Nuke Miko: Chronicles of America

"...it's simple, if your neighbor has a gun and you only have cans, guess who's the last person to eat the can?"

"...This statement is reasonable, this is very "Radiation"!"

"...Speaking of which, regardless of whether the zombie story is true or not, where was this video shot? Can anyone recognize it?"

"...Isn't it written on the door plate of the hospital, University of Southern California Hospital!"

"...Your eyes are so sharp...Huh? Wait, isn't that in Los Angeles?"

"...God! Is Los Angeles going to be Raccoon City? So...Hollywood is going to die! San Fernando Valley is going to die too!"

"... Hurry up and download more American movies and store them on your hard drive! Maybe there will only be Japanese movies in the future..."

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Seeing this, the four girls gathered on the roof of the apartment building faced each other for a moment:

"...University of Southern California Hospital? This place seems not far from us, right?" Megumi Akiyama thought for a while, and said first.

"...That's right, moreover, this zombie video seems to have been filmed tonight..."

Valentina, a student at USC, watched the zombie video again and finally confirmed it.

"...Could there really be zombies? Is this a spiritual recovery or a biohazard?"

Sonia reached out and touched her blond hair irritably, "...Corona virus is going to become a T virus?"

"...It's hard to say, even the wild cats on the side of the road are gods now, isn't it common sense in horror movies to have zombies in the hospital?"

The landlady Dolores sighed, looked at the black cat goddess Buster lying on the side and pretended to be asleep, and complained, "... Should we get some zombie apocalypse movies to watch? Oh, I remembered, I seem to have a "Zombie Survival Handbook" in my house!"

She clapped her hands suddenly, looking suddenly enlightened.

"...Wait, wait, I think the situation may not be that serious! First of all, this so-called zombie video is probably just made by some weird people-I heard that Southern California has always been rich in such people, There were a lot of crazy hippies 50 years ago.

Secondly, even if these black [zombies] who got out of the body bags were not actors, they were real.It was most likely not infected with any T-virus, but after taking too many drugs, a state of suspended animation appeared, and after waking up, he bit people everywhere under the control of hallucinations. "

The little witch Akiyama Hui laughed, "... I remember a similar case a few years ago, an old man's face was bitten off..."

"...Uh, it makes sense. I seem to have heard the story about the zombies that were made out of narcotics."

Valentina nodded, "...However, I'd better watch this video carefully again...Eh? The video disappeared?"

The four girls exchanged glances with each other, and there was a trace of fear in each other's eyes.

——If this strange zombie video keeps hanging up, maybe everyone won't take it too seriously.But now it has been blocked from the shelves...

Could it be that the zombies from Resident Evil are really making noise in the University of Southern California hospital tonight?

I have to investigate this matter, but it feels too dangerous to go into battle in person.

Therefore, the cowardly little witch Akiyama Hui immediately grabbed her new shikigami, the black cat goddess Buster, and solemnly ordered it to raise a cat for a thousand days and use it for a while, and now she is asked to perform the shikigami. God's duty, it's time to go to the University of Southern California Hospital to investigate the truth about "zombies"!

The angry black cat goddess immediately protested, "... I just moved in with you today, how can you support me for a thousand days, meow?

Just after eating your cat food, you were sent to investigate zombies?Cats also have the right to meow!Down with the Black Heart Miko! "

Akiyama Megumi: "...After the matter is completed, I will reward you with two pounds of catnip!"

The smiling black cat goddess Buster: "...deal meow!"

PS: Uh, the post-resurrection world deduction sent by some readers is really interesting, but you may have underestimated the deep roots of the United States.

Even if the United States loses most of its land and population, it will not decline immediately, and it will not even lose world hegemony anytime soon.

Because the United States in the impression of ordinary people is much smaller than the real United States now. The real United States is far more than the territory on the map, and it also controls many "countries that pretend that they are not colonies."

Even if the United States is completely destroyed, it will not be completely destroyed.Just like the Roman Empire lost Italy and still had half of the empire to the east.

Chapter 45, Hospital Cry

A round of crimson blood moon hangs high in the night sky, spilling a faint red light on the ocean and the earth.

Under the night, Los Angeles, the city of angels, is still as brightly lit as ever, as bright as day.

