Apocalypse Rebirth: 3000 million won at the beginning

Chapter 2022 High Temperature, Emergency Rescue
Headquarters Base of Dazhangshu.

The sun was blazing, and the air itself seemed distorted by the heat.

The chirping of cicadas can be even more irritating.

Beep beep beep~
A cheerful song began to play.

A water truck was driving on the main road of the Dazhangshu buffer zone. The spray nozzles on the roof of the truck sprayed out a fine mist of water, which fell on the hot road surface and made a sizzling sound.

The roadside trees on both sides were also wilted by the sun.

Since it was 2 p.m., the hottest time of day, there were people on the main road, but far fewer than in the evening.

The water truck kept driving forward, cooling down the base.

This water truck is also a pure electric vehicle.

Due to the implementation of new energy reforms, all vehicles used throughout the base are now electric.

Among them, electric trucks, which are specifically used to transport building materials, are widely used.

Within the city, everything from small electric scooters to large buses is electric.

Charging stations are everywhere throughout the base, making charging extremely convenient.

Outside the city, there are also many electric trucks transporting building materials back and forth, delivering materials to construction sites and other projects in the outlying cities.

The weather is incredibly hot; after the start of the dog days of summer, the temperature even reached 44 degrees Celsius.

Despite the scorching heat, the workers continued construction on the site, and some even fainted from heatstroke.

Ding Jiu immediately ordered people to connect the water pipes and spray cold water over the construction site using high pressure to cool it down.

In addition, ice water is continuously transported from the base to provide drinking water for the workers to cool them down.

On the construction site of the outskirts of the city.

On a truck were three huge stainless steel barrels, their surfaces covered with condensation, and filled with ice and sugar.

There are four switches on each side of the steel drum; turning them on will cause the ice water inside to flow out.

A man with bronze skin opened a thermos and filled it with chilled sugar water.

After finishing, he walked to the shade of a car and gulped down two mouthfuls of water.

It's icy cold and sweet.

His face, which had been flushed, suddenly felt much refreshed.

"Damn it, this weather is so hot! Working in this weather is torture," he couldn't help but complain.

Mao Feng, who was half-squatting on the ground beside him, sipped ice water and looked at the bronze-colored man's head, and laughed:

"Artist, you should get your hair cut. In this heat, I admire people like you who still keep their hair so long."

"Artist" is the nickname he gave this person.

Because this person always had long hair and talked about the meaning of life all the time, everyone called him an artist.

The artist looked visibly reluctant when he heard that he was to have his hair cut.
"I'm not cutting it."

As he spoke, he re-braided his hair and placed it on his back.

Mao Feng didn't try to persuade him further. He drank two more sips of the chilled sugar water, and feeling slightly less hot, he stood up and called out to the surrounding workers:
"Let's go, let's get back to work!"

He was the master craftsman among them, leading three or four junior workers and two intermediate workers.

When the other laborers saw that the master craftsman had gotten up, they also picked up their tools and started working.

Just then, a worker who had just stepped out of the car's shadow collapsed to the ground.

"Master Mao, Jia Ziming has fainted!" His companion shouted immediately upon seeing Jia Ziming collapse.

Mao Feng frowned. "First, move him to a shady spot. I'll go report to the foreman and have him contact an ambulance to take him to the infirmary."

Several workers quickly lifted Jia Ziming up and carried him to a makeshift shed.

Mao Feng then quickly found his immediate supervisor, a third-level foreman.

Upon learning that someone had fainted, the supervisor immediately picked up the walkie-talkie and contacted an ambulance to come as quickly as possible.

The construction site in Edge City is extremely large, with tens of thousands of workers, but it is too scattered. Even with only five ambulances arriving, it would take several minutes.

A few minutes later, the ambulance arrived quickly.

Together they lifted Jia Ziming into the car, and the ambulance sped off towards the headquarters.

The vehicles were also inspected upon entering the headquarters base, but they didn't have to queue and could cut in line, which made the process much faster.

After entering the buffer city, we drove to the rightmost building in the buffer city's commercial area. On the top of the building were several large characters: Dazhangshu Third Residents' Hospital.

This hospital has 100 beds and is dedicated to providing medical care services to the general public.

As of now, the hospital is still expanding. The two adjacent buildings were also allocated to it, but they are not yet fully renovated. Currently, only the middle building is in use.

The hospital was originally just a clinic located in a buffer city.

However, as the population of the buffer city increased, it was expanded.

Furthermore, the third high-level meeting of Dazhangshu also clearly mentioned the importance of high-quality protection of people's livelihood, so this hospital was officially established and is still expanding.

Besides this hospital, there is a second residential hospital and a traditional Chinese medicine hospital in the outer city of the Dazhangshu base.

Within the inner city, there is a First Residents' Hospital jointly established with the research institute.

In terms of equipment and medical conditions, the First Residents Hospital is naturally the most advanced.

However, the doctors are on rotation. Doctors from the First Residential Hospital will also take an afternoon off each week to hold consultations at the Third Residential Hospital, while spending the rest of the time at the First Residential Hospital.

The current director in charge of the entire Third Residents Hospital is Du Ruchen.

He was a survivor who had fled from the southwest, and he was with Zhang Qiwu, Zhang Shuqi, Wang Yin, Xue Zhihua and others.

Back then, all of them were university students and professors from the southwest region, and their minimum educational qualification was a master's degree.

Over the years, these people have all achieved good positions in various industries at the camphor tree base.

Zhang Qiwu, needless to say, is an agronomy professor and the deputy minister of the agricultural department of the Great Camphor Tree faction.

Jie Changshan, PhD in Engineering, is currently in charge of the engineering construction of the entire oil city and is the deputy director of the infrastructure department under the Operation and Maintenance Department of the Big Camphor Tree Force Base.

