【Zhoufumei】Ore disease

Mephisto held the energy bar in his mouth, and the sparkling water ripples reflected on his cheeks through the glass.The clownfish emerged from the coral, swam leisurely past his forehead, and darted away with its tail wagging.

W walks by the aquarium and decides to complete his daily task: "Corals won't help you with your problems."

Mephisto sighed, and the fish behind the glass were frightened and scattered all at once: "I just don't want to be preached by you."

W will not sympathize with him: "Then don't squat in front of the aquarium. Whether it's research or reconciliation with your family, use your limited life to do what you should do."

"I'm doing what I have to do."

The white-haired girl wanted to sneer, but saw Mephisto's serious expression.She put down the materials and sat on a table not far away. Mephisto turned his back to her and looked at the seaweed and coral alone:

"On the night of 'Requiem', Faust saw something bright over Meteor Park."

As soon as the research was mentioned, W immediately became serious: "Ore dust? But this thing is too small, if it floats in the sky, it is almost invisible to the naked eye."

"If it is visible to the naked eye, it must be relatively large ore particles, at least the size that researchers will find during the scientific research stage... But they have not been found in the meteorite park, as if they were born out of thin air and then disappeared out of thin air."

W still shook his head: "The ore particles are black, and there is a pitch-black sky behind them, am I wrong?"

"Fireworks...we were setting off fireworks at that time."

Mephisto seems to have caught some clue.Just as he was about to speak, the sound of the door being broken came from the side, and the broken bone stumbled across the corridor, holding a tablet in his hand:

"Mephisto, look at this!"

The live news is shown on the tablet, and the red sign symbolizing an emergency is across the lower left corner of the screen.The hospital at the scene was chaotic, and the crowd rushed forward, trying to snatch medicines and supplies. The cameraman held the camera and backed away again and again, but the sudden gunshots shook the lens.

Voices of people came from a distance, it seemed that someone was injured, and the picture was shaking badly, but Mephisto saw a familiar figure at a glance.

The researcher cursed and dropped the tablet in his hand.

In addition to police officers at all levels, officers and soldiers of the army came to support.They are all young lads, but at this time they are holding hands to surround the adult wall, and use their mortal bodies to cut a passage to the hospital for the material transport vehicle.

Faust held a gun and walked vigilantly beside the transport vehicle.The human wall was weaker than imagined. Officers and soldiers were constantly being pushed down, and immediately someone pushed them up from the side.One after another trucks slowly passed behind Faust, he counted silently, then turned his head and glanced, and saw the tail truck in his field of vision.

It will be over soon.

There was an exclamation in the distance, accompanied by chaotic screams.Somewhere the human wall was suddenly broken, and a person rushed out of the heavy defense line and lay in front of a transport vehicle.

The car was forced to stop, and the vehicles behind also stopped immediately. The officers and soldiers were attracted to the attention, but the crowd used this to launch a final charge.The human wall was crumbling, Faust picked up the walkie-talkie, and issued a firm and clear order: "Don't stop the car in front, as many as you can go!"

The unimpeded vehicles speeded up and squeezed into the gate of the hospital one by one.Faust turned his head, and two policemen were dragging the man who fell on the ground aside, but the man suddenly lifted his arm, revealing the black ore on it:

"I'm an infected person! If you don't give me medicine, I will drag everyone to be buried with me!"

The crowd suddenly boiled up.Those who fled in the opposite direction, those who wanted to take the opportunity to break through the human wall, deliberately pushed the crowd towards the place where the armed police officers and soldiers were, and made a mess on the scene.Two medical personnel in protective suits ran out of the door and waved to the officers and soldiers:

"Stand back, don't touch him! Let's come!"

Faust held his gun and accompanied two medical staff to run to the infected person.The doctors and nurses wanted to pull the man aside, but the infected person suddenly jumped up and tried to grab the medical staff by the neck.

Affected by the ore disease, the strength of the infected person is terrifying. If he succeeds, the doctors and nurses will be strangled to death.Faust raised his gun resolutely, but the gunshot sounded one step ahead of him—the armed police with him had already aimed at the man's head, and the moment the man jumped up, he resolutely pulled the trigger.

The man fell to the ground, and the black ore flowed with blood.The boiling crowd lifted the cover, and the people broke through the defense line of officers and soldiers at once, and swarmed towards the few remaining supply vehicles.The scene was completely out of control, Faust took out the walkie-talkie and issued the last order:

"Abandon the car immediately! Shrink the line of defense and protect the medical staff to evacuate!"

