Chapter 200: Race against time
Chapter 200: Race against time
"Liang Liyang, 19 years old, has been in severe condition for 7 hours."
"It meets the requirements, and the transfer will be carried out now."
Faintly, Liang Liyang heard a cold electronic sound.
He forced his eyes open and saw two humanoid metal robots appear in front of his bed.
Then he found himself being lifted onto a rack.
Then they were transferred to a brightly lit cabin.
“This is on the water.”
Feeling his body shaking, Liang Liyang knew that he might be taken to other places by boat.
"Are you going to be abandoned?"
Liang Liyang felt a little sad.
He knew about the infection through the mobile network before he was infected.
There is no cure for people like him who are infected.
At most, they can live for a day or two, and then they will die quickly.
In order to avoid trouble, many shelters would collectively burn seriously infected people like him into ashes in advance.
I think his end won't be any better.
The pity is that he is still conscious now.
If it is burned or buried.
I am afraid that I will suffer a period of painful torture before I die.
But at this time, he didn't have the strength to commit suicide.
I can only wait quietly for fate to decide.
I do not know how long it has been.
He was put on a stretcher again and taken to a shelter.
That shelter is full of robots.
There are also seriously infected patients lying on stretchers like him.
And the end point for everyone.
It is a densely packed place, like a beehive.
"Is this the morgue?"
Liang Liyang tried hard to open his eyes wide, wanting to see clearly that this might be his final destination.
But this place is so huge that it is impossible to get a glimpse of the whole picture.
The only information that can be obtained is the individual cells that make up the honeycomb.
There were so many that they seemed endless.
Some are still empty, while others already have people lying inside.
Until he himself was placed in one of the grids.
He then discovered that the grid was not as small as he had imagined.
The height of the grid allows a person to sit up halfway.
There are also soft quilts and individual orange lighting.
No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a box for storing corpses.
Because a corpse doesn't require that much space.
There is no need to equip the place where the bodies are placed with so many small items.
"So, I can still live—"
This thought popped up in Liang Liyang's mind.
But his cloudy mind could no longer support him to think too much.
Soon, he fell into a coma from exhaustion.
9 month 19 day.
Farmyard, underground control center.
"Type II therapeutic agents have been developed."
"It can extend the survival period of severely infected patients from three to five days to more than 15 days."
"The flaw is that during these times, the infected person will be in a coma for more than 23 hours a day."
"There is less than an hour left for eating and excreting."
In order to prevent a large number of seriously infected people from dying.
Research a medicine that can prolong life.
Su Wu poured all the spiritual energy that he had accumulated in recent days onto Chen Yue.
Even occasionally, I would personally participate in related research.
In this urgent pursuit.
Finally, at the last minute, a Type II therapeutic agent was developed.
Then there was not even time for testing. The moment Su Wu succeeded in his research, he went straight to mass production and mass injection.
Fortunately, there were no mistakes in the end.
Among the tens of thousands of seriously infected people in the shelters, more than 97% of them successfully survived.
As for the shortcomings of this therapeutic agent.
More than 23 hours of lethargy per day.
In today's Jewi Shelter, which has accommodated nearly 20 infected people, this is actually an advantage.
After all, it is difficult for a sober person to endure the small space in the capsule grid for a long time.
It will bring Su Wu considerable trouble.
"In addition, eating and excretion require robot assistance."
“It’s so many people to take care of at once.”
“The existing number of robots is no longer enough.”
"We need to manufacture a batch of professional auxiliary equipment to help."
"And the number of capsule grids needs to continue to expand."
"Right now, the total number of seriously ill patients in other shelters has not only not decreased, but has increased significantly."
“We must prepare in advance.”
Because it only takes care of patients in fixed locations.
The task is relatively simple.
A miniature tracked vehicle, a lifting platform, and double-digit robotic arms can meet the needs of hundreds of people at the same time.
For manufacturing centers.
The production pressure is not too great.
However, the other task of producing capsule grids is relatively more difficult.
Even this kind of manufacturing does not require much technical content.
It is just a box made of iron sheet and foam, with a simple light bulb on it.
But the demand for it is simply too huge.
At least 70,000 to 80,000 capsule grids are added every day.
This order of magnitude has exceeded the productivity limit of a small farmyard manufacturing center.
They had to turn to the residents of the affiliated shelters who were already in the safe zone.
Also involved in assisting in the production of capsule grids.
And so it goes.
Although it barely meets the needs.
But another problem also arises.
The inventory of finished steel and plastic resources is being consumed at an extremely exaggerated rate every day.
It is estimated that it will be almost completely consumed in more than a week.
At the same time, those with severe infections are also considered to be physically weak patients.
The nutritional requirements are higher.
The lowest grade rations produced by the food factory were not suitable for them to eat.
Su Wu could only draw out the refined grains and various dairy products from his stockpile.
Make rice porridge that is more nutritious and easier to digest, etc.
To sustain their lives.
This is also a very heavy burden.
It also cannot last long.
“Taking into account the consumption of various resources.”
"The maximum capacity of the Jewe shelter is 70 people."
"Then, over at the Zhou Xiwu shelter, we can free up an isolation area that can accommodate 20 people."
“This is the limit.”
"If there are more, we won't be able to afford either housing or food."
Database with the help of artificial intelligence.
Calculate carefully again and again.
Su Wu saw his limits.
The original 62 shelter residents, plus up to 90 infected people.
This is the maximum population he can control now.
And that's it.
That doesn’t even take into account the space needed for normal activities once those with severe infections are cured.
By then, they will probably have to stay in those capsule cells for quite some time.
(End of this chapter)