20demayo Chapter 242 The door was broken into
Chapter 242 The door was broken into
The flu outbreak lasted for more than a month before it finally ended after the last infected person recovered.
As a result of this flu outbreak, the Baijishan base, which already had a small number of personnel, lost over a hundred more.
Given the current situation, the base can only continue to arrange cremation and funerals in a unified manner. However, due to the snow accumulation, the ashes have been temporarily placed at the military headquarters and will be buried later when the snow melts and the floodwaters recede completely.
As for the question of where the influenza virus came from, the research institute finally discovered after several months of research that this influenza virus actually carried rat genes. Therefore, it is reasonable to suspect that some soldiers who were attacked by the mutated rats during the last mutated rat siege were infected with the virus, but it only broke out during this extreme cold.
After reaching a conclusion, the research institute promptly reported the results to Gu Tianqi.
Upon seeing that it was related to mutated rats, Gu Tianqi, to prevent other bases from encountering the same situation in the future, directly sent this important information to the capital base and several other bases with which he had connections. Along with the research conclusions, he also sent the prescription for the treatment of this flu.
Of course, this is a story for later.
After the flu season ended, temperatures began to rise again.
Moreover, starting from the end of February, the temperature rose exponentially, from minus 40 or 50 degrees Celsius to single digits above zero.
As temperatures rise, the snow is beginning to show signs of melting.
The base immediately moved all the medical equipment from the temporary clinic in the underground parking lot back to the base clinic.
Subsequently, the residents of the underground shelter began to move out one after another under the arrangement of the base and returned to the houses they had previously rented.
Residents on lower floors or those without a place to live have no choice but to squeeze into the stairwells of higher floors for temporary accommodation.
However, this is where the downsides of living in an underground shelter for so long without adapting to the extremely low temperatures outside begin to appear.
Many people cannot adapt to this sudden change, and the ambient temperature dropped by more than 20 degrees Celsius, causing many people who had just recovered from the flu to catch a cold again.
In order to survive, they have to continue to see doctors and take medicine, but because of the previous flu, ordinary people have basically spent all their savings, and now they can only afford to take out a loan from the base to see a doctor.
So, the person who had finally paid off last year's debt and accumulated some points ended up owing the base a lot more points after the extreme cold.
After everyone moved out of the underground shelter, the base completely sealed off the underground grain warehouse along with the shelter in preparation for the upcoming flood.
In less than half a month, all the snow had melted.
Although the base has been raised and reinforced over the past year, and the moat outside the base and the city have been rebuilt many times, the floodwaters that seeped in from the outside this time are much better than last year. However, the first half of the first floor was still flooded.
Only after the floodwaters receded did Bai Jishan escape from the water.
It took everyone nearly a week to clean up the mess left by the flood.
It was already late March, and the temperature had risen to the teens.
The high-rise residential buildings, which had been packed with refugees and made it difficult for people to even pass through the stairwells, have finally regained their tranquility.
Everyone inside moved out. Those who had rented rooms went back to their own homes, while those who didn't went back to the large group tent that had been set up again in the square.
After the refugees moved out, Zhou Yang and the others tried to stay home as much as possible, except for the few days when they were clearing snow and floodwaters.
The main problem is that those refugees in the stairwell are really noisy and troublesome; they try to take advantage of anyone in the building they see.
The residents on the lower floors were constantly complaining during that period, and they could only try to stay at home. But even so, people kept knocking on their doors.
Later, a man on the 8th floor couldn't take it anymore and, when he heard another knock on the door, went out and beat the person up.
Even so, some people still refused to give up and continued to harass the residents. Some even went to great lengths to climb to the floor where Zhou Yang and his team were located in the middle of the night.
However, perhaps because they had heard of the "infamous reputation" of the Hidden Dragon Squad, they didn't dare to knock on the door and instead chose to pry it open.
Fortunately, Zhou Yang had planted Little Tiger in the stairwell early on to prevent anyone from coming up to harass or steal. So when the thief outside the iron gate downstairs tried to pry open the door, Zhou Yang received a warning from Little Tiger.
The thief was caught red-handed by the Hidden Dragon Squad. He didn't even have a chance to escape before Little Tiger tied him up tightly and laid him down in front of everyone like a caterpillar.
Lu Xingye crouched down, looking at the caterpillar-like thief in surprise, and said, "You've got guts! You even dare to steal from our team. Haven't you heard of the Hidden Dragon Squad?"
"I...I've heard of it..." the thief nodded tremblingly.
Lu Xingye's eyes widened upon hearing this: "Then why did you come to steal it? Aren't you afraid of getting beaten up? Our team's captain and vice-captain are the two strongest ability users in the entire base!"
"I not only know your team is strong, I also know your team is rolling in money." Suddenly, as if struck by a sudden thought, the thief snapped his neck. "This isn't stealing, it's robbing the rich to help the poor! Anyway, you have a huge space filled with supplies, more than the entire base could consume in several lifetimes. What's wrong with sharing some with us?!"
"..."
A few words left everyone in the Hidden Dragon Squad speechless.
To so brazenly portray theft as robbing the rich to help the poor is truly shameless and brazen.
It's one thing to know they have a large space, but why do they assume it's full of supplies? And enough supplies that the entire base couldn't use up in several lifetimes? How come they didn't know that?
Although they never skimped on food, they only ate behind closed doors and never went out to show off their wealth. They rarely even had the opportunity to flaunt their wealth. At most, they would just procure a little more supplies for the base. That's why people resented their wealth.
Yan Fei squatted down and looked coldly at the thief: "How did you judge that we have a lot of supplies? That the entire base could use them up in several lifetimes? Where are we going to get so many supplies? Are you doing magic tricks? Do you even have a brain?"
Under Yan Fei's gaze, the thief instantly became guilty, his eyes darting away, avoiding Zhou Yang and the others: "I... I heard it from someone! They all say your team has so many supplies that they could feed the entire base for generations..."
Seeing this, Shen Zechuan also squatted down and looked directly into the thief's eyes: "Oh? Who told you all that? Tell us so we can hear it too."
"No...nobody...I just overheard it by accident, I don't remember who it was." The thief stammered for a moment after being stared at, then quickly looked away.
There's definitely something wrong here. This thief must know who's behind this!
Zhou Yang and the others exchanged glances and confirmed the information.