blood plague

Chapter 141 Bad News

On the highway, a black off-road vehicle turned its wipers to full gear and was frantically scraping the rain on the windshield. Although the vision was blurred due to the heavy rain, its speed remained unabated.

Fran was driving a black off-road vehicle and was rushing towards Rapid Creek Town.

It was Fran's first patrol today. He had a tourist guidebook for the waterfall scenic spot in his hand, and there happened to be a map on the back.

Fran drew a circle on the map with a pen. This is a circle with a radius of about 15 kilometers. This is the first-level core safety zone of Jixi Town that he has drawn.

On the first patrol today, Fran found a group of infected people with about a hundred people in the safe zone.

The infected group was walking unsteadily along the road towards Jixi Town.Fran deliberately honked his horn a few times as he drove carefully to make contact, and as a result, Fran heard a screamer.

After discovering this group of infected people, Fran turned the car around immediately. He originally wanted to return to Rapid Creek Town immediately, but at this moment Fran's mind suddenly turned, and he decided to use the other roads in this circle as well. Take a look around.

As a result, during this turn, Fran found a total of three groups of infected people with a population of around 100, walking towards Jixi Town on three roads.

Those infected people who traveled together in Jixi Town at the beginning, they turned back.

After seeing a larger group of infected people, Fran's psychological threshold has increased a lot, but this time it is a three-way attack.There is still the biggest problem at present. The field team is outside, and they have to be notified to come back as soon as possible.

No, Fran remembered, he was also one of the field teams, and he was the captain of the third team.

I can't leave everything to Iger. Isn't it shameful that a group of adults rely on a child to protect themselves all day long?

While Fran was driving the car fast, he was thinking quickly, there are many good helpers in Rapid Creek Town, Vance, Erica, Andy, they can immediately expand the third team to contain and stop the infection group of people.

It was gloomy and dark, with heavy rain that turned into a blizzard for a while, and the road was wet and slippery, and the visibility was so low due to the snow that Fran had to slow down until he got back to Rapid Creek By the time we reached the town, everything was covered in white snow.

Construction work in Rapid Creek had stopped after the rain, and everyone was now gathering at the Morgan Building.

After Fran walked to the second floor, he looked around and was anxiously looking for someone in the crowd.

"Honey, you missed dinner." Elvira said to Fran after walking over, "Do you want me to prepare dinner for you?"

Fran asked Elvira anxiously and rudely, "Where are Father Locke and Vance?"

After thinking about it for a while, Elvira said, "It should be in the office on the fourth floor." Elvira looked at Fran, who was a little anxious, and asked distressedly, "Honey, may I fry a buttered bread for you?"

Fran ignored Elvira, he turned his head and left.Now Fran was in no mood to eat at all.

In the manager's room on the fourth floor, Father Locke, Sister Maria, Vance, Andy, and Dr. Heidemi are having a meeting together.

Today, Andy's subordinates had a production accident. When the car wall was being piled up, when the four cars were stacked together, a tire of the bottom car was crushed, and an unlucky guy was blown away by the high-pressure airflow for several meters. By the time he landed, he was already unconscious.

Fortunately, after Dr. Heidemi's first aid, the man came to life. He reported multiple fractures in his body and slight damage to internal organs.According to Dr. Heidemi's judgment, his life was saved, but he would have to lie in bed for at least several months.

For this kind of work-related injuries, the gospel team must do its best to treat them. This is not only a humanitarian issue, but also demonstrates the ability of the gospel team to cover the bottom line, so as to relieve the worries of the members.

The only happy thing today is that the fire station has finally been powered on, and with the help of Clyde, Vance's workshop has restarted.

The fire station has piled up a large pile of cut steel plates, and now Vance needs to use a machine tool to reprocess them so that they can be easily fixed.

There is a discussion about the redistribution of work, and Andy proposes installing closed-circuit cameras in the Morgan Building.

There are enough cameras and network cables in the digital shop, and the host can use the office computer of Morgan’s boss. His computer has a high configuration and can be used as a server.

Moreover, there is no shortage of electronic products, as long as you look patiently from door to door, there are plenty of tablets, TVs, computers, and laptops.What is most lacking now is electricity for the operation of electronic products, and Jixi Town just happens to have this condition.

At this time, Fran pushed open the door of the meeting room.

Fran interrupted everyone's conversation. He said bluntly: "The latest situation is big trouble. There are three groups of infected people attacking Rapid Creek Town, and the nearest one is less than 10 kilometers away from us."

When Fran said this, Andy stood up immediately.

"How is it possible!" Andy said with a face full of surprise: "When did the infected get so close to us!"

Just as Andy said this, in fact, everyone already wanted to understand what was going on.

Since Iger was stripped of his qualifications as a director, he has not been in charge of internal affairs. This has caused the Gospel team to occupy Rapid Creek Town for almost a week, and the patrol mechanism that should have been established long ago has not been functioning.

This may be a problem with the connection of work, but it is more that everyone has paralyzed thoughts.

Because the internal staff of the Gospel team have not been in contact with or fighting the infected for a long time, everyone is surrounded by an illusory sense of security, and they may even think that "the world is at peace."

Although Iger will bring the latest information and news about the infected person every time he comes back, but people are terrified. Once they are horrified, secondly surprised, three times or four times, everyone gets used to it. Patroling the safety zone on the side is something that sounds important, but it has no motivation to do it.

If it weren't for Iger who couldn't stand it today, formed a patrol team in the name of the field team, and sent Fran, maybe everyone was still immersed in "how could something happen".

It is said that born in sorrow and die in peace, this sentence is very appropriate at the moment.

This cannot be blamed too much on the internal staff of the Gospel team for having a problem with their understanding. After all, human beings have inertia, and human beings will be constrained by "survivor bias".

The reason for the survivor bias is that the channels through which people can obtain information can only come from survivors. After all, all the unlucky ones are dead and unable to speak.

Therefore, what people see is the result of having undergone some kind of screening. Many people are not aware of how they passed the screening, so their subjective experience is worthless.

To put it simply, as far as daily life is concerned, there are people who die in traffic accidents and safety production accidents every month and every day, but there are still countless people who continue to ignore safety regulations and go their own way.

After Fran finished his report, everyone fell silent.

Jixi Town is facing enemies on three sides, and must organize personnel to defend or fight.This matter is not something that the decision-making group can discuss. Father Locke immediately decided to hold a general meeting to discuss the plan to fight against the infected group.

After dinner, it was a pleasant leisure time. Everyone was gathering on the second floor to play separately. At this time, they were suddenly called to the meeting room, and Father Locke announced the convening of a general meeting.

Everyone who was entertaining thought that the meeting was a briefing on today's production accident. Before the meeting started, everyone was still playing and joking.

As a result, as soon as the meeting started, Andy uttered news that shocked everyone: Jixi Town was facing a three-way attack from infected people.

(End of this chapter)