Chapter 61 Disaster Relief and Reconstruction
"He Yusen?" Before the other person could even react, Yu Miaomiao's knife was already at his neck.
Lu An recognized the figure as He Yusen.
Yu Miaomiao then sheathed her blade.
What are you doing here?
Looking at He Yusen, who was covered in dirt and sand, it was as if he had fallen into cement mortar.
You can't tell who it is without looking closely.
"I live here, why can't I be here? Really, I'm not kidding you, I live at number 6688."
"You're not a wandering merchant; you have a fixed address?"
He Yusen looked disgusted and pointed to the distant rear, "Number 6688 is very close to the No. 3 earthquake shelter. I bought it specifically, but I was unlucky and the earthquake happened on the day of the transaction."
Number 6688 and Yu Miaomiao's number 6606 are far apart, so it's normal that they don't see each other often.
However, this room number perfectly matches his shrewd businessman nature.
When the earthquake struck, He Yusen did not choose the nearest square as a refuge point, so he ran back to the villa area in the same direction as Yu Miaomiao.
However, he was unable to enter the underground city's third refuge in time. Just as he was about to reach it, a falling stone slab blocked his way, so he flashed into the space to take temporary refuge.
His space was not as luxurious as Yu Miaomiao's; it was just a rectangular prism the size of a football field.
Aside from storing supplies and allowing himself to enter, no other functions have been developed yet. He repeatedly flashed out of the space to observe the situation, and then flashed back in to take refuge.
After several trips, his body was covered with dust and grime kicked up by the ground vibrations, and his face was covered with a thick layer of mud.
There was drinking water in the space, but he could only keep it for drinking and couldn't bear to use it to wash his face. After three days, he was covered in mud.
This time, when they flashed out of the space, they happened to run into Yu Miaomiao and her two companions who had come out to observe the situation.
"Pfft... Hahaha. I'm sorry, you're just too funny."
Xu Nanwei couldn't help but laugh at his comical appearance, and everyone looked at each other and burst into laughter as well.
He Yusen wiped his face with his sleeve, only to find it getting dirtier the more he wiped, and then he laughed.
The laughter was filled with the relief of surviving a disaster.
The surrounding lights began to flash and turn on one after another.
The underground city's broadcast system also resumed its voice announcements: "Just now, we experienced an unprecedented super earthquake. The underground city withstood the test, but also suffered a major blow."
Please note that the aftershocks are not over yet. Data monitoring indicates that there will be aftershocks of varying magnitudes over the next month, but their intensity is gradually weakening. Please do not panic. As long as we work together, we will surely emerge from this disaster and rebuild our underground homes.
In the following days, disaster relief efforts began, with the military dispatching rescue teams and police dog search teams to conduct search and rescue operations primarily targeting the collapsed and landslide areas.
There aren't many places in the underground city that have collapsed, but there are still dozens. The most serious problem is that all the entrances and exits have been blocked, making it impossible to contact the outside world.
Several underground wells have also collapsed, making the water supply increasingly strained. The base's underground city is recruiting water-based ability users to work at the water treatment center.
Fortunately, the underground city's ventilation system continues to operate, so people are not in immediate danger.
Some bodies were carried out from the landslide site, and some survivors were also rescued.
Yu Miaomiao and her team also participated in the rescue, searching for survivors in the ruins near the villa area with Ma Jiang.
Participating in the rescue is rewarded with Asia Crystals, based on the number of people rescued. Xu Nanwei was immediately excited when she heard about the Asia Crystals and searched with great enthusiasm, just like a little money-grubber.
Lu An was hired by Gao Yajing at the base to work at the water supply center, while Yu Miaomiao and Xu Nanwei participated in post-disaster relief efforts together.
They rescued two sisters from the rubble. The older sister, despite being hit on the head and bleeding profusely, used her arms to create space for her younger sister in order to protect her.
Yu Miaomiao used gauze to treat and bandage her, and then contacted the rescue team to send them to the hospital.
The hospital is now overcrowded. Those with minor injuries are given only a light bandage and sent home, while there are also many seriously injured people. The hospital beds, corridors, and even the lobby and the square outside the hospital are full of patients.
"We're completely out of hemostatic and pain-relieving medications, and we're also running low on gauze bandages. We can temporarily use other sterilized fabrics as substitutes for gauze bandages, but what about the hemostatic and pain-relieving medications?"
After distributing the last bottle of medicine, the head nurse looked at the wounded patient who was groaning incessantly and felt helpless.
With hemostatic drugs and painkillers out of stock, and anti-inflammatory drugs already in short supply, the base spared no effort in sending troops out to search for medical supplies before the disaster struck. They brought back everything they could, but still not much.
Now they have absolutely no money left. The hospital is full of injured patients, and the medical staff are helpless. They can only keep trying to stop the bleeding physically, and patients are constantly going into shock or even dying due to excessive blood loss or severe pain.
The research institute also sent people to the hospital to assist.
"This is a newly developed hemostatic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, and blood-replenishing agent, but there is currently no clinical trial data."
There are still risks involved in using it, but given the special circumstances, we have decided to proceed directly to the usage phase ahead of schedule.
The researchers were responsible for properly transporting the reagents to the hospital and for continuously monitoring the effectiveness and side effects of the medication.
This is a new type of hemostatic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, and blood-tonifying agent developed by mixing ordinary Chinese medicine and mutated Chinese medicine. However, due to the scarcity of mutated herbs, and the earthquake occurred shortly after the harvesting task was announced.
The reagent has just been developed and has not yet undergone clinical trials, but we must use it as a substitute and save as many lives as we can. However, there are very few new drugs available.
The base's underground city doubled the reward for the mission to recover mutated herbs. Yu Miaomiao had just finished a day of rescue work when she received the notification of the increased reward and rushed to the research institute to submit the mission.
She piled up all the mutated herbs in the space that could be submitted for the complex tasks, and pulled the exhausted Xu Nanwei out the door together.
After searching all day, Ma Jiang was so tired that she fell asleep immediately. Since aftershocks were still occurring intermittently, she didn't feel comfortable leaving her alone at home, so she put her away in her space to rest.
The research institute is located in a semi-open area, and security checks and registration are required to enter and exit. After truthfully filling out the registration form, you are allowed to pass.
This was Yu Miaomiao's first time entering the research institute since arriving in the underground city.
The base's power supply equipment was also damaged by the earthquake. Except for the lighting, all automatic doors were shut off, and all entrances and exits are now guarded by military personnel.
An imagined research lab
The research institute, which had just experienced a disaster, was also in a state of chaos.
Pushing open the door to the research lab, one is greeted by a multitude of books and paper documents scattered on the floor. A man in a white lab coat sits on the floor with his back to them, lying on the floor calculating something.
"Hello, I'm here to hand over the mutated herbs."
The man didn't look up, still calculating and deducing, but pointed to the empty table next to him, indicating that Yu Miaomiao should put the things on the table.
"Please wait a moment. The colleague in charge just went out and will be back soon. Please don't touch anything on the ground, thank you."