A large living person was killed in front of him, and two doctors and nurses sat on the ground in a daze, all panicking.Faust fired two shots into the sky and dragged the two of them up from the ground: "Go!!"

Crowds of people rushed towards them, submerging the vehicles like an ant colony.Someone was trying to get into the driver's seat, someone was smashing the rear door lock, but Faust had no time to take care of it. He and several officers and soldiers surrounded the medical staff in the middle, going against the direction of the supply truck, trying to send them back to the hospital safely.

But this is not an easy task.People who couldn't squeeze into the supply truck quickly noticed them, and the thugs rushed towards them, trying to seize the supplies on the medical staff.

The doctors and nurses rushed out to support them, wearing nothing but protective clothing, but people reached out through the gaps, trying to pull off the goggles on their faces.The two hugged each other in fright. Faust held the gun in one hand and pushed them with the other: "We are responsible for clearing the way to the gate! Move!!"

The officers and soldiers in front had already opened a passage, and the young man at the end was desperately reaching out to them.Faust finally fired a shot at the sky, and handed the medical staff to the hands of the officers and soldiers: "I leave it to you!"

The hospital door opened a crack.A doctor and nurse had already entered the gate, and when the No. 2 nurse was about to reach the gate, there were chaotic screams not far away, and the sound of crying and begging for mercy pierced Faust's ears.

The police officer turned around sharply, and the crowd in the distance collapsed towards them like dominoes.

The stampede happened.

The officers and soldiers also became confused, and the doctors and nurses were only a few steps away from the gate, but they couldn't get through.Faust pushed his way through the crowd with difficulty, and finally stopped the girl: "Hurry up!"

The girl was almost crying: "I can't make it through!"

Faust broke the person in front and pushed her to the door desperately.However, a sudden change happened at this time. In the chaos, a person pushed through the crowd with strange brute force, and rushed towards the direction of the doctors and nurses.

The criminal police reacted faster than him.The moment the man shot at the girl, Faust stood in front of the doctor, severely restrained his hands, and wrestled with him.

He won precious time, and the doctors and nurses were pulled into the gate.The siren of reinforcements was heard in the distance, and the armed police force arrived late and began to disperse the people at the scene.

Faust's heart relaxed a little, he turned his head, but saw the black ore on the attacker's face.

While Faust was in a daze, the infected person got rid of the police officer's grip. He pulled off the policeman's mask with one hand, and sprayed a mouthful of blood on Faust's face.

Mephisto left the institute, standing on the sidewalk bewildered.

There are no pedestrians on the empty streets, let alone taxis.He can't drive or ride a bicycle, he can only walk slowly on two legs.

Mephisto held the navigation to the hospital and carefully identified every intersection.The live news was still going on, and the reinforcement vehicles of the armed police appeared in the camera, but Mephisto was still worried.A bad premonition lingered in his mind, and he touched his left hand uneasily, but failed to touch his ring.

It sucks.

The whole city is depressed and dilapidated, and there are no vehicles on the road.Mephisto turned a corner and was about to check the map when the sound of brakes came from behind him.When he turned his head, the window of the police car was rolled down, revealing a somewhat rich face.

"Are you the captain's lover! That, May, May, Mehesit?"

Mephisto froze for a moment, then slowly turned around.

The small police car was crowded with six people, and the police officers in the back seat could only sit staggered one after the other in order to make room for Mephisto.

The fat police officer was driving the car, and the mask almost couldn't cover his face: "Let me just say, white coat, white hair, exactly the same as the captain's mobile phone screen."

The police officer of the co-pilot nodded: "Exactly the same."

Mephisto hated being touched by strangers, but at this time he had to stick close to the policeman beside him.The little policeman seemed to notice his uneasiness, and hugged his companion on the left with his buttocks: "You! What about you! You occupy too many seats!"

The companion hurriedly squeezed to the side again: "I just gained a little fat from eating."

Mephisto's space suddenly became much larger. He blinked and looked at the news in his hand again.

The fat police officer saw Mephisto's worried expression: "There was a serious stampede just now, and we went to the scene for reinforcements. Coincidentally, I will drop you by the way."

