The Scavengers

6:16-15:18, June [-]

15:20pm.

The horn of "Didi" sounded, and one after another, the big buses marked with the red cross sign, guided by the police car, drove into Xinxinjiayuan, a large-scale demolition and resettlement community across the street.

This rather spectacular scene immediately attracted the attention of many people.

Many people walking on the road don't know what happened, and their first reaction is to ask the people around them.

It's just that very few people know the details. Even if some people speculate that it is related to the Liu family, they don't know why so many medical vehicles arrive.

Xiao Mo felt uneasy, for some reason, the smiling face of the boy at noon when he died appeared in his mind.

A chill hit my body.Xiao Mo couldn't help shivering twice in a row.

"Brother, you don't look too good." Xue Lihong raised her head and said.

"I probably have a bit of a cold. It seems that I have to buy some cold medicine today." Xiao Mo didn't take his physical condition very seriously, only thinking that the air conditioner was blowing too much when he was sleeping last night.

"It would be great if that's the case." Xue Lihong said in a low voice.I wondered if this caregiver could survive the initial chaotic period, and I chose him, not only because he had a good heart, but also because he was in good health.

People in good health always have a better chance of survival than others.

Local policemen appeared at the intersection and the square of Shannan Jiayuan business district.

Many people were chasing and asking the police what happened. The police themselves were at a loss and could only use the health inspection as an excuse to answer everyone.

"Isn't there some kind of infectious disease?" Someone said suddenly.

"Don't talk nonsense!" The policeman sternly said, "Everyone is fine, hurry home and don't wander on the main road. We will come to your door to inform everyone if there is anything."

"If it's just a big health inspection, why do we need to count the population? And there are so many medical vehicles."

"Those medical vehicles are used for free physical examinations for the residents of the district, and we will arrange for everyone to go there in turn," the policeman explained.

"It seems that I can't go to the police station today." Even if I go, there will be no one to receive and handle business.Xiao Mo decided to take Xuelihong to the police station to file for the record tomorrow, and to buy some cold medicine first tonight, and then go to the vegetable market to buy vegetables.

15:40 pm.

Zhougang Village Health Center, Sixth District, South of the city.

"We have to send him to a big hospital quickly, we can't save him here! Heck, we can't help him stop the bleeding at all!"

"Doctor Li, we can't send him in such a situation. If he is on the way...whose responsibility is it?"

"Where's his family? Who sent him? Explain the situation to them and ask them to sign. In short, we can't help! This is just a community health center!"

"Doctor Li is terrified! The little girl who brought the patient also started to vomit blood! What should I do?"

"What should I do? Send the person in quickly! Then call the emergency center immediately and ask them to send an ambulance to pick them up!" Dr. Li was furious.

15:50 pm.

A closed car drove out from the downstairs of Liu's House, Building [-], Xinxin Jiayuan, and drove to the disease center.

Inside the car, the Lius, together with the chairs under them, were shrouded in a layer of oxygen-containing isolation layer. They seemed very uncomfortable with the change of place and began to struggle violently.

At the same time, Qian Yunkai, a forensic doctor in isolation suit, led his assistant Xiao Chen, and together with the doctors who came to support, began to conduct random checks on the residents of the community in the square of Xinxin Jiayuan.

As for the residents of the eleventh building who were present at the time, the inspection has been completed and they are waiting for the test results.

Residents of all eleven buildings were asked to stay at home temporarily, and all living materials were distributed to their homes by the government.

Six criminal police officers including Wang Cheng, who had been confirmed to have metal poisoning, also took the initiative to stay and help, wearing isolation suits to maintain law and order.

Looking at the test results spit out from the machine, Qian Yunkai's face became more and more ugly.

Ten minutes ago, there were still one or two fish that escaped the net in the random inspection, but only 10 minutes later, all the residents in the random inspection now have metal poisoning to varying degrees.

"Wang Cheng!"

"Here! Forensic doctor, what can I order?" Wang Cheng ran over quickly.

Qian Yunkai shoved the information of two residents who had been checked before and showed they were healthy, into his hand, "Go and bring these two people over to me, and they said they will be checked again."

16:30 pm.

An ambulance drove out from the Zhougang Village Health Center and headed for the nearest Municipal No. [-] Hospital.

There were two people lying side by side in the ambulance. It was the young couple who kissed me at the station.

At the same time, an elderly couple in their 60s finally arrived at Wanhao Villa, the largest residential complex in the northern suburbs of Zhongshan City, after changing cars many times.

16:45 pm.

Qian Yunkai hid in the closed car with a livid face and yelled at the phone:

"What are you waiting for? The test results have shown that the virus can be transmitted through the air, and the speed is quite fast. Now it is only two and a half hours since the first case was discovered. According to the test results, the residents of Xinxin Jiayuan who lived that day can already be identified. All infected with the virus!"

