The Fantastical Beasts at World's End

Regarding the melting of the outermost layer of glass, the hospital is obviously much more optimistic than the patients and their families.

Because the thickened layer with special materials was installed uniformly by the government for these occasions for poisonous fog, and the material specifications are the same as those used in government buildings. From this point of view, the quality of this material is at least guaranteed to a certain extent.According to their estimates, judging from the current corrosion rate of the poisonous fog on the thickened layer, it can last at least ten hours longer than ordinary glass. If it is double-layered, it should be no problem to last for a day and a half.From past experience, the longest time of white fog did not exceed 24 hours.So people in this building don't have to worry about their own safety for the time being.

Taking a step back, if the fog persists longer than any previous time, the hospital still has an underground space—it used to be a huge underground parking lot, but when the poisonous fog fell for the first time, After the government began to organize emergency rescue teams and included this hospital in the scope of the organization, the hospital allocated three-quarters of the parking lot in order to dispatch rescue teams in time without affecting other people in the hospital when the poisonous smog came. , fill in the surrounding walls to seal it, and add two doors at the exit connecting the outer room as the emergency room for the ambulance team, while the remaining quarter continues to be used for parking vehicles.

The standby room, which is close to the state of a secret room, can be used as a temporary shelter in the hospital at a critical moment, and it should last for a long time.And the thicker layer of material can resist for nearly ten hours, even if one layer is melted away, it is still too late to organize the transfer of the whole hospital.

Doctors and nurses are busy, shuttling through the corridors and wards on each floor, comforting the frightened patients and their families.Although Ye Zhao and the others stayed in the ward where there was no panic atmosphere at all, the little nurse dutifully repeated what the hospital said, "... Well, the situation is almost like this, everyone can rest assured , our hospital will be responsible for everyone’s safety, so don’t panic.”

As early as when the nurse's footsteps approached the ward, Nie Renyan, who had been holding Ye Zhao's waist to take the opportunity to eat tofu, was elbowed aside by Ye Zhao.At this time, he was sitting on the chair with some reluctance, with his legs crossed, his arms around the back of the chair, and seemingly inadvertently resting on Ye Zhao's shoulder.

Ye Zhao knew that it was impossible for a rascal like Nie Renyan not to touch him at all. Repeated resistance would only lead to more rascals and more intimate contact, so he let him rest his shoulders, folded his arms with one hand, and propped his chin with the other. The sitting posture was casual and elegant, and out of politeness, his light-colored eyes kept looking at the little nurse who was talking, his eyes were as calm as water, which was completely incompatible with words like nervous and flustered.

Sitting by the bed, Luo Xiaochen listened deeply to what the little nurse said. He seemed to be the most cooperative and nervous one in the whole ward. A bow tie on the side of the bandage will be more convincing.As for the three official apes headed by Xia Zhiming, they had participated in emergency rescue before and faced the white mist directly, so don't expect them to be emotionally unstable and need to be appeased.

The little nurse glanced around the real men in the ward who were so calm and calm, and suddenly felt that she was too redundant, so she silently floated out with a pen, and floated into the next ward.

The appeasement work of the whole hospital was carried out in an orderly manner, and the noisy and flustered patients and their families gradually calmed down after listening to the hospital's explanation.

This seemingly peaceful atmosphere lasted until the evening, and family members from the surrounding wards began to come out with lunch boxes one after another, and it seemed that they were going to the cafeteria.Fang Siyuan checked the time, took the initiative to pull the wood downstairs to buy food for everyone, and went to get some hot water by the way.Just as they came back with two stacks of lunch boxes and a bottle of hot water and just stepped into the ward, Nie Renyan and Ye Zhao, who were originally sitting on chairs, stood up almost at the same time.

"What's wrong?" Fang Siyuan was startled by them.

Seeing those two people looking at each other, they stepped to the window in three or two steps, opened the curtains, and bent over to get closer to the thickened layer.Because it was getting dark, the temperature outside became lower, and a thin layer of water mist covered the glass.Ye Zhao stretched out his fingers and wiped the window twice, and the two of them glanced out through there, and their expressions suddenly changed.

Seeing their actions, the rest of them also had some bad premonitions.Fang Siyuan hurriedly put the lunch box on the bedside table, and Mu Mu also put down the thermos bottle behind him. The two followed, and approached Ye Zhao and the others, asking, "What's wrong?"

Nie Renyan stepped aside, pointed to the piece of glass that Ye Zhao had wiped, and said to them, "The fog corrodes faster."

"It's getting faster? Can you tell?" Fang Siyuan stretched out his head and stared outside. With just one glance, he knew why he could see it——

If the previous speed of fog erosion thickened layer was judged according to the blurred degree of melting on the surface of the thickened layer every once in a while, then now it can be known instantly, because it was not worn much in the past few hours. The thickened layer is being corroded at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a thin layer of white foam is formed on the surface, and new water bubbles are constantly being produced. Squeeze aside, and repeat.

Fang Siyuan opened his mouth and stayed for a while, then stretched out his hand and wiped the edge of the window a few times indiscriminately, and stared at the edge of the outer thickened layer, and saw that the outer thickened layer, which was nearly a knuckle thick, was at least More than half of it was melted, leaving only about half a centimeter thick.

