Nuke Miko: Chronicles of America

Ah, the feeling of waking up naturally after sleeping with your beloved lover by your side is so refreshing!

Since Strange became the acting dean, besides the regular promotion and salary increase, the biggest advantage is that he has a set of luxurious private rooms in the hospital, which allows Director Strange to rest nearby at any time, Or do something merry with his lover, Dr. Rebecca.

In addition, the number of COVID-19 patients at USC Hospital has also plummeted, making it easier for doctors and nurses.

Ok?Why has the number of COVID-19 patients admitted to hospital recently plummeted like a cliff?

Because after the closure of the city was lifted, the epidemic prevention work in Los Angeles, and even the entire state of California, has entered a national self-help mode: allowing patients infected with COVID-19 to test themselves, diagnose themselves, isolate themselves, treat themselves, and recover by themselves...

Also, please burn and bury yourself after you die, so as not to cause trouble for the authorities.

What's even more pitiful is that it is said that patients are allowed to test themselves, but in fact, there is currently no reliable home virus testing kit in the United States.

——The detection box produced by the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the beginning of the year used an immature new technology, and the error was ridiculously large.As for other companies' test agents, the error is still within a reasonable range, but before they enter the market, they need to go through a lengthy approval process, which has been delayed until now.

Previously, the University of Southern California Hospital used complex laboratory methods or secretly used test kits imported from China to test for the virus.

But the problem is that as the COVID-19 strain mutates wildly in California at an abnormal rate, the imported test kits have long since failed...

Therefore, in fact, for the current COVID-19 epidemic, the citizens of Los Angeles can neither diagnose nor have specific medicines, and can only help themselves according to circumstances.

In this way, since the fight against the epidemic mainly depends on the self-help of patients, the University of Southern California Hospital, which has been thrown off the burden, can in principle no longer admit patients with mild symptoms of COVID-19, and selectively admit patients (wealthy) For critically ill patients, the pressure is naturally greatly reduced.

——As long as the hospital does not accept (poor) patients, the medical system will never be broken down!

In short, with a relaxed and happy mood, Doctor Strange gently removed a jade arm that was draped over his body, slowly propped up his body, and tiptoed down without disturbing his bedmate Rebecca. He got out of bed, picked up another towel, and went to take a shower in the small bathroom.

He was humming while taking a shower in the bathroom, while looking down from the window, he saw that the tents on the hospital lawn that had previously housed patients and corpses had been dismantled; and the eaves and corridors were empty again. , no longer lying full of irritating patients.

Although ambulances are still coming in and out frequently amidst the sharp whirring sound, on the surface it seems that the normal daily life before the epidemic has basically resumed.

Of course, compared with the days before the "Corona" outbreak, the environment of this hospital has changed somewhat.

Doctor Strange glanced at the "Zombie's Life Matters" banner left by some protester outside the gate, and the "Appeal for Humanitarianism" sign, and finally stopped at the tall chimney standing in the middle of the parking lot, and the chimney On the huge, shiny metal boiler below.

I saw a simple coffin on the conveyor belt in front of the boiler, and a faint white smoke was floating from the top of the chimney.

——That is the fully automatic high-temperature cremator purchased by the University of Southern California Hospital. It is controlled by a computer and can process [-] to [-] corpses a day.

Since the "Zombie Horror" that night last month, the University of Southern California Hospital, with the acquiescence of the Hospital Authority, forcibly broke through the restrictions of various regulations and regulations, greatly speeding up the process of disposing of corpses-everyone who dies in The patients in the hospital should either immediately go to the anatomy classroom to act as a "general teacher", or immediately stuff them into the crematorium for cremation. They would never dare to let the corpses of the "Corona" plague victims stay in the morgue for a long time.

Wait, the crematorium in Los Angeles was already full before, so what should I do if there is no queue at all?

It's very simple, first cut off the head of the dead and put it somewhere else - the headless corpse will never become a zombie, right?

Of course, maliciously destroying the body of the deceased like this must be a serious violation of relevant regulations.

However, there were already zombies at that time, and it seemed that a biochemical crisis was about to break out, so who would bother with you about the rules?

Believe it or not, if the higher-ups complain about this, or even block it, the entire University of Southern California Hospital will go on strike and flee?

This is not without precedent—before in the United States and Europe, nurses in several nursing homes were scared to death by the epidemic and fled collectively, leaving those elderly infected with the COVID-19 virus in the nursing home without food or drink. Died tragically alone.

