Chapter 127 Giving up
Third District.
Chen Ling opened the door of the headquarters and stepped out.
The thick fog still hasn't dissipated, like a haze that hangs over everyone's heart. Figures are rushing through the street carrying stretchers. On them are either cold and pale corpses or bloody and mutilated wounded people. The originally lively neighborhood, Now there were groans of pain and murmurs of concern everywhere.
Chen Ling, wearing a black windbreaker, stood on the steps in front of the headquarters for a while, followed the stretchers, and walked to the other side of the street.
Next to the law enforcement headquarters is the largest clinic in the entire third district, but even though it is the largest, its scale is similar to the health center that Chen Ling saw in the town in her previous life.
The clinic has two floors, and it is already filled with groaning patients. Countless red and white stretchers cover the floor. The aisle that allows people to walk is only half an arm wide. The few doctors have their heads full of work. It's sweat that shuttles between these patients.
"Doctor...doctor! I beg you, please take a look at my child first. He seems to be running out of breath!"
"Doctor! We don't have enough gauze and disinfectant! The blood in the blood bank is almost running out!"
"It hurts...I really hurt..."
"There is an infected wound here...it can no longer be kept and is ready to be amputated."
"Doctor! This patient has no vital signs..."
"..."
Moans and cries echoed inside the clinic. The stretchers outside had been laid out on the roadside. One after another, they were lined up from the street to the end of the street, and a steady stream of people were being brought over.
How many patients are waiting for treatment? two thousand? Three thousand? Chen Ling has lost count.
He stood at the door of the clinic, the only darkness in this white stretcher. His eyes swept over this purgatory-like scene, and there was no expression on his face. He was as quiet as an uncared for sculpture.
A doctor walked out of the operating room with bloody hands. Several family members immediately rushed in. When they saw the cold body on the operating table, they cried in pain.
The doctor stood in front of the operating room, looking at the hell in the clinic, with endless sorrow and pity in his eyes.
"This can't go on like this..." he muttered to himself.
"All patients who are seriously ill or who have lost excessive blood should give up."
As soon as this sentence came out, all the other doctors who were still busy were startled, and looked at him at the same time, as if they wanted to say something, but finally fell silent.
"Are we... going to watch them die?" a nurse said hoarsely.
"We have no time or resources to save them." The doctor closed his eyes, "There are also those whose injuries are not too serious. Gather them together, tell them the correct disinfection and bandaging methods, and let them Just figure it out yourself.”
"……Understood."
The law enforcement officers who maintained order at the scene immediately took action and carried a large number of seriously injured patients who had not yet died one by one outside the clinic, leaving room for patients with less serious injuries to enter.
Most of them are already unconscious, and the remaining ones who are conscious also know that they have been abandoned. As stretchers passed by Chen Ling one after another, he could clearly see the pain and struggle on their faces, as well as the despair for life in their empty eyes.
In the chaos, the boundary between life and death was clearly divided. Human beings, seriously injured beasts, began to actively tear off pieces of rotting flesh in order to survive.
The people from the clinic found an open space not far from the street and gathered together the seriously injured patients who had given up. The blood-stained stretchers were spread out in a sea, and the unconscious murmurs and painful moans sounded like the god of death's sleep.
They are waiting to die.
"What are you doing?! Why don't you save them?!"
"My dad was the first one to be sent here, why didn't you save him?! Why did you!!"
"Those disasters couldn't kill my wife, so you just let her wait for death? What kind of doctors are you! What's the difference between you and those disasters?!"
"You are killing people!!"
"..."
The family members who had been waiting anxiously outside saw their relatives and loved ones being abandoned, and their eyes suddenly turned red. They rushed into the clinic like crazy and pushed the doctors and nurses who were still treating other people to the ground. The scene fell into chaos. confusion.
Xi Renjie, who happened to be patrolling here, quickly rushed forward and stopped them with several law enforcers:
"What are you doing?!"
"Who are you to decide other people's life and death?" a family member roared.
"There are too many people waiting for treatment here. We don't have enough resources and time. If this continues, more people will die."
"Then why should they be the ones who die? We are all human beings, why should they be given up?!"
"Because they were hurt too badly."
"But it's not their fault!"
Xi Renjie was startled for a moment. He looked at the group of family members with red eyes in front of him and knew that it was useless to say anything else... He waved his hand, signaling the law enforcers around him to draw their guns immediately and put them against their heads. In panic, They finally quieted down.
Law enforcement officers used guns to disperse all these people outside the clinic, and order was restored in the clinic.
Xi Renjie let out a long sigh and saw Chen Ling standing at the door, so he walked straight over.
"Are you injured too?"
"...No." Chen Ling shook her head, "I just stopped by to take a look."
"With the commotion just now, why didn't you take action to maintain order?"
"I'm thinking about something."
"What?"
Chen Ling did not answer. His eyes fell on the abandoned bloody stretchers on the street corner. Everything that happened in the past few days was connected in his mind, the sudden withdrawal of raw materials, the shutdown of the factory, the disappearance of communications, the arrival of fog...
After a long time, he suddenly said something that made Xi Renjie's hair stand on end:
"Is it possible that we are also the ones who were abandoned?"
Xi Renjie was stunned for a long time, "What do you mean..."
"All this is a bit too coincidental." Chen Ling looked in the direction of Aurora City, "I hope I'm overly concerned."
When Xi Renjie heard what Chen Ling said, he frowned and fell into deep thought. The two of them stood on the steps in front of the clinic, and the air suddenly became quiet.
After a long time, Xi Renjie whispered softly:
"No, this is impossible... The seven regions have a population of hundreds of thousands, and the number of factories accounts for 70% of the entire territory. Without the production and supply of materials from the seven regions, Aurora City would be like a broken arm. Disabled people... How can Aurora City give up? It will be clear when Brother Meng comes back."
Chen Ling glanced at him.
"Do you think that if Aurora City is determined to give up the third area, then Han Meng... can come back?"