Although the traffic on the highway has been reduced due to the stay-at-home order, ambulances and police cars have never stopped.

In the corridor of the University of Southern California Hospital, Rebecca, a resident doctor who has been working overtime for 72 hours, yawned tiredly, while rubbing her red and swollen eyes, while trying to avoid the moaning "department doctor" lying all over the corridor. Rona" Plague sufferers, walk forward slowly.

Because of the crowding of too many people, the air in the hospital seemed to be more stale than usual.

Many patients with difficulty breathing are begging nurses to give them a few mouthfuls of oxygen, or asking when a bed will be available, while others are praying silently with crosses or rosary strings.

A few cleaners were clumsily cleaning the dirt on the ground, stepping on the patients lying on the ground from time to time, attracting curses and complaints mixed with various slang and Spanish...

There is no way, the corridors are too crowded nowadays, and it is not easy to find a place to step down.

Last month, in order to deal with the just-broken epidemic, the University of Southern California Hospital pulled ropes in the campus, drew white lines and arrows, and set up roadblocks to separate the areas for receiving patients with the "Corona" epidemic. area to protect the safety of other patients.

But now, the entire Los Angeles medical system has been punctured by the epidemic, and the number of beds at the University of Southern California Hospital is seriously insufficient, and even the most basic isolation facilities are far from enough.

The confirmed positive patients were lying everywhere. Not only the corridors of the wards and the benches in the lobby were full of patients who could not get a bed. Even in the lawn outside the hospital, some patients even pitched tents and slept in the open.

In this way, there is no difference between the clean area and the polluted area in the entire hospital, and in fact no one cares about it.

Not to mention letting the sick stay with the plague patients, even letting them stay with the dead is a common thing...

——For example, at this very moment, Ms. Rebecca was in the hallway covered with floor coverings, and she saw two nurses working together to lift an unlucky person who suffocated to death before he could get a ventilator from the dirty corridor floor. Get up and put in the orange body bag.

Next to it was a black aunt who was laying on the floor, complaining endlessly, saying that she had discovered that the red neck next to her was dead ten hours ago, but no matter how much she yelled, no one came to take care of her, so she could only lie in the dead. The corpse was almost stinking after being dragged to the side.

The nurse who carried the corpse impatiently told the black aunt to shut up, saying that now dozens of corpses are backlogged in the emergency department every day, the morgue is as full as sardine cans, and even the crematorium is overloaded and the furnace explodes. They are also very troubled. How to deal with so many dead people...

——The epidemic that came like a tsunami not only broke through the hospitals in Los Angeles, but also put crematoria and funeral homes into overload.

Faced with such a miserable scene, as a doctor who had taken the "Hippocratic Oath", Rebecca really couldn't help but sigh.

Who can imagine that in the 21st century, human beings will be so powerless in the face of infectious diseases?

Recalling the past, in the second half of the twentieth century, relying on the popularization of various antibiotics and vaccines, accompanied by milestones such as the elimination of smallpox, human beings once confidently thought that the infectious diseases that had created countless nightmares in history would no longer occur. What a threat to civilized society.

However, it seems that in order to punish human beings for their arrogance, a great plague that has swept the world has hit like a flood this year!

Spread the sudden disaster and death to the world, and let the plot of "Plague Inc" repeat itself in every country.

It was not until faced with the flood of death that people with poor memories finally recalled the horrors of the Black Death, and remembered the frequent outbreaks and pervasive outbreaks for humble mortals in the past dozens of centuries. The plague was once a more terrible messenger of death than war...

What I have to admit is that at least when the "Corona" epidemic just started, although the White House and Capitol Hill were doing nothing, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at least subjectively, was still responsible. Efforts should be made to "recover and treat all" to suppress the epidemic.

Specifically, it is to bring all the patients who tested positive into the hospital for treatment, so as to prevent them from running around outside and causing the spread of the epidemic.

Well, of course, whether the patient will be sent an astronomical bill that can scare him out of a myocardial infarction afterwards is another matter...

But the problem is that this beautiful vision of the CDC is simply a dream in practice in Los Angeles.