Two weeks later, the urgently ordered fully automatic high-temperature cremator finally arrived, and was immediately set up in the parking lot by the hospital.

Although setting up an incinerator in a hospital to burn people to death might affect the air and pollute the environment a little bit, but it is really nothing compared to the zombies.

What's more, since the mayor's office encouraged all citizens to learn from India's advanced experience and let communities burn and disinfect their own bodies, Los Angeles has now entered the era of "big burning dead", from Santa Monica to Compton, and then As far as Long Beach, there are funeral pyres burning all day long.

Looking out from the dean's office of the University of Southern California Hospital at this moment, you can see black smoke rising from all directions.

In contrast, the cremator at the USC Hospital was equipped with a filter and purification device, so a little white smoke was really nothing.

——In any case, since becoming the acting dean, Dr. Strange immediately installed the most high-end new air purifiers in his new office and rest suite at public expense, even though the smog and smoke outside Huoliao, there is no need to worry...

Just like that, Dr. Strange finished taking a shower humming a song, and then walked out wrapped in a towel, only to find that Rebecca was already awake, sitting on the bed and swiping her phone, as if she was watching some music video.

Hearing the noise from the bathroom, Rebecca raised her head and saw Strange coming out, she waved to him, "...Honey, come and have a look, these girls are really interesting, um, and these cats are so cute cute."

Doctor Strange smiled and leaned over to take a look, and found that in the video being played on the phone, there were three European and American girls wearing Japanese kimonos, holding bells and bouquets, dancing with an oriental style... Well, to be honest , although the dance is beautiful, but there are no special highlights.

However, there were a few cats below, also waddling and dancing to the music, which made Rebecca smile.

It's a pity that neither the girl in kimono nor the cat touched Dr. Strange's excitement.

So, he just smiled along with him, and soon got down to business:

"...Honey, according to the arrangement above, I will take a group of students to dissect the [zombie] in a few days. There will be a lot of people at that time, and there may be infection. So, just in case... I can Can't draw some blood from your body, let me prepare some [healer's serum]?

You know, the hospital is a bit chaotic recently, I am worried about the source of other people's blood, but if I use your blood, it will be absolutely fine. "

Director Strange rubbed his hands in embarrassment, prayed to his girlfriend who had been infected with [Feminist Strain] and recovered, and immediately bribed, "...by the way, the one you saw at Macy's last time I've already placed an order for the fur coat, and it should be delivered tomorrow at the latest..."

So, Rebecca, who raised her eyebrows a little displeased, immediately smiled and raised her head to offer Strange a sweet kiss.

——Although everyone is equal before the virus, some people can always be more equal than others... Isn't it?

At the same time, in an old apartment not far from USC Hospital, a certain little witch from the other side of the ocean was lazily swiping her phone, using WeChat to communicate with distant friends about this "zombie city" daily life...

Chapter 53, Something Worse Than Zombies

In the early morning of May 5th, in the South District of Los Angeles, an old and dilapidated three-story apartment, and the best spiritual place in Los Angeles

Akiyama Megumi sat lazily at the dining table, swiping his phone, while drooping his eyelids, overlooking the unchanging street view outside the apartment window.

——It is still an old building with peeling paint and looks gray, and closed shops that are still nailed and sealed; plus a parking lot that is so empty that you can see raccoons and wild cats wandering around; finally, it is at the edge of the parking lot Scruffy bums pitching tents...

Everything is still so depressed and deserted, and prosperity has not been restored in the slightest because of the lifting of the lockdown in Los Angeles.

The only exciting change is that since the beginning of May, this street, which has been without power for a month, has finally been re-energized.

However, few people who have run away from this street in the past few months have not returned yet.

Hey, despite the fact that the fat blonde in the White House has been declaring that the COVID-19 virus is nothing more than a "big cold."The mayor of Los Angeles, who "works remotely", also delivered a speech in the cabin of a luxury yacht on the high seas, encouraging "free people should have the courage to coexist with zombies."

However, the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and several other institutions of higher learning are still very cautious not to resume classes immediately, preferring to allow students to continue online classes until the end of this semester.Hollywood stars have not yet returned to Los Angeles, but are enjoying vacations around the world.

In addition, most of the citizens who moved out of Los Angeles to seek refuge are still watching the situation and did not come back immediately.

After all, even those high-society rich ladies in Beverly Hills are still hiding in the mountains and islands at the moment!

Why should us poor people come back as guinea pigs?Don't think we are all fools, we don't even know "Resident Evil"!

Anyway, since April, Washington has been throwing money generously, and every American can receive $[-] in federal relief every week.