"Damn it!" Fang Siyuan stretched out his fingers and gestured for a while, then jumped up, "What did the little girl say earlier, how long can this thickened layer last?"

Ye Zhao was talking to Luo Xiaochen and Xia Zhiming about what they saw, and turned around and said, "Ten hours."

"Even if it's twelve hours, five hours from noon to now, according to the hospital, conservatively speaking, there should be at least half of the outer layer left, but now," Fang Siyuan gestured with his index finger and thumb for a short distance, "there is still room left. That much, about five or six millimeters."

Wood, who was still bent over and stayed by the window, added without looking back: "Just now I made a mark with my nails, and I will see how much corrosion has occurred in a few minutes."

"Speaking of which, why did the two of you suddenly get up and look at the window?" Xia Zhiming thought about it for a long time, but he didn't feel that there was any special movement just now.

"Well, it feels like." Ye Zhao didn't change his expression, he opened his eyes and said nonsense.The fact is that the "hissing" sound of the white mist corroding the glass suddenly became louder. For his hearing, it was really hard not to notice that sound, but obviously, judging by Xia Zhiming's reaction, the sound should still be Not big enough for ordinary people to hear clearly.

Xia Zhiming had no doubts about his explanation. After all, before the poisonous fog came, Ye Zhao could predict it based on the so-called feeling.It is quite normal to hear such a reason from Ye Zhao.But Nie Renyan——

"There is a heart?" Nie Renyan saw Xia Zhiming turn his gaze to him, and before he could ask, he gave the answer. He also opened his eyes and said nonsense, but the effect——

Ye Zhao: "..." When will the pig's brain grow a little bit!

Xia Zhiming, Luo Xiaochen, Fang Siyuan: "..." How did he come up with such an obviously deceptive answer. =_,=

Mu Mu, who had been standing by the window and doing serious business while maintaining the same posture, suddenly said, "Two minutes, one millimeter."

"...What the hell?" Luo Xiaochen picked out his ears, with a look of disbelief: "You, you say it again, how much?"

Wood held up two fingers: "2 minutes." Then retracted one, "One millimeter. Measured according to the mark just now, the same posture and angle."

"You said just now that there are five or six millimeters left?" Ye Zhao looked at Fang Siyuan, saw the latter nodding, and said, "That is to say, in more than ten minutes, the outer layer will be completely melted. And the inner layer, at most, will melt away." Persevere for more than half an hour, provided that the speed remains the same." As soon as he finished speaking, Fang Siyuan rushed out before Xia Zhiming could make a signal.

"What did he do?" Luo Xiaochen was shocked by Fang Siyuan's speed.

"Go and notify the hospital." Xia Zhiming explained, "The originally estimated safety time of more than a day is now only 10 minutes. Judging from the current situation, the hospital obviously has not noticed this problem. If it continues, how many patients can be transferred will be determined." Can't tell."

Fang Siyuan's speed was obviously very fast, and the hospital responded almost immediately, broadcasting an emergency transfer notification.

For a moment, the whole hospital was in a panic and bewildered atmosphere, because in order not to cause panic, the hospital did not say the reason for the emergency transfer, but the sudden mention of the emergency transfer itself was enough to arouse everyone's panic .Ye Zhao and the others lived on a relatively high floor, and there were many critically ill patients who couldn't even walk. The elevator door was blocked almost instantly.

"Please ask the medical staff on each floor to organize the orderly transfer of patients and their families to the basement floor. Please use the safe stairs as much as possible for family members and patients who are easy to move around, and leave the elevators for patients who are inconvenient to move. Thank you for your cooperation..."

The crowd tidied up briefly, and then walked out the door. Fang Siyuan and Mu Mu, who rushed back quickly, took care of Xia Zhiming, who was still walking awkwardly. Take the lunch box with you, who knows how long you need to stay there, it's always good to bring something to eat.They didn't arrive in a hurry, after all, nearly five or ten minutes was enough time for them to go upstairs and downstairs a lot.

Patients in wheelchairs on the other side of the elevator formed a long line, and under the care of the nurses in the elevator, they went down two by two.

Because there are patients waiting for the elevator on each floor, the speed of the elevator is a bit slow, and the last few patients in the queue look anxious.There was an old man who happened to be standing next to his two sons who were in their prime. After discussing it, the two decided to lift the wheelchair and protect the old man all the way down the safety stairs.Ye Zhao and the others happened to follow behind them, and the speed of going downstairs slowed down significantly.

The upper floors are okay, after all, the patients are not fully occupied, but the congestion gets worse as you go down, and there are more and more patients in wheelchairs.The noise in the stairs grew louder and the arguments more numerous.It took you nearly 10 minutes to get out from the door of the safety staircase and to the corridor on the first floor.

The entire road leading to the basement was full of people. Ye Zhao and the others were at the end of the corridor, and there were crowds of people in front of them. I don't know if the corridor is too narrow or for some other reason, the whole distorted team moved very slowly.

"It should be in time." Luo Xiaochen looked at his watch, "Ten minutes, it will be no problem to walk from one end of the corridor to the other end of the corridor."

Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, Nie Renyan answered in a deep voice: "Not necessarily." He turned his head and looked at a ward with an open door beside him, frowning with a rare serious expression.

"What?" Ye Zhao turned his head, followed his gaze, and saw a trace of white mist leaking in from the ward under the light blue curtains.