"How do I know what the result will be? I haven't observed the complete infection and disease process yet! What disturbs the people? Is this disturbing the people? This is responsible for the health and life of the people! If you don't isolate it, it will be too late!"

"Go to your fucking meeting! A bunch of idiots!" Qian Yunkai was so angry that he almost smashed his phone.

"Clouds open!" The car door suddenly opened.

"how?"

Wang Cheng stood outside the car and whispered anxiously: "Some residents have been vomiting and vomiting blood. Some people just passed out!"

"...How could this happen?" Qian Yunkai shouted.

"The pathological manifestations of metal poisoning should not be like this. Even severe poisoning will not immediately faint and vomit blood. They should have a process of evolution. Damn, this is definitely not ordinary metal poisoning. This is a residential area, so how can there be such a large concentration? And the content of all kinds of metals exceeds the standard. This must be some kind of new virus, but we can't detect it yet. Go! Go and see!" After saying that, Qian Yunkai jumped out of the car.

"boom!"

For some reason, Qian Yunkai's feet went limp, and he fell directly from the car.

"Yunkai!" Wang Cheng reacted quickly, hugging Qian Yunkai who was about to fall to the ground, and shouted anxiously.

17:00 sharp.

A conference room at the disease center is filled with smoke.

"This matter must be reported to the higher authorities." A middle-aged man in a white coat with a shy belly said.

"Of course. But we still need more detailed data." The man who spoke was dripping with sweat, and felt that the room was extremely hot even with the air conditioner on.

"Do you think you should isolate that area first, after all, it is airborne, if..."

"Director Qian, your son is the only one who can prove this, and there is still no complete case report. Just for his personal guess, we will use a lot of government, military and police forces to isolate a rather large residential area. , This...is not something that anyone can do. And once the isolation causes panic among the people and social turmoil, who will be able to bear the responsibility then?" Another white coat, half bald on the top of his head, flicked Soot, retorted.

"But……"

"Who asked you to smoke here? Didn't you know that the disease center is completely banning smoking!" The door of the meeting room was pushed open, and a woman in her 50s, wearing a business suit, walked in with an angry face.

"director!"

"Hi Director Cai!"

Everyone greeted the women who came in one after another, and many people who were smoking hurriedly put out their cigarettes quietly.

The woman waved her hand in disgust, and quickly opened the window to let the smoke out of the conference room.

"I heard that Qian Yunkai Qian's forensic doctor has fallen. Haven't you discussed the result yet?"

"What?!" Director Qian, who is in his early fifties and well maintained, stood up abruptly, "What happened to Yunkai? How is the situation now? Why didn't anyone report this to me?"

"Old Qian, don't worry, Yunkai has already been sent to the No. [-] Municipal Hospital, I guarantee they will rescue him as soon as possible." The woman comforted him, and then said with a serious face: "I see, there is already a part about The information on the metal poisoning of Xinxinjiayuan residents has been collected, and this part of the information is enough for us to apply for local isolation."

"Director Cai, think twice about the quarantine, if it causes panic among the public..."

"Does it have to be true to see the dead, so as not to cause panic among the people?"

"I didn't mean that, it was just..."

"Okay! I am fully responsible for this matter. Any problems in the future will be borne by me, Cai Jinhua! Now, you immediately upgrade the situation of Xinxin Jiayuan to a red alert, and cooperate with the government and the police. Make a ten-kilometer isolation zone!"

17:20 pm.

The doctor who was performing the operation shook his head and gave up on rescuing the patient on the operating table.

"On June 2019, 6, at 16:17 p.m., the patient Zheng Hua died of ineffective rescue. The cause of death... hemorrhage in internal organs. The cause... is unknown. It is temporarily suspected to be severe metal poisoning."

Five minutes later, his girlfriend in another operating room also died of the same cause of death.

17:30 pm.

With Xinxin Jiayuan on Ninggu Avenue as the center, the surrounding ten kilometers began to be closed and isolated one after another.

There are more than [-] people living in this ten-kilometer range.There is also a large electronics import and export factory.

Residents living in this area don't know about it yet.

The local residents who were stuck ten kilometers away and could not return thought it was just an ordinary traffic jam, and were waiting helplessly and anxiously to be released.

Xiao Mo was driving an electric tricycle out of the vegetable market at this time. He went to the health center in the community first, checked briefly, and found no major problems. Finally, he prescribed some cold and antipyretic medicine, and the result was about to come out. At that time, he was caught by a neighbor who brought his child for an injection, and kept asking him about the boy who had a car accident at noon.

It appears that word has spread around the neighborhood.

Xiao Mo dealt with it for a long time before he was able to escape.

"Old Xiao, have you noticed that there are a lot less traffic?" Xue Lihong who was sitting in the back of the car tugged Xiao Mo's clothes.

Xiao Mo didn't have time to resist the child's address to him, and when he heard the child say this, he immediately turned his head to look at Ninggu Avenue.

