bought two boxes of professional masks for me."

There was a pause on the other end of the phone, "I knew I wouldn't let you go to Haicheng...Is Auntie not quarantined?"

"This is also what I am worried about. The current policy is only to isolate the first-level contacts, but if I am really infected with the virus, my aunt will not be able to escape as my close contact. I asked her to observe at home. I I don’t know how many indirect contacts there are in Haicheng and even the whole country.”

This panic has not been reduced with timely control. More than 300 employees of Moby Whale in this office building are now separated in two hotels for isolation. The mandatory separation from their families is already scary. Worried about the illness itself, some employees who are mentally fragile are on the verge of collapse. There are also many employees who are from other places. They have already bought tickets to return home or are ready to drive home for the New Year. Now they are looking at this hotel alone During the Chinese New Year, it is even more difficult to accept.

Chen Xilin held an emergency online meeting with the Human Resources Department, and decided to hire a psychological counselor to serve Beluga employees 24/7, and to open an online event, which is also a team building, for everyone to cheer each other up and spend the New Year together .

At night, Chen Xilin received a call from Henry Bai.

"Ninny, the special plane for the evacuation of overseas Chinese from the United States will arrive the day after tomorrow. I am using my relationship to let you go with the consul general."

"Thank you grandpa, but I am under quarantine observation."

"Grandpa knows, so now this phone call can only be said to be using relationships. If it wasn't for the isolation situation, it would have been a matter of one sentence. Now they are considering the details of the isolation on the plane."

Chen Xilin sighed, "I think it's okay, it's too embarrassing for me to fly with the diplomats in this situation, and more importantly, the employees of Haicheng need me, they are already in panic, if at this time I ran away, and the panic only got worse."

"Ninny, you can think about it, we don't know where this matter will go."

It was two days later that Ming Yue saw the news of the US evacuation from the news.

"Chen Xilin! Did you know that the United States has two special planes to evacuate overseas Chinese today?"

The person whose name was angered laughed on the phone, "I am in quarantine and cannot leave the country..."

She didn't want to talk about Bai Henry's phone call. If Mingyu knew that she had voluntarily given up on the evacuation, he would be even more mad. Maybe she could understand, but talking about it would only add to her troubles.

Ming Yu started the car and asked her to give up her bicycle temporarily in winter, "Are you sure? Quarantine is not a confirmed diagnosis, you are not even suspected."

"Okay dear, you see that the entire office building has been quarantined. Beluga has hundreds of employees in this building, and many of them are about to collapse. I think I am very lucky."

"Can go but didn't, so lucky?"

"I'm so lucky to have you, I'm not afraid of anything."

"Stupid or not..." Ming Yue's voice softened, "I really want to be by your side right now."

Chen Xilin listened to the rhythmic sound of the wipers on her side, "Is it raining?"

"Well, sleet." Her voice melted into the rhythmic sound.

"Slow down." Chen Xilin thought, the days ahead will be long, and he hopes to be by her side every rainy and snowy day in the future.

For a while the two were speechless.

"Yu, if I get on the plane today, I will be forced to quarantine when I return to the United States. The conditions are not as good as staying at home. I don't know how long I will be quarantined. Anyway, I have to count from the beginning. Thinking about it this way, isn't it smart not to go?"

"Well, Chen Xilin in our family is the smartest~" Mingyu looked at the snowflakes gradually forming in mid-air, and she fell in love with the taste of the word "Chen Xilin" from her lips and tongue, as if holding this person between her lips. After tasting it once, it becomes completely your own.

"Our Mingyu..." Chen Xilin turned over on the sofa, "Slow down."

"Old driver."

Chen Xilin laughed softly after hearing the meaning of this word during a company dinner.

"It's just you, you're all isolated and still laughing so happily."

"Because I have you."

Chen Xilin smiled, listening to the sound of the car driving slowly on the other end of the phone, the smile gradually disappeared, and sweat oozes from her forehead and the tip of her nose.

What went wrong?This was a strange feeling, she sat up involuntarily, a strong nausea came from her brain, a stream of water suddenly gushed out from her cheeks, this feeling was not unfamiliar, she rushed into the bathroom and vomited it out.

When everything was over and she washed up, she walked back to the sofa with a pale face, and an urgent voice came from the phone: What's wrong with you?can you hear? ?