Because the US official execution is very limited, and most Americans are naturally rebellious and disobedient, which makes the city of Los Angeles have a superficial effect. These days, there are still people walking around the streets without masks, which leads to "COVID- The spread of the 19” epidemic has far exceeded expectations.

In Los Angeles, the number of positive patients has increased from hundreds of cases per day to tens of thousands per day, and it took less than half a month!

As a result, although the mayor of Los Angeles issued a national stay-at-home order last month, the rapidly increasing number of confirmed patients quickly overwhelmed the emergency departments of major hospitals in the city, filling all beds and hospitals. The intensive care unit exhausted all the doctors and nurses...

——The University of Southern California Hospital alone receives more than [-] "Corona" patients on average every day, and one fifth of them are critically ill.At the same time, the doctors and nurses in the hospital are still infected with "Corona" at a rate of one or two people per day and fell ill and quarantined.

Even the dean of the University of Southern California Hospital was unfortunately infected with the "Corona" virus, and his body was quickly destroyed by the virus.In just one month, the dean's weight plummeted from [-] kilograms to [-] kilograms, and finally died of illness in the ICU ward today.

Now, Dr. Rebecca, who temporarily put aside her work, came to see the dean for the last time and say goodbye to the corpse.

But in fact, when Rebecca walked through the crowded corridors and stairs, and finally came to the isolation window of the ICU ward, the dean's body had already been removed, and only the white cloth covered with it could be seen through the glass. The hospital bed, and the blood splashed all over the bed.

Rebecca asked the doctor in charge of the place in surprise, and learned that the newly recruited Indian nurse made a mistake when replacing the ECMO catheter for the director, and the blood in the catheter sprayed onto the wall and ceiling... which caused The sudden death of the dean.

Although in the past few days, the poor dean has long been unknown, like a breathing skeleton with a tube inserted.

Well, I hope that if I unfortunately fall ill and enter the ICU one day, I will never let this clumsy nurse intubate...

Rebecca, the inpatient doctor, sighed and rolled her eyes, thinking so faintly, and at the same time saw the Indian nurse who just got into trouble and killed the dean, and didn't even wipe off the blood splattered by the dean when he was dying , and pushed another dying patient into this ICU.

——Since the end of March, the ICU ward of the University of Southern California Hospital has been full. Now if you want to enter the ICU, you can only wait for the patients in it to die.

But what if I entered the ICU?If they still can't heal themselves by this time, those "Corona" patients who have finally been admitted to the ICU, the probability of being cured and discharged in this hospital is only a pitiful 20%, and most of them will have serious sequelae...

Rebecca shook her head and was about to turn around and leave, but was stopped by the Indian nurse and asked when her protective supplies would arrive.

Looking at this poor creature who didn't even have a mask or gloves, and the simple protective clothing she was wearing made of garbage bags... Rebecca didn't know what to say for a while, so she had to prevaricate a few words, and put The Indian nurse, who was expected to fall ill soon, was sent away.

——Nowadays, there is a shortage of medical supplies throughout the United States, and masks have even become black market items. Where can the hospital get them?

Hey, when will this nightmare-like day end?

As Rebecca thought so, she turned and went to the office building to find out about her boyfriend who is an infectious disease expert.

Chapter 46, Hospital Cry

Rebecca's boyfriend, Doctor Strange, has the same surname as Doctor Strange, the "magic doctor" in Marvel movies.

Moreover, he also has half Nordic descent, tall and thin, and looks a bit similar to the Doctor Strange in the Marvel movie.

However, this Strange does not perform surgery, but is the director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the University of Southern California Hospital, specializing in infectious diseases.

Now that the "Corona" epidemic has broken out across the United States, Director Strange has naturally become a busy person in the past month or so.

Especially as the dean, vice president and other leading figures of the University of Southern California Hospital fell ill or even died of illness one after another during the "Corona" epidemic, or found excuses to escape, Strange, the director of the Department of Infectious Diseases, now He has almost become the acting dean, and it is really stressful.

At this moment, just like Rebecca, who was a doctor in the inpatient department, Director Strange also looked haggard, his face was blue and black, and he was extremely tired.

——The continuous overtime work that has lasted for more than a month has tortured every doctor and nurse here to the point of losing their shape.

