Doctor, I'm really sick

The harsh midday sun shines through the window onto the small bed in the house.Qin Zhao still closed his eyes, turned over lazily, and hooked his long arms habitually—but it was in vain.

I touched it left and right again, but it was still empty.Not even any residual body temperature.

Qin Zhao frowned and opened his eyes.

When he opened his eyes, he almost fell off the bed.

"Fuck, I'm back again?!"

In front of him is the very familiar white wall table with plastic boards, and on the window sill is the small rattan basket that Qin Zhao dismantled into eight pieces last night just to get out the wire to pry the door-overnight, Qin Zhao inexplicably moved from Chu Si Nian's tender hut has returned to the isolation area "prison" that he hates deeply.

Qin Zhao: ………! ! !

Qin Zhao walked to the small table under the window, and as expected, there was a small note with only three words on it:

【sorry】

The neat and beautiful thin gold body with iron strokes and silver hooks looks like Chu Sinian's handwriting.

Qin Zhao held his forehead and gave a wry smile helplessly.

Chu Sinian, oh Chu Sinian, you... let me tell you what's good about you...

This time, Chu Sinian was determined to protect Qin Zhao well.In order to prevent him from "breaking out of prison" again, two additional locks were added to the door, and the basket for delivering food was also turned into a small wooden box that can be drilled seamlessly.

Qin Zhao ran around the house like a headless chicken for a whole day, but he didn't find the slightest loophole to escape.The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, he couldn't help kicking the door, and the newly added iron chains thick as fingers rattled.There was a gap in the door, and Andrew looked over impatiently with a mask on.

"I want to go out!" Qin Zhao put his hands on his hips angrily, "I'm not sick! I want to see Dr. Chu!"

Andrew glanced at Qin Zhao expressionlessly: "Is there any doctor to see if I'm not sick?? Doctor Chu is very busy and only sees patients."

"...Then I'm sick!" Qin Zhao immediately changed his words, treating his face like dirt: "Seriously ill! My whole body hurts! Let Dr. Chu come here immediately, only he can cure it!"

Andrew looked Qin Zhao up and down and said, "Doctor Chu can't cure rabies."

Qin Zhao roared angrily.Andrew, however, put on his earphones, listened to the music, and walked leisurely with a stick to inspect.

Six and a half days passed in the blink of an eye, and Qin Zhao still hadn't found a way to "break out of prison".The quarantine period is approaching, Qin Zhao can only choose to look for an opportunity to slip away when the sterile convoy arrives.

As night fell gradually, Qin Zhao lay on the bed, closed his eyes and rested his mind, thinking over and over again the plan to sneak out in his mind.Until the small alarm clock in front of the table, the pointer pointed to 8 o'clock with a ding dong.

Qin Zhao opened his eyes suddenly, staring closely at the opposite door.According to Andrew, at [-] o'clock tonight, there will be a sterile convoy from MSF to receive uninfected villagers who have expired in isolation.

Qin Zhao pricked up his ears, listening to the footsteps that might sound outside the door at any time.Because of the unprecedented tension, he touched the iron ring locked on his left wrist somewhat unnaturally—it was the identification given by MSF to every uninfected person who was about to be picked up, in case any villagers pretended to be uninfected and took the opportunity to escape out.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and the pointer kept turning to close to 9 o'clock, but still no one knocked on Qin Zhao's door.Qin Zhao couldn't help feeling a little anxious, and when he was fidgeting, he finally heard a rush of footsteps outside the door.

Wearing a mask, Andrew opened the door panting, and threw Qin Zhao a set of protective clothing as soon as he entered the door: "Put it on quickly, and follow me!"

Qin Zhao put on his clothes and followed Andrew out of the room. The moment the door closed, he quietly hid the metal lock in his cuff.This was what he had planned a long time ago. In order to fight side by side with Chu Sinian, he could only wrong the strong Yankee to sleep in the grass for a short while with a big bag on his head.

