Plague Doctor

The night was dark, the car lights were bright, and the rumble of cars echoed throughout this sparsely populated land.

The people in Ma'erwan District have evacuated safely. There are no residents or animals in the "isolation circle", and the plants here will also be a thing of the past. In Mobei, even in towns, there are not many trees in many places, but it is precisely because of this that every tree here is precious.

Tree-cutting trucks, excavators, bulldozers and other large vehicles participating in the "Isolation Circle Plan" are driving to the tree spots in the circle.

At the Mobei Command Center, the commander-in-chief of the operation, Zhou Dajun, had a calm, middle-aged face. He is a native of Mobei. He has watched the environment here become better and better over the years... "Do it!" Zhou Dajun gave an order, and it was different. The carts at the location drove towards the trees whose branches and leaves were blooming in spring.

The creaking sound of sawing, the clanging sound...

Trees fell down one by one and were carried away by trucks, leaving not a single sapling behind.

At the same time, raging fires are burning everywhere, burning away the weeds on the ground, burning away the original colors of spring, and burning away all vitality.

All turned into thick smoke and ashes in the dark night.

The isolation circle, the death zone, gradually but quickly appeared, surrounding the 30 square kilometers of abnormality area.

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At the Mobei Tianji Bureau Medical Department, two surgeries are being prepared in the surgical building.

The two patients, Tian Fuhou and police officer Bian Yi, both had their right upper arm amputated.

They all once put their hands into a locust tree and suffered minor burns below their elbows, which was caused by strong nuclear radiation exposure.

For radiation absorbed by the human body, 1gy is approximately equal to 1sv, where sv (sievert) is a unit of dose equivalent, which is the product of the absorbed dose, the quality factor, and all other correction factors at a point in the tissue under study.

The dose equivalents received by the two people's whole bodies were about 6.2sv and 4.5sv respectively, but the maximum absorption amounts in their right hands reached 1723sv and 1871sv respectively.

There are two other patients, Zhang Maidong and police officer Ma Zhenxing, whose systemic dose equivalents are about 5.6sv and 4.2sv.

On the day of the incident, the four people's symptoms of acute radiation sickness were getting worse, with frequent vomiting, dizziness and headaches. After determining that it was indeed radiation sickness, the medical team gave him sedation, desensitization, antiemetics, and anti-radiation drugs. The situation of Zhang Maidong and Ma Zhenxing is temporarily under control.

But Tian Fuhou and Bian Yi began to feel severe pain in the burned skin on their right hands starting at noon.

1723sv and 1871sv were there, and their condition was developing very rapidly. The burned skin first became more red and swollen, and then the ulcers became rotten. Then the blood vessels inside burst and bleed, the tissues collapsed, the damaged cells were decomposed, and the entire hand was no longer human-like.

Tian Fuhou was so painful that he rolled on the bed. He had faced many hardships in his life. Even in those days when he had neither enough food nor clothing, he never shed a tear.

But now, the old man is crying and wailing, purely because of the huge pain in his body.

For a 79-year-old man, such severe pain caused his blood pressure to soar and made it difficult to breathe. His various body functions were being damaged, and he was also at risk of cerebral hemorrhage and cardiopulmonary failure. The medical team immediately injected a sufficient amount of morphine into the old man, but this had little effect on the pain caused by nuclear radiation. There is no specific medicine for radiation sickness.

Officer Bian Yi's situation was no better, or even worse, because his dose equivalent was greater.

The painful screams continued to ring in the nuclear radiation isolation ward where he lived, like the cries of people being tortured in hell.

The condition quickly deteriorated to the point where amputation was necessary, the patient was in unbearable pain, and the radioactive material spread in the body.

If there weren't some issues that needed to be clarified, at least there was more data to support the fact that these two surgeries were performed during the day. The most important question is, is the nuclear radiation in the mutated area just nuclear radiation? Is this radiation sickness? Can I have anesthesia during surgery? Is it even possible to have surgery?

The surgical building was busy. The medical team sent by the Curse Department arrived in the afternoon, including Wang Ruoxiang and Cai Zixuan.

The two of them will each participate in an operation as three assistants.

Faced with such a situation, they naturally thought of Gu Jun, but at this time in the pre-operative meeting in the conference room, they and others were very focused.

People in white coats from both surgeries were gathered in the conference room, as well as many experts and professors attending consultations.

"As of now," a middle-aged and elderly man with a kind face stood in front of the conference screen and gave his judgment to everyone. This was Professor Zhang Bohai.

Professor Zhang is the director of the first clinical department of the National Nuclear Accident Medical Emergency Center, and also has a series of titles such as the Institute of Radiation Medicine and the Radiological Protection Society. This authoritative figure will lead ordinary medical staff to cooperate with the Tianji Bureau in health prevention and control, nuclear and radiation emergency treatment and other medical work in response to this incident.

"The symptoms of the two patients are no different from ordinary acute radiation injuries, and the indicators do not have supernatural abnormalities. We believe that the surgery can be performed according to conventional procedures, using general anesthesia." Professor Zhang said, "The sooner the surgery is performed, the better. .”

Everyone nodded. Without anesthesia, Mr. Tian Fuhou might not have been able to survive. Even if he had a strong will, his blood pressure would not be able to withstand it.

Wang Ruoxiang also nodded slightly. This was her first mission after returning to the spell department.

But I didn't expect it to be such a serious disaster.

One of the difficulties of these two operations is that doctors and nurses have to wear bulky nuclear radiation protection suits to perform the operations.

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But this issue is not among Professor Zhang's considerations. He does not know how to perform surgery. Yang Rongzhong and Tan Bo, who are in charge of the surgery, are both orthopedic aces of Mobei Medical Department. Together with the personnel dispatched by the Curse Department, everyone is ready for the operation. Abnormal conditions that may occur during the process.

After deciding that the surgery would be performed as a routine procedure, the two surgeons decided on a surgical plan with their teams.

After the meeting, all the people in white coats got up and went to the operating room.

"Alas." Cai Zixuan fell behind, still looking at the picture of the patient's diseased hand on the conference screen, and sighed.

The old man Tian Fuhou’s right hand, which was about to be amputated, planted trees in hundreds of acres of wasteland.

"Zixuan, don't be nervous." Wang Ruoxiang patted her old classmate on the shoulder, "Anyway, whether there is radiation or not, your hair will be gone."

She has changed a lot in the past two years, and the only thing that hasn't changed is her hair.

"That's true." Cai Zixuan smiled and touched his bald head, knowing that the squad leader meant well to calm the atmosphere.

The two of them talked and chased the people outside the conference room. It was midnight, but they still had two battles in the operating room.

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