Chapter 68.1 (2/2)
Tang Mianmian looked at the candy Xiao Tangqiu gave to Shen Yuan and touched his stomach, “After fighting zombies for so long, I want something sweet…”
Xiao Tangqiu took out another candy and was about to pass it to Tang Mianmian but Shen Yuan humphed, “Not allowed to give.”
Xiao Tangqiu hadn’t even reacted when Tang Mianmian immediately took a few big steps back, “Ahaha, I suddenly don’t want to eat candy. I don’t want sweet at all, I especially want savory!”
Shen Yuan expressionlessly took away the candy from Xiao Tangqiu’s palm.
“How can you…” Xiao Tangqiu was about to say something, but Shen Yuan quickly peeled off the candy wrapper and threw the candy into his mouth.
Shen Yuan spoke seriously, “You are tired, you eat.”
Xiao Tangqiu smiled with the candy in his mouth, “Thanks.”
Tang Mianmian said bitterly from the side, “Have I eaten a lemon? Why do I feel so sour…”
He silently sorted through his own space bag and finally found a bag of candies. When he took it out, it was actually a bag of lemon flavored candy.
While he was eating lemon candy in silence, there was a scream from upstairs!
“Ahhhhh!”
This scream broke the originally lively but peaceful hospital scene and it also marked the coming of the end.
Duan Hongzhen, who had finally sat down to take a breather and only just unwrapped the lollipop in his hand, couldn’t help but twitch his lips, “Here we go again.”
Xue Junli’s eyes darkened, “Everyone get ready!”
Destiny had finally arrived.
“Ahhhhh!”
Soon after the screams sounded from upstairs, there were also screams in the delivery room.
A parturient in the delivery rooms went into labor!
Duan Hongzhen sniffed, suddenly his expression tightened, “The smoke is so thick… There’s a fire!”
Xiao Tangqiu had also smelled the suffocating scent, and a harsh fire alarm sounded in the corridor.
“Fire! There’s a fire!”
The people in the hallway panicked. Many people turned around and ran away. The husbands waiting outside the delivery rooms hesitated and then rushed into the delivery rooms, “There’s a fire! Run!”
However, it was a tense time in the delivery rooms so it immediately became chaotic.
The fire spread very quickly. Within a few seconds, the choking smell of smoke was in the corridor. The women were transferred onto hospital beds and pushed out by their husbands and the doctors and nurses. Only the room the young couple were in stayed quiet.
Xiao Tangqiu looked through the corridor window. There were people fleeing for their lives everywhere. The fire spread rapidly and some people had already been killed in the flames.
Smoke billowed in the corridor and he turned his head to look at the only room that was silent.
“Go, go and take a look.” As soon as Xue Junli’s voice fell, Duan Hongzhen pushed through the door.
In the room, the parturient was screaming again and again, her husband was pale, and the doctors and nurses were busy.
Xiao Tangqiu frowned. Although he didn’t know what happened, he guessed that it was probably due to dystocia or hemorrhage. Other women in labor could barely be transferred during the fire, but a dystocia happening during a fire…
At this moment, a nurse spoke in shock, “Doctor! Fire! There’s a fire!”
Thick smoke had spread into the ward and big drops of cold sweat appeared on the doctor’s forehead, “The mother is having a difficult delivery and cannot be forced to transfer…”
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sudden power failure in the delivery room. Although the hospital had other power generators that could keep the equipment running even if the power went out, a fire like this must have burned it out.
BOOM!
There was a violent explosion as something was set off by the fire.
The doctors and nurses turned pale with fright. The situation was critical and they must move!
The young man desperately grabbed the woman’s hand and called her name, but she was too weak to even speak.
“Quick! Transfer the mother to the hospital bed!”
The young man immediately carried her to the mobile hospital bed with the doctor and the group quickly left the blacked out ward.
T/N: GOOD NEWS! Or bad news, I guess? Depends on how you wanna see it. This is the last chapter that will be 9-11k words long in a row! Of course, there will be a handful of future chapters that will be super long, too, but at least the giant batch is over. What does this mean? It means that once this chapter is over, I’ll be able to post “whole” chapters every week instead of needing to divide it into 2 or 3 parts. It also means we’re deceptively closer to the end than expected.