With a leap, Lin Yao landed steadily beside the person Xiao Cao had indicated. This time, he needed to dissect the patients' bodies and experiment with some readily available drugs. Only in this way could he find a way to resolve this crisis. Otherwise, even if he and Xiao Cao worked themselves to death, they wouldn't be able to save many people, and the entire city would become a true ghost town.
"Sir, the medicines and reagents you requested have been prepared."
The First Elder, Yi Potian, appeared in front of the gate instantly, followed by Yi Yang and a dozen other elders. Each of them carried a large number of cloth bags and bottles and jars. These were various Chinese medicinal herbs and Western medicines and reagents that the Yi family had collected from Yanji City as soon as they received Lin Yao's call.
"Those who refuse to cooperate and are just waiting to die, throw them out!"
Lin Yao was on the verge of exploding with rage. Although the infected were weak, they were not so weak that they couldn't even move their bodies, yet they still looked like they were waiting to die, which made Lin Yao furious.
"Yaoyao, calm down!" Xiaocao immediately shouted, "Don't lose your composure! As a doctor, you have to face life and death head-on. It's not worth getting angry with these people."
"Oh," Lin Yao mumbled in response to Xiao Cao, realizing that he had indeed gone a bit too far with his emotions.
After taking a deep breath to suppress her excitement, she opened her arms and found the middle-aged man with a severe infection beneath her almost completely naked, except for his shoes and some strips of cloth hanging from his calves.
This patient is very suitable for the experiment because his organs and tissues have been eroded by the virus, but none of them have reached the most severe stage. Therefore, he is very suitable for observing the pharmacological reactions of various drugs. Even the epidermal tissue of his penis has been infected, which is why Lin Yao directly let him undergo the experiment.
The pneumonia virus this time is still a type of coronavirus, belonging to the same family as the SARS virus that the world feared a few years ago. However, its ability to reproduce and its infectivity far exceed those of the SARS virus. Apart from its ability to survive in the external environment being inferior to that of SARS, the novel coronavirus has a much stronger ability to divide, reproduce, and erode and destroy human tissues and organs than SARS.
"Hurry up, put all the medicine on the ground next to me!"
Lin Yao did not turn around, but his roar startled Elder Yi Potian and his group. He simply lowered his head and pointed two fingers together, as if a scalpel was slicing into a patient's chest.
The patient's entire chest, including the ribs, was silently torn apart without even a drop of blood. This was something Xiaocao had done beforehand, and the location of the opening had been decided by Xiaocao and Lin Yao together.
The elder loosened his grip, and the medicinal herbs he was holding slowly fell. Before they even hit the ground, an invisible force lifted them up, suspending them in the air. He then used his own hands to draw upon the energy of heaven and earth, flinging the patients around Lin Yao into the cleared area of the crowd. At this moment, he didn't care whether the falling people would hurt the patients who were stretching their legs around; he wanted to ensure that the task Lin Yao had given him could be completed as quickly as possible.
"Hurry up and put all the medicine on the ground. Open the packaging of every medicine and open all the bottle caps."
The First Elder, Yi Potian, clearly understood Lin Yao's thoughts and immediately issued an order based on his understanding. For someone who had reached the Heavenly Realm, retrieving objects from a distance was no problem, but if it took time to open the bag and remove the bottle cap, it would be a real waste.
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Chapter 394 Extreme Panic (4)
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Ge Ping'an stared blankly at the empty wall. His gaze was somewhat unfocused.
The TV in the living room was turned up very loud; it could be heard clearly even with the bedroom door closed tightly.
This is an unfurnished home. The two-bedroom layout is very simple. The door is a cheap plywood door that has been there since the house was built. The windows are the cheapest aluminum alloy sliding windows, which have long been deformed and difficult to move. The bed and wardrobe are also very simple, all outdated styles, so old that even the paint has peeled off.
Ge Ping'an's family wasn't actually poor, because he worked for the Yanji City Water Supply Company. The company was doing very well, and his monthly salary reached over 4,000 yuan. He also received a considerable amount of money from quarterly bonuses, semi-annual bonuses, year-end bonuses, and various other benefits. In addition, he often helped other companies with water supply and pipeline projects, so his annual income exceeded 100,000 yuan, which was considered quite comfortable in Yanji City, a not very wealthy area.
Ge Ping'an had no savings, not a single penny. He gave all his earnings to his wife, and he rarely carried more than a hundred yuan in cash. Whenever there were unavoidable expenses, he would specifically ask his wife for money because he loved her. He trusted and relied on her; she gave Ge Ping'an a warm home and brought a sense of belonging to this man who had been an orphan since childhood.
So even though the family was poor, and even though his wife saved money under various pretexts, making the house look like a slum, Ge Ping'an had no complaints or opinions. He had a much harder childhood and had survived those difficult days, so he could completely accept his wife's frugality in not buying furniture. In fact, Ge Ping'an even considered it a virtue.
The family's living conditions were not bad, and they ate very well, which made Ge Ping'an look very handsome. The 35-year-old man looked like he was under 30. He had black hair, smooth skin, and was strong and healthy. Therefore, Ge Ping'an was very satisfied and happy.