Before Rebecca came to the door, he had just used his office computer to participate in an online video conference of infectious disease experts led by the mayor of Los Angeles. Take the opportunity to talk to your girlfriend, take a break and adjust.

After all, recently he was exhausted and full of negative energy, it would be unbearable if he didn't complain.

"...there is still a shortage of medical supplies all over California - no masks, no gloves, no gowns, no ventilators!

The Pentagon said it was going to use the strategic material reserve, but most of the piles inside were junk from the Cold War era. Even for these things, there are still a lot of people rushing to ask for them!Under my argument, the Hospital Authority allocated ten old-fashioned ventilators to our hospital. After checking them, five of them were too broken to be repaired, and the other three needed to be repaired by the manufacturer. , only two ventilators are barely usable. "

Facing the girlfriend who came to inquire about the news, Director Strange vomited bitterly, "...Our hospital receives two hundred 'COVID-19' patients every day, one fifth of them are critically ill, and the ICU was in the last hospital. It was full every month, but more patients came in recently.

To make matters worse, even our hospital has 50.00% of the medical staff infected. Now the ward is extremely short of manpower, and the quality of the new recruits is extremely poor. They often make all kinds of low-level mistakes. Going on like this will only allow nurses with mild symptoms to go to work with illness...

At the same time, thousands of people died in our hospital in a month, and the morgue was already full, but the crematorium and cemetery in Los Angeles were also full, and several crematoria said that they could only burn fifty at most per day Corpses, no matter how many there are, the furnace will explode, and the corpses sent to our hospital were returned!

Well, they are really not talking nonsense, a cremator really exploded yesterday, it was like a terrorist incident, and an employee died.

At least there is a [Thousand Pit] on Hart Island in New York where coffins can be placed, but there is nothing in Los Angeles!

We can't let truck drivers dump their bodies in the Mojave Desert and let the dead automatically dry and become mummified, can we?

Therefore, our hospital had to rent a refrigerated truck at a high price to serve as a temporary morgue, but now it is becoming more and more difficult to rent a refrigerated truck..."

"...Oh, my God! It's not easy for you. We're unlucky," Rebecca said as she sipped her coffee.

"...There is something even more unfortunate! The domestic epidemic situation is already like this. Just because of whether to wear a mask or not, there are still people with different positions on the Internet who argue every day. They don't know that even if they want to wear a mask , where should I get it now?" Director Strange sighed.

"...Is there no good news? For example... Is there any prospect of research and development of special medicine?" Rebecca asked.

"...Not at all! How can the development of new drugs be so fast? What 'hydroxychloroquine' and 'remdesivir' are all bragging about collecting IQ taxes! The latest comparative test conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that those patients who take drugs Recovery is entirely autoimmune and has nothing to do with drugs."

Director Strange shrugged his shoulders, "...To be honest, I don't even know what's the point of bringing so many positive patients to the hospital and overwhelming the emergency department? While cross-infecting different people in the hospital The virus strain, died while waiting in line for the ICU?

Let them take cold medicine at home to support themselves, maybe the probability of surviving is even higher!Well, if you want to use disinfectant, you can do it with them. "

"...But this is not really a big flu..." Rebecca rolled her eyes.

"...but with no vaccine, no cure, and the wards are full, we're just pretending it's the flu."

Strange also spread his hands helplessly, "...Anyway, even the person in the White House has personally certified that this is the flu."

——When the "Corona" epidemic just broke out on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, it was indeed generally regarded as a large flu in the United States.

But as an infectious disease expert, Strange knew that although [COVID-19] was initially regarded as a pneumonia virus, after research, it was discovered that it was actually a blood disease, and the virus attacked the patient's nerves along the blood vessels and organs, pneumonia is just one of the symptoms.

Other organs and functions of the human body are also within its attack range—especially the reproductive function that scares men the most!

There is still an attack on the brain and nervous system, which can effectively reduce the patient's IQ level... It's really scary to think about it!

Especially now that the epidemic has just erupted within a few months, no country has had time to develop any specific medicine.

But Rebecca wasn't very desperate yet, because she knew that Strange still had the last trump card to treat "Corona".

——As long as the [healer's serum] is injected into the body, the antibody of the healer is injected directly.It is difficult for ordinary mild patients to die even if they want to die!