However, to Qin Zhao's surprise, Andrew did not take him along the original route, but chose a remote path out of the village.

"Wait." Qin Zhao stopped after taking a few steps, and stared at Andrew suspiciously: "Why did you take this road? If you take that avenue to the west, isn't it closer?"

Andrew's face changed slightly, "...then...there is a road there. You can only go this way." He continued to want to pull Qin Zhao forward, but Qin Zhao still stood still.

wrong.This is so weird.Qin Zhao remembered very clearly that the road to the west to the outside of the village was asphalted not long ago, and it was absolutely impossible to rebuild it in a short time.Considering the abnormal behavior of Andrew's belated arrival today, Qin Zhao suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart.

"Honestly, has something happened in the village?"

"No, no!" Andrew waved his hands and immediately denied, but his nervous expression gave away the secret.Qin Zhao's face changed drastically, and Andrew immediately wanted to catch Qin Zhao anxiously, but in vain.

Qin Zhao turned around and ran in the opposite direction.The quarantine area was far away from where Chu Sinian was, and he had to go through a dark forest.Qin Zhao stumbled and ran in the dark. Apart from his own panting, he could hear more and more clearly the heart-piercing cries and angry shouts in the distance.

*******

The only exit of Em Village is brightly lit at this time.

Doctors Without Borders stood under the big iron gate of the exit, surrounded by villagers.There were hundreds of people in the village, and their eyes were looking earnestly at their most trusted doctors.

"Please, let us out, please, let us out..."

"Let's get out! We're going out!!"

Countless pleadings and shouts came and went, resounding into one piece.Chu Sinian was heavily surrounded and had to accept countless pleading looks from under his feet.His face was still as calm and solemn as usual, but the line of his forehead was a little imperceptibly tight.

That's how nervous he was,

"Captain Chu...?" The assistant doctor on the side was already sweating profusely, and he lowered his voice and approached: "What should I do? If I don't let them out, I'm really afraid...? These black people, don't look at the usual You’re being polite to us, but you’re going to be fierce, but you dare to do anything…?”

Chu Sinian silently clenched his fists and looked around calmly.Back and forth, all the villagers gathered here, whether they were seriously ill or mildly ill, as long as they could breathe and move, they brought the old and the young, and looked at him eagerly.

Just three days ago, the villagers infected with the Deira virus suddenly began to die in large numbers. The fatality rate was only 30% before, but now it has nearly doubled. Out of every ten people, only three to four survive. Many families in the village were wiped out overnight, and those who buried the corpses even fell ill suddenly after burying them, and fell straight into the death pit.The remaining villagers were in an uproar. No matter whether they were sick or not, they were almost terrified. They no longer trusted MSF doctors, and they did not dare to receive any treatment or isolation. They just wanted to escape from this "hell cursed by evil spirits." "

"Please, let us get out! This place is cursed, if we continue like this, we will only die!"

"Let's get out! We still have kids, we don't want to die, we don't want to die!"

"Help us, open the door... Only by going out can we survive... woo woo woo..."

The old man's pleading, the woman's sobbing, the baby's crying, and the man's shouting sounded one after another in a mess.Looking at these eyes eager to survive, Chu Sinian felt trembling in his chest.

He took a deep breath and turned his head to look at the only exit at the entrance of the village.Those were two large iron gates that were more than three meters high and nearly a foot thick.There have been many wars in Syrayal all year round. In order to protect Aim Village from artillery fire and armed forces, the head of Aim Village devoted all his efforts to forging this strong and heavy iron gate ten years ago. A brick wall twice as high as the gate was erected, completely surrounding Em Village.

It's just that Zai Tianzhiling, the old village head back then, must have never imagined that his most proud masterpiece during his lifetime has now become the shackle that all the villagers most want to destroy.

Chu Sinian's gaze fell heavily on the heavy black lock of the big iron gate.In just a split second, he turned around, and his dark eyes were filled with firm and decisive light.