The fat police officer slammed the steering wheel a little hard, but the police officers consciously supported what they could hold, and they didn't dare to press Mephisto.The criminal police officer of the co-pilot looked at the rear view mirror and decided to bring up some light topics:

"Uncle, how about your little daughter's prospective husband's family?"

The fat police officer smiled: "Not bad, I can get married. It's rare for you to remember, I thought no one would remember this kind of thing except the captain."

When Mephisto heard Faust's name, he silently pricked up his ears.The co-pilot detective also smiled: "How can he be like the captain, he even remembers when the child was born."

The little police officer in the back seat moved his body: "I asked for an emergency leave before, and he helped me to cover the shift without saying a word."

"Me too."

"When I first joined the team, I fell ill. At that time, I didn't know anyone, only the captain came to give me medicine."

When the detectives mentioned Faust, the conversation started immediately.Mephisto listened quietly, feeling that their topic was very distant, yet extremely intimate.

The co-driver's detective looked at Mephisto, and finally made a conclusion:

"Faust, he is obviously a fledgling young man, but we old fellows will willingly call him captain. For nothing else, there are many powerful police officers, but he is the most humane."

"Human touch" was a neologism that Mephisto couldn't understand.

When the police car arrived at the scene, the crowd had been dispersed, leaving only blood and garbage on the ground.Mephisto looked around, it was obviously a peaceful era, but he saw gunpowder smoke on the ground.

There has just been a battle here.

The fat police officer raised the cordon and took Mephisto in secretly: "The captain should be nearby, you should be careful, call us if you have anything to do. We are all rough people, you are an intellectual, just now If they offend you, you should take care of it."

Mephisto nodded.The fat criminal policeman moved his belly and was quickly dragged away by several officers and soldiers. The researcher gathered his white coat and walked into the depths of the hospital.

There were many people lying on both sides of the aisle, all of whom were injured in the stampede.Some doctors and nurses are doing emergency treatment for them, and more doctors and nurses are shuttling through the atrium and corridors, holding antiseptic and hemostatic medicines in their hands.

A disaster has just ended, and those who survived are still maintaining the proper operations in an orderly manner.Mephisto passed by busy doctors and nurses, and finally saw the person he was looking for.

Faust stood in the atrium, constituting the only dark color in the white clothes.The police officer's coat was gone, and the remaining coat on his body was barely smooth, and the messy hair depicted the emergency situation just now.He stood upright, holding a notebook in his hand, and was talking with a doctor or nurse.

Mephisto stood there, staring blankly at him.Faust spotted him right away, and the police officer hastily handed over the notebook to someone else, and ran towards Mephisto.

The crowd parted like a tide, and soon his lover was standing in front of him.Faust seemed to be concerned about his dirty and tattered clothes, he raised his hand, but immediately put it down:

"Ino... why are you here?"

Mephisto opened his mouth, but he couldn't tell the reason why he came here, as well as the bad premonition that he couldn't explain clearly in his heart.

So he decided to follow the voice in his heart: "I miss you."

Faust's red pupils lit up slightly again, as if he saw the little boy waiting for him in the yard.He touched his pocket and took out some disposable gloves: "I'll take you back to the research institute, it's too dangerous here."

"Where did you get the gloves?"

Faust first put on the gloves for himself, then opened his pocket, and motioned Mephistopheles to look inside:

"I helped two doctors and nurses just now. One of them gave me some gloves, and the other gave me a pack of glucose."

"glucose?"

"Well, she said she just got married and had no more wedding candy, so she gave me a pack of glucose and thanked me for saving her life."

Faust lowered his head, and started fiddling with his hands intently: "The supplies that each medical staff can receive are rationed. If you give me some, they will get less. But this is their gratitude, and gratitude is priceless. , I'll take it."

Mephisto seemed to understand, but also didn't seem to understand.His left hand was empty, but Faust helped him put on the glove earnestly, just like putting on a silver ring for his lover.

But this wasn't a church, and they weren't wearing fancy gowns.Their faces were smeared with dust, their clothes were messy and messy, but the police officer with blue eyes still looked at him brightly, just like the day they got married.

"All right."

Faust clung to Mephisto's hand, leading him to walk out slowly.The researcher looked at his lover's back, but felt the urge to cry.

"Faust."

"Ok?"

"……sorry."

The officer's back paused.Doctors and nurses hurried past them, and Faust turned around and touched the top of Mephistopheles' head.