As for his wife's generous spending on cosmetics and clothes, Ge Ping'an was also very happy, because his wife was beautiful every day and could attract him every day for the past eleven years of their marriage. Whenever he saw his wife, he felt excited and impulsive, as if he could never finish loving this woman.
For eleven years, Ge Ping'an felt he had been living in a honey pot, the happiest man in the world. It wasn't until last August that he realized he was wrong, terribly wrong. This happiness was all in his imagination; he had always been a laughing stock, a loser.
When Ge Ping'an learned that his ten-year-old son was not his own, he felt like the sky was falling. But he was strong because he loved his wife very, very much, so he was prepared to forgive the woman who had given him the greatest humiliation.
If that were all, Ge Pingan could still continue to live a happy life, because he decided to forgive his wife. But the world is too cruel, and that woman is too vicious. Ge Pingan eventually discovered that he was the plaything, the most pathetic man.
The son is the wife's brother-in-law's. Eleven years ago, the wife had an affair with her brother-in-law. After discovering she was pregnant, she quickly agreed to Ge Ping'an's marriage proposal, who was introduced to her by a mutual acquaintance. At the time, the lightning speed made Ge Ping'an think that he was handsome, had a good personality, and worked at a good company. However, he never expected that he was just a shield, the cuckolded man who allowed his wife to have an affair with her brother-in-law for eleven years.
The wife is reluctant to spend money on furniture and renovations for the house because she wants to save that money for her lover and brother-in-law to squander; however, she is willing to spend money on herself because that will make her more attractive to her lover.
For over a decade, his wife had been working in sales, spending most of the month traveling for work. That was simply because she wanted to spend her days alone with her lover. Fortunately, Ge Ping'an always felt sorry for his wife's hard work and always tried his best to take care of her. He even ignored the strange phenomenon that she hadn't earned a penny in her busy sales career over the past decade and didn't suspect anything. Only later did he realize how foolish he had been.
When the truth was revealed, the still-attractive woman left without looking back, taking away all of Ge Ping'an's savings, the son who was never his, and all his attachment and love for this world. All that was left behind was a divorce agreement, a simple apartment allocated by his work unit, and a man's heart turned to ashes.
It was only after meeting Jin Xiangyu that Ge Ping'an rediscovered the preciousness of life and developed a deep attachment to it.
This woman is not clean, but she is not hypocritical, which is why Ge Ping'an fell in love with her.
Jin Xiangyu started working alone in Changzhou at the age of 18, engaging in the service industry, which, to put it bluntly, meant working as a prostitute. Having witnessed the prosperity of the metropolis and the hypocrisy and restlessness of human nature, she returned to her hometown of Yanji City at the age of 29. What she brought back was not only the money she had saved up over a decade of enduring humiliation, but also a broken heart riddled with wounds and a mutilated body infected with AIDS.
Fate brought together a man and a woman, both orphans and both victims of societal hardship.
Perhaps it was a shared suffering, or perhaps it was a predestined fate from a past life, but these two people suffering from hardship fell in love. Ge Ping'an even abandoned protection without hesitation and passionately embraced Jin Xiangyu. He had decided to live and die with Jin Xiangyu, even if he contracted AIDS, so that they could live a clear, real, and happy life together for eight years.
Ge Ping'an has no expectations for the future, and his understanding of happiness has changed. He is willing to accept Jin Xiangyu, a woman who has also been ravaged by society but still yearns for happiness, a good woman who, despite being worldly-wise, still retains some simplicity and innocence and knows how to care for and love others.
The happy days lasted for four months, then the ill-fated couple faced the biggest decision of their lives. This decision came from the alluring man now sitting in the living room. He had once been Jin Xiangyu's customer, a customer who had exchanged money for a relationship, but he brought them hope for life and a blueprint for growing old together.
Perhaps it was because the woman from the past had hurt Ge Ping'an so much that he took his anger out on the whole society, or perhaps it was because he felt that the land that gave him birth and raised him had given him endless pain. When he heard "Mr. Liu" bluntly tell them to cooperate in releasing the poison, Jin Xiangyu's persuasion moved Ge Ping'an. He and his true love were willing to take revenge on society for the gain they could get—a cure for AIDS.
After being infected with the virus, the two frequented all public places in Yanji City, spending money like water, with the sole purpose of entering as many places as possible and contacting the widest range of people.
Ge Ping'an succeeded, and a large number of citizens in Yanji were infected with the virus. But the subsequent situation and the reports on television made this man, who still had a shred of conscience, regret his actions. He never imagined that a disease that neither he nor his loved one would experience any discomfort would so easily claim other people's lives.
Ge Ping'an no longer dares to watch the news on TV, because he is constantly hearing about the danger of death and the development of the epidemic. He feels uneasy and even has an impulse to turn himself in. However, under the persuasion of his tearful lover Ruan Yu, he feels that such revenge is justified and that those people deserve to die.
Jin Xiangyu had taken her work clothes out of her bedroom, and Ge Ping'an saw them on the coffee table in front of the glamorous man "Mr. Liu" when he went to the bathroom. He hated this man, not only because he had bought Jin Xiangyu's body, but also because he had plunged the entire city of Yanji into despair.