Plague Doctor

On the day of 14 March, the village of North Dynasty began to grow more uneasy in the early morning hours.

The lowly houses are scattered around the farmland, fenced the yard in front of the houses and are also filled with melon fruits and vegetables, with raised chicken ducks walking around.

“Dolls, look, helicopters!” At 6: 46 a.m., at more than 8: 00 a.m., one of the family's mothers, Zhang Shuqin, held her own doll and pointed happily at the sky in the yard. Her five-year-old son was excited to see several military helicopters fly by.

Guo Lei, the father of the doll, was watching at first, but he immediately felt something was wrong, muttering: “Why did the helicopter stop here? ”

The five helicopters stopped shouting to the ground, over at the woodland contracted by the old man.

Is Old Tian in trouble? What's so big?

Guo Lei felt strange about his speculation. The village has a permanent population of 300 or 400 people. Everyone around the neighborhood knows that Old Tian is famously diligent and willing to work, no gambling, no fighting, he plants other trees on his farm, even there are no contradictions on the farmland, what can he do?

It won't be long before a convoy passes by on the road outside with the sign of the sky turbine on it. There was definitely an accident.

Guo Lei was not reassured. He followed several villagers to the woodland to see the situation, but they were all stopped by the police and the road to the woodland was sealed.

Over an hour later, it was almost 9: 30 in the morning.

There are also helicopters and a larger convoy into the village of Beidian, with buses, medical cars, armoured vehicles...

Old man Zhang, old man Wang and other people who were playing chess in one place, the villagers who were busy living in the farmland, Guo Lei and others who were talking about the situation at the entrance of the village.

All the villagers suddenly heard a loud voice, a helicopter in the circle broadcasting to the ground: "We will immediately evacuate the entire village for the sake of everyone's safety, as a result of an incident in the nearby woodland. ”

Meanwhile, several cadres, such as the village chief, have rushed off to tell each other, to listen to the national arrangements, to pack up quickly and to evacuate immediately.

“You don't have to bring anything to eat! The most important thing is to bring your papers, medical records, ID cards, account books, bank cards, anything of value. Come on! ”

The villagers were blinded, listening to the radio, looking at the helicopter, the vehicles... the outbreak? But no one in their village has fallen ill lately...

“Mom, so many cars!” The little doll didn't know anything, and she was excited to point it at her mother, but Zhang Shuqin couldn't speak and just held the child tight.

The broadcast sounded over and over again. The vehicles parked at the entrance of the village and walked down a team of people from each car, all wearing fully enclosed protective clothes of different colors, with different duties. Most people walked to the village quickly, and the alarmed dog barked everywhere.

Some people went to various households and led the villagers to evacuate. Most of the villages were elderly, and these grandmothers followed with trembling trepidation.

Some people are using walkie-talkies to report on what they are doing outside the village with detection instruments that they do not know.

Guo Lei went to find the elderly parents, Zhang Shuqin quickly found a luggage bag and flipped out the documents, money and valuables of the family and put them in. Although the radio said that no clothes were needed, Zhang Shuqin grabbed several delightful clothes and children's clothes and took them away.

A protective clothing officer walked into the house and called her to leave, and she took her luggage bag, held the child, and left with her.

At the entrance of the village, more than 400 villagers boarded a bus with the assistance of these protective clothing personnel.

Before boarding, each villager is required to show his or her identity card and verify that he or she is a villager here. But because of the large number of elderly people, better still being seventies, eighties or even nineties, even if it is usually difficult for them to find a document, especially now, these people who cannot produce a document are concentrated in the back of the car.

No one's phone was taken away, but the signal seems to be blocked, no internet access, no phone calls.

When a bus was full and the door closed, the driver immediately drove away to a destination that was not clear to the passengers.

Guo Lei rendezvoused with his parents and wife and children at the entrance of the village, when the family was sitting in one of the buses near the rear of the car. Everyone else around them knows each other. People are silent, sighing, and complaining excitedly about something.

“Mom, Mom, where are we going?” The child whispered, "Though young and young, I can feel the atmosphere of ashes at this time, a little scared.

“Nothing.” Zhang Shuqin patted the child's hand, "Mom told you, those aunts and uncles are good people, let's go play with them. ”

“So, Mom, are we coming back?” The child seemed to hear that it was comforting and his winking eyes looked forward to a positive answer.

Whatever the word or deed, the adults in the car are haunted by the fear that they and their families will not survive.

I heard the kid ask, then suddenly I thought about it, will we come back?

Guo Lei looked at his son and looked at the village and the wilderness outside the car window. He was unnamed and panicked.

He had already broken into the city earlier in the year, living at too high a cost and not liking that way of life, so he finally chose to go back to his hometown. He wanted to make a good life here, build this place well. He also wanted to contract some wasteland trees like old man Xuetian...

But now, will you come back? Can you come back?

“Yes, of course I will.” Zhang Shuqin nodded and forcefully smiled at the child, "This is our home. ”

By this time, the bus had taken to the highway, gradually moving away from the village.

There were some protective clothing personnel in the car, and one of the middle-aged women stood up and said, "My name is Fang Fang, I am a doctor, if you are not feeling well, please tell me immediately. I'm gonna do a little research right now. Have any of you ever had thyroid problems? ”

Everyone cooperated with the inquiry in doubt, and the Guo Lei family had no medical history in this regard.

After the interview, Dr. Fang asked several other personnel to send a small tablet and a small cup of water to the villagers who clearly did not have a medical history.

“This is iodine tablet.” Dr Fang said, "Swallow now. ”

Iodine tablets? Neither Guo Lei nor Zhang Shuqin understood why they were eating this. Several villagers asked about it, and some elderly people had swallowed it.

“The reason, folks, is that there's a little radiation problem over at the woodland.” Dr. Fang preached that he had been allowed to explain to the townsfolk to a certain extent.

As soon as she talks about radiation, the elderly can't hear anything, Guo Lei, these young people have changed their face, radiation? What radiation?

“Don't panic, we didn't detect any radioactive material in the village. Pollution was confined to a little part of the forest farm, and everyone should be undamaged. That means you're all right now. Evacuation is a security transfer. Eating iodine tablets is an emergency prevention, but if you have thyroid problems, you will have a detailed medical examination when you get to the placement point, and if the results are OK by then, you will only take iodine tablets once. ”

Dr. Fang spoke positively and tried to be honest so that the elderly could understand.

But the elderly still face each other, don't understand much, just follow the national arrangement.

However, the young people in the car were a little relieved. It was not the New Legion disease, it was not the plague, it was the radiation, but the village was not contaminated and they were fine...

Zhang Shuqin hugged the child, Guo Lei was just about to ask something: “Dr. Fang...”

All of a sudden, a loud bang came from behind! Whether it was affected by this or the road was uneven, the bus was slightly bumpy.

“Ah... what's going on? ”

“Is that an explosion? It sounds like an explosion...”

“What exploded? ”

The passengers suddenly panicked, and the haze that was just about to dissipate quickly became heavier on the faces of Guo Lei, Zhang Shuqin and others. They looked out the window and couldn't see any flames or smoke, but the explosion was in the direction of the old man's woodland.

“Don't worry, everyone.” Dr. Fang's voice was a little dull. She, the driver, and other astronaut personnel all frowned on her face in protective clothing.

The explosion was not part of the action plan.

Or in the morning, when the sun was shining outside, they just felt cold.