"After being married for so long, why do you still say such things?"

It is an eventful time now, and cases of assaulting the police often occur.Faust dared not take him back to the institute in a police car, so he had to take Mephistopheles to the police station.

The police station was so busy that even standing at the gate, Mephisto could hear the ringing phone.He looked around curiously, but caught eye with a policeman unexpectedly.

The policeman was stunned, and threw the document in his hand: "Ah! You are the captain's lover, and you study infectious diseases!"

The policeman had a loud voice, his voice even drowned out the ringing of the phone.For a moment, several heads poked out from every office in the corridor, and their eyes focused on Mephisto.

"Really! Just like the photo."

"This is the first time I saw my sister-in-law in real life!"

Xiao Baimao felt uncomfortable all over.Faust protected him, and shouted to the police officers: "Okay, it's over, what to do."

The first policeman who spoke nodded, but walked out of the corridor, snapping a standard military salute.

"The epidemic is dangerous. Virus researchers are our hope and our hero. There is no words to repay. Please let me salute you."

Mephisto blinked again.

The hallway was quiet.The policemen walked out of the office one after another, put their fingertips on the side of their faces, and raised their arms neatly, like a majestic forest.

Mephisto still couldn't figure it out.He experienced too many things beyond his cognition today, which almost overloaded his information processor.

Xiao Baimao sat in the co-pilot, his green eyes were full of confusion: "But, I obviously want to develop a super virus that can control humans all over the world."

Faust turned a corner, and the gate of the institute appeared in front of him: "So?"

"They should hate me. You see, the classmates who were cast by me hate me, the students who were almost cut open their skin and implanted with viruses hate me, and the teachers who were tricked into planting mushrooms by me also hate me."

"Don't I still like you?"

"It's different...so, why are they saluting me?"

Faust stopped the car and pulled Mephisto out of the car: "Because you represent the weight of life."

Mephisto always felt as if he had heard a similar statement: "You said 'the weight of the soul is 21 grams'? That's just a rumor."

"no."

The officer reached into his pocket and took out a bag of glucose.

"If I hadn't rushed over, the person who gave me this bag of candy might have been trampled to death. You see, this is the weight of life."

For the people in the pavilion, they are just cold numbers.But when the police officers stepped on the ground, they could feel their body temperature and see their joy and sorrow.

Glucose was stuffed into Mephisto's pocket, and Faust touched his head for the last time, his red pupils rolled and turned, as if he wanted to hug him, but he put down his hand again.

"Go back, remember to eat well."

Mephisto didn't want him to go.He tugged on Faust's sleeve, and refused to let the police officer let go: "You send me up."

Faust paused: "...I won't enter the research institute."

"Leg hurts."

Faust panicked all of a sudden.He squatted down, trying to check Mephisto's knees, Mephisto looked down at his hair, but his heart was inexplicably throbbing:

"...I lied to you, it doesn't hurt. You can go."

He just wanted a hug, a kiss, and a few more words with Faust, as long as he could say a word.But the articulate researcher searched his brains, but couldn't find a reason to keep him.

Faust didn't seem to notice his little thoughts.The police officer told him a few more words, then turned his back and walked towards the car.

Mephisto ran back to the research institute and then up to the second floor.He lay on the floor-to-ceiling windows facing the door, but found that Faust was still standing beside the car, facing his eyes.

Faust seemed to have known that Mephisto would be there. He stood by the car door and pointed to the phone in his hand.Mephisto took out his mobile phone and saw the message from Faust:

"Put the ring in the drawer of the bedside table, don't throw it around in the future."

Mephisto held back her tears and nodded emphatically.

Faust put away his phone with a smile and waved to him.

His lover was standing behind the floor-to-ceiling windows, like a beautiful doll locked in a glass box.Mephisto held the mobile phone in one hand, and leaned on the window glass with the other. His green eyes were wide open, and he looked at where he was with some reluctance.

That was his star, the star in the pavilion.He does not allow dusty, ever-shining stars.

The officer turned his back and got into the driver's seat.Standing on the second floor, Mephisto watched the car go far away. He touched his neck and then his left hand. There was nothing on it.

But there was a small bag of glucose in his pocket.

-tbc-

I hope that Mephisto, whether it is this work or the original work, can understand the meaning of life, learn to love, and learn to be compassionate.