"Everyone, please listen to me! The sudden increase in the death rate of the Deira virus is very likely caused by the mutation of the virus. Now, everyone gathered here, including myself, is very likely to be infected with this virus. A mutated virus. Once you are released, the virus will spread everywhere, and the consequences will be disastrous. Sorry, for the sake of Syrayal, and even for the entire African continent, we cannot let you out!"

As soon as the voice fell, everything was quiet.For a moment, everyone stared straight at Chu Sinian's face.Everyone was surprised, looked at Chu Sinian in bewilderment and didn't quite understand.

When Chu Sinian led the MSF team to Aim Village, many patients in the village were rescued from danger by his hands.Looking at this group of young doctors, taking care of the elderly and treating children, these backward and simple villagers once regarded Chu Sinian and others as messengers of salvation.They firmly believed that the group of doctors led by Chu Sinian could save their village.

But this belief was shaken for the first time in the face of the sudden death three days ago.Faced with more and more corpses, the villagers found that it was futile to give hope to this group of outside doctors.All kinds of rumors went crazy, and the villagers who became more and more frightened believed that Aim Village was the root of all evil, and they could only survive if they escaped.

In this closed village, not many people can fully understand what Chu Sinian means by "virus mutation", "infection" and "collapse". He changed his appearance and said words they didn't understand, but he refused to let them go?If you stay here any longer, there is only one dead end!

Just when all the villagers were discussing and panicked, a shrill voice shouted:

"All the people of Ororen, you have been deceived by this group of cunning aliens! In the beginning, this group of aliens didn't want to save you. Their purpose is to use your life as an experiment and make a deal with the devil! "

A slightly hunched old woman slowly walked out of the crowd. The old woman was wearing sackcloth with colorful snake pattern totems, and was leaning on a twisted black wooden cane. Her gray hair blocked her wrinkled forehead, and the lower half of her face Covered again by layers of gauze, only a pair of cloudy red eyes were exposed, staring at Chu Sinian viciously and resentfully like a poisonous snake with a red letter.

Chu Sinian narrowed his eyes slightly, and met the old woman's gaze without fear: "It's you?"

This strangely dressed old woman is the former witch doctor and snake woman of Em Village.Like many places in African tribes, Aim Village still retains many rather primitive customs, focusing on ghosts, gods and witches.When they get sick, although some people go to the local regular doctors, there are also many conservative villagers who believe in witch doctors.This ignorant belief was not broken until Chu Sinian's team of doctors entered Em Village and rescued several patients who had been abandoned by the snake woman.

But it was for this reason that the Snake Lady lost her enshrinement, and she hated Chu Sinian ever since.

Facing everyone's gaze, the snake woman sneered, pointed at Chu Sinian and said, "You guys still believe him? Think about it, is it possible that after these doctors came, more and more dead people in our village? They are the ones who brought this calamity of the devil!"

This is obviously turning the facts upside down.Obviously it was MSF who discovered that Aim Village was one of the sources of the plague, so they sent doctors to rescue people and investigate their illnesses.

There are still a few sober people in the crowd.I saw a teenage boy wearing a blue coarse cloth shirt asked the snake woman in a puzzled way:

"However, these doctors also cured many of us? They cured my grandmother. My father died, and they helped to bury him. How can you say that they brought the disaster?"

Several villagers also nodded.Without exception, they are all people who have been rescued by these doctors.

The snake woman sneered, as if she had been prepared for a long time, and said unhurriedly: "Then let me ask you, before they came, there was basically no cure for your illness, and even the great Ororen could not bless you. But they will be cured. Are they greater than Ororen?"

Olorun is the highest god believed by African people (note: equivalent to "God" or "Buddha"). The villagers tremble even when they say his name. How dare they compare it with ordinary people?Now, everyone fell silent, only looked suspiciously at Snake Woman.