This amount of money is nothing in a big city, but in the backcountry of the middle states, it is enough to maintain a period of unemployment.

That being the case, why are they rushing back to Los Angeles?Wouldn't it be better to wander around outside and enjoy the great rivers and mountains of America?

——According to incomplete statistics from the US media, the number of people who have moved out of Los Angeles in the past two months has ranged from 80 to 100 million.

In this way, although the closure of the city is over, the streets of Los Angeles are still deserted, lacking in popularity, and closed stores have not reopened.

However, in today's depressed and desolate urban area of ​​Los Angeles, there is also a newly added "beautiful landscape", that is, in order to prevent the "dead corpse" of the suspended patient from biting and scaring people, each community will voluntarily spread it on the streets and beaches. A simple cremator built in the open air.

Today, according to the incomplete statistics of the reporter, there are more than 2.5 simple cremators in downtown Los Angeles, and they are releasing choking smoke from morning to night at a speed that irritates environmentalists every day... …thereby greatly reducing the air quality in Los Angeles and raising the PM[-] index.

In the past two weeks, as long as there is no wind in Los Angeles, the whole city will definitely be a "wonderland" of smog.

So much so that Indian immigrants in Los Angeles couldn't help posting complaints on Twitter, saying that they felt as if they were back in Mumbai and Delhi.

In recent years, mainland Chinese who immigrated to Los Angeles have also expressed that the smog was not so severe even when the air in Beijing was the worst.

In addition, there are some very old Los Angeles old people who recalled the photochemical smog pollution incident in Los Angeles during the Cold War.

——However, the photochemical smog during the Cold War caused [-] old people to die in Los Angeles within two days.But now in Los Angeles, where "coexisting with zombies", it is estimated that more than [-] people die of illness every day, but the authorities still have to cover it up...

Among the latest variety of "community cremators" & "air pollution sources" on the streets of Los Angeles, there are computer-operated fully automatic cremation equipment - it is said that Pasadena's science and engineering master, in The "special assembly line for human removal" developed in the laboratory can not only cremate corpses, but also automatically clean the furnace, collect ashes, and pack them into boxes, which can put the dead into boxes with one click.

Of course, such high-tech gadgets are expensive, and ordinary people simply cannot afford them.Therefore, most communities still use the old-fashioned high-temperature furnaces with the style of the industrial revolution, and some iron beds made of iron sheets and iron fences, which look quite wasteland.

In the end, some lazy communities didn’t use any stoves at all. Instead, they directly built wood into firewood piles, poured fuel oil on them, and burned the corpses on top of them. Some even sprinkled dried flowers and spices on the corpses. It looks like the thing where the medieval inquisition burned witches.

But it has to be admitted that the more primitive and backward the cremation method, the more ornamental it is in the incineration operation.

And in Los Angeles, the world-famous art capital, there are Hollywood ensemble performances all over the place. Those funny people from different ethnicities use their super brains and incredible imagination to make the cremation so serious. All the things have been played out.

For example, when I woke up this morning and swiped my phone, Megumi Akiyama saw a video that suddenly went viral. The content was about a Latino blogger in Los Angeles named Frago Domino with dreadlocks. He introduced him to follow The hell joke where the recovery team burns the dead together.

In the video, under the background sound of heavy metal rock, he used the emphasis of singing RAP, and said lively and cheerfully:

"...Good morning! My friends, during last night's [Corona] dead man's lottery, the boss Joey on our street died. He died very painfully. When everyone cremated him together, Joey The boss also cheated on the corpse, and kept yelling that he was not dead, and finally tied it with iron chains and burned it.

When Joey Boss was being burned, a full ten gallons of diesel oil had been poured over the woodpile, so the fire was hot and creaking.

The family members who watched the cremation were also very strong. None of them cried, but a niece who was raped by him couldn't help laughing.

However, the wind was very strong at night, and the car carrying the ashes hit the wall halfway, and the urn was thrown flying, and it fell to pieces on the road.

Joey's eldest mother was about to salvage a handful of ashes, but the fire hydrant was hit by a car and exploded, and the sprayed water flooded half the street.

In the end, we had no choice but to burn Boss Joey's dog as well, and then replace Boss Joey's ashes and put them in a newly bought urn..."

——The comment section of the video was full of laughter and praise, and some gloating, but no one said it was murder.

On the contrary, Xiaodongbao condemned this rap blogger for his lack of love and cruelty to dogs...

