Chapter 487: Unt.i.tled
The sky brightened.
A staff member hurriedly walked into the office building of the Mayor Manor and handed a newly calculated data sheet of infected people to the secretary of the Mayor Manor.
The secretary took the report and opened it. She was shocked.
In just six hours, the total number of infected people rose from 1.2 million to 3 million!
There were only eight million people in the Prosperous Capital. Currently, more than a million people had safely retreated. Currently, there were still seven million people in the Prosperous Capital, and among them, three million had been infected. Perhaps before tonight, the entire Prosperous Capital would fall!
The secretary’s heart sank.
Was this city really going to collapse with its subjects?
The secretary hurriedly left the office building with the report and went to the activity building next door. The building was filled with children who had been rescued from the city. The youngest of those children was only two to three months old, and the oldest was thirteen to fourteen years old.
Two days ago, these children were still doted on by their parents and families. In the blink of an eye, they were abandoned by their families and became homeless orphans in the city. After only a day or two, these children had lost their innocence.
They knew that they were sick, and so was the city. Their parents would never come back for them.
Without anyone to love them, they could only group up.
The older children took the initiative to take care of the babies, while the slightly healthier children took care of the children who started to vomit.
The secretary hadn’t changed his clothes for two days. He was wearing a wrinkled suit and his leather shoes were stained with dust.
The moment the secretary walked into the activity room, the children looked up at him with blank eyes.
The secretary couldn’t bear to look at those pairs of eyes filled with despair. He found an older child and asked in a low voice, “Where’s the mayor?”
The big boy pointed upstairs and said, “On the third floor.”
“Okay.”
The third floor was the seriously ill area.
The children on the third floor were all terminally ill and were about to leave this world.
The secretary took the elevator to the third floor with heavy steps.
When the elevator door opened, the secretary smelled a stench.
He stood at the elevator door and sized up the scene in front of him.
In the basketball activity room that was more than two hundred meters wide, nearly a hundred children were lying weakly on the ground. Beside them was a basin filled with vomit. Their respected mayor shuttled between these children and kept wiping their hands, faces, and patting their backs with a towel.
A three-year-old girl suddenly grabbed the mayor’s pants.
Lu Yubei stopped and looked down at the child with tears in his eyes.
The child said, “I, I’m so sleepy. Sir, can you hug me to sleep now?” The basin beside the little girl was filled with her vomit. She wasn’t sleepy. She was dying.
The little girl tugged at Lu Yubei’s pants and said, “In the past, it was always Daddy who coaxed me to sleep. Sir, can you hug me?”
Lu Yubei nodded and sat down on the ground.
He held the critically ill little girl in his arms and heard the little girl ask, “Sir, am I… am I going to die?”
Lu Yubei looked up at the ceiling. His throat felt choked and he couldn’t speak.
The little girl leaned against Lu Yubei’s chest and said in a weak voice, “Daddy said that I’m sick and I’ll be fine with an injection. Uncle, can you give me an injection? I don’t want to die yet. I still want to partic.i.p.ate in the kindergarten culinary compet.i.tion with Daddy. My daddy’s cooking is delicious.”
When Lu Yubei heard the little girl’s request, he could no longer hold it in. He hugged the little girl tightly and buried his head in her back while crying.
If possible, he would rather die than watch these little angels die!
When the secretary saw this, he couldn’t help but wipe his tears with the sleeve of his suit.
He wiped his snot and carefully walked past the children. He stood in front of Lu Yubei and lowered his head to say, “Mayor, the new data of the infected has been calculated. Currently, a million people have been safely evacuated from the Prosperous Capital. There are still about seven million people in the Prosperous Capital. The number of infected has already risen to… three million.”
When Lu Yubei heard the number three million, he slowly raised his head.
Lu Yubei asked his secretary, “What can we do? What can we do?”
The secretary shook her head. “We are helpless.”
They were helpless.
This word made them feel the most helpless in the world.
* *
“Master Yu, the rate of infection in the city is increasing. An hour ago, a total of three million people in the city were infected. In just an hour, 3.2 million people have been infected.” Beatrice walked to Yu Huang with the latest statistics.
When Yu Huang heard this number, she looked up at the sky and suddenly asked, “What time is it?”
Beatrice looked at her watch and said, “It’s almost seven.”
Yu Huang looked up at the rising sun and suddenly said something incomprehensible in a low voice. She said, “Soon.”
Sheng Xiao stood in front of checkpoint 1 to supervise the work.
The officer finished the test for a man in his thirties and confirmed that the man wasn’t infected. The officer stamped a steel seal on his form and handed it to him. “Go to Boat 18.”
The man reached out and took the form.
He pa.s.sed through the test entrance and saw Sheng Xiao. He suddenly stopped and asked boldly, “Sir, is there still hope for the Prosperous Capital?”
Sheng Xiao noticed that the man was wearing a pink bow tie on his wrist. He hesitated for a moment before asking, “Is your daughter infected?”
The man’s expression froze.
He looked down at the bow on his wrist and said in a daze, “Ah.” He said in pain, “Many children in my daughter’s school were infected. I lied to her and said that I would buy her a beautiful headband. I would go back after I bought it. I…”
The man was suddenly speechless.
Sheng Xiao didn’t know how to comfort the man, but he thought about it from another perspective. He thought, if his daughter was infected, he would never leave her alone.
Parents were children’s sky. If the sky collapsed, how could the child live?
The man wiped his tears and took a few steps in the direction of the boat. He saw a young daughter hugging her father on the deck of Boat 18 to celebrate their narrow escape. The man watched this scene intently. He suddenly threw away the form and ran back.
“I can’t leave!”
“I want to go back! I have to go back and find my daughter!”
The man suddenly ran towards the bus where the infected were imprisoned. He rushed into the bus without hesitation and squeezed with the infected before returning to the Prosperous Capital.
Even though there was peace outside the city gate, he was willing to stay inside the lifeless city gate. Because in the plagued city, there was also his daughter, who had fallen ill.
Since he couldn’t save his daughter, he would accompany her!