C11 Cleaning hospital
The weather quickly turned cold. After a few days of continuous rain, he could finally put on a thick coat.
Except for the morning exercise, we spent the rest of the time huddled in our quilts, talking.
After the second week of lying in front of the windowsill looking out at the courtyard, at the behest of Kiki and I, we had a little meeting that night, about expanding our range of activities. In fact, we wanted to clean up the hospital compound, so we didn't have to spend every day in this narrow corridor, where we could go out and breathe in the fresh air.
Humans will never be able to adapt to the days of captivity.
This proposal was agreed upon by everyone, including his parents.
It was probably due to her recent days of peace and leisure that she no longer had to worry about anything like before. Her grandmother's illness actually began to slowly recover without any medication.
Looking at Grandma who could already eat by herself, Mom's mental state improved a lot.
Kiki was still paying attention to Tian Tian's condition. He still loved to paint, but he didn't have the same horrible look he did last time.
I privately asked Sun Miao what was going on, but he was learning Chinese medicine, not psychology. He only replied with the word ice, "I don't know."
To be honest … I think he's even more annoying than his mother-in-law, Chen.
Since the hospital was large, it was hard work to ensure that everything was safe. In the end, we decided to lock the doors and side doors of all the buildings from the outside for the time being, leaving only the courtyard to be cleaned.
Chen Ming and Sun Miao each led a group of people to lock the door. Xiao Yu and I would go to make sure that there were places from the hospital that led directly to the outside to prevent corpses from entering the courtyard of the hospital from those places.
On the way we passed the little park where the last one had been floating, and where the green flowers and plants had withered, there was an unspeakable desolation.
The two of us did not stop and walked quickly.
After leaving the park, Xiaoyu carefully observed the situation and said, "What a bad rat poop! If that leg wasn't in the water, who knows if there might be fish in the pond."
Hearing that, I smiled and turned my head to look at her. "How do you know that there are no fish now?"
Xiao Yu was stunned and only replied after a long while, "If there's any fish …" "Then will they eat the meat from those rotten legs?"
I was also stunned. "This …" "I don't know."
"Suppose the fish ate the leg meat... Will you be infected? Will they become undead fish?
Xiao Yu seems to be very interested in this problem. However, after hearing her words, I remembered that the only thing she said was that the human immune system is ineffective against this virus. What about the animals? Will animals become infected if bitten? Would he also become a walking corpse like that?
Thinking up to here, he suddenly thought of the rotten cat and dog mice roaming all over the streets. He quickly shook his head and interrupted Xiao Yu, "Alright, stop talking about useless stuff. We'll meet up with everyone after the inspection."
After quickly circling around, when the two of us return, the others have already been waiting for us in the hall for quite a while.
Everything was going much more smoothly than expected. The only thing left was the most troublesome part, and we had to clean up all the corpses.
Most of the corpses were badly decomposed and stank. Some areas where the bodies were more concentrated were even close to tears from the smoke.
Chou Chou, a grown man, was the first to go on strike. He said that he couldn't stand the smell and grumbled as he ran back.
We had no choice but to do it ourselves. We put on the leather gloves that doctors used for surgery and started working after putting on a simple mask.
Usually, when we fought the undeads face to face, the knives in our hands would come into contact with their flesh. This would touch the slimy, rotten flesh through a thin layer of leather gloves, making us feel nauseous.
By the time all the bodies had been removed, my mother had already boiled a huge pot of hot water, and the pots and pans we had collected from the small supermarket and the various homes in front of our house.
At that time, Chou Chou was still joking around, saying that taking all of our things was just like taking the evil spirits back in the day, taking all of our things, taking all of our things, taking all of our things!
After returning home, he quickly took a bath and drank two mouthfuls of my mother's sweet soup. Then, he heaved a sigh of relief. This day … They were living too comfortably!
Grandmother can get out of bed now and happily help boil some water or heat up some soup for us.
Just like before, I felt that she seemed to really like Chen Ming. She gave him a big bowl of soup, and gave him more canned fruits than I did!
My grandmother had put on the down jacket I had brought back for her, and the winter of old age had come earlier than for us young people.
They can't get well, and it's hard to get well when their immunity falls.
The sun had been shining well these two days, and in the afternoon we cleaned up the hall and the open space in front of the door with a hose.
This building is rather old, and there is an old water tap outside as well. It should be an underground well, thanks to this, even if the water stops completely in the future, we should still have some water to eat.
My mother, who had been a housewife for more than twenty years, had always taken advantage of everything to improve her comfort.
We told him we wanted to give her a place to walk in the yard, but the little old lady got my dad to find a piece of wire and string it to two posts in front of the building to dry the quilt …
Looking at her busy and happy mother, we didn't have anyone to stop her.
This was the joy of her life. It was good that she was happy.
After exiting the building, I had almost gone mad, screaming and running around, completely out of control. I had wanted to remind him to keep his voice down, but was stopped by Chen Ming at the side: "It's fine, the undeads outside can't hear me."
We also took out a few chairs and put them together so Grandmother could sit out there and bask in the sun.
Everyone who had lived with the old man knew that they seemed to have a strange story to tell. In those red years, there seemed to be many new things that could no longer be seen.
All afternoon we sat together in the sun and listened to Grandma talk about snakes that had sprung up in the house of a family when they were children and had water in the village.
Even Chen Ming was frowning as he listened with a serious face. In the end, Chou Chou took out a packet of melon seeds from somewhere and started eating with a smack. He was stared at by a bystander for a long while before being unwillingly split in half.
A peaceful life can quickly make people forget their fear and pain.
But forgetting doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
In the calm days, we gradually realized that the outside world had truly changed. Although we didn't know what had happened, it had already been subverted.
Now there are no manufacturers, no farmers, no hawkers and supermarkets. All the food and materials are available. We can only collect and stock up, but not produce.
In other words, things would only get smaller and smaller.
Our hoarding has also been consumed at a much faster rate than we thought, and even now, some of the habits we've developed over the years are completely unchangeable.
For example … Toilet paper is needed.
There was no shortage of these things in the hospital for the time being, but the consumption rate was also very fast.
In the end we had to start thinking about going out again.
We were still discussing about going to our last Da Nu Fa but it was rejected by Chen Ming.
Before we could ask about the reason, Sun Miao asked, "Is it about last time?"
Chen Ming nodded his head: "That place has already been occupied, last time when we took away that many things, they were the ones who gave us the chance, if we go this time, there will inevitably be disputes."
After I understood what Chen Ming meant, I suddenly stood up from my seat: "Do you mean that the hair there is someone else's?!"
"You only know now?" Chou Chou swept his eyes over me as if he was looking at an idiot.
"What is it? Do you all know? " I was confused.
Xiao Yu shook her head. "I don't know …" What kind of riddle are you guys fighting? Hurry up and tell me! "
Sun Miao looked at us, and said: "The last time we went back, we saw that corpse, it was thrown there after being injured. When we went into the mall, Chen Ming heard footsteps, there were probably a lot of them, just that when we saw that there were more of us who were not willing to come out to argue, we could only agree to take some things and leave.
"Footsteps? Why didn't I hear footsteps? " Xiao Yu asked.
Without answering her, Sun Miao continued to speak: "Since that group of people can injure and feed the undead, they are definitely not a kind bunch. It's better if we don't go, it's better to avoid trouble."