Zhang Shuqi is a leading figure in physics, holding an important position in the base's mechanical research institute, and is also currently the head of the basic physics discipline at Dazhangshu.

Ding Zhao and Qin Feng are core members of the Mechanical Research Institute, and they led the modification of the sustainable helicopter. Wang Yin joined the Zombie Research Institute, and he also contributed to the successful development of the zombie antidote.

Ning Fangli, a former medical doctor, is now a specialist in gynecology and pediatrics. She personally delivered Li Yu's son, Li Ping'an.

Qu Huaxiang, PhD in Food Engineering, is currently the head of Dazhangshu Food Group, which has six food factories at its headquarters.

Gao Le, a meteorologist, joined the Institute for Natural Disaster Research.

Medical masters and doctors like Che Yibin and Du Ruchen either joined the medical system of the Dazhangshu Base or went to work at the Zombie Biology Research Institute.

Du Ruchen, after years of working in the medical system of Dazhangshu, is now in charge of the Third Residents Hospital in the buffer city.

For example, Liu Pengfei is in charge of the Second Residents Hospital.

Meng Yu serves as the director of the First Resident Hospital and is also the head of the medical affairs department of the entire camphor tree force.

She was in charge of medical care in the North, Oil City, and the Big Camphor Tree Base.

The ambulance took Jia Ziming to the Third Residents' Hospital of the Buffer City.

The horn sound was turned off.

Two male nurses immediately came out from the emergency room and helped lift the hospital bed down.

"what's the situation?"

The on-duty doctor accompanying the ambulance quickly replied:
"Severe heatstroke is very likely heatstroke, with an extremely high core body temperature, requiring rapid cooling."

Wow~
The nurse pushed the hospital bed and rushed to the emergency room.

The on-duty doctor walked a few steps and then stopped.

The entire outpatient department was packed with people, nurses running around, and family members standing anxiously waiting on the sidelines.

Before he could even reflect on it, the walkie-talkie in his arms rang again.

"Dr. Zhang, someone has fainted from heatstroke at the school construction site in the buffer city. We need to get there right away!" the ambulance driver shouted frantically.

Dr. Zhang quickly ran back, got into the car in a few moments, and closed the cabin door.

Another hospital bed was moved to the vehicle, and basic supplies such as saline solution and ice were replenished shortly after he got off.

Soon, they arrived at the school construction site.

This time, the person who fainted was a young man. When they carried him onto the hospital bed, several workers nearby anxiously inquired about the situation.

Dr. Zhang didn't have time to answer, only leaving behind the words, "We will do our best!"

After saying that, he immediately examined the young man's symptoms.

His face was pale, his skin was cold and clammy, and his pulse was weak.
"Dr. Zhang, what should we do?" a female nurse next to him asked.

After making a brief assessment, Dr. Zhang said:
"The initial diagnosis is heat exhaustion. We need to replenish his electrolytes. Otherwise, if we delay any longer, he could go into shock."

"Yes." The nurse quickly followed his instructions.

With electrolyte replenishment, the patient's heart rate gradually stabilized.

However, he remains in a coma.

This kind of heat exhaustion is far less severe than the heatstroke we just discussed, which is much more dangerous.

Like the one just now, there's no guarantee they can be saved.

But now, as long as this young man wakes up and gradually replenishes his electrolytes and fluids, he should be fine after a few days of rest.

The hospital has a limited number of beds, so as soon as they wake up, they are usually told to get out of bed and go to the air-conditioned room next door to enjoy the air conditioning, drink more water, and rest.

The patients receiving emergency care these past few days have almost all died from the high temperatures.

It's too hot.
But this heat is not the kind of extreme high temperature.

In the past, there have been many high-temperature disasters, but those high-temperature disasters were extremely severe. People could really die if they were under the sun for too long, and the deaths were widespread.

Although people still die from the heat, those who die from the heat are exceptions, with an extremely low mortality rate. In addition, they have taken some cooling measures, so even fewer people are dying from the heat now.

Another patient was sent to the emergency room.

Dr. Zhang felt a little tired and got back into the car, which started moving as it swayed.

They were heading to a plantation more than ten kilometers outside the city.
Seeing Dr. Zhang, who was so exhausted he was in a daze, a female nurse sitting opposite him said:

"Dr. Zhang, it would be great if it rained; it would cool things down."

Upon hearing this, Dr. Zhang smiled wryly:

"It's raining, rain is bad, rain means we'll be attacked by hordes of zombies."

The nurse fidgeted with her fingers and nodded awkwardly.
"Too."

She also recalled the time when she was surrounded by hordes of zombies during a rainstorm.

Now that she's joined the Big Camphor Tree faction, things are a bit better. Before she joined the Big Camphor Tree base, rain was the time they feared most.

The current temperature is in an awkward position.

It wasn't as hot as the extreme temperatures of 60, 70, or 80 degrees Celsius.

It's not raining.

If either of these two scenarios applies, the Great Camphor Tree will suspend all construction and order all residents to retreat to the base to avoid either the high-temperature disaster or the zombie thunderstorm.

The temperature is uncomfortable right now, but it's bearable.

Besides, they have so many projects to build, and if they keep delaying, who knows when it will be finished?

The construction of the plantation outside the city had a huge impact, as the saying goes, "a single move can affect the whole body."

If it cannot be built and put into production within a few months, at most six months, the population of the entire camphor tree faction will surge, and the pressure on food will increase, and the entire faction may be overwhelmed by food shortages.

It could even affect the points system and cause a run on the points system.

If the grain cannot be exchanged, the trust system that the camphor tree has built up over the years will collapse overnight.

Therefore, the project must be built.

As long as not many people die from the heat, they will continue to persevere.

(End of this chapter)