Indeed, Ninggu Avenue, which is not usually crowded, but has never been interrupted by traffic, can't see many passing vehicles at this time, not even buses. You must know that this is the rush hour for getting off work.

"I think you still buy less food." Xue Lihong kicked the plastic bag beside her feet.

"This has been a week's supply. No matter how much it is put in the refrigerator, it will go bad." Xiao Mo felt that he bought a lot, and because of the extra mouthful, he bought more meat, vegetables and melons fruit.

"According to my previous experience, during the period when the troubled times came, all kinds of food, medicine, and weapons for self-protection were the most lacking. If you have more savings, I personally suggest that you better stock up on these necessities .”

"Hey, don't tell the truth more and more." Xiao Mo said to the child with a feeling of dread.

"Buying so many things, can we move them up? That's all, I have to go back and forth twice to get them all upstairs."

"If you don't listen to the old man's words, you will suffer hardship before your eyes. I hope you will not regret it when the time comes."

Xiao Mo laughed, feeling that he was becoming more and more used to the child's strange language.

Xiao Mo's home and his shop are in the same building, Room 701, Unit [-], Building [-]. Normally, he comes out of the warehouse and goes upstairs to go home.

The house was bought three years ago. At that time, he was looking for suitable properties with pavements in the suburbs because the houses in the old city were not suitable for resource recycling. When he passed by this property occasionally, he felt that the scenery was very good and there was a prospect for development. What's more, the price is low, the store is big enough, and it is more convenient to do resource recycling business, so I sold the old house in the city and bought it here.

Shannan Jiayuan is just one street away from the old town of Yuanjiao County. It is very convenient for shopping and living, unlike some newly developed real estate in some new districts, which are surrounded by deserted people.

At the end of last year, a large supermarket "Liangoule" opened nearby, which is about the same size as "Haomaiduo" in Xinxin Jiayuan.

With these two large supermarkets, plus some convenience stores that open early and close late, the nearby residents feel great convenience, and at the same time, some lifestyles of local old town residents have been changed, such as food storage.

There are two storeys above and below the merchandise shop, a total of 360 square meters, one-time payment, and a [-]-square-meter basement for Xiao Mo as a gift.

The residential house is located on the top floor. It is said to be the top floor, but it is actually an attic.In order to make more money, the developer of Shannan Jiayuan sold the attics sold at half price or given away by most developers as ordinary commercial housing.

The price of the top floor is only half of that of the other floors. After buying the shop, the money in Xiao Mo's hand after deducting the decoration fee is just enough to pay the down payment for the top floor.

There are no elevators in the buildings below the seventh floor of Shannan Jiayuan, and the two of them took two trips before moving everything upstairs.

Although the child looked strange, he was very diligent. Although he didn't have much strength, he still carried two bags of the lightest vegetables upstairs.

This made Xiao Mo look at this brat much more pleasing to the eye than before.

On the last trip upstairs, I happened to meet the residents of 301 coming out.

Xiao Mo pulled the child aside and let him go first.

"Oh, it's Xiao Xiao, thank you." Because Xiao Mo runs the recycling bin, many residents in Shannan Jiayuan know him.

"Abo going out for a walk?" Xiao Mo smiled.

"No." Abo, who is still in his 70s and still in good health, shook his head. "I went to the community hospital for emergency treatment. Since this afternoon, I have always felt uncomfortable in my chest."

"Chest discomfort, that's not a trivial matter. Uncle, I'll take you to the hospital in the city." Xiao Mo said sincerely.

Uncle shook his hand, "No, no, it's an old problem. Just hang a bottle of water. My son will be back later. If I'm really uncomfortable, let him take me there. Xiao Xiao, thank you."

Seeing Abo moving down step by step with the help of the escalator, Xiao Mo watched for a while and couldn't stand it any longer. He took Xue Lihong with him, forced the old man back downstairs, and drove the old man to the community hospital.

At the beginning, the old man still had the energy to say polite words, but later on he seemed to lose his energy. Xiao Mo even helped him to hang up the registration, and Xiao Mo also helped him get the potion. His son called to make sure he was almost home before leaving.

The old man's son entered the isolation zone just a few minutes before the isolation, so when the two talked on the phone, they did not know that the isolation was happening.

"There are a lot of people in the emergency room tonight. It's strange that so many people didn't come to prescribe medicine just now." Xiao Mo sighed, and didn't dare to stay in the hospital any longer.

He asked Xue Lihong to wait outside, but the child didn't want to, so he insisted on going to the hospital.

Compared to Xiao Mo who was busy all the way, the child was always looking at the patients in the hospital.

Coughing, fever, vomiting, swelling, and some people are coughing up blood.

Xue Lihong sniffed her nose, and there seemed to be a slight metallic smell floating in the air in the hospital.

what virus is this?

Xue Lihong tilted his head to think. After thinking for a long time, with his excellent memory, he could only confirm that this was a new type of virus that he had never seen before.