"Yu, don't panic, let me tell you, I felt a little uncomfortable just now."

"Did you throw up? Did you? I hear you!"

"Yes... don't scare yourself, I unpacked the package of beans at noon and boiled them, maybe they weren't cooked..."

"Lynn, I want you to call the hospital now, right now, I'll be with you, okay?" The noise of Ming Yue's driving disappeared, and she had already parked the car on the side of the road.

Vomiting is the most typical symptom of this virus infection. In addition, Chen Xilin is a person who was quarantined in the Beluga Building. The hospital did not dare to draw conclusions easily. They took samples for testing and it took 24 hours to get the results.In just a few days, the number of suspected cases admitted to the hospital has exceeded [-].

Ming Yue had already gone home and simply packed his luggage, and booked a flight ticket to Ningcheng that night.All flights to Haicheng will be grounded. Mingyu knows that even if she goes back, she will not be able to enter Haicheng, but she can't control that much. When she arrives in Ningcheng, she will take the high-speed train to Pingcheng, even if she is standing at the gate of Haicheng She also wanted to wait, she just wanted to go to a place closest to Chen Xilin.

At this moment, Chen Xilin's condition was temporarily stable, and she was lying in the isolation ward of the hospital. Ming Yue shared a place with her, at the airport in Amsterdam.

"Yu, listen to me, go back and wait, okay? Wait for the test results to come out and then decide."

"What to decide? I have decided now, no matter what the result is, I will go there."

"You can't enter Haicheng, we won't be able to meet no matter what happens, where will you go alone then?"

"Why am I alone??" Ming Yu swiped her passport and went to the security checkpoint. In order not to waste time, she only brought a carry-on suitcase so that she didn't have to wait for her luggage when she got off the plane. "Why am I alone?" ?” she repeated, walking in a hurry, panting, “Aren’t you human?”

Chen Xilin also picked up her heart, "Slow down, don't worry."

"Lynn, I know I won't be able to see you for a while, but I also know that you are scared now, and I know that if you don't tell me, you will be scared if you put it on anyone. I will be connected to the wifi on the plane and stay with you all the time. You, I will go to the place closest to you, and when Haicheng recovers, I will be by your side as soon as possible, okay?"

Afraid?is afraid.Chen Xilin lost her younger brother, experienced the death of Simon, and the uncertainty of Qingqing's life and death, but this time she suddenly realized that a new type of virus for which there is no antidote may have eroded her body. Hers was a death sentence.It turns out that a person can suddenly be so close to death.

She stabilized her mood, "Yu, last time you said that you have used up your holidays, you will lose your job if you leave so rashly."

"If you lose it, just lose it, you support me."

Jiang Ruojing was anxious to smash things in the hotel room, but Kent chattered on the phone.

"Where to put it at the front desk? Find a waiter to bring it out?"

"Kent, do you think the quarantine is a vacation? They dare to send the things of the quarantined people out? Even if they want to send them, they have to check you inside and out! Just wait another ten days, can't you wait over there? ?”

"At first I said that fortunately the logistics was still in operation for the past two days. Now it's fine. Who knew that there was such a dead star in your building and quarantined you, and who knew that the logistics would not be able to leave after ten days. What if it arrives? What should I do if things can’t come out??”

"Oh, don't worry about it, just wait two more days and see what happens!"

Kent kicked over the stool in front of him. An epidemic put his main and side jobs in crisis.

Ming Yue sat in the cabin and checked WeChat.Chen Xilin hasn't rested for a long time, and just coaxed her to sleep for a while.

She is searching for all information related to this virus, whether it is official or anecdotal.

Seeing the first patient who died, the body was hastily isolated and buried, and hurriedly dragged to the funeral parlor for cremation. The family members didn't even have a chance to see it.Her tears "rusted" down, how to bear such grief?She didn't know and didn't dare to think.

So far, there is no definite treatment method. Mingyu looked at those reposts that were not true or false. Some folks claimed that they understood pathology. At first glance, it was absurd. There were still many people reposted. It is in English, and the other sentences are in Chinese. Layman seems to be unable to understand anything. Academic papers are average. Ming Yu shook his head. He didn't know why so many people forwarded it. Let's join in the fun, she thought, isn't that what the Internet is like.