Chapter 54, Something Worse Than Zombies

Akiyama Megumi could not help laughing at this hellish joke video of "Fun Zombie Burning" on his mobile phone, laughing until his stomach cramped, so after forwarding it to the other three girls who lived together, he used this video on the WeChat that he had just installed on his mobile phone , and forwarded it to Senior Ma Tong on the other side of the ocean.

As a result, after about half an hour, Ma Tong sent back a series of big exclamation marks:! ! ! !

A few minutes later, she sent another voice.

"...God, I have only returned to China for less than half a year, how did Los Angeles become like this?!

When people are burned to death on barricades and the whole city is smoking, there is no environmental protection organization to take care of it?This is Raccoon City, right? "

"...Ah, it's not as good as Raccoon City, mainly because the zombies here are too weak. But the taste of cyberpunk is indeed getting more and more."

Qiu Shanhui replied to Ma Tong on WeChat, "...Don't say that people were burned to death in the street, but now even if people are burned alive, no one cares about it."

Ma Tong: This can be seen from the video just now. The leader of the gang who was burned at the stake is really miserable...

Hey, it's really unimaginable. At the beginning of the year, the whole world looked down on my motherland. How come the United States has become like this in just a few months?

Huihui: In your hometown of Hangzhou, don’t you watch the news from the US?

Ma Tong: How should I say it?On the official account and Weibo, there are some very sensational reports!But the teachers and elders I know say that the situation in the United States is not so exaggerated.Some self-media in China are just exaggerating, fabricating and selling anxiety, so don't take it too seriously.

Huihui: Well, I can tell you clearly that this is not selling anxiety. The current Los Angeles is probably more terrifying than the reports you have read.

Ma Tong: Halo... I remember when I was sensible, "Harvard Girl Liu Yiting" was still popular in bookstores, and "Beijingers in New York" was on TV.

At that time, in my mind, the United States should be a place with blue sky, beautiful scenery, high wages, and a place that is very suitable for starting a business and living.

After coming to the United States, although Los Angeles is not as high-end and elegant as I imagined, I still like the atmosphere, environment, life and friends of the University of Southern California. The fresh air of negative ions...

Huihui: This kind of air can only be smelled in the Malibu beach now, and the urban area is already [poisonous smoke from the Rizhao fire].

Ma Tong: Good poems!So sad!

By the way, I heard that Los Angeles is already "coexisting with zombies". Isn't it true?Have you ever seen a zombie with your own eyes?

Huihui: It's true, I saw a zombie from a distance in the house once.

In fact, the so-called zombies here in Los Angeles are just COVID-19 patients who came back to life temporarily after being severely ill and suspended animation. They are not the same thing as the stuff in the "Resident Evil" game. It is not without medicine to bite you Can be saved, nothing to be afraid of.

The citizens of Los Angeles were terrified at first, but after finding out the truth, most of them calmed down.

Well, some time ago, someone made a video of dancing with [Zombie] in heavy metal rock, and it was deleted in the initial YouTube review.Later, similar videos and posts were posted everywhere on the Internet, and they could not be deleted completely, and gradually no one cared about them.

Ma Tong: Scary, really *zombie dance?People who play like this are really big-hearted!

Huihui: Sister Tongtong, what is this?There are more serious ones!Because the economy in Los Angeles is terrible this year, all the rich men in Beverly Hills have run away, so it is said that a city councilor actually suggested that a special zombie tour be held in Los Angeles to hedge against the economic downturn!

Ma Tong: Wow!Zombie tourism? !Is this congressman from Disney?Really anything can be used as an IP to make money!

Huihui: However, this "zombie tourism plan" was rejected - not because I thought the idea was unethical, but because in San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, Las Vegas, Tijuana, Salt Lake City and Denver, there were also There are COVID-19 patients who have become [zombies].

That being the case, where are the zombies that are not zombies?Why is it necessary to go to Los Angeles to see it?

What's more, zombies are currently resurrected from suspended animation.It can only last for one night at most, who can guarantee that zombies will be revived every night?

In the end, it was only the CDC in Los Angeles that raised funds to shoot a short science video called "Approaching Zombies" to promote that zombies in reality are not scary-you can find them on your little broken website Do a search, maybe someone has already reposted it with subtitles...

Ma Tong: Approaching zombies... the name makes people tremble!Will Los Angeles have to make zombies a part of daily life in the future?I feel like I'm too scared to fly back to Los Angeles. How can I live in such a scary place?

Megumi: Actually, living in a city with such zombies is really not